Let’s learn from these bike tragedies
My wife confessed something to me this week: whenever I leave on a bike ride, whether it’s a brief 15-mile jaunt or a...
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03 May
Untold Stories, Vermont
Tag Archives: Vermont
12 Apr
Vermont
Want to change the world? Take a walk.
When Hannah Woodruff was in seventh grade, she and her classmates at the Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury, Vermont were given a...
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22 Mar
General, Vermont
Five years on the turd hockey team — and thriving
Not long ago, a reader stopped me on Church Street in Burlington, Vermont and asked, “Do your cats still play turd hockey?” I...
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16 Mar
Vermont
March in Vermont? Here’s to mud in your eye!
Vermont has roughly 8,700 miles of dirt roads, according to the Vermont Agency of Transportation. That’s roughly 55 percent of our streets, highways,...
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08 Mar
Vermont
Time to lose a little sleep over our homeless teens
Mark Redmond had been trying – and failing – to get some sleep since ten-thirty at night. He was on the front lawn...
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01 Mar
Vermont
Town Meeting in Vermont: Only after Voting Do I Dive into Dessert
Every so often, politicians on the campaign trail will hold something they call a “town meeting.” They’ll round up a hundred of the...
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15 Feb
Vermont
These icy blasts from the north? Perhaps winter’s las gasp.
A few winters ago, a childhood friend from Connecticut contacted me on Facebook. I had gone to elementary school with him and we...
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08 Feb
Untold Stories, Vermont
You don’t forget a friend like John Vautier
Lincoln’s Andrew Furtsch works out at the gym in Bristol in a pair of ratty Converse high tops. On the white toecap of...
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04 Jan
Vermont
Smile: It’s January in the Land of the Polar Tomato.
A lot of my friends here in the Land of the Polar Tomato – aka, Vermont – are not big fans of January....
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14 Dec
General, Vermont
Shining the light on the homeless — one candle at a time
This coming Thursday evening around 5:30, you’ll see a small crowd assembled on the exterior steps of Burlington, Vermont’s City Hall, looking out...
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