Peggy Ann Craker, age 65 years, a resident of the Swanton community since 1986, died Monday afternoon June 30, 2014, at the St. Albans Healthcare…
Anthony Pfohler peacefully passed away June 22, 2014. He was born April 1, 1943 to Anton and Emma (Garrow) Pfohler in Keeseville, NY. Tony was…
Here in Vermont, we like to know where our food is coming from. As locavore lingo found its way onto labels and restaurant menus alike,…
Right now, Brian Stone and Liam O’Farrell are busy building a new craft-beer hub for thirsty Vermonters. “We’re looking to be the premier place to…
We depend on 1,000-pound cows for milk and meat, and snuggle up with our 40-pound dogs and eight-pound cats. But an inversely proportional relationship governs…
Dear Athena, I’ve been dating three women at once. Three amazing women that I really, really like and I want them all, but I sort…
The first thing to know about thrips is that the word is never singularized. “Thrips” can refer to a single insect or to many of…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to an astrologer named Astrolocherry (astrolocherry.tumblr.com), Aries is the sign of the freedom fighter, the explorer, the daredevil and the…
Tony and Mysty Olson never intended to open an exotic-bird shelter. They had no business plan, no late-night talks about turning their passion into a…
Queen City foodies sat up and took notice when Burlington’s code enforcement team busted Will Bennington and his roommates for having too many chickens back…
Dumpling Delight Kudos to Alice Levitt for that brilliant article featuring Luiza, the Dumpling Diva [“Dumpling Diva,” May 27]. Luiza’s Homemade With Love is real…
Occasionally, a dinner guest at my apartment will stop mid-sentence, fork poised in the air, wearing a baffled expression. The reason? A tinkle — made…
The call came in late Friday night, my generic ringtone mixing with the song on the radio and echoing over the voices of the customers…
Should pets be considered property — like a house — or a co-creation to be shared like minor children? The case of an 11-year-old German…
Curses, Foiled Again Police reported that a gunman forced a 60-year-old man in New Orleans to withdraw money from an automated teller machine, but before…
Every day, when she gets home from work, Deborah Osgood crosses a covered bridge and heads up to the barn to let her livestock out…
So you’ve written a book — now what? How will you pitch your complicated plot in the standard 250 words? Does your labor of love…
Last Saturday, more than 100 people — nearly all of them wearing black — sat in the shade of a tent on a sun-drenched estate…
When the Johannes String Quartet plays Beethoven’s last quartet in the small burg of Rochester, Vt., on Saturday night, second violinist Jessica Lee will be…
(Recorded and Freed, CD, digital download, LP) There’s a Blue Bird in My Heart is Anders Parker’s first recording in four years with his Cloud…
Red is a meditation on looking and listening. In John Logan’s play, the painter Mark Rothko has a lot to say about looking, and he…
(What Doth Life, CD, digital download) Carlton, by Carton, is the latest album out of an unlikely locale for great rock and roll: Windsor, Vt….
Conversations about solving climate change and ecological destruction are batted around frequently in Vermont, but rarely do they involve the word “play.” Yet when three…
A daycare center for dogs might not seem like an obvious location for artwork, but the Crate Escape, Too in South Burlington is upending expectations….
If it weren’t for Mary Cassatt, the Shelburne Museum’s current exhibit “In a New Light: French Impressionism Arrives in America” might very well not exist….
Remember last Wednesday when we were basking in the glow of a rare quiet week on the local music front, and recharging our batteries for…
Good movies make you think. Bad movies make you wonder. Clint Eastwood’s turgid, tone-deaf and — at two and a quarter hours — sadistically interminable…
If any of Vermont’s top political and economic development officials know what lies ahead for IBM’s roughly 4,000 Vermont workers, they’re not saying. But they’re…
About a year ago, I received a tip that a Vermont-raised actor named Brad Coolidge had launched a career producing indie films, including the star-studded…
This page is out of date. Tickets for the Seven Daysies Awards Party & Client Appreciation event are available at sevendaystickets.com….
With a growing number of new food festivals on the horizon, why should you choose Eat By Northeast (EXNE)? “It’s a big, giant fundraiser and…
Everybody thinks their dog/cat/bird/snake etc. is the cutest. And of course they’re all absolutely right. But when Seven Days readers judge their photos, someone just…
2013 marked the 25th anniversary of the release of Lucinda Williams’ breakthrough eponymous album. For the decade prior to that 1988 record, her music had…
This Saturday, don’t bother packing a picnic if you’re headed to Oakledge Park. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Burlington High School’s brand-new Fork in…
Mark Powell can talk wood turtles for as long as you let him: what they eat, when they breed, where they nest, the social tendencies…
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6/19/14: Vermonter Robynn Beams has been chasing stories across the state as a news photographer at WCAX for the past 8 years. And by night,…
Betty Foster Bessette passed away peacefully June 21, 2014. She was born Betty Ruth Spear December 12, 1921 to Robert and Dorothy (Moorby) Spear in…
Matt Sargent was a construction worker for a quarter century, but about four years ago he “hit the burnout stage” and began setting a career…
