Jun 17-23, 2009
Can Vermont Towns Tell Registered Sex Offenders Where to Live? Howard Dean’s New Book on Health-Care Reform; Still More Jazz in Montreal
#iranelection Protest Today
I came to the office early this morning to work on What’s Good, but now I’m captivated by coverage of the events unfolding in Iran….
Kudos for ‘Hometown Newspaper’
A story turned up on Alternet that made us feel good here at Seven Days–Ben Dangl, a freelancer who is also the editor of Burlington-based…
VT Archeology: Bitin’ the Dust?
New rules allowing all-terrain vehicles on some state lands aren’t the only ones the Douglas administration has in the works that are raising eyebrows. Vermont’s…
Water Water Everywhere: VT Yankee Springs New Leak
Another week, another leak at Vermont’s lone nuclear power plant. This time the leak is in a pipe that draws in water from the Connecticut…
Last Chance to Ride Richmond Ferry
The ferry established to move passengers across the Winooski River while the Richmond Bridge was being repaired is about to, well, ferry its last. Yes,…
Why Is a “Socialist” Trying to Save Capitalism?
Vermont’s junior Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) continues to make his presence known in the U.S. Senate. Earlier this year, he made national news when he…
Vermont Milk Company Weighing Bankruptcy
Plenty of fresh rumors floating around this week about the demise of the Vermont Milk Company, the dairy processor founded by a group of farmers…
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Green Mountain Opera Festival [SIV133]
6/12/09: The Green Mountain Opera Festival is in its fourth year in the Mad River Valley. This year they bring Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again After robbing a bank in Cornwall Bridge, Conn., Jason Durant, 32, tumbled down a steep embankment behind the bank, crashing into a…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for June 17 – 24, 2009. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you secretly…
Letters to the Editor
FLANAGAN’S FINE Sen. Flanagan is a hardworking and dedicated legislator [“Continuing Ed,” May 20]. I worked closely with him since his earliest days in elected…
Three in One
Anne Russinof, Tony Saunders & Elise Whittemore-Hill, 215 College Artists’ Cooperative, Burlington. Through June 28.
Girlington Garage Gets its Engines Running
When plotting a career path a few years ago, Demeny Pollitt figured there were only two fields she could get into that would not put…
Do You Take Discover?
Soundbites: Do You Take Discover?, Not Dead Yet, Floored, The Jazz Guys Say … Bonjour?, Bite Torrent
Vermont’s Native American Commission Feud Gets National Ink
The saga of the increasingly dysfunctional Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs is making national news. The national Native American newspaper Indian Country Today featured…
Best Bites: Asian Cuisine
118 Pearl Street, Essex 288-9996 It used to be China King restaurant, but with a name likeAsian Cuisine, who knows what’s for dinner? Probably another…
