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Burlington Navy Week runs Monday through Sunday, the first Navy Week ever held in Vermont, and most of it is free and on the waterfront. A 34 foot Sea Ark harbor patrol boat does demonstrations off the Community Boathouse Monday and next Friday at 11:30, sailors from the namesake USS Montpelier a…
Grace Potter's Grand Point North comes back to the waterfront September 18 through 20 as a fully nonprofit festival, with proceeds going to her Grand Point Foundation. The Man and The Devil Makes Three headline, and a new second stage is built around Vermont acts like Frankie White, Jesse Taylor …
Conductor and pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn, son of the Nobel laureate, grew up in Cavendish from age 4 to 14 after his family's exile landed them in Vermont in 1976, and this is the 50th anniversary of that arrival. He opens the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival Saturday at 2 at Elley-Long in C…
Seven Days' weekly seven puts Gary Gulman at Vermont Comedy Club and the chamber music festival on the list along with a few worth the drive, Fledge Fest at Fledgling Farmstead in Tunbridge Friday and Saturday, the Dan Tyminski Band at the von Trapp concert meadow in Stowe Sunday, the Best of Ver…
Five years after PCBs pushed BHS students into the old downtown Macy's, the new building is ready, with a gym, an auditorium, soundproof music rooms, and an accessible balcony added from public feedback. It holds 1,100 students, comfortably ahead of the 960 currently enrolled across the high scho…
The fair's art exhibition (August 28 through September 6) is getting a gallery style refresh this year, with featured linocut printmaker Lauren McCabe and the Essex Art League carving and painting live for fairgoers. Around 500 public submissions get juried into categories that this year include …
Seven Days sat down with the Gazette's longtime restaurant critic, then built a 30-hour Montréal eating itinerary from her tips, from pastries at Rhubarbe to rotisserie chicken at La Lune to dinner at Le Violon. There is also a restaurant-history exhibit she helped instigate at the McCord Stewart…
Believed to be the first feature film shot entirely in the Upper Valley, Valley Transit is filming with an all-local cast and crew as the centerpiece of a summer intensive that pairs students with professionals. The story follows a soon-to-be 80 man and a new high school grad who meet on a Valley…
[Authorities in South Burlington announce new bike patrol](https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/local-news/vermont/authorities-in-south-burlington-announce-new-bike-patrol/)
[Man killed in downtown Burlington stabbing](https://www.wcax.com/2026/08/15/man-killed-downtown-burlington-stabbing/)
Burlington native David Schein, who turns 77 this month and once wrote and toured with Whoopi Goldberg, premiered his new performance piece Thursday at Off Center for the Dramatic Arts on North Avenue, with shows through Saturday and more August 20 through 22. The show blends original songs and u…
['Burlington Forward' proposal leads to multiple hours of public comment](https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/local-news/burlington-forward-proposal-leads-to-multiple-hours-of-public-comment/)
[South Burlington to welcome new art installation on Williston Road](https://www.vtcng.com/otherpapersbvt/news/municipal_matters/south-burlington-to-welcome-new-art-installation-on-williston-road/article_008a3c61-7537-45ff-9746-fdbfd5d622a3.html)
[Vermont Highway Patrol name change coincides with 'Super Troopers 3' film](https://www.mynbc5.com/article/vermont-super-troopers-highway-patrol/73379375)
The nonprofit arm of Vermont Comedy Club is opening a 30 to 40 seat theater at 118 Main Street, across from the club in the basement space that used to hold the Drink bar. Executive director Natalie Miller wants it ready before next month's Big Pond Improv Festival, giving local standup, sketch a…
Four years after closing to make way for Pascolo, David Melincoff reopened Sweetwaters in its old bank building at 120 Church Street, chicken fingers and Shirt Sleeve wrap intact alongside new dishes like a Queen City rice bowl that impressed the reviewer most. The 178 seat room hit a record 670 …
[Men's Soccer Ranked No. 13 in United Soccer Coaches Preseason Poll](https://uvmathletics.com/news/2026/8/4/mens-soccer-mens-soccer-ranked-no-13-in-united-soccer-coaches-preseason-poll.aspx)
The finished Main Street redesign traded diagonal parking for wider sidewalks, a protected bike lane, trees, seating and public art, and the math comes out to about 67 parking spots gone. The city counters that downtown still has roughly 3,000 spaces, added 40 new ones at Edmunds School and on So…
Douglas Knapp, the 79 year old Burlington folk artist known as Dug Nap, has been cited for negligent operation with death resulting in the July 16 Pine Street crash that killed 16 year old cyclist Shiloh Skalka. He is due in court August 27. Skalka's family has set up a memorial fund through the …
The 18th Festival of Fools takes over Church Street and City Hall Park today and tomorrow with more than 70 free performances, running noon to 9 today and 11 to 9 Saturday across four outdoor pitches with something starting roughly every half hour. Galumpha, Cate Great, Snap Boogie, The Yo-Yo Guy…
Klepper brings his solo show to the Flynn Main Stage tonight, a storytelling set built from a decade of interviewing Trump supporters at rallies, with clips and slides pulled from the road. Opening for him is Steve Waltien, a Shelburne native and Middlebury grad who wrote for “The Late Show With …
Susan and Rick Cote opened Wild Meadows in late June at 27 Market Street in the Finney Crossing development, pairing a full bookstore with a café pouring espresso, housemade lemonade, wine and beer, plus pastries from Mirabelles and truffles from Birnn Chocolates. The Cotes have owned the weekly …
Most of the council’s Democratic caucus gathered on Bank Street to announce Burlington Forward, a resolution headed to their August meeting that would expedite hiring for the 10 officers funded in the new budget and create public space response teams able to issue citations and connect people wit…
Age Well has run this for more than 15 years, and this year it lands at noon on Tuesday, September 1 at the Champlain Valley Exposition, with barbecue at 12:45, the Deuces Wild band and a raffle. An $8 suggested donation covers parking, fair admission, lunch and music, but only 350 tickets exist,…
Gary and Ellen Lefebvre of Malletts Bay have spent 14 years scanning Lake Champlain from their research vessel, turning sonar hits into gorgeous 3D renderings of wrecks that even technical divers cannot reach, including the paddle wheels of the Phoenix, an 1819 steamboat wreck they located in 202…
Festival cofounder Woody Keppel tells the origin story himself, an unplanned busking stop on Church Street decades ago that convinced him the bricks were built for street performance. This year's edition lands next weekend with the surreal physical theater act Galumpha, street dancer Snap Boogie,…
The band called off its generations old free Sunday concert at the Lechner Bandshell after people sheltering there left behind belongings and gave Parks staff a hard time about clearing the stage. The city is weighing temporary moves to Church Street or City Hall Park while a cross departmental e…
Researchers off Valcour Island recovered the final missing piece of a cannon that exploded during one of America's earliest naval battles, killing Lt. Thomas Rogers, nearly 250 years ago. The fragment joins the rest of the gun at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, and for retired trooper turned …
The Brewers Association tried something clever for the 33rd festival at Waterfront Park in late July, selling tickets to Canadians at par, $60 Canadian instead of the $84.49 the exchange rate would demand. It worked, sort of, with about 190 Canadian tickets sold, more than double last year but a …
Shelburne Museum is putting up its 40th building, the Perry Center for Native American Art, its first new construction since 2013 and slated to open around summer 2027. The design has been shaped by input from about 120 representatives of Indigenous communities, a process in the works since 2008,…
While the country gears up for its semiquincentennial, Vermont's own founding story gets a fun retelling here. The state spent 14 years as an independent republic, coining its own money and running its own post, and its 1777 constitution was the first in North America to prohibit slavery and exte…
Two new novels put small town Vermont on the page. Hardwick's Brett Ann Stanciu sets "Call It Madness" in a fictional village based on Greensboro, where she works as town treasurer, and Corinth's Catherine Tudish builds "A Thousand Souls" around a village loosely modeled on Strafford. Bonus trivi…
The August 11 primary offers a genuine contrast. Incumbent Dan Gamelin, 65, is a 40 year law enforcement veteran from Winooski who manages 22 full time and nine part time deputies and defends the office's traditional role. Challenger Kevin Bloom, 32, owns a music studio, has no law enforcement ba…
[New Vermont State Police Commander Rose Up Through the Ranks](https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/new-vermont-state-police-commander-rose-up-through-the-ranks/)
The foundation that has carried the ice cream brand's giving for 40 years says it will close at the end of the year after parent company Magnum cut off funding and ordered its three staffers out of their South Burlington office. About $600,000 a year goes to Vermont groups like Migrant Justice an…
File under reasons to love summer here. Adam Rice started selling the ten dollar Vermont Creemee Passport in April and has moved 3,000 of them so far, with 70 shops participating and a free creemee waiting for anyone who returns a fully stamped book. Proceeds are split among three Vermont childre…
