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In This State: For Bob and Kim Gray, it’s been a satisfying cultivated life
Bob Gray inspects vast rows of plastic-covered raised beds where he grows vegetables at 4 Corners Farm in West Newbury next to the Connecticut River. The former Nordic Olympian became a trend-setter by...
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In This State: Thanks to one man’s zeal for wooden craft, Lake Champlain...
Jan Rozendaal rows out in a dory on Malletts Bay to his newest restored wooden craft, an iconic Maine lobster boat named the Maddy Sue. Photo by Andrew Nemethy Editor’s note: This story is by Andrew...
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In This State: At Bear Ridge, racing is down-home and dirty – and that’s the...
An old coupe marks an entrance in the surrounding forest that leads to Vermont’s only dirt race track, Bear Ridge Speedway above the town of Bradford. Photo by Andrew Nemethy/VTDigger In This State...
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In This State: A life in stone, always taking on new shapes
Sculptor Richard Erdman works in his studio, framed by one of his unusual twisting stone pieces. He has produced more than 1,000 sculptures and his works, from small to mammoth, have ended up in...
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In This State: For Vermonters who get hooked, bass fishing is a deep, costly...
Pro fisherman Tommy Waltz of Georgia talks about his passion for tournament bass fishing, a sub-culture of the angling fraternity whose adherents are intensely competitive and devoted to their...
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Nemethy: An orchard, an academy and a wistful view of a vanished Vermont
Andy Paonessa of Heartwood Farm in South Albany works his stand at the Montpelier Farmers Market in June. Looking on is Samual Robb of Tangletown Farm. Photo by Roger Crowley for VTDigger Swooning over...
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In Stowe’s Jack Nash, a mentor, a sport, and an era in the making
Jack Nash was instrumental in getting Vermont cycling in the 1970s when he opened Onion River Sports in Montpelier with Warren Kitzmiller. He died Sept. 1 of a heart attack while biking. Courtesy photo...
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In This State: At Jasper Hill Farms, a magical alchemy yields award-winning...
Mateo Kehler takes a sample from a 35-pound wheel of Cabot clothbound cheddar being aged in the innovative ripening cellars at Jasper Hill Farm in Greensboro. Three years after building the $3 million...
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In This State: For Bob Vasseur, being selectman for 54 years came naturally
Sitting on his home’s deck high above Route 17 in the Mad River Valley, Robert Vasseur jokingly says he ran for Fayston Selectboard at age 26 because “somebody had to do it, I guess.” He’s now been on...
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In This State: For photographer Peter Miller, a wonderful life in black and...
Photographer Peter Miller works in his studio with the cover image of his acclaimed “A Lifetime of Vermont People,” which has portraits of 60 Vermonters and 211 photos, many capturing a slice of life...
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In This State: In a derelict coal plant, two college kids fire up a new...
Tad Cooke, left, and Erick Crockenberg, standing on the upper level of the derelict Moran power plant on Burlington’s waterfront, talk about their innovative renovation proposal for the iconic...
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In this state: With his video camera, Mark Paul is taking birding to a new level
Videographer Mark Paul explains his craft standing by the sturdy tripod he says is essential to his quest to capture all the birds of North America on video. He’s aiming for 501, one more than John...
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In This State: Wood fuels both a passion and a remarkable career
Wood biomass heating expert Tim Maker, right, explores the bowels of a massive woodchip delivery system at Norwich University’s new $6.2 million biomass heating plant with project manager Dave Mullany....
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In This State: Cartoonist Ed Koren earns a Vermont laurel, but don’t expect...
Ed Koren wears a feline neck warmer in his old vlllage house in Brookfield, where he has spent decades illustrating and producing cartoons for the pages of the New Yorker. Koren has been named...
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In This State: Mural painter Tara Goreau is coloring Vermont, bigtime
Painter Tara Goreau sits in front of her complex, whimsical and scientifically based mural of the cheesemaking process, all incorporated into the shape of an Ayrshire cow. In the past two years,...
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In This State: The marten makes a comeback, and Chris Bernier is hot on its tail
An American marten, a mink-like forest omnivore, perches in a tree. Photo courtesy USDA Editor’s note: In This State is a syndicated weekly column about Vermont’s innovators, people, ideas and places....
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Charlie Nardozzi: A guru of the garden, springing up all over
Charlie Nardozzi sits on his deck at home in North Ferrisburg, laughing at his little dog Rosie. The straw hat he wears has become his signature, whether he’s giving gardening talks, appearing on...
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In This State: Artist makes earthbound medium soar
This freestanding stone circle was built in a farm field above Thea Alvin’s studio and communal homestead south of Morrisville on Route 100. She builds wooden frames to support the shapes until the...
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In This State: For historian Michael Sherman, a second career takes flour
Michael Sherman slides a tray of fresh out-of-the-oven rolls onto cooling racks at Manghis’ Bakery in Montpelier. The former head of the Vermont Historical Society and academic has an unusual second...
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In this state: A champion for the much-maligned rattler
In his two years of research, state wildlife biologist Doug Blodgett frequently handled rattlesnakes with radio transmitters. The plastic tube makes handling safe and protects the snake from injury,...
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In This State: Vermont’s largest fresh foods network is flavored with strong...
Editor’s note: In This State is a syndicated weekly column about Vermont’s innovators, people, ideas and places. Black River Produce co-owner Mark Curran shows off some produce in front of his...
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In This State: Progressive publisher Chelsea Green has found a novel way to...
Chelsea Green started out with one unlikely book back in 1984, an eco-fable called “The Man Who Planted Trees.” Now co-founder Margo Baldwin has some 250 titles that cram the bookshelves at the...
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In This State: For Vermont’s largest mammal, the moose, some tiny, terrible...
Male moose grow new antlers every year, such as this one in the Victory Wildlife Management area in the Northeast Kingdom just sprouting antlers in velvet. Their racks can grow to over 50 inches by the...
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In This State: The capricious business of Christmas trees suits Peter Purinton
Standing at the top of the hillside where he grows 16,000 Christmas trees in Huntington, Peter Purinton talks about the extensive work it takes to grow and shape the balsam fir and other species he...
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In This State: At the Craftsbury Outdoor Center, two former Olympians find a...
Owners Judy Geer and Dick Dreissigacker have made sustainability a key mission as the nonprofit they founded in 2008 transforms the well-known Craftsbury Outdoor Center in the Northeast Kingdom. Solar...
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In This State: For state snowplow drivers, life in the cab is a rough adventure
Mike Bride shifts the gears on his snowplow on Route 4 near Killington in sloppy winter weather on Martin Luther King day. The drivers in the big state rigs have a lot to keep track of, from hydraulic...
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For snow sports, it’s the winter of discontent
The ski racks were empty and few people were on the trails Tuesday at the normally bustling Trapp Family Lodge ski touring center in Stowe. Though a thin dusting of snow covered the field, most trails...
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Some call them capital offense, but Montpelier roads to be fixed
Main Street in downtown Montpelier is a bumpy patchwork of patches after years of work to subsurface utilities. It is due to be repaved next summer along with State Street, which is a section of Route...
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Getting a shot at a return to a normal life, eventually: My vaccine diary
Caroline, a Barre Town paramedic, gives Andrew Nemethy the thumbs up after administering the first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a clinic for Vermonters 75 and older, held at the Barre...
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‘A gravitational force’: Remembering Bill Porter and the heyday of Vermont...
Longtime Times Argus Managing Editor Bill Porter, right, with his wife Ruth during haying season in an undated photograph. Bill Porter was deeply connected to his farm animals and Vermont homestead...
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