Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2011
Is South Burlington Failing its Special-education Students?; Can Michael Jaques Get a Fair Trial in Vermont;
Will Vermont Get Its Own Currency?
Ed. note: Freelance writer Kevin J. Kelley contributed this blog post. The benefits of buying locally would be multiplied if done with money that’s minted…
Nuclear Energy’s Money Pit: An Energy Sinkhole?
A new report by the New England Center for Investigative Journalism and the Connecticut Hearst Media Group finds that New England ratepayers have pumped $1…
VT Dept. of Education Issues New Seclusion and Restraint Rules
Ed. note: Ken Picard provides a follow-up to this week’s cover story on special education. To what extent are Vermont teachers and other school staff…
Lockheed Martin to Buy Burlington Telecom for $65 Million
* update * At a news conference scheduled for later today, Mayor Bob Kiss and Lockheed Martin CEO Stephan James will announce that the global…
Entergy: No Sale of Vermont Yankee
At the close of business yesterday Entergy issued a press release straight out of “Deal or No Deal.” The deal? The company announced that it…
Dean on Government Shutdown: If DNC Chair, ‘I’d Be Quietly Rooting for it’
Former Democratic Gov. Howard Dean is garnering some national attention for doing what he does best — shoot from the lip. In today’s installment of…
The Sounds of Silence
A writer considers suicide, privacy and the public’s “need” to know
A Frog Hollow Exhibition-in-Progress Conveys the Horror of and Healing From Sexual Abuse
Frog Hollow gallery director Rob Hunter didn’t know artists Carol MacDonald and Erik Rehman were both survivors of sexual abuse when he asked them to…
WTF: What’s that space-age, sombrero-like structure on Dorset Street?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Artist George Tooker, 1920-2011
Artist George Tooker of Hartland, Vermont, died Sunday at his home. He was 90. The Burlington Free Press noted his passing in a front-page story…
Nature Lovers
Art Review: Susan Wahlrab and Mariella Bisson, West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park
“Friending” Mother
What happens when an adopted child, or a parent, finds birth relatives on Facebook?
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Police arrested Michael Trias, 20, after they said he broke into a home in Mesa, Ariz., and became stuck in a clothes…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): This is an excellent time to study the book Assholeology: The Science Behind Getting Your Way — and Getting Away With…
Cow to Table?
Its politics may be messy, but in the kitchen, raw milk proves deliciously productive
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Matsuri ’11, A Japanese Festival [217]
3/27/11: Over 1,500 people attended Matsuri ’11, A Japanese Festival at St Michael’s College in Colchester Vermont.This is a biennial event cosponsored by The Japan-America…
Letters to the Editor
Under Vermont’s Skin I am curious as to why Seven Days dubbed Tata Harper Skincare “Vermont’s only luxe cosmetics company” [“Getting the Glow,” March 16]….
Investigative Series Finds New England Nukes Packed with Spent Fuel
On the heels of Japan’s nuclear bad news comes this, closer to home. Vermont Yankee and several other New England nuclear power plants are packed…
Brunoise This!: Jr. Iron Cheftestants Serve It Up
Over the weekend I had the great good fortune of serving as one of 12 judges for the Vermont Jr. Iron Chef high school cooking…