The rule comes out of last year's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and the Education Department will start calculating graduate earnings in early 2027, with the first programs potentially losing aid eligibility in the 2028 to 2029 award year. More than 800,000 students nationally attend programs proje…
Fran Megarry, now 84, went looking for a remote book club during the pandemic and landed on the Lanpher Memorial Library group in Hyde Park, which she initially assumed was the neighborhood in Chicago. Three and a half years of third Tuesday meetings later, the group had mailed her baked goods, k…
[A Staples Employee — and Illustrator — Keeps His Sketchbook Nearby](https://www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture/comics-arts-culture/a-staples-employee-and-illustrator-keeps-his-sketchbook-nearby/)
[Italian Americans Have Been Farming in Colchester for a Century](https://www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture/comics-arts-culture/italian-americans-have-been-farming-in-colchester-for-a-century/)
Gregory Garcia ran Bodywork Architectures out of the Chace Mill, claimed more than 600 clients, and performed an "internal work" technique on women that the field's own credentialing bodies call flatly out of bounds. Because he had never registered with the state, regulators initially could only …
The legendary festival runs July 15 through 26 at venues all over Montréal, close enough for a Burlington day trip or a very funny overnight. Seven Days' Québec guide walks through how to navigate the sprawling lineup, from arena headliners to the club shows where you catch the next big name befo…
The Vermont Historical Society answers with "50 for 250," an exhibition of 50 objects from its collection that opened Friday at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier, and Seven Days picked seven favorites, including the 1779 printing press long rumored to be the country's oldest (it isn't, but…
The Georgia resident turned a college history fascination into Crossroads of a Continent, a blog and podcast mapping Revolutionary War sites you can reach without driving to Boston. Several stops sit close to home, including the Ethan Allen Homestead right here in Burlington. A timely local hook …
A lighter read from the Nest issue, this home tour follows architect Thelemarck and retired art teacher Judy Klima as they finally stopped designing their house around resale value. Once they accepted they were staying put, the layout opened up in ways that actually fit the family. Worth a look i…
Jasper Oliver, the adult programs librarian at Shelburne's Pierson Library, staged a spoken-word and slide-driven performance at the Charlotte Grange that wove poetry, dancing, and political satire into one delightfully absurd hour. His pitch is that surrealism gives heavy subjects like politics …
The four 1940s sketches, "So You Want to See the President!", hung in the West Wing for more than four decades before a family ownership dispute sent them to auction. The White House Historical Association paid over $7 million to keep them out of a private collection, its priciest art purchase ev…
Brattleboro's Phill Gatenby, originally from Manchester, England, spent two years crossing the state to film every one of Vermont's 100 historic covered bridges. Somewhere along the way the project widened from the bridges themselves to the mills, rivers, and towns around them, and to the people …
A new pilot from Film in Vermont and the Vermont Production Collective will hand out $50,000 total in $5,000 and $10,000 packages to local productions, with applications open through July 21. Founder Brian Carroll wants hard data showing that filmmaking pumps real money into small towns, the way …
[City of Burlington forms hiring committee to help choose next police chief](https://www.mynbc5.com/article/burlington-hiring-committee-to-choose-next-police-chief/71684350)
The Vermont International Film Festival's Musical Silents series sets century old films against live improvised guitar from musician Matt Hagen, who never previews the movies before scoring them on the spot. The idea pushes back on the notion that silent films are dusty relics, swapping old timey…
Matthew Stephen Perry, a beloved bartender and front man who played with the Lestons, Party Star, and Dino Bravo, died in March at 49, and a few hundred people packed the SEABA Center for a raucous, potato flinging send off. The night ran through his three bands in order alongside surprise reunio…
Vermont Repertory Theatre's staging at the Isham Barn in Williston earned warm marks for its 20 person ensemble, period music, and showstopping Elizabethan costumes, even as the critic admitted it runs a touch long. The review singles out the design work and the cast's restraint, resisting the ur…
Seven Days' weekly list reaches beyond the Queen City to regional draws like the Founders Celebration Dog Party at Dog Mountain in St. Johnsbury and the Rattling Brook Bluegrass Festival in Belvidere. Closer to home, the picks fold in Burlington's Juneteenth and the Lamoille County Players' stagi…
The Vermont Rural Learning Collective, based at Vermont State University, runs AmeriCorps members through a $386,780 SerVermont grant to chip away at food insecurity and education gaps across the Northeast Kingdom and other rural counties. Members work at host sites like Green Mountain Farm-to-Sc…
Lakebone is a 48 foot black locust by Shelburne artist Nancy Winship Milliken, hoisted twelve feet above the new Main Street sidewalk after a parade and a slow train ride from Charlotte. It is the priciest of four public art pieces commissioned under the city's 2021 ordinance tying art funding to…
The five-year experiment of housing Burlington High School inside the former Macy's ends this week, capping a saga that began with toxic pollutants found at the old campus in 2020. Routly threads that resilience into a wider argument about downtown finding its footing, citing the AC Hotel, the ne…
Mounting medical bills from gut issues and two hip replacements have strained the longtime Burlington performer's career, prompting a benefit Friday at Standing Stone Wines in Winooski. A who's who of Vermont DJs is turning out, and organizers are asking attendees to wear purple as a nod to Mitch…
Now in its 15th year, the festival lands at Hula Lakeside with more than 75 exhibitors across two tasting sessions, plus seminars and live jazz. All-inclusive tickets run $80, and organizers are nudging people to buy ahead. Downtown has leaned heavily on events to draw crowds this season, and add…
The piece is a handy map of the summer's free and cheap live music, from SB Nite Out on Thursdays at Veterans Memorial Park to Burlington City Arts' lunchtime concerts in City Hall Park to the lineup at Shelburne Museum's Concerts on the Green. If you have ever realized in July that you missed a …
The Sustainability Academy's annual trout parade caps a months long fourth grade study that begins when hatchery eggs arrive in January and ends with students releasing the fish into the Huntington River. This year's procession drew the mayor, towering papier mâché river goddesses, and stilt walk…
The paper's long running reader photo contest pulled in 767 entries this year, among the most in its roughly two decade history, crowning winners like a costume averse pug named Betty and Doodle the hedgehog in a flower crown. It is pure local fun, and a reliable reminder of how many cameras in t…
Seven Days put together a roadmap for the 43rd Discover Jazz Festival, which runs June 3 through 7 across the Flynn, Waterfront Park, downtown clubs, and Church Street. Most of it is free, from soul legend Mavis Staples and an all star Eddie Palmieri tribute to local fusion trio Breathwork and th…
VINS in Quechee live streams a bald eagle nest perched 100 feet up a white pine, home to parents Windsor and Dewey and their eaglet V-2, who hatched April 24. The Eagle Cam has drawn a devoted following, with a 4,000 member Facebook group and a nod from the New York Times as its top joy boost in …
This year's festival, curated by MacArthur Fellow and former Kennedy Center jazz director Jason Moran, made a point of centering young players. Flynn executive director Jay Wahl says the lineup featured 44 school bands and close to 993 students, the largest youth showing in the festival's history…
Full Circle Theater Collaborative's new show at Off Center hands the steering wheel to the crowd, with six actors racing through 30 original two minute plays in under an hour while the audience shouts out which one comes next. Director Amy Halpin Riley borrowed the format from Chicago's long runn…
Seven Days' weekly editor picks stretch well beyond Burlington this time, handy if you feel like a road trip. Highlights include Ben Folds going solo at Rutland's Paramount Theatre and the 76th annual Pet Parade down St. Johnsbury's main drag, both Saturday, plus Greensky Bluegrass opening Shelbu…
After a thirteen month investigation, a Dutch government body ruled that the Burlington nonprofit's human rights complaint against Ahold Delhaize, Hannaford's parent company, can move forward, pulling the chain into mediation at last. Migrant Justice has spent seven years pressing Hannaford to jo…
The counter service barbecue spot opened May 20 next to his taco place Caja Taqueria, taking over the space that had been his short lived ax throwing venue, which closed in part over high insurance costs. Opening week seemed to confirm his hunch about local demand, with close to 100 people showin…
The show, "What's the Difference? Sculptural Ideas," was guest curated by BCA's Jacquie O'Brien and pairs Della Lucia's modular, almost Lego like assemblages with Lee Williams' animistic, Welsh folklore tinged pieces built from sticks and logs. Both artists work mostly in wood and share a fearles…
The state suspended ONE Arts Community School's license on May 14 after an investigation documented unattended children and serious injuries, and former staff trace the breakdown to a rapid expansion that absorbed families from the shuttered Frog & Toad center. Burlington has now lost at least si…
