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Wednesday, September 17, 2:30 p.m.: In four hours, leather-clad ladies and gents will line up their chrome, two-wheeled babies outside of Harley D’s and stroll in for cold beer and hot eats. The Nobby Reed Project will blast head-boppin’ blues in a dimly lit corner. An attorney will sit near a table of Mexican farmhands. Drinks will flow. Wings will fly.... Read more

St. Albans City Police Chief Gary Taylor was struggling to pry the lid off the red, waist-high biohazard bin that is locked securely in his department’s evidence vault.

“I always have trouble with this,” he muttered. “Hang on.”

And then — POP! — there they were: thousands and thousands of pills in all shapes, sizes, colors and potencies.

Since late May, the St. Albans City Police Department (SAPD) has collected more than 8500 unwanted and unused prescription pills from residents as part of the city’s Prescription Drug Repository Program.... Read more

When the St. Albans Artists Guild first approached painter Harald Aksdal of Fairfax with the idea, he had one response: “I don’t have time for this.”

After some thought, he decided the proposal had its upsides: funding for the Guild, exposure for his arts community, and though he can demand thousands of dollars per original work a chance to exercise his talent on a new subject.

Wildlife.

“I had to make the time for it,” Aksdal says. “It’s that special.”... Read more

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Squealing, sugar-fueled children beg Mom and Dad for tickets to midway rides. Bar-band groupies watch their boyfriends play nighttime concerts on the village green. Police clear the streets for a short parade that features every farm tractor and rescue vehicle in town.

All these are essential components of many a Vermont festival, but if we had to choose a true festival flavor, it would be a toss-up between fried bread dough and Italian sausage. Except in Enosburg. There, milk matters.... Read more

When Henry Neuburger chaperoned a group of St. Albans high school students to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., a few years ago, he was moved, he says, but he wasn’t emotional. “That might change when it comes to St. Albans this week,” says Neuburger, secretary of the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), Chapter 753, in St. Albans.... Read more

"Just one?" The waitress steps from behind the counter in her uniform — stonewashed blue jeans, white Pepsi T-shirt, big hair — and greets the robust trucker at the door.

"Actually," he mutters, "I just need a bathroom."

"Oh, sure. Straight ahead. Turn left at Hulk Hogan."

The trucker grins as he passes the Bulging Blond One in all his red-and-yellow Hulkamania glory — made of cardboard, of course. When he emerges from the men's room, he requests a menu.... Read more