Oct 30 – Nov 5, 2013
From 4000 Feet, Hugh and Jeanne Joudry Have Kept Watch Over Vermont for Decades; Guard-Inmate Sex Tests Law; Barre’s Public Art Has Teeth; Winter Floor Hockey Faces Off; Exploring Vermont’s Haunted Restaurants
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From 4000 Feet, Hugh and Jeanne Joudry Have Kept Watch Over Vermont’s Stratton Mountain for Decades
When Hugh and Jeanne Joudry first ascended Stratton Mountain 45 years ago, “We had no idea what we were doing,” Jeanne recently recalled. Back then,…
Obituary: Charles Albert Cook
Charles Albert Cook, age 88 years, a resident of the Little County Road, died late Saturday afternoon, November 2, 2013, at Redstone Villa in St….
Obituary: Dylan “Snow Bear” Airoldi
Dylan “Snow Bear” Airoldi, age 20 years, died unexpectedly Friday morning November 1, 2013, in the Northwestern Medical Center. Born in St. Albans on August…
Exploring Vermont’s Haunted Restaurants
Around this time of year, we become especially attuned to things that go bump in the night. For those who work in bars and restaurants…
Can’t We All Just Get Along? Vermont’s Divisive “Debate” Over F-35s
Missing from Burlington’s heated debate over a fighter jet basing? Sanders and the rest of the Vermont delegation.
Soundbites: Halloween Rock Roundup
As regular readers know, Halloween is the official holiday of Soundbites. So, as has become tradition, we begin this week’s column with a rundown of…
Floor Hockey Fever Hits Vermont
Ron Stewart is on fire tonight. With seven minutes and 14 seconds left in the first period, he picks up the momentum from goaltender Pierre…
Pianist-Composer Bob Merrill Gives Voice to Silent Movies
There’s never been a better time to listen to movies than the present. Not only do most theaters offer incredibly realistic, 360-degree “sonic experiences” for…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Philippine authorities charged Jeane Napoles, 23, with tax evasion after she posted pictures on social media documenting her lavish lifestyle, including one…
Eyewitness: Artist Nissa Kauppila
“There’s just this part of me that loves destruction,” says Nissa Kauppila, sipping a de-stresser tea in her South Burlington home. The 31-year-old painter doesn’t…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Once when I was hiking through Maui’s rain forest, I spied a majestic purple honohono flower sprouting from a rotting log….
Nectar’s Sergei Ushakov Is a Sound Guy
A good sound man is like a good referee: If he’s doing his job correctly, you should hardly notice he’s there. Save for the most…
4 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…
Book Review: The Séance Society, Michael Nethercott
In 1956 Connecticut, a millionaire with a spiritualist bent has himself hooked to a machine designed to transmit messages from the Great Beyond. The “Spectricator”…
Book Review: Three Can Keep a Secret, Archer Mayor
The best reality-based movies are riveting even when we know what’s going to happen — Captain Phillips being a current example. The same is true…
Letters to the Editor
Smack Down I was a little shocked to see the graphic image of a heroin user in the “By the Numbers” posting [Last 7, October…
