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The preschool-age kids of Burlington Children's Space grill Mayor Bob Kiss over pancakes.

Just what exactly does the mayor do every day? Besides climbing mountains and jumping in puddles?

Music: Ryan Power, Is It Happening?, "Is It Happening?"

Watch video on YouTube here.

In June, John McCardell and a group of college presidents and chancellors founded the Amethyst Initiative, calling for “informed and unimpeded” debate on the legal drinking age of 21.... Read more

Last fall, Dr. Mark Howe of Burlington’s St. Paul’s Cathedral got a voicemail message from a representative of the African Children’s Choir, asking how he’d feel about hosting them for a concert on Friday, August 29, 2008, at 7:30 p.m.... Read more

Editor’s note: Our cover story on Pine Ridge School [“Hard Lessons,” July 16] continues to provoke reaction from former students, parents, staff and others associated with the campus and Headmaster Dana Blackhurst.

Since the story was published, the discussion has largely taken place in our Letters section. For various reasons, the school’s leaders, whose reaction to the story was both quick and critical, have hesitated to be part of that conversation.... Read more

Imagine a stately yacht club with a wrap-around porch and a manicured lawn that slopes into Lake Champlain. Now picture the polar opposite. If that’s proving tricky, walk down to the Burlington waterfront and head north about a hundred yards, until you reach the Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center.... Read more

When did kale become so cool? Down at Burlington's Intervale Center, the Healthy City kids are growing vegetables, becoming farmers, volunteering in their community, working a summer job and changing the world, weed by weed.

Check out all the good things the Healthy City Youth Farm has to offer.

Music: Keith & Tony's Freestyle

Martha Sacco describes her son, Woody, as highly intelligent and curious, with no history of behavioral or disciplinary problems. But, like his parents, he’s dyslexic, a disability in which the brain has difficulty processing written language.... Read more

Shout It Out: The Voices Project Movie has some things in common with tween hit Disney’s High School Musical — locker-room angst, candy-colored dance numbers and even a few teenage heartthrobs. It also has abusive parents, cyber-bullying, teen pregnancy and realistic levels of cussing and drinking. Hence Bess O’Brien’s tagline for the film, which premieres this Friday in Burlington: “The real high school musical.”... Read more

Here’s something two average Chittenden County teens are not usually doing on a Saturday night: performing a Baroque violin concerto with a professional ensemble for a paying audience. Sally Bruce, 16, of Williston and Anna Landell, 15, of Richmond won the Burlington Chamber Orchestra’s Young Artist Solo Competition.... Read more

Jay Parini was expressing limited ambitions for the class he was about to teach to some of the young drinkers who sacked Robert Frost’s summer home in Ripton late last year.

“I’m not under any illusion that this will transform their lives,” Parini, a Middlebury College professor and Frost biographer, said before the May 27 session. “But I do have a particularly strong faith in the power of poetry to transform minds.”

There were signs that Parini may have achieved that goal.... Read more