Apr 20-26, 2011
Why Don’t Vermont’s Top Cooks Stay in One Place; RIP Sculptor Steve Larrabee, 1950-2011; Consultants’ Recipes for Kitchen Confidence; Fishing Around for Local Seafood
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Due West of Burlington, New York Wants a Nuke
Ed note: Kevin J. Kelley contributed this post. Ridicule might seem the right response to the undeterred effort to build a nuclear power plant in…
VT Labor Dept. Shutters Montpelier’s Samosaman Café
Talk about some bad Restaurant Week timing for the Montpelier-based Samosaman Café: As the blog Montpelier Matters first observed on Saturday, the Vermont Department of…
Nifty Map Showing VT Yankee’s Potential Risk
Last week, Nature published a hefty piece about populations that would be at risk in the event of a nuclear accident. In the article, the…
Vermonter Named to Kennedy Center Board
Bill Stetson, a Vermont filmmaker, has been named by Pres. Barack Obama to a key committee that advises the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center for…
Two Vermont Abenaki Tribes Earn State Recognition
Gov. Peter Shumlin signed two bills today that grant official state recognition to two Native American tribes: The Nulhegan and the Elnu. For decades, Vermont’s…
Burlington City Planners Object to Restaurant’s Wind Turbine
*Updated below with comment from Burlington Planning and Zoning Director David White and photos* File this one under “alternative energy vs. historic preservation.” Russ Scully…
Date Night, Hate Night
Dear Mistress Maeve, My boyfriend and I have been together for nearly five years. When we met, we were just out of grad school, still…
BTV Ups Its Enviro Cred With Bicycle Compost Pick-up
Thanks to a new bicycle compost collection business, Burlington is now one step closer to standing side-by-side with Portland, Ore., and other progressive bike-centric cities….
A 4/20 Nomination for the Green Mountain State’s Budmaster General
Last Friday, when the Vermont Senate passed S.17, a bill to establish nonprofit medical marijuana dispensaries around the state, the legislation addressed a broad spectrum…
Invisible Web
Provisions International brings the world to the Green Mountains, and vice versa
Menu Mavens
Vermont’s food and restaurant scene is breeding a cottage industry: consultants
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now comes one of the supreme tests that most every Aries must periodically face: Will you live up to your promises?…
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Vermont Foodbank [220]
4/14/11: Did you know that Vermont is among the top 10 hungriest states in the nation? And that 1 in 7 Vermont households don’t have…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A taxi driver in Springfield, Ill., picked up a fare who hadn’t even closed the door before he pulled a handgun and…
Letters to the Editor
Bye-Bye, Books In Margot Harrison’s story, “Print Versus Pixels” [April 13], Robin Ingenthron states that “hard-rock metal mining is by far the most horrible polluting…
Master of His Domain
Side Dishes: New food and beverage director makes big changes at the Essex
Burlington Bike Path Under Water
This just in from the good folks at Local Motion: “Lake Champlain’s current high water combined with southerly and westerly winds has damaged two sections…
Prison Legal News Slams Prison-Phone “Kickbacks” to States
Last month, when Seven Days published this “Sunshine Week” charticle highlighting Vermont organizations and individuals who are working to keep government officials honest and taxpayers…
