$38. 652-0777, www.highergroundmusic.com. • The Burlington City Arts Free Concert Series that has presented performances at Battery Park on four consecutive Thursdays this month concludes with New Zealand rocker Gin Wigmore at 6:30 tonight.

Susan Bartlett met with a small audience today at Halvorson's Upstreet Cafe in Burlington, and the message was she A "gets it." She gets the fiscal challenges.

The Burlington, Vermont Housing Authority, Champlain Housing Trust and The Cathedral Square Corporation are among several operators of area senior living communities.

The music Saturday would be compelling, but it was the terse statement by VermontMozart Festival artistic director Melvin Kaplan at the start of the concert on the south porch of The Inn at Shelburne Farms that would resonate all night.

Two-and-a-half months after being announced as the new head coach for women's basketball at the University of Vermont, Lori McBride still doesn't have a fully executed contract.

The consultant renegotiating Burlington Telecom's debt has recommended that a special meeting of the Burlington City Council called for Monday be held behind closed doors.

The Champlain Valley Folk Festival has spent most of its 27 years at Kingsland Bay State Park in Ferrisburgh, but this weekend, the event moves back to Burlington, where its location in and near Waterfront Park should attract many more folks hoping to hear the best in traditional music.

The National Weather Service in Burlington, as part of a larger Hurricane Awareness Week across the rest of New England, recognized July 20 as Hurricane Awareness Day in Vermont.

A hot summer afternoon, a roving truck playing music, it can only be selling one thing right? "Sweet corn! Tomatoes! Green beans! Cucumbers! Vegetables for sale," shouts a voice from inside the truck.

The Vermont chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is joining a lawsuit filed by affiliates across the country that is trying to force the FBI to turn over records related to the agency's alleged collection and use of race and ethnicity data.