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Peter Edelmann is Transforming an Essex Mall Into a Town Center and Vermont ‘Experience’
Saturday night was all right for the 400-plus music fans in the Double E Performance Center in Essex listening to the band Get Together play…
Residents to Move Into Elmwood Avenue Pods This Week
The first residents of the Elmwood Avenue shelter pods will move in this week, Burlington city officials said on Monday. They spoke in the shelter’s…
Dari Bay, ‘Longest Day of the Year’
(Self-released, digital) Teenage bands are cute, but they don’t always pass muster. Life experience fuels art. If you haven’t lived that long, you might not…
Freddie Losambe, ‘daydreams & folly’
(Self-released, digital) To abuse a cliché, former Burlingtonian Freddie Losambe is “criminally slept on.” That’s a haggard phrase referring to great artists who are neglected…
Morrisville’s Concept2 Rowing Machines Propel the Action at the World Rowing Indoor Championships
After 40 years of selling one of the world’s most popular indoor rowing machines, brothers Peter and Dick Dreissigacker had a solid handle on the…
251: Skiing On the Cheap at Cochran’s in Richmond
What will $10 buy? If it’s Friday and you’re in Richmond, it’ll get you a trifecta of recreation, food and drink. Skiing is $5 every…
Is a 20- to 30-Year Age Gap Realistic in a Relationship?
Dear Reverend, I’m an old man looking for a lady to share life and love. Recently, I have shared consecutive crushes on two much younger…
A Youth-Activism Camp in Marshfield Stands Up to a Zoning Complaint From the Town
It has all the hallmarks of a quintessential New England sleepaway camp: group games, swimming trips, bonfires and sing-alongs. Campers can expect to walk away…
A Burlington Pup Visited Every Vermont Town — and Peed in Most, Too
Sophie, a 15-year-old shih tzu from Burlington, has made canine history: She’s likely the first pup to have peed in nearly every town in the…
Letters to the Editor (2/1/23)
A Way to Pay I was reading through the “Who Cares?” article [January 11], about Vermont’s dysfunctional childcare system, when the amount families spend per…
Brandon Cronenberg’s ‘Infinity Pool’ Offers Sun, Sand and Psychedelic Body Horror
This winter has been so dismal. A movie set at a high-end resort sounds like the perfect antidote. Even the title, Infinity Pool (in theaters),…
Now Playing in Theaters: February 1-7
In addition to Till, here’s what is playing in Northern and Central Vermont movie theaters this week. Listings include new movies, vintage films and a directory of open theaters.
Mentoring Programs Help Vermont Youths But Desperately Need Volunteers
It doesn’t take long to peg Hunter Townsend and Alex Gordon as old friends. It’s clear in the way they reminisce, stumbling over details blurred…
Black High School Athletes Speak Out About Racism in Vermont Sports
Racist incidents in Vermont school sports involving both players and spectators have been in the headlines frequently over the past year and a half. But…
Free Will Astrology (2/1/23)
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there,” wrote Aquarian author Virginia…
From the Deputy Publisher: Camp Counsel
This summer, would the kids in your life like to practice hip-hop dance, learn to use a laser cutter, or build a kayak and paddle…
Poet and Translator Robin Myers Receives NEA Grant
Some of us binged television during the pandemic; others took up bread baking. If you were Robin Myers, however, you translated 25 books from authors…
Theater Review: ’Bov Water, Northern Stage
It’s easy to list what the new play ‘Bov Water doesn’t contain — a plot, a conflict, even a stable sense of time and place….
Activist Crafter Jayna Zweiman Talks Welcome Blankets in Winooski
Jayna Zweiman has a knack for uniting sizable swaths of the global population in a common cause. In 2017, she launched Pussy Hat with Krista…
Marvin Fishman’s Alla Prima Paintings Resemble Explosions
The building that houses South Burlington’s city hall, public library and senior center is scarcely 2 years old, and many area residents may not have…
Soundbites: Vermont Musicians Get Experimental and New Music From Toni Catlin
We talk a lot about how music moves us — how it can make us smile with nostalgia, cry over a broken heart, dance with…
Obituary: Todd Fisk, 1967-2023
Proud husband and father was deeply interested in politics, social change, films and pie baking
Burlington’s Paradiso Hi-Fi Spins Tunes and Plates
Back before Wi-Fi, there was hi-fi — shorthand for sound systems that play music with high fidelity to the original recording. Fidelity also means devotion,…
Hinesburgh Public House Defines ‘Community Restaurant’
Inside the entrance to the Hinesburgh Public House sits an antique wooden shelf full of cookbooks such as Gourmet Vegetarian Cooking, Jane Fonda’s Cooking for…
Burlington Landmark Henry’s Diner For Sale
The past several years have brought major changes to Burlington’s downtown breakfast scene, including the move of Mirabelles Café to South Burlington after almost 30…
Vermont Cider Lab to Open in the Essex Experience
The Essex Experience is already a bustling beverage destination with a brewery, a distillery and a wine bar (see “Minding the Stores”). Soon the former…
Kitsune Pops Up at Tälta Lodge in Stowe for the Winter
Popular Stowe-based Japanese pop-up Kitsune has a winter home at Tälta Lodge. The nomadic biz, run by chef Matt Hiebsch and his wife, Alina Alter,…
The Magnificent 7: Must See, Must Do, February 1-7
The temperatures are dropping, but there’s no shortage of ways for Vermonters to connect learn and have a good time. We’ve compiled seven must-do events including Electric Dreams, a high-energy Vermont Symphony Orchestra program featuring electric violinist Tracy Silverman.
Obituary: Celeste Pasqua Bartoletti Hahn, 1925-2023
Italian-born woman lived a life of faith and tradition
Obituary: Robin Mazza Boyer, 1958-2023
Colchester woman lived for her grandchildren and was married to the love of her life for 45 years
Obituary: Peter Richard Wimble, 1955-2022
Former service member made friends wherever he went with his quick wit and big heart
Longtime Sailing Center Is a Casualty of the Lake Champlain Real Estate Boom
A rising tide of development in northwestern Vermont has claimed a fixture of the Malletts Bay community, the International Sailing Center, which for decades has…
Obituary: Robert Foley, 1930-2023
Former actuary had a sense of adventure and close ties to Lake Champlain
Obituary: Helen Morse, 1929-2023
Energetic and gregarious woman always took the time to show her limitless love for family and friends
Obituary: John P. Barron, 1961-2023
Avid fan of drag racing embraced the joys of life and walked his faith each day
Obituary: Vernon Merchant, 1934-2023
Loving husband and father was also a skilled carpenter and a quick-witted poet






