Heard on the Street 7.19.12
Public Meeting to Hear Streetlight Plans With help from Efficiency Vermont, a volunteer Montpelier streetlight committee that has been meeting for about a year and a half has produced a detailed...
View ArticleBiking Through Vermont for Climate-Change Awareness
Four bicyclists—above, from left, Anna Kruseman, Shea Riester, Lily Gutterman and Monique Gallant—are all college students or recent college graduates who are spending seven weeks this summer pedaling...
View ArticleViewing the Carnage: Parents Go Extreme in Lost Nation Theater’s Comedy
by Cassandra Hemenway Brush Take four parents, two dysfunctional couples, four extreme personalities and an explosive situation—one couple’s child has beaten the teeth out of the other couple’s...
View ArticleBard’s Game of Thrones Kicks Off Unadilla’s New Theater
by Robbie Harold If I could take only one Shakespeare play to a desert island, it would be Henry IV, Part I, which would make for better box office these days if it were called Rebel Sons and Badass...
View ArticleJ. Morgan’s: Big-City Menu, Local Sources
by Sylvia Fagin It may not be easy running the biggest restaurant in downtown Montpelier, but it is definitely satisfying for Fred Bashara III, the owner and executive chef of J. Morgan’s Steakhouse....
View ArticleCapital City Grange to Replace Dance Floor
by Nat Frothingham The Capital City Grange features “the best dance hall in New England,” according to its website. Dancing—contra dancing, Afro-Carribean dance, drumming and dance from Mali, and...
View ArticleCouncil Approves Beginning Negotiations on Carr Lot
by Bob Nuner The Montpelier City Council has moved to begin negotiations with Alan Carr toward the city’s purchase of the Carr lot downtown. The motion followed a discussion at the council’s July 6...
View ArticleBerlin and Montpelier Discuss Pond Issues
by Steven M. Cliche The Montpelier City Council and the Berlin selectboard met in front of a packed house of concerned citizens July 16. The main item on the docket was the ongoing negotiation over...
View ArticleThe Tax Collectors’ Balancing Act
by Bob Nuner Tax collectors must negotiate a fine line. Although traditionally unpopular, they are the ones who make sure a municipality has the funds to operate. On the other hand, officials know...
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