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March 27, 2024
This week's Seven Days is about money — a subject that for many evokes fear, envy, shame, all the feels. Some people have more than...
January 17, 2024
Feel the burn. No pain, no gain. Just do it. Whatever motivational meme gets your heart pumping and feet moving, many of us have health...
December 13, 2023
Seven Days passed a milestone over the Thanksgiving holiday: On Thursday, November 23, creative director and associate publisher Don Eggert marked 25 years at this...
November 8, 2023
Nonprofit organizations have the support of generous tax breaks and government expenditures, but they rarely make the news — save for the occasional embezzlement scandal or multimillion-dollar donation. In this series, Seven Days examines the state’s nonprofit ecosystem, from tiny local charities to one of the biggest enterprises in the state.
February 22, 2023
Last Thursday Seven Days weathered an internet storm. It was a local problem — a physical outage at a Chittenden County data center with a...
December 21, 2022
A phone rings twice, then a male voice intones, "It might as well be midnight, so heavy are the rain clouds over downtown St. Johnsbury....
July 27, 2022
To heat her drafty old Vergennes home, Constance Swinton switched from oil to natural gas last year for two main reasons: to save money and...
November 24, 2021
Vermont may be famous for two of its sweetest products — maple syrup and Ben & Jerry's ice cream — but Vermonters can also be...
March 10, 2021
weekly political column. Tim Newcomb A new industry is waiting to be born in Vermont, but our pro-business governor seems strangely reluctant to ease it into life. Two dozen Vermont communities voted last week to allow retail cannabis sales within their borders. Only three municipalities that considered the question on their Town Meeting Day ballots rejected it. Theres clearly widespread...
February 17, 2021
Then, a tornado struck late Monday, killing three people, injuring at least 10 and causing damage to more than four dozen homes, most of them in the affluent Ocean Ridge Plantation neighborhood near U.S. 17 about four miles north of Ocean Isle Beach proper. The damage was relatively isolated but also extensive. "Ive been to a number of different scenes," said Brunswick County Commissioners Chairman Randy Thompson, who served as the countysย emergency management director for 10 years before he r...