Thursday, January 31, 2019
The first ballot initiative will ask Shelburne voters to approve a $50,000 expenditure — $25,000 from the ambulance fund and $25,000 from taxes — that would be used for “soft development," including permitting fees and site suitability studies, according to Jerry Storey, chair of the Shelburne Selectboard.
Healthy Living would spend the same amount on so-called soft development, said CEO Eli Lesser-Goldsmith, as a first phase of the development.
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Monday, January 21, 2019
Wonnacott, who was 57, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014. In early October of last year, she stepped down from the position she had held for more than 31 years due to progression of the cancer. News of her death was confirmed by Kim Mercer of NOFA-VT, who said plans to honor Wonnacott are still being determined.
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Friday, January 18, 2019
"It’s a Vulvalution!” announced Jaquelyn Fernandez Rieke, founder of Nutty Steph’s, a chocolatier in Middlesex.
She was talking about Nutty Steph's effort to raise $100,000 for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England through the sale of chocolate vulvas. For every $5 chocolate vulva Nutty Steph sells, the business will donate $1 to PPNNE.
“I never poured so much into a project, ever,” Fernandez Rieke told Seven Days.
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Tuesday, December 4, 2018
In Charlotte, Andrew Peterson, of Peterson Quality Malt, just wagered more than $2 million on that possibility. Last month, Peterson, along with partners Jay and Matt Canning of Hotel Vermont, purchased Charlotte's sprawling, 600-acre Nordic Farms for $2.4 million.
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Thursday, October 11, 2018
He looked outside to discover that a pickup truck had crashed through the front of Bessery’s Butcher Shoppe, his restaurant and butcher shop at 1398 North Ave. The truck came to a stop in his restaurant.
“They jumped the curb and took out the picnic tables,” Bessery told Seven Days Thursday afternoon. “It’s an epidemic in Burlington.”
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Wednesday, October 10, 2018
For years, in-the-know shoppers would plan their grocery runs to City Market, Onion River Co-op and other area food stores around the weekly delivery schedule of Gérard's Bread. Dozens of lightly tangy, hearty and sweet loaves would appear in late morning and then, by late afternoon — poof! They'd be gone.
Now they're gone forever: Baker Gérard Rubaud died on Sunday, October 7, at his Westford home-bakery. Health problems earlier this summer took him away from bread production. He was 77.
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Thursday, September 13, 2018
Update: This post was updated on September 14 to include information about layoffs at Meredith Corporation.
EatingWell and Cooking Light magazines are merging under a plan announced by the magazines’ owner, Meredith Corporation, in a September 13 news release. The combined publication, which will keep the EatingWell name, will be “the largest subscription magazine in the epicurean category under the EatingWell brand,” according to the release.
EatingWell, based in Shelburne, will increase its print publication from six times a year to 10, editor-in-chief Jessie Price told Seven Days. In addition, the merger of the two food publications means that EatingWell’s circulation will rise from 1 million to 1.77 million, she said.
“It’s amazing news for us,” Price said. “It’s so validating of everything this brand, and everyone at this brand, has been working on every day, every week, every issue, and every year.”
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Thursday, August 23, 2018
Juice for the People, in which he makes juice using vegetables and herbs that he grows at a farm at the Intervale in Burlington.
Now Winters is ready to move on again. He is closing his juice business, which operates as a concession at City Market/Onion River Co-op in Burlington’s South End, on Friday, August 24.
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Thursday, August 9, 2018
But for a company that makes wine production its main business, wine tastings have heretofore been spotty at best. That'll change this week when brothers Christopher and Jon Piana begin opening their winery for regular Friday afternoon tasting room hours.
From 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., $20 will buy visitors petite pours of eight naturally fermented apple, grape and honey wines, plus snacks including nuts, olives and local organic cheeses.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018
He started farming at the Intervale in Burlington, and established his 108-acre organic farm on conserved land in Starksboro in 2001. Rozendaal specialized in several crops — his egg business is called Eric’s Eggs. He was an innovative farmer who processed his squash for donuts made on the farm and for large wholesale accounts, including the University of Vermont Medical Center.
“I think he was an extraordinary visionary in that he had more ideas than anyone could keep up with,” said Julie Rubaud, his first farming partner and the mother of Rozendaal’s daughter, Louissa. “There’s a huge hole in the world right now. Above all, he was an incredible father.” Rozendaal also has a son, Hans, with Keenann.
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