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Officials levied sanctions against two University of Vermont frats; one involved in hazing will be suspended for four years.

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The Committee on Temporary Shelter opened a new $8 million day station Monday in Burlington. Enjoy the lake view.

2. “Transient Held After Man Fatally Stabbed on Church Street” by Mark Davis. Police arrested a suspect shortly after a Church Street stabbing last week.

3. “Burlington Man Upbeat After Injuring His Spine on Ski Slope” by Molly Walsh. Ryan McLaren, 30, who was recently elected to the Burlington School Board, is unsure whether he’ll walk again.

4. “Land O’Lakes Buys Vermont Creamery: 10 Questions for Allison Hooper” by Hannah Palmer Egan. According to Vermont Creamery’s founder, the Minnesota dairy giant plans to continue investing in Websterville.

5. “Alison Bechdel to Be Next Vermont Cartoonist Laureate” by Pamela Polston.

The Fun Home author will be the state’s third cartoonist laureate.

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Talk about a conspicuous outfit. Swanton cops responding to a robbery at a local gas station last week were told that the female suspect wore pink socks, jeans, a red-and-black hooded sweatshirt, and a skeleton mask. While reviewing surveillance cameras in the area, police identified Amber Gibson, 27, of St. Albans, allegedly wearing the same pink socks, jeans, and redand-black hooded sweatshirt just before the robbery. Another camera captured Gibson wearing her skeleton mask while riding in a vehicle belonging to Rose Duprey, 53, of Highgate, whose car was also allegedly captured on video cruising the area just before the heist. Both women have been charged with robbery.

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Vermont State Police fielded calls last Wednesday about a “loud boom” followed by gunfire in Hartland. Cops couldn’t track down the origin but suspect that someone on a private gun range used a target explosive known as Tannerite, which detonates when it’s hit by a high-velocity bullet. Tannerite is made up of two inert chemicals that are separated within the package.

They’re legal to buy and possess — until you mix them. Then “you’re breaking the law,” according to Trooper Chris Blais.

At that point, you need an explosives license, the trooper said. No one has been arrested.

Vermont officials warned residents Monday of fraud schemes during tax season. No, that’s not the IRS on the phone asking for your credit card number.

1. “Anchor Eva McKend Breaks New Ground on WCAX” by Alicia Freese. The only black TV anchor in Vermont has done hardhitting reporting for two years — but she got the most feedback when she decided to wear her hair naturally.

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In early February, members of the West Burke Volunteer Fire Department extinguished a garage fire on Brook Road. Investigation led Vermont State Police to 18-year-old Damian Wilson and an unnamed 17-year-old boy, both of whom allegedly tried to burn down the garage with Molotov cocktails. The younger teen was actually a junior volunteer firefighter with the West Burke fire company, according to cops. Both have been cited on firstdegree arson charges.

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Then the mayor, who is starting his sixth year in office, moved on to other matters, talking about his plans for what’s next.

His administration will continue to invest in city infrastructure, from sidewalks to parks. A walk-bike master plan is in the works. Weinberger’s also looking to install electric-vehicle charging stations and to bring electric-powered buses to the Queen City.

On the public safety front, Weinberger plans to add three new police officers, which will mean more patrols. And he said he supports establishing a regional dispatch system.

He touched on recent development controversies, without getting specific, and struck a conciliatory note about those who have questioned projects. “While change is inevitable no matter what we do, it is important that we listen carefully to these voices of concern,” he said.

Read Katie Jickling’s online report at sevendaysvt.com.

That’s how many inches of snow Burlington got in March. According to the National Weather Service, it was the fourth snowiest March on record.

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or more than three decades, Burlington has opened its arms to New Americans — approximately 300 a year, according to Mayor Miro Weinberger. But this year, owing to the policies of President Donald Trump, will be different, Weinberger told a crowd at Burlington City Hall during his State of the City speech Monday night.

The city will welcome just 15 refugees between now and September, he said.

Hizzoner made it clear what he thinks of that.

He introduced to the crowd a Sudanese couple — Salah, and his wife, Samya — who are residents of Burlington’s Old North End. Salah relocated to the United States ahead of Samya, who was able to join him only recently, after Trump’s travel ban was lifted. Weinberger publicly welcomed the pair.

“At a time when the federal government is trying to close doors and turn its back on our most pressing challenges, we here in Burlington must continue to work harder than ever to keep our doors open and to keep advancing,” Weinberger said.

He lamented the decline in resettlement, noting that newcomers have long contributed to the city’s cultural richness.

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FALUN FALSEHOODS

Ken Picard’s March 22 piece “Shen Yun: Entertaining Family Fare, Political Propaganda — or Both?” does your readership a disservice while veering far from journalistic standards.

The horrific abuses of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience in China are not “alleged” or “accused,” as Picard writes, nor can they be brushed off by quoting the perpetrator of these crimes — China’s communist dictatorship — as if it were a legitimate source. For the full story, visit faluninfo.net.

Amnesty International and the United Nations have extensively documented China’s torture and killing of Falun Gong members. The Wall Street Journal’s Ian Johnson won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of it. And it has been the subject of five U.S. congressional resolutions.

Picard’s portrayal of our peaceful beliefs, motives and way of life goes beyond misleading to being hurtful and offensive.

Would Seven Days feel OK quoting libelous, hateful, anti-Semitic speech if reporting on, say, Fiddler on the Roof?

While quoting at length a controversial, uncredentialed fringe figure with a criminal past, Picard omits all positive information about Falun Gong and its founder — a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and recipient of multiple humanitarian awards.

David Ownby, a university professor and recognized scholar of Falun Gong,

TIM NEWCOMB

writes, “The entire issue of the supposed cultic nature of Falun Gong was a red herring from the beginning, cleverly exploited by the Chinese state to blunt the appeal of Falun Gong and the effectiveness of the group’s activities outside of China.”

How unfortunate your writer fell for it.

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Jaw is president of the Falun Dafa Association of New England.

YOUNG HAD HEART

I was saddened to read of the death of Matt Young [Life Lines, March 29]. When Matt began his work on the Church Street Marketplace, there were some who were expecting a street cleaner to cleanse the street of the unwelcome and the unwanted.

That wasn’t Matt, that’s for sure.

He was a gift to the lonely and homeless and, even more, a teacher to the community.

The Howard Center should be proud, and Burlington should give thanks to this good man.

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Leddy is a former state senator who ran the Howard Center from 1980 to 2000. The street worker program started during his tenure.

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The relationship between author Sam Quinones’ two Vermont speaking engagements was mischaracterized in last week’s Q&A “Dreamland Author Visits Vermont to Explain U.S. Opiate Nightmare.”

Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger selected Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic for his book club before learning that Quinones was scheduled to appear at the University of Vermont.

In “Mixed Signals?” about Vermont PBS and other U.S. public television stations that have made millions selling off broadcast licenses in a Federal Communications Commission auction, the $325 million windfall attributed to the state of New Jersey — which owned the signal — was a forecast, not a final sale number.

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Kudos to Paul Heintz for his thorough feature about the Bennington Banner, Brattleboro Reformer and Manchester Journal being returned to regional ownership, and Brattleboro competitor the Commons [“Trial and Error,” March 29].

Founded by former Reformer reporters and editors, the free-circulation, weekly Commons weakens the paidcirculation, daily Reformer without replacing it.

Lacking reporters, it is news when either paper covers most Windham County towns with local stories attracting local readers.

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A current justice of the peace who left hundreds of knife holes in the walls and allowed heroin to be dealt out of the apartment. A young couple whose interpretation of “reasonable wear and tear” gave an excuse to never clean an apartment. A beloved waiter making “good money” at a favorite local restaurant who entered a lease he could never afford and left a legal bill near $10,000.

What do these people have in common?

They were former tenants who nearly bankrupted me.

The article about tenants lawyering up may sound like a nice solution against sketchy landlords [“A Little Free Advice: Lawyers Help Vermonters Facing Eviction,” March 15]. Some property owners truly give landlords a bad name.

But odds are that most landlords are small, well intentioned and can’t afford the legal fees required to file for eviction.

Although Chittenden County does not require a lawyer to file for eviction, navigating the legal morass is all but impossible without hiring an attorney. There is no free guidance, no standardized court forms and an association whose mission sometimes conflicts with small landlords’ needs.

If Judge Helen Toor and Legal Services Corporation really care about proactively leveling the field, there are better ways than using precious donor dollars to lawyer up. Instead: Remove the need for lawyers — post forms online.

Let magistrates hear eviction cases. Use brief, easy-to-understand memos. Follow

the example of Barnstable County, Mass., whose website offers a clear path forward.

Education makes the eviction process a two-way street. In truth, isn’t that how any dispute resolution should be handled?

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APRIL 05-12, 2017 VOL.22 NO.30

The Money Issue

It’s said that sex and money are the two most troublesome topics in relationships. But here at Seven Days, we found plenty to say — at least on the latter subject — in this annual issue. To be sure, money makes the world go round, and retired economist JOHN HILL gives us a glimpse into the global order. On a much smaller scale, MILK MONEY VERMONT matches local investors with local startups. Meantime, CASH OR TRADE helps music fans buy or sell tickets at face value, sidestepping scalpers and bots. We learn how MUSLIMS, whose religion prohibits riba, or interest, try to navigate a borrowing-based economy. Legal Aid lawyer JEAN MURRAY helps debt-strapped Vermonters who missed the memo. We also discover how CONTAMINATED our cash can be. We suggest you don’t put your money where your mouth is.

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New ‘Epic Pass’ at Stowe Triggers Flurry of Ski Bargains

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Vievee Francis Earns Lit’s Highest Honors

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Film Fest Offers Chance to View Québécois on Screen

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BY MOLLY WALSH

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Taxing Question: Why Are Lawmakers Saying ‘No’?

BY TERRI HALLENBECH

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Credit Cruncher: Vermont Lawyer Takes On the DeptCollection Industry

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he House’s unanimous vote last week on the annual tax bill and its unanimous-but-for-one balloting on the budget bill tells you something about the chamber’s new speaker.

So does the House’s action a few days later to ship the much-anticipated marijuana legalization bill off to a committee for further review.

Unanimity on fiscal matters is what happens when the chamber elects a former House Appropriations Committee chair as speaker, especially one hell-bent on proJoin us Easter Sunday ducing collaborative budgets. Spending bills are in Speaker MITZI JOHNSON’s Serving Dinner 11am-9pm wheelhouse.

But policy bills with political reverberations, such as the marijuana legislation?

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Three months into the job of overseeing the 150-member chamber, Johnson con1076 Williston Road, S. Burlington cedes that she is most comfortable immers862.6585 ing herself in the minutiae of state spending. www.windjammerrestaurant.com “The budget is what I’m most familiar with,” she says. “For me, the tougher ones are the policies that never made it to Untitled-38 1 1/17/17 11:38 AMAppropriations. The things I need to spend more time on are the things that haven’t required appropriations.”

That couldn’t have been more obvious on the House floor last week.

Her chamber’s passage of a $5.8 billion budget proposal that meets the governor’s no-new-taxes edict reflects Johnson’s skills. If House members thought they were choosing a fiery speaker looking to muscle a controversial spending plan into law, they forgot that this 46-year-old piano teacher has a thing for harmony.

The budget bill passed by a 143-1 vote.

The companion tax bill sailed through with a 138-0 tally. There were only hints of discontent from anywhere on the political spectrum. Left-leaning liberals and rigidther animals such as bald right Republicans answered “aye” as their eagles and bats are still at risk. names were called. Spending cuts in the budget bill were apparently sufficient to By donating to the Nongame please the right while not so egregious as Wildlife Fund you protect to infuriate the left.

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to produce a bill to legalize marijuana along the lines of a Washington, D.C., ordinance.

No pot stores, no marijuana industry, but permission for Vermonters to keep up to an ounce in their pockets and grow some plants at home.

With Johnson’s blessing, Grad’s committee spent weeks working out the details. When the panel was done, though, Johnson and her leadership assistants balked. They did not have the votes for the bill to pass the full chamber.

Johnson and her team made a deliberate decision. “We weren’t going to be whipping votes,” she says, using the term for when a party presses members to toe the line.

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THE MARIJUANA BILL WAS NOT THE ONLY EXAMPLE OF LEGISLATION THAT

STUMBLED INDECISIVELY TOWARD THE HOUSE FLOOR. House Majority Leader JILL KROWINSKI (D-Burlington).

“This is a difficult issue that isn’t necessarily partisan,” says Krowinski, an avowed legalization supporter. “That goes [for] Republicans, too.”

So when Democratic House leaders canvassed members about how they planned to vote, conversations with dissenters focused on their concerns with legalization, Krowinski says. The goal was to win over members’ hearts and minds, she says.

Which sounds swell in theory.

It is not unheard of for a party caucus to allow members to vote their conscience on some issues while expecting them to stick with the team on others. But there’s a difference between giving members room and letting them waffle without direction. The decision about whether the marijuana bill was ready for a vote was put off for days.

That’s not the only example of legislation that stumbled indecisively toward the House floor. The House Government Operations Committee spent weeks agonizing over legislation ordering a recount in a state rep election, only to halt the bill the day it reached the House floor.

The end result: Democrats looked like they didn’t know what they were doing.

They let committees spend weeks on issues, apparently for naught. Johnson and her team said they supported the committee process only to find the rest of the chamber did not.

Last week, Johnson pulled the plug on a floor vote on marijuana, and members shipped the bill to the House Human Services Committee. In legislative tradition, such moves are considered the death of a bill.

That’s not how Krowinski and the leadership team view what happened. The move was intended to save the bill, she insists.

“I would call it another step to see if we could get more support,” Krowinski says.

The panel began to take testimony on Tuesday. Committee chair ANN PUGH (D-South Burlington) says her committee has the votes to send the bill out. The only question is whether that means the full House will have the votes to pass it.

Johnson seems to be clinging to the notion that she can find agreement on every bill.

But not all hearts and minds can be won on every political issue. Sometimes, in lieu of harmony, a firm decision is the order of the day.

Help Wanted Gov. PHIL SCOTT has just passed the 90-day mark in office. He should know by now where the light switches are. His staff should be all moved in and ergonomically situated. But the new gov still has a fair number of important empty seats to fill.

He has yet to fill jobs for corrections commissioner and deputy commissioners in the departments of environmental conservation, finance and human resources.

Also vacant is the job of transportation deputy secretary. Just last week, he finally hired tourism and human resources commissioners.

What’s up with the languorous pace?

Better to be slow than sorry seems to be the mantra from spokeswoman REBECCA KELLEY. Work is under way to fill most of those vacancies, she says, though the administration is reassessing whether to hire a deputy transportation secretary.

And the governor will announce his choice for corrections commissioner this week, Kelley says.

Meanwhile, though, deliberation has consequences.

“It sets back your ability to get the job done,” says BILL LOFY, who oversaw hiring as governor PETER SHUMLIN’s chief of staff when he took office in 2011. “You need capable people in those positions to implement the governor’s agenda. [Without

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Three months is an unusually long time to leave those jobs vacant, says veteran Sen. DICK SEARS (D-Bennington), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Lofy points out that the governor has had five months since his election.

From the Department of Corrections, Sears notes, legislators have been looking for help making big decisions about whether to close the Southeast State Correctional Facility in Windsor, as Scott has proposed, and whether the state should let more offenders out of custody to be monitored by other means.

Interim commissioner LISA MENARD, who held the post at the end of the Shumlin administration, is doing a good job, Sears said, and he’d be happy to see her continue. But because she’s interim commissioner, lawmakers are less confident of the department’s long-term goals, Sears says. “You’d like to know,” he says.

Lofy suggests that not filling the jobs is telling. “It’s not exactly clear what exactly the administration’s priorities are,” he says.

independents, Libertarians and, yes, even Democrats, are unhappy with the direction Mr. Scott has taken,” he answered.

He pledged, “We’ve only just begun.”

What he doesn’t seem to acknowledge is that the prospect of a Republican-inmore-than-name-only challenging Scott in next year’s election is more laughable than either of the clips.

Scott himself has not seen the videos, spokeswoman Kelley says.

Shipping Out When word slipped out last week that Rep. JOB TATE (R-Mendon) would be resigning his House seat ahead of his U.S. Navy Reserve deployment overseas, Tate didn’t hold back about his legislative frustrations.

“I despise Montpelier, despise the city,” Tate told reporter NEAL GOSWAMI of the Vermont Press Bureau.

“There’s no better feeling than driving past the ‘Welcome to Killington’ sign and being home.”

Upon reflection, Tate says that comment came off a tad more negative than he intended. He took another stab at summing up his nearly three years in the legislature.

“I’ve been disheartened by how little we actually do and how long it takes us,” he says. He insists that there are lots of people, including Democrats, he will miss.

Tate says he can’t reveal exactly when or where he’ll be deployed, but it’s soon.

“It’ll be hot and dry,” he said. The married father of two young children expects to be gone about a year.

While he says he’d hoped to keep his departure on the QT, Tate did alert local Republicans and the governor, who will appoint a replacement. Three candidates have emerged: recently retired Vermont Retail & Grocers Association president JIM HARRISON, Green Mountain National Golf Course general manager DAVE SOUCY and Killington Police Chief WHIT MONTGOMERY.

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Two “Phil Scott Fan Club” videos posted on YouTube take a satiric whack at the new Vermont governor. Clearly the work of Republicans irritated that Scott is not Republican enough, the three-minute pieces hammer the theme that the gov is a nice guy and … not much else.

Scott’s signature on a new law protecting Vermont police from being co-opted as federal immigration enforcers is fodder for mocking.

“The first thing groovy Thunder Gov did for us was make Vermont a sanctuary state. Yessss!” says female fan “Elizabeth.”

“He did that. He sure did,” adds male fan “James.”

“Syrians and illegal aliens will now have the right to pick apples in Vermont with impunity,” Elizabeth says.

“They will,” James says before offering, “You know, he’s a Republican.”

Who’s behind the parody? Feel free to speculate.

An email last week from somebody identifying himself as JAMES HUNTER promoted the videos. I hit reply, asking who he is.

“It is not really important who I am,” came back the response. “What is important is the fact many Vermonters who supported Phil Scott in his bid to become governor, and not just Republicans, but

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he sun shone on blinding white snow at Killington Resort last Thursday, a lovely day at the Vermont ski area. Then it became even more lovely, at least for those counting the cash tucked into their ski pants pockets: Killington officials announced that, for the first time in years, they would slash the price on adult season passes by several hundred dollars, to $899.

The markdown came four days after a new competitor in the Vermont scene, Vail Resorts, announced a new deal for skiing at Stowe Mountain Resort. The Colorado mega-company will soon own the storied ski venue atop Mount Mansfield, which until now has been the state’s priciest.

Two Mondays ago, Vail trumpeted that it would charge $859 for its multiresort Epic Pass and, as it had promised, include Stowe in the consortium. The package means that skiers can pay less than half the Stowe adult pass rate this season — $1,860 — and get a lot more vertical feet for their money. Along with

Stowe, Epic Pass holders have unlimited access to more than a dozen resorts, including Vail in Colorado, Park City in Utah and Whistler Blackcomb in western Canada.

The Epic deal isn’t going unnoticed, especially by Vermont ski areas that rely heavily on dense East Coast population centers to fill their chairlifts with weekend skiers.

“We’ve dropped prices pretty much across the board,” said Michael Joseph, communications manager at Killington, where about 90 percent of the skiers hail from out of state: 50 percent come from the New York metro area; 30 percent are Boston-area residents.

Sugarbush Resort has also responded.

It dropped the price of an early-bird adult season pass from $1,149 to $799, extended discounts to skiers up to age 40 and announced that it would join the Mountain Collective network for the first time. The multi-mountain pass, organized in 2012 to compete with Vail’s, does not provide the same unlimited access as the Epic deal. It offers a few

days of free skiing at resorts including Aspen, Alta, Jackson Hole and Squaw Valley and 50 percent ticket discounts after the freebies are used up.

Even with all of that, Win Smith, majority owner and president of Sugarbush, predicted that some Sugarbush skiers would likely opt for the Epic Pass. “Our hunch is that we probably we will lose some,” he said.

Jay Peak Resort, near the VermontCanadian border, is paying attention, too, but hasn’t lowered its prices, said JJ Toland, communications director.

The adult season pass for next winter is an affordable $699. Many of Jay’s regulars are anchored to second homes, and the resort keeps its many Canadian customers happy by offering ski tickets for Canadian dollars at par — despite the current anemic exchange rate.

Nonetheless, Toland acknowledged the power of Vail’s Epic marketing message: “I know it definitely serves to give an ‘Oh, shit’ factor to the consumer market — the ‘Oh, shit, look at this; what an affordable option to all these resorts,’”

said Toland. “It gets people’s eyes onto their product.”

A small number of Jay customers might try Stowe, Toland allowed — good but frugal skiers for whom the option has been cost-prohibitive. “I think you will have some people, just out of novelty’s sake, check it out for a year or so,” he said.

Because of the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program scandal, Jay Peak is expected to sell at some point, though court-appointed receiver Michael Goldberg has said it might not find a buyer for at least two years. Vail CEO Rob Katz, a former New York City investment banker, has not been nosing around Jay Peak, according to Toland.

“I think Mr. Katz will see how the Stowe investment turns out before he goes and kicks another set of tires,” he said.

Over at Bolton Valley Resort, Epic isn’t having an immediate effect, either.

“Are we doing anything different?

The answer is no,” said Larry Williams, co-owner of the small area 35 minutes from Burlington at the top of the steep, frost-heaved Bolton access road.

“Our view was that we’re already a very good value. Our customers are probably not likely to be Epic Pass customers. People come to Bolton because it’s convenient. It’s a great place for little kids to run around and do whatever they want,” Williams said. “We don’t feel like we’re competing as directly with Stowe and the Epic Pass.”

Bolton has been for sale for some time. “It’s possible you might hear something soon, but it’s not Vail,” Williams said. “We will know more in the next month.”

The most suitable purchase for Vail could be Smugglers’ Notch Resort, on the other side of the mountain from Stowe and close enough for a lift-line link. Earlier this winter, Smugglers’ Notch spokesman Mike Chait emphatically denied rumors that Vail was trying to buy the resort. Chait did not respond to a request for an updated comment this week.

Speculation is likely to continue as long as Vail Resorts is in acquisition mode. It keeps purchasing ski areas, including small ones rising up from the cornfields outside population centers such as Chicago and Minneapolis. The idea is that by putting Podunk ski areas

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Supporting that theory: Since Vail resorts launched the Epic Pass in 2008, sales have soared — from 500,000 in 2015 to approximately 600,000 this winter.

Stowe already has more cachet and better terrain than a place like Wisconsin’s Wilmot Mountain, which Vail bought last year. And the Vermont property gives the company access to a lucrative market: East Coast urbanites who trek to the Green Mountains on weekends and likely have enough disposable income for a longer ski trip out West.

U.S. ski resorts have tried all manner of survival strategies. Many in Vermont have embraced the model of a fourseason mountain theme park, with aquatic centers and zip lines as well as high-speed quad lifts.

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For some resorts, real estate development has made the difference. In the 1980s and especially the 1990s, many ski area operators expanded slope-side lodging and, in some cases, made much more money off real estate than ski tickets. But the volatility of the real estate market proved almost as risky as praying for snow.

Multi-mountain pass packaging is the latest trend. “The new model is that you have to be able to make money operating the ski area without the real estate,” Bolton’s Williams explained.

Just how many new visitors the Epic Pass will bring to Stowe is unclear. Town officials say Stowe logs in the range of 300,000 skier visits per year, fewer than the 700,000-plus range execs at Killington estimate for this year. Stowe would not disclose annual skier visits.

But almost everyone agrees there will be more skiers at Stowe, which for years charged high prices and didn’t seem to care much about volume.

“I think they will see a considerable increase in skier traffic over past numbers,” said Williams, adding, “Probably the biggest issue is just traffic and the next biggest is parking.”

Both have been a mess at Stowe on peak holiday ski days this winter.

Drivers have sat in traffic jams on Route 108, only to find Stowe’s approximately 3,500 parking spaces full.

“It was like you were in New York City,” said Burlington snowboarder Ben Plotzker. Big snowstorms have attracted skiers, as has a pent-up desire for powder after last winter’s snow drought. Stowe town officials say the resort is working on a new parking management system.

Competing resorts are already spinning those problems to their advantage. “We’re family-owned and -operated,” said Sugarbush’s Smith.

“We don’t have to focus on growing business quarter by quarter … We really do not want to be overly cluttered here.”

Is there a risk that in making itself more affordable — read: accessible — Stowe could lose what has set it apart?

For decades, its well-heeled customers have enjoyed a laid-back scene, said Matt Kulas, a ski-loving Vermonter living outside Boston who admits he is tempted by the Epic Pass.

When crowds thicken, he said, “I can see them being bothered.”

And while Stowe skiers may be decked out in expensive Patagonia — or “Pata-Gucci” — skiwear, as Kulas joked, they have skills to go with their outfits.

On a recent visit to Stratton Mountain Resort in southern Vermont, Kulas observed that “people don’t even know how to get through the lift corral.”

Not at Stowe. “There are just a ridiculous number of awesome skiers there,” Kulas said. And crowded or not, they come for one thing: “I think it’s the best in the East, and, on a great powder day, it can compete with anywhere,” said Kulas. “It doesn’t have much of a runout, so it’s got over 2,000 feet of vertical that’s in the fall line. It has great classic trails, great groomers and then just a ridiculous amount of woods skiing … It’s superlative.”

You could argue that the more people who have that experience, the better. And Sugarbush’s Smith does.

He believes Vail’s bid to grow the Epic Pass and extend deals into Canada, Europe and Australia will ultimately grow the sport of skiing, and he said that’s good for all resorts.