Two of these performances land this very weekend, with the Vermont Choral Union presenting "Sim Shalom (Grant Us Peace)" on Saturday at College Street Congregational Church and Sunday at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. The program surveys four centuries of Jewish sacred music and centers Bernst…
For Vermonters planning a trip north this season, this guide is worth bookmarking. Montréal's social sauna scene is booming, with spots like RECESS and JOY WellnessClub offering a convivial, club-like twist on traditional Nordic spa culture. The city is also marking the 50th anniversary of the 19…
The museum has assembled a self-guided tour across its paintings, folk art, and textile galleries organized around three themes exploring portraits, patriotic folk sculpture, and quilts rooted in American identity. A series of lectures and events runs through the fall, highlighted by a Vermont Sy…
This deep dive into Lake Champlain access reveals a stark equity gap along the lake's 587 miles of shoreline, the vast majority of which is privately owned. While Burlington's waterfront transformation over the past three decades has been a genuine success story, the situation is far worse in the…
This profile of the 167-acre Fayston farm run by Forbes and Helen Whybrow reveals a place that functions as equal parts working agricultural operation and restorative retreat for justice workers. The nonprofit arm, New Learning Journey, is hosting 70 Better Selves Fellowships this summer for peop…
More than 3,000 participants have signed up for this year's marathon, which remains the biggest weekend for runners in the state since its founding in 1989. RunVermont is leaning into the full weekend experience with a loaded Expo, a free comedy show, health screenings, and Saturday's youth event…
Seven Days' summer preview is a useful planning document for anyone trying to map out the months ahead. Highlights include the inaugural season of Vermont Green FC Women at UVM's Virtue Field, The Sound of Music performed by Lyric Theatre at the von Trapp Family Lodge with the Vermont Symphony Or…
The Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules voted 5 to 3 along party lines to reject the governor's proposal to cut wetland buffer zones from 50 feet to 25 feet around Class II wetlands in areas designated for housing. The decision stems from a sweeping executive order Scott issued in Septe…
The nearly 30 year old electronic dance music series returns to the Higher Ground Ballroom on Sunday, May 24 with Chicago house pioneer DJ Sneak headlining alongside Texas DJ Kelly Reverb and a deep bench of local talent. Seven Days writer Chris Farnsworth also spotlights Burlington musician Kevi…
[Killington to Close for Skiing Operations This Weekend](https://www.mynbc5.com/article/killington-to-close-for-skiing-operations-this-weekend/71378814)
[Essex Experience Opening Concert Postponed Due to Raven Nesting](https://www.wcax.com/2026/05/21/essex-experience-opening-concert-postponed-due-raven-nesting/)
[Camping Season Kicks Off at Vermont State Parks](https://www.wcax.com/2026/05/21/camping-season-kicks-off-vermont-state-parks/)
Nearly two years after catastrophic flooding, Montpelier is finally getting $11.78 million for repairs to City Hall, the fire department, and police buildings, while VTrans receives over $9 million for rail trail and railroad damage in Washington County. The money had been held up under former DH…
Potter's seventh studio album, *Trespasser*, drops August 21 and is described as a spiritual sequel to 2023's *Mother Road*. The bigger local news is the Grand Point North lineup for September 18 through 20 at Burlington's Waterfront Park, which includes Portugal. the Man, Dawes, Dark Star Orches…
ONE Arts Community School in Burlington has voluntarily shut down while the state's Child Development Division investigates an early May incident, with the earliest possible reopening set for May 26. The closure comes at an already tense moment for local childcare after the permanent shuttering o…
All three members of Vermont's federal delegation, Welch, Sanders, and Balint, have median net worths well above the average Vermonter's while holding zero individual stocks. Welch's net worth surged to over $12.8 million in 2025 thanks to money market accounts and mutual funds, and Sanders still…
H.512 would cap ticket resale prices at 10% above face value for events at independent venues with a capacity of 3,000 or fewer, nonprofits hosting fairs and exhibitions, amateur athletic venues, and colleges. The need is easy to illustrate. When Billy Strings played the Champlain Valley Expo in …
Khudaier's family moved to Vermont in 2014 as refugees from the Iraq War, and his mother Sabah Abbas started a small catering business in 2019 with pop-ups at the Old North End Farmers Market. The Church Street Marketplace awarded the family a three-year lease on the 135-square-foot kiosk at the …
The 25% drop in 2025 is genuinely encouraging, but context matters. The 170 Vermonters who died from overdoses last year is still more than 2.5 times the number who died in 2014, the year Governor Shumlin devoted his entire State of the State to the opioid crisis. Researchers point to expanded na…
[Dumpling Café to Replace Asiana House in Burlington](https://www.sevendaysvt.com/food-drink/foodnews/dumpling-cafe-to-replace-asiana-house-in-burlington/)
Brothers Allan and Travis Walker-Hodkin moved to Burlington from New York City during the pandemic and quickly turned their 198 Main Street breakfast spot into a local institution, earning a nod from Bon Appétit in 2023 for their now famous #8 sandwich. While they've been vocal about the toll tha…
Seven Days sat down with Kilmartin ahead of her four show run at Vermont Comedy Club this weekend. The interview covers her work writing jokes for the past two Academy Awards ceremonies alongside Conan O'Brien, her approach to dark comedy about death and motherhood, and her take on the viral "loo…
The Senate passed its $9.4 billion budget with a plan to direct $12 million from the state's Higher Education Endowment Trust Fund toward UVM's proposed 5,000 seat multipurpose center, which would host basketball and concerts. To offset the draw, the bill would funnel 20% of the state's cannabis …
With the border just 90 minutes north and summer travel season approaching, this is a fun guide for anyone looking to go beyond the usual Old Port and rue Sainte-Catherine loop. Highlights include La Sala Rossa, a crimson walled music venue in a former Jewish community center on boulevard Saint-L…
Seven Days' music column gives the full rundown on Foam Brewers' decade in business, tracing the Lake Street brewery's evolution from a cool little beer spot into one of the most important music venues in Burlington. The anniversary weekend runs Friday through Sunday with free live music, food tr…
The Flynn has unveiled the free Around Town lineup for this year's Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, running June 3 through 7. The programming spreads across Church Street's Top Block Stage, City Hall Park, College Street, and independent venues including Venetian Soda Lounge, Zero Gravity, Luck…
Seven Days reviews "Human Impact: Contemporary Art and Our Environment," on view through June 20 at BCA Center in Burlington, featuring eight artists who channel ecological crisis into visually striking work. Highlights include Philadelphia painter Diane Burko's fiery Amazon canvases, Huntington …
[Vermont Brewers Festival Returning to Burlington Waterfront](https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/local-news/vermont-brewers-festival-returning-to-burlington-waterfront/)
[520 BBQ and Grill Brings Southern-Style Smoked Meat to Essex](https://www.sevendaysvt.com/food-drink/520-bbq-and-grill-brings-southern-style-smoked-meat-to-essex/)
After last summer's budget woes forced BCA to scale back to a single block party, the festival is officially back for 2026 with a two day run on Church Street and City Hall Park. The funding picture has shifted: there's still no presenting sponsor, but BCA reworked its model with community backer…
The vote is scheduled for April 30, covering roughly 300 hourly employees across stores in South Burlington, Williston, and Saratoga Springs. Workers are looking to join Workers United, citing low pay hovering near minimum wage, reduced employee discounts, and poor communication from management o…
[Vermont Overdose Deaths Drop 25% in Dramatic Decline](https://www.wcax.com/2026/04/24/vermont-overdose-deaths-drop-25-dramatic-decline/)
The Made Here Film Festival is in full swing at Burlington Beer on Flynn Ave and runs through Sunday. There's a fun bit of history behind the venue: the Lumiere Brothers, pioneers of early cinema who hosted one of the first film screenings in Paris in 1895, had a film production factory in that v…
The 59th Annual Vermont Maple Festival kicked off today in St. Albans and runs through Sunday. The weekend lineup includes vendors and live music on Main Street, sugarhouse tours, a craft and food show on Saturday, and Sunday's 8.5 mile Sap Run from Swanton to St. Albans plus a parade. There's al…
This is a genuine coup for Burlington. Graves is one of the most celebrated mezzo-sopranos in the world, known for singing at the 9/11 memorial service and performing the title role in Carmen on nearly every major opera stage. She'll give a solo recital this Sunday, April 26 at 3:30 PM at the Fir…
Vermont is very much a buyer's market for cannabis right now. Burlington alone has 11 dispensaries, and Morrisville (population 2,000) somehow has five. Seven Days takes a look at how retailers are differentiating themselves amid tight competition and strict Cannabis Control Board rules that ban …
After an investigation found a teacher at Burlington's Frog & Toad Child Care was physically abusing toddlers, including incidents captured on video of a staff member throwing a child into a snowbank and restraining another for six minutes, parents are demanding that owner Tiffany Corbett be barr…
South Burlington is launching a biweekly Friday farmers market this summer, its first department led initiative of this kind. The city received more than 70 vendor applications after putting out a call in January, helped by the fact that there's no vendor fee in the inaugural year (for comparison…
