Jul 20-26, 2011
Community-Supported Ag Is a Bumper Crop in Vermont — But Farmers Have to Get Creative to Make It Work; UVM President Fogel Departs Early; Christian Radio Grows in VT;
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Sharing the Bounty
Community-supported ag is a bumper crop in Vermont – but farmers have to get creative to make it work
University of Vermont Names Interim President
* Updated * The University of Vermont’s Board of Trustees has named John Bramley (pictured) as interim president of the university. He’ll assume the job…
Pigging Out at the Cheesemakers Festival
I had to pinch myself every hour this Sunday to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. The Vermont Cheesemakers festival at Shelburne Farms is my idea…
“Fill ’er Up,” Says Entergy As It Approves VT Yankee Refueling
Entergy’s board of directors has essentially made a $50 million* bet that Vermont Yankee will remain open beyond March 2012, voting to refuel the plant…
An Estranged Son of Westboro’s Fred Phelps Wants to Help Drive ‘The Bus’ to Topeka
What do cult filmmaker Kevin Smith and Burlington playwright James Lantz (pictured) have in common? They’re both taking on the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka,…
New England’s Buttoned-Up Answer to Bacchanalian Southern Decadence
By now, you’ve no doubt heard about the lesbian couple from New York suing a Lyndonville inn for allegedly saying “thanks, but no thanks” to…
Taxidermy and Artisan Doughnuts
Glover is a town full of contradictions. Downtown Glover has one church, a handful of stores, a few roadside houses, and the familiarities of small-town…
DUI-Gate: Did the State Fail to Approve the Breath-Testers Before Putting Them Into Use?
Here’s the latest on the saga of Vermont’s malfunctioning DUI breath-testers: After months of saying next to nothing about the embarrassing episode, state prosecutors have…
UVM President Dan Fogel Resigns
* Updated below with action from the UVM Board of Trustees meeting * University of Vermont President Dan Fogel made his abrupt resignation official this…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again While a sheriff’s deputy was giving Louis Cruz, 55, a sobriety test after stopping him for driving erratically in Okaloosa County, Fla.,…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I dreamed you were in a cake store. Every delicious kind of cake you could imagine was there: carrot cake, strawberry…
WTF: What’s the story behind the Bulletins From Neptune pickup truck?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
What Would Jesus Broadcast?
A Christian radio network spreads its message in Vermont, one frequency at a time
Letters to the Editor
Lincoln Lore Correction [Re: “Going to the Mountain,” July 6]: Frederich “Dutch” Wehage was the ’60s practitioner of crazy wisdom and psychedelic psychotherapy and student…
Dining With Judith and Julia
Publisher and sometime Vermonter Judith Jones celebrates 50 years of Mastering the Art of French Cooking
UVM President Dan Fogel to Resign July 31
University of Vermont President Dan Fogel is leaving UVM at month’s end — a full year before his planned departure — seemingly prompted by the…
Judge Denies Entergy’s Request for Injunction
The first round in the legal battle between the state of Vermont and Vermont Yankee goes to … the state. A federal judge on Monday…
