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Savu Seeks to Reinvent the Sauna Experience in Vermont — and Beyond
Nicole Sweeney and Dave Nelson embraced Scandinavian sauna culture while living in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2009. There, they said, people treat a session of sitting in a very hot room like a daily...
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Wintervention: Vermonters Spill Their Secrets to Surviving the Cold Season
On a June day in 1922, the month of the summer solstice, Vermont's first poet laureate wrote "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Six months separated Robert Frost from the cold, dark days of...
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Winter Must-Dos in Vermont: Holiday Markets, Forest Bathing and Snowshoe Tours
BTV Winter Market Through December 23: Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Saturdays, noon-6 p.m.; Sundays, noon-4 p.m.; and Thursday, December 22, 2-6 p.m., at Burlington City Hall Park. Free. Info,...
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A Montpelier Farmer Digs for Another Kind of Earthly Bounty — Old and Rare...
The idea of digging around her property for buried treasures first came to Laura Smith-Riva in a dream. But it took some groundhogs to turn that dream into reality. In 2018, Smith-Riva and her...
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Bailing Out of Essex, Babaroosa Proposes an Immersive Art Exhibit in...
Organizers of Babaroosa, a massive art destination scheduled to open in 2024 in the Essex Experience retail and events center, have decided that it won't be experienced in Essex after all. Their...
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New Year's Eve Is Back in a Big Way in Burlington and St. Johnsbury
When the clock strikes midnight this December 31, many Vermonters are likely to be out on the town instead of cozy on the couch. After two years of virtual and hybrid gatherings, two of the state's...
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Flipping Out at the IFPA Vermont State Pinball Championship
Outside a nondescript building the color of old paste in South Burlington, one could clearly hear what many consider the most glorious sound in the world: steel ball hitting bumper after bumper. As a...
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High School Sweethearts Share Their Love Stories
If humor and honesty are keys to a lasting relationship, it's little wonder Frank and Diane Farrington are closing in on seven decades of marriage. Frank, who will turn 89 on February 20, was sweetly...
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Audio Extra: Rapper and DJ Fattie B Unites a Scene With 'GUMBO' Album
On the eve of GUMBO's album release bash on Saturday, February 11, we look back to Chris Farnsworth's November 23 cover story on the man behind the music. Hear Farnsworth read the article aloud and...
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Montréal en Lumière Festival Is Back In Full Force
Boasting as many restaurants per capita as New York City and 110 festivals per year — including the largest jazz and comedy festivals in the world — Montréal doesn't slow down in the winter. Fests...
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The Fix Is In at Vergennes' Clothing Repair Fair
Walking into the Bixby Memorial Free Library in Vergennes on Saturday, I expected the hush of a librarian's lair. Instead, creativity and noisy excitement coursed through the halls of the historic...
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Bill Busier of Essex Junction, Survivor of German POW Camp, Turns 105
If Bill Busier could have his favorite dessert on Wednesday, his 105th birthday, it would be a bowl of orange-pineapple ice cream. But the Essex Junction resident will eat chocolate cake and vanilla...
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Vermont Teen Cora Thomas Wins Her Second National Boxing Title
Get in a boxing ring with Cora Thomas. Stand three feet away from her, dead center in the ring, well away from the refuge of the red, white and blue ropes. Hold up your hands, ensconced in thickly...
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Vermont Students Are Learning About Tennis — and Life — Through Kids on the...
Approaching the entrance to the gym at Thomas Fleming School in Essex Junction, you could hear that class was in session. Sneakers pounded the wood floor, balls bounced, kids whooped. Inside, a group...
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The Conversation Artist: Podcaster Erica Heilman Seeks the Meaning of Life,...
On her acclaimed podcast "Rumble Strip," Erica Heilman sometimes sounds as if she's calling from a closet in which she has barricaded herself against an intruder. She wants to tell you that she loves...
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From Toy Cars to PEZ Dispensers to Oil Lanterns, Vermonters Love Their...
Almost everyone collects something. Even if you don't identify as a "collector," you probably hold on to keepsakes and mementos for any number of reasons — or no reason at all. Maybe you save smooth,...
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Nominate Your Favorites in the Seven Daysies Contest
The Seven Daysies ballot is live! Help us celebrate the best in Vermont by nominating your favorite businesses, people and places. What are you waiting for? Write-in your top picks today. (7D Promo)
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Late Cartoonist Ed Koren Makes His Film Debut in 'The Farm Boy'
In spring 2016, filmmaker George Woodard attended a film festival screening of the 1916 silent film A Vermont Romance. At the show, he recognized a fellow audience member: cartoonist Ed Koren. Though...
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Tim Jennings Makes His 'Grand Reentry' Into Solo Storytelling
One day about 50 years ago, Tim Jennings was riding in a van with students from the Mountain Road School in Jeffersonville, returning to campus with a class after a trip to the library. Winding...
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Vote for the Best in the Seven Daysies Contest
The Seven Daysies ballot is live. You chose the nominees in round #1, now help us celebrate the best in Vermont by voting for your favorite businesses, people and places. (7D Promo)
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