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Burlington’s effort to upgrade its waterfront has been plagued by millions of dollars in financial mistakes that will require the city to pay the state nearly $200,000 in tax revenue. That’s according to a scathing new audit of the financing tools used by the Queen City to revitalize its waterfront for more than a quarter…
BFA-Fairfax won’t allow fans at high school basketball games while the school district investigates allegations that a spectator used the N-word toward one or several Milton High School athletes after a game on Thursday night. “The physical and emotional safety of all students in all aspects of school life is paramount to our work as…
When Moriah Stokes and Vincent Connolly purchased a second home in Morrisville in 2017, they already had plans to list it on Airbnb. The couple were living in Colorado at the time, and Stokes, who grew up in Morrisville, wanted to be able to visit her family without staying in a hotel. Renting out the…
An image of Vermont artist Andrea Pearlman’s colorful abstract paintings might not call to mind the Rolling Stones. Yet the now-wizened rockers inspired the title of her current exhibit at Vermont Studio Center’s Red Mill Gallery: “Two Thousand Light Years From Home.” A song on the band’s 1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request, on which…
During a tour of Rick Marcotte Central School earlier this month, interim principal Lissa McDonald gestured to a jumble of backpacks, winter boots and water bottles lining the hallway. “This is the stuff that should be in the classroom,” she explained. But this year, overcrowding at the school has meant that one class of fourth…
Standing in a sweltering sauna near Montréal on a recent morning, Dominique Evens whirled a towel through the air, snapping the terry cloth to the piped-in sounds of sitar jazz. Evens, a Montréaler who has a black goatee and an easy smile, was guiding an aufguss session at Förena Cité Thermale, a sprawling spa complex…
To say that 2022 was a big year for indie rockers THUS LOVE would be an understatement. The Brattleboro three-piece dropped a killer single/video for “Inamorato,” signed with Brooklyn record label Captured Tracks and, in October, released its hugely impressive debut LP, Memorial. THUS LOVE garnered attention far and wide and became an overnight sensation.…
The Winooski City Council will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, January 23, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. in the Claire Burke Council Chambers (City Hall). The Public Hearing will be to consider the proposed FY24 Budget. To view the FY24 Budget and full annual meeting day information visit www.winooskivt.gov • Attend online: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84364849328 • Attend…
(Self-released, CD, digital) Percussionist Gabe Halberg and multi-instrumentalist Mac Ritchey first met in 2000, bonding over their love of Middle Eastern, Indian and North African folk music. The central Vermont duo wasted little time in forming 35th Parallel, releasing its debut record, The Green Vine, in 2003, followed in 2006 by Crossing Painted Islands. The…
Merin Perretta was initially skeptical of trying hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat her lingering symptoms of COVID-19, which she contracted in October 2021. Her chiropractor suggested it might be beneficial, and a referring physician touted its many healing benefits. Still, the 46-year-old integrative counselor from Montpelier remembers thinking, This sounds too good to be true.…
(Self-released, digital) Bennington-based musician Blair Jasper straddles the tenuous line between pop and experimental music on their latest release, holding pattern. Jasper, a self-described “nonbinary experimental musician” who uses they/them pronouns, releases music under the moniker Bark Dog. The project serves as a wide canvas of sounds and genres that Jasper pulls together into a…
Everyone has their own unique list of reasons to feel bad about their body, especially during January, otherwise known as National Feeling Bad About Your Body Month. Here are some of mine: An utter lack of background in anything athletic, having grown up as the book nerd daughter of a marching band nerd (and eldest…
Andy Birch and his wife, Sarah, set about reviving his family’s Derby dairy farm in 2014, when milk prices were near record highs. They bought a small herd of Holsteins, upgraded the aging barn and began selling milk to the Cabot Creamery cooperative. The next year, milk prices plunged 30 percent, blindsiding the young couple…
The discourse around The Whale tired me out months before the new film from Darren Aronofsky reached local screens. First, a slew of festival honors led to talk of star Brendan Fraser winning an Oscar. Next, some critics assailed the film, in which Fraser plays an extremely obese man with the aid of prosthetics, as…
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some insects are helpful to humans. For example, ladybugs devour aphids, which are highly destructive to crops. Damsel bugs eat the pests called leafhoppers, and lacewings feed on the pernicious nuisances known as mealybugs. I also remind you that some bugs are beautiful, such as butterflies, dragonflies and jeweled beetles. Keep…
new in theaters MISSING: Storm Reid plays a girl who must use digital sleuthing to find her mom (Nia Long), who disappeared on a Colombian vacation, in this thriller from Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick. (111 min, PG-13. Essex) WHEN YOU FINISH SAVING THE WORLD: Jesse Eisenberg makes his directorial debut with this comedy-drama…
Robyn Newton starts her day as the crossing guard at Vergennes Union Elementary School, encouraging students to walk and helping them arrive safely. By the time she assumes her afterschool post in the same gig, she’s clocked more than 20,000 steps on her Fitbit and taught students about ball control, fitness, focus and vowel sounds.…
