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Vermont is in the midst of a baby boom, but it’s not a trend anyone is celebrating.

Linda Ryan, who runs the Samaritan House, an emergency shelter in St. Albans, had a homeless woman referred to her on Christmas Day who had just given birth to her second child. Kendy Skidmore, director of the Bennington Coalition for the Homeless, says she’s had newborns at her shelter, too five in the last six years, with another one due any day now.... Read more

In 1984, Jonathan Leopold, the city of Burlington’s chief administrative officer, began setting aside a small amount of money each year so city councilors could commission studies or hire professionals to better understand proposals presented to them by city administrators.... Read more

On January 21, about 200 people gathered at Burlington City Hall for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. The keynote speaker was Lajiri Van Ness-Otunnu, who was nearing the end of a two-and-a-half-year stint with NeighborKeepers, a nonprofit anti-poverty group.... Read more

Never let it be said that the Church Street Marketplace doesn’t have it all: food, fashion, books, housewares, live music and, now, on-demand drug testing.... Read more

"Facing Facts" is a new feature that appears each week in Local Matters, the local news section of Seven Days.

As a homebirth midwife, Katherine Bramhall has brought many babies into the world. But for her next delivery, she is asking for help.

In mid-May, Bramhall launched “A Million Mothers,” a $1 million campaign to fund construction of a new health clinic on the island of Bali. Bramhall’s goal is to collect one dollar from each of one million mothers before September, when she will return to Bali to buy land for an earthquake-proof building, a youth center, a community garden and housing for clinic staff.... Read more

More than two years after it was convened to help guide the city-owned cable operation, an advisory group for Burlington Telecom is still struggling to understand its role, according to the annual report it recently submitted to the Burlington City Council.

In the report, the Burlington Telecommunications Advisory Committee expresses frustration with BT’s tendency to “hold back” detailed information about its operations since the departure of former general manager Tim Nulty late last year.... Read more

Gene Cohen’s prescription for a long and healthy life sounds like advice from the Poor Richard’s Almanac: If you want to reduce your chances of going senile, take up sculpting. To lower your odds of getting cancer, learn to play the piano. Want to fend off depression, diabetes and other debilitating illnesses? Write that novel you’ve always dreamed about.... Read more

Last week, shortly after he was released from military duty on June 6, Eli Wright came to Burlington to visit friends and “decompress.” After six-and-a-half years in the U.S. Army, including a one-year tour in Iraq, the Colorado native was in Vermont less than 24 hours when he awoke in the middle of the night with an “excruciating toothache.”... Read more

Later this summer, the Chittenden County Transportation Authority will ask the state to fund a bus route between Milton and Burlington. That doesn’t mean the authority thinks a Milton-to-Burlington line would be the best use of state transit funds.... Read more