It's been one year since Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian Columbia University student and Vermont green card holder, was arrested by the Trump administration. A federal judge compared his detention to McCarthyism era repression and ordered his release on bail. Since then, Mahdawi graduated from Colu…
Burlington's community theater company focused on plays written by, directed by, and starring women is closing its doors after 15 years of sold out shows at the Black Box at Main Street Landing. Cofounders Jennifer Warwick and Janet Stambolian said the decision came as key volunteers, including t…
The 43rd annual festival runs June 3 through 7 and is largely free. Headliners include Tank and the Bangas, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and the legendary Mavis Staples, who takes the Waterfront Park stage on Saturday, June 6. Curator Jason Moran is pushing the festival into some unexpected space…
HUD's "Cleaning House" initiative is requiring local housing agencies to reverify the citizenship and immigration status of Section 8 recipients. Burlington Housing Authority reviewed its roughly 2,200 voucher holders and narrowed potential issues to just eight households, most of whom simply nee…
The Vermont History Museum in Montpelier is displaying 13 of 44 paintings originally commissioned for the 1976 U.S. Bicentennial, each one depicting a supposed "Vermont First." The twist is that the museum has paired them with corrections and context that gently dismantle many of the original cla…
Vermont received federal approval over a year ago to use Medicaid funds to cover rent for homeless individuals with serious medical needs, with the feds picking up nearly 60% of the cost. But the state hasn't set up the program or budgeted its share of the money. Internal emails obtained by VTDig…
A new UVM study published in the journal Trees, Forests and People found that Vermont maple producers who adopt biodiversity friendly practices, things like leaving standing dead trees, removing invasive species, or participating in Audubon Vermont's Bird-Friendly Maple project, see no increase i…
This is happening today: the inaugural Vermont Art Book Fair runs tonight (5 to 8 PM) and tomorrow (noon to 8 PM) at Karma Bird House on Maple Street. Over 30 independent vendors and artists will set up across two levels of the historic warehouse, with demos, talks, workshops, live music from the…
Burlington resident Ryan Montbleau has been touring nonstop since 2003, and most people in town don't even realize he lives here. His new album *Fine Lines*, due in June, is his most eclectic yet, blending folk, funk, R&B, and even shades of hip hop. In a candid interview, he talks about wanting …
Here's one to mark on the calendar for next week: the UVM Concert Choir performs "Spring Serenade: Mud Medley" on Tuesday, April 14 at 7:30 PM at UVM Recital Hall, and it's free. The program pairs Danish composer Carl Nielsen's 1922 choral work "Springtime on Funen" with a newly commissioned comp…
BFP rounded up 30 arts and entertainment events across Vermont for April, and the lineup is stacked. Highlights with Burlington area connections include Lyric Theatre Company's production of Disney's Frozen at the Flynn (April 9–12), Nick Offerman's two shows at the Flynn on April 19 (the evening…
Clark, 66, is a former D.C. political activist who moved to Burlington in 2016, took a beginners standup class at Vermont Comedy Club, and has since become the state's most prolific independent comedy producer. His nonprofit Vermont Comedy All-Stars has put on over 110 shows in five years and pai…
Local entrepreneur Blaine Paxton and a group of activists organized a satirical bus tour of federal immigration facilities in Chittenden County, complete with actors playing tour guides, scripts, and branded buses. The five stop route included the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility, where …
Spater's renovation of a 19th century synagogue in the Old North End, which wrapped up last November, turned the long vacant building into a mixed use property with a vintage clothing market upstairs and apartments below. But the project also sparked something unexpected: a whole new business. Fl…
[Eye on the Scene: Experimental Music at Burlington's RIVEN](https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/eye-on-the-scene/eye-on-the-scene-experimental-music-at-burlingtons/)
This is one of the most sensitive and complicated identity questions in Vermont. The Abenaki of Odanak and Wôlinak, whose reserves are located northeast of Montreal, returned to UVM to reaffirm their position that Vermont's four state-recognized tribes are not genuinely Abenaki. A genealogical st…
The Vermont Labor Relations Board ruled in a 60 page decision that Gov. Scott exceeded his authority when he ordered about 3,000 state employees back to the office at least three days a week without bargaining with the union. The board ordered the policy rescinded and said workers should be given…
"Human Impact: Contemporary Art and Our Environment" opened March 20 and features work from eight artists responding to climate change, land use, and ecological disruption. The show runs through June 20 and is worth a visit if you're already wandering the Pine Street arts corridor this First Frid…
The Rough Francis guitarist and Young at Heart ginger beer founder is buying the Marble Avenue record shop from longtime owner Norbert Ender, who cited burnout, staffing challenges, and years of Pine Street construction as his reasons for stepping back. Hackney's plans to turn the store into more…
This one is hard to categorize. A Burlington resident named Blaine Paxton organized a performance art slash activist tour of federal immigration facilities in the greater Burlington area, complete with branded vans, trivia questions, and inflatable eyeballs handed out at ICE's National Criminal A…
The Vergennes museum opens May 23 with a new exhibit called "Fragments: Voices of the American Revolution on Lake Champlain," timed to the nation's 250th anniversary. The exhibit draws on decades of archaeological work to tell stories not just of the Battle of Lake Champlain but of common soldier…
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Vermont is part of a 24 state coalition challenging the Trump administration's repeal of the EPA's 2009 "endangerment finding," which underpinned federal authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles and power plants. Legal experts note an interesting contradiction: the administrat…
Attorney General Charity Clark joined 23 other states in filing suit at the U.S. Court of International Trade after the president imposed new across the board tariffs under a different legal authority following the Supreme Court's rejection of his original tariff regime. Vermont has skin in this …
That's Sen. Andrew Perchlik, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, explaining why lawmakers held off on committing to Gov. Scott's proposal to use $74.9 million in excess revenue for property tax relief. The concern is that federal funding cuts could force the state to redirect those doll…
This deep profile of All the Rivers, the 20 member global ensemble performing at the Flynn on Wednesday, is well worth a full read. Founded by Burlington musician Avi Salloway, the band features musicians from ten countries performing in six languages, blending everything from West African balafo…
Silverman spent 18 years in journalism before becoming the public information officer for the Vermont State Police, keeping his camera close through all of it. About 11 years ago he started sharing his fine art landscape photography online and has since built a following of more than 42,000 acros…
Kirk, who specializes in natural product chemistry at Vermont State University, sat down with cannabis studies colleague Dr. Phil Lamy to discuss the science behind cannabis use and the regulatory paradox that keeps it classified as a Schedule I drug even as 43 states have some form of legal medi…
Students in Professor Jennifer Dickinson's Museum Anthropology course collaborated with Fleming staff to curate a 20 piece installation exploring how memories and narratives shape our understanding of the past. Pieces range from Ming Dynasty carving replicas to a dress worn by a UVM student at he…
Seven Days put together a thorough guide to Burlington's electronic music landscape, and the through line is a scene that's evolving rather than fading. Sunday Night Mass, the legendary house and techno series running since 1998, survived the closure of Club Metronome and Nectar's by moving to Hi…
The biggest local headline here is the $8 million earmarked for Hula's Ride Your Bike project, a 200 unit development that would convert an industrial parking area in Burlington's South End into mixed income housing with a focus on walkability, sustainability, and local arts. It's the first phase…
Jack Fairweather, a Wales born journalist now living in Charlotte, took the award for "The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice," a biography of Fritz Bauer, the gay Jewish judge who facilitated the capture of Adolf Eichmann and helped put everyday German citizens on trial for t…
Seven Days profiled Abbey Berger-Knorr (Abbey B.K.), the 23 year old host behind the Abstract VT podcast, which features in depth conversations with Vermont creatives using chosen songs as a jumping off point. Abbey got her start at Big Heavy World, hosting the local music program Rocket Shop bef…
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Trump's sweeping tariffs on Friday in a 6 to 3 ruling, and a Burlington company was at the center of the case. Terry Precision Cycling, a women's cycling gear company, was one of five American businesses that sued, arguing Trump exceeded his authority …
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A bill introduced by Rep. Leanne Harple, D-Glover, would require school boards operating high school grades to include one voting student member per grade, making Vermont the latest state to mandate student representation. The Vermont School Boards Association supports the intent but flagged prac…
