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BURLINGTON — Efficiency Vermont considered many possible headline speakers, including Al Gore, for its Better Buildings by Design Conference this week in Burlington. But ultimately, the energy-conservation organization chose a woman who unabashedly admits that size matters: architect Marianne Cusato, designer of the so-called ”Katrina Cottage.” [CUSATO'S TALK WILL BE DELAYED BY ONE HOUR DUE TO WEATHER.... Read more

BURLINGTON - Hurricane Katrina's one-year anniversary has come and gone, but benefit organizers are still asking Vermonters to send help to the storm's survivors.

Burlington's newly organized Moss Point Sister City Committee is sponsoring a food and clothing drive in Battery Park on Saturday, October 14, Co-Directors Dick Hibbert and Allen Robinson announced at a press conference October 6. The committee is asking Vermonters to donate non-perishable food items, light jackets and blankets to Moss Point residents.... Read more

BURLINGTON - Burlington adopted Moss Point, Mississippi, as its first U.S. Sister City in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But, a year after the flood, questions persist over how best to help the small, Gulf Coast community.... Read more

Katrina's winds shredded through the Gulf South like a giant scythe, but it was the flood in New Orleans that jolted the national psyche, leaving the deepest memory. The flood turned the Big Easy into a disaster zone, planting the image of a Third World backwater. When has the persona of a city been so altered so quickly, or a president so damaged by a single event?... Read more

Back in 1929, blues singer Memphis Minnie recorded "When the Levee Breaks," a mournful number about a catastrophic flood. British rockers Led Zeppelin, who likely never had to flee high water, put their heavy spin on the tune in 1971. Residents of New Orleans - including guitarist and songwriter Chip Wilson - experienced the real thing last year.... Read more

When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast last summer, Vermonters rallied to help people affected by the storm. Dozens of fundraisers occurred in the weeks after those first horrific broadcasts from Mississippi and Louisiana towns, particularly New Orleans.... Read more

BURLINGTON -- Sometimes the best way to help people in distress is to ask them what they need, rather than presume to know what's best for them. That was the message last week from members of Burlington's African-American community, who announced the launch of a new community group aimed at lending a hand to the residents of hurricane-stricken Moss Point, Mississippi. The city of about 16,000 people in southeastern Mississippi was almost entirely destroyed in late August by Hurricane Katrina.... Read more

My friend sits out on his back deck, where he would normally be grilling the hamburgers. The tiny pool is ready for our kids. The fence is propped up with two-by-fours. The house is clean, the toys are on the shelves, ready for an onslaught of little hands. But our kids aren't there. Not only our kids -- any kids. Usually, his street is filled with them.

Fifty thousand households aren't coming back to New Orleans, according to a recent USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll. That number includes a lot of children. The reasons: jobs, schools, homes, the environment.... Read more

New Orleans, La. -- The waiter pours an inch of Blackstone Napa Merlot into a plastic cup and offers it to me. I swish it around. "Very good."

We've landed here at Vincent's, an old-line Italian restaurant where Dean Martin plays on the jukebox. The doors open to the rumble of the St. Charles Avenue streetcar, when it's up and running. Tonight, the avenue is dark in sections and the sidewalks are lined with duct-tape-wrapped refrigerators. Vincent's is the only Uptown restaurant open for business. It's an hour before the 8 p.m. curfew, but there's still a long wait for a table.... Read more

BARRE -- Like FEMA to New Orleans, the horse trailer filled with crated canines came late. But for would-be doggie adopters in central Vermont last Sunday, it was better late than never.... Read more