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1 week ago | 
sevendaysvt.com | Paula Routly
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Writing about food has always been a big part of Seven Days. Among the stories in the 28-page inaugural issue, on September 6, 1995, was an elaborate evaluation of local pizzas. Three weeks later, the cover story documented the proliferation of Vermont's gourmet markets.
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3 weeks ago | 
sevendaysvt.com | Paula Routly
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Every June, Burlington's Lakeview Terrace hosts a street-wide yard sale. One of my longtime neighbors ably organizes the yearly pop-up bazaar. Sometime in May, he puts a "save the date" flyer in the door of every accessible dwelling on the three-block street. Closer to the event, he does it again, urging us to "Rake in some cash by clearing out your closets.
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3 weeks ago | 
buff.ly | Paula Routly
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Every June, Burlington's Lakeview Terrace hosts a street-wide yard sale. One of my longtime neighbors ably organizes the yearly pop-up bazaar. Sometime in May, he puts a "save the date" flyer in the door of every accessible dwelling on the three-block street. Closer to the event, he does it again, urging us to "Rake in some cash by clearing out your closets.
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1 month ago | 
sevendaysvt.com | Paula Routly
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Americans love a marathon — a test of will, endurance and aerobic fitness. More than 5,000 ran in the Burlington one on Sunday, including a relay team of five fearless Seven Dayzers. Thousands more cheered them on, bearing witness to the collective effort. It was a lot sweatier than the passeggiata four days earlier on Church Street — an evening stroll modeled after a ritual practiced in Italy, Spain and Latin America.
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1 month ago | 
sevendaysvt.com | Paula Routly
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In the past few months, federal agents have deported migrant farmworkers and caused high school exchange students who thought they were safe in Vermont to leave. A legal resident of the state was almost successfully "disappeared" outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester. People have been detained for hours at the U.S.-Canada border.
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1 month ago | 
sevendaysvt.com | Paula Routly
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Every reporter — and publisher! — with an ounce of ambition has dreamed of winning a Pulitzer Prize, the highest recognition of achievement in U.S. journalism. But there's no special treatment for small media outlets in this national competition. Writing quality aside, the subject matter has to meet a standard of gravitas — a natural disaster, revelation or surprise — that transcends geography.
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1 month ago | 
sevendaysvt.com | Paula Routly
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When I was 19, I hiked about a third of the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,650-mile footpath that stretches from Mexico to Canada, through some of the most breathtaking landscapes in the western U.S. In 1979 cellphones had not yet been invented, so there was no GPS or calling 911. Cheryl Strayed had not shouldered a backpack and written the bestseller Wild.
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1 month ago | 
sevendaysvt.com | Paula Routly
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Back in February, three weeks into President Donald Trump's second term, we dispatched news reporter Kevin McCallum to the Midwest to cover U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and his then-fledgling "Fight Oligarchy" tour. It was a last-minute decision — with expensive flights — that thoroughly upended editorial plans for the forthcoming issue.
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2 months ago | 
sevendaysvt.com | Paula Routly
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Seven Days won 37 awards at the New England Newspaper Convention two weekends ago in Portland, Maine. On behalf of the paper, news editor Matthew Roy collected 14 framed certificates for winning work published between August 1, 2023, and July 21, 2024, in categories ranging from investigative journalism to food writing. The paper took top honors in reporting on the arts, crime and courts, education, and climate change.
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2 months ago | 
sevendaysvt.com | Paula Routly
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I'm two weeks away from a big birthday that I had been looking forward to for a single reason: Medicare. While my advancing age — 65 — is nothing I feel like celebrating, the promise of health care insurance relief, at the metaphorical 18-mile mark of life's marathon, had been motivation to keep putting one foot in front of the other. I helped care for my mom in her final years.
