Feb 19-25, 2014
How Officials in Rutland Are Combining Forces to Fight Drug Abuse; Burlington Considers School Budget Increase; Chefs Wield Spirits in the Kitchen; Glass Sculptor Ethan Bond-Watts
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How Officials in Rutland are Combining Forces to Fight Drug Abuse
The house at 50 Chestnut Avenue has sheets of plywood where the windows and doors once were. Its green paint has faded, one of its…
Obituary: Linda Boudreau Jewell
Linda Boudreau Jewell who was a resident of this area for most of her life, went to live with her Lord Jesus Christ on Sunday…
Obituary: Ronald A. Hemingway
Ronald A. Hemingway, 56, a lifelong resident of this area, passed away Wednesday night, February 19, 2014 at the Northwestern Medical Center surrounded by his…
Israeli and Palestinian Youths Offer Hope for Peace Through Music
According to Neil Young, “Just playing a song won’t change the world.” With all apologies to the godfather of grunge, the kids from Heartbeat respectfully…
Chefs Talk About Cooking With Spirits
In 1895, when a young French waiter named Henri Charpentier splashed brandy into a pan of crêpes intended for future king of England Edward VII,…
Benefit for Aaron Burroughs; Waking Windows 4 Headliners Announced
As we reported a couple of weeks ago, Funkwagon front man Aaron Burroughs’ Old North End apartment was recently destroyed by fire. Thankfully, Burroughs was…
Dance Company of Middlebury Reinterprets the Meaning of Masks
To a Western audience, mask wearing generally means concealing one’s identity. This weekend, a riveting three-piece contemporary dance performance at Middlebury College’s Mahaney Center for…
Eyewitness: Glass Sculptor Ethan Bond-Watts
It’s a blindingly bright winter afternoon when glass artist Ethan Bond-Watts greets a visitor at his childhood home in Charlotte. The room’s west-facing windows look…
Burlington Ensemble Founder ‘Moves On’
After three and a half years, Burlington Ensemble is no longer. Cofounded by violinists Michael Dabroski and Sofia Hirsch and pianist Samantha Angstman in the…
Book Review: ‘The Headmaster’s Wife,’ Thomas Christopher Greene
The most moving part of Thomas Christopher Greene’s novel The Headmaster’s Wife comes after it ends. In his acknowledgments, placed last, Greene writes that the…
A Vermonter’s Original Play Takes On Age, Memory and Love
In a culture that celebrates youth, a play that explores aging is risky, but it’s a topic that touches us all. Margot Lasher’s Intake looks…
South End to Gain Brewery and a Cidery
The lower end of Pine Street is inching closer to becoming pub-crawl territory as two beverage-based businesses prepare for opening this spring. Behind 703 Pine…
Conflict Resolution: Should Vermont Legislators Go to Work for Those Who Lobby Them?
From her perch on the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Linda Waite-Simpson (D-Essex) distinguished herself last year as a passionate proponent of legislation allowing doctors to…
My Boyfriend Wants to ‘Take a Break’ for the Summer
Dear Athena, I’m a junior in college, and my boyfriend and I have been together since freshman year. We each lost our virginity to each…
Numbers Game: Drug-Treatment Waiting Lists in Vermont Aren’t as Long as Previously Stated
Shortly before Gov. Peter Shumlin’s State of the State speech, with its unique focus on Vermont’s opiate abuse problem, his health department said that nearly…
Misery Loves Company Bakeshop Opens; Vets Bake Bread
Winooski is in the doughnuts. MLC Bakeshop opened last Friday at 25 Winooski Falls Way, fully stocked with loaves of bread, croissants, Stumptown Coffee and…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A man entered the garage at a home in northwest Chicago and demanded that the resident hand over the keys to her…
Hack-to-the-Landers? Farmers and Coders Cultivate Connections
Stereotype has it that computer hackers are hermits who wreak dystopian mayhem from the comfort of their dark apartments. Organic farmers, on the other hand,…
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): A woman from New Mexico wrote to tell me that after reading my horoscopes for three years in the Santa Fe…
Pass or Fail? Burlington Could Say No to a 9.9 Percent School Tax Increase
Will this be the year Burlington voters rise in revolt against a nearly 10 percent increase in the amount of money they pay to educate…
Skipping the Super Bowl
Good riddance, I thought as I patrolled the city streets in my taxicab. We had made it through January, the cruelest month for us cabdrivers….
Remembering ‘Out of Vermont Kitchens’ Cookbook
In 1939, Burlington’s Cathedral Church of St. Paul solicited recipes from its female parishioners for a cookbook. Among those who responded was Marion Brown, who…
‘The Punk Singer’ Screens in Burlington
Grunge wasn’t the only radical music movement to come out of the Pacific Northwest in the ’90s. Just ask Kathleen Hanna, frontwoman of Bikini Kill…
At Holzer Book Bindery, Repairing Old Volumes Is a Labor of Love
Any author who gets a publishing deal these days knows the importance of e-books: Many readers now opt for pixels over ink. At Holzer Book…
Local Film Explores the Strength of Mobile Home Park Residents After Irene
Sandy Gaffney knew that August 28, 2011, would be a bad day for her and other residents of Weston’s Mobile Home Park in Berlin. Tropical…
Letters to the Editor
Married Couples Only? It would have been nice if a few non-legally-married couples were included in the article “The Start of Something Good” [February 5]….
Democrat Ryan Emerson Withdraws from Race for Ward 2 City Council Seat
This article was originally posted on the Off Message blog. Click here to read the full story….
Daily Strips
Dakota McFadzean draws comics every day. His first book, Other Stories and the Horse You Rode in On, is available from Conundrum Press. He also…
Chicky Stoltz, ‘Camp Recording #2 the Roebuck’
(Self-released, digital download) Chicky Stoltz is a transplant from Portland, Maine, who landed in Vermont a few years back armed with a kick drum, a…
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George & Brahma [SIV343]
2/4/14: WPTZ anchor George Mallet has a passion for horses and one in particular, Brahma Fear. He first met the grandson of famous racehorse Secretariat…
Carol Ann Jones, ‘Supercharged!’
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Carol Ann Jones came to songwriting later in life than most. In fact, she didn’t even own a guitar until 2006,…
Slideshow: Winter is a Drag Ball 2014, Sailors & Mermaids
The House of LeMay presents “Sailors & Mermaids” the 19th Winter is a Drag Ball benefitting the Vermont People with AIDS Coalition on Saturday, February…
New Restaurant Planned for Winooski’s Waterworks Space
Before Winooski’s Main Street became a sophisticated restaurant row, Waterworks Restaurant was the crown jewel in the town’s culinary scene. The huge menu of simple…
Phoenix Table & Bar to Open in Stowe
According to Frida’s Taqueria & Grill co-owner Jack Pickett, it was “a legal situation” with the building’s owners that forced him and Josh Bard to…
