Search 7D:

All tags » franklin county

 

When the St. Albans Artists Guild first approached painter Harald Aksdal of Fairfax with the idea, he had one response: “I don’t have time for this.”

After some thought, he decided the proposal had its upsides: funding for the Guild, exposure for his arts community, and though he can demand thousands of dollars per original work a chance to exercise his talent on a new subject.

Wildlife.

“I had to make the time for it,” Aksdal says. “It’s that special.”... Read more

Nancy Commo’s family is shrinking. In nine weeks, she and her husband Joe have each trimmed 5-and-a-half inches from their waists. She’s lost 25 pounds; he’s shed 30. They are losers, and they’re eating it up.

“I can’t get over how much my life has changed,” says Nancy, 39, of Highgate. “I can run upstairs now.”... Read more

Wendy Vranjes didn’t want to know her weight. She stepped on the scale and asked that the number not be revealed to her. Vranjes doesn’t even own a scale. “I just have to get healthy again,” she said. To do that, she’ll have to become a loser. A big loser. Vranjes is among the 76 people who recently registered for a 12-week weight-loss challenge in Franklin County that borrows its name from NBC’s popular reality show, “The Biggest Loser.”... Read more

Having trouble watching this video? Watch it on YouTube here.

Once a year cheerleaders gather from all over the state of VT to show their spirit and shake their pompoms at the NVAC Cheerleading Competition, a multi-division contest open to youth, middle school, junior varsity and varsity groups.... Read more

“Why is it the good people that make your life full of joy are always the first ones to go?”

A MySpace user who identified himself as “Cody F” posed that query about Gerald “G.G.” Griggs two days after Griggs, a popular on-air personality at St. Albans’ WLFE country radio, died in a car crash. He was 50.... Read more

Step aside, Al Gore: There's a new climate activist on the block. Or rather, a spotted horde of them. At Teddy Yandow's Cimarron Farm in St. Albans, cows are replenishing topsoil faster than you can say "carbon sequestration."... Read more

Gene Branon will tell you: It's tough hosting a party when you're overworked and underslept. Today Branon, his enormous extended family and their crew will throw a 350-person Sunday brunch in their Fairfield sugarhouse. Tree sap doesn't take weekends off.... Read more

ST. ALBANS - Last week, Franklin County announced plans to open Vermont's first-ever criminal court designed specifically for adolescent lawbreakers who have substance-abuse problems. The new juvenile drug treatment court is the latest tool in the state's ongoing effort to find more humane, effective and economical ways of fighting the root causes of criminal behavior.... Read more

>> view the slideshow!

Swanton, Vermont, is dairy country. Travel down Swanton's Middle Road, and you're surrounded by pasture. The driveways lead to farmhouses, barns and tall, silver silos.

But there's another kind of silo here, too. Not far from town is a long, unmarked driveway, a little wider and straighter than the others. It leads to a pair of round-roofed, metal buildings called Quonset huts, which are partly obscured by a stand of trees and surrounded by a barbed-wire fence.... Read more

ENOSBURG FALLS --Home to the Vermont Dairy Festival, Enosburg Falls holds its annual parade in June, but last week a different kind of procession meandered through the Franklin County town. On Wednesday, August 17, 30 area residents held a candlelight vigil in solidarity with Cindy Sheehan, a mother who lost her soldier son last year in Iraq.... Read more