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bill would raise $5 million in new money, but only by increasing enforcement to collect money taxpayers already owe. Every year, the legislature writes a bill to set — and usually raise — fees paid by residents for such services as driver’s licenses and environmental permits. This year’s bill cuts fee revenue, by $506,000.

A fee bill that’s going down? House Ways and Means Committee chair Janet Ancel (D-Calais) said she’s never seen that before. “Not in my years here,” said the former tax commissioner and 13-year lawmaker.

Legislative leaders credit Scott, a popular politician who won the election handily, with setting the tone on taxes, though they argue they came into the year equally committed to fiscal prudence and cooperation.

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ate one evening last month, the Senate Finance Committee voted for a $2-per-night hotel room occupancy fee. The fee, expected to generate $7.2 million a year, would help build affordable housing and fight water pollution.

Statehouse scuttlebutt spread the next day: Finally, the Democratic legislature had fired a shot across the bow.

Lawmakers were going to challenge Republican Gov. Phil Scott’s vow to veto any new taxes or fees.

Nope. In less than a week, Senate leaders had sidelined the occupancy fee.

“We’re taking a step back,” said Senate President Pro Tempore Tim Ashe (D/P-Chittenden).

The occupancy fee joins a sizable list of taxes and fees that legislators have proposed — and backed away from — since January.

Among them were a tax on coffee; a nearly 1 percent tax on Vermont workers’ earnings to fund paid family leave; $80,000 in taxes and fees on online fantasy sports contests; and a slew of measures to raise $30 million to improve water quality. Those would have raised the price of car registrations, restaurant meals and boat slips.

Each tax or fee came with a rationale, but virtually all of them have gone the way of the occupancy fee — from proposal to disposal, often within days.

A large contingent of legislators firmly believe the new revenues and the programs they would pay for are crucial to Vermont. But so far, those members have been forced to yield to legislative leaders’ decision that this is not the year for new programs and new taxes.

With six weeks to go before the legislature adjourns for the year, that position could still change.

But when it comes to money, this is proving to be very different than recent years. Last year’s fee bill featured $27.4 million in new revenue. In 2015, legislators embraced $29.6 million in new taxes.

The reason for this year’s tax-free zone: the new Republican in the governor’s office and the new Republican in the White House.

Scott made clear early on that he’d veto any new taxes or fees.

Even Scott is surprised to see that lawmakers are toeing the line. “I want to give credit where credit is due,” he said last week. “I’ve said before, my line in the sand has been no new taxes and fees, and they’ve adhered to that and I’ve appreciated that. I know it doesn’t come easily.”

The governor’s biggest complaint about the state budget proposal the House passed: It didn’t have enough spending — for childcare and higher education.

Last week, the House passed a state budget that arguably requires no new revenue. The House’s tax

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The Money Issue agreement,” Ashe said. “Pushing the boundaries of a potential veto showdown — you don’t do that lightly.”

Nor can legislators count on successfully challenging a gubernatorial veto. In the 150-member House, Democrats hold 84 seats, a robust majority, but not a veto-proof one. In 2009, Democrats joined with Progressives to muster the 100 votes needed to override Republican governor Jim Douglas’ budget veto.

“Eight years ago, with 95 Democrats … overriding a gubernatorial veto was possible,” noted Rep. Adam Greshin, a Warren independent who does not vote consistently with any political party.

“Today, particularly when you’re dealing with higher taxes, I think the math is very difficult.”

Legislative leaders argue, however, that the threat of budget cuts from Washington, D.C., has been the far more sobering factor. President Donald Trump took office in January pledging to slash funding for scores of programs that Vermont leaders consider essential, from water quality to home heating aid to education.

Roughly half of the state’s budget is funded by federal money.

“I feel where we have the [taxing] capacity, we should be holding onto it until we see whatever happens with the Congress,” Ancel said. “Some of the things we’re hearing are pretty severe.”

Ashe echoed Ancel, saying, “We get the gravity of what might be ahead of us.”

Until Congress completes the federal budget that takes effect October 1, Vermont lawmakers won’t know which programs are most affected. Ashe has suggested that the legislature could return for a special session in late October to decide which cuts in federal funds need to be offset with state money.

“In six months, we could get information that completely upends our priorities,” said House Speaker Mitzi Johnson (D-South Hero).

Even some legislators angling to increase taxes now rather than cut programs concede that Trump’s threat to slash virtually every federal agency changes the picture.

“I’m pretty worried about the federal budget,” said Sen. Chris Pearson (P/D-Chittenden), a liberal who would prefer to see lawmakers raise taxes on the wealthy. “I buy the notion that we need to have an eye on the fall.”

But tension between those who believe the legislature should raise taxes now and those who believe this is not the time pervades every corner of the Statehouse.

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“It lived almost three legislative days,” said Sen. Dustin Degree (R-Franklin), a member of the finance committee who opposed the fee. “I don’t know what the strategy behind that was.”

“There’s no scheme here,” Ashe insisted; the appropriations committee simply disagreed.

Sometimes, there’s less coordination between legislative committees than outsiders might expect, he said. Indeed, if the occupancy fee had passed in the Senate, the House might have been unwilling to go along. Ancel questioned the timing of enacting the new fee, citing fear of potential Trump budget cuts. “I would rather wait,” she said.

The same goes for the proposed 0.93 percent payroll tax to fund family leave: One legislative panel’s plan doesn’t necessarily rule the day. Last month, the House General, Housing and Military Affairs Committee made a splash by passing the tax with a 7-4 party-line vote. The $80 million would be used to offer Vermonters up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth of a child, a personal illness or to tend to an ill family member.

The plan has committed allies. Rep. Tom Stevens (D-Waterbury), the committee’s vice chair, argued that paid leave would draw young families to Vermont. “It would make them feel like they could stay here and have kids,” he said.

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Statehouse observers quickly concluded that senators were deliberately challenging Scott’s no-new-taxes-orfees stance. Cummings’ comments played into that assumption. “The committee voted with its eyes wide open,” she said. “We did what we thought was best.”

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Last week, water-quality advocates held a press conference touting the need for new revenue to meet federally mandated goals to reduce phosphorus in Lake Champlain and other Vermont waterways. Ashe and Johnson stood by their side.

“The Senate is filled with people who care about these issues,” Ashe told advocates, who held signs reading “Water = Life.”

“This is a critical issue,” Johnson added.

Yet both leaders have indicated they plan to pay for water-quality progress with state bonds for now, rather than raise taxes.

Standing alongside them at the press conference was Rep. David Deen (D-Westminster), chair of the House Natural Resources, Fish and Wildlife Committee, who strongly prefers raising the money now. His committee earlier this year recommended an array of $30 million in new taxes for water-quality programs.

When Deen stepped to the mic, he didn’t rip into his colleagues, but he did urge the roomful of 100 advocates, “Get out and get a water advocate elected.”

Deen was unapologetic about proposing funding he knew had no chance of passing. “I wanted to send a message,” he said in an interview. “Look at all the pollution we have in our rivers and our lakes.”

Ashe said he understood the urgency, but he pointed to the uncertainty about federal budget cuts. “It’s likely we’d be coming back next year to revise the dollars,” he said.

As it happens, Scott agrees that the state should defer decisions about longterm lake funding. But legislative leaders insist that Scott’s blessing is not the barometer by which they measure each tax decision. Still, it’s hard to ignore the fact that the only new revenue sources they have embraced are those that might win his support.

Most notably, senators last week backed off a tax proposal Scott had denounced. When the Senate Finance Committee proposed the $2-pernight occupancy fee on hotel rooms, campgrounds and other overnight

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ttorney Jean Murray drove more than three hours and had a few choice words for her car’s GPS before she arrived in Newfane last month to defend a client in a debt-collection case. But once she arrived in court, it was all over in a hot minute.

The opposing counsel, attorney Michael Williams, had no witness and was unable to proceed with the case, he told Judge Michael Kainen. With a bang of the gavel, Kainen cancelled the $5,688 debt of Murray’s client, a 78-year-old man from Westminster West.

Murray didn’t appear to be surprised.

She’s the primary attorney defending Vermont’s poorest debtors against a massive collection industry largely hidden from the public eye.

For the past 10 years, she’s seen firsthand how lenders, mostly credit card companies, lure in vulnerable people with “rewards” and other enticements that wind up bankrupting them. “I think people want to pay back what they borrowed,” said Murray, who grew up poor in Chicago. “But when illness, job loss, death in the family or divorce makes that hard, credit card companies make it harder: A missed payment means, for many cards, that the company imposes a penalty interest rate of 25 to 30 percent.”

The companies are “taking what I see as unconscionable advantage of people,” she said.

Murray goes to bat for those Vermonters and wins by showing judges that the plaintiffs, who are often large corporations that specialize in collecting bad debts, lack the goods to proceed. They “just don’t have the evidence,” she said. Murray didn’t lose a single one of her cases last year, including the 36 she represented in court.

One resolved tragically when a St. Johnsbury widow fell into debt to pay for her husband’s cancer treatments, according to her son, Charlie Brooks. Pat Brooks died before the company trying to collect the money finally dropped the case. She was 61. With interest, Pat Brooks’ $17,319 debt had mushroomed to more than $25,000.

Atlantic Credit & Finance garnished her $10.50-an-hour hotel housekeeping wages, taking $100 a month. But her interest on the debt was $125 a month.

Murray’s work isn’t glamorous. She spends her days slogging through reams of court filings and crisscrossing the state to appear in court. Nights at home in Montpelier, she enjoys the TV show “Supernatural,” whose main character faces down different forms of adversity.

“If I had said ‘Jean Murray is going to

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change the world,’ I don’t think I would have picked collections,” the 58-year-old lawyer said wryly.

But for Chris Curtis, head of the public protection division in the Vermont Attorney General’s office, Murray’s mission makes perfect sense.

“She’s a single mom who broke the cycle of poverty … and has spent her entire adult life giving back,” said Curtis, who worked with Murray at Vermont Legal Aid. “This is more than just a lawyer’s duty to their client,” he said. “This is personally and professionally significant for Jean.”

Murray’s empathy for the underdog started with her own upbringing in suburban Chicago. As a child, she would tag along with her mother, who ran after-school programs for low-income kids in the downtown YWCA. Her disabled father didn’t work, and Murray — the third of four girls — remembers a “go without” childhood. She and her sisters shared two bicycles until Murray’s friends all chipped in to buy her a Schwinn 10-speed on her 16th birthday.

Two years later, she was married. She divorced at 19 — after giving birth to her only child, a daughter named Erin.

She moved back in with her mother and grandmother, and the three took turns caring for Erin. Murray found work at an insurance company and attended classes at night. She recalled bringing her pajamaclad daughter along when she had evening exams.

By the late ’70s, Murray had decided she wanted to become a lawyer. Her resolve strengthened when she was fired from a job — unjustly, she said — and later, when she felt that a landlord treated her unfairly.

“I was tired of being on the underside of things,” she said.

In 1987, she got her undergraduate degree from SUNY Empire State College and headed to Boston for law school. While pursuing her Juris Doctor degree at Northeastern University, she spent every summer volunteering for legal aid organizations.

Postgraduation, Murray landed a paid job at a legal services organization in Massachusetts before becoming a staff attorney for Vermont Legal Aid’s Poverty Law Project in 1998.

She took on her first collections cases in 2007 but didn’t get fully immersed until two years later. She agreed to cover for her fellow lawyer and significant other Guen

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Gifford at Law Line of Vermont so that Gifford could take a year off. As Murray advised consumers on how to deal with collection, she witnessed how easily poor people with access to credit can become indebted. “If you are unwell, or aging, or disabled, or only able to get minimumwage work, it isn’t carelessness that makes it hard to pay the bills for the things you need,” Murray said. “If you are low income, keeping up is a difficult balancing act. The way credit card companies behave is partly responsible for some people losing their balance.”

Gifford never returned from her sabbatical — she died in a paragliding accident in November 2009. But when Murray resumed her work at Vermont Legal Aid, she had a new focus. She said Gifford’s death inspired her to intensify her efforts to help Vermonters who are too poor to defend themselves against the giant, faceless companies that buy up their debt.

Debt collection is a $13 billion industry nationwide that affects 35 percent of Americans, according to a 2016 report from the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Credit card companies extend borrowing privileges to just about anyone, but when a cardholder can’t pay the bill, the creditor waits about six months to cut him or her off. The company then typically sells the debt to a third-party collector at

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pennies on the dollar in an effort to recoup its loss. The debt might be sold several more times before a collection agency files suit against the debtor.

As a result, out-of-state companies such as Encore Capital Group and Credit Acceptance own thousands of outstanding debts in Vermont. These collection cases clog the state’s court system. Some debt collectors’ attorneys have become notorious for “robo-signing” cases, filing dozens at a time. There is no data on the number of Vermonters facing debt collection nor on how that number compares to other states. Multiple collections agencies and attorneys denied requests for comment.

What we do know: During fiscal year 2016, debt collection comprised 44 percent — 1,091 cases — of the total small claims court matters in Vermont, according to state data. In addition, collections cases made up nearly 20 percent of all civil cases.

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“The reality is that most credit debtors are not poor,” said Alan Bjerke, a Burlington attorney who has represented collection agencies and now runs his own small collections company. “They’re disorganized.”

Asked if the system is fair, Bjerke deferred. “I think the system has a number of safeguards built into it,” he said.

“People have very different conceptions of fairness.”

Murray’s is clear. “She sees a system that is all too often stacked against the poorest,” Curtis explained. “That commitment to social and economic justice is not just a mantra but something that is slowly realized over time.”

She’s honed her craft, too. Julie Carp, who handles some debt-collection cases for Vermont Legal Aid, called Murray the “debt-collection guru” in Vermont. She phones Murray with questions, Carp said, and refers to Murray’s case filings when drafting her own.

“She’s always bringing up new ideas, new suggestions,” said Curtis. When he worked down the hall from Murray, he coined a term about his coworker’s creative persistence. Instead of a Hail Mary, he said, “I call them ‘hail Murray.’ She’ll try just about anything to get a result for her clients.”

In 2013 and then again in 2015, Murray advocated for new court rules that the

Vermont judiciary agreed to adopt. As a result, debt collectors now must provide more information to debtors and the courts when they file a suit.

This year, she and fellow VLA attorney Wendy Morgan have been working to increase consumer protections legislatively. They back H.482, which would decrease the statute of limitations on collection of credit card debt from six years to three, and prohibit collectors from charging interest when debtors are exempt from collection — such as when they’re receiving public assistance.

The House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development is taking testimony on the bill on Thursday.

Last year, Murray met for months with court staff and lawyers on a judicial commission that worked to make debt collection more efficient and effective, recalled the group’s chair Dan Richardson, a Montpelier attorney and acting judge in the Washington County small claims court. After countless meetings, Richardson hashed out a compromise that won support from the judges and collections attorneys, and was meant to be included in legislation.

Murray alone opposed the suggested measures, contending that it violated the privacy rights of consumers.

“She wouldn’t sign onto it, and the process broke down,” Richardson said.

He was frustrated at the time but acknowledged, “She’s tenacious, and she’s certainly smart and sticks to her guns. She believes in the rightness of her cause.”

In the end, the commission disbanded without making progress.

Murray stands by her decision. “It was another one of those situations where I’m the only one at the table representing debtors,” she said. “The people need a voice.”

It worked for the 78-year-old man Murray represented in Newfane. Reached by phone, he said he always paid his credit card bills on time until he started racking up debt in 2012, when a small café he ran in Putney went under. Interest and late charges grew the $2,000 debt to $5,688, and Citibank started leaving messages on his answering machine.

He called Murray after he was sued and summoned to court last year. The man, who lives off a monthly Social Security check, worried he’d be arrested, or lose his apartment if he couldn’t pay. “This is not the kind of person I am,” he added. “It kind of made me sick.”

In the end, he didn’t even have to come to court the day Murray got his case dismissed. That evening, he said, he sat by his woodstove and opened a bottle of cider to celebrate. “I was very relieved,” he said. m

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tri-partisan group of lawmakers joined Gov. Phil Scott in his ceremonial Statehouse office last week to witness Vermont’s first act of resistance against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

With the stroke of a pen, Scott signed into law widely lauded legislation requiring gubernatorial approval of certain immigration-enforcement agreements between the federal government and state and local agencies. Scott hailed the bill, S.79, as a response to what he called an unconstitutional “federal overreach to commandeer state resources for federal purposes.”

But the new law does little to limit ongoing communication and collaboration between state agencies and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which last month arrested three undocumented Vermonters affiliated with the activist group Migrant Justice.

According to public records obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont, such collaboration routinely occurred last year at the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles and, in at least one incident, at the Vermont State Police.

The records show that DMV employees regularly provided unsolicited notice to ICE agents when they suspected noncitizens of submitting fraudulent documents to the department.

ICE officials also occasionally pumped their DMV contacts for information about noncitizens applying for driver’s privilege cards, which are available to Vermont residents who are not authorized to live in the U.S. “Going to be out and about, down there tomorrow,” ICE deportation officer Steven Day emailed DMV Det. Jonathan Purdy last May, indicating he would be in Rutland and Middlebury. “Any locations you have seen activity with the applicants I can drive by?”

The relationship between the agencies appears to have persisted even after the DMV settled a discrimination complaint last August with the Vermont Human Rights Commission. As part of the settlement, the DMV agreed to pay $40,000 to a Jordanian citizen who faced deportation proceedings after the state agency shared his driver’s privilege card application with ICE. The settlement, signed by DMV Commissioner Rob Ide on August 10, made clear that “contacts with ICE or [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] are not permitted.”

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But just a month and a half later, d Det. Jeremy DesJardins, who was involved in the Jordanian man’s case, alerted U.S. Border Patrol agent John Letourneau that another suspect would be taking a driver’s test in early October at the DMV’s Springfield branch. It was the perfect opportunity for both state and federal authorities to nab him.

“It is my intent to charge (cite) this individual at his test date and I would like to know what information you have on file for him and if you are interested in sending someone?” DesJardins wrote, providing the time of the appointment and address of the office. The suspect’s identity was redacted in the documents.

Letourneau forwarded the email to ICE officials, who declined the offer, but DesJardins persisted.

“He is being lodged with bail of [$]1000 he is trying to get paid,” the DMV detective wrote ICE deportation officer John Trantum following the suspect’s arrest.

“He is supposed to be in court tomorrow at 12:30 at WRJ.” Trantum asked DesJardins where the suspect was being lodged, but he intimated that he already knew the answer:

Springfield’s Southern State Correctional Facility. In a separate email to his supervisors at the DMV, DesJardins explained that a computer program had automatically flagged ICE when the suspect was booked.

“Due to this fingerprint alert process, ICE called the correctional facility within hours of my processing time and arranged for a ‘Federal Detainer’ to be placed on [redacted] in the event he made bail and would otherwise be released,” DesJardins informed his colleagues.

Jay Diaz, a staff attorney for ACLU of Vermont, called the communications between DMV and ICE “a travesty of justice [that] needs to be addressed.”

“DMV seems to be bending over backwards to give ICE all the information they can in order to facilitate an arrest,” he said.

Col. Jake Elovirta, the DMV’s director of enforcement and safety, declined to discuss individual emails obtained from his department. He argued that while the DMV had signed the Human Rights Commission settlement last August, the department continued to revise its procedures and train its staff through January 2017.

“Those emails are from before this policy was fully adopted,” he said But according to HRC executive director Karen Richards, the settlement took effect last summer.

“If they are taking affirmative actions to turn folks over to ICE, that would violate it,” she said.

ICE regional spokesman Shawn Neudauer would not directly address the emails but said in a statement that, “Access to relevant data is a critical tool used by all law enforcement agencies for the common goal of public safety.”

The DMV was not the only state agency to proactively contact federal immigration officials last year.

Records obtained from the Vermont State Police describe a highway incident last September that prompted state troopers to transfer a Honduran national to ICE custody within six hours of his arrest on a drunken-driving charge.

According to an affidavit signed by Trooper Joseph Pregent, he confronted the Honduran man next to a silver Honda Civic parked at a rest area on Interstate 91 after hearing reports of such a car “weaving all over the road.”

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After a Spanish-speaking trooper was summoned to help translate, the suspect provided a preliminary breath sample that showed his blood alcohol concentration to be 0.236 — nearly three times the legal limit.

“During the investigation it was found that the defendant’s passport was fraudulently obtained and that he was illegally in the Country,” Pregent wrote in the affidavit. “At 11:14PM the defendant was released to [ICE] Deportation Officer Robert Berger. Officer Berger told me that the defendant was slated to be deported for the third time.”

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“solely” to determine their immigration status and prevents them from asking suspects in civil matters about their status.

But according to Capt. Ingrid Jonas, troopers are less constrained in criminal matters.

“Once we have arrested somebody, the policy is clear that we can call federal authorities,” she said. “I think that would be on a case-by-case basis of whether it would be pertinent to do so.”

Whether it was pertinent in this case — and the nature of the “investigation” into the passport’s authenticity — is not clear. The VSP declined to make the troopers involved available to Seven Days for an interview.

According to Jonas, the troopers decided to phone the feds when “questions about his name started to arise.” She said she did not know whether they exhausted other means of investigation first.

“The resolution was to call Immigration [and] Customs Enforcement back at the office,” she said. “They did.

They gave the passport number that this gentleman had given to them. At that time, according to ICE, the passport was deemed fraudulent.”

According to an audiotape obtained through a public records request, one of the troopers told a dispatcher, “I’ve gotta go through Border Patrol at some point.”

Later, he told the dispatcher, “Set me up with Border Patrol please.”

According to Migrant Justice spokesman Will Lambek, the state should not be in the business of assisting federal immigration enforcement authorities. He believes that the VSP’s Fair and Impartial

Policing policy insufficiently protects noncitizens, such as Vermont’s migrant dairy workers.

“Here’s an instance where it’s clear that troopers in the field need additional guidance,” he said.

Last June, the Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council created a model FIP policy strictly limiting interactions with federal authorities, but neither the VSP nor the DMV has adopted it in full.

Lambek, Diaz and Richards argue that the legislature should require all state law enforcement agencies to do so.

“It’s been my position that everyone should be following the same policy, because if you are an immigrant in this state, you shouldn’t have to worry that if you move from one jurisdiction to another that you’re suddenly under a different policy,” Richards said.

The Vermont House Judiciary Committee is currently debating whether to mandate a uniform policy, but Gov. Scott and law enforcement leaders oppose the move.

“We don’t feel it needs to be uniformly the same across each jurisdiction,” Scott spokeswoman Rebecca Kelley said in a written statement.

According to Lambek, a patchwork of insufficient guidelines has allowed DMV officials “to play ICE agents.”

The feds sometimes see it that way, too. As VTDigger.org reported in October 2016, ICE deportation officer Brady Goff thanked Purdy, the DMV detective, in an October 2014 email for referring so many cases his way.

“We’re going to have to make you an honorary ICE officer,” Goff wrote at the time.

The newly obtained emails show that Purdy continued to contact ICE officials last year to request information from federal databases. He also provided, unsolicited, copies of driver privilege card applications — sometimes even when he didn’t have a case.

“We don’t have a violation, but wanted to check on her anyway. I’ve attached her application,” Purdy wrote to Day, the ICE deportation officer, last July. “Would you please check for warrants, deport orders?”

In one email later that month, Purdy complained about his own department when Day asked whether applicants were required to provide a physical address.

“Yes, they are supposed to. Our employees at the branch offices are told not to question an applicant,” he wrote Day. “DMV is apparently more worried

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Police on Monday ordered a man to stay off South Burlington School District property amid a deepening controversy over the decision to ditch the high school’s Rebel nickname.

Superintendent of Schools David Young said he sought the no-trespass order for Dan Emmons “to ensure the safety of all of our students” after police last week issued Emmons a citation charging that he harassed a student. Emmons is due in Vermont Superior Court April 13 on charges of stalking and disturbing the peace by use of electronic communication.

The allegations stem from an ongoing battle over the Rebel moniker, which opponents say is racist because of its association with the Confederacy. The school board voted in February to change the nickname.

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Emmons does not think the name is racist and ran an unsuccessful campaign for school board partly on that platform.

On Friday, Emmons removed himself from the Rebel Alliance group — which has called for restoring the name — until the citation is resolved.

The threats and conduct involved the student’s position on the potential Rebel name change, South Burlington police said in a statement about the citation.

“Over the course of the investigation it was determined that Emmons personally interacted with the student on at least two occasions during which he made comments the student felt threatened by. In addition, the investigation revealed additional threats were made toward the student via social media,” the statement said.

Emmons referred requests for comment to his attorney, William Norful, who called both the citation and the no-trespass order baseless attempts to squelch unpopular speech.

“This is an ideological witch hunt. ‘If you don’t toe the party line, if you disagree, if you advocate for meaningful dialogue, we’re going to squelch you,’” Norful said. “It’s very 1984.”

The order means Emmons cannot pick up his own children from school or go to school board meetings, Norful said.

“He has not threatened to harm; he has not committed harm,” the attorney said, adding that the allegations are “absolutely over the top, unwarranted, part of the persecution.”

Young said the case is not about free speech but declined to get into the details of the complaint. The South Burlington School District accepts that people disagree on a variety of issues and does not try and suppress debate, he said. “We have, you know, become a better system because of the feedback that we have received, and I think that’s true now,” Young said.

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Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) did an about-face Monday and joined his caucus in an attempt to halt a Senate vote on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.

Leahy had been clear that he opposes Gorsuch’s ascendancy to the court. What’s new is his support for the parliamentary move to try to stop the Senate from voting on President Donald Trump’s nominee.

“I am not inclined to filibuster,” Leahy told VTDigger.org last week, “even though I’m not inclined to vote for him.”

