The Winter Preview Issue 2014
The Winter Preview Issue: High-Tech Snowmaking in Vermont; Why Firewood Is So Hard to Find; On the Road With Scott Milne
Obituary: Beverly A. Allen
Beverly A. Allen, 61, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 with her family by her side at Starr Farm Nursing Center. She was…
Obituary: Timothy John Kelly
Timothy John Kelly, 62, of Isle La Motte, VT, died peacefully at home on October 12, 2014, after a short but courageous battle with cancer….
Why It’s Hard to Find Firewood This Year
Last June, my family and I moved from Colchester to Charlotte, which took us off the natural-gas pipeline and into the land of propane tanks…
On the Campaign Trail with Reluctant Candidate Scott Milne
Around 8 a.m. last Tuesday morning, the Wayside Restaurant & Bakery in Berlin was jammed with regulars and tourists. Seniors in jeans and T-shirts sipped…
A Visit to N.H.’s Cold Regions Research Lab
Donald Perovich seems too motivated to spend an entire year drifting aimlessly. But that’s exactly what the research geophysicist did starting in October 1997, when…
Low Pay, No Benefits: Adjunct Professors Might Unionize
Food stamps. Medicaid. Moonlighting. Despite their advanced degrees, some adjunct professors at local colleges report that these are some of the ways they make ends…
Food-Insecure Vermonters at All-Time High
During harvest time, it’s easy for most of us to feel almost overwhelmed with food — squash is ripe on the vine, apple trees are…
El Gato Opens in Essex; UVM Launches Food-Hub Management Certificate
Bad news: When the new El Gato Cantina opens in Essex Junction on Friday, October 10, it will not stock 100 different tequilas like the…
Feasting on European Fare in Bennington
When Europeans showed up in Bennington in 1777, the townsfolk didn’t exactly receive them with open arms. In fact, the town is perhaps best known…
Theater Review: The Spitfire Grill, Essex Community Players
This season of chicken-pie suppers brings to mind another local pleasure: amateur theater. Produced in barns or town halls, community theater features the audience’s own…
Gallery Profile: Hall Art Foundation
From 2011 to 2012, the Hall Art Foundation (HAF) transformed four circa-1800 farm buildings in Reading, Vt., into 6,000 square feet of exhibition space for…
Vermont Freeskier Appears in Female-Focused Film Pretty Faces
When a cartoon unicorn trots across the screen and farts a rainbow and a sprinkle of stars in the first few seconds of Pretty Faces:…
Some Campaign-Finance Complaints Linger Long After Elections
It’s been more than a year ago since former South Burlington city councilor Paul Engels filed complaints with the state alleging violations of Vermont’s campaign-finance-disclosure…
Patrick McCormack, A-C-K
(Carterco Recordings, digital download) Patrick McCormack has been an unsung voice in the Burlington music scene. He recently served as the namesake for Bandleader —…
Louie Brown, Rise Up
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Nearly every young artist, regardless of his or her chosen medium, fails. Stephen King’s debut novel, Carrie, was rejected more than…
Star Wars Reads Day Comes to Phoenix Books
When’s the last time you bumped into Jabba the Hutt or an Imperial Stormtrooper while browsing the best-seller rack? It could happen this Saturday, October…
The Green Mountain Playboys Make a Home for Cajun
It’s early on a Wednesday night at Charlie O’s in Montpelier, but you wouldn’t know it to look at the dance floor. It’s already filled…
A Flute Choir Takes Off in Vermont
Imagine a flute’s unique timbre — warm and piercing at the same time — and multiply it. That’s a rough approximation of the sound of…
Soundbites: Michael Chorney Debuts New Music Series
The emails from a few local musicians and promoters rarely fail to brighten the inbox of the Seven Days music department. One of them is…
Sundog Poetry Center Opens in Jeffersonville
Vermont doesn’t lack for mission-based organizations with “center” in their names, devoted to pursuits such as peace and justice (Burlington), agricultural economy (Hardwick) and ecostudies…
Vermont Resorts Invest in Energy-Efficient Snowmaking
Vermont’s ski-and-ride industry enjoyed one of its three best seasons ever in 2013-14, despite snowfall that was only a bit greater than average and a…
Curtain Call: More Local Theater News
We know, we know. After you’ve pored over Seven Days’ performing arts preview cover story on September 24 and reading our local theater previews last…
WTF: What’s the Orange Ooze in Leddy Park?
Just south of the ice rink in Burlington’s Leddy Park, a dirt path curves through the woods toward a small beach. It’s a short, pleasant…
I Peed During Sex and Am So Embarrassed
Dear Athena, I am so embarrassed and confused and horrified. The other night I was having sex with a guy I just started dating, and…
Free Will Astrology (10/08/14)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Situation No. 1: If you meet resistance or doubt, say this: “Ha! This diversion can’t slow me down, because I am…
Single Issue: Will Health Care or Property Taxes Motivate Vermont Voters?
When legislators return to Montpelier in January, they’re expected to debate the most significant expansion of Vermont state government in decades: If Gov. Peter Shumlin…
Letters to the Editor (10/08/14)
‘New New North End’ How ironic that Scot Shumski persists in dismissing me as part of “a small minority of extreme radicals” in the New…
News Quirks (10/8/14)
Curses, Foiled Again Security guards at a Seattle department store had no trouble spotting a shoplifter. She was carrying 23 purses and handbags. When confronted,…
Renoun Ski Co. Debuts Impact-Resistant Skis
Like many young boys, Burlington’s Cyrus Schenck was obsessed with Legos and catapults. Unlike many teenagers, he could fly an airplane before he could operate…
Opinion: As Africans Die of Ebola, the West’s Rich Get Richer
At 4:39 p.m. on Tuesday, September 30, CNBC tweeted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had confirmed the United States’ first diagnosed case…
Community Pub Butch & Babe’s Opens in Old North End
Correction 10/08/14: The photo that ran with an earlier version of this story, as well as in print, was incorrect. We regret the error.As a…
New Chef, New Menu at Burlington’s Daily Planet
In September, a new chef quietly took over the kitchen at Burlington’s the Daily Planet. Two weeks ago, chef Justin Bigelow debuted his new menu….
