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MacKenzie Scott donates millions to Champlain Housing Trust
Posted on September 27, 2023 By Backyard Burlington in category Local
The recent Jeff Bezos’ divorcee, MacKenzie Scott donates over $20 million to Champlain Housing Trust. This is the largest gift in the non-profit’s history.
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Sleepy Hollow Farm in Pomfret Closes to "Selfie" Takers
Posted on September 21, 2023 By Backyard Burlington in category Local
The most sought-after selfie spot closes to respectfully maintain its privacy during foliage season.
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Delayed for Decades, the Champlain Parkway Takes Shape in Burlington’s South End
Posted on September 11, 2023 By Backyard Burlington in category Local
By COURTNEY LAMDIN for Seven Days
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
Posted on September 06, 2023 By Backyard Burlington in category Local
By SEVEN DAYS STAFF
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
Posted on September 06, 2023 By Backyard Burlington in category Local
By MELISSA PASANEN for Seven Days
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
Posted on August 30, 2023 By Backyard Burlington in category Local
By ALISON NOVAK
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
Posted on August 30, 2023 By Backyard Burlington in category Local
By CHELSEA EDGAR for Seven Days
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
Posted on August 18, 2023 By Backyard Burlington in category Local
By KEVIN MCCALLUM for Seven Days
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
Posted on August 10, 2023 By Backyard Burlington in category Local
Michael Cusanelli for WPTZ
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
Posted on August 10, 2023 By Backyard Burlington in category Local
By KATIE FUTTERMAN for Seven Days
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.

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