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Senate Committee Votes 3-2 to Recommend Saunders as Education Secretary
The Senate Education Committee on Wednesday voted to recommend Zoie Saunders to the full state Senate as Vermont’s next education secretary. The vote was 3-2. Committee chair Sen. Brian Campio...
Court Rejects Roxbury's Request to Block School Budget Vote
A Washington County judge has rejected the Town of Roxbury's request to stop an April 30 vote on a revised school budget that, if passed, would lead the town's elementary school to close. The to...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/court-rejects-roxburys-request-to-block-school-budget-vote-40739220
Norwich University Names New President
A Norwich University graduate — and member of its board of trustees — is set to become the military school’s new president. Lt. Gen. John Broadmeadow, a Marine who graduated from Norwich i...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/norwich-university-names-new-president-40739545
Media Note: Mitch Wertlieb Named Host of 'Vermont This Week'
Mitch Wertlieb, host and producer of Vermont Public’s daily news podcast “The Frequency,” has been named permanent host of “Vermont This Week.” The show is the flagship televised news ...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/media-note-mitch-wertlieb-named-host-of-vermont-this-week-40738856
Dog Hiking Challenge Pushes Humans to Explore Vermont With Their Pups
There's nothing that dog mom Robin Miller enjoys more than exploring a new hiking trail with her chocolate lab, Millie. Now she's helping others find the same joy. The VT Hiking Dog Challenge, w...
Page 32: Short Takes on Five Vermont Animal Books
Seven Days writers can't possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, a flock of defecating cormorants. No, that didn'...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture/page-32-short-takes-on-five-vermont-animal-books-40731230
Three Quick-Hit Reviews of Local Albums
Sudden Unknown Signal, Missy (OnlyBands, digital) Burlington alt-rockers Sudden Unknown Signal (sometimes known as SUS) carry the torch for '90s guitar rock, once the dominant force in the Queen...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/three-quick-hit-reviews-of-local-albums-40731790
Now Playing in Theaters: April 24-30
In addition to La Chimera, 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. new in th...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/on-screen/now-playing-in-theaters-april-24-30-40732604
Q&A: Downtown Montpelier Transforms Into PoemCity Every April
April is National Poetry Month — and the perfect time to visit Montpelier, as the Capital City transforms into PoemCity. Organized by the Kellogg-Hubbard Library, this year's event features 45...
Netflix Series 'Ripley' and Art-House Drama 'La Chimera' Offer Mesmerizing Views of Italy
A Vermont spring is lovely, but how would you like to take a virtual vacation? A new film and series, both gorgeously shot on location in Italy, go beyond bland touristic views of the country to...
Legislature Advances Measures to Improve Vermont’s Response to Animal Cruelty
Lark Thompson heard desperate cries coming from a dark Charlotte farm on Ferry Road late one night in July 2022. When she went to investigate, dozens of emaciated, bleating goats desperate for f...
Pet Project: Introducing the Winners of the 2024 Best of the Beasts Pet Photo Contest
Technological advancements are coming faster than ever these days, which is both exciting and terrifying. While it's understandable to be leery of what automation and AI mean for the future of, ...
Vermont Rep. Emilie Kornheiser Sees Raising Revenue as Part of Her Mission
The person leading the class struggle in the Vermont Statehouse this year, Rep. Emilie Kornheiser, lives in a rented farmhouse with no mobile phone signal and sketchy WiFi. Her landlord's goats ...
Beast Mode: Getting Wild and Woolly in the Animal Issue
I talk to my dog. Like, a lot. I also make up dumb little songs about him and sing them around the house. Also a lot. But never once has my fuzzy buddy deigned to say anything back, let alone j...
Soundbites: Burlington Record Plant On the Move
Justin Crowther comes across as a humble man. Speaking about the decade-long history of the business he helped launch in the Queen City's South End, the owner and founder of Burlington Record Pl...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/soundbites-burlington-record-plant-on-the-move-40731641
On the Beat: New Music From Phish and a Family Folk Affair in Grafton
Living in the spawning grounds of jam-band giants Phish has some funny side effects. For instance, if the number of locals in their forties and fifties taking sudden trips to Las Vegas has been ...
Animal Communicator Amy Wild Wants a Word With Your Pet
Amy Wild talks to animals. That's not especially weird — who doesn't chat with their pets, or with the occasional bird or chattering squirrel? The difference is that Wild says the animals talk...
From the Publisher: Kitty Conundrum
In his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T.S. Eliot wrote of a life measured out with coffee spoons. My existential yardstick has been: cats. A succession of them, from my twenties to ...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/from-the-publisher-kitty-conundrum-40732692
A Former MMA Fighter Runs a Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Cabot
Bryeanne Russillo's day started at the crack of dawn with a wake-up call from Nate the rooster. Sporting hot pink sweatpants and fuzzy platform slippers, Russillo headed outside to chip away at ...
Printed Matters: A Vermont Studio Center Collection Is on View and at Auction
Forty prints for 40 years. That's the general idea behind "collaboration," a group exhibition at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson. But the display in the Red Mill Gallery isn't just a shout-out ...
A Burlington Celebration of Nature Helps Citizen Scientists Connect With — and Count — the City's Nonhuman Residents
Vera Szumowski isn't afraid of snakes. On a sunny April day, she found a nest of the harmless garter variety seeking warmth by the old well at Burlington's Ethan Allen Homestead. The 6-year-old,...
Two Performances Highlight a Nearly Forgotten Viennese Composer With Vermont Ties
In the European music capital of Vienna, between the world wars, one of the city's most renowned musical pedagogues was the Austrian Jewish composer Richard Stöhr. During a 30-year career at th...
Floyd Scholz Has Carved Out a Career Sculpting Birds of Prey
What's a guy to do after he's been declared a living legend? Ideally, keep on living and legending. That's what Floyd Scholz has been up to since, in 2014, the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art in Mar...
Book Review: 'The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems,' Adrie Kusserow
We live in an epoch of refugees. According to the UN Refugee Agency, as of October 2023 more than 110 million people in our world had been "forcibly displaced" from their homes. This global emer...
This Manchester Center Family Is a National Show Horse Powerhouse
Tango trotted boldly around the arena, mane flying, head upright and regal, like a chessboard knight come to life. The chestnut-colored gelding, an American saddlebred, circled the ring pulling ...