Derek Brouwer

Burlington

Reporter at Seven Days

This is no place to be reading of temporal things Reporter @sevendaysvt Email: [email protected]

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Articles

More Than 100 Businesses Seek Relief From Burlington 'Crisis'

6 days ago | sevendaysvt.com | Derek Brouwer

click to enlarge Removing needles from sidewalks. Cleaning up graffiti. Banning public nudity in and around Church Street. Forcing an outdoor soup kitchen to move away from downtown shoppers. Those are among the actions that city leaders should take to deal with the economic "crisis" in downtown Burlington, according to more than 100 local businesspeople.
Vermont AmeriCorps Programs in Limbo After Trump Cuts

2 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Derek Brouwer

click to enlarge The Trump administration has canceled $400 million in nationwide grants for AmeriCorps, including nearly $2.4 million for Vermont programs that support trail work, workforce development and farm jobs. Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark criticized the decision as an illegal overreach of executive authority.
Inside ReSource, Where Thrifting Is a Booming Business

4 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Derek Brouwer

click to enlarge Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. Full disclosure: ReSOURCE is my second home. More precisely, the stuff I've acquired from Vermont's largest homegrown thrift-store chain fills much of my actual home.
Seven Days | Vermont's Independent Voice

4 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Derek Brouwer

If you're looking for "I Spys," dating or LTRs, this is your scene.
Attorneys 'Explore' Insanity Defense in Burlington Shooting

1 month ago | sevendaysvt.com | Derek Brouwer

click to enlarge Attorneys are exploring an insanity defense for a man accused of shooting three Palestinian-American college students in Burlington in November 2023. Jason Eaton's public defenders disclosed the prospect in court briefs related to a dispute about data collected from the victims' cell phones. Eaton faces three counts of attempted murder.
SunCommon Sues Former Manager Who Defected to Competitor

1 month ago | sevendaysvt.com | Derek Brouwer

click to enlarge Vermont residential solar installer SunCommon, a brand trying to regain its footing in the wake of its parent company's 2024 bankruptcy, claims its upstate New York division is in disarray as key employees defect to a new competitor.
DOGE Cuts Will Hobble Defenses Against Housing Discrimination

1 month ago | sevendaysvt.com | Derek Brouwer

click to enlarge The Trump administration's slash-and-burn campaign against "wokeness" and government spending is coming for the few services that work to curtail discrimination in Vermont's housing market.
Shelburne Cop Who Hit and Killed Cyclist Pleads Not Guilty

2 months ago | sevendaysvt.com | Derek Brouwer

click to enlarge A Shelburne cop who was playing a YouTube video in his police cruiser when he struck and killed a cyclist last November asserted his innocence in court on Thursday before a gallery that was packed with members of the victim's family. Sgt.
Ana Winn and Tony Pickard, a homeless couple, moved to Burlington for the state's social services. They didn't find a house but turned the city into their home. | Seven Days

2 months ago | sevendaysvt.com | Derek Brouwer

click to enlarge I showed up at Ana Winn's motel room unannounced on a stressful day in June 2023. I was reporting on the first of many waves of evictions from motels as Gov. Phil Scott's administration scaled back the pandemic-era emergency housing program. Winn had been ordered to vacate her room in a couple of hours. She had been scrubbing the counters with a sponge when I introduced myself. "Come in, come in, come in," she said.
Feds in Vermont Bust Montréal Scam Ring Targeting Elderly

2 months ago | sevendaysvt.com | Derek Brouwer

click to enlarge Federal prosecutors in Vermont have charged more than two dozen Canadians with running a sophisticated cybercrime ring in Montréal that scammed more than $21 million out of elderly Americans in nearly every U.S. state. The court unsealed indictments against 25 alleged members of a conspiracy on Tuesday, and prosecutors said that another nine participants in the cross-border scheme had already been charged.