On December 13, Roland R. Vautour, 95, a longtime Jeffersonville resident, passed away peacefully with family by his side. Born to Arthur and Yvonne (King) Vautour in Berlin, N.H., on January 20 ...

Lewis Clyde Martin Jr., known as Lew to all who love him, age 84, of Essex Junction, Vt., passed away peacefully on December 13. He was born on May 24, 1940, in Montgomery, Ala., the beloved son ...

Amy M. Kleppner was born in 1931 in Boston, Mass., and over the course of her 93 years had several long careers. Her career as a teacher started in the early 1960s, when she taught philosophy at ...

In a fit of wild abandon, I spent my 23rd birthday rather drunk at a professional wrestling event. It was my first (and only, to date) encounter with that world in a live setting. What I recall ...

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 ...

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.

Artist's books are often presented under a glass vitrine, open to a single page with the rest of the story left a mystery. But at BCA Center in Burlington, printmaker Jane Kent's solo show of such ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...