Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2014
After 28 Years, the Owner of Waitsfield’s Round Barn Farm Seeks a Like-Minded Successor; Abenaki Artifacts Rekindle Feud; At 40, Lyric Goes Big; First Bite: Pingala Café & Eatery
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Waitsfield’s Round Barn Farm Owner Seeks a Successor
On March 13, as the Mad River Valley was digging out from two feet of snow, the Inn at the Round Barn Farm in Waitsfield…
Obituary: Napoleon “Poly” Hoague, Jr.
Napoleon “Poly” Hoague, Jr., age 69 years, a lifelong Swanton resident died unexpectedly late Thursday evening, March 27, 2014, at Fletcher Allen Health Care –…
Obituary: Georgeann Carolyn Jacobs
Georgeann Carolyn Jacobs, age 68 years, died late Wednesday evening, March 26, 2014, at her Ross Lane residence in Jeffersonville. Born at home in Swanton…
Taste Test: The Lobby in Middlebury
Music criticism deals with the auditory. An art review critiques the visual. Judging a restaurant’s merits encompasses all the senses. Do the sights of the…
Obituary: HARVEY “DICKY” E. MOODY, JR., 1948-2014, Winooski
Harvey “Dicky” E. Moody, Jr., 66, peacefully passed away March 26, 2014 after an extended illness at Fletcher Allen Healthcare, surrounded by his family. He…
Obituary: Joanna Alice Campbell, 1928-2014
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of an incredible woman who touched and influenced many lives. Joanna Alice Campbell, 85, passed…
Obituary: Christopher John Desjardin, 1982-2014, Colchester
Christopher John Desjardin, 31, passed away suddenly on Friday, March 28th, 2014, in Massachusetts, following years of struggling with drug addiction. He was born on…
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Leaping Lambs at Shelburne Farms [SIV346]
3/14/14: Lambing is in full swing at Shelburne Farms this spring and about 134 babies have been born to their flock of 80 ewes. Eva…
First Bite: Pingala Café & Eatery, Chace Mill
Almost everything about Burlington’s Pingala Café & Eatery seems irrepressibly cheerful. There’s the space itself, awash in northern light from mammoth windows that face the…
Soundbites: James Harvey Returns; Updates on WW4 and BDJF
Bits and Bites It’s a busy but scattered week on the local music scene. So as befits such moments of befuddlement, here’s an old-fashioned, rapid-fire…
Vermont Thai Restaurant Closes in Milton
Since Kae Alexander began catering out of her Shelburne home in the summer of 2012, her culinary career has progressed with Solomon Grundy-like speed. In…
Vermont Expat Celia Woodsmith Returns with Grammy-Nominated Bluegrass Band Della Mae
What a difference a decade can make. When Celia Woodsmith arrived in Burlington as a University of Vermont freshman in 2003, she brought along a…
New Chef and Concept at Colchester’s Bayview Eats
What if we told you you could eat five-spice-braised pork tacos with apple-ginger slaw and cilantro-lime cream on Malletts Bay — without packing a picnic?…
News Quirks (03/26/14)
Curses, Foiled Again Carlos Ruiz, 42, stole a sound system and other values from a home in Haddon Township, N.J., according to police, who identified…
Book Review: Landscape With Plywood Silhouettes: Poems
An esteemed visiting poet at the Vermont Studio Center once told me that poems need to have people in them. Why? “Because we want to…
Opinion: Two Ways to Fix Inequality
Working people can’t afford to eat. Last year one in five Americans was on food stamps. In Vermont, the number was one in six. These…
Middlebrook Restaurant Reopens in Upper Valley
People in the Upper Valley still talk wistfully about the Middlebrook Restaurant, a rustic West Fairlee establishment that operated for six years before closing in…
To Fund Campaigns, Vermont Legislators Look to Lobbyists
Like congregants at an old-time tent revival, members of the Vermont Senate found religion last Thursday on the issue of corporate money in politics. One…
At 40, Lyric Theatre Company Stages Its Biggest Musical Yet
In 1974, the Lyric Theatre Company performed its debut show, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on the stage of the Flynn Theatre,…
Single-Payer, Inc.: How a Montpelier Lobbying Firm Plans to Cash in on Health Care Reform
A former Bernie aide starts a pro-Sanders super PAC.
Art Review: Andrea Lilienthal at Helen Day Art Center
Stowe’s Helen Day Art Center is a study in contrasts. From the outside, only a modest sign indicates the presence of a gallery on the…
WTF: How do cops decide if a driver is high on drugs? And is the process legit?
On January 31 of this year, the Vermont State Police received a call from a 49-year-old woman who reported that she was being followed by…
Mark LeGrand, Burn It Down
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Mark LeGrand is a man who takes his time. In an interview I did with the Montpelier-based country singer in 2011,…
Poet Budbill and Pianist Arnowitt Collaborate in Performance
Vermont poet David Budbill recalls with wonderment that about 1,000 Italians filled a Milan church last year for a reading of his work to the…
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
There isn’t a Broadway icon alive who has had a longer run. You may not instantly recognize the name — I didn’t. But we don’t…
An Almost-Auction of Abenaki Artifacts Reopens Old Wounds
Most people wouldn’t have batted an eye at the seven pieces of chiseled stone advertised last week on a Williston auction-house website. Sandwiched between images…
Letters to the Editor (3/26/14)
Letter of the Lawsuit I was going to comment on your article “Two Against a Town” [March 19], but as I read on, I realized…
Power Players: People With Disabilities Get the Soccer Game Rolling
With five minutes left in the first half of their game against the Boston Breakers, the Vermont Chargers were having a hard time finding the…
Free Will Astrology (3/26/14)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I have coined a new word just for your horoscope this week. It’s “zex,” short for “zen sex.” Zex is a…
I Can’t Stop Thinking of the “One Who Got Away”
Dear Athena, I consider myself extremely blessed to have found a love so deep and pure, it makes me question the times I thought I…
Quick Lit: StoryHack Contest; Adirondack Mystery
What will a “book” look like in 100 years? What will it mean to read one? Whether you love your e-reader or prefer paper, those…
Seeking Public Art in the Old North End
Burlington’s Old North End has many distinctive features, but examples of public artwork in the neighborhood are rare. That lack will be mitigated with the…
Mayfly, Sweet Is the Morning
(Self-released, CD, digital download) It’s almost hard to believe that Vermont folk music heroine Katie Trautz and her musical partner Julia Wayne have been performing…
Burlington-based Hayden’s Magazine Reaches Global Artists
It’s not often that a small-business owner carves out time to create something for passion’s sake — especially when that “something” is a twice-yearly, fully…
