• Delayed for Decades, the Champlain Parkway Takes Shape in Burlington’s South End 

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    Published September 6, 2023 at 10:00 a.m

    Anyone who has been down Burlington’s Pine Street lately has seen the construction. Pedestrians are using a rocky path instead of the sidewalk that ran between Curtis Lumber and the Maltex Building. Drivers heading for Lakeside Avenue have been rerouted down Sears Lane. City Market shoppers have navigated a blasting zone to get their groceries.

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    The sights herald the arrival of the Champlain Parkway, a long-planned road that will connect the unfinished Interstate 189 interchange on Shelburne Road with downtown Burlington.

  • The Seven Days Guide to South End Art Hop 2023

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    Published September 5, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

    Art is at the heart of Burlington’s South End, a multihued thread tying together the creative community along Pine Street and Flynn Avenue. Like foliage, those colors are on full display every September for the annual South End Art Hop. Back for its 31st year this Friday, September 8, through Sunday, September 10, the Hop unites nearly 100 local studios, galleries, makerspaces, restaurants and other businesses in a singular purpose: to roll out the welcome mat to visitors and celebrate art!

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    The festivities include free events outdoors and in, an artists’ market, a Kids Hop, and countless curated exhibitions and juried shows — you’ll find everything from expressive portraiture to psychedelic paintings to landscape photography and beyond. The South End Arts + Business Association provides all the details of the three-day festival beginning on page 11 of this guide.

  • Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner in Montpelier as the City’s Restaurants Rebuild

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    Published September 5, 2023 at 2:21 p.m.

    Our occasional series “Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner” recommends a day’s worth of meals in one Vermont city or town. Shortly after July flooding inundated downtown Montpelier, I spent a different kind of day walking from one wrecked restaurant to the next and talking with shell-shocked owners who were just beginning to grapple with the financial and psychological toll of rebuilding.

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    None of them was close to being able to serve a meal. It was hard to project when a visitor to the capital would again have the chance to sip steaming soup fragrant with basil at Pho Capital, grab a sub piled with house-roasted beef at Yellow Mustard Deli & Sandwich Shop, sit down for an elegant dinner at Oakes & Evelyn, or grab a beer at Three Penny Taproom.

  • A Shark Show Brings Bite to the Champlain Valley Fair

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    Published August 30, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

    Draft horses. Dairy cows. Racing pigs. They’re all animals you’d expect to find at the Champlain Valley Fair. But this year, a surprising aquatic addition has joined the barnyard menagerie: a trio of nurse sharks.

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    At 12:30 p.m. on Monday, spectators lined metal bleachers in a shady corner of the Essex Junction fairgrounds in advance of the first of three “Live Shark Encounter” shows of the day. The sharks, sporting whisker-like appendages that resembled fangs, floated languidly on the bottom of a long, rectangular tank, as Muzak versions of Bob Marley tunes played from speakers.

  • Inside Bread and Puppet Theater as Founder Peter Schumann, 89, Contemplates His Final Act

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    Published August 30, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

    Peter Schumann sat in a wobbly plastic chair, a gin and tonic in one hand and a cigar in the other, crossing and recrossing his legs. The 89-year-old founder and director of Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover wanted to see acts in progress for his troupe’s first circus of the season, just three days away. The puppeteers were still scrambling to come up with ideas, and he was not thrilled.

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    It was a warm afternoon in July, and I had come to watch the rehearsal in the backyard of the 19th-century farmhouse that serves as the nucleus of life at Bread and Puppet, a theater company that, for the past 60 years, has turned scraps of cardboard, used bedsheets and other debris into political performance art. “Who wants to be on deck? Maybe Cloud Orchestra?” one of the puppeteers suggested. Several people were carrying cardboard cumulus clouds to one side of the yard. Another small group was singing a dirgelike rendition of “Au Clair de la Lune.” Schumann was not interested in hearing who was on deck. He wanted them to start. “Go, go, go, go!” he shouted in his thick, rough German accent. “Do it!”

  • Vermont to Hold a 'Green Up Day' for Flood Debris

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    Published August 15, 2023 at 4:42 p.m.

    Vermont will hold a statewide cleanup day next week to encourage volunteers to pick up the trash and debris that was left behind by last month’s flood.

    Modeled after the state’s annual Green Up Day, the new effort, dubbed Flood Recovery Clean Up Day, will take place on Saturday, August 26.

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  • Additional $3M in emergency assistance funding approved for Northern New York flood victims

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    Northern New Yorkers whose homes were damaged in last month’s flooding will soon be able to apply for more financial assistance from the state.

    Gov. Kathy Hochul announced an additional $3 million in emergency assistance for homeowners in eight counties, including Clinton, Essex and Hamilton counties in the North Country.

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  • The Buzz: Mosquitoes Are Prolific This Year in Vermont

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    Published August 7, 2023 at 1:38 p.m. | Updated August 9, 2023 at 10:06 a.m

    Getting your summer cardio from swatting and scratching? You’re not alone. Vermont has twice as many mosquitoes this year as compared to the average during the past 13 years.

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    A hot, wet summer has created the perfect environment for everyone’s least-favorite pests, who are reveling in all this water, according to Patti Casey, environmental surveillance program manager for the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets.

  • A Colony of Endangered Indiana Bats Is Thriving in a Chittenden County Forest 

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    Published August 9, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

    It was still light out when the first bats began leaving their roost.

    One by one, or sometimes in pairs, they swooped from the weather-beaten pine box, just over the heads of several people who had converged in Hinesburg last Thursday to observe the flying mammals. “Oh, my gosh, they’re out! They’re out!” exclaimed Susi von Oettingen, pulling a tally counter from her jacket pocket and clicking it furiously. “Three, four, five!”

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  • Phish to Perform Two Flood Relief Benefit Shows in August

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    Published July 26, 2023 at 5:28 p.m.

    Vermont’s own Phish have announced a two-night stand at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga, N.Y. The shows, scheduled for August 25 and 26, are a benefit for flood recovery in Vermont and upstate New York, both of which experienced devastating floods in recent weeks.

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    The band’s charitable arm, the WaterWheel Foundation, will direct 100 percent of the proceeds from the concerts, including both ticket and merchandise sales, into a special flood recovery fund set up by the organization.

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