Dec 14-20, 2011
Local DJ Don Mullally Has Been the Talk of St. Johnsbury for Nearly Six Decades; BPD Chief’s Concerns; Indoor Freestyle Training in Williston; Vermonters Go for Comfort Food
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Mr. Saint Johnsbury
Local DJ Don Mullally has been the talk of the town for nearly six decades
Fletcher Allen and Fresenius Pull Plug on Sale of Dialysis Clinics
A for-profit company that wanted to buy Fletcher Allen Health Care’s five outpatient dialysis clinics announced today it’s pulling the plug on the $28-million sale….
Maglianero Serves Up Lunch
Those in search of an easily achievable New Year’s resolution can add lunch at Maglianero to their lists. The hipster café at 47 Maple Street…
Movies You Missed 18: Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
This week in movies you missed: an ass-kicking, anachronistic genius detective from Hong Kong. Top that, Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes! What You Missed A 2010…
State Health Department Bans “Bath Salts” and Five Synthetic Cannabinoids
“Tranquility”, “Cloud 9”, “Vanilla Sky” and similarly named products sold online as “bath salts” may sound as calm and relaxing as a hot bubble bath,…
Indefinite Detention? Vermont’s Senators Split on Support for Defense Spending Bill
Vermont’s U.S. senators parted ways last night over whether to support the $662 billion Pentagon spending bill, a sweeping piece of legislation that includes provisions…
The Concrete Rivals, Eat Their Weight in Snakes
(State & Main Records, digital download, CD) If you lived in Vermont 10,000 years ago, there was a good chance you had beachfront property overlooking…
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Jay Peak’s Pump House [249]
12/12/11: Monday afternoon, hundreds of Vermont school kids celebrated the grand opening of the Pump House, Jay Peak’s indoor water park. Eva found her inner…
Window Dressing
An East Montpelier builder argues for retrofitting old panes instead of replacing them
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Jim Moran (1908-1999) called himself a publicist, but I regard him as a pioneer performance artist. At various times in his…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A thief who tried to steal a Corvette in Prince George, British Columbia, stalled the car and then ran down the battery…
Ground Crew
Art Review: Wendy James, Lynn Rupe and Carolyn Hack, Burlington International Airport
Bounce of Prevention
Snowboarders and skiers lower their injury risk while learning new tricks – indoors
Letters to the Editor
More Information, Please Last week’s Q&A with Greg Palast [“Muckraking Journalist Greg Palast on ‘Occupy,’ Big Oil and the U.S. Media”] contained an erroneous exchange….
BCA Announces New Winner of Barbara Smail Award
And the winner is … Gregg Blasdel! The Burlington artist and retired St. Michael’s art prof is the recipient of the 10th annual Barbara Smail…
St. Johnsbury’s Elements Food and Spirit To Close After Eight Years
St. Johnsbury received sad news this afternoon: Elements Food and Spirit, that oasis of creative local fare in a renovated mill building along the Passumpsic…
Welch Joins Last-Minute Call to Strip Indefinite-Detention Provision from Defense Bill
Rep. Peter Welch has joined 36 House members in challenging controversial provisions — namely, those that would allow the military to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens…