He said otherwise during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Monday. “I will not support advancing this nomination,” Leahy declared — which is to say he now is inclined to filibuster.

Under a Democratic filibuster, Republicans, who hold 52 of the 100 Senate seats, would need 60 votes to let Gorsuch’s nomination proceed.

Fellow Senate Democrats needed Leahy’s support to reach the filibuster-able number of 41, so the senior Vermont senator no doubt got pressure from the caucus leadership to go along. When he came into the fold, Leahy did so with gusto.

“Perhaps no member sounded as aggrieved as Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and the Senate’s longest-serving member,” the New York Times reported Monday.

“This nominee has since refused to address any substantive issues during his testimony,” Leahy said during Monday’s committee hearing. “He has left this committee and the American people with only unresolved concerns.”

Leahy later cast a vote against Gorsuch’s nomination, but the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-9 to advance it.

The senior Vermont senator’s willingness to filibuster might turn out to be just as ineffective as his committee vote, however. The Republican Senate majority is looking to change the Senate rules so that they need a simple majority rather than 60 votes to approve a Supreme Court nomination.

Leahy accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) of seeking to confirm Trump’s choice “even if that means forever damaging the Senate.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has also said he’ll join Democrats in a filibuster.

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World Cup Ski Race Set to Return to Killington The World Cup ski race that drew record crowds to Killington Resort last year is booked for a return engagement this year and next.

The resort announced Tuesday a two-year agreement with the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) to host women’s slalom and giant slalom races over Thanksgiving weekend in 2017 and 2018.

The International Ski Federation (FIS) is expected to approve the two-year deal at a meeting in late May. An estimated 30,000 people attended the FIS Ski World Cup at Killington last November, the first time the international ski race series has stopped in Vermont since 1978.

The icing on the cake for many spectators was seeing Burke Mountain Academy graduate Mikaela Shiffrin take first place in the slalom.

“Last year we accomplished all of our goals, which were to promote eastern skiing and Killington to the global audience. It was very powerful to see the local and regional communities come together to support World Cup racing,” said Herwig Demschar, the chair of Killington’s World Cup local organizing committee and vice president of international business development at POWDR, the company that owns Killington.

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“We have a blueprint for successful races to build on, and we are going to throw a party you don’t want to miss,” Demschar added in a statement trumpeting the news.

It cost about $2.5 million to produce the World Cup last year, and the resort lost about $1.2 million, according to Killington communications manager Michael Joseph. But the resort gained international publicity — the race was broadcast to millions of viewers in North America, Europe and beyond. And the 30,000 spectators over two days set attendance records for World Cups held in the U.S. The event also generated brisk early-winter business for restaurants, shops and lodging near the ski resort.

At Town Meeting Day last month, voters in Killington indicated they wanted the race to come back. Residents approved a $100,000 allocation to help with athlete lodging, prize money and other costs should the World Cup return.

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SHELBURNE, 1961-2017 We have lost a good one. Tom Wilkins died peacefully on March 27, 2017. Calm in the center of many a storm, Tom’s gentle, even-keeled nature has been a beacon for many a frazzled soul. Empowered by his strength and courage, we will now carry the torch for him.

Tom was born on April 29, 1961, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to Mary Jane and Wilton Wilkins. The youngest of five brothers, he quickly learned when to duck and run. Tom was strong, flexible and self-sufficient, all skills he passed on to his children.

Tom is survived by his loving wife of 32 years, Barbara. They worked together to raise their family, allowing each other freedom to pursue their own interests while keeping their true focus on their children. Tom and Barb lived a life full of love and mutual admiration.

Tom was most proud of his kids, Dana, Kendra, Devan and Sam; and his nephew Henry. He was a constant in their lives.

Through consistency and presence, Tom instilled in them confidence to seek out new experiences and connections in the world.

In the face of their father’s illness, his strong, capable children matched his own inner strength with compassion and fortitude of their own.

Tom’s brilliant mind solved many a quandary for his family and friends. He was our go-to guy for any question, inane or significant, never making you feel stupid or afraid to ask for follow up because really, you still didn’t have any idea what he was talking about. Tom’s fine mind and keen intellect served IBM for all of his adult life. Tom was conscientious and loyal, a much valued colleague.

Always a seeker of adventure and master of wind and water, Tom could sail the mighty vessel Follow Me on and off the mooring in any condition the winds of Lake Champlain dished out.

Theresa “Trish” Ann Morin Theresa “Trish” Ann Morin passed away peacefully on Monday, April 3, 2017. Visiting hours will be on Friday, April 7, 2017, from 5 to 8 p.m. at LaVigne Funeral Home, 132 Main Street, Winooski, VT. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, April 4, 2017, at St. John Vianney Church, 160 Hinesburg Road, South Burlington, VT. A complete obituary will appear in the next edition of Seven Days.

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Tom Wilkins

A lover of fire great and small, Tom mastered the art of Dutch oven cookery way before it was hip. The wafting aroma of his white chili and blueberry buckle would draw neighbors to the backyard fire ring on many a starry night. Pots were stirred and stories told.

Tom loved and appreciated his dogs, good music, mountains, full moons and his diverse collection of friends. Throughout his illness, his house was filled with the comings and goings of these loved ones. Tom was held in the hearts of childhood Nyack buddies, Revolutionaries, fellow Bucknell alumna, workmates, neighbors and various local riffraff. We had your back, Tom, and you had ours. You took care of us in times of need.

We are lucky to have known you. Let your soul and spirit fly — always forward, never straight.

Tom is survived by his wife and children; his parents; his brothers Bill, Tim, Chris and Jim; and his well-trained lab, Lyric. Tom’s legacy is one of love, loyalty and kindness. In his memory, please sit on your back deck or throw a big log on the fire, hand your friend a beer, and keep the conversations flowing way past your bedtime.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Tom’s memory to Guiding Eyes for the Blind.

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He’s ready to have that debate next year, but now is no time to talk about new programs, Ashe said.

“Like it or not, when you have this sort of Congress hanging over you, you have to be careful about your actions,” he said.

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That $80 million tax is pending in Ancel’s Ways and Means Committee but is not expected to reach the Senate this year.

Even if it did, the Senate would likely choose other priorities, Ashe said.

If Vermont workers were asked what the state could do to help them, he argued, most would likely say they want more cash in their pockets. “Raising the minimum wage is the single best way to do that,” he said, indicating that he doesn’t foresee taking on both issues at once.

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about customer service than the safety of our nation.”

In a brief and combative phone interview Monday, Purdy bemoaned “the climate of the United States,” referring to what he called unfair suspicion of law enforcement.

“I’m kind of curious why you’re beating this dead horse,” he said.

Purdy defended his practice of seeking information from federal immigration agents and argued that his department’s FIP policy “doesn’t make any difference.”

“I don’t care about whether someone’s foreign or not. I don’t care! I don’t care anything about that!” he said. “I have a job to do to investigate people.

So how does Fair and Impartial Policing play into it? What does that have anything to do with it?”

Purdy similarly claimed ignorance about the DMV’s settlement last summer with the HRC — and the policy changes it mandated.

“I’m not familiar with the case because it wasn’t my case, and I’m not familiar with the settlement because, really, I don’t have any interest with the settlement,” he said. “What you’re asking me or what you’re insinuating is that no law enforcement agency should ever contact ICE because it’s none of their business.”

Diaz, the ACLU of Vermont attorney, doesn’t think much of Purdy, whose emails he has examined.

“It certainly seems that Det. Purdy is the Joe Arpaio of the DMV enforcement unit,” Diaz said, referring to the

former Arizona sheriff whose outspoken views on illegal immigration made him a household name. But, he added, “There’s something much broader than a few bad apples here … It does seem that there’s a culture around this issue that needs to be addressed.”

According to Diaz, S.79 came nowhere close to doing that. All it does is prevent certain future federal-local agreements without gubernatorial approval — and prohibit Vermont officials from sharing demographic information with the feds for use in discriminatory registries.

“What it doesn’t do is offer strong, substantive protections for people from what we see in the DMV emails,” he said.

Kelley, the governor’s spokeswoman, defended the new law — and said it was never intended to handcuff cops.

“The law was carefully crafted with law enforcement and the legal community — among other stakeholders — to ensure that it does not limit local and state law enforcement’s cooperation and communication with federal law enforcement, or their ability to do their jobs,” she said.

Lambek, of Migrant Justice, sees it differently.

“If the Scott administration and Vermont’s political leaders are serious about resisting the Trump administration’s policy of mass deportation,” he said, “before passing bills focusing on theoretical future collaboration, they should be focused on preventing the actual harmful collusion that’s occurring every day.”

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LIBERTY OR SECURITY?

The conversation on proposed legislation to take guns from people involved in domestic violence accusations should also be considered from a “search and seizure” angle [“Up in Arms: Bill Would Let Cops Take Guns in Domestic Violence Cases,” March 22]. I am not writing from a “pro-” or “anti-” gun angle. Instead, I urge lawmakers not to give government agents such immense authority over the rest of us. This bill would allow police to confiscate property without a warrant. This is not about chipping away at gun rights; it’s about chipping away at our rights against unlawful seizure. Should we be passing laws that allow the police to make the decision regarding when to take our property without first getting a warrant or court order? By any objective statistic, we are a very safe state.

Tragedies are terrible and make any compassionate person’s heart ache. Yet I can’t help but think of the famous Ben Franklin quote that “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.”

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[Re Off Message: “Migrant Justice Cases Spark Protest at Boston Immigration Court,” March 27; “A Wife Vows to Fight Her Husband’s Deportation,” March 23; “After Arrests, Attorney Says ICE Is Targeting Migrant Justice,” March 21; “Vermont’s Congressional Delegation Joins the Criticism of ICE Arrests,” March 20; “ICE Arrests Two More Immigration Advocates in Burlington,” March 17; “ICE Arrests Immigrant Worker Outside Burlington Courthouse,” March 16]: Just a few words on the folks who are getting upset over the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests: What did you expect or assume would happen?

Through representatives, we the people put in place laws concerning immigration.

We hire people to enforce them, and when they do their job, some of us get upset? Did you expect law enforcement to ignore the laws indefinitely? If so, who decides what laws we should ignore? If you do not like

a law, do not break it; change it. This gets me back to our congressional delegation, the members of which should be replaced.

They could have sponsored a reasonable guest-worker law that would work for farmers. They did not! Replace them, and get someone in there who can do the job for farmers.

Thomas Prindiville

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Montpelier Indivisible would like to offer some clarification on our group’s purpose [“Follow the Leader? Stakes Are High for Vermont Pols on Social Media,” March 22]. While Indivisible groups across the U.S. focus on their congressional delegations to resist the Trump administration’s policy agenda, the efforts of Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Patrick Leahy (DVt.) have afforded us the opportunity to direct our energies elsewhere. That’s why Indivisible groups across Vermont are getting involved with sister districts and our state legislature. Some Montpelier Indivisible members are working to support 2017 special elections across the country; others are supporting organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union and Rights & Democracy. In fact, most of us aren’t all that active on social media!

The intent behind sharing social media posts isn’t to shame anyone but to highlight materials that raise questions constituents may be interested in asking their own legislators. Everyone commits gaffes online, but when an elected official continuously shares materials in conflict with the values of their constituents, a conversation needs to take place. For instance, social media activity focusing on migrant rights may interest Vermonters, given the recent arrests of Migrant Justice activists.

Of course, social media is just one point at which to begin a conversation with legislators. Voting histories, sponsored legislation and campaign finance data are much better ways of evaluating our legislators.

In order to stop the Trump agenda, we need to highlight where legislators’ votes may be out of line with Vermont values. We hope our research encourages Vermonters across the state to learn more about their representatives, regardless of party affiliation.

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lmost 20 years before the business-casual protagonists of Office Space destroyed a printer with baseball bats, there were the bad, bad ladies of 9 to 5.

Their weapons of choice against their evil boss and bleak workplace oppression? Marijuana, rat poison and a handgun — not to mention kooky ideas such as equal pay for women, flexible hours and on-site company daycare.

The 1980 film starring Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin is now a feminist classic, and the story was adapted in 2009 as a Broadway musical with original songs and lyrics by the Queen of Country herself. This week, April 6 to 9, Vermont’s own LYRIC THEATRE brings the righteous — and hilarious — production to the FLYNN MAINSTAGE in Burlington. And it’s gonna be good.

Seven Days stopped by a recent rehearsal at Lyric’s South Burlington headquarters.

Choreographers COREY CAMERLENGO and CHRISTOPHER BROWN watched from the wings as the cast gracefully maneuvered heavy desks and rolling chairs for the opening scene — “deskography,” as artistic director KRISTEN BURES called it.

“This might be a small state,” she said, “but we have an incredible performing community.”

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The production stars four Lyric veterans, starting with KIM ANDERSON as Judy, ANDREA CRONAN as Violet and SERENA MAGNAN O’CONNELL as Doralee. O’Connell’s real-life husband, DON PATRICK O’CONNELL, plays the show’s sole male principal, Franklin Hart Jr. — aka CEO of Consolidated Industries and “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot.”

Bures noted that the company selected 9 to 5: The Musical in part because it offered “a really nice foil to The Who’s Tommy,” Lyric’s fall production. “This is a super-light, female-centric show. And it’s funny,” she added — in contrast to Tommy’s darker, male-driven storyline.

But “light” and “funny” don’t have to mean socially insignificant. “I am a woman of a certain age,” said Bures — and she’s well aware of the dearth of stage roles for women older than 35. 9 to 5 is a “good fit for the Lyric population that doesn’t always have a chance to show their talents.”

Among such roles is that of Roz, the boss’ tragically devoted right-hand woman — and PAM TOOF kills it. “[Women] are not secretaries anymore,” said Lyric promotions manager PAT BOERA. “We’re up to being leaders in the workplace.” Still, the show’s themes of professional equality remain relevant,

particularly given the current presidential administration. “It’s so timely now,” Boera said.

Lyric often partners with another local nonprofit for its productions.

Fittingly, its partner for 9 to 5 is Dress for Success Burlington, whose mission is “to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and … development tools,” according to the organization’s website.

Plenty of closets were raided to achieve the show’s 1970s look, according to costume constructor LAURIE DANA. “There may even be a pantsuit,” she said coyly. Instead of the traditional all-black garb, stagehands will don office attire, too. Props include handmade typewriters by CONNIE KITE, and a cast member scored a free cache of authentic ’70s office chairs, said acquisitions manager MARY KENNY. Not entirely retro, the show’s script sometimes winks at present-day viewers. For instance, there’s a giddy conversation between typewriter geeks that seems deliberately designed to be incomprehensible to millennials; and Violet’s internal monologue: “Just do it … that would make a great slogan for something.”

Some plot points deviate from the film, most notably the introduction of Violet’s love interest, Joe, played by Lyric newcomer MICHAEL MCCANN. He knocks his sentimental second-act solo, “Let Love Grow,” out of the park.

One of the best things about working on the show, Magnan O’Connell said, has been sharing the stage with old pals. Fellow principal Cronan was her “first Lyric friend,” she noted.

Of course, working with her husband has been entertaining, too.

“I get to hog-tie him at one point,” Magnan O’Connell said, smiling. The couple met during Lyric’s 2003 production of Jesus Christ Superstar and were married two years later. When they’re not rehearsing or in the spotlight, they operate Burlington’s O’M (O’Connell Magnan) hair salon.

Whether onstage or behind the scenes, the Lyric community clearly loves what it does. 9 to 5 may be about work, but this group makes it play. m

INFO 9 to 5: The Musical, Thursday and Friday, April 6 and 7, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 8, at 2 and 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, April 9, at 2 p.m. $23-38. flynntix.org, lyrictheatre.org

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turned to NORTHSHIRE BOOKSTORE, a seller with locations in Manchester Center, Vt., and Saratoga Springs, N.Y. That company operates a self-publishing business called ShiresPress, which offers five packages at various price points. Both ShiresPress and Onion River Press offer à la carte services such as editing and proofreading.

Authors who opt for Onion River will work primarily with Fisher, who was formerly the managing editor for Hyperion Books in New York City. She moved to Vermont in 2011 and began working at Phoenix in 2012.

Asked what Onion River can offer that online publishing operations such as CreateSpace, Lulu and Shutterfly cannot, Fisher said simply, “the personal touch.” And, of course, working with the local company means an author doesn’t have to navigate websites. But the model isn’t for everyone.

Fisher noted that of the five people they have met with so far about publishing through Onion River, only two went with the new service.

To Gross, the self-publishing expansion reflects the turnabout in the war between digital and print media. “The [print] book won the battle with the e-books,” he declared. He cited as evidence the fact that the number of independent bookstores in the U.S. grew 27 percent from 2009 to 2014, according to American Booksellers Association data noted by the New York Times.

Gross attributes this in part to millennial readers. “People in their twenties love the physical book more than any other generation that I’ve ever seen,” he said. “I give a lot of props to [Harry Potter series author] J.K. Rowling for that.”

Offering a means for self-publishing is the next logical step in the evolution of brick-and-mortar bookstores. “We felt strongly [that] it was something we needed to offer our customers and the community,” Gross said. “Our whole mission statement is to be a hub for literary activity. Anything we can do to have the local community be more about books is what we want to do.” m

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ast year, GEORGE OSOL walked into PHOENIX BOOKS in Burlington with his new self-published book, Caveat, hoping the store would sell it. Longtime manager TOD GROSS turned him away — kind of.

Osol had released Caveat through CreateSpace, the self-publishing arm of Amazon. The online behemoth is a nemesis of independent bookstores, and Phoenix doesn’t stock CreateSpace publications — not even books written by local authors.

“We really felt like we needed to ask our local authors to make a decision not to use our main competitor,” said Gross.

“So we started thinking about what we could do to make that easier for them.”

The solution: create a self-publishing division of Phoenix Books.

And that’s exactly what they’ve done.

Osol pulled his book from CreateSpace and is now the debut author for Phoenix’s new ONION RIVER PRESS. Gross and Phoenix bookseller RACHEL FISHER lead the operation. It officially launches on May 9. Four different publication packages can accommodate everything from a collection of grandma’s recipes to a fully proofread book complete with ISBN and a launch party at Phoenix.

Osol opted for the latter. His book event is Tuesday, April 11, in Phoenix Books’ downstairs event space.

Caveat is a thriller about Michael Boylen, a cybersecurity expert who’s wrestling with his love life on a trip to Paris, where he becomes entangled in terrorism. The book will be available at all the Phoenix bookstores — Burlington, Rutland, Essex and Chester — as well as on the company’s website. If Osol wants to get it on shelves in other bookstores, he’ll have to shop it around himself.

Onion River Press publishes through IngramSpark, the self-publishing division of book-distribution giant Ingram, which also offers print-on-demand services. So, if a customer walks into a bookstore in San Francisco seeking a copy of Caveat, the bookseller can look up the ISBN number on Ingram and order just one. Oh, the marvels of modern technology.

The addition of self-publishing to the Phoenix lineup is far from unique; it’s a growing strategy for indie bookstores around the country. Gross says that, for inspiration, he and Fisher

Dartmouth Prof Vievee Francis Earns Literature’s Highest Honors B Y JI M SCHLEY

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… in this moment where no axe falls … with more trees than might be named and the blooms ever blooming in a heat seemingly ceaseless as the red-throated woodpeckers, as the tree frogs mating endlessly on the same limbs a black bear might loll from, indolent and berry-full.

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ome books seem enormous because they have many pages.

A book of poems may be slim in size and yet immense in other ways, for instance, in formal variation, thematic range and emotional power.

Vievee Francis’ Forest Primeval: Poems is a book with mythic and historic scope, and its sonic landscape is often symphonic.

This third collection of poetry by Francis has recently been honored with two of contemporary literature’s highest honors. In October 2016, Forest Primeval was given the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for poetry (named for African American luminaries Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright). That prize “honors the best in Black literature in the United States and around the globe,” according to the Hurston/Wright Foundation website. And in January, Forest Primeval earned one of the nation’s most generous single-book accolades, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; its $100,000 purse will be presented on April 20 in a ceremony at the Los Angeles Public Library.

Francis, who grew up in Detroit, took a new position last fall as associate professor of English at Dartmouth College after several years living and teaching near Asheville, N.C. While some of her new book’s poems take place in “incinerated / cities” like that of the poet’s childhood, many pieces in Forest Primeval are situated in the countryside of southern Appalachia. For readers in the northerly reaches of that mountain range, these poems’ evocations of fauna and flora and weather readily call to mind the kindred woodlands of New England. A reader who lives in Vermont can easily picture this summer abundance from the poem “Happy?”

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Since poems are made of sounds, listen to the writing here: blooms and blooming, heat/seem/cease/tree, then red/peck/less, mating and same, and the subtle, perceptible progression of falls to loll to in-dolent to full. The print and digital editions of Forest Primeval are complemented by an audio version, in which the poet herself reads the book in its entirety. Her skill in recitation manifests in gorgeous acoustics.

Also evident, both on the page and in the recording, are Francis’ remarkable ways of joining differing modes of poetic expression. She bounds from the spiked eloquence of blues lyrics to sonorities that recall concise Dickinson and profuse Whitman, sensual Keats and oracular Shelley, somber Donne and bountiful Shakespeare, and the King James Bible. In this selection from “Altruism,” the phrasing and diction are imbued with our literary ancestry: Give me the fruit I may leave my mark upon or flesh (willing enough) but something, something besides lip and the language of loss. Give me the pleasure of knowing the giving matters to more than the receiver, and given such knowledge give me faith, or denial, or truth enough to manage this truth such as it is.

Many poets have reprised the fairy tales of Andersen, Perrault and the Grimms, and Francis finds new nooks and crannies in those not-yet-worn-out stories. In numerous poems she combines contradictory (mortified and delighted) views of wolf-like personages — mammal wolf or wolf spider, blues singer Howlin’ Wolf, Little Red Riding Hood’s cunning menace and the mesmerizing monster of Beauty and the Beast (more Cocteau than Disney, in her reckoning).

Here’s the opening of “Bluster”: I knew the path and what was on it.

I wore his favorite color. He said, “I could just eat you up.” As if I were a girl whose cheeks he could pinch into a blush, pluck a bit off and pop onto his tongue.

I held a rustic basket of his favorite cheeses …

The tonal range of Forest Primeval is tremendous. Some poems are sassy and satirical; some are filled with tautly rendered sensory details. Then a reader arrives at the almost overwhelming “Skinned,” which quietly encompasses the nation’s racist saga while tracing a granddaughter’s relationship with her grandmother (and her grandma’s lotions).

What qualities in a book of poems could be called symphonic? In books, as in musical compositions, a sense of cohesion and unity can be achieved in different ways.

Some books accrue impact through repetition and consistency; in Ocean Vuong’s rightfully praised 2016 book Night Sky With Exit Wounds, for example, an intense and extended similarity of texture and pace creates an overall effect. Passages seem to both advance and recur. By contrast, Forest Primeval proffers bold and exuberant variety, with successive pages leaping in unexpected directions, juxtapositions that might be jarring but aren’t.

Over repeated readings, the care with which Francis shaped her book becomes ever more evident. Each poem gives way to the next — long-lined or compressed, intimate or theatrical, whisper-quiet or outlandish — in a sequence of six parts that function like movements.

The audio version of the book reinforces what an attentive reader will experience on the page: For all its boldness in shifting registers and mixed textures, the poems have a strong, persisting “voice,” multi-vocal yet continual, whether the speaker is Circe, Little Red Riding Hood or someone who probably strongly resembles the poet herself. Again and again, Francis renders the elation of speech, as in the opening of “Epicurean”: A hungry mouth, an empty mouth, insistent mouth, mouth that would be filled by the seaweed of me, that would crack the shell with a rock and take its portion.

The mouth gauges its slide, gapes— grotto mouth. Mouth where I might go to pray, to fall upon my knees before. A mouth of “Yes.” Forest Primeval is unusually learned, yet its erudition is sly and never haughty.

Francis is a poet who has learned as much from Lead Belly as from Homer’s Odyssey. m

INFO Forest Primeval by Vievee Francis, TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 104 pages, $16.95 trade paperback and e-book, $3.49 audiobook. nupress.northwestern.edu

Bonjour, Neighbors: Film Fest Offers Chance to View Québécois on Screen COURTESY OF RETN

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Fortuitously, she met some festival organizers and cinema owners at a conference who connected her with Québécois distributors.

VTIFF also benefitted from collaboration with VERMONT PBS and the REGIONAL EDUCATION TELEVISION NETWORK, who are partnering to show films about Montréal in honor of the city’s 375th anniversary.

“There’s a real affinity between our neighbors [in Montréal] and those of us here in Vermont,” said RETN executive director JESS WILSON, noting that film can help build deeper connections.

IF YOU GO TO A CINEMA WITH A ROOM FULL OF FRIENDS AND STRANGERS, IT BECOMES A COMMUNITY EVENT. ORLY YADIN

The stations will air four films in April on television and cable, two of which will be shown at Global Roots this weekend: Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr. Leonard Cohen, a 1965 documentary about one of the poet-musician’s visits to his native Montréal; and Ninth Floor, a 2015 documentary on the 1969 Sir George Williams University student protest, which shaped Canadian race relations.

Global Roots launches the festival on Friday evening with Pays (Boundaries),

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his weekend, Vermonters can travel to Canada without passports, lines or border crossings.

The Global Roots Film Festival: Québec, presented by the VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FOUNDATION, features 11 films made by Québécois filmmakers about the lives, cultures and concerns of our neighbors to the north.

The three-day festival runs Friday through Sunday, April 7 to 9, at Burlington City Hall Auditorium.

It offers documentaries, shorts and dramas, including an intimate portrait of

late singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen at age 30, a film about teens navigating the 1960s Québec separatist movement and a Montréal murder mystery.

