The Winter Preview Issue 2011
Donna Weinbrecht Coaches at Killington; Vermonters Build a Backcountry Board; Hardy Cyclists Praise Winter Biking
Fired Conductor Ronald Braunstein and VYOA Reach Settlement
Nearly a year after the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association fired Ronald Braunstein — and seven months since the former conductor-director sued the nonprofit — the…
Champlain College’s Center For Digital Investigation Opens for Business
Let the digital sleuthing begin! The Champlain College Center for Digital Investigation just opened shop two weeks ago in Burlington’s South End and already it’s…
Top Economists to Advise Sanders on Federal Reserve Reforms
What do a Nobel Prize-winning economist and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have in common? They both want to reform the Federal Reserve. Joseph Stiglitz,…
“Occupy Burlington” Plans to Truly Occupy Burlington
Now in its fifth week, the Occupy Wall Street solidarity protesters in Burlington are beginning to channel their energy into more direct action. Demonstrators plan…
Albany Woman Launches Hunger Strike to Protest Lowell Mountain Wind Project
UPDATED BELOW A 71-year-old Albany woman has entered the second week of a hunger strike launched to protest what she calls the permanent destruction of…
Movies You Missed 9: Red State
This week in movies you missed: Kevin Smith takes on the Westboro Baptist Church by making it the horror in a horror movie. What You…
Local Health-Care Providers Urge McDonald’s to Quit Marketing to Children
The booths at the South Burlington McDonald’s earlier today were filled with a typical smattering of lunch customers: two businesswomen, a pair of teenagers, a…
GOP Mayoral Candidate’s Bold Plan for Burlington: Sell! Sell! Sell!
* Updated below: BED’s true debt load, plus Kurt Wright responds to the claim his math is wrong. * Republican mayoral candidate Kurt Wright promised…
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Matthew Thorsen & “Sound Proof” [243]
10/15/11: This weekend, photographer Matthew Thorsen’s traveling, multimedia exhibit “Sound Proof,” presented by Big Heavy World, opened at the Magic Hat Artifactory. In the 1990s,…
Occupy Lowell Mountain Launches Blog From The Blasting Zone
Talk about your daily blasts: Protesters making a last-ditch effort to halt construction of Green Mountain Power’s Kingdom Community Wind Project on Lowell Mountain have…
Gorillas, Ghosts and Greed
Is the cozy relationship between the administration of Gov. Peter Shumlin and Green Mountain Power just a little too cozy? State Sen. Vince Illuzzi (R-Essex/Orleans)…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Juan Aguirre, 21, broke into Cirilla’s sex shop in Salina, Kan., and made off with six X-rated DVDs — or so he…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you have been resisting the command to go deeper, now is the time to surrender. If you have been hoping…
Letters to the Editor
Tony’s Town Glad to hear that Mary Powell is getting a nod from Seven Days [“Green Mountain Powell,” October 12], as well as Rep. Tony…
Did Occupy Vermont Suppress Free Speech in Goldman Sachs Protest Controversy?
Jeff Ares, a University of Vermont alumnus who now works for Goldman Sachs, was scheduled to speak to business students at the school on Friday….