The collaboration between Burlington City Arts and the Church Street Marketplace District Commission has been running since December and continues through February 23. The centerpiece right now is "Dwell Time," a rotating video projection by Burlington design studio Vanish Works on the former Cit…
Local historian Bob Blanchard has spent years compiling "South Burlington," a 270 page book tracing the city from its 1865 separation from Burlington through its postwar transformation from farming community to urban center. Blanchard, who also founded the Burlington Area History Facebook group (…
Seven Days' weekly event picks for February 11 through 18 lead with Nella performing tonight at the UVM Recital Hall through the Lane Series. The list also highlights comedian Stavros Halkias at the Flynn (that was Thursday, and it was sold out too!), the Junction Dance Festival's Midwinter Motio…
With Valentine's Day approaching, Seven Days' Love & Marriage Issue spotlights some unconventional spots to tie the knot around Vermont. The lineup includes the Forever Young Treehouse at Burlington's Oakledge Park (free but unreservable, so bring your sense of adventure), ECHO on the waterfront …
This UVM student op ed makes a case that social media trends and YouTuber culture are flattening photography into a uniform, algorithm friendly product at the expense of genuine artistic expression. Author Robert Stark, a published wildlife photographer, argues that beginners are being funneled i…
Mark and Robin Twery have been married nearly 50 years, volunteering with the Friends of the Fletcher Free Library for over a decade. They sort, catalog, and sell donated books through in-person sales and an eBay store that once moved a 1951 second edition of The Hobbit for $1,700. Last year the …
Vermont Stage's current production at the Black Box Theater in Main Street Landing is drawing strong praise for its staging, which fully realizes the luxury of a 1930s European train without relying on abstract hints. John Nagle leads as Poirot with what the reviewer calls "shining curiosity," an…
Burlington native and Wellesley College professor Dan Chiasson has a new book out called "Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People's Politician," noted by the New York Times as one of their picks for Books Coming in February. The book weaves Chiasson's own memories of growing up in Burlingto…
Selectboard member Chunka Mui hosted a two-hour presentation last week to explain what Experience Shelburne, a new nonprofit, actually is. The short answer: a downtown organization that partners with the town on grants, financial analysis, and branding, and also happens to be a requirement for Ve…
Burlington singer-songwriter Grace Palmer is gearing up for a full length LP expected this spring, tentatively titled Everybody Is Somebody, with new singles rooted in social justice and climate change. The 25 year old Connecticut native landed in Vermont after COVID cut short a Nashville stint, …
Dan Chiasson's nearly 600 page unauthorized biography drops tomorrow and traces Sanders' arc from Brooklyn transplant to Burlington's transformative mayor. Chiasson, a Wellesley College English professor who grew up on Colchester Avenue, draws on hours of interviews with Sanders' longtime associa…
Mayor Mulvaney-Stanak confirmed that ICE has been active in Burlington and elsewhere in Vermont in recent months, while noting the city has credible information disputing a circulating rumor about an upcoming surge. The city launched a dedicated webpage for verified updates and the mayor is conve…
Vermont posted the largest population decline by percentage in the country last year, losing more than 1,800 residents. For the second consecutive year, more people moved away than relocated here, reversing the modest gains made during the pandemic when the state netted some 6,700 new residents. …
Highlights include jazz guitarist Badi Assad on January 30, Venezuelan singer Nella on February 13, and a cappella group Roomful of Teeth with Gabriel Kahane on April 17. Elsewhere in local music news, Burlington garage rockers Robber Robber got a shoutout from the New York Times, which named the…
Senate Bill 278 would eliminate THC concentration limits for flower, raise the cap for concentrates to 70%, and double the retail purchase limit to two ounces. It would also authorize cannabis events, delivery services, and on premises consumption alongside food service. Perhaps most notably for …
Lee Anderson, who founded Radio Bean 25 years ago, announced he's looking for new ownership for the North Winooski Avenue venue. His ideal scenario is a cooperative model where he stays on as a co-owner, though he's open to other arrangements. The club's financial struggles are "no secret," Ander…
The 55 year old community paper, which the Coopers grew from 4,000 readers to 17,000 over their 25 years of ownership, will soon be renamed Burlington Community Newspaper. DeSanto, co-owner of Phoenix Books, plans to preserve its "goodnewspaper" identity, perhaps adding a poem or book review here…
After historic highs in 2024, monthly Border Patrol apprehensions in the Swanton Sector have dropped 92 percent. But enforcement has intensified: those caught crossing are now almost universally detained and prosecuted, and agents have expanded operations into Vermont's interior, arresting roofer…
Drink, the cocktail bar on Saint Paul Street across from City Hall Park, announced its closure Thursday evening. The spot was known for live music, comedy nights, and trivia. Originally founded in 1999 as Wine Works, it had rebranded several times over the years. Still, quite impressive being the…
The governor wants nuclear power reclassified under Vermont's Renewable Energy Standard, which requires the state to source all electricity from renewables by 2030. Vermont utilities already draw about 20% of their power from out of state nuclear plants, and the administration argues reclassifica…
Burlington's first year round community gospel choir, led by cofounder Jonathan Ellwanger, will perform at Champlain College this week as part of MLK Day festivities. The 25 member choir welcomes singers of all backgrounds and religious affiliations, learning music by ear in a supportive environm…
Maedeh Asgharpour, South Burlington's new city curator, has organized "The World in Our Mind," an exhibition featuring eight Vermont illustrators including Caldecott Medal winner Jason Chin. The show, on view through January 29 at the South Burlington Public Art Gallery, includes everything from …
Shea Harvie, the new executive director of the Milton Artists' Guild, brings a background spanning cosmetology, communications, and a deep personal love of art to her new role. February programming includes "Kindness & Cookies: A Valentine Celebration" and "Let It Flow: An Abstract Paint & Sip" w…
After years of planning and a budget scare when contractors came back with a $28 million price tag (nearly double the original estimate), the long awaited pedestrian and bicycle bridge over I-89 at Exit 14 could break ground this spring. The city received council authorization to request addition…
Herb Leff, an 81 year old retired UVM psychology professor, has converted three rooms of his Burlington condo into recording studios where he creates what he calls "free form art music" nearly every night. His instruments include traditional gear alongside pots, pans, and even a rubber chicken th…
Maedeh Asgharpour, South Burlington's new public art gallery curator, brings an international background to the role, with degrees from the University of Tehran and UT Dallas. Her first curation, "The World in Our Minds," features roughly 40 pieces from eight Vermont based illustrators exploring …
The brewery will take over Simple Roots' former space at 1127 North Avenue in the Ethan Allen Shopping Center, with a taproom opening targeted for February. Upper Pass has also signed a lease on an adjacent storefront that will double their production space, allowing them to bring back small batc…
The annual Life Stories package profiles six Vermonters who passed away this year, including trans rights advocate Brenda Churchill, rock and roll roadie Todd "Highway" Sica, author Jay Karl Stevens, civil rights activist Sister Sankofa, Weybridge farmer Roger Wales, and art teacher Linda "Jan" D…
That's Paddy Donnelly of Bern Gallery, describing a summer where sidewalk closures and construction barriers made customers think Church Street simply ended. The good news: with construction halted and snow bringing folks downtown, Main Street businesses are feeling the love again. Pearl, North S…
Back in 2021, Burlington voters passed ballot language giving local owners a 36 month head start over corporate chains. The result: at least 10 of Burlington's 12 cannabis retailers are locally owned. But the market isn't without challenges. Donnelly (yes, the same Paddy from Bern Gallery, which …
Burlington's new Partizanfilm theater on Church Street had a merry Christmas indeed, with sold out screenings of Marty Supreme packing its two room venue. The small arthouse cinema, which opened earlier this year, is carving out its niche as the Roxy's spiritual successor for moviegoers who want …
Eva Sollberger's annual year in review episode is always a cozy watch, but this one hits a little different. Filmed in her Burlington living room with her 91 year old mother Sophie (and Lexy the cat), the two reflect on a year that included Eva's cartoon cameo in Alison Bechdel's new book Spent, …
Seven Days' biweekly event roundup highlights the post-Christmas stretch, led by Gogol Bordello's New Year's Eve shows at Higher Ground (December 31 and January 1). Other picks include comedian Marina Franklin at Vermont Comedy Club on NYE, the Hunger Mountain Winter Bird Count in Waterbury on De…
Seven Days editor Dan Bolles makes a case that feels almost quaint in 2025: reading builds critical thinking, reduces stress, and fosters compassion for people and ideas outside your daily experience. Vermont schools and libraries have largely escaped the nationwide wave of book bans, but Bolles …
