At the Newark Street School, fourth and fifth graders meet up after school every Wednesday to prepare meals for six local seniors. In a tiny kitchen, they learn cooking and…
Since 2010, farmer Evan Perkins has spent his winters exploring the wild ice outdoors around his home in Barnet. “Wild” ice is ungroomed, and Perkins wears Nordic skates to glide…
Among the many sweaters sported at the Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival in October, one in particular was having a fashion moment: the eye-catching Lindal sweater, which fiber lovers had…
For more than five decades, Meta Strick has been making mixed-media art in the backwoods of Fairfield. The turquoise-haired 82-year-old invites visitors to open houses and workshops at her gallery…
Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger looks back on the highlights of the past year and is joined by her 90-year-old mom, Sophie Quest. Sollberger also remembers friends who…
The Capital City is shining light into the darkest days of winter. For the first time, downtown revitalization nonprofit Montpelier Alive has illuminated seven of the city’s historic bridges with…
Preservation architect Joseph Pell Lombardi has been obsessed with old houses since he was a child. Over the past six decades, he has restored more than 600 homes, buildings and…
On a recent foggy Saturday morning, 11 canoers met at the Upper Lamoille River Access in Wolcott, not for a leisurely paddle but, rather, a trash-picking adventure. The crew launched…
Ron and Celia Hackett founded Hackett’s Orchard in South Hero in 1967. They had two daughters, but both found successful careers off the farm. Ron and Celia’s grandson Devin Hackett…
