The Animal Issue August 2017
Search-and-Rescue Canines Earn Their Play; A Vermont Spa Pampers Pets; In Montpelier, a Donkey Delivers Eggs
Seriously: Keep on Stuckin’
This week Bryan speaks with Stuck in Vermont host Eva Sollberger about her fantastic 500th episode. CREDTS Written by: Bryan Parmelee and Eva Sollberger Artwork/photography…
Obituary: Patricia Hamilton, 1951-2017
July 8, 1951-August 10, 2017 Patricia (Ryan) Hamilton, 66, of Bradenton, Fla., and formerly of Vermont passed on August 10, 2017, after a long illness….
The Parmelee Post: In Effort to Preserve History, Burlington Erects Library Card Statue
On Friday, the city of Burlington unveiled a brand new statue designed to address growing concerns that American history is actively being erased. According to…
The 500th Stuck in Vermont
7/15/17: In a state filled with artistic, unique and innovative people, one woman has documented it all. Join Eva Sollberger and a few familiar faces…
Leahys in Love: A Senator and His Spouse Weather Cancer
On August 25, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and his wife, Marcelle, will celebrate a milestone that few people reach: their 55th wedding anniversary. They remain…
Ask Athena: How Do I Make a Long-Distance Relationship Work?
Dear Athena, My girlfriend and I have a long-distance relationship. It just started. I’m not sure it’s going to work. She kind of wants to…
Brookfield Institution Ariel’s Restaurant for Sale
Ariel’s Restaurant in Brookfield is for sale, its owners announced Monday morning on Facebook. Lee Duberman and Richard Fink have run the restaurant for 21…
Letters to the Editor (8/16/17)
Thanks From the Kibabu Family Re [“Deaths Prompt Review of Swimming, Safety Programs for New Americans,” July 19]: From the bottom of our hearts, the…
Free Will Astrology (8/16/17)
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If you love someone, set them free,” said new age author Richard Bach. “If they come back, they’re yours; if they…
Album Review: Comrade Nixon, ‘Feels Like a Thousand Years’
(Rat Pâté Records, digital download) Authenticity and punk rock are strange bedfellows. I don’t know what “real” punk is anymore — if I ever did….
Play and Pampering at Happy Tails Pet Resort
Jemma and Mayhem took a brief respite from their midmorning dip in the indoor splash pool to saunter over to the observation window and watch…
Nurse Shortage Puts Vermont Parents on the Hook for Kids’ Care
Natalie Briggs spent the first six months of her life in hospitals. Born at 30 weeks with an extra chromosome, she couldn’t breathe or swallow…
This Year’s Giant Corn Maze is Bear-able
Nothing says mysterious yet wholesome fun like bears “drawn” in a cornfield, right? Right? Or, perhaps, when you’ve been walking through a corn maze for…
Album Review: The Edd, ‘I’m With Bob’
(Self-released, CD, digital download) I don’t smoke weed anymore. And I haven’t touched hallucinogens for the better part of a decade. I’m by no means…
Québec’s Foresta Lumina Attracts Visitors to the Light
Lava ran down the side of the cliff, and rocks began to crumble into the gorge. Behind the rubble, a glowing hidden chamber revealed itself…
Oh, Canada: Immigrants Seeking Hope Step Across the Border
There’s one reason to take a taxi to the end of Roxham Road in Champlain, N.Y.: the U.S.-Canadian border. The remote spot, 30 miles south…
An Artist Finds Her Niche in Drawing Animals
In 2008, Corrina Thurston got a migraine that never stopped. Loud sounds and bright lights hurt her head. She didn’t sleep, and she could barely…
Old Dog, New Trick: Vermont Wields Enhanced Animal Cruelty Law
Ashley Husk was at home in Ferrisburgh, and nine months pregnant, when she heard a distant gunshot on August 8. She stepped outside to see…
The RAD Girls Club Seeks Homes for Adoptable Dogs
By day, Chelsea Edson is a stylist and photography coordinator for April Cornell. Katie Falcone works in sales and marketing for the Radio Vermont Group….
Vermont Artist to Record Solar Eclipse in S.C.
As August 21 approaches, excitement about the upcoming total solar eclipse is growing steadily across the U.S. As expected, the infrequent celestial event is providing…
Have Tools, Will Serve: Cabot Hardware Store Adds Bar
It’s not unheard of for hardware stores in Vermont to offer food. Plainfield Hardware has a deli, and, in Cabot, Sarah’s Country Diner offers breakfast…
A Burlington Marketing Company Goes to the Dogs
Name: Sniff & Barkens Job: Dog lifestyle brand marketing Town: Burlington Two things set Sniff & Barkens apart from the numerous other marketing agencies based…
Search-and-Rescue Dogs Earn Their Play
When Avery Schneider and her 21-month-old American Labrador retriever, Birdy, go to work, they often head for a big pile of rubble deep inside the…
Movie Review: ‘The Glass Castle’ Isn’t Worth Visiting
“The medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan famously proclaimed. Rarely have those words rung truer than during the eternity it took to slog through The…
Why Is It OK to Feed Birds But Not Other Wildlife?
Years ago, before becoming a journalist, I worked for the Center for Wildlife Information, a Missoula, Mont.-based nonprofit. The organization’s mission is to reduce human/wildlife…
Art Review: ‘Birding by the Numbers,’ Birds of Vermont Museum
Most art shows can be viewed without particular attention to their settings, but “Birding by the Numbers” is inseparable from its locale. The Birds of…
How Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War Inspired Brian McCarthy’s Latest Album
In the final moments of his first inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln said, “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is…
Movie Review: ‘Annabelle: Creation’ Is Less Than the Sum of Its Creepy Parts
Posters for Annabelle: Creation tout it as “The Next Film in The Conjuring Universe.” That’s right: The ghosts and demons whose “true” stories Ed and…
Buckley: An Essay on the Love and Loss of a Best Friend
I first met Buckley 16 years ago. I was in Brooklyn visiting my friend Ben, who had just adopted this spastic, year-old (we thought) puppy…
The Animal Issue, 2017
Clearly, life is better with furry friends. Or feathered, or scaly. Pets inspire this annual issue, but so do stories about wildlife (“nuisance” bears) and…
Eat This Week, August 16 to 22, 2017: No Farms, No Food
Kingdom Farm & Food’s annual multiday foodie extravaganza officially kicks off this Friday, but you can whet your palate as early as Wednesday, August 16,…
Vermont Artisan Village Grows in Shelburne
A new community is taking shape off Route 7 in Shelburne. On 20 acres, Burlington-based architect Graham Goldsmith is constructing a group of buildings designed…
Trouble Bruin: Vermonters Are Reporting More Problems With Bears
David Kachajian was washing dishes at home in Richmond last month when something caused his border collie to wake up from a nap and growl….
A Vermont Women’s Shelter Takes in Pets, Too
More pets than people are living this week at the Clarina Howard Nichols Center in Lamoille County, which provides a home for women and children…
Soundbites: R.O.C. Out
Hello, friends. I’m at a loss for words after the (unfortunately) all-too-believable bullshit that went down in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend. Feeling tongue-tied is shitty…
Delivering Eggs by Donkey in Montpelier
When it’s time to deliver the eggs from the chickens that scratch and peck among the towering piles of earth at Montpelier’s Vermont Compost, Kaleigh…
Northfield Social Club Combines Brewery and Coffee Roaster
Almost a year ago, Andrew Leichthammer and Scott Kerner opened Good Measure Brewing in the old IGA grocery store building at 17 East Street in…