VTIFF launched the Global Roots initiative in 2013 with films from the countries of origin of some of Vermont’s New American communities. Expanding on the concept, in 2016 it presented films about the Middle East and, earlier this winter, about American food and music.

The idea is “to enrich the community through film” via post-screening Q&As, conversations with directors and daily receptions, explained VTIFF executive director ORLY YADIN. “If you watch at home, it’s just a movie,” she said. “But if you go to a cinema with a room full of friends and strangers, it becomes a community event.”

Yadin noted that the organization had long wanted to show films from Québec, citing the large number of Vermonters with relatives or heritage in French Canada. But accessing those films was difficult, she said, because Québécois filmmakers don’t tend to distribute outside the country.

“Yet the filmmaking industry, or art, [in Québec] is incredibly prolific, partly thanks to the National Film Board of Canada, based in Montréal, which subsidizes a lot of local films,” Yadin continued. That board is Canada’s public film and digital media producer and distributor.

a 2016 political comedy in which three women with complex personalities square off over competing corporate and community interests.

Saturday features The Street, an Oscar-nominated, 1976 animated film directed by Caroline Leaf; Québec My Country Mon Pays, a 2016 documentary by acclaimed director John Walker on Québec’s linguistic and cultural divides; and Corbo, a 2014 drama based on the story of Jean Corbo, who joined the separatist Front de libération du Québec in the 1960s.

Sunday opens with Waban-aki: People from Where the Sun Rises, a 2006 documentary about the culture and history of the Abenaki people in Québec. Félix & Meira (2014) is a fictional drama about a conflicted romance between a Hasidic woman and a French Canadian man. And D’Encre et de Sang (Of Ink and Blood) is a 2016 fictional whodunit in which a murder outside a Montréal bookstore launches a web of tantalizing secrets.

The festival closes on Sunday with the 2015 comedy drama Paul à Québec.

Sponsored by ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE OF THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGION, the film charts family bonds and farewells through the lens of a comic strip.

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THE STRAIGHT DOPE BY CECIL ADAMS

Dear Cecil,

The recent dispatch of Kim Jong-nam by VX poisoning is all over the news at the moment, and reports invariably describe VX as odorless and tasteless. How would anybody know how a substance this toxic tastes or smells, short of a heroic self-sacrifice by the assessor? Even inhaling this stuff seems foolhardy to me, let alone voluntarily giving it a lick.

— Mike Caudwell killers are especially prized by anyone who wants to off a foe undetected.

The earliest poisons were herbal and generally distincttasting. Hemlock apparently tastes like parsnip but more bitter and accompanied by a mousy smell. Aconite, also called monkshood and wolfsbane, was another poison known to the ancients; in testimony from an 1882 English murder trial, a medical examiner who’d tasted it reported that it created a burning and numbing sensation in the mouth — similar to the taste, he said, of an extract he’d made from the victim’s organs.

Strychnine, used medicinally in Asia for centuries, wasn’t identified by Western science until the early 1800s; with its bitter taste and tendency (in high enough doses) to cause dramatically convulsive death, strychnine was an effective way to kill but an ineffective way to avoid getting caught.

In 2006 the Hindustani Times reported that a goldsmith

named M.P. Prasad, from the Indian city of Kochi, had in his dying moments left a suicide note providing valuable insight into the experience of ingesting cyanide: “It burns the tongue and tastes acrid.” But cyanide’s powerfully bitter flavor had long been documented, as it takes about a half a gram to fell a midsize victim. To some people, cyanide smells like burnt almond, but to others it’s odorless — there’s a genetic factor at work here.

The assassin’s best friend, of course, is a poison that kills slowly, and if you’re going to get someone to ingest their cause of death over time, it had better be undetectable. Arsenic is perhaps the most notorious tasteless and odorless chemical, involved in a third of all criminal poisoning cases in 19th-century England. A dose the size of a pea was enough to cause sudden death, though again the cagier poisoners doled it out more gradually. Meanwhile, though, other Victorians were

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been exposed to VX in military research and lived to get debriefed about it. According to medical historian Ulf Schmidt, in an unauthorized 1958 test two British Army scientists had 50-microgram droplets of VX applied to their forearms. Retired U.S. Army psychiatrist James Ketchum, who in the 1960s conducted chemical-warfare studies at the Edgewood Arsenal research facility in Maryland, claims that the chief medical officer there would regularly startle lecture audiences by dipping a finger into a beaker of VX, then calmly scrubbing it off as he explained that the poison needed a little more time than that to soak in.

But these guys were officers and scientists and knew what they were dealing with; their rank-and-file test subjects signed up with no knowledge of what might happen to them. In a 2012 New Yorker article about Ketchum’s work at Edgewood, one former volunteer describes undergoing physical and mental agony after a tiny drop of VX was squirted on his arm and left there. So when the army tells you VX has no odor — as in its pamphlet Toxic Chemical Agent Safety Standards — that information was bought at a significant price.

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urely, Mike, you’ll recall the first principle of toxicology, distilled from writings of the 16th-century medical pioneer Paracelsus: “Sola dosis facit venenum,” or “The dose makes the poison.”

Inhaled or ingested in great enough amounts, the idea being, any substance will take you down, including necessities of life like water and oxygen. Conversely, your body can process nearly anything in sufficiently small quantities and keep on kicking. Even an encounter with the notorious nerve agent VX can be survived, though I can’t discourage this kind of field research strongly enough.

So people have been sampling poisonous substances since antiquity — sometimes in hope of medical benefit, sometimes as research before slipping it in someone’s drink.

One reason we know that certain poisons are tasteless and odorless is that such secret

ingesting arsenic on doctor’s orders — at low dosage it was prescribed for conditions ranging from asthma to rheumatism to diminished libido.

Some nonnaturally-occurring poisons have made their way into scientific awareness innocently enough, and their taste and odor properties were determined through accidental exposure. Thallium sulfate, a highly toxic compound with no smell or taste, was discovered in 1861 as a by-product of sulfuric acid production. Doctors used it for years to remove the hair of ringworm patients; later, in greater amounts, it was employed to poison rats and, in a number of high-profile 20thcentury cases, people.

VX, by contrast, was a killer from day one. Originally developed as a pesticide circa 1952, it showed immediate promise as a top-flight chemical weapon: viscous enough to stick to whatever it touched, and hyper-toxic enough even in minute amounts (say, 10 milligrams) to induce paralysis and respiratory failure via skin contact. (Malaysian officials say Kim Jong-nam’s attackers managed to rub it on his face.)

Scary stuff, but there is such a thing as a nonlethal dose, and plenty of people have

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Choosing Burlington

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whenever I’d had the choice, I’d been sticking to the main thoroughfares.

“Do you like living in the South End?” I asked. “I love that part of town.”

“We do like it, but at this point, we’re still renting. We just moved here a year and a half ago. What do you like about the South End?” “The modest single-family homes and duplexes are evocative of the

“How did you end up locating in Burlington?” I asked.

“Well, my wife and I are the kind of folks who make deliberative decisions, particularly the big ones. My job, as I’ve told you, allows me to live most anywhere, but my wife is a naturopath, and we needed a community with a market for her profession. Plus, we wanted a place that shares our progressive values.

WHEN WE FIRST ARRIVED HERE,

THE TOWN HAD EXACTLY FOUR PIZZA PLACES. Brooklyn neighborhood where I grew up. A lot of families with kids. Of course, coming of age at the peak of the baby boom, the streets were streaming with kids. Back then, it wasn’t uncommon for families to have four or more children, and we all played together on the sidewalks, streets and schoolyards. And here’s the kicker: There was absolutely no adult supervision! Nowadays that sounds like child neglect, but we kids just roamed the neighborhood — playing street games, looking for mischief.

There was camaraderie, for sure, but also a Darwinian aspect to the social order — like, every kid for himself, sink or swim. I mean, God forbid if you were a gay or effeminate boy — it could be brutal. But, for better or worse, that’s how I was socialized.”

“I’ve heard similar stories from my dad, who grew up in Philly. There’s something to be said for letting kids be kids and figure stuff out on their own.”

Eventually, we narrowed it down to four cities: Madison, Wisconsin; Ithaca, New York; Austin, Texas; and Burlington.

We actually made trips to each of the towns, and, while each one was terrific in its own way, we absolutely fell in love with Burlington.”

“So, you’re renting your place on Flynn. Are you actively house hunting these days, or is that for the future?”

“No, the house is already feeling kind of cramped, and we want to have another kid, so we do need more expansive digs. So, we’re looking. But, as I said, we are deliberative, so there’s no rushing the process.”

“Where in the area are you considering?”

“Well, we want to be in town or close to it. We’re not suburbanite types.

Winooski has real potential. That town offers a good bang for the buck in real estate. Last week, we looked at a place on Malletts Bay Avenue, which was

potentially workable, but, ultimately, we couldn’t see living on such a busy street.”

“Winooski’s great,” I agreed, “and it’s developing a nifty little downtown of its own. I have a buddy who grew up on Manseau Street in a great little neighborhood. His father was a beloved professor at St. Mike’s. When he was a kid, he told me, he and his pals would spend the occasional afternoon hanging out at the main intersection, which is now the roundabout, and they would wave at cars coming down the hill from Route 15. It would be, like, five minutes between cars. Isn’t that unbelievable?

This would have been in the ’60s.”

“I guess the area has really grown over the last few decades.”

“I’ve witnessed it in the nearly 40 years I’ve been living here. Like, when we first arrived here, the town — and I’m including all of Chittenden County — had exactly four pizza places. I randomly checked on the web recently, and I counted nearly 30!”

“Well, as someone who could live on pizza, I have to say I like the trend.”

I laughed and said, “Yeah, me, too.

And when you throw in the progressive values and good demand for naturopaths, it sounds like your family landed in the right place.” m All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.

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ostly what he likes doing is taking things apart.

And he has an uncanny ability to dismantle our household items. Not destructively, mind you, but methodically.”

Jack Benson was telling me about Jess, his son, who was about to turn 2.

In his voice, I could hear the pride of this relatively new dad. We were on the way to the airport for Jack’s flight to Los Angeles, where he works for a law firm. Like many professionals in the digital era, his job allows him to work remotely, though he occasionally needs to show up in the flesh.

“Sounds like you have a budding gearhead in your house,” I said. “Some folks seem to be born with an urge to figure out how objects are assembled and operate. My kid brother was that way, and he became an appliance repairman. What has Jess gotten into lately?”

Jack chuckled from the shotgun seat.

He was a tall, good-looking man, maybe in his mid-thirties. “Just yesterday we found the remote on the living room floor broken down to its component parts. I swear, the kid is like a Marine trained to speedily disassemble his rifle. He was sitting there, smiling proudly up at me, and I was, like, “Jess, how the heck did you do that without a screwdriver?”

We were taking the 1-89 route to the airport. Normally, I might take side streets up to Williston Road, but it was a few days after a record-breaking snowfall, and cars were still parked a foot or so from the snow-banked curbs, narrowing the roads for traffic. So,

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part of government bond trading at J.P. Morgan (now J.P. Morgan Chase).

“Finally,” Hill says, “I moved to Burlington and started trading oil futures on my own — and stopped in June 2008 when it was time to get out.” His relocation to the Queen City coincided with the enrollment at the University of Vermont of his daughter, Caroline.

She’s now 29 and getting a master’s in teaching at Columbia University.

Hill’s son, Douglas, is 33 and pursuing a PhD in classical languages at Brown University.

Hill reveals that he’s gotten out of the stock market, but he isn’t exactly idle on the financial front. “Recently, I’ve been trying out my own methods for trading options on stocks and other things,” he says cryptically.

Looking for his stories, and perhaps nuggets of financial savvy, we spoke to Hill by phone from Las Vegas.

SEVEN DAYS: How’d you get into economics in the first place?

JOHN HILL: I was born in Greenwich, Conn., and when I was 5 we moved to Rye, N.Y. While I was at Rye High School, I had a job on Wall Street over two summers. I had been interested in science, but I switched. I majored in economics at Princeton, and I really liked it.

SD: Working at the Federal Reserve right out of school sounds impressive. I don’t think I’m alone in not entirely understanding how it works.

JH: Yes, the one in New York — the one that does open market operations.

They have to buy and sell bonds.

There’s a group of 12 people who meet about every two months or so — seven members from the Board of Governors; the other five come from federal reserve banks around the U.S. They meet in D.C. and review the economic outlook. Their two indicators are the health of employment, and inflation.

Once they decided in D.C., then what we did in New York was, we’d look at how much money was in the banks versus what was required for bank reserves. If the committee in D.C. wanted to lower interest rates, we’d buy government bonds.

SD: OK, I’m kind of lost already.

Laughs.] It’s pretty JH: [Laughs.] amazing that, with all the weird stuff that goes on, the central banks have remained pretty steady.

SD: I’m told you’re the guy who came up with the $2 bill.

Explain.

JH: At the Fed I was assigned to one of the governors [on the board]. I went to D.C. for six months. This governor said it costs as much to print $2 bills as $1 bills; he thought we could cut down costs of printing.

My opinion was that putting the $2 bill in circulation wouldn’t fly because people like their ones. All I did was to walk over to the Treasury and [say], “The chair of the Fed board wants to reintroduce the $2 bill.”

Within a month or so, the Treasury had printed a huge amount of $2 bills!

SD: Are they still in circulation?

JH: They’re still available, but I think commercial banks don’t usually have them. You have to ask for them.

SD: You can special-order bills at the bank? Who knew? So, how long were you at the Fed? JH: Seven years, from ’71 to ’78, mostly in New York. But I did a few other things then, too. In 1976 I went to Kuwait, during the energy crisis. The country was getting a lot of money coming in. My boss asked me and another guy to go to Kuwait and talk with them about preventing inflation. When a central bank wants to stop inflation, they sell bonds to their citizens. Bonds carry an interest rate. The Fed doesn’t directly sell to individuals but to dealers, who in turn sell into pension funds, to rich people, etc. And inflation goes down.

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n the 1969 movie The Magic Christian, otherwise sensible people are willing to wade into a vat of excrement to retrieve the money that wealthy Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) dumped there. Nearly 20 years later, in Wall Street, the unscrupulous corporate raider Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) declares, “Greed is good.” Hundreds, if not thousands, of other films and television shows have illustrated the grotesque lengths to which humans will go to enrich themselves.

Dramatists employ the highly charged qualities of greed and desperation to show us how money makes the world go round. But it’s rare that one of these stories pays any mind to what we might call the science of money: economics. According to Merriam-Webster, economics “is concerned with the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold and bought.” Already that does not sound like the stuff of good story making.

But, technical jargon aside, it can be.

Just ask John Hill. Actually, that’s exactly what we did for this week’s Money Issue.

Hill is retired — sort of — and splits his time between Burlington and Las Vegas; that is, he’s in Vermont until it starts to get cold and in Nevada until it starts to get too hot. Apparently Hill’s internal thermostat is set to ideal bikeriding weather. That’s his beloved pastime — along with working out via Skype with his longtime trainer, Norm Granger, at the EDGE Sports & Fitness in South Burlington.

Hill earned this life of relative leisure. Even on paper, his résumé sounds intense: studied economics at Princeton University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate school; first job at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in open market operations; moved to Washington, D.C., to run the investment division of the World Bank; worked for Merrill Lynch as head of the bond department in Tokyo and head of sales for bonds in London; ran

SD: Why does the economy always have to grow?

JH: Sometimes you have to slow the economy dramatically for a while to slow inflation. You need sufficient growth — about 2 percent — for population increases. It’s a matter of opinion whether the economy should grow fast or not.

SD: Let’s move on to your next job, at the World Bank.

JH: The World Bank lends to projects in developing countries; it issues bonds in order to fund them. There were 10 to 15 currencies — European, Japanese, as well as U.S. — they could borrow from.

We generally had about $10 billion on reserve in the bank to be lent. My group was investing the money on an

aggressive basis — constantly buying and selling to increase the return on the World Bank’s cash.

My group was visible. We were held in high regard. [Cites articles in the New York Times and Smithsonian magazine.]

SD: You were there three years…

JH: Yes. Then I took a job at Merrill Lynch, outside the U.S. I first worked in Tokyo, in about 1981. The Japanese were interested in buying U.S. bonds (a lot of the pension funds in other countries frequently invested outside

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SD: How did you get involved in biking?

JH: Someone told me I should get to know Chapin Spencer [then director of Local Motion]. I went on a “VerMontréal” bike trip and became a member of Silver Spokes [Cycling Club], a group of people roughly my age — I’m almost 74. We’d go on bike rides every Tuesday unless it rains.

SD: When did you start wintering in Nevada?

JH: In the fall of 2010. I come here when the average temperature in Vermont drops below 70. I return to Vermont when the temperature in Nevada gets over 90. By the way, my monthly electric bill in Nevada — with an electric car [Tesla] — is $50.

One of the things that’s different in Vermont is, when people have a party or event, they say, “weather permitting.”

No one says that here. Also, no one cares about the Canadian dollar. And we don’t have potholes.

SD: Why did you get out of the stock market?

JH: I decided to sell all the stocks — I just had to go to cash. When you get to be my age, you want to make sure your money is going to last.

SD: Seriously, should we just be putting money in our mattresses?

JH: [Laughs.] The stock market [decision] applies just to me. For a long time I had two kids in college. I just wanted to make sure I had enough to live on. I didn’t have any pension.

SD: What’s your favorite movie about money?

JH: I just saw The Bonfire of the Vanities. It was terrible. The Big Short [about the financial crisis triggered by the housing bubble] is really good.

SD: Globalization of markets has ballooned over the course of your career. Is globalization good for us?

JH: Globalization is good, except that it tends to make some people too rich.

Some rich people really need to figure out how to be less rich — like, pay more taxes. It’s up to some of the progressives to get some really good stuff in place. I think they might get there eventually.

SD: But they might have to get a few Rs out of Congress first.

JH: Yes, that would really help.

Regarding globalization, the slowmoney movement and local buying movements, I would prefer having diverse trade practices, but this makes the rich even richer. Unless the rich get together and call for a rational response — regulation and fair taxes and expenditures — we will live in a suboptimal economy. Maybe there will come along a progressive politician who can bridge the gap.

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SD: Here’s a big question: How should average people relate to economics, the Fed, the stock market?

JH: While it’s easier said than done, try to view as big a picture as possible.

When I do this, I think that economic growth will pick up a little — say, to 2-and-a-quarter percent. During the economic recovery since 2008, growth has been modest, not overstimulated or overregulated. Other recoveries may have been faster, but the initial problems were less deep. So, we might expect to return to slightly better growth.

But not as fast as growth could be. This is because Trump’s policies, should any of them be implemented, will help and hurt various sectors and have little net value, broadly speaking. If anything, my guess

SD: How does the Fed’s behavior affect us?

JH: You don’t have to love the Fed. Maybe you thought they made interest rates too low or built up their balance sheets too much. But be glad they were and are there, because the rest of government did little to help the economy recover. And I feel that if the banks and some manufacturing companies had gone bankrupt, we would still be in very bad shape today.

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SD: Are “big banks” too big?

JH: I’m not so worried about size as I am about them being properly regulated. Banks have to be big enough to compete.

SD: You were a Sen. Bernie Sanders supporter and a precinct captain during the primaries…

JH: I’m a supporter of Bernie because I didn’t like anyone else. Let’s take health insurance — he’s in favor of single payer. If he structures that bill so it has negotiation room, that will be good.

I think sometimes Bernie gets too wrapped up in ideology. I agree with his bottom-line objectives. But I don’t think he always has the means of getting the results.

is business managers won’t expect some of these policies to last, particularly environmental and social, and are not likely to dramatically change their plans.

As for stock market investing, find three ETFs [exchange-traded funds] — like mutual funds but more costeffective. Put a third of your cash into each one. Choose one ETF based on the U.S. economy (tied to the S&P 500 or the Russell 2000), one based on other developed economies (Europe, Japan), and the third one based on the developing world economies. Use a low- or no-cost broker and ETFs with low expense ratios.

Check off boxes on the broker’s website that request automatic dividend reinvesting. Every few years, rebalance so that percentage weightings of the holdings are back to one-third each. Do not try to outguess the stock market.

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SD: I’m going to rattle off some more questions. Here’s one: Are banks overregulated?

JH: No. Not now, but they were badly underregulated about 15 years ago.

Maybe some regulations technically need to be refined. And banks shouldn’t speculate with their money.

The U.S. had no choice but to bail out the banks [in the financial collapse of 2008], because, when banks go under, the effects are felt for a long time.

SD: Has our national economy recovered from the Great Recession?

JH: Yes. Some say it’s been a slower than usual recovery. But up to this point, I think it’s in pretty good shape.

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their country). Even then, Japan was an aging population. Had they invested only in Japanese companies, they’d be investing in old people. They needed to diversify.

Merrill Lynch had a basic office in Tokyo — just two or three people.

There was almost no competition.

Within six months my little operation became the No. 1 seller of bonds (about 70 percent of the U.S. bonds sold in Japan). We also dealt with central banks in Asia — the Philippines, Korea, etc. Then Merrill Lynch asked me to move to London, where I was head of sales for bonds.

My final job was at J.P. Morgan in government bond trading, back in New York.

[Our conversation got into the weeds about types of bonds. What’s important to know is that during this time Hill came up with a way for the Mexican government to pay, rather than default on, a $20 billion U.S. bond. He laments that the Wall Street Journal attributed the plan to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. “A friend of mine says that Mexico owes me a lifetime supply of tequila,” Hill says with a chuckle.]

After that, I started a hedge fund with a friend — about 1998 to 2002.

We had an office in Stamford, [Conn.].

I married a psychiatrist, and she said,

“Why do you keep that hedge fund going?” By the 2000s, a trader could do institutional-style trading online.

Once I dropped the hedge fund, I got interested in trading oil.

George W. Bush was president.

My daughter had graduated high school. I said, “I don’t have to live in Westchester anymore.” I drove my daughter to Vermont in June 2005 for orientation at UVM. I saw houses on the waterfront and liked one. In July I drove up with all my belongings and won the bid for a condo.

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ould you be more likely to buy a lottery ticket if it bore the picture of your pet or the pet of someone you knew? Now under way, Vermont Lottery’s “It’s a Dog’s Life and It’s a Cat’s World” photo contest seeks to designate local cover cats and cover dogs for a promotional run of scratchers. Whatever your opinions on gambling, it’s hard to argue that furry friends aren’t a heck of a lot cuter than the generic flashy gemstones, suits and stacks of cash that

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On April 18, two cats and two dogs will be officially crowned in Scratcher Court.

The lucky critters will show up on a limited run of 500,000 tickets, priced at $2 apiece and available beginning August 4.

That’s just in time for Essex’s Dog Days of Summer, noted lottery representative Kelsey Hall. The ticket jackpots are still being decided on, she said.

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ust how unscrupulous is the online secondary ticket market? If recent history is any indication, it’s reached biblical proportions.

In 2015, Pope Francis visited New York City and held a procession through Central Park on his way to leading a mass at Madison Square Garden. Forty thousand free tickets were issued for the event. Ticket bots snatched up thousands of them. Employed by scalpers, bots are high-speed software programs that cut ahead of average fans in virtual queues and buy huge numbers of tickets, thus creating artificial scarcity — and, by extension, drastically inflated prices. In some cases, even when the tickets were free in the first place.

Within minutes of being made available, tickets to see the Pope were being hawked on Craigslist and other websites for upwards of $3,000 per pair. Quick math reveals that the markup to see the Holy Father was roughly infinity.

Over the past decade or so, if you’ve tried to score tickets to, say, a Beyoncé concert, the Broadway smash hit Hamilton: An American Musical or a Boston Red Sox game, you’ve likely encountered some version of the Pope scenario and been forced to buy through online secondary ticket marketplaces such as StubHub or SeatGeek.

Particularly for major events, paying into the legal scalping racket has simply become part of the bloated cost of doing business for consumers. Is there a purer, more ironic violation of a fan’s soul than hitting the “submit” button when completing a purchase for tickets at two, five or 10 times their face value?

Brando and Dusty Rich don’t think so. The brothers are the founders and owners of Cash or Trade, an online marketplace based in Burlington that allows users to buy, sell or trade concert tickets at — wait for it — face value. Hence the company’s tagline: “embrace the face.”

Equal parts eBay, Craigslist and Phantasy Tour, the website does a brisk business by merging the enthusiasm and connectedness of fan communities — in particular, the jam scene — with a promise from all parties to abide by the Golden Rule. Following several years of consistent growth, culminating in

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41,000 tickets exchanged in the last year, the Rich brothers have their sights set on a David-versus-Goliath challenge: revolutionizing the estimated $5-billion-peryear secondary ticket market in the U.S. “We want to be the Airbnb of the ticket market,” says Brando Rich, 38.

The idea for Cash or Trade wasn’t quite a religious epiphany, though it was born of exploitation similar to the scalpers gouging Catholics in NYC. In 2009, Vermont jam icons Phish played a run of reunion shows in Hampton, Va., following a five-year hiatus. Unsurprisingly, tickets for the shows sold out almost instantly, freezing

out thousands of fans, including the Rich brothers.

Veterans of some 250 Phish shows, they turned to the secondary market.

And they were discouraged, bordering on offended, to find tickets going for far higher than face value.

“They were literally $2,000 a piece,” recalls Brando Rich, from Cash or Trade’s cramped third-floor office on Church Street. He sports a trucker cap and a dark, bushy beard flecked with gray — the familiar uniform of the grown-up Green Mountain Phish-head.

“We were floored, having been such longtime fans,” he continues. “So we thought, Something needs to change.”