Major Jackson, who taught at UVM from 2002 to 2020 and now splits time between Rochester, Vermont and Nashville, has a new anthology coming next fall from Storey Publishing: "A Bowl of Goodness: Nourishing Poems With a Side of Soup." The book pairs 65 poems with 24 recipes and reflections from wr…
The deployment is part of Operation Southern Spear, the Pentagon's military buildup in the Caribbean aimed at countering narcotics trafficking and pressuring Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. Senator Peter Welch isn't mincing words, calling the mobilization "a relentless march to war" and insisti…
Now in its fifth year, Winter Lights features hundreds of thousands of lights illuminating the museum campus, including the 220 foot steamship Ticonderoga floating in an amethyst sea and the immersive Beach Woods installation. New this year is an interactive Illumination Station for kids and a sp…
Williston native Chris "Cookie" Colbourn, 34, has been a pro skateboarder for almost seven years and is now signed to Element, where he achieved his childhood dream of designing his own board graphics. But he's equally prolific as an artist, with gallery shows across the country. Colbourn got his…
Gailmor, who died November 30th at 77 following a leukemia diagnosis, spent nearly half a century planting songs across Vermont, from his 25 year run hosting "Just Kidding" on WDEV to songwriting workshops to performances with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. A Manhattan native who settled on the …
As Burlington faces budget pressures, BCA is feeling the squeeze and making the case for community support. The organization just unveiled "Anthology," an 11 foot tall sculpture on Main Street made with flowers collected from Burlington residents, one of six permanent public artworks coming by 20…
City councilors unanimously approved pursuing legislative approval for automatic license plate readers to enforce speed limits and red lights. The technology was once common in Vermont, with over 40 departments using it a decade ago, but fell out of favor due to costs, regulations, and limited us…
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Highlight, Burlington's official New Year's Eve celebration produced by BCA since 2018, returns December 31 with over 12 hours of programming from noon to 12:30am. The lineup includes Circus Smirkus, The Barr Brothers headlining the Waterfront Fest, fireworks over Lake Champlain at 8pm, and the t…
Seven Days profiles seven Vermonters and organizations pushing back against the Trump administration. The Vermont Asylum Assistance Project has emerged as a particularly effective check, winning multiple habeas corpus cases to free detained immigrants despite having no previous federal court expe…
Eight years after launching from the Radio Bean stage, the eight piece groove and soul outfit finally has an album. "For the World" is a hybrid of studio tracks and live recordings cut at Tank Recording Studio with a small audience wearing headphones. Saxophonist Jacob Deva Racusin says the band …
A new consultant report for Burlington Electric found only two of 12 potential emissions reduction strategies make economic sense for the McNeil Generating Station: carbon capture and wood pyrolysis. Carbon capture would trap CO2 before release and chill it into sellable liquid, while pyrolysis w…
The volunteer run nonprofit, founded by Jim Lockridge in 1996, has been a cornerstone of Vermont's DIY music scene for nearly three decades. Lockridge, who moved to Arizona last year to be closer to family, acknowledged the challenges of running the organization remotely while serving as its sole…
The editors' picks for the week include the Isaiah J. Thompson Trio performing "A Guaraldi Holiday" at Middlebury's Mahaney Arts Center on Wednesday, plus the Fleming Museum's ongoing kimono exhibit exploring the garment's evolution from ancient traditions to modern wear. The Albany Berkshire Bal…
The Chittenden County Historical Society honored Burlington historian David Blow, 88, with its inaugural Lilian Baker Carlisle Lifetime Achievement Award. Blow, who has researched Burlington history since 1965 after returning from Army service in Germany, authored the three-volume Historic Guide …
Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak's legislative priorities for 2026 remain nearly identical to 2025's agenda after what she described as "very little progress" last session. These include authority to ban firearms in bars (approved by 87% of voters in March 2025), just-cause eviction requirements, and a…
Tuesday evening's commute turned treacherous as icy conditions brought traffic to a standstill on Interstate 89 south between Williston and Richmond, with vehicles stopped from the Williston Rest Area to Richmond's Exit 12. Additional disruptions hit Route 15 in Essex heading toward Underhill, wh…
Former pro snowboarder and Driven Studio co-founder Seth Neary presents "Fall Down, Get Up," his first solo exhibition featuring over 50 collages made from shipping labels, Polaroid borders, and decades-old Letraset type. The Burlington graphic designer, whose commercial work appears on Ben & Jer…
Nathan Hartswick and Natalie Miller mark a decade of transforming Burlington's comedy scene with the launch of Vermont Comedy Arts, a 501c3 nonprofit that will handle all educational programming while the for-profit club continues hosting performances. The couple estimates over 1,000 students hav…
Vermont's winter calendar bursts with activities from Shelburne Museum's Winter Lights installation running through January 4, featuring circus performances every Saturday, to the Grand Kyiv Ballet's Nutcracker at Lyndon Institute December 10-11. Middlebury College hosts the Isaiah J. Thompson Tr…
Main Street will fully reopen to traffic by Thanksgiving as the Great Streets BTV project pauses for winter, marking a key milestone after 21 months of disruptions. The $30 million initiative, which will resume in April 2026, aims to shift 60% of the street's space from cars to pedestrians and pu…
Two 1950s-era Steenbeck 16mm film editing machines have been restored for student use at UVM's film and television studies department. Professor Deborah Ellis, who secured the donated machines, says they will debut in the spring "Archival Filmmaking" course, allowing students to physically cut an…
The tiny Burlington venue that started on maxed out credit cards in November 2000 has become the beating heart of the local music scene, hosting multiple daily shows across every imaginable genre. Anderson originally planned to run it for only five years and considered pulling a "Bilbo Baggins" d…
The 11-foot-tall archway features dried flowers preserved in sunset-colored resin inspired by Lake Champlain's sky, with community flowers and items collected over a month embedded within. Burlington City Arts selected Kern's vision from 165 submissions for its accessibility and complexity, with …
The 10-day festival drew 9,065 attendees, up 26% from last year's record, with 38 of 77 programs selling out and generating a $55,000 profit. John Waters' sold-out narration of "Female Trouble" produced an unexpected reunion when an audience member revealed the famous Christmas tantrum scene was …
Brett Yates and Michelle Sagalchik are transforming a former College Street yoga studio into Partizanfilm, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit micro-cinema with two screening rooms seating 19 and 31 people. The theater aims to fill Burlington's cinema void with curated programming and a cafe-hangout lobby spac…
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Burlington's struggling municipal recycling program faces a pivotal decision after Casella submitted a revised seven-year contract bid following their initial five-year proposal at $1.55 million annually. With only one of four recycling staff positions filled despite 70% tax increases and hiring …
The private school completed a five-year campaign that added 55 acres in Charlotte for an outdoor education center and purchased an adjacent building for the school's first gymnasium. The expansion includes a learning village with pavilions and amphitheater, 1.5 miles of trails, recording studio,…
Hammond, the longest-serving director in Generator's 11-year history, just unveiled an upgraded Electronics Lab supporting Vermont's GaN semiconductor initiative while expanding teacher training programs. The Montpelier resident brings experience from founding Langdon Street Café and fundraising …
Ever felt like our healthcare system up in Burlington isn’t quite up-to-par? Political scientist Alex Garlick's new book "Pre-Existing Conditions" explores how lobbying shapes health policy, finding that each state lobbyist adds roughly $7 per capita to health care costs. Garlick, who worked as a…
VTIFF has stepped up to fill the void left by the Roxy's November 2024 closure, increasing Film House showings from monthly to regular screenings that average nearly 75% capacity. The 40 year old nonprofit, which nearly died in the early 2010s when it was known as the "Doom and Gloom Festival," h…
The snowboard film, two years in the making and shot in Japan, Alaska, and British Columbia, premiered Friday night before its official New York debut. It features Olympic athletes and pro-snowboarders including Brock Crouch, who's been sponsored by Burton since age 8. The collaboration between B…
The vandalized mural was designed by a local artist and commissioned by the building owner and parents from Edmund's School. Surveillance images show what appears to be "SALO 1" tagged on the artwork. Burlington Police are asking anyone with information to call 802-540-2321. The timing is particu…
While Burlington deals with vandalized murals, Brattleboro just hosted a $12,000 "Graffiti Jam" that brought 15 professional aerosol artists from as far as Slovakia to transform downtown buildings. Organizer Will Kasso Condry, winner of multiple Vermont arts awards, distinguishes between unauthor…
