Life was still normal for Felix and Kermit Downes when the fraternal twins turned 5 on March 3. The boys celebrated at home, a three-story…
Kristin Baker, nurse manager in the emergency department at the University of Vermont Medical Center, opted to skip dinner one recent evening. She wanted to…
Vermont Restaurant Week — a ten-day food festival celebrating Vermont’s culinary scene — was supposed to be April 24-May 3. Restaurants may be off-limits to dine-in customers for now, but many of them are still making delicious food — for takeout, delivery or curbside pickup. If you get takeout this week, you could win prizes some…
A disability rights advocate led by powerful example
A Northeast Kingdom “country doctor” served his community for 40 years
The Downes family did everything right, and then everything went wrong. Keith and Michelle live on the top floor of a duplex in Burlington with…
The celebration of life for Ida McNamara, scheduled for May 1, 2020, has been postponed until August 21, 2020, at the All Souls Interfaith Gathering,…
Posters urging Americans to “Dig on for Victory” and “Be a Soldier of the Soil” were ubiquitous during World War II. The patriotic propaganda was designed to enlist a militia of gardeners armed with trowels and rakes — and it worked. In an April 1943 Gallup poll, 21 million Americans reported that they planned to…
Everyone could use a break right now. That was Jim Diehl’s thinking when he restructured his mortgages to help his tenants. He asked his bank…
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Renowned Taurus composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) completed his first symphony when he was 43 years old — even though he’d started…
Until last month, Shelburne-based painter Misoo supported herself by teaching drawing classes at Burlington City Arts and the Shelburne Craft School and working part time…
Another week, another spate of online offerings from Vermont’s incessantly creative sector. Seven Days has reported on many virtual activities, both in print and on…
Like cattle and sugar maples, the rolling mountains of Vermont are rich in podcasts. The offerings span a wide variety of topics. A listener could…
Make no mistake — I’m a city mouse, not a country mouse. I came of age in the Big Apple before moving to Vermont as…
(Self-released, digital) Vermont’s music scene is not impervious to the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. With large public gatherings off-limits, Eastern Mountain Time, the Burlington…
(Self-released, digital) Rivan C. — aka Rivan Calderin — is a young MC from the Burlington area who has been making increasingly big waves in…
Raise your hand if fears about the food supply chain during this pandemic have prompted you to sow a victory garden — or at least…
In her locker at Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, senior Natalie Bates left a few pens and pencils and some notepads — things she didn’t pack…
An old axiom says that there are but two certainties in life: death and taxes. But I’d like to add another immutable constant, at least…
How will Vermonters remember the coronavirus era? In past crises, Green Mountain State cultural organizations have stepped up to create historical records of Vermonters’ experiences….
First I saw my face appear on the computer screen puffier than I imagined. Then my daughter holding her six month old nephew, Thomas, smiling….
A Reader Repents Apologies! I read the “Class Act” 802Much of April 1 (accompanied by a photo of two sisters and their friend) at 2…
In normal times, it can be a challenge for Mitch Hunt to track down students or staff at the 140-acre Maplehill School and Farm in…
For nearly a decade, the Vermont Department of Labor sought to replace the rickety mainframe computer that has powered its unemployment insurance system since the…
Dear Reverend, I was riding on the bike path, doing my best to keep my distance from other people, when a dad ran by me…