Dear Reverend, My in-laws visited our new house and were excited to buy us some things that we needed, like hand towels. But my mother-in-law picked out stuff she likes that we don’t and refused to give us receipts! She just said, “You can put them out when I visit.” What should I do? DIL…
How much do the unsavory parts of composers’ private lives influence how we hear their work? According to Matt LaRocca, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s artistic adviser and project conductor, not enough. “We gloss over the fact that Bach was an asshole, that composers did crazy things that are well documented, [like] drugs and cult worshipping.…
Comedian River Butcher breezes through sharp pandemic-era observations at the top of his 30-minute standup special, “A Different Kind of Dude.” A master of calling out things that otherwise might go unchecked — like those dangling fake testicles that some truck owners attach to their back bumpers — Butcher has choice thoughts on everything from…
Certain educators are more unforgettable than others. Gym teachers seem to hold a special spot in the memories — or nightmares — of Seven Days writers. Like with that time capsule your grade-school class buried behind the football field, we dug deep to recount formative moments from PE classes of the past. Even the cringiest…
Ed Leadership Crisis? [Re “Mellencamp to Return to Role as Principal of Burlington High School,” January 3, online]: The abrupt departure of Burlington High School principal Lauren McBride poses concerning questions about the district’s support of building administrators. A principal sets the policies for the school they serve. In helping to support families, staff and…
For decades I was a regular at the Greater Burlington YMCA, daily navigating the mazelike hallways of the historic building at the corner of College and South Union streets to the windowless pool or workout room. The place had plenty of quirks but also a cozy charm. Many of the people I met in the…
For many of us, the New Year brings a renewed focus on health — which makes sense. The weeks from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve are a nonstop smorgasbord of pies, cookies, cocktails, roasts and general gluttony when even vegetables are drowned in cream of mushroom soup and/or bacon. So it follows that January is…
Last week, Kory Rogers marked his 19th year at the Shelburne Museum. His official title is Francie and John Downing Senior Curator of American Art, named for longtime benefactors of the museum. Though nearly everything at the renowned institution fits within the rubric of American art, Rogers does have specialties. The curator, whose Oklahoma accent…
Five years ago, Fiona Lucia Genadio-Allen trained at Ireland’s illustrious Ballymaloe Cookery School. The immersive education — which she called “Hogwarts for food” — was centered on a 100-acre organic farm and gave her the skills she needed to cook professionally at restaurants in London. But even in those prestigious culinary circles, the young chef…
Erika Nichols-Frazer’s recently published memoir, Feed Me: A Story of Food, Love and Mental Illness, did not originally focus on food. The Stowe native had been working for close to a year on a manuscript about her long struggle with undiagnosed bipolar disorder when she landed a two-week summer residency at Vermont Studio Center in…
It’s been a long, slow build toward the full opening of Belleville Bakery, which chef-owner Shelley MacDonald launched in late fall 2020 with weekly pickups from her Burlington apartment. On January 5, after six months of renovations and three months of takeout-window sales, the public finally stepped into Belleville’s new brick-and-mortar location at 217 College…
After 15 years, the abandoned Sand Bar Inn and restaurant location on the west side of the causeway in South Hero has been cleared of the derelict motel building in preparation for construction of a new restaurant and eight townhomes. Pierre LeBlanc, president and CEO of Colchester-based Engelberth Construction, purchased the 4.7-acre property at 59…
Kelsey Wolfe started her home-based bakery, Windy Lane Bakehouse, in 2019. In late November — just in time for Thanksgiving pickups — she moved the biz from its eponymous street into a shop in downtown Randolph. Still called Windy Lane Bakehouse, the bakery is one of several new businesses in the former Belmains retail space…
All in Good Rhyme Wednesday 25 Kentucky poet laureate Crystal Wilkinson stops by Vermont Studio Center in Johnson for a reading. The recipient of such accolades as an NAACP Image Award and an O. Henry Prize, the author shares selections from her poetry, stories, essays and forthcoming culinary memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts. Romanov…
One of the tallest structures in Vermont, the Bennington Battle Monument, is due for an extensive renovation over the next few years. The 306-foot-tall obelisk was completed in 1891 to commemorate the 1777 Battle of Bennington, which took place across the state line in Walloomsac, N.Y., and resulted in a pivotal victory for colonial forces…
Writer’s professional life reflected the diversity of his life’s interests
Dedicated nurse will be fondly remembered by former patients and colleagues
Holocaust survivor had an enduring appreciation for all of life’s gifts
Former Vermont Supreme Court Justice was passionately committed to making life better for everyone
Devoted mother was relentlessly generous
Vermont artist remembered for her quirky sense of humor and respect and caring for others
Calais man was especially proud of his role as “Mr. August“ in the Men of Maple Corner fundraiser calendar
Avid reader and accomplished card player was known for her no-nonsense attitude
