My preferred local coffee roaster is Speeder & Earl's here in Burlington. They have a Roastery on Pine Street, as well as a Speeder Bar in the famous Church Street Marketplace. They've got a great variety, and the coffee is roasted in small batches and always tastes fresh. Recommended are:

Ethiopian Yirgachef: gentle body and acidity, sweet and earthy

Tanzanian Peaberry: light to medium body and acidity, fruity

Ethiopian Harrar: full bodied, medium acidity, long chocolate after taste

Since Speeder and Earl's isn't open 24 hours a day <sigh>, we sometimes go with our second-choice, the more well-known Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, available in grocery stores and convenience stores throughout New England. As you'd expect, Green Mountain also roasts here in Vermont, but in really large batches (the taste is a little more flat than Speeder's), they don't have as wide a variety, and they specialize in blends rather than individual roasts. But even so, it still beats the heck out of Maxwell House and Folgers!