The Spirit of Vermont festival returns to Red Barn Gardens in Williston for its second year this weekend, expanding to two days with Vermont's own Greg Freeman headlining Friday night. Freeman's getting national attention after Rolling Stone featured his album 'Burnover' in May. The festival kick…
Artist Clark Derbes and 90 volunteers spent Saturday painting "Building Blocks," a 3,461-square-foot geometric mural at 266 Main Street, only to find it vandalized with graffiti by Sunday morning. Undeterred, 60 more volunteers including Mayor Mulvaney-Stanak's chief of staff and half the city co…
Eight student artists aged 16 to 22 created an 8-by-20-foot mural outside BCA Studios that tells the centuries-spanning story of Burlington's industrial Barge Canal, from pre-colonial wilderness through timber boom to toxic Superfund site. Working with Juniper Creative Arts muralists, the student…
[Vermont Textile Producers Eye a 'Farm-to-Closet' Movement](https://www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture/culture/vermont-textile-producers-eye-a-farm-to-closet-movement/)
Across Vermont, a nascent farm-to-closet movement is taking shape, with companies like Muriel's of Vermont buying 1,200 pounds of wool from 15 local farmers and producing garments on whole-garment knitting machines. Green Mountain Spinnery reports being busier than ever with long wait times, and …
The Richard Kemp Center in Burlington's Old North End is getting a new mural from Juniper Creative Arts to cover years of graffiti. The Building Blocks project is also painting 266 Main Street this weekend (Saturday 10am-4pm) with community participation welcome. City officials see progress in ta…
Vermont State University researchers spent two weeks in Cambridge Bay, Canada, collecting cores of snow, sea ice and permafrost to study microbes and microplastics in pristine Arctic environments. The DRACO team, using a state-of-the-art nano-CT scanner on the Randolph campus, has completed four …
The UVM Lane Series kicks off its 70th anniversary season tonight, continuing a legacy that has brought everyone from a young Yo Yo Ma to Ike and Tina Turner to Burlington stages. Director Natalie Neuert, only the fourth in the series' history, focuses this season on vocal music and international…
Williston Road's international markets face mounting challenges as Trump's tariffs hit imported goods, with Indian products facing 50% tariffs and European goods seeing increases too. India Bazaar owner Harish Nair tries not to pass costs to customers who travel hours for authentic Indian product…
The Burlington brewery has evolved from problematic acoustics to become a vital music venue as Nectar's, ArtsRiot and Despacito closed this year. Under talent buyer Greg Rothwell's direction, Foam maintains free shows for original music across genres, from punk to EDM, creating what he calls a "m…
The 892-ton steamboat's journey from Lake Champlain to Shelburne Museum in 1955 took two months, moving no more than 250 feet per day on railroad freight cars. Preservation director Chip Stulen has spent 30 years battling moss, ferns, and 30 buckets worth of leaks to keep the vessel museum-worthy…
The four-day festival starting September 18 brings 54 performers playing period instruments with gut strings to College Street Congregational Church, offering everything from Vivaldi's Four Seasons to Bach cantatas performed as he intended: with eight singers, not thirty.
Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" featured Burlington this week in a five minute segment examining the city's efforts to woo Canadian tourists back after pandemic disruptions. Correspondent Jordan Klepper visited during the Vermont Brewers Festival, interviewing local business leaders about initi…
Vermont Stage nearly folded last year after facing a $175,000 deficit, its largest operating loss in 20 years, prompting board members and producing artistic director Cristina Alicea to question whether audiences still wanted live theater post pandemic. The company's production of tick, tick... B…
Princeton professor Arvind Narayanan, co-author of "AI Snake Oil" and recipient of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI recognition, will speak at Saint Michael's College on September 11 at 7 PM about distinguishing genuine AI capabilities from industry hype. His book serves as this year's co…
Saturday's Vermont Reggae Festival brought music back to Burlington streets for the first time since the early 2000s, with Switchback Brewing hosting multiple bands and a dancing crowd. Bobby Hackney, co-founder of the original 1986 fest, emphasized reggae's community-building power and hopes thi…
The new "Why We March" mural on Howard Center's building facing City Market celebrates community activism through vibrant imagery of protesters at recognizable Burlington landmarks. Lead artists Julio Desmont and Raphaella Brice, both of Haitian heritage, incorporated feedback from over 60 commun…
Kristine Lott, Winooski's first female mayor, will step down September 15 as she expects her first child. Deputy Mayor Thomas Renner will serve as interim mayor until Town Meeting Day elections. During her tenure, Lott fostered relationships across the diverse community, from visiting the local m…
The Vermont Youth Leaders in Aging program will deploy 30 to 50 high schoolers to senior communities every other week starting this September, engaging residents through art, music, and cooking activities. With Vermont ranking as the third oldest state and a quarter of our population expected to …
Sanders received a standing ovation at the Hotel Champlain Sunday before launching into critiques of wealth inequality and Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." The senator spent most of the time listening to older Vermonters' concerns about Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and even AI. While some su…
Vermont's own Noah Kahan will perform at Folk and Fairways, a new benefit concert at Spruce Peak in Stowe on October 1st. Limited to fewer than 1,500 attendees, tickets will be available through a lottery system at $250 plus fees, with all proceeds benefiting Kahan's Busyhead Project supporting c…
The Québec-based band plans to oppose a donated Native American sculpture meant for Battery Park, calling it inauthentic and offensive. The wooden carving would replace the rotting 42-year-old "Chief Greylock" statue removed last month, but has reignited the heated debate over who can claim Abena…
The death of Nectar's came from a thousand cuts: Main Street construction that eliminated walk-up traffic, sky-high rent from landlord Joe Handy, changing demographics with Gen Z drinking less and seeking less live music, and perhaps most painfully, the venue's own identity crisis. When Ed Maier'…
Champlain Housing Trust and Evernorth broke ground Thursday on 100 Cambrian Way, bringing 40 permanently affordable apartments to Burlington's North End by next year. The $23.8 million project, powered by solar and geothermal energy, sets aside 10 units for Burlington Housing Authority voucher ho…
The annual Dragonheart Festival brought dragon boat teams from across the region to Lake Champlain Sunday, but this race is about much more than speed. Dragonheart Vermont's 200-plus members, many breast cancer survivors themselves, paddle not just for victory but to raise funds for cancer charit…
After 14 years building her Mexican restaurant empire from lower Church Street to Essex Junction, Tree Bertram passed the torch to employee Javier Zirko on July 1. While Bertram heads into semi-retirement and more pickleball, Zirko is spicing things up with a "Gato 2.0" menu featuring more authen…
Governor Phil Scott has denied a Trump administration request to deploy Vermont National Guard troops to assist ICE operations, citing insufficient detail and planning in the proposal. The Department of Defense had announced Guard members would replace Marine and Navy reservists in tasks like tra…
Burlington's iconic music venue Nectar's has played its final set after nearly 50 years of hosting local bands and touring acts. The Main Street club that helped launch Phish in the mid-1980s couldn't overcome the challenges of downtown construction, changing nightlife patterns, and ultimately, f…
Burlington City Arts' Festival of Fools will happen after all this weekend, though scaled down to a two-day block party after funding cuts initially forced its cancellation. The grassroots rescue effort began when Café HOT. owners Travis and Allan Walker-Hodkin rallied fellow business owners to d…
Burlington artists are constructing "LOOP," a massive interactive musical wheel headed for Burning Man before returning to tour Vermont. The piece functions as a giant hamster wheel that plays music as participants move it, embodying the collaborative spirit of both Burlington's art scene and the…
Comedy Central's Jordan Klepper hit Burlington over the weekend to film a segment about U.S. Canada relations, interviewing locals at the Vermont Brewers Festival and along the newly christened "Rue Canada" (formerly Church Street). The correspondent's visit was sparked by Burlington's efforts to…
CCTV Center for Media & Democracy kicks off a 24 hour telethon tomorrow at 6pm to save 41 years of Burlington's community media archives currently stored on 11,000 VHS tapes and DVDs. The marathon broadcast, running straight through Saturday's Ramble festivities, features everything from Death to…
Burlington has unveiled a 360 foot art installation wrapping around Memorial Auditorium's fence at South Union and Main Street, hoping creative displays will discourage graffiti tagging on the historic building. The project features 10 distinct displays ranging from paintings to photographs, tran…
The Green have mastered the art of the comeback, pulling off their third straight come-from-behind victory to advance to their first Eastern Conference Championship in program history. Down 2-0 to FC Motown in the second half, they responded with three unanswered goals, including a penalty kick w…
