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Tim Riddle knew a large housing project was planned for the woods behind his house when he moved to Malletts Bay Avenue a couple years ago. What he didn’t know was that the developer would sell the project to a nonprofit housing group, or that the $240,000 condominiums planned for the site would be replaced by rental housing for low- and moderate-income residents.... Read more

How do you stay in touch with your friends? Seems like everyone uses the Internet these days — to send email, share photos and send messages on social-networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook.... Read more

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For two and a half years, Chef Chris Hechanova ran a successful take-out and delivery business from his apartment kitchen. Though Big Chile Republic's advertising was limited to guerrilla tactics such as flyering car windshields, and its menu and hours could be erratic, it was a hit.... Read more

Colchester’s new Unwinders bar, perched right on the edge of St. Michael’s College campus, is the perfect cocktail of bar clichés, fusing a “hole-in-the-wall” atmosphere with 1970s-style furnishings. This former American Legion jaunt features a popular Big Buck Hunter Pro arcade machine, Pleather-lined tables and two beers on tap — one for the less discerning (Bud Light) and one for the more discriminating palate (Switchback). Unwinders’ Super Bowl Party was a hoot, with its cross-section of two worlds: the local “been there, done that” crowd and the hard-partying St.... Read more

COLCHESTER — The bulbous human forms on Mark Lacroix’s front lawn gently bob and wobble under the weight of falling snow, like barroom drunks nodding off over glasses of beer. The inebriated effect seems apropos for the inflatable Homer Simpson, but less so for Frosty the Snowman or Santa Claus, who lies nearly flat on his back. But as Lacroix’s daughter brushes the snow off the air-filled lawn decorations, the roaring fans inside the figures perk them right back up.... Read more

COLCHESTER — Reggie Peters, 73, started smoking while serving as a combat medic during the Korean War. Now a disabled veteran, he goes through two packs a day in his room at the Holy Cross Senior Housing in Colchester, where he's lived for the last 10 years.... Read more

Plenty of video-store clerks dream of making movies — just ask Quentin Tarantino. Jayson Argento, 35, of Colchester isn’t quite on that level. But he has translated his experiences working at Essex’s Video World into a movie called Finding Providence.

Speaking of Counting on Grace: The Québecois theme of the Vermont Reads 2007 book has inspired Essex Junction’s Brownell Library to feature cultural items from French-Canadian heritage in a display case for the month of September. Library Director Penny DeLaire Pillsbury contributed the first item — her French-Canadian great-great-grandmother’s New Testament, written, of course, en français.... Read more

COLCHESTER -Drivers and bikers traversing the old Lime Kiln Bridge that links Colchester to South Burlington probably had no inkling of its architectural significance. Below a narrow, crumbling deck, the 93-year-old bridge was constructed of a series of heroic arches suspended high above the Winooski River Gorge.

On the Vermont Agency of Transportation website, archaeologist Chris Slesar writes of this marvel of early-20th-century engineering: "Rarely does the built environment meet the natural environment with such grace."... Read more