BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - On September 6, 1995, in the former Magic Hat Brewing parking lot in South Burlington, Seven Days founders Pamela Polston and Paula Routly helped Nat Michael load bundles of the first issue into her car.
Related Story:
Seven Days celebrates 30 years
Michael has since delivered the paper nearly every Wednesday for 30 years, sometimes with a dog as copilot. She estimates that she’s only missed two issues.
In the latest episode of “Stuck in Vermont,” Seven Days’ Eva Sollberger visited the newspaper’s Burlington loading dock on a Wednesday morning to see the semitruck deliver 35,000 papers and 15,000 Daysies magazines from Québecor Media in Mirabel, Québec.
Eighteen delivery techs filled their vehicles with papers and set off to 1,000 locations across Vermont