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A judge will hear a Franklin County prosecutor’s appeal of a city order requiring her to rehome her dog, which has attacked pets and people, most recently at Burlington’s Leddy Park. But Judge Samuel Hoar Jr. also said Diane Wheeler’s dog, […]

The University of Vermont Medical Center announced on Friday that it would pause construction of a new outpatient surgical center indefinitely, just weeks before it had planned to break ground. Construction at the South Burlington site won’t begin […]

Just 15 miles west of Killington Resort, Rutland is the county’s economic and cultural hub. Home to around 16,000 people, it was chartered in 1761. By the 1800s, the discovery of a massive deposit of solid marble turned the city into one of the […]

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Stewart’s Shops, a convenience store chain with 360 outlets in New York State and southern Vermont, plans to acquire the Jolley chain — including 38 stores in Vermont. The deal, announced on Friday, is expected to close at the end of this year. […]

An underused hilltop farm in Charlotte will soon become a hub for agricultural research. The University of Vermont on Thursday signed a 30-year lease with the owners of Nordic Farm, an iconic 583-acre former dairy whose red-roofed barn is visible […]

For Kerrin McCadden, it's about time — both the poem and the subject matter. "Time" is the name of one of the five poems that earned the South Burlington poet and teacher the coveted place on the cover of the latest American Poetry Review. It's […]

A 1983 University of Vermont graduate has given the school $1 million to kickstart a $4 million renovation of Royall Tyler Theatre. The anonymous gift will help fund a redesign of the lobby's layout and lighting along with renovations of bathrooms […]

Eleven canoers met in Wolcott on Saturday for a trash-picking adventure on the Lamoille River. They traversed almost five miles and amassed seven boats of rubbish. The outing was organized by the Northern Forest Canoe Trail and the Lamoille River […]

Walking into Chris Jeffrey's pop-up installation is like entering a prism. Rainbows explode on the wall. Neon green, magenta, electric blue and bright yellow slash in every direction, spilling off the edges of each piece and onto the walls, floor […]

Former Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were ideological foes and yet famously close friends. They often dined together, spent most New Year's Eves together and regularly attended operas — a shared love — at the […]

For years, Hinesburg locals complained about two derelict buildings along Route 116 in the village center. The eyesores made the "town look like the white-trash a**hole capital of the universe," one person wrote to officials. The Giroux family, […]

In 2000, Harvard University professor Robert D. Putnam published Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Its roughly 500 pages charted the unraveling of American social and civic groups and warned of the threat that posed to […]

Brian Warwick paced his Vermont State University-Lyndon classroom, running a hand through his dark hair, bobbing on the heels of his sneakers. The screen behind him was frozen on an image of a gang member emerging from a manhole. Warwick looked from […]

In the next few days, one of my favorite summer activities will come to an end: swimming outside. We're not talking about long-distance, open-water forays into Lake Champlain. I've done that a few times, but I find too many things to worry about, […]

As any local musician can tell you, booking shows around Vermont is as difficult as ever. Venues are struggling with predatory insurance companies thirsty for profit, as well as unpredictable crowds that, post-pandemic, rarely buy advance tickets […]

This week I had a tough choice between big and small: Megalopolis, the ambitious, already somewhat notorious science fiction epic from Francis Ford Coppola; and My Old Ass, a Canadian comedy with a cheeky title. I took a rain check on the first and […]

Woven throughout Brian Friel's 1980 play Translations is the profound matter of language itself. But the viewer's experience of the  production is more likely to focus on the 10 characters whose hopes and foibles propel the play's comedy and […]

Ballads played by wandering troubadours, sung around campfires or harmonized on front porches have told our stories since ancient times. Grand or small, romantic or sorrowful, from the medieval lamentation "Greensleeves" to "Alice's Restaurant," […]

Picture an art space in Brooklyn or Chicago. For those in the know, it's an attic apartment up some rickety stairs, entered through the back door of a bodega. Now add a good dose of wholesomeness and relocate it to a Vermont dirt crossroads where, […]

As a therapist who wants to use the psychedelic drug psilocybin in his practice, Rick Barnett of Stowe walks a fine line. He advocates for legalizing the therapeutic use of psychedelics, but he understands that some peers in the medical […]

In addition to White Bird, 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 theaters JOKER: FOLIE À […]

Yasser's messages to Crystal Zevon always seemed subdued given his circumstances. Amid all the bloodshed, misery and devastation that surrounds him in war-torn Gaza, the 33-year-old civil engineer, husband and father of three young children rarely […]

(Self-released, digital) Released in late August, Mystery at Sound Lake is Burlington psych-pop outfit the Burning Sun's first new material in more than three years. Its dozen tracks mark the culmination of the group's spiritual quest to assert its […]

When University of Vermont entomologist Cheryl Frank Sullivan surveyed 585 northern New England crop farmers two years ago, 90 percent reported they'd spotted ticks crawling on their bodies or clothing. Her results confirmed a commonsense […]