Hooray for Restaurant Week
Just wanted to thank Seven Days for sponsoring Vermont Restaurant Week [April 26-May 5, 2013]. We attended the “Real Cost of Local Food” panel, which was very informative, as well as having great food! It certainly raised awareness of our responsibility to support local foods in our restaurant choices and to encourage more use of Vermont-raised food. Hope to see similar events on your schedule next year.

Glenna Copeland
Burlington... Read more

Shipping Out
It is marvelous to see local boat builders reestablishing skills somewhat lost to the area [“Sail to Sale,” April 24]. Am I alone in seeing the oddity of creating a way to ship local goods out of the area?

Gillian Franks
Essex Junction

Well Done, Waterfront ... Read more

Minimum Order ... Read more

Read to Secede ... Read more

Senator is Sincere
[Fair Game: “No Laughing Matter,” April 3] seemed to imply insincerity on my part for voting “no” on a floor amendment to the Senate campaign-finance reform bill. Far from it, my decision to vote no was based on concerns about the amendment’s implications.... Read more

Sometimes, an article touches a nerve. So it was with “The Trouble With Wheat,” which ran in the Seven Days food section on March 6. The article previewed a lecture by Julie Miller Jones, a University of Minnesota nutritionist who was due to speak at the annual Northern Grain Growers conference in Essex that weekend.... Read more

Pro-“Union” ... Read more

Wetlands Needed ... Read more

History Lesson ... Read more

Courageous Column
Thank you, Paul Heintz, for having the courage to show how Bernie Sanders tried to dodge multiple attempts to ask him what he thought about Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster [Fair Game, “Bernie One-Note,” March 13]. Bernie, just answer a simple question next time instead of running off to catch a plane. It’s a Vermont thing to have public discourse.

Jonathan Stauffer
Burlington... Read more