Mark your calendars for Saturday, July 26, when OGE throws what's essentially Burlington's biggest block party of the summer. Running from 11 AM to 10 PM, the celebration kicks off with a staff band at 12:30 PM followed by local musicians throughout the day. The real genius here is their raffle s…
This story is a great window into the unique, on the ground work of Burlington's park rangers. Preston’s success wasn't about policing, but about the trust and relationships he has carefully built within the unhoused community over time. It's a small but hopeful vignette about community-oriented …
This is the second major lawsuit this week pitting Vermont against the Trump administration over frozen funds. This one targets a key FEMA program that funds projects designed to protect against natural disasters like floods, which is critical for a state that has seen the devastation of events l…
The Henry Sheldon Museum's new exhibit, "Finding Hope From Within," offers a powerful and rare glimpse into the perspectives of incarcerated Vermonters. The collection of drawings, poems, and collages highlights the transformative power of art and aims to spark a broader conversation about the st…
A Montpelier based film company is tackling a complex and important topic with its new documentary, "Gone Guys." The film, which features interviews with Vermont educators and young men, explores a documented decline in the well being and engagement of boys. It’s not just a movie though, it's the…
It's always fun to see a little piece of Burlington pop up in a big way. The Nectar's shirt cameo on a critically acclaimed show like 'The Bear' is a cool nod to the city's iconic music scene. It’s a small moment, but one that gives a bit of national cred to a local institution many of us know an…
This is a classic Burlington story of collaboration over competition. With Nectar’s temporarily closed, both The Skinny Pancake (hosting free Friday shows) and Einstein’s (hosting Tuesday shows) independently moved to save the weekly Dead tribute nights. Their decision to coordinate efforts ensur…
This is a major, and well deserved, recognition for an artist who has become deeply embedded in Vermont’s creative landscape. Kasso Condry’s Afrofuturist murals and community art projects, often created with his wife Jennifer Herrera Condry through their Juniper Creative Arts collective, are vibr…
In a heartening story of grassroots action, a group of five residents is bringing cinema back to downtown. By choosing a nonprofit, member-operated model, Partizanfilm is not only filling the void left by the Roxy; but also testing a more community-centric approach to keeping cultural venues aliv…
When institutional funding fell through, local businesses stepped in to save a beloved summer tradition. Spearheaded by the brothers who own Cafe HOT., the effort has resurrected the event as the "Fools Block Party" for August 1 and 2. It’s a testament to the business community's commitment to pr…
This is a significant and long-awaited development for one of the area's premier cultural institutions. The 11,000 square foot Perry Center for Native American Art aims to provide a dedicated space for Indigenous art and education, developed in collaboration with local tribal leaders. The project…
This piece from VTDigger highlights the journey of Burlington Beer Company founder Joe Lemnah. It tells a familiar Vermont story of passion turned into a successful enterprise, but also sheds light on the crucial role of financing organizations like the Vermont Economic Development Authority (VED…
It’s that time of year again when you can’t walk a block downtown without hearing a saxophone. The festival couldn't come at a better time for downtown businesses feeling the pinch from construction and other concerns. As festival curator Anthony Tidd notes, a majority of the shows are free, maki…
In a bittersweet turn, the legendary Nectar's is hosting its last few shows before a planned summer closure. For a venue that has been the bedrock of the local music scene for 50 years, this weekend feels like a final chapter, at least for now. Saturday night's shows during the Jazz Fest will be …
Last week we reported on how just a few weeks after rebranding from its longtime identity as ArtsRiot, The District VT on Pine Street had abruptly closed. This article provides a bit more background on the venue's recent turbulent history, including multiple ownership changes and operational chal…
This news will surely hit the South End arts. ArtsRiot, and its successor The District VT, carved out a unique space for live music, events, and food over the years. Its closure marks the end of an era for many local artists and patrons, leaving a palpable void in Burlington's cultural fabric and…
While this particular quote harks back to last year's triumph, it perfectly captures the spirit of what makes Plex a recurring gem. The festival, now in its third year and happening tomorrow, continues to champion emerging and experimental artists who might not find a home in traditional gallerie…
It is quite something to imagine the history resting at the bottom of Lake Champlain. The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s initiative to make these underwater historical sites more accessible to those of us who are not scuba divers is a fantastic step. Utilizing remote operated vehicles for live …
It’s always inspiring to see student creativity making a tangible mark on the city. The new "Hands of Hope: One Community" mural in Leahy Way, crafted by students in the Burlington City & Lake Semester program, adds a vibrant splash of color and a message of unity. It’s a thoughtful addition, esp…
This news about Nectar's, a true Burlington institution, is definitely a shocker. Citing the Main Street construction and a quieter downtown, the team hopes this is just a summer break. We will all be watching to see if this cornerstone of our music scene makes its return. In the meantime, take t…
This year’s festival adds a jazz ensemble to the usual orchestra, band, and chorus lineup, giving ticket‑holders four chances to spot future Higher Ground headliners before they graduate. If rain keeps you indoors Friday night, streaming links will be posted on the VMEA site.
The beloved Saturday market returns for its 45th year with over 75 vendors each week, a full music schedule, and new kids’ activities. The market’s also laying the groundwork for something more permanent—a foundation was just launched to help secure a long-term home. Whether you’re braving mornin…
It is good to see some proactive measures against the graffiti that has become more noticeable downtown. Arts So Wonderful is stepping up to organize a cleanup, focusing on some of those prominent vacant buildings. Community efforts like these can make a visible difference. Hopefully you can part…
Five free days of music land June 4‑8, with Dumstaphunk honoring The Meters on Friday and The Soul Rebels teaming with hip‑hop icons Rakim and Talib Kweli Saturday. Mark your calendars; waterfront lawn spots fill fast once the brass section starts up.
City Council’s unanimous vote gives Higher Ground room to build the bigger stage it wants closer to downtown. Parking headaches remain unsolved, but music fans may soon swap Williston Road trips for Pine Street strolls.
The detention of a Palestinian student in Colchester has sparked new scrutiny over Vermont’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities. What began as a quiet contract is now a public flashpoint, with lawmakers divided over whether continuing that partnership aligns with the state’s values—…
Main Street Landing is turning into our miniature Cannes: small room, big screen, and popcorn that doesn’t taste like desperation. Word is Friday night screenings sell out fast, so maybe snag tickets before the credits roll on your weekend plans.
These grants funded crucial programs like vaccine access and mental health support—now suddenly gone. It’s a setback, but one that puts a spotlight on how essential these services are and just how much is at stake for many Vermonters.
Last fall’s windstorm ended the festival early, and it looks like the fallout is lingering for another year. Craftspeople and vendors are disappointed to lose such a popular showcase, especially during peak leaf-peeping season. Here’s hoping they’ll come roaring back once the supply chain (and th…
Most of the big ballot items passed easily, continuing the city’s focus on managing housing, infrastructure, and public safety. On redistricting, the voters also handed more authority to the council. We’ll see if the Legislature follows through.
March is looking loaded with entertainment, from big-name comedians at the Flynn to local theaters premiering new productions. If you are ready to ditch cabin fever, there is no shortage of places to laugh and cheer.
Milton’s annual Winter Festival saw spirited sledding, disc golf competitions, sleigh rides, and a chili cook-off. The turnout was huge, which might be proof that locals embrace winter—at least when there’s a warm drink and fireworks in the picture.
Looking for a must-see outdoor show? Circle June 27 on your calendar and prep your lawn chair—Shelburne Museum is set to host a sweet summertime jam.
If cabin fever has you dreaming of faraway places, a trip to Nusantara might scratch that itch. Wandering through its eclectic wares can feel like traveling the globe without leaving Chittenden County.
Even a small spark of hope can brighten a child’s toughest days. Kudos to everyone involved for making dreams a bit more vivid—right in Shelburne’s own backyard.
**Location:** Hotel Vermont, Burlington | **Cost:** Free
**Location:** The 126, Burlington | **Cost:** Free
One of the area’s favorite music venues might set up shop near Burlington City Arts. The move hinges on a zoning tweak, but fans are hoping it all works out.
On February 15, the iconic music venue will host an all-day tribute to the man who helped countless local acts find their groove. Expect a live “superjam” that would make even the pickiest audiophile smile.
February in Vermont can feel like six more weeks of “not going outside,” so might as well boogie indoors. Looks like folks in the 802 found a new reason to break out the flannel and dance away those winter blues.