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Obituary: Gilles Joseph Bourbeau
Gilles Joseph Bourbeau, age 81 years, passed away Sunday, January 26, 2014 with his loving family at his side. He was born in Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey, Quebec,…
Obituary: Sister Miriam Ward, RSM,
1926-2014, BurlingtonSister Miriam Ward, RSM (Dorothea Irene Ward), 88, of the Sisters of Mercy Northeast Community, Vermont, died in Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington…
Obituary: Everett Henry Champagne
Everett Henry Champagne, age 64 years, a lifelong resident of Highgate and Swanton and more recently of School St. in Isle La Motte, died Friday…
Obituary: Andrew Claude Choiniere
Andrew Claude Choiniere, age 87 years, a lifelong resident of Highgate Center and more recently of Franklin died early Saturday morning January 25, 2014, at…
Obituary: Mike LaTulippe,
1949-2014, South BurlingtonMichael Carl LaTulippe, 64, of South Burlington, Vt., passed away on January 17, 2014, at home after losing his battle with cancer.Mike was…
Atticus Jack Harple
January 17, 2014Atticus Jack Harple, son of Jeremy and Leanne Harple, was born on 1/17/14 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He weighed in at 8 lbs,…
Latte Art Throwdown [SIV339]
1/13/14: Last Monday night, Maglianero Café held a barista jam. Baristas from coffee shops all over Burlington gathered to hang out and compete in a…
Bagel Makers Learn to Live Gluten Free
Leah Goldberg was not a healthy 13-year-old. When her parents first took her to a doctor for chronic gastric symptoms such as cramping and bloating,…
Chester’s Misty Valley Books Celebrates Two Decades of New Voices
Tucked on Chester’s town green, Misty Valley Books is quintessential Vermont. Cozy as it is, with its Oriental rugs and IndieBound best sellers, it may…
In Bellows Falls, Popolo Triumphs
I first noticed the Popolo sign as I drove through Bellows Falls two summers ago. Then I craned my neck so much that I almost…
Norwegian Fitness Phenom Redcord Has Users in Suspension
Ropes haven’t always been used on humans for the happiest purposes. Hanging, kidnapping and trussing to railroad tracks come to mind. So when I enter…
Four More Local Albums You Probably Haven’t Heard
So many records, so little time. Seven Days gets more album submissions than we know what to do with. And, given the ease of record…
News Quirks
Property Rites The Broward (Fla.) Property Appraiser’s Office denied agricultural tax exemptions to 127 properties that it said used a common practice called “rent-a-cow” to…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Actor Casey Affleck appreciates the nurturing power of his loved ones. “My family would be supportive,” he says, “if I said…
Book Review: If Only You People Could Follow Directions by Jessica Hendry Nelson
Back when memoirs dominated the best-seller lists, it was tempting to believe that any writer with a gritty, harrowing past could generate an instant sensation…
Art Review: Emiko Sawaragi and Midori Harima
The East Asian cosmological concept of yin-yang, or complementary opposites, receives vivid — and sometimes humorous — visual expression in a show by a pair…
Letters to the Editor
Self-Aggrandizing Review With Rick Kisonak’s dour review of American Hustle [Movie Review, December 18] somehow I sense a familiar theme: another debunking of a film…






