I've lived in Vermont for 22 winters. Twenty-one and a half, if you want to get technical about it. That's just a flash, barely a generation, in a state that takes generations quite seriously.

The urge to read is mysterious and fickle. Sometimes I'll go months without reading anything but the Dr. Bronner's soap label while I'm in the shower. Then a book finds me, or I find it, and the ...

The discovery of dozens of bunk beds stuffed into crude, unfinished industrial spaces in Colchester raises questions about the prevalence of migrant laborers in Vermont's construction sector ...

How do you write an article, book, short story or poem that's a pleasure to read? It's a daunting challenge, and school is generally poor preparation for it. Teachers and professors have to slog ...

A pro-Palestine resolution was kept off Burlington’s Town Meeting Day ballot on Monday after a Democratic majority on the city council decided the measure was too divisive. The non-binding ...

Used cars have long been offered for sale. Ditto secondhand clothes, shoes, books and even housewares. But art supplies? Avid crafter and thrifter Arianna Soloway read an article about secondhand ...

Let's just get this out of the way: I love big-box bookstores. Given a choice between shopping in a quirky indie or a "soulless" corporate giant, yes, I'll take the singular experience of the ...

Fans of Barnard-based Domaine La Garagista now have opportunities to taste flights of its wines in Addison County. Owners Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber have farmed a vineyard near the shores of ...

When 74-year-old Judith Wahler was leaving a Fourth of July parade in South Hero last summer, a Grand Isle County Sheriff's Department corporal who was directing traffic ordered her to pull over.

Nothing screams Vermont quite like the job title "farmer-filmmaker." Now, Woodard can add "author" to his job description. In November, the farmer self-published his first children's book, The ...

Who doesn't love a good beach read? There's just something about curling your toes in the sand, popping an ice-cold drink, and cracking the spine on the latest pulpy crime thriller or bodice ...

Shawn Dumont was on a back road near Tunbridge when he saw the sign. "No to war," it said, above a yellow-and-blue peace symbol. "I got out and took a picture of it and thought, Wow, that's so ...