Seven Days

1 day ago | sevendaysvt.com | Kevin McCallum

Gov. Phil Scott is rolling back regulations meant to end the sale of new gas-powered vehicles in Vermont by 2035. In an executive order issued Tuesday afternoon, Scott paused enforcement of rules that would have required car manufacturers to ensure that 35 percent of the cars sold in Vermont in 2026 be zero emission models. The rules, known as Advanced Clean Cars II and Advanced Clean Truck Rules, were considered key to the state's carbon reduction goals, which are increasingly out of reach.

2 days ago | sevendaysvt.com | Melissa Pasanen

click to enlarge True to its name, Burlington's Feral Gnome Bakeshop is small and can be elusive. The business is the downsized offspring of Nunyuns Bakery & Café, which closed last May after 16 years as an Old North End mainstay. In November, Nunyuns co-owner Paul Bonelli, 50, quietly resurfaced with a new home-based bakery.

2 days ago | sevendaysvt.com | Melissa Pasanen

click to enlarge Gabrielle Kammerer, founder of Tomgirl Juice, has launched a delivery business, Wilder Vermont, that sells the colorful, fresh-pressed juices and smoothies for which her shuttered Burlington juice bar was known. Kammerer, 43, started Tomgirl in 2012, delivering juice around Burlington by bicycle. Two years later, she opened a storefront on St. Paul Street.

5 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.

6 days ago | sevendaysvt.com | Courtney Lamdin

click to enlarge Eighteen Burlington city workers are being laid off as part of Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak's plan to narrow an $8 million gap in next fiscal year's budget, her office announced on Friday. Seven other vacant positions will be cut, for a total of 25 reductions across multiple city departments, a city press release said.