Mobile Crisis Services Delayed Vermont’s statewide mobile crisis response program will not launch on Sept. 1 as planned, according to the Department of Mental Health. Deputy Commissioner Alison Krompf named Jan. 1 as a likelier start date. DMH contracted Health Care...
Workers at Soteria House in Burlington ratified their first collective bargaining agreement with their employer, Pathways Vermont, in late August. Soteria House is a peer-run therapeutic residence. Its staff unionized in the summer of 2022, joining Local 1343 of the...
At scaredycatart.com, Burlington-based artist Sarah Brunkhorst sells prints and stickers at prices starting as low as $2. Her bright, often humorous digital illustrations, by her own description, contain “a lot of visual gags” while also touching on “subtle social...
Journalist Robert Whitaker and nonprofit director Sera Davidow traveled to Burlington in July for Vermont Mad Pride, where they served as the keynote speakers. Whitaker, the bestselling author of Anatomy of an Epidemic and the founder of the website Mad In America,...
Short fiction by Ron Merkin While walking on stage, John reminded himself not to tell the audience any of his stupid jokes. Then, as he stood in front of 4,000 people, in reply to one judge’s “Are you nervous?” – the most frequently asked question before America’s Got...