“We recognized what secondary ticketing sites lacked: transparency,” says Dusty Rich, 40. The elder Rich is cleancut and speaks fluent business-ese. Next to him on the wall is a small, framed print featuring the furry TV alien ALF with the caption: “Cash 4 yer extra.”

“They were all about profiteering.

And there was no feel of community,”

Dusty says. “So we thought that if we could combine the aspects of some of the greatest websites — the social aspect of Facebook, the chronological listings of Craigslist and the review aspect of eBay — along with a social mission, we could build a platform for people to plug in and exchange tickets for face value.”

As have so many cottage industries surrounding the Phab Four, a band that pays tribute to the Beatles, Cash or Trade grew out of the concert parkinglot scene. After putting out feelers to friends about the idea of a fair-trade ticket-exchange business and launching a bare-bones website, the Rich brothers hit the road and began setting up shop outside of Phish shows.

“We created a fair-trade ticket booth on the lot where people could meet up and trade tickets,” Dusty recalls. The CoT tent served to raise the nascent company’s visibility. It also provided a real-world litmus test for the theory that, if given the chance, many fans will simply look to unload or buy tickets fairly, rather

site’s and mobile app’s features — buying and selling tickets, access to message boards, etc. Like eBay sellers, Uber drivers or Airbnb hosts, CoT sellers are rated by other users, which helps foster consumer confidence.

But for $24 per year, members can upgrade to a Gold membership, which adds an extra layer of consumer protection, as well as alerts on new tickets and trade suggestions, among other perks.

The Rich brothers concede that, while revenue from Gold memberships pays the rent and salaries for themselves and two employees, it’s not yet enough to jump the company into the next stratosphere of Burlington tech

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than make money. To validate his point, he cites the fact that a majority of forsale tickets hit the CoT website between two weeks to 24 hours before a show.

“That means that the people selling their tickets aren’t looking to turn a profit,” he asserts. “They’re just fans like you and me who want to get their money back.”

Sites such as StubHub make money by taking a percentage of every transaction, which is one reason prices tend to be inflated — sellers have to cover their costs to break even, let alone profit.

Another reason for jacked-up prices is the false scarcity created by ticket bots, which were made illegal by the Better Online Ticket Sales Act of 2016.

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“If we could represent even just 1 percent of that market, it would be a huge thing for us as a company and for the tech industry in Burlington,” says Brando.

A 1 percent U.S. market share for CoT would mean a jump in sales from $3 million to $50 million — $80 million to $90 million if CoT can crack the international secondary ticket market, which they intend to do, along with moving into theater and sports ticketing. The Rich brothers seem undaunted by those lofty numbers.

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Though sellers and resellers such as Ticketmaster and StubHub supported it, it remains to be seen just how effective or enforceable the law is. Ticketmaster has battled ticket bots for years with limited success. And tracking down foreign ticket bots is nearly impossible.

True fan-to-fan sites such as CoT, or Twickets in the UK, represent a safeguard against bots and inflated pricing.

But if nobody selling tickets on CoT is making money, how, exactly, do its founders?

Until recently, the bulk of the southern New Hampshire natives’ income came from Simple Nation, the webdesign company Brando and Dusty founded a few years after graduating from Norwich University and Johnson State College, respectively. But last year, they turned to CoT full time to meet the startup’s growing demands. CoT claims 110,000 members, 65,000 of whom have joined since 2015.

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hen Samantha Lord-Konare converted to Islam six years ago, she found herself in a quandary. She had student and credit card loans, but her new religion prohibited riba, the Arabic word for usury. Lord-Konare, who grew up in Hinesburg and now lives in Essex Junction, vowed not to use her credit card unless she was in dire straits. But resolving the issue of her student loan was more challenging.

Lord-Konare consulted Islam Hassan, the imam at the Islamic Society of Vermont in Colchester, who presented her with four options. She could pay off her loan in one lump sum, obtain an interestfree loan, receive the money as a gift, or do her best to pay off her student loan as quickly as she could.

“Of course, I had to choose the last. I could never ask someone for that amount of money,” said Lord-Konare, whose tuition loan came to more than $15,000.

Although she’s conscientious about not engaging in usurious transactions, Lord-Konare is willing to make one further exception: a home mortgage.

“If I were to buy a house, then eventually my children will get it, and they don’t have to worry about having money and interest,” she said. Her Senegalese husband, who is also Muslim, was against the idea, but he’s warming up to it, she noted.

“We are in America, and although [Islamic law] says we shouldn’t have usury, it’s also said that you adapt according to the laws of where you are,” LordKonare said. She would choose a modest home and go with the bank that offered the lowest interest rate, she added. Should financing with a company compliant with Shariah (Islamic law) become available, she would refinance.

Islamic scholars say there is a clear prohibition on usury in the Koran. The Shariah also stipulates that Muslims should acquire wealth in a legal and ethical manner; any element of usury, gambling or chancing is forbidden.

“Getting into debt is a serious decision that a Muslim does not take lightly,” wrote Syed Hassan, a Middle East-based Islamic finance specialist, in an email. Loans are only undertaken if they further the function of Shariah to preserve faith, life, lineage, intellect or property, he added.

Giving interest-free loans is considered an act of charity in Islamic culture, Hassan explained, extended to those who are poor

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and in need of financial assistance.

When a Muslim dies, his or her heirs must liquidate the deceased’s estate to settle any outstanding debts.

“Although forbidden, it is a reality that usury exists everywhere,” wrote Hassan, “[but] we should do our best to avoid it as best we can.”

Lord-Konare and her family aren’t alone in treading the fine line of observing religious rulings while living in an interestbased global financial order. Of the questions that the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America receives through its website, approximately 18 percent pertain to financial transactions.

The nonprofit organization has advised on the permissibility of taking out tuition loans, buying car and health insurance, and investing in stocks. It has also assessed home-financing companies that claim to be compliant with Shariah.

In the place of interest-based loans, such companies offer cost-plus purchase order, diminishing partnership and rent-to-own options, according to AMJA. But opinion is still divided on whether they truly comply with the Shariah.

To underline the seriousness of understanding Islamic finance, the imam holds weekly evening classes at ISVT. He often gets inquiries from his congregation about home mortgages, he said, and passes on the same advice as AMJA: Renting is the best option.

But, the imam said, taking on a conventional home mortgage is permissible in case of “necessity,” as defined by Shariah.

This is the category into which AMJA has placed education loans, car and health insurance, he noted. Car insurance is mandatory for Vermont drivers, and it would be too expensive to pay out of pocket for medical care.

“It is not compliant with our religion to get involved in a mortgage system if there is no need for that,” the imam said. “But people don’t like to rent because they feel like, ‘This is not my property.’ This is really not true,” he added. “You have a contract.

It’s not like you’re living for free. It’s your right to use the property.”

A more pressing justification, the imam suggested, is needed: “If you’re not feeling safe where you are, there is a threat [and] you feel buying a house is the only way for you to feel secure with your family, then in this case you may want to do that.”

Even when renting is safe, however, local families may not find it a viable

option, said Jan Battaline, a real estate When Noor Bulle received his associagent in the Burlington area with 34 ate’s degree from Johnson State College years of experience. “Rentals are so in 2012, his tuition loan came to more incredibly tight in this area right now,” than $10,000. He’s the first in his Somali she noted. “And it has been for as long family to receive higher education. as I’ve been in business.” Her Muslim That loan “was not something I clients finance their homes through wanted to take. It’s against my religion, conventional banks, she said. first of all,” said Bulle, who now works Compounding the difficulty of pur- for the Multicultural Youth Program at chasing a home is the elusiveness of Burlington-based Spectrum Youth & Shariah-compliant lenders, which don’t Family Services. But he did it anyway, offer loans throughout the country and wanting a job with which he could have strict regulations on the types of provide better for his family. “What is accommodations they the reason for going to finance. Alicia Kolenovic college?” Bulle asked and her husband discovrhetorically. “To get paid ered that problem when more and live better.” they tried to purchase a Five years later, Bulle co-op in New York City. is still paying off his loan.

“If it wasn’t for “It’s like you’re a slave [Shariah] restrictions, to [the student loan serwe would have had a vicing],” he said. When home a decade ago,” said Bulle’s younger brother, Kolenovic, who now Omar, transfers to the lives in Vermont, where University of Vermont her husband is a pharthis fall, he will be debtmacist. On another ocfree, a recipient of tuition casion, Kolenovic noted, remission. “All he needs when the couple sought to do is study, study, study to purchase a condo— that’s it,” Bulle said. minium, their real estate For Muslims with agent steered them lower incomes, such as toward working with a many in Vermont’s New ISL AM HASSAN conventional bank.

American communities, But not owning a the question of whether home simplified the family’s move to to take out loans to finance a home is still Vermont last year — they did it in a a moot point. Omar pointed out that most week, Kolenovic pointed out. Should people in his Somali community don’t own they decide to purchase a home in the homes because they can’t afford the loan Green Mountain State, they will opt for payments. “I’m sure if they end up buying Islamic financing. “There’s no other way. a house, it will be repossessed,” he said.

Otherwise, we would rent for the rest of “I think my dad earns $19,000 a year. our lives,” Kolenovic said.

You can’t buy a house with your income Kolenovic does her best to make sure so low,” said Omar. “Our parents are that other aspects of her financial life incapable of buying a house.” But the comply with Shariah. She has an inter- younger, college-educated generation, est-free checking account and carries he added, will have that opportunity — an iPhone with a shattered screen that and the hard choices that come with it. would cost her about $300 to replace.

When Omar bought his first car three If she’d bought phone insurance, she years ago, he paid for it with $7,000 in would have been covered, she admitted. cash — he’d been saving since he was She does have car and health insurance, 12 years old. “I used to collect bottles, for the reasons the ISVT imam cited. mow people’s lawns; I washed cars,” he Kolenovic empathizes with fellow recalled.

Muslims who choose to take on a home When he starts his junior year at UVM mortgage. “There’s no judgment,” she this fall, Omar’s only expenses will be his said. “We are all equals as human beings. car insurance and cellphone bill. “No Some people take certain things more loans. That’s the way my mum raised me,” seriously than others.”

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lias Gardner is a teacher at the New School in Montpelier. He lives in the Middlesex farmhouse where he grew up and rents out bedrooms to offset the cost of buying the house from his parents.

Gardner, 29, has paid off his student debt at McGill University. He is starting to save for retirement.

“I realized that I didn’t want to be putting money in the stock market,” he said. “And, in general, I don’t believe in how those companies have to operate.”

Gardner looked online for options that would allow him to invest his money locally and came upon a website called Milk Money Vermont. The online business connects Vermont businesses with local investors — typically those who don’t have a lot of money to invest.

“I was searching for this, and Milk Money figured out it was needed,” Gardner said. “I knew there were probably some companies looking for investors in Vermont, but I didn’t know how to find them. Milk Money is that last piece.”

Through a process he said is easy to use via the company website — milkmoneyvt.com — Gardner invested $1,500 in two Vermont businesses.

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“All I had to do [was] give proof of residency,” he said. “It was really easy. You download the form and mail a check.”

Chittenden County residents Janice Shade and Louisa Schibli are the founders of Milk Money. Shade, 51, of Jericho is a former director of marketing at Seventh Generation who went on to run her own business, True Body Products.

She has an MBA from the Yale School of Management. Schibli, 50, of Charlotte, worked in the shipping business in Switzerland, and later in web development in Switzerland and Vermont. She started a blog, Moogle Vermont, which showcases Vermont companies.

The two met after Schibli read a newspaper article about Shade and True Body, and called her up. Soon, they were kicking around ideas and talking about starting a business together.

The women conceived of Milk Money after the State of Vermont fine-tuned

a financial regulation — the Vermont Small Business Offering Exemption — to facilitate investment in local enterprises.

The revised regulation allows Vermont businesses to raise as much as $2 million from state residents. And it enables nonaccredited investors, or people without great means, to invest locally. (An accredited investor has more than $1 million in assets and an annual income of $200,000 or more.)

The state tweaked the regulation to help ensure that businesses have the ability and flexibility to raise capital, said Michael Pieciak, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation.

“It’s an outgrowth of buy local, eat local,” he said. An “invest-local movement is the next logical step.”

Vermont has a history of “intrastate investment,” Pieciak noted.

This trend dates back to 1984, when Ben & Jerry’s offered shares in its

company to Vermonters only — and raised more than $750,000.

“They had free-cone, free-prospectus day,” Pieciak said. “One in 300 Vermonters owned a share of Ben & Jerry’s.”

Other Vermont companies, including Catamount Brewing and Earth’s Best Organic baby food, also offered investment opportunities to residents, he added.

Benefits of local investment can include helping businesses hire more people, expand their business and increase their payroll, Pieciak said.

“Instead of putting all your money into the Procter & Gambles of the world, where it goes to Wall Street,” he said, “money is staying in Vermont.”

Milk Money functions as a local investment tool in two capacities: It connects a business with investors, and it acts as an intermediary between the business and the state regulatory agency.

Companies that use the online platform for crowdfunding pay fees to Milk Money for services and use of the site.

“People can do this on their own,” Shade said. “But we’re doing a lot of the heavy lifting for them.”

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Burlington Herb Clinic intends to use the money to expand the number of people who use the center, according to Elmer. In its first year, 130 people were clients at the clinic, she noted.

“We’re in an agreement with our investors to make a return for them,” Elmer said.

Elmer, who grew up in Cabot, applauds the notion that Milk Money is for “Main Street, rather than Wall Street, investors.”

Green Mountain Organic Creamery is the largest company to launch a fundraising campaign on Milk Money.

The milk-bottling plant in Hinesburg will celebrate its fifth anniversary with an open house on May 13. The facility is affiliated with Kimball Brook Farm, an organic dairy farm in North Ferrisburgh. Both entities are owned and operated by JD and Cheryl DeVos. The DeVos family has run the dairy farm for 50 years.

When the DeVoses opened their creamery in 2012, a group of 15 people invested in the project, Cheryl DeVos said. All but one of those investors is a Vermonter. More recently, with sales growing at a rapid clip, the couple needed money to invest in inventory.

Through Milk Money, the creamery SHADE raised $28,000, DeVos said. This is small change relative to the size of the business: She expects sales of $1.6 million this year, with projections for $2.25 million in sales next year.

“In order to do that, we have to buy inventory up front,” DeVos said. “There are a lot of additional costs when you’re growing so fast.”

Milk Money funds have helped the creamery purchase bottles, caps, labels and a used truck to deliver milk to southern Vermont, western Massachusetts and New York City.

DeVos learned about Milk Money through her chief financial officer. “He introduced us to [Shade and Schibli],” DeVos said. “We thought it was a perfect fit because we’re in the milk business, and they’re milk money.” m

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Vermonters have invested roughly $101,000 in local businesses, according to the company. The average investment is about $1,500.

When Milk Money hit the $100,000 mark, the founders felt they had “proven the concept” that Vermonters will write a check to support local companies, Shade said.

“We think the power of what we’re doing is: It’s all about local,” she said.

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He declined to specify the amount of the investment but said it was similar to the amount of money VSECU would lend for a home mortgage.

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Nearly all paper and coin money we handle each day harbors an assortment of microscopic nastiness. After reading this story, you’ll likely never again put a dollar bill in your mouth while counting your change.

Readers might know that the majority of U.S. Federal Reserve notes contains trace levels of cocaine, including 92 percent of all $1 bills, according to a study published in the October 2001 issue of Forensic Science International.. The likeliest explanation, the article suggests, is that the bills are initially contaminated during drug transactions or by cocaine users who roll them up and use them for snorting. Next, the residual cocaine gets spread to other bills when financial institutions put them in cash-counting machines.

But what else is lurking on our legal tender? Initially, Seven Days planned to bring a random sample of bills obtained in Vermont to local laboratories and get them analyzed for surface contaminants.

We were curious about whether Green Mountain greenbacks contained other drugs, too — notably opiates, a widely abused class of drug in the state. We also wondered whether local dough contains other substances abundant in Vermont, including cannabis, cheese, kale, maple syrup, cow manure, beets and craft beer.

Alas, a few conversations with experts at Burlington-area chemistry and microbiology labs quickly disabused us of the financial and logistical feasibility of taking such a scattershot research approach.

Paul Warden is vice president and director of operations at Analytical Services, a Williston-based commercial microbiology lab that performs mostly water-quality testing for public water suppliers around the country. “Testing paper currency is not really in our

bailiwick,” Warden noted. “It can be done, but you need to know what you’re after.”

As he explained, there are a gazillion different types of viruses, bacteria and protozoa for which we might search. A simple swab test to identify, say, which types of aerobic bacteria are dwelling on a dollar bill would probably run us no more than $150.

However, if that test yielded 15 different bacterial colonies, we’d then need to identify each one, at a cost of

about $150 apiece. Next, we’d need to test the bacteria at different incubation temperatures, on different growth media and so on.

“It’s kind of a rabbit hole to dive down,” Warden concluded, “and you could spend quite a lot of money and not find anything all that interesting.”

Plus, that’s just the search for biological blights. If we wanted to find out what kinds of chemical compounds are littering our loot, another lab recommended running our cash through a GC-MS, or gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

instrument, to look for heavy metals, organic compounds and other potentially toxic chemicals. But the result of those tests would likely take weeks, if not months, to get back. To paraphrase President Donald Trump, who knew that biology and chemistry were so complicated?

Fortunately, we’re not the first ones to be curious about the filth that fouls our funds. Way back on May 23, 1910, the New York Times published a story titled “Perils That Travel in Paper Currency.”

Warning of “bacteria by the thousands” on U.S. paper currency, a Yale University professor named W.W.

discovered that Hilditch some of the dirtiest bills he could find in New York City harbored bacilli known to cause tuberculosis and diphtheria. Though many of those germs had lost their virulence, Hilditch concluded that seriously soiled paper money still posed “an actual menace to the health of the community.”

Today, it’s fair to say that Federal Reserve notes travel farther and wider than they ever did in the early 20th century, accruing countless microscopic freeloaders along the way. And with

$1.47 trillion worth of paper currency kicking around — including 11.7 billion $1 bills alone, according to the Federal Reserve System — there are exponentially more opportunities for pollutants to mess with our moola.

First, consider illegal intoxicants. That study in the 2001 issue of Forensic Science International analyzed 10 randomly collected $1 bills from five American cities. Of those 10 bills, seven contained traces of heroin, three contained morphine and methamphetamine, two had PCP, and one contained amphetamine. Talk about being awash in drug money.

Still, the mere presence of all those narcotics isn’t likely to cause anyone harm. Researchers pointed out that it’s virtually impossible for someone to fail a drug test or elicit a woof from a drugsniffing dog simply because that person had recently counted a stack of bills.

Indeed, other forms of currency contamination pose greater risks to public health. In 2011, a study published by Environmental Science and Technology revealed that most U.S. paper currency also contains trace levels of the chemical bisphenol A, aka BPA. This organic compound, once commonly found in plastic bottles and food containers, has been shown to act like an endocrine disruptor and has been linked to increased risks of breast and prostate cancer, early-onset puberty, childhood obesity and hyperactivity. At least 11 states, including Vermont, have since banned BPA in all food and beverage containers.

So, how is all that BPA still invading our purses and wallets? Researchers found that much of the BPA on bills was coming from the thermal paper used to print cash register receipts. When consumers put those

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Bragg also touched upon additional common contaminants to the cash supply, including fertilizers, pesticides, gasoline and other petroleum products, but you get the gist of his presentation: If humans work with, play with, secrete or excrete it, it’s almost certain to soil our shekels.

And, lest anyone thinks that American money is the dirtiest kind, another study, published in the October 2014 issue of the Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, found that paper currency from other countries harbored equally high, if not higher, levels of pathogenic pestilence. This pattern was especially true in countries where large percentages of the population live in squalor and without access to clean running water to wash up after using the toilet. It gives new meaning to the expression “flush with cash.”

That international study also found that the older the bill and the lower its denomination — say, a $1 note versus a $20 note — the higher its microbial load.

Researchers found that 100 percent of India’s rupees, Bangladesh’s taka, and Iraq’s and Ghana’s banknotes harbored pathogenic or potentially pathogenic bacteria. Similarly, more than 90 percent of comparable bills in Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Colombia contained invisible infestations.

Of particular concern, the study concluded, was this: “Currency notes in circulation are contaminated with various microbial agents, of which most are resistant to commonly used antibiotics and therefore represent risks and public health hazards to the community and individuals handling currency notes.”

In sum, here’s a simple takeaway from all of this tainted tender: Wash your hands well immediately after handling cash. Money may not buy you happiness, but it could earn you a serious case of the flu.

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receipts into their wallets, the BPA transfers to the bills.

“The estimated daily intake of BPA through dermal [skin] absorption from handling paper currencies was on the order of a few nanograms per day,” which, the study noted, is less than what we receive from other environmental sources and certainly not enough to kill us, at least not right away.

Needless to say, American bills come in contact with many other sources of pollution. Some are merely disgusting; others can potentially make us quite ill.

Until his retirement in December 2016, Dr. Gerald Stagg was senior vice president and medical director at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

In October 2011, Stagg gave a presentation at a cash customer forum in which he discussed the health and safety concerns related to U.S. paper and coin currency. His slide presentation is still available online.

Stagg, an environmental health physician, outlined for his audience the litany of ickiness that will trigger the Federal Reserve to pull bills and coins out of general circulation. They include cash that’s tainted with mold or mildew; those that have come in contact with floodwater, sewage or other liquids; those with exposure to chemicals such as dye packs; and currency that’s touched blood, urine, feces or other bodily fluids, “including removal from any body cavity, corpse or animal.” One shudders to think how many of those last few examples have escaped detection and are now folded up in some child’s piggy bank.

As for biohazards, studies of viral contamination on currency were limited at the time of Stagg’s presentation.

However, one study of Swiss banknotes found that the influenza virus can survive on Swiss notes for as long as three days — or 17 days if mucus is present.

Though Stagg knew of no comparable study of American currency, he pointed out that flu viruses can survive on nonporous surfaces (i.e., coins) for up to 72 hours. The virus’ survival time on our hands is limited to about five minutes after contact — but that’s more than enough time to scratch your nose or bite a fingernail.

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efore One Radish Eatery opened in Richmond last December, co-owner Jessica Bunce told Seven Days that the food would be “approachable, predictable and accessible.” Which is to say that your grandma, your vegan kid sister and your meat-and-potatoes husband could all find something to dig on there.

As a writer who craves food as art and out-of-the-box culinary creativity, I wasn’t super titillated by anything on the One Radish menu. Even so, I’ll return again — and again.

That’s in part because chef Bobby Seaman, who signed on last fall before the restaurant opened, has a way of melding inauspicious American breakfasts with Mediterranean small plates and fresh, unassuming bohemian fare.

Last year, Seaman cooked at a farm on Long Island’s North Fork; before that, he worked at Magnolia Bistro and A Single Pebble in Burlington.

Meals at One Radish are like ones you might have in your own living room: The space is easy to sit in, comfortable and relaxed. The hardwood floors reflect ample natural light — even with March’s stratus clouds hemming in the sky. Eating there reminds you that good hospitality is more about making people feel welcome than wowing them with fancy food or starched linen napkins.

That’s not to say the food isn’t good — it is.

Breads come from Barrio Bakery, Ryan and Jessica Bunce’s homey pastry and pizza shop in Burlington’s Old North End. The tea cakes, biscuits and sweet pastries are made on-site from Barrio recipes.

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of eggs scrambled hard, with wilted spinach and a bouquet of diced peppers and onions. The cuts of tempeh “bacon” served alongside packed all the salt and smoke of the real thing — they were even a tad crisp around the edges. And I have little patience for fake meats.

Even for omnivores, Seaman’s food reads as healthy but lacks “health food” preachiness. Indeed, the breakfast menu — available until the restaurant closes at 3 p.m. — invites visitors to order pizza in the morning.

Somehow, doing so doesn’t feel naughty. In fact, a tomato-chorizocheddar breakfast pie might have benefited from some extra fat. The crumbled chorizo was a little lean, and, given a choice, I would have preferred runny eggs to the over-hard ones baked into the crust. While soft eggs on a Neapolitan crust can be tricky to pull off, it’s definitely possible with a little finesse.

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If you and your date are quite hungry, you might split a pizza to start and order sandwiches for the main event. A focaccia roll stuffed with soft, roasted eggplant dressed in olive oil skewed more Mediterranean than Italian, despite its melted mozzarella and tomato sauce.

A heap of curried chicken salad, spread over bread, came with crisp mizuna and a touch of mango chutney and diced almonds.

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“It’s fun,” he said. “I’m having a ball.”

Roy Feldman, 60, said he’ll likely pursue a new business venture but isn’t ready to talk about it. “I feel like I was one of the luckiest parents in the world to work with Maddy,” he said. “I had the opportunity here to do something I could have only dreamed of.”

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Leonard, 63, is the owner of Green Mountain Avalanche, a hockey management company that runs youth tournaments at Jay Peak Resort.

He was looking for a new line of work closer to home, he said, when he purchased Feldman’s in late February.

“I came in here and fell in love with it,” he said. “It’s fairly easy to run, but you got to pay attention to details.

I’m not really going to change anything. It’s successful, so don’t fix it if it’s not broken.”

Leonard did add an Asiago cheese bagel to the traditional New Yorkstyle offerings. It “seems to be a big hit,” he said.

The Feldmans will stay on at the shop for a few months, checking on “quality and procedure,” Roy said. Meanwhile,

Leonard is getting practice in all aspects of the business.

“You’ll find me in the back mixing dough, baking, prepping food, cooking eggs, washing dishes,” he said. “What I’m really paying attention to is learning how to bake and mix.”

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One Radish serves clean, casual, unweighty food — the kind that allows you to eat midday and still be productive afterward. And even when it’s busy, you can get in and out in an hour or less.

