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Seven Daysies Awards 2025
- Sean Metcalf
Call us starry-eyed, but there's a lot to love about Vermont. From state parks and ski resorts to maple sugarhouses and music venues, there is a galaxy of good times to be had in our Green Mountain orbit. After another trip around the sun, the Seven Daysies are back, charting a course to what's great about our state.
Forgive us our heavenly puns: The annual readers' choice awards have gone zodiac for Seven Days' 30th year. The whole planet feels like it's in retrograde, but we're studying our birth chart and the star signs, searching for celestial silver linings. We keep coming back to this one: We're cosmically lucky to live where we do and among you fine folks reading this. The Daysies are our way of celebrating local luminaries — the businesses, people and places that make Vermont feel out of this world. We're starstruck in their presence.
To kick off this year's contest, we asked readers to participate in the democratic process — gotta keep it alive, right? — and cast their votes in categories highlighting the best of Vermont. From favorite folk band to creemee stand and pick-your-own farm to pickleball place, we wanted to know it all. We shot for the stars and are over the moon that you delivered: This year's guide to All the Best recognizes 241 winners and 946 finalists.
Read on to learn more about this stellar group. At a time when our downtowns are struggling and our communities can seem fractured, it feels good to embrace our common ground and give these winners their flowers. So make plans to visit, support and experience the full horoscope of what they offer. (See what we did there?)
Daysies winners are not exactly written in the stars — after all, Vermonters picked 'em. But they will eclipse your heart.
— Carolyn Fox
Did you attend the Daysies party at ECHO?
If you posed for pic in our celestial photo booth, the images are now on the Seven Days Facebook page.
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