The Summer Preview 2021
Sleepy Burke Plans for Its (Busier) Future; Everything You Need to Know About the New Vermont Lake Monsters; A Local Skateboarder Tours America’s Small-Town Skateparks; Summer Reboot at Vermont Restos
Obituary: Georgette L. Thabault, 1953-2021
Chef, sailor and fiber artist “lived a life of adventure”
Obituary: Charles Allen, 1970-2021
Son of Joanne Flynn of Essex Junction remembered for his quiet nature, sense of humor and resilience
In Memoriam: Zander Ponzo, 1941-2021
A “Remembering Zander” ceremony for Zander Ponzo will be held at the bocce courts at Oakledge Park in Burlington on Sunday, June 20, at 10…
Private Auction Of Storage Unit Contents
Courtney Richard, last known address of 38 Grove St. Essex Junction, VT 05452 has a past due balance of $1282.00 owed to Champlain Valley Self…
Sleepy Burke, Home to Kingdom Trails, Plans for Its (Busier) Future
For a Northeast Kingdom hamlet with just 1,700 residents and two stores, East Burke is a busy place these days. Burke’s small ski area, Burke…
Blue Ledge Farm’s Hannah Sessions on Life as a Farmer and Painter
Hannah Sessions and Greg Bernhardt, the founders and owners of Salisbury’s Blue Ledge Farm, met as undergrads at Bates College in Maine. During a semester…
Skateboarder Clint Carrick Tours America’s Small-Town Skateparks to See How They Roll
In the summer of 2018, Clint Carrick set out on a solo cross-country journey to regain his bearings — on a skateboard and in his…
Teens Start Literally Exploding in the Dark Comedy ‘Spontaneous’
Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. We talk a lot about the intense pressures on today’s teenagers….
Seven Vermont Events for Your Summertime Calendar
Despite the challenges of the past 15 months, many Vermont performing arts and entertainment organizations are persisting. We daresay some are offering their most creative…
Cornwall’s RAD-Innovations Leads the Way in Adaptive Cycling
Avenir Farms is much like hundreds of others in Vermont: a barn, horses grazing, a scatter of outbuildings, free-ranging dogs and chickens, a vista of…
Book Review: ‘Museum of Islands: New and Selected Poems,’ Gary Margolis
Poet, psychologist and former Middlebury College professor Gary Margolis brings us his second volume of selected poems with Museum of Islands. (The first, Raking the…
Outdoors and Online, the White River Indie Films Fest Holds a Lens to a Shifting World
In the Upper Valley, movies are back. After COVID-19 forced a hiatus last year, the White River Indie Films fest returns May 21 through 30…
Artist Crystal Stokes Wins Inaugural Diane Gabriel Award
Last Thursday, a small crowd assembled on the City Hall Park pavilion behind the BCA Center in Burlington. For many of the people in attendance,…
Local Bike Businesses Want Burlington to Rein In New E-Bike Operation
Big Tech. Big Pharma. Big E-bike? The relaunch of the Burlington area’s pay-as-you-go bike rental program, Greenride Bikeshare, has reignited a debate over whether the…
Soundbites: A Word on Summer, Myra Flynn’s New Single and a Musical Tribute to Monique Ford
This is our Summer Preview Issue, but previewing summer music is a freakin’ crapshoot right now. There are some big concerts and event series, and…
Pingala Café to Launch Weekly Outdoor Vegan Food and Music Event
In June, Pingala Café will launch Vedge Out, a weekly outdoor vegan food and music event in the parking lot of its home in Burlington’s…
Climate Spending Emerges as Flash Point in State Budget Discussions
When the Vermont Senate passed its 2022 budget bill in late April, administration officials were less surprised by what was in the $7.1 billion bill…
Skinny Pancake to Expand to Albany, N.Y.
Vermont-based crêperie the Skinny Pancake will open a branch in Albany, N.Y., late this summer, according to co-owner Benjy Adler. The restaurant will occupy 3,200…
Leo From Vermont, ‘Somnium’
(Nighterrands, vinyl, digital) Is there such a thing as “health music”? If such a term hasn’t already been coined, I’d like to take credit for…
Burlington Church Will Host a Benefit Dinner for Myanmar
A Burlington church with New American members from Myanmar, aka Burma, is holding a benefit takeout dinner to help those in the Southeast Asian country….
Isabel Pless, ‘Too Big for the Playground, Too Small for the Big Leagues’
(Self-released, digital) I often think back to a memory from my youth, a strange moment in time when I watched “60 Minutes” with my parents…
Playing a Round With 11-Year-Old Disc Golf Champ Finn Etter
The boy stares across a long, sloping field of grass beneath late-afternoon sun, tugging absently at a sweatband on his wrist. With an orange plastic…
Everything You Need to Know About the New Vermont Lake Monsters
The final out of the Vermont Lake Monsters season was recorded at Burlington’s Centennial Field in September 2019. In its wake, a cloud of uncertainty…
Free Will Astrology (5/19/21)
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s a public service announcement for you Geminis from the planet and god Mercury: You’re under no obligation to be the…
A Rival Developer Is Challenging the CityPlace Burlington Project in Court
After years of delays, it seemed in February that the CityPlace Burlington project was finally back on track. Mayor Miro Weinberger announced that he’d brokered…
Letters to the Editor (5/19/21)
Clueless! Not for the first time, or even the second, you cut off clues for the crossword puzzle in the May 12 issue. One line,…
Summer Preview — 2021
Everyone has had one magical summer that exists in their memory above all the others. Mine was the summer when I was 22 and working…
My Neighbors Leave Their Pandemic Puppy Outside and It Barks All the Time
Dear Reverend, My neighbors got a pandemic puppy, now a full-grown dog, that they leave in the backyard for long periods of time. The dog…
From the Publisher: Summer, Uncovered
My backyard looks down on the Burlington bike path — a stretch I walk almost every day. It takes about 45 minutes to stroll from…
Lamoille North Supervisory Union
The Board of School Directors of the Lamoille North Modified Unified Union School District invites sealed requests for proposals for the service of providing Contacted…
Obituary: Sharron DeRosia, 1958-2021
Bakersfield woman and educator enjoyed life’s simple pleasures
Fourteen Months After Shutdown, Vermont Restaurants Navigate a Summer Reboot
It’s been well over a year since diners sat at Misery Love Co.’s open kitchen counter amid the sizzle of meat hitting hot pans and…
Three Small Pleasures to Pack in Your Picnic Basket
Picnics are my favorite pastime on a summer day. Whether sprawling in the dappled shade of a backyard tree, tossing a blanket in an open…
Longtime Area Restaurateurs Make Charlotte Pop-Up Permanent With Backyard Bistro
After 26 years of running La Villa Bistro, Jill and Adam Spell closed their Shelburne restaurant on May 9 and jumped immediately into a new…
Bartender Mike Dunn Takes the Helm of Burlington’s T. Rugg’s Tavern
Mike Dunn has been a regular at T. Rugg’s Tavern in Burlington’s Old North End since he was 21 and was a bartender there for…
The Magnificent 7: Must See, Must Do, May 19 to 25
Even when dealing with a global health crisis and social unrest, Vermonters continue to connect, learn and have a good time. We’ve compiled seven of this week’s must-do events, including a free online talk by influential writer Angie Thomas.