Not that you necessarily want to. On two separate occasions, my lunch dates and I found ourselves hanging around long after we should

have returned to work. We picked at slices of cold pizza, spread sun-driedtomato tapenade and hummus on bits of brittle toast, and chatted about jobs, families, our dogs and other everyday minutiae.

On our way out, we paused to talk with general manager Leah Daws, whom Barrio regulars would recognize. She gushed about the new creemee machine that One Radish

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C1171-9 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On March 13, 2017, Cameron’s Run LLP, P.O. Box 24, Milton, VT 05468 filed application #4C1171-9 for a project generally described as the construction of three units on Lot #36, five units on Lot #2, parking and infrastructure improvements. The

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OF EDWARD P. BURKE Works Commission as driver of any vehicle COST TO EXIT 16 SELF BURLINGTON 3-UNIT APARTMENT HOUSE STATE OF VERMONT AND MIRIAM K. BURKE, amendments to Appendix shall stop, stand or park STORAGE. EXIT 16 SELF 183/185 North Willard St. Large 3 room efficiency, nice sunny 1-BR and large 2-BR up stairs. Large walk-in attic. Each unit has its own porch.

Nice backyard has a garage and drive way. $438,500 802-658-0621

C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 3 Stop sign locations.

Stop signs are authorized at the following locations: (1)-(116) As written.

(117) [Reserved.]At the intersection of Penny Lane and Lake Street causing eastbound traffic on Penny Lane to stop.

(118)-(311) As written.

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The District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications.

Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below.

The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www.nrb.state.vt.us/ lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C1171-9”.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before April 20, 2017, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing.

Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status.

Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

If you feel that any of

the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the district coordinator as soon as possible, no later than prior to the response date listed above.

Should a hearing be held on this Project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by April 20, 2017.

Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria.

Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 21st day of March, 2017.

By: Peter E. Keibel District #4 Coordinator Natural Resources Board 111 West Street Essex Jct., VT 05452 802-879-5658 Peter.Keibel@vermont. gov CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 18 Parking facility designations and regulations. (a) As written. (b) As written. (c) As written. (d) Rules for parking structures.

(1) Marketplace Parking Garage: The Marketplace Parking Garage is limited to short term parking of 48 hours or less and the parking of vehicles whose owners have entered

Adopted this 15th day of March, 2017 by the Board into a monthly parking of Public Works Commisagreement. Monthly sioners: parkers shall only park in 6/27/16 12:15 PM the designated monthly Attest Norman Baldwin, parking area with its dediP.E. cated entry and exit from Assistant Director – Techand to Bank Street. No nical Services daily parker shall park in the designated monthly Adopted 03/15/17; Pubparking area. Vehicles lished 04/05/17; Effective may only be parked 04/26/17. in designated parking Material in [Brackets] spaces. Vehicles shall delete. not remain in the same Material underlined add. parking space within the limits of the Marketplace Garage for a period longer CITY OF BURLINGTON than 48 hours except for TRAFFIC REGULATIONS those allowed within the The following traffic monthly parking area. regulations are hereby The 48 hour period shall enacted by the Public begin when an official of Works Commission as the city, including parkamendments to Chapter ing attendants, parking 27, STREETS AND SIDEenforcement officers, or WALKS, AND ARTICLE police officers observes II. EXCAVATIONS AND a vehicle in a space or by OBSTRUCTION, and the any other evidence indiCity of Burlington’s Code cating that a vehicle has of Ordinances: parked in the garage. The 27-33 Obstructing vehicle must be moved metered parking spaces from the space within 48 prohibited; exception. hours of that start time. (a)-(c) As Written.

For the purposes of this (d) The fee for a 12-hour section, the term “moved permit as required herein from the space” means shall be [ten]fifteen dolthat the vehicle must lars ([$10.00] $15.00) per leave the parking space, day. The fee for a 24-hour exit the garage, and if permit shall be [twenty] it returns to the garage thirty dollars ([$20.00] must not park any nearer $30.00) per day. The to 3 parking spaces on traffic department shall either side of the parking collect the fee. space in which it was (e)-(f) As Written. originally located. For the purposes of this section Adopted this 16th day of the term “daily parker” July, 2014 by the Board of is defined as a parking Public Works Commiscustomer whose license sioners: to park in the facility is granted on a day to day Attest Norman Baldwin, basis and is not the result P.E. of a longer term, prepaid Assistant Director – Techagreement. nical Services (2) Reserved *Adopted this 21st day of Adopted 7/16/14; PubDecember, 2016 by the lished 04/05/17; Effective Board of Public Works 04/26/17.

Commissioners: Material in [Brackets] Attest Norman Baldwin, P.E. Assistant Director – Technical Services Adopted 12/21/16; Published 04/05/17; Effective 04/26/17.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Chapter 20, MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC, AND ARTICLE III. PARKING STOPPING AND STANDING, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 20-55 General prohibitions. (a) No operator or

the same in any of the following places, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or official traffic sign or except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger.

(1)-(15) As written.

(16) In any area designated parking facility in violation of the rules or regulations stated in Appendix C, section 18. *Adopted this 21st day of December, 2016 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners:

Attest Norman Baldwin, P.E. Assistant Director – Technical Services Adopted 12/21/16; Published 4/5/2017; Effective 4/26/2017.

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HOWARDCENTER If you received services from Howard Center and would like a copy of your record, please contact Howard Center’s Health Information Department at 488-6000. In order to protect individuals’ privacy, the agency routinely destroys healthcare records after retaining them for the number of years required by law.

NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE LIEN SALE EXIT 16 SELF STORAGE 295 RATHE RD COLCHESTER, VT. 05446 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CONTENTS OF THE SELF STORAGE UNITS LISTED BELOW WILL BE SOLD AT AUCTION BY SEALED BID. NAME OF OCCUPANT STORAGE UNIT # - SIZE BOMBARDIER C35 – 10 X 20 RAYTA D05 – 10 X 15 STEWART A28 – 10 X 20 ZIEGLER D32 – 10 X 15 AUCTION WILL TAKE PLACE ON SATURDAY APRIL 22, 2017 AT 9AM EXIT 16 SELF STORAGE 295 RATHE RD COLCHESTER, VT. 05446 802-497-0404 UNITS WILL BE OPENED FOR VIEWING IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO THE AUCTION. SALE SHALL BE BY SEALED BID TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. CONTENTS OF THE ENTIRE STORAGE UNIT WILL BE SOLD AS ONE LOT. THE WINNING BID MUST REMOVE ALL CONTENTS FROM THE FACILITY WITHIN 48 HOURS OF BID ACCEPTANCE AT NO

STORAGE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT ANY BID LOWER THAN THE AMOUNT OWED BY THE OCCUPANT.

PUBLIC NOTICE VERMONT AGENCY OF NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION WASTE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (SWMP) Certification Amendment of a Waste Management Facility Myers Recycling Facility, Colchester VT The public is hereby notified that the SWMP has reviewed the application for a certification amendment for the Myers Recycling Facility located on Red Can Road in Colchester in accordance with §6-305(b) of the Waste Management Rules, effective 10/15/04 (“Rules”).

The amendment puts the facility in compliance with requirements of the Architectural Waste Recycling Law The SWMP determined that the application complies with the Rules and has developed a Draft Amended Certification.

The amendment included a revised Facility Management Plan. The plan now includes procedures and protocols on how to accept, handle, store, and transfer architectural waste for recycling.

Upon completion of this amendment, the facility will be considered an Architectural Waste Recycling facility consistent Act 175.

The SWMP intends to issue a final amended certification after April 30, 2017 without convening a public informational meeting unless a written request for a public informational meeting signed by at least twenty five (25) residents, by the Town of Colchester, by the Chittenden Waste District, or by an adjoining landowner or resident is made during the comment period.

Copies of the Draft Amended Certification are available for public inspection at the Colchester Town office, and at the Waste Management Program in Montpelier VT. To request a public informational meeting and extension of the public comment period or to submit comments for this project: contact Jeff Bourdeau, Waste Management Program, 1 National Life Drive – Davis 1 Montpelier VT 05620-3704, Telephone: 802 522-0131.

ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 3-1-16 ANCV QUICKEN LOANS INC. v.

DAVID A. LAVORNIA OCCUPANTS OF 21-23 SOUTH STREET, BRISTOL, VT

MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered September 2, 2016, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by David A. Lavornia to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc., dated July 3, 2012 and recorded in Book 139 Page 278 of the land records of the Town of Bristol, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc. to Quicken Loans Inc., dated October 5, 2015 and recorded in Book 148 at Page 182 of the land records of the Town of Bristol, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 21-23 South Street, Bristol, Vermont on April 26, 2017 at 2:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Land Situated in the Town of Bristol in the County of Addison in the State of VT BEING ALL AND THE SAME LAND AND PREMISES AS CONVEYED TO DAVID A. LAVORNIA

BY WARRANTY DEED, OF GEORGE L. ERWIN DATED 09/23/2009, AND RECORDED 09/24/2009 IN BOOK 131 PAGE 280 OF THE TOWN OF BRISTOL RECORDS, AND IN SAID DEED DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEING ALL LAND THE SAME LAND AND PREMISES CONVEYED TO GEORGE L. ERWIN BY WARRANTY DEED OF MICHAEL E. BURKE AND DONNA H. BURKE DATED MARCH 10, 1988 AND RECORDED IN VOLUME 64, AT PAGE 5 OF THE TOWN OF BRISTOL LAND RECORDS BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEING ALL AND THE SAME LANDS AND PREMISES CONVEYED TO MICHAEL E. BURKE AND DONNA H. BURKE, HUSBAND AND WIFE, BY DEED

HUSBAND AND WIFE, DATED MAY 12, 1973, RECORDED IN THE TOWN OF BRISTOL LAND RECORDS IN BOOK 42, PAGE 267, AND THEREIN DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: ‘BEING ALL AND THE SAME LANDS AND PREMISES, TOGETHER WITH DWELLING HOUSE CONVEYED TO EDWARD P. BURKE AND MIRIAM K. BURKE BY WARRANTY DEED DATED 27 JANUARY 1951 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 34, PAGE 144 OF THE BRISTOL LAND RECORDS. ALSO A JOINING PARCEL OF LAND CONVEYED TO EDWARD P. BURKE AND MIRIAM K. BURKE BY FRANK A. LAROSE AND MARY A. LAROSE BY WARRANTY DEED DATED 20 FEBRUARY 1963 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 37 PAGE 328 OF THE BRISTOL LAND RECORDS. THE LANDS AND PREMISES CONVEYED HEREIN ARE MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: ‘PARCEL #1: THE FRANK C. KING PLACE, SO-CALLED, AND FURTHER DESCRIBED AND BOUNDED AS FOLLOWS; ON THE NORTH BY THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID RIVER STREET; ON THE EAST

BY LAND AND PREMISES OF EDWARD P. BURKE AND MIRIAM K. BURKE; ON THE SOUTH BY LAND OF OR FORMERLY OF CARL J. & KATHERINE ALDRICH; ON THE WEST

BY LAND AND PREMISES OF OR FORMERLY OF CARL J. AND KATHERINE F. ALDRICH, KNOWN AS THE CORA PAIGE PLACE, SO-CALLED. PARCEL #2: BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID RIVER STREET, SAID POINT BEING AT THE NORTHWESTERLY CORNER OF LAND OF THE HEREIN GRANTORS, AND THE NORTHEASTERLY CORNER OF LAND OF THE HEREIN GRANTEES, THENCE IN AN EASTERLY OR SOUTHEASTERLY DIRECTION ALONG THE SAID SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID RIVER STREET 20 FEET, THENCE IN A SOUTHERLY DIRECTION AT APPROXIMATELY RIGHT ANGLES TO THE NORTHERLY LINE OF LAND NOW OR FORMERLY OF CARL J. AND KATHERINE F. ALDRICH, THENCE WESTERLY ALONG THE NORTHERLY LINE OF SAID ALDRICH LAND 20’ FEET TO THE SOUTHEASTERLY CORNER OF LAND OF THE HEREIN GRANTEES, THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG THE EASTERLY LINE OF SAID BURKE LAND TO THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID RIVER STREET AND THE POINT OF BEGINNING. BEING PART AND PARCEL OF THE LAND AND PREMISES DESCRIBED IN A WARRANTY DEED FROM

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS JOHN T. AND CAROLYN TUDHOPE TO FRANK A. AND MARY A. LAROSE, DATED 20 APRIL 1956, OF RECORD IN BRISTOL LAND RECORDS IN VOLUME 35 AT PAGE 319.’

REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE ABOVEMENTIONED INSTRUMENTS, THE RECORDS THEREOF, THE REFERENCES THEREIN MADE, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE RECORDS AND REFERENCES, IN FURTHER AID OF THIS DESCRIPTION. Being the same property conveyed to David A. Lavornia , by deed dated September 23, 2009 of record in Deed Book 131, Page 280, in the County Clerk’s Office.

Commonly known as: 2123 South Street, Bristol, VT 05443 Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

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($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within thirty (30) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED: March 23, 2017 By: /s/ Rachel K. Jones Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 NOTICE: THE LAW FIRM OF BENDETT & MCHUGH, PC IS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED A DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY WHICH DISCHARGED THIS DEBT, THIS CORRESPONDENCE IS NOT AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED TO BE AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, BUT ONLY

ENFORCEMENT OF A LIEN AGAINST PROPERTY STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 409-4-15 CNCV U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST v.

STACY M. KATON AND JOHN J. KATON OCCUPANTS OF: 116 Woodbury Road, Burlington, VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Amended Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered December 28, 2016 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Stacy M. Katon and John J. Katon to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Sterling National Mortgage Co., Inc., dated March 21, 2008 and recorded in Book 1035 Page 58 of the land records of the City of Burlington, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assign-

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ment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Sterling National Mortgage Co., Inc. to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association dated August 1, 2012 and recorded in Book 1185 Page 224, (2) Assignment of Mortgage from JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development dated July 24, 2014 and recorded in Book 1258 Page 562 and (3) Assignment of Mortgage from Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust dated March 11, 2015 and recorded in Book 1273 Page 321, all of the land records of the City of Burlington, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 116 Woodbury Road, Burlington, Vermont on April 20, 2017 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: 1-00449739 A certain piece of land in the City of Burlington, in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, described as follows, viz: BEING a lot of land with

all buildings thereon, situated on the Northerly side of Woodbury Road, the dwelling house thereon being known and designated as No. 116 Woodbury Road, said lot having a frontage thereon of Sixty (60) feet and a depth of One Hundred Fifty (150) feet.

PARCEL No. 028-1-213000 Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within thirty (30) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the

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Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED: 2/15/2017 By: /S/Bozena Wysocki, Esq. Bozena Wysocki, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 NOTICE: THE LAW FIRM OF BENDETT & MCHUGH, PC IS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED A DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY WHICH DISCHARGED THIS DEBT, THIS CORRESPONDENCE IS NOT AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED TO BE AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, BUT ONLY ENFORCEMENT OF A LIEN AGAINST PROPERTY STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 423-5-16 CNCV BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. v.

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BESSETTE AND SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT OCCUPANTS OF 10 MAPLEWOOD DRIVE, SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered January 3, 2017 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by the late Ann M. Bessette to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., dated July 3, 2009 and recorded in Book 877 Page 312 of the land records of the City of South Burlington, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. to Bank of America, National Association dated October 12, 2009 and recorded in Book 904 Page 187 of the land records of the City of South Burlington , for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 10 Maplewood Drive, South Burlington, Vermont on April 27, 2017 at 11:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage,

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To wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Ann Bessette by Quit-Claim Deed of Franklin D. Bessette and Ann Bessette dated February 23, 1990 and recorded in Book 292, Page 587 of the City of South Burlington Land Records.

Being all the same land and premises conveyed to Franklin D. Bessette and Ann Bessette by Warranty Deed of Rayond P. Bessery and Linda A. Bessery dated September 10, 1971 and recorded in Book 102, Page 347 of the City of South Burlington Land Records, and more particularily described as follows: A lot of land with all the buildings thereon situated on the easterly side of Maplewood Drive, the dwelling house thereon being known and designated as No. 10 Maplewood Drive. Said lot has a frontage on said Maplewood Drive and uniform width of 75 feet, a north line of 171.7 feet and a south line of 172.4 feet. Being all of lot No. 9 as laid down on a plan of property entitled “Revised Plan Mountainview Subdivision” which plan is recorded in Volume 11, page 31 of the City of South Burlington Land Records.

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[CONTINUED] Being known and designated as No. 10 Maplewood Drive, South Burlington, VT, Parcel ID # 1110-00010.

Reference is hereby had to the above mentioned deeds and the records thereof and to all former deeds and their records for a more particular description of the premises.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within thirty (30) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED: March 24, 2017 By: /s/ Rachel K. Jones Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 NOTICE: THE LAW FIRM OF BENDETT & MCHUGH, PC IS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED A DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY WHICH DISCHARGED THIS DEBT, THIS CORRESPONDENCE

IS NOT AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED TO BE AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, BUT ONLY ENFORCEMENT OF A LIEN AGAINST PROPERTY STATE OF VERMONT FRANKLIN UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 308-7-15 FRCV PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION v.

CHRISTIE L. TRAVIS AND RUSSELL S. TRAVIS OCCUPANTS OF 168 -170 LAKE STREET, ST. ALBANS, VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered July 13, 2016 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Christie Travis and Russell S. Travis to National City Mortgage a division of National City Bank, dated May 8, 2009 and recorded in Book 232 Page 209 of the land records of the City of St. Albans, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by

virtue of a merger with National City Bank dated December 31, 2008, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 168 -170 Lake Street, St. Albans, Vermont on April 26, 2017 at 1:30 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Russell S. Travis and Christie L. Travis by Warranty Deed of Peter J. Harvey and Stacey M. Harvey of even date and to be recorded prior to the recording of this instrument in the City of St. Albans Land Records.

Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Peter J. Harvey and Stacey M. Harvey by Warranty Deed of Glenn Rocheleau dated May 20, 2005 and recorded in Volume 193, Pages 197 of the City of St. Albans Land Records.

Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Glenn Rocheleau

by Warranty Deed of Harold R. Herbert and Constance H. Fielding, Trustees of the Gerturde Allard Hebert Revocable Trust dated May 25, 2001

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NOTICE OF INTENT TO APPLY HERBICIDES The New England Central Railroad will spray its right-of-way for weed control, using track mounted highrail truck sprayer with a spray pattern totaling 20 feet wide, measured ten (10) feet to each side of the track centerline. Select portions of the right-of-way may be sprayed to a 40-foot width. Public crossing quadrants will be sprayed to a width not exceeding the property line of the railroad. New England Central Railroad’s right-of-way passes through the following townships in the State of Vermont: Alburg, Swanton, St. Albans, Georgia, Jericho, Williston, Milton, Colchester, Essex Jct., Winooski, Burlington, Richmond, Bolton, Duxbury, Waterbury, Middlesex, Montpelier, Berlin, Northfield, Roxbury, Granville, Braintree, Randolph, Bethel, Royalton, Sharon, Hartford, Hartland, Windsor, Rockingham, Bellows Falls, Westminster, Putney, Dummerston, Brattleboro, and Vernon.

Spraying will take place on or about May 15, 2017. A request for permission to use herbicides has been submitted to the State of Vermont Commissioner of Agriculture.

The following herbicides will be applied in liquid form: Razer Pro, Esplanade 200 SC, Opensight, Garlon 3A, Alligare MSM 60, Rodeo, Aquaneat.

Landowners along the right-of-way who have private water supplies or other sensitive areas should contact Grover Engineering, Huntington, Vermont, at (802) 434-2989.

For further information or complaints, contact the Vermont Department of Agriculture, 116 State Street, Montpelier, VT, phone (802) 828-2431.

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and recorded in Volume 55, Pages 464-465 of the City of St. Albans Land Records.

All of the lands and premises, together with all buildings thereon, located at 170 Lake Street, in the City of St. Albans, Vermont and being all of the lands and premises conveyed to Armand Ubald Hebert (deceased) and Gertrude Allard Hebert (deceased), husband and wife, by Warranty Deed of Charles H. Allard and Constance Allard dated December 30, 1943 and recorded in Book 22, Pages 277-278 of the St. Albans City Land Records.

Reference is made to a boundary line agreement between the City of St. Albans and Gertrude A. Hebert dated January 9, 1990 and recorded in Book 72, Page 436 of the St. Albans City Land Records.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within thirty (30) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : March 20, 2017 By: /s/ Rachel K. Jones Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 NOTICE: THE LAW FIRM OF BENDETT & MCHUGH, PC IS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED A DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY WHICH DISCHARGED THIS DEBT, THIS CORRESPONDENCE IS NOT AND SHOULD

NOT BE CONSTRUED TO BE AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, BUT ONLY ENFORCEMENT OF A LIEN AGAINST PROPERTY STATE OF VERMONT FRANKLIN UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 522-1215 FRCV USAA FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK v.

DOUGLAS C. GREIG AND KRISTEN GREIG OCCUPANTS OF 58 SNOWCREST ROAD, FAIRFAX, VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Amended Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered February 15, 2017 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given

by Douglas C. Greig and Kristen Greig to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for USAA Federal Savings Bank, dated November 6, 2010 and recorded in Book 209 Page 20 of the land records of the Town of Fairfax, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for USAA Federal Savings Bank to USAA Federal Saving Bank dated April 13, 2011 and recorded in Book 244 Page 73 of the land records of the Town of Fairfax for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 58 Snowcrest Road Fairfax, Vermont on April 19, 2017 at 1:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: The land and premises subject to this Security Instrument are all of the land and premises conveyed to Douglas C. Greig and Kristen Greig by deed from Gregory A. Parker and Carol J. Parker dated June 21, 2006 and recorded on July 12, 2006 in Book 178, Page 605 of the Land Records of the Town of Fairfax, County of Franklin and State of Vermont.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which

take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within thirty (30) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : March 17, 2017 By: /S/Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 STATE OF VERMONT LAMOILLE UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 159-6-07 LECV THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWALT, INC. ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-OC6 MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-OC6 v.

DONNA LYNN PELLEGRINI, WALKER CONSTRUCTION, INC. AND OCCUPANTS OF 301 SLEEPY HOLLOW ROAD, JOHNSON, VT OCCUPANTS OF 301 SLEEPY HOLLOW ROAD, JOHNSON, VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered January 16, 2006 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Donna Lynn Pellegrini to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., dated April 27, 2006 and recorded in Book 111 Page 482 of the land records of the Town of Johnson, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. to The Bank of New York Mellon fka Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders

CWALT, Inc. Alternative Loan Trust 2006-OC6 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006OC6 dated June 20, 2007 and recorded in Book 116 Page 387 of the land records of the Town of Johnson for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 301 Sleepy Hollow Road, Johnson, Vermont on April 19, 2017 at 2:30 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being a part of the same land and premises conveyed to Marquis E. Houle by warranty deed of Ted Stepanek and Sharron Stepanek Mason, dated September 20, 1995 and recorded in Book 74, Pages 402-403 of the Johnson Land Records.

Said land and premises are depicted on a certain survey map entitled “A Theodolite & E.D.M. Survey and Subdivision of Lands Belonging to Marquis S. Houle, Johnson, Vermont, Scale 1”=50’” prepared by Gove Land Surveyors, Inc. as follows: Lot 2 Being a parcel of land consisting of 3.28 acres of land, or less, and beginning at a point marked by an iron pin, which point marks the northeastern most corner of the property herein conveyed and the southeasterumost corner of Lot 1; Thence proceeding along the boundary line of Lot 1 and Lot N 38° 31’ 58” W a distance of 290.05 feet to an iron pin in the ground; Thence proceeding along the boundary line of Lot 1 and Lot N 38° 31’ 58” W a distance of 304.32 feet to an iron pin in the ground; Thence proceeding along the boundary line of Lot 1 and Lot N 38° 31’ 58” W a distance of 107 feet to an unmarked point in the center of the Lamoille River; Thence turning and proceeding along the centerline of Lamoille River in a general southwesterly direction a distance of 243 feet along the centerline of the Lamoille River to an unmarked point; Thence turning and proceeding S 390 02’ 55” E a distance of 114 feet along the boundary line of Lot 2 and Lot 3 to a point marked by an iron pin set in the ground; Thence turning and proceeding 8.39 02’ 55” E a distance of 240.43 feet along the boundary line of Lot 2 and Lot 3 to a point marked by an iron pin set in the ground on. the easterly boundary of the right of way to Lots 2 and 3;

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS Thence turning and running S 39 02’ 55” East a distance of 232.00 feet along the boundary line of Lot 2 and Lot 3 to point marked by an iron pin set in the ground, which point marks the southeasternmost corner of the property herein conveyed and the northeasternmost corner of Lot 3; Thence turning and proceeding N 59 25’ 54” E a distance of 141.82 feet to an iron pin found in the ground on the northerly boundary of a 50’ right of way in favor of Edigio; Thence proceeding N 59 24’ 15” W a distance of 82.10 feet to the point and place of beginning.

Menaing and intending to mortgage Lot 2 of the same premises conveyed to the herein named mortgagor(s) by deed recorded with Johnson Town Office-Land Records in Book 121, Page 96.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within thirty (30) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

ENFORCEMENT OF A LIEN AGAINST PROPERTY STATE OF VERMONT LAMOILLE UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 237-1215 LECV U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR TRUMAN 2016 SC6 TITLE TRUST v.

