The Houle Story
Are there any Vermonters left in Vermont? In response to Ken Picard’s article about embattled select board member and town S.O.B. Mary Houle [“Is Mary Houle Rescuing Richmond or Tearing It Apart?” October 28], I’d like to pose that question: Are there?... Read more

Patent Lie
[Re: “Tech Entrepreneurs Await State’s New Seed-Money Fund,” October 20]: Referring to the original legislative proposal, the article stated, “Facing the deepest fiscal crisis in years, the legislature shot down two of the wishes — a business tax credit for research and development, and tax exemptions for income on certain kinds of patents — because it would have forfeited badly needed state tax revenues.”... Read more

Separation Anxiety
[In his October 21 “Fair Game” column, Shay Totten wrote]: “Hats off to Louis Porter at the Vermont Press Bureau for his eyebrow-raising item in Sunday’s ‘Capitol Beat’ column. Porter reported that Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin (D-Windham) has separated from his wife of 20 years.”... Read more

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The Pits
I’d like to correct a mischaracterization of our neighborhood in Seven Days. In the October 14 article about the Fenn gravel mine application [“Opponents Say They Were Sandbagged by a Proposed Gravel Pit Hearing in Middlebury”], Fred Dunnington, our town planner, calls this “a neighborhood of gravel pits.”... Read more

Life after Douglas ... Read more

We started Seven Days in 1995 with 28 pages and six employees. A lot of things have changed over these 14 years: Our page count multiplied, and so did our staff. We added a lively website and created auxiliary products: 7 Nights, a dining and nightlife guide, and What’s Good, our college students’ guide to Burlington. We expanded our circulation from 12,000 to 34,000. We also redesigned the paper a couple of times.... Read more

Wedding Belles
Woweee!! Great story coverage [“Stuck in Vermont #144: Dana & Katie Get Married,” September 16]!! Making herstory!
Chrissie Dyck
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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IN DEFENSE OF TOURTERELLE ... Read more

VSAC GRAD ... Read more