Autumn Gold founder John Wallace rocks

MIDDLEBURY — Consider Autumn Gold Jewelry, the shop on Main Street founded and owned by Cornwall resident John Wallace.Autumn. Gold. Isn’t the name of the store just nice?Wallace, 57, recalls the moment he came up with it.“The story behind the name is that we opened up in the fall of 1998 when the beautiful Vermont landscape was ablaze with the colors of autumn,” Wallace said. “My wife and I were brainstorming, and since we intended upon working with gold, the name sounded right.”If the anecdote sounds arti … (read more)

LINCOLN — When Glen Bartolomeo moved to Lincoln eight years ago, acquired a home baking license and launched Glen’s Pride Breads as a semi-retirement project, he figured he’d bake a few loaves for a year or two and that would be it. But his neighbors had … (read more)

FERRISBURGH — The new director of Ferrisburgh historic site Rokeby Museum earned degrees in History and Government & Political Affairs at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, and then a PhD at Durham University in the U.K. Maybe just as importantly Li … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Donna Audet was working at Burlington Savings Bank in Middlebury in September of 1980 when she received a call from the late Dr. Alan Ayer, who had taken her through her first pregnancy just six months earlier. Ayer this time wasn’t calling t … (read more)