JAMES MERLI AND TINA MERLI OCCUPANTS OF 399 CODY WOODS ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

DATED : March 17, 2017 By: /s/ Rachel K. Jones Rachel Jones, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered June 16, 2016 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by James Merli and NOTICE: THE LAW FIRM Tina Merli to Mortgage Reference is hereby made OF BENDETT & MCHUGH, Electronic Registration PC IS A DEBT COLLECTOR to the above instruments Systems, Inc., as nominee AND IS ATTEMPTING and to the records and for Countrywide Home TO COLLECT A DEBT. references contained Loans, Inc., dated NovemANY INFORMATION WE therein in further aid of ber 19, 2007 and recorded OBTAIN WILL BE USED this description.

November 26, 2007 in FOR THAT PURPOSE. IF Book 324 Page 426 of the YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY Terms of sale: Said land records of the Town RECEIVED A DISCHARGE premises will be sold of Cambridge, of which IN BANKRUPTCY WHICH and conveyed subject to mortgage the Plaintiff DISCHARGED THIS DEBT, all liens, encumbrances, is the present holder, THIS CORRESPONDENCE unpaid taxes, tax titles, by virtue the following IS NOT AND SHOULD municipal liens and asAssignments of MortNOT BE CONSTRUED TO sessments, if any, which gage: (1) Assignment of BE AN ATTEMPT TO COLtake precedence over Mortgage from Mortgage LECT A DEBT, BUT ONLY the said mortgage above Using the enclosed math operations as a guide, fill Registration the grid Electronic described.

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Reference is hereby made to the above-mentioned deed and its records, and to the reference therein contained, in further aid of this description.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within thirty (30) days after the date of sale.

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DATED: March 17, 2017 By: /s/ Rachel K. Jones Rachel Jones, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 NOTICE: THE LAW FIRM OF BENDETT & MCHUGH, PC IS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED A DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY WHICH DISCHARGED THIS DEBT, THIS CORRESPONDENCE IS NOT AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED TO BE AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, BUT ONLY ENFORCEMENT OF A LIEN AGAINST PROPERTY STATE OF VERMONT ORLEANS UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 79-4-16 OSCV FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION v.

LINDA M. BRADY AND MICHAEL J. BRADY OCCUPANTS OF 327 VT ROUTE 105, JAY, VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered October 31, 2016 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Linda M. Brady and Michael J. Brady to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, dated June 12, 2012 and recorded in Book 67 Page 83 of the land records of the Town of Jay, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association to Federal National Mortgage Association dated October 17, 2016 and recorded October 31, 2016 in Book 72 Page 316 of the land records of the Town of Jay, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 327 VT Route 105, Jay, Vermont on April 26, 2017 at 11:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OF LAND IN THE TOWN OF JAY, IN THE COUNTY OF ORLEANS AND STATE OF

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BEING A PORTION OF THE SAME LANDS AND PREMISES AS WERE CONVEYED TO CREATIVE CHOICES, INC. BY ALAN L. BONNEAU BY WARRANTY DEED DATED DECEMBER 31, 1986 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 26 AT PAGES 118-120 OF THE TOWN OF JAY LAND RECORDS. SAID PORTION BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED THEREIN AS FOLLOWS: “LOT NO. 2: BEGINNING AT A SURVEYOR’S BAR SET IN THE SOUTHERLY EDGE OF THE RIGHT-OF-WAY OF VERMONT ROUTE 105 AT THE NORTHWESTERLY CORNER OF THE AFORESAID LOT NO. 3; THENCE RUNNING SOUTH 03 DEGREES 43 MINUTES WEST ALONG THE BLAZED TREE LINE WHICH MARKS THE WESTERLY BOUNDARY OF THE AFORESAID LOT NO. 3 A DISTANCE OF 750.8 FEET TO A SURVEYOR’S BAR; THENCE SOUTH 08 DEGREES 43 MINUTES WEST A DISTANCE OF 11 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE NORTHERLY EDGE OF THE JAY BRANCH RIVER; THENCE TURNING AND RUNNING IN A GENERAL NORTHWESTERLY DIRECTION ALONG THE NORTHERLY BOUNDARY OF THE JAY BRANCH RIVER A DISTANCE OF 1,776 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO A POINT AT THE SOUTHEASTERLY CORNER OF LOT NO, 1 AS SHOWN ON SAID SURVEY; THENCE TURNING AND RUNNING NORTH 14 DEGREES 07 MINUTES EAST A DISTANCE OF 12 FEET TO A SURVEYOR’S BAR; THENCE NORTH 14 DEGREES 07 MINUTES EAST A DISTANCE OF 227,5 FEET TO A SURVEYOR’S BAR LOCATED AT THE SOUTHEASTERLY CORNER OF THE JUDITH PEPPER LOT; THENCE NORTH 114 FEET DEGREES 29 MINUTES EAST ALONG THE EASTERLY BOUNDARY OF THE PEPPER LOT A DISTANCE OF 197.8 FEET TO A CEMENT HIGHWAY MARKER LOCATED IN THE SOUTHERLY EDGE OF SAID PUBLIC RIGHT-OFWAY; THENCE TURNING AND RUNNING IN A GENERAL EASTERLY DIRECTION ALONG THE EDGE OF SAID PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY A DISTANCE OF 1,067.9 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF SAID LOT NO. 2, SAID LOT CONTAINS 10.74 ACRES.”

THE ABOVE DESCRIBED LANDS AD PREMISES BEING DEPICTED AS LOT NO. 2 ON A SURVEY DRAWN AND PREPARED BY NORBERT BLAIS FOR ALAN L. BONNEAU DATED DECEMBER 2, 1985 AND BEARING MAP NO, 262-85.

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Being all of Lot No. 3 depicted on a survey entitles “M. Page Marsh.

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Town of Cambridge. Vermont”, dated December 15, 2000, prepared by Harold N. Marsh, Licensed Land Surveyor, and recorded in Map Slide 170A of the Cambridge Map Records which survey shall govern this description in the event of any question or ambiguity.

this paragraph shall not reinstate any such encumbrance previously extinguished by the Marketable Record Title Act, Subchapter 7, Title 27, Vermont Statutes Annotated.

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To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Daniel Scott Lemire by Warranty Deed of Lamoille River Development, LLC which deed is dated June 18, 2001 and recorded in Book 203 at Pages 451-453 of the Cambridge Land Records.

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premises described in said mortgage,

This conveyance is made subject to and with the benefit of highway easements, utility easements, easements for ingress and egress, water and pipeline rights, if any, and rights incident to each of the same as may appear more particularly following puzzle of record, provided thatby

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Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. to Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. dated September 29, 2008 and recorded in Book 339 Page 13, (2) Assignment of Mortgage from Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. to Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP dated December 24, 2008 and recorded in Book 340 Page 302; (3) Corrective Assignment of Mortgage from Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP, f/k/a Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP to Christiana Trust, a division of Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity but as Trustee of ARLP Trust 3 dated September 22, 2014 and recorded in Book 403 Page 210, and (4) Christiana Trust, a division of Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity but as Trustee of ARLP Trust 3 to U.S. Bank National Association as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust dated September 6, 2016 and recorded in Book 424 Page 169, all of the land records in the Town of Cambridge, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 399 Cody Woods Road, Cambridge, Vermont on April 19, 2017 at 12:00 PM all and singular the

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[CONTINUED] MADE TO THE ABOVE MENTIONED DEEDS AND THEIR RECORDS AND TO ALL PRIOR DEEDS AND THE RECORDS THEREOF FOR A FURTHER DESCRIPTION OF THE LANDS AND PREMISES HEREIN CONVEYED. BEING THE SAME PREMISES AS CONVEYED IN DEED FROM CREATIVE CHOICES, INC., A MARYLAND CORPORATION RECORDED 06/08/1989, BOOK 29, PAGE 352 IN SAID COUNTY AND STATE. COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 327 VT ROUTE 105, JAY, VT Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

NOTICE: THE LAW FIRM OF BENDETT & MCHUGH, PC IS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED A DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY WHICH DISCHARGED THIS DEBT, THIS CORRESPONDENCE IS NOT AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED TO BE AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, BUT ONLY ENFORCEMENT OF A LIEN AGAINST PROPERTY STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO. 76-2-16 CNCV Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Rees & Hayes, 30 Kimball Avenue, Ste. 307, South Burlington, VT 05403, (802) 660-9000.

This sale may be cancelled at any time prior to the scheduled sale date without prior notice.

Dated at South Burlington, Vermont this 6th day of March, 2017.

Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a Green Tree Servicing LLC By: Grant C. Rees, Esq. Rees & Hayes, PLC

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO. 815-8-15 CNCV Quicken Loans Inc., Plaintiff v.

Brent Burns a/k/a Brent D. Burns, Cristin Burns and Occupants residing at 323 River Road, Essex, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Brent Burns a/k/a Brent D. Burns and Cristin Burns to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc. dated October 30, 2013 and recorded in Volume 909, Page 289, which mortgage was assigned to Quicken Loans Inc. by an instrument dated July 28, 2015 and recorded on August 7, 2015 in Volume 939, Page 693 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 12:00 P.M. on April 18, 2017, at 323 River Road, Essex, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit:

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Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Brent Burns and Cristin Burns by instrument of approximate even date herewith and to be recorded in the Town of Essex Land Records.

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Essex.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Rees & Hayes, 30 Kimball Avenue, Ste. 307, South Burlington, VT 05403, (802) 660-9000.

This sale may be cancelled at any time prior to the scheduled sale date without prior notice.

Dated at South Burlington, Vermont this 16th day of March, 2017.

Quicken Loans Inc. By: Grant C. Rees, Esq. Rees & Hayes, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 307 South Burlington, VT 05403 Attorney for Plaintiff STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 308-3-17 CNPR In re estate of Ruth C. Korzun.

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By: /s/ Rachel K. Jones Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Milton. The sale is also subject to post-sale redemption rights of the United States of America Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

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By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Douglas E. Olsaver and Heather N. Olsaver to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Mortgage Financial, Inc. dated October 16, 2009 and recorded in Volume 383, Page 497 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton, which mortgage was assigned to Green Tree Servicing LLC by an instrument dated June 9, 2015 and recorded on June 24, 2015 in Volume 456, Page 540 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton.

Effective August 31, 2015 Green Tree Servicing LLC merged with Ditech Mortgage Corp. and DT Holdings LLC and the name of the surviving limited liability company is Ditech Financial LLC. Of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 10:30 A.M. on April 11, 2017, at 14 Chrisemily Lane, Milton, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage:

To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Heather N. Olsaver and Douglas E. Olsaver by Deed of Shane Reeves and Anne-Marie Reeves dated October 16, 2009 and recorded October 20, 2009 in Volume 383, Page 494 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton.

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The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

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Douglas E. Olsaver, Heather N. Olsaver, United States of America Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Occupants residing at 14 Chrisemily Lane, Milton, Vermont, Defendants

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To the creditors of Ruth C. Korzun late of Burlington I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Date: March 30, 2017 /s/ Maureen F. Watson Signature of Fiduciary Maureen F. Watson Executor/Administrator: 11 Corandview Ave. Essex Jct. 05452 802-355-9995 mfitzy811@yahoo.com Name of publication Seven Days Publication Date:

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/s/ Vicki Mobbs

Address of Court: Chittenden Probate Court PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 1265-8-16CNPR In re estate of Kyle Magnus.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of late of Kyle Magnus late of South Burlington, VT. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Date: 3/27/2017 /s/ John Magnus Signature of Fiduciary John O. Magnus Executor/Administrator: 123 Economou Farm Rd. South Burlington, VT 05403 Jmagnus76@gmail.com (802)864-7768 Name of publication Seven Days Publication Dates: 4/5/2017 Name and Address of Court: Chittenden County Probate Court PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 1801-12-16CNPR In re estate of Carol Martin.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of late of Carol Martin late of Hinesburg, VT. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

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Vicki Mobbs Executor/Administrator: PO Box 104 Hinesburg, VT 05461 802-482-2334 Name of publication Seven Days Publication Dates: 4/5/2017 4/12/2017 Name and Address of Court: Chittenden County Probate Court PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 054020511 SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO: 73-1-17 CNPR In re Estate of Eleanor Angell Late of Burlington, Vermont NOTICE TO CREDITORS To The Creditors Of: Eleanor Angell late of Burlington, Vermont I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to us at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim will be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: 3/28/17 Signed Albert A. Cicchetti, Executor Address: c/o Little & Cicchetti, P.C. P.O. Box 907, Burlington, VT 05402-0907 Telephone: 802-862-6511 Email: ben.luna@lclawvt. com Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 4/5/2017 Address of Court: Chittenden Probate Court P.O. Box 511 175 Main Street Burlington, VT 054020511 THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 0104265 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DR. OR 48 INDUSTRIAL DR., WILLISTON, VT 05495, WILL BE SOLD ON APRIL 13TH TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF AMY THIBAULT. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

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Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions. These openings and others are updated daily.

Medical Office Specialist - Student Health Services - #S1043PO -We are looking for a friendly, energetic and organized person to work in our Student Health Services in the Center for Health and Wellbeing. This position is responsible for scheduling appointments and providing information to students, staff and the 12:12 PM public on the telephone and in person in a professional and respectful manner.

Responsibilities include scheduling appointments, utilizing our electronic health record system and checking students in and out of appointments. This position is also responsible for Medical Records, processing incoming and outgoing requests and adhering to federal compliance laws. Additional administrative support will be provided for the immunization process.

Minimum qualifications include an Associate’s degree, and at least 2 years related work experience in a medical office. Experience with electronic health records.

Ability to organize work priorities, plan, and adhere to structured regulations.

Ability to adhere to confidentiality and ethical standards and maintain a high level of discretion. Demonstrate a commitment to valuing differences in race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, and disabilities.

This is a 12 month full time position. Salary is commensurate with experience and includes a full benefit package. For more information about CHWB, please visit our website at www.uvm.edu/health.

Retail Associate - Catamount Store - S1021PO - The UVM Bookstore is seeking a Retail Associate to join their team at UVM’s Catamount Store on Church Street.

The Catamount Store Retail Associate will open and close the store, operate a cash register, stock merchandise to create appealing displays, promote the Catamount Store through various social media platforms, and provide excellent customer service.

This position requires the ability to lift 5-25 lbs. regularly and 75 lbs. occasionally.

Standing for long periods of time is required with stooping, bending and lifting involved.

Candidates for this position must have a High School diploma, familiarity with retail sales, and knowledge of computer operations and data entry. The candidate should have a demonstrated commitment to diversity, social justice and training, and fostering a collaborative multicultural environment. This candidate also must be able to work weekends, evenings, and University holidays with occasional overtime as needed. Valid driver’s license or ability to obtain and driver’s check is required, and French language skills are desirable.

The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal.

For further information on these positions and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit our website at: www.uvmjobs.com; Job Hotline #802-656-2248; telephone #802-656-3150. Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Job positions are updated daily.

The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications, from women, veterans, individuals with disabilities and people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

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The Arbors at Shelburne is a Benchmark Senior Living community focused on caring for individuals with memory related diseases.We offer competitive wages and benefit packages. We currently have openings for:

LICENSED NURSING ASSISTANTS full or part time on all shifts

Please call to schedule an interview or stop in to complete an application.

The Arbors at Shelburne Attn: Human Resources 687 Harbor Road Shelburne, VT 05482 802-985-8600 phurteau@benchmarkquality.com A Benchmark Assisted Living Community, EOE.

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Cambridge After-School Program

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Administrative Position Here’s a great job - working with great people at The Point!

The Point values the members of our team because we know that a company is only as good as its people. We are looking for a dynamic, positive person to fill a multi-faceted administrative position in our Montpelier office.

Duties will include accounts receivable, data entry, monthly billing, managing social media, and scheduling ads on your favorite radio station. Applicants should have strong attention to detail, be computer and internet savvy, and learn quickly.

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Full- and Part-time Cleaners, Floaters, Floor Techs, Supervisors and Day porters in the following areas:

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“I am looking for a family that will share their love with me”.

COLCHESTER ST. ALBANS WATERBURY BARRE Janitronics provides cleaning services to class A offices buildings, medical facilities, schools, factory's and colleges.

Howard Center is looking for a compassionate, reliable and adaptable family, couple or individual to provide full time therapeutic foster care. This family would reside in a Howard Center owned home, in a quiet cul-de-sac in Colchester. This spacious four bedroom house will care for two children full time. This home has a beautiful backyard and is less than a half a mile from Niquette Bay State Park. Children living in this home will be receiving wrap around services through the Enhanced Family Treatment program.

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DAY PORTER: Maintaining facilities during daytime hours, cleaning common areas, restroom upkeep, and spills.

FLOATER DUTIES: Traveling between accounts doing basic cleaning duties. Transportation is a must!

FLOOR TECH: Familiarity with floor care practices, carpet extractions, use of auto-scrubbers, buffers, stripping and waxing or willing to learn!

SUPERVISOR: Management of cleaning personnel, supply delivery, floater scheduling, training and understanding the cleaning systems as well. Supervisory experience strongly preferred. Transportation a must!

Janitronics provides cleaning services to class A offices buildings, medical facilities, schools, factory's and colleges.

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Director of Justice and Mentoring Interested in challenging work that makes a difference?

Join our Mercy Connections mission driven team that helps people make significant and positive life changes and co-creates a positive work environment. The Director of Justice and Mentoring oversees planning, implementation and evaluation of the Vermont Women’s Mentoring Program for formerly incarcerated women and all justice-related activities, including classes, public education and effective collaborations with multiple community partners. The Director will have experience in program management, volunteer recruitment, supervision, contract compliance with demonstrated commitment to values based leadership. Equal Opportunity Employer.

SERVICE SUPPORT TECHNICIAN Burlington Telecom is looking for a limited service full-time Service Support Technician to provide superior assistance and customer service. This position will be responsible for participating in and tracking customer troubles through internal and external systems and reports. The ideal candidate will have an Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, IS, or related field and one year comparable experience as a technical support/customer service representative or four years’ comparable experience as a technical support/ customer service representative.

For a complete description, or to apply online, visit burlingtonvt.gov/hr/jobs or contact us at 802.865.7145.

Please send resume and letter of interest by Friday, April 14 to Dolly Fleming, Executive Director: dfleming@mercyconnections.org www.mercyconnections.org/employment.html

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We are a small, independent school serving unique children and youth. We are recruiting dedicated individuals to join our diverse staff in this exciting and challenging work.

Positions start immediately.

Paraprofessional/ Behavior Interventionist This is a one-on-one, paraprofessional position supporting students in the development of academic, communication, vocational, social and self-regulation skills.

Settings may include classroom, one-on-one environments and the community. Must possess good communication/ collaboration skills.

An associate’s degree or five years experience after high school preferred. Candidates must have a valid driver’s license and reliable vehicle.

Criminal record checks will be conducted for final candidates.

Submit a resume to: The New School of Montpelier 11 West Street Montpelier, VT 05602 or email to: ddellinger@nsmvt.org No phone calls, please!

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Providing Innovative Mental Health and Educational Services to Vermont’s Children & Families.

“Make a difference in the life of a child!”- NFI Vermont, a leader in specialized trauma and adolescent development, is looking to expand our team of innovators. Full-time and part-time positions available. Competitive wages, training opportunities, flexible work schedules and family oriented culture. Excellent benefits with tuition reimbursement offered for 30 or more hour employees.

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CBS is committed to empowering youth by providing family based treatment through innovative, diverse & community integrated methods. CBS is seeking full time community integration specialists to join our talented team of mental health professionals. Responsibilities include working individually with children & adolescents with mental health challenges both in the community & in their homes. The opportunity to bring personal interests/ hobbies to share with youth is encouraged. Ideal candidates must have a bachelor’s degree, be able to work afternoon and evening hours, have a valid driver’s license, & reliable transportation. Please send a cover letter and resume to brandiecarlson@nafi.com.

Residential Counselor NFI HOSPITAL DIVERSION PROGRAM

The Hospital Diversion Program of NFI VT is seeking a full time Residential Counselor. Hospital Diversion provides crisis stabilization, clinical consultation, individual treatment and discharge planning in a small, safe residential setting.

Counselors provide supervision and support to youth, as well as provide a sense of safety and security. Superior interpersonal skills and ability to function well in a team atmosphere a must. B.A. in psychology or related field required. Position is full-time with a comprehensive benefits package. Please e-mail resume and cover letter to annepeterson@nafi.com.

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LORD Sensing is looking for talented individuals to join a rapidly evolving and highly innovative division of LORD Corporation. Our inertial, wireless and displacement sensing products have won multiple awards and are used in world class, pioneering technical applications. You will join a diverse team in a pleasant and productive work environment that can help you learn, grow, stay healthy, and be fulfilled in your work. We currently have opportunities for the following:

QUALITY MANAGER (REQ-17-96) Primary responsibilities include the implementation, maintenance, audit, and continuous improvement of the facility’s quality system and processes. Incumbent is responsible for product quality, including inspection/testing processes and product acceptance.

SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER (REQ-17-97) The successful candidate will join LORD Sensing’s Software Engineering team developing SensorConnect, the main PC user interface software for our sensing products. SensorConnect utilizes cutting edge technology to achieve high performance visualizations of massive quantities of live sensor data in real time.

See lord.com/careers for full job details and to apply. (Under Locations, select USA-Williston,VT to see all VT jobs.) In addition to competitive salaries and an excellent benefits package, we offer hightech working space, high-speed workstations, sophisticated engineering test facilities and a state-of-the-art production area.

If you are interested in working with an exciting range of technologies, products and markets contributing to a dynamic culture in a fast-growing company, consider being a part of the LORD MicroStrain® community.

LORD MicroStrain® has been named one of the

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Education and/or Experience: Bachelor’s Degree in food and nutrition, food service management, dietetics, family and consumer sciences, nutrition education, culinary arts, business or other similar field, plus at least 5 years or more progressively responsible managerial experience, or a combination of education and experience in which comparable skills are acquired.

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Deputy Police Chief City of Barre, Vermont (pop. 9,052)

Salary Range ($70,000 - $80,000) The City of Barre,Vermont, is accepting applications for the position of Deputy police Chief. This position reports directly to the Director of Public Safety. Under administrative direction, directs, manages, supervises, and coordinates the activities and operations of the Police Department within the Public Safety Department including the enforcement of criminal and traffic laws, regulations, and ordinances in order to preserve and protect life, health, and property in the City and related services and activities; coordinates assigned activities with other divisions, departments, and outside agencies; and provides highly responsible and complex administrative support to the Director of Public Safety. In the absence of the Police Chief, the Deputy Police Chief has the authority to represent or act as the Police Chief.

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GREEN MOUNTAIN TRANSIT

DIRECTOR OF MAINTENANCE Green Mountain Transit has an outstanding opening on our Executive Leadership Team.

The Director of Maintenance serves as leader of the Maintenance Department for the entire organization, providing direction and oversight for both fleet and facilities, while working closely with all departments to ensure the safe and efficient operation of maintenance functions.

A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study or equivalent experience is required. A minimum of five years of transit maintenance management experience, proven ability to manage staff and fleet maintenance programs is required. Experience managing in a union environment and working as a mechanic is preferred. Responsibilities include: • Forecasts, anticipates, and responds to changes in the public transportation industry and within GMT’s organization.

• Set the vision of the Maintenance departments in alignment with GMT’s mission • Responsible for labor relations, in conjunction with other staff • Prepares the monthly reports for GMT Board meetings • Responsible for the management, evaluation and direction of all maintenance personnel • Continuously measures and analyzes fleet operations to insure optimum performance • Responsible for maintenance purchasing • Manages maintenance budget

For more information and a detailed job description go to our website, barrecity.org/jobs. The annual salary is negotiable based on experience and qualifications. The City of Barre is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). Please submit a cover letter and resume by April 21, 2017 to Mr. Rikk Taft, Human Resources Administrator City Hall, 6 North Main St, Suite 2 Barre, VT 05641.

Electronic submittals are welcome to rtaft@barrecity.org.

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B2B CUSTOMER SERVICE CAREER OPPORTUNITIES OUR B2B CUSTOMER SERVICE TEAM IS EXPANDING Join a collaborative team to execute and lead order fulfillment activities for B2B customers at Keurig Green Mountain

Benefits: GMT offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, with 100% employer-paid premiums for all family members, substantial paid time off, and a generous retirement package.

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Atlantic Testing Laboratories, Limited (ATL) is seeking qualified candidates for Construction Materials Technician and Construction Inspector positions. Experience with Construction Materials Quality Control testing and inspection is preferred.

For more information visit atlantictesting.com/careers.

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To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume to Anna Herman at aherman@champlainhousingtrust.org.

Applications must be received before April 25.

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WE ARE HIRING! For more information and to apply for these and other great jobs: norwich.interviewexchange.com Current openings include:

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS ITS PROJECT COORDINATOR DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR TRANSFER CREDIT SPECIALIST FACULTY CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY, MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY, HEALTH & HUMAN PERFORMANCE

All candidates must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer. A post-offer, preemployment background check will be required of the successful candidate.

Norwich University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a positive education and work environment that recognizes and respects the dignity of all students, faculty and staff. Reasonable accommodations will be made for the known disability of an otherwise qualified applicant. Please contact the Office of Human Resources at nuhr@norwich.edu for assistance.

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THE POSITION: • Full-time, 40 hour per week position working Tuesday - Saturday.

• Perform a wide variety of cleaning duties in a residential treatment facility for pregnant and parenting women.

• Principal activities include, but are not limited to, scrubbing, mopping, waxing, vacuuming, shampooing, polishing, and disinfecting offices, public areas, meeting rooms, bathrooms, dining room, stairways and vacated bedrooms.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR: • Duties performed using hand held cleaning supplies/ equipment and machinery. Experience in aspects of effective cleaning techniques and use of a variety of custodial machinery required.

• Ability to work with a variety of people and perform tasks independently required.

WHY JOIN OUR TEAM AT LUND: • We honor and celebrate the distinctive strengths and talents of our clients and staff.

