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Burlington to Explore Sex-Offender Residency Restrictions
Aug 20, 2008; Ives, Mike ... PUBLIC SAFETY City Councilor Paul Decelles has lived in Burlington's New North End since he was a kid. As a youngster, he used to play wherever he pleased. But two years ago, after learning that a convicted sex offender lived down the block from his family's home, Decelles started ...
Beijing Weighs in on Vermont's E-Waste Bill
Aug 20, 2008; Picard, Ken ... ENVIRONMENT When an email showed up in Sen. Virginia "Ginny" Lyons' inbox in April, written in both English and Chinese, the Democrat from Chittenden County assumed it was spam. That is, until she noticed the message included her home address, phone number and a reference to a bill she'd ...
FACING FACTS
Aug 20, 2008; Anonymous ... BEER DRINKERS A local college student is offering $50 tours of Burlington's brew pubs, ferrying his customers around in a 12-passenger van. Just in time for the fall semester. COMCAST CUSTOMERS The cable giant has reneged on a promise to give basic subscribers a discount, ...
The Incredible Shrinking News Hole
Aug 20, 2008; Totten, Shay ... The already thinning ranks of Vermont journalism will get a little thinner this week, thanks to newsroom cuts at The Burlington Free Press, the state's largest daily newspaper. In all, six staffers at the Gannett-owned broadsheet will get the axe. Among the first to go was columnist Ed ...
A New Play Tells Real Soldiers' Tales
Aug 20, 2008; Ives, Mike ... THEATER Jen Berger has an ear for heart-wrenching tales. As director of the Burlington Peace & Justice Center's 4-year-old "Recruiting for Peace" campaign, the 36-year-old activist travels to high schools around Vermont telling teens what recruiters won't: that war is not nearly as ...
Undeterred by Vandalism, Couple Strives to Beautify Burlington
Aug 20, 2008; Polston, Pamela ... ARCHITECTURE Burlington stonemason Cubby Smith was none too pleased to find his hand-built wall at 110 Main Street destroyed earlier this month. "That was disgusting," he says, shaking his head. "It looked like a bomb hit it." Smith estimates he lost "about a week and a half" of ...
Behind the Lens Again, Burlington Photographer Focuses on Friends
Aug 20, 2008; Kelley, Kevin J ... ART After a 30-year sabbatical from photography, Todd R. Lockwood picked up the camera he'd acquired as a teen and started "shooting and shooting" again. A man who has managed several careers - including running a recording studio, a software company and an online merchandising ...
First Annual "Gathering" Showcases Vermonters
Aug 20, 2008; Routly, Paula ... DANCE Vermont is an Eden for artists - some of them, anyway. Writers and craftspeople happily hole up. With a bit of commuting, actors and opera singers can form communities. Dancers, however, are in a tough spot - and not just because schools of ballet, modem and jazz don't dot ...
"PLINTHS"
Aug 20, 2008; Polston, Pamela ... If you've been missing the group of Church Street sculptures called "Plinths," not to worry: They're in storage - "a nice, cozy, warm place," assures Marketplace Executive Director Ron Redmond, who says the geometric metal-andstone forms will one day be re-sited somewhere else around town ....
One Married, One Looking
Aug 20, 2008; Pontiac, Jernigan ... "Sharon, you're crazy," the young woman, blonde and perky, said to her friend who was sitting next to me in the front seat of the taxi. "You are, like, the most popular in our class. Everybody loves you." Sharon shook her head and smiled modestly at her friend in the back. If it's true ...
news quirks
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True to her School
Aug 20, 2008; Kardashian, Kirk ... NAME JOB LOCATION It's a far cry from idyllic green athletic fields, but the chants coming from inside are unmistakable. Tucked away in building 12M in the Howe Center - an industrial park in a gritty section of downtown Rutland - is Peak Performance All Star Cheer & ...
How to ChaCha
Aug 20, 2008; Burns, Bridget ... <INTERNET> A web-surfing workaholic makes it pay I am a ChaCha Guide. That probably doesn't make sense to most of you, so let me back up. I am a workaholic. I inherited my work ethic from my parents, both full-time teachers, who pack their free time with odd jobs. I ...
Media FAVORITE
Aug 20, 2008; Totten, Shay ... Political reporters love Middlebury College professor Erik Davis Although he retired from Middlebury College in December 2007, political scientist Eric Davis is still very much at the head of the class - the political class, that is. But rather than the best and brightest minds ...
Hippie Havens
Aug 20, 2008; Green, Susan ... <CULTURE> It was 40 years ago today . . . the "forever young" generation reflects on life in Vermont's first communes A revival of Hair is giving audiences in New York's Central Park a vicarious contact high these days, but memories of the bygone Age of Aquarius in Vermont ...
Royal Flush
Aug 20, 2008; Wallstin, Brian ... <INNOVATION≥ Chelsea plumber seals the deal with a new invention The modern flush toilet dates back to 1775, when a London watchmaker named Alexander Cummings patented a design in which a measure of water remained in the bowl after each flush. According to ...
Fleeting Images
Aug 20, 2008; Anonymous ... Fleeting Images Photographer David Johansen takes a new look at two subjects with one overarching theme in "Light Forms and Icescapes," his current exhibit at Grannis Gallery in Burlington. Germane to both ice and light is the artist's notion of transience. The show's subtitle is "Images ...
Good Clean Fun
Aug 20, 2008; Lilly, Amy ... Strong but pleasant aromas fill soap maker Missy Ely's Burlington apartment on a recent weekday. And no wonder Funneling essential oils into glass bottles, BIy is nearly hemmed in by ceiling-high stacks of freshly cut cakes and long, rectangular troughs of just-poured soap. The oils will soon ...
the borowitz report
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Tropic Thunder
Aug 20, 2008; Kisonak, Rick ... Tropic Thunder ** BATTLE FATIGUE Stiller's send-up of Vietnam war movies is heavy on tired clichés and light on laughs. In last weeks review I bemoaned a worrisome trend. Over the past several months, more and more comedies from once dependable laugh masters have proven ...