Seven Days and Kate O’Neill Receive the 2020 Jack Barry Communications Award From Recovery Vermont

by Cathy Resmer on February 25, 2020 at 3:13PM

Resmer also noted that, while “Hooked” ended in December, the paper continues to support All Our Hearts, an opioid crisis memorial. Those who’ve lost loved ones to opioid-use disorder are invited to share their remembrances at allourhearts.com.

Seven Days Wins 14 First-Place Awards, Including General Excellence, in Regional Media Competition

by Corey Barrows on February 12, 2020 at 3:17PM

Seven Days Adds Veteran Employees to Its Ownership Team

by Corey Barrows on January 6, 2020 at 9:30AM

Seven Days founders Paula Routly and Pamela Polston are pleased to announce that 13 longtime employees are new shareholders in the media company  the two women created almost 25 years ago. The holdings of those workers, combined with those of minority owners Cathy Resmer, Don Eggert and Colby Roberts, now represent 49 percent of the business.

Seven Days Wins Two Awards in Regional Media Competition

by Corey Barrows on October 15, 2019 at 2:54PM

Every year the New England Newspaper and Press Association recognizes the most outstanding journalism in the region with its “Publick Occurrences” awards. Seven Days, Vermont’s free, independent newsweekly, won two — of 16 — at NENPA’s annual New England Newspaper Conference in Worcester, Mass., last week.

Find Jobs, Make Connections and Learn About Local Innovation at the 13th Vermont Tech Jam

by Corey Barrows on October 1, 2019 at 1:42PM

Dozens of the biggest and fastest-growing tech companies in Vermont will be hiring at the 13th Vermont Tech Jam. This annual free career and tech expo produced by Seven Days is on Thursday, October 17 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction.

Seven Days Wins Four First-Place Awards in National Media Competition

by Corey Barrows on August 1, 2019 at 9:21AM

Molly Walsh received an honorable mention in the Beat Reporting category for her higher education coverage. Former food writer Hannah Palmer Egan also received an honorable mention in the Food Writing category. 

Seven Days Publishers Honored with Economic Development Award

by Corey Barrows on July 1, 2019 at 10:32AM

Cioffi also praised Seven Days for “thoughtful and inspiring leadership in shining light on the opiate epidemic facing our region and state” — a reference to the paper’s yearlong “Hooked” series reporting on Vermont’s opioid crisis. Calling it a “catalyst to help Vermonters come together as a community to find meaningful ways to address the challenges of addiction,” Cioffi credited the paper with “forging positive social and economic change for Vermonters.”

Vermont Restaurant Week Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Record Gift to Vermont Foodbank

by Corey Barrows on June 25, 2019 at 3:42PM

City Market/Onion River Co-op, one of the festival’s sponsors, gave the Vermont Foodbank 40 percent of its two stores’ Rally for Change donations during the month of April. The program encourages customers to round up their total at the register and donate the difference.

Seven Days’ Annual Vermont Restaurant Week Celebrates 10 Years!

by Corey Barrows on April 17, 2019 at 11:03AM

Vermont has garnered a national reputation for its award-winning specialty food and drink products and inventive, locally focused cuisine. For the last decade, Seven Days’ Vermont Restaurant Week has celebrated the state’s chefs, farmers, producers and others food-service professionals that have helped put the Green Mountain State on the map.

Young Vermonters Recognized at the Statehouse for Being Good Citizens

by Corey Barrows on April 4, 2019 at 11:21AM

Other Challenge partners included: Front Porch Forum, the Young Writers’ Project, Vermont State Parks and Historic Sites, GameTheory, Phoenix Books and the Winooski Peace Initiative. Here is a list of students who completed the Good Citizen Challenge, organized by town: Barre: Tyler Graves