

Woodstock Aims to Entice New Businesses With Grants
Vermont gained new attention — and new residents — when it started offering people $10,000 in 2018 to move in and bolster the state’s declining…
Obituary: Anna Sun, 1962-2022
Beloved mother, sister, daughter and friend sought and embodied community
Obituary: Benjamin Watson, 1990-2022
Acupuncturist remembered for his passion and commitment to Chinese healing arts, break dancing and weightlifting
Obituary: Howard Perkett, 1943-2022
Willsboro native loved boating on Lake Champlain with his family
Obituary: Douglas Tudhope, 1927-2022
Former Vermont representative and businessman remembered for his innumerable contributions to his community
Obituary: John Vibber, 1943-2022
Longtime educator and music lover was most at home in the woods with his golden retrievers
Obituary: Samuel B. Cummings, 1935-2022
Father and grandfather spent many wonderful summers with his grandchildren at his camp in the Northeast Kingdom
Obituary: Marian Benoit, 1944-2022
Shelburne woman was a lifelong nurse, world-traveler, pilot, artist and adventuress
Clark Russell’s ‘Riddleville’ Questions the Meaning of Stuff
The Amy E. Tarrant Gallery at the Flynn has been largely empty since the start of the pandemic. Now, the space is so full that…
Is My 16-Year-Old Son Too Old to Trick-or-Treat?
Dear Reverend, My 16-year-old son is very mature for his age — most of the time. The other day, he told me that he plans…
FIRST Robotics Prepares to Extend Its Reach to More Vermont Students
A glass case in the lobby of Westford School displays shiny statuettes that celebrate its students’ wins in basketball and soccer competitions. On the top…
Pancakes for the People Serves Breakfast to the Community in Central Vermont
The inaugural Pancakes for the People might not have been whipped up in 2019 if founder/organizer Poa Mutino hadn’t climbed a Montpelier lamppost. Mutino had…
Champlain College’s Esports Program Launches a New Era of School Athletics
Andrew Campanella’s eyes narrowed in concentration as he stared at the computer monitor where the competition was growing fierce. His fingers flew across the keyboard,…
Free Will Astrology (10/19/22)
LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): Libra poet Wallace Stevens said that the great poems of heaven and hell have already been written, and now it is…
Letters to the Editor (10/19/22)
Right Up There I just wanted to reach out and say how much I enjoyed Chris Farnsworth’s article [“UFOMG: From Flying Saucers to Starlink, Vermont…
Essay: No More Cookies, Grandma! (Frank Talks to the Robots 2.0)
I’m not a paranoid kind of person, not by modern standards, anyway. But I feel like I’m being watched a lot. Not by master manipulators…
Bonnie Baird’s ‘Tethered’ Puts Her Familiarity With Place on Display
There are landscape paintings — oh, so many of them — and then there are paintings of the land as home. Bonnie Baird’s work falls…
Beta Technologies Plans a Web of Charging Stations Across the Eastern U.S. to Power Its Electric Planes
The first time Beta Technologies’ all-electric aircraft landed at Rutland-Southern Vermont Regional Airport this May, airport manager Chris Beitzel said he felt he was witnessing…
Vermont International Film Festival Screens Long-Shelved Gems and Pandemic-Paused Releases
The Vermont International Film Festival aims to bring the world to Vermont through film. Produced by the Vermont International Film Foundation, this year’s festival promises…
Local Influencers Talk About Building a Social Media Platform That Won’t ‘Eat You Alive’
About six months ago, I briefly went viral. A 25-second humor video in which I impersonated my mother, encapsulating her unique brand of feminism, reached…
New Companies Are Riding Vermont’s Health Tech Sector Boom
Vermont earned a pushpin on the global health technology industry map decades ago when homegrown entrepreneurs founded BioTek Instruments, the Winooski life science instruments company…
CoreMap CEO Sarah Kalil Is Building a Better Way to Treat Atrial Fibrillation
Sarah Kalil likes to start each day by climbing a mountain. One of her preferred summer and fall routes is a two-mile sweatfest that begins…
John Antonucci Connects Startups and Small Businesses With Funding — and the Right People
Sorting tomatoes, teaching social studies and coaching soccer: John Antonucci has done those jobs and many more on his way to becoming the managing partner…
‘We Met in Virtual Reality’ Explores the Potential of the Metaverse
Virtual reality has been touted as the next big thing since the 1990s. About a year ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg renamed his company Meta…
Now Playing in Theaters: October 19-25
In addition to Halloween Ends, here’s what is playing in Northern and Central Vermont movie theaters this week. Listings include new movies, vintage films and a directory of open theaters.
A Middlebury College Expert Explains the Ways Social Media Fuels Hate — and How to Stop It
The web has become an incubator for extremism. What can tech companies do about it? To answer that, some have sought advice from Middlebury College’s…
Book Review: ‘Pig Years,’ Ellyn Gaydos
Vegetarians and skeptics of the cloven-hoofed, beware: Ellyn Gaydos’ stellar debut memoir, Pig Years, might have you salivating. Lovers of sumptuous prose, rejoice. Pig Years…
Soundbites: Noah Kahan Gets Back; New Music From Francesca Blanchard and Sarah King
There are a lot of clichés about living in Vermont. I’m sure you’ve heard them. Every out-of-town comedian who swings through seems to have a…
Maryse Smith, ‘Silence Is Golden’
(Self-released, digital) It’s pure synergy that singer-songwriter Maryse Smith has released her new EP at the peak of foliage season. Soft, unhurried and contemplative, the…
From the Publisher: Tech Beat
I’ve had my share of health problems, as readers of this column well know. But so far I have managed to avoid the most common…
Father Figuer, ‘F F’
(Self-released, digital) Father Figuer are one of the most interesting Burlington bands of recent years. Since their 2020 debut, Transitions, they’ve stabilized as a power…
Customers Confront the New Tech Status Quo That Pushes Them to Tip
When Kevin Martins takes customers’ electronic payments for their drink orders at Onyx Tonics in Burlington, he makes quick mention of the final step in…
Burlington Restaurant Owner Ahmed Omar Builds an Online Following With Healthy Cooking Videos
Since early 2021, chef-owner Ahmed Omar of Burlington’s Kismayo Kitchen has made more than two dozen short cooking videos and posted them on his YouTube…
A Young NEK Dairy Farmer Showcases Her Cows and Life Through TikTok
For Kirbie Nichols, co-owner of Speedwell Farms in Lyndonville, the average workday starts in the barn at 3:30 in the morning, Pop-Tart in hand. It…
Mark BBQ Leaves Essex Junction for Colchester
The team at Mark BBQ slung its final heaping plates of Texas-style barbecue at the Essex Junction restaurant on Friday, almost four years to the…
Folino’s to Open Seasonal Spot in South Hero
Folino’s is heading to the Champlain Islands next summer — and it won’t just be serving pizza. The popular Chittenden County wood-fired pizza biz will…
The Magnificent 7: Must See, Must Do, October 19-25
Fall is officially here, and there’s no shortage of ways for Vermonters to connect, learn and have a good time. We’ve compiled seven must-do events, including a performance by legendary flamenco superstar Farruquito that features an array of world-class dancers and musicians.
Lured by Social Media, Sleepy Hollow Farm Leaf Peepers Now Require Crowd Control
“I’m literally going to Vermont because of a picture i [sic] saw on social media!” So said “lissette” in a 2019 comment on a Yankee…






