Sep 7-13, 2011
Vermonters Get to Work Cleaning Up After Tropical Storm Irene; Artists Help Flood Victims in Creative Ways; Lauren Ober Tours Vermont Iconic Route 100; Hanging With an Art Collector
Here For Phish? How About You Lend a Phreaking Hand?
Last Tuesday, Vermont’s phavorite jam band, Phish, announced that they would play a special benefit concert for victims of Tropical Storm Irene. Unsurprisingly, the quartet’s…
A Portrait of Irene: The Back Behind
On the night of Saturday, August 27, Gerry and Conrad Zendzian made the decision to open the Back Behind Restaurant & Barbecue Smokehouse as usual…
9/11 Anniversary: Rarely Used Emergency Gear Proves Crucial in Flood Response
The search-and-rescue trailer housed at Colchester Technical Rescue hasn’t seen much action since it was purchased with federal homeland security dollars two years ago. Most…
BTV Lawyer Helps Flood Victims and Proves Not All Lawyers Are Jerks
Like a lot of Vermonters in the past couple weeks, Geoff Hand had been moved by the images he’d seen and the stories he’d heard…
George Clooney as Howard Dean? Watch the Trailer
Movie theaters are currently playing this trailer for The Ides of March, starring and directed by George Clooney, to be released on October 7. It’s…
They Lost Their Cars to the Floods — But in Doing So, Saved Crucial Computer Servers
As flood waters from Tropical Storm Irene swamped the Waterbury state office complex, seven employees from the Vermont Agency of Human Services rushed inside to…
Movies You Missed 3: X
This week in new DVDs: Two prostitutes on the run — with split-screen effects! Each week I review a brand new DVD release picked for…
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Waitsfield & Warren, 5 Days After Irene [239]
9/2/11 – Eva tours Waitsfield and Warren with local resident, Tracy Martin. Although it is only 5 days after the flooding, much progress has already…
Gov. Shumlin Names Former Top Republican Aide to Head Irene Recovery
Gov. Peter Shumlin today appointed Neale Lunderville, an executive at Green Mountain Power and former top aide to Republican Gov. Jim Douglas, to coordinate the…
The More the Mexican
Four new restaurants beef up Vermont’s south-of-the-border options
Photo Slideshow: Taking the High Road Down Storm-Ravaged Route 100
Tales of ruin, and resilience, along storm-ravaged Route 100
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Authorities identified Audrey Shirley, 34, as the woman who stole money and credit cards from homes in Forsyth County and Milton, Ga.,…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Don’t be angry with the rain,” counseled author Vladimir Nabokov. “It simply does not know how to fall upward.” In the…
Letters to the Editor
The Real Story on Seat Belts [Re Whisky Tango Foxtrot: Why Don’t Vermont School Buses Have Seat Belts? August 31]: Whenever I have posed the…
Post-Irene Volunteers Get Chummy With Shummy
In Moretown last Saturday to help residents clean up after the storm, volunteers Meaghan Cormier of Colchester and Carly Schwer of Jericho got an appreciative…
Health Department: Don’t Eat Any Produce Touched By Floodwaters
It may be months before we know exactly what toxins Tropical Storm Irene washed into Vermont’s waterways and onto its landscape, but for now state…
Silty but Standing: Vermont Farms After Irene
Three Vermont farms assess the damage and look ahead
The Phish Tales Are True! Phab Four to Play CV Expo on 9/14
Rumors have been swirling for a couple of days now that VT’s Phinest would be throwing an Irene benefit gig within the next week or…
