The Cartoon Issue, 2016

Feel the Bern: An Adult Coloring Contest!

Museum Piece: Inside the Most Important Garage in Vermont Politics

Across the street from Malletts Bay, behind the general store that bears his name, Sen. Dick Mazza owns the most important garage in Vermont politics.

Starting Over: First Steps for Refugees in Vermont

You're a refugee from a far-off country. You arrive in Vermont. What's next?

Loyal to Local: In White River Junction, Dave Briggs Champions the Creative Economy

Dave Briggs has been an engineer, an innkeeper and an arts promoter in White River Junction. Now he's building the town's creative economy.

New Rules: 2016 Laws Affect Drivers, Turnips and Estate Taxes

Many of the 199 laws that Vermont legislators passed this year took effect July 1. Here are some of them.

Cops' Feet on the Street Making a Difference in the Old North End

Meet Corp. Krystal Wrinn, who spends eight-hour shifts walking the Burlington streets on foot patrols intended to target street crime and drugs.

Catholics to Condo$: A Story of Lost Land

This North Avenue plot was once a Catholic orphanage, then Burlington College's campus. Now, developer Eric Farrell plans to build 672 condos, a private health club, a dog park and gardens on the land.

The Legend of Sweet William, Vermont Troubadour

A photo his my email of a vintage record label that reads "Bernie Town Bounce." With it several 1970's era looking cartoons of one of the two musicians who recorded it...

Barre's Rich Dufresne Builds Sci-Fi Action Figures

Rich Dufresne started out customizing action figures for his kids. Then he started his own company, Imagination Asylum.

Art Review: 'Perseverance: Japanese Traditional Tattoo in a Modern World'

An art exhibit at Middlebury College examines the aesthetic innovation and cultural hybridity of contemporary Japanese tattooing.

Vermonter Sally Olson Sings in Tribute to Karen Carpenter

Vermonter Sally Olson is carrying on the legacy of singer Karen Carpenter — right down to the vintage dresses and '70s hairdo.

WTF: What Would Make Silverware Magnetized?

Seven Days has received many odd reader questions over the years, but this one might be the strangest.

Free Will Astrology (7/6/16)

Crossword (7/6/16)

Shacksbury to Open Tasting Room in Vergennes

Tap 25 Opens in Stowe With Craft Brews and Bites

Tea Time at Perennial Pleasures in East Hardwick

In 1970, landscape architect Tom Kane, his wife, Judith, and their children moved to an 1840s brick house in East Hardwick. Ten years later, daughter Rachel Kane started a garden nursery called Perennial Pleasures at the family home.

Middlebury's Seedsheet Gets the Garden Started

Cam MacKugler wanted access to food grown right at home, but he had a tiny apartment and no space for raised beds. So he invented a way to make gardening a lot easier.

Over the Rainbow: Mark Daly's Big Realization

Following the messy breakup of his band Chamberlin, Mark Daly was in a dark place — specifically, a cabin in the woods of Goshen. That's when the transformation began.

Soundbites: The Best VT Albums of 2016 … So Far (Part Two)

The DuPont Brothers, A Riddle for You

To paraphrase John Cusack's Rob Gordon in High Fidelity, do we listen to pop music because we're miserable, or are we miserable because we listen to pop music?

Obituary: John Megown Von Bargen, 1945-2016

Obituary: Thomas F. Dacres, 1942-2016