• Our work encompasses collaboration with a strong team of professionals and a strengths-based approach to providing services to families.

• Lund’s adoption program provides life-long services to families brought together through adoption.

• Lund’s residential and community treatment programs are distinctive as our work focuses on both treatment and parenting.

• Lund’s educators believe in laughter, the importance of fun, community-oriented activities, and non-stop learning.

• Ongoing training opportunities are available.

Lund offers competitive pay and paid training, as well as a comprehensive and very generous benefit package including health, dental, life, disability, retirement, extensive time off accrual, 11 paid holidays, and wellness reimbursement. EEO/AA Please send resume and cover letter to: Human Resources, PO Box 4009 Burlington, VT 05406-4009 fax: 864-1619 email: employment@lundvt.org.

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ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT

Director of Building Grounds and Safety WE WANT YOU TO JOIN OUR TEAM OF EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE.

SALES ASSOCIATE CODE ALERT OPERATOR BURLINGTON, VERMONT

The Code Alert Operator quickly and accurately dispatches personnel for emergencies throughout the hospital complex and satellites.

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Seeking dynamic, outgoing individual for an exciting retail sales position. If you love fashion, have great style and a fabulous attitude, we want to meet you!

Marketing prowess and social media knowledge a plus!

If you are an experienced professional in the field of Building Grounds and Safety who is committed to providing team-focused services, we encourage you to apply to our opening on schoolspring.com and we will be in touch!

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The Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE) Centralized Clinical Support (CCS) department is seeking qualified candidates to fill a few positions amongst the CCS Team. The positions available are:

Centralized Clinical Support Registered Nurse (CCS RN) – PART TIME 20 HRS/WK

We are Age Well - the leading experts and advocates for the aging population of Northwestern Vermont.

Director of Centralized Clinical Support (CCS)

Committed to employee wellness and work-life balance, we offer competitive pay and extensive benefits, including generous paid time off, affordable and comprehensive health, dental and vision insurances, and more!

The Centralized Clinical Support RN reviews the clinical lab results in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system to identify abnormal lab results, creates care plans and notifies patients of their results as well as answers clinical calls. The Director of CCS provides support to staff and patients from all 21 Health Centers across VT, ME, NH including management of clinical lab program, care coordination of all referrals & patients for specific treatment and follow-up and reporting functions related to lab results and referrals.

FULL TIME 37.5HRS/WK

Job Openings at Age Well: • Associate Director of Development & Communications • Case Manager- Franklin County

Requirements:

The successful candidates will be a supportive and enthusiastic voice for Age Well’s mission: to provide the support and guidance that inspires our community to age with confidence.

Bachelor’s degree required. Experience preferred.

Visit agewellvt.org/about/careers to learn more and apply.

Since 1974, we have provided Northwestern Vermonters with essential services to help them age well.

Meals on Wheels | Care Coordination | Helpline: 1-800-642-5119 Age Well is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Planned Parenthood of Northern New England welcomes diversity & is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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SENIOR TEST ENGINEER Role Summary/Purpose We are looking for an experienced Test Engineer to join our growing team of professionals at the Northern Digital Incorporated (NDI) office located in Shelburne - one of the Best Places to Work in Vermont 2017.

The successful candidate will be a key member of a cross-functional R&D team, providing test expertise and support to ensure successful delivery of R&D projects in the medical application and commercial augmented/virtual reality space.

They will have responsibility for the planning and execution of design verification activities, including verifying the performance of prototype configurations and released products, and will identify and drive technical issues to resolution.

Scope of Responsibilities • • • • • • • • • •

Collaborate with the NDI R&D and customer teams, to scope, develop and maintain design verification test plans throughout the product development life cycle, from requirements development through project closeout.

Direct, coordinate, and personally execute test plans to verify the performance of sub-components and systems, including firmware, hardware and application software.

Record test results in accordance with the verification and traceability requirements of NDI product development processes, including the generation of internal and external final reports.

Manage product defects and technical issues by driving them to resolution with the appropriate R&D technical function.

Develop tools (software and hardware) to support design verification activities.

Collaborate with R&D team and NDI management to improve upon existing design verification processes to better support rapid, agile, development projects.

Ensure consistent design verification test development and execution methodologies are used across projects.

Support product validation activities, including support of test efforts at customer facilities.

Research new technologies implemented in NDI products to ensure complete design verification test plan coverage.

Participate in product design reviews throughout the product development life cycle.

Education and Professional Qualifications • • • • • • • • •

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics or a related field.

3+ years of recent experience in product development and test.

Demonstrated experience and capabilities in the following items:Test plan and procedure development based on product requirements and specifications.

Hands-on coordination of the design, fabrication, and integration of test fixtures and equipment.

Product design verification and validation at a system level.

Recording of design verification test results to ensure traceability.

Management of product defects and technical issues to an appropriate resolution.

Excellent problem solving skills.

Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.

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Experience in electronics and software development.

Experience with C++ Experience with medical device standards for quality systems and product development.

Experience with consumer electronics industry/applications.

Experience designing and implementing test systems for high speed data acquisition systems.

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How to Apply It all starts with your online application. Please upload your resume and cover letter (optional) as a Word or PDF file: http://www.ndigital.com/careers/#jobs.

If you require any assistance during the application process, please contact us at: careers@ascension-tech.com.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. If you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access Ascension’s career website as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by calling Human Resources: +1 (877) 634 6340.

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Accounting Specialist and International Recruitment Specialist

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Mobile Outreach Clinician & Crisis Clinician

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Be part of an exciting initiative to prevent psychiatric hospitalizations, reduce high medical utilization, and prevent unnecessary arrests and incarcerations. We have openings on both our Mobile Outreach and Crisis Teams to provide 24/7 outreach and crisis services in Franklin and Grand Isle counties.

Seeking individuals with a Master’s Degree or a Bachelor’s Degree with relevant clinical experience. Crisis work requires teamwork with multiple providers, law enforcement and other agencies in the community. It is essential for candidates to have the ability to work under pressure and maintain a positive attitude in a constantly changing atmosphere. Some positions have set office hours and do not require being on call. Positions offer excellent benefits, a flexible work schedule and supervision towards licensure is available. Possible Sign-On Bonus! Our clinic is located close to Interstate 89 and is a 30 minute commute from Burlington.

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TETRA TECH ARD is recruiting for a full time Accounting Specialist (AS) to join its Burlington team, and an International Recruitment Specialist to join its Burlington or Arlington, VA team. The AS collaborates with headquarters and corporate staff for processing accounts payable, and payroll and overseas allowances. The International Recruitment Specialist works with proposal and project teams to recruit and onboard candidates for global development projects: Spanish fluency is strongly preferred.

Excellent communication and organization skills and detail orientation are critical for these fast-paced positions. Must haves include minimum of an Associate’s (Bachelor’s preferred) degree in related fields, solid MS Office skills, strong cross-cultural competencies, and a positive, optimistic outlook.

• Live in Burlington (or the DC area) and work in international development.

• Employ your Excel, a/p, and payroll; or sourcing, outreach, and team building skills for the greater good.

• Collaborate with development professionals around the world.

Apply on our Careers page at careers.tetratechintdev.com.

Please indicate where you saw Tetra Tech ARD’s ad.

Applications that do not meet the minimum requirements will not be considered. No calls.

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At Copley Hospital, taking care of our patients starts with taking care of our employees.

MASTER ELECTRICIAN The plant master electrician will be responsible for all electrical maintenance for our 200,000 sqft manufacturing facility in Colchester.

Surgical TechnologiSTS needed:

REQUIREMENTS • Master Electrician License.

• At least 5 years of related work experience, preferably in manufacturing.

• Able to work from electrical schematics, sketches, prints, and verbal instructions.

• Have a complete set of tools.

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Who We Are: We are a client-focused, values-driven company that provides comprehensive computer technical support for companies in New England and beyond. We prioritize our clients’ needs over sales goals, and enjoy crafting long-lasting relationships with clients who trust us to manage and maintain their IT systems.

Technical Client Account Manager and Sales (Burlington, Vermont) We are seeking a gregarious, motivated, directed, empathetic, curious and technically oriented client account manager and sales person. Our focus has always been on honest, mutually beneficial relationships with our clients, and this position is built to further that. Although it will involve a lot of new client outreach/sales, this is not a classic sales position in that it is a) not commissioned and b) very service oriented. If you love technology, people, travel and learning about the amazing things happening at companies throughout this region, please get in touch! Note: we will be filtering based on strong, compatible resumes and well written cover letters that explain why you are cut out for this specific position.

Above all, a successful candidate will closely reflect the values that this company is built upon: honesty, integrity, and an ambition to continually improve. We’re happy to train you, guide you, and help you succeed in any way we can!

Send resume and cover letter to oajobs@openapproach.com.

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We offer a very competitive salary, profit-sharing, 401(k), benefits, vacation, and a great work environment.

Full job description at: http://bit.ly/2mQuGbl Please submit your resume and or cover letter to hr@champcable.com or mail to 175 Hercules Dr. Colchester, VT 05446.

NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE.

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Anticipated openings: 3 Positions Available COUNTY SUPERVISOR POSITIONS: Responsibilities include: staff supervision; management of curriculum, lesson plans, child outcomes assessment, and child health and family data; file reviews;

recruitment and enrollment activities; management of program budgets, resources, community partnerships, accreditation and licensing projects. Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Special Education, or related field; 3 to 5 years relevant work experience; supervision experience. Knowledge and experience in: developmentally appropriate early childhood practice; child outcome assessment; child behavior management; curriculum planning, development and implementation. 40 hours/week, health plan and excellent benefits.

Chittenden County Supervisor (2 positions): Approx. 43 weeks/year, with summer layoff.

Addison County Supervisor: Approx. 43 weeks/year during school year, with some summer hours.

Successful applicants must have excellent verbal and written communication skills; skills in documentation and record-keeping; proficiency in MS Word, e-mail and internet; exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. Must be energetic, positive, mature, professional, diplomatic, motivated, and have a can-do, extra-mile attitude. A commitment to social justice and to working with families with limited financial resources is necessary. Clean driving record and access to reliable transportation required. Must demonstrate physical ability to carry out required tasks.

Please specify position and location, and submit resume and cover letter with three work references via email to: pbehrman@cvoeo.org. No phone calls, please.

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Nurses Wanted Apartment Cleaners/ Turnover Crew The Woolen Mill is currently seeking hardworking individuals that would like to earn a good salary while working in a great environment. Duties include cleaning appliances, bathrooms, lights and fans, washing windows and screens, shampooing carpet and ALL other facets of cleaning. Some work may require heavy lifting, being on staging or ladders.

Individuals must be responsible, reliable and dependable. Face-paced team effort with high standards of cleanliness.

Full time temporary position typically runs through October.

Monday – Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

GUARANTEED BONUS FOR COMPLETING THE SEASON. Please apply in person at 20 West Canal Street

DOWNTOWN RUTLAND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Downtown Rutland Partnership (DRP) is seeking a full-time Executive Director to serve as chief operating officer for the organization.

The DRP is looking for a candidate who is dedicated to improving the area, forward thinking, self-motivated and energetic as well as possess a strong drive for making Downtown Rutland a vibrant place to work, live and play.

The Residence at Shelburne Bay is a premiere Senior Living Community and are currently looking to expand our nursing team! We are looking to hire a Full-Time Day Nurse & a Full-Time Overnight Nurse.

$3000 Sign On Bonus!

Competitive wages and benefits including tuition reimbursement, medical, dental & vision for full time employees. Bonuses will be paid out after six months of employment. Must mention this ad in interview to be eligible.

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES: Management and Administration • Supervise small staff and oversee DRP committees • Manage the annual DRP work plan as approved by the Board, including areas of business development, marketing, specials events and streetscape.

• Financial management of the organization.

• Ensure compliance with state and federal mandates and regulations.

Leadership, Public Relations and Advocacy • Foster collaboration among various organizations within the city or state including public agencies, political leaders, individual constituents, and other community organizations.

• Nurture regular communication with diverse membership • Act as public relations representative for the media and in a variety of public contexts.

• Participate in local or statewide advocacy efforts.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE: • Experience with economic and business development, urban planning, municipal services, strategic communications, marketing, and real estate economics.

Short and Long-Term Strategic Planning • Participate in long-range planning efforts to shape downtown’s growth.

• Ability to evaluate performance metrics and link to organizational performance.

• Develop and implement fundraising and sponsor development strategies.

• Provide board with regular accountability reports.

Special Events, Marketing & Promotions • Responsible for maintaining a consistent brand and vision.

• Oversee specials events, including operational logistics and regulations, staff and committee tasks, participation, vendors, entertainment, and marketing.

• Work with downtown constituents to create new promotional initiatives.

• Experience with supervisory duties • Professional interpersonal • Excellent written, oral communication communication skills & public relations skills • Experience with marketing and • Highly developed organizational, time advertising strategies management & problem-solving skills

SALARY: $45k-$50k range TO APPLY: Send cover letter and resume to Glenda Hawley, DRP Board President at ghawley@catamountradio.com by May 1, 2017.

Downtown Rutland Partnership (DRP) is a not-for-profit 501c3 organization • rutlanddowntown.com

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Residential group home is seeking individuals to work with adolescent girls in a treatment program. Must be confident, motivated and have some experience working with kids.

Available positions include Sunday-Thursday 3 pm - 11 pm and a part time 20-30 hours on Saturday and Sunday.

Training provided. BC/ BS and Delta Dental benefits as well as paid time off. Must have a valid driver’s license and be willing to have a background check.

Please send resumes to blaire.orc@gmail. com or 111 Bliss Road, Montpelier, VT, 05602.

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STATION COORDINATOR

WBTV-LP, Burlington is a new community radio station in the Queen City, with a mission to connect people in Burlington with community radio that is created and curated locally, dedicated to the free and creative exchange of ideas and culture, and reflective of the diversity of our city. We do this by teaching the art of radio production and illuminating stories that are vital to our community. Our vision is to transform communities through participatory media and to create a unique radio landscape that inspires connection, collaboration and creativity.

The WBTV-LP Station Coordinator is a shared position on behalf of Vermont Community Access Media (VCAM) and the Regional Educational Television Network (RETN) that will support the weekly operations of the station.

The Station Coordinator reports to VCAM’s Director of Media Services and works closely with VCAM and RETN staff and WBTVLP community volunteers to ensure effective operations of the station. This is a part-time (10 hours per week) position with the potential for increased hours in the future.

Radiologic Technologists The University of Vermont Health Network - Central Vermont Medical Center is seeking Radiologic Technologists to join its Diagnostic Imaging team!

Opportunities are available in a variety of modalities, including X-Ray, CT and MRI, for per diem, part-time and full-time positions. The Diagnostic Imaging department serves the entire CVMC community at many of its locations, including the main hospital, Express Care, and specialized clinics. CVMC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including a generous CTO offering as well as tuition reimbursement.

For more information or to apply, visit: UVMHealth.org/CVMC/Jobs

Submit a cover letter and resume to: apply@vermontcam.org.

For full job description to go: vermontcam.org/jobs.

VCAM IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER (EOE), THIS INCLUDES PROVIDING EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO ALL APPLICANTS, REGARDLESS OF THEIR SOCIAL IDENTITIES. WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE WOMEN, PEOPLE OF COLOR, LGBTQ PEOPLE, AND THOSE WITH DIFFERING ABILITIES TO APPLY WHEN POSITIONS ARE OPEN.

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United States MAJOR DONOR & CORPORATE RELATIONS MANAGER

We are seeking a creative development professional to design and implement an enhanced major donor and prospect program to continually improve communications with and support from individuals throughout the state. The successful candidate will be part of a 9-person development team to support the Foodbank’s investment in broadening its donor base and commitment to long-term major donor cultivation.

This position requires creative thinking, the ability to manage consistent, meaningful relationships with donors and forge new philanthropic partnerships for the Foodbank. A complete job description is available upon request.

Please submit application on-line at vtfoodbank.org/employment; be sure to include a cover letter and resume. Attention: Human Resources Department, Francine Chittenden.

The Vermont Foodbank is an EEO.

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Probation Officer

(CL-27/28) $48,170 to $93,831 Full Time Permanent

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION COORDINATOR

TOUR COORDINATOR

U.S. Probation Officers work for the federal court, conduct bail and presentence investigations, and supervise federal defendants released to community supervision. The minimum requirement is a bachelor’s degree in an approved major with two years of specialized experience. The position is hazardous duty law enforcement with a maximum age of 37 at appointment. Prior to appointment, applicants considered for this position will undergo a full background investigation, as well as undergo a medical examination and drug screening. Starting salary range is from $48,170 to $93,831 (CL 27 to CL 28), depending on qualifications.

For further information and application instructions visit vtp.uscourts.gov/career-opportunities.

Deadline for complete applications is the close of business April 17, 2017.

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Organize and oversee the call for applications from Vermont faculty, review of the applications, and notification of awards. Administer intern programs for at large Vermont Interns and those at the Baccalaureate Partner Institutions. Provide faculty development support, perform assessment of the Core, and liaison with institutions, state and community groups, and NIH grant managers. Reports to VGN Director.

Master’s degree in an area of Biology, Chemistry, or related biomedical sciences and a minimum of three years of research related experience required. An understanding of liberal arts institutions in higher education is essential. Experience with undergraduate students and program administration required. Effective organizational, interpersonal and communication skills required.

Join a great team of international planners. Excellent organizational and system skills.

Have to enjoy logistics and project management.

Extensive travel experience and second language a plus.

Full-time, office position in downtown Burlington.

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Oversee the efforts of the Vermont Genetics Network (VGN) Professional Development and Education (PDE) Core to support scientific research and curriculum enhancement at our Baccalaureate Partner Institutes (BPIs). Work with Baccalaureate Partner Coordinators to design, oversee and organize annual grant writing workshops and professional development events.

As a member of the Outreach Team, work with faculty and staff from the VGN core facilities (Microarray, Bioinformatics, and Proteomics) to expose faculty and undergraduates in the State of Vermont to scientific technology and resources using hands-on experiences through workshops. These experiences increase the knowledge and the skills of faculty and undergraduate science students within the state, helping them in their scientific career development.

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Environmental Services Technicians Needed $3,000 SIGN-ON BONUS plus a new higher starting wage and shift differentials!

The University of Vermont Health Network – Central Vermont Medical Center is seeking Environmental Services (EVS) Technicians to join our team! EVS Technicians work together with the most advanced technology to maintain the hospital at the highest standards for cleanliness and infection prevention.

Full-time positions, training provided.

Learn more and apply online today: UVMHealth.org/CVMC/Jobs

vgn@uvm.edu uvmjobs.com Please apply online at uvmjobs.com/postings/23893 Company Name: University of Vermont Company Website: vgn.uvm.edu

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Town Administrator The Town of Bristol is seeking highly motivated candidates for the position of Town Administrator. Bristol (pop. 3894) is a steadily growing, vibrant community located in Central Vermont’s Addison County.

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The Selectboard is seeking an individual with strong business and financial management skills, ability to oversee 11 full-time, 4 part-time employees and 35 paid on call fire fighters, administer approximately $3.27 million in general operating and other funds, experience in economic development, grant writing, growth and planning issues. Knowledge of municipal process and municipal experience are a must. A detailed job description is available at bristolvt.org. Salary is commensurate with experience. Minimum of four years of municipal experience, Incident Command System training and degree, preferably in business or finance, are preferred.

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Commercial Loan Assistant

Team-oriented individual sought to fill the position of Commercial Loan Assistant in VEDA’s Montpelier office, providing administrative and technical support to loan officers and the Commercial Lending Team. The position requires an upbeat professional with computer proficiency particularly in Microsoft Office including Excel, strong written and verbal skills, accuracy, attention to detail, and organization.

Familiarity with business, lending, financial records and an Associate’s Degree is required.

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Food Service Worker & Line Chef ▪ The Food Service Worker is responsible for food production, food portioning, delivering trays to patients and working the retail section of the cafes. Must have at least one year of work experience in a customer service setting. Experience in food service strongly preferred.

▪ The Line Chef must have at least one year of experience in quantity food preparation. Experience in a lead role preferred.

▪ Full-time and per diem positions available. We offer a competitive wage, excellent benefits including health insurance, paid time off, retirement plans and tuition reimbursement.

UVMHealth.org/MedCenterJobs Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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Federal Housing Programs Assistant Seeking a part-time, temporary team member who shares our commitment to affordable housing & land conservation in Vermont. Assist the Federal Housing Programs Staff with monthly reporting functions, data management, correspondence, scheduling, and document management. Qualifications include: proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel software; capable writing skills; exceptional organizational skills; attention to detail and a concern for accuracy. Ability to work as a team member as well as independently in a congenial and professional manner with other staff and grantees.Experience working with non-profits preferred. Position not to exceed 3 months at 12-15-hours per week. EOE. Please send resume and cover letter to: Laurie Graves, VHCB, 58 East State Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 by April 4. See the the job description at www.vhcb.org/employment.html

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Program Assistant Are you a creative problem-solver, wellorganized, efficient, and able to manage competing priorities? If so, the Vermont Humanities Council, a statewide non-profit headquartered in Montpelier, wants to talk to you. We are seeking an energetic, full-time Program Assistant to administer the day-to-day operations of the Council’s public programs. We are looking for someone with excellent writing and overall communications skills who is attentive to detail and proficient in Word and Excel. Experience with Quickbooks and databases is a plus. We require a a love of learning and ideas, and offer in return a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package.

See website for full description.

Please send cover letter and resume by April 5, 2017 to: lwinter@vermonthumanities.org.

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With new ownership and a bold plan for the future, we are looking for fearless, creative and energetic people to join our sales teams.

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Here’s what we are looking for: • Recent sales background, preferably in media • The tenacity to prospect and grow a robust new business pipeline • A true empathy for your customers’ business • The brainpower to develop creative marketing solutions • Communication skills and a professional demeanor • Excellent follow-up, multitasking skills and attention to detail These are full-time positions and require a car and valid driver’s license. We offer full benefits along with a free gym membership!

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Valley Vista, an 80 bed chemical dependency and cooccurring treatment facility, is growing and is currently seeking full-time, part-time and per diem candidates for the following positions in both our Bradford and Vergennes locations:

LPNs

We are seeking LPNs with a valid VT license, for all shifts.

Chemical dependency or psychiatric nursing experience a plus. Additional compensation is offered for second and third shift.

Recovery Aides

Recovery Aides are responsible for monitoring patient activities and assisting in delivery of services. These positions are entry level positions, working with adolescents and adults recovering from addiction. No prior experience necessary. Knowledge of recovery is a plus.

Additional compensation is offered for second and third shift.

Valley Vista offers a competitive compensation and benefit package, tuition reimbursement, as well as paid trainings.

Valley Vista is an EOE. To apply, please email resume to: jenny.gilman@vvista.net or mail to:

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Visitor Center GMC is seeking a friendly, dynamic individual to work 1-2 days a week from mid-May to mid-October in our Visitor Center. Weekend and select holidays required. $11 to $13 per hour.

Great working environment. EOE. For more information on how to apply visit greenmountainclub.org/about/ employment-opportunities, or call 802-244-7037.

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Energy Program Director The Vermont Superintendents Association seeks a Program Director for the School Energy Management Program (SEMP); a program supporting energy efficiency in schools. The Director conducts energy audits of school buildings, provides information and training, and manages the program budget. The Director also monitors public policy related to energy efficiency and renewables for applicability to schools. Work is performed in cooperation with school facility personnel, Efficiency Vermont and other organizations.

Requirements: • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in energy engineering and management or equivalent.

• Knowledge of commercial building energy audit methodology including HVAC, envelope and electrical systems.

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New England Federal Credit Union, Vermont’s largest credit union with seven branch locations, is a growing organization committed to excellence in service, convenience and simplicity. NEFCU offers a stable, supportive, high-standards work environment, where employees are treated as key stakeholders. Please visit our website, nefcu.com, to learn more about the great opportunities and benefits that exist at NEFCU.

Deposit Services Specialist NEFCU has a great opportunity for a self-motivated, independent problem solver, who responds positively to a fast-paced environment to work with our Deposit Services team. The Deposit Services Specialist is responsible for maintaining Certificates of Deposit covering renewals and account updates and for processing deposit exceptions to include overdrawn accounts which consist of notifications, risk review, charge offs and reporting. The DS Specialist position is also responsible for maintaining the individual Retirement Account Portfolio encompassing required minimum distributions, annual mailings and preparation for tax reporting. The preferred candidate must manage their time effectively to provide timely service to internal and external customers. The successful candidate will be organized with strong analytic, communication and interpersonal skills.

NEFCU enjoys an employer-of-choice distinction with turnover averaging less than 10 percent. More than 96 percent of our 230 staff say NEFCU is a great place to work (2016 Annual Staff Survey).

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BURLINGTON SSG Advisors’ Finance and Accounting Department is seeking a motivated and skilled individual with accounts payable (A/P) experience to join its team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with accounting software with two-three years’ direct A/P experience. S/he should also possess a keen attention to detail and a demonstrated ability to accurately enter, check, and analyze numerical data.

Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications are required. Familiarity with US government contracting and US government rules and regulations preferred. SSG is an award-winning frontier market solutions firm based in Burlington that works with a variety of donor, commercial, and investor clients around the world.

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The entire place — and every ingredient — is free of peanuts and tree nuts.

Why so strict? It’s personal. Mazzella’s daughter was born with a potentially deadly allergy to nuts. “She’s never been able to do things we take for granted,” he said. “Most people can go out and have a celebratory dinner and get a piece of cake with a candle … For someone with an allergy, it becomes a fear.”

For Vermonters who would otherwise be unable to visit a restaurant with confidence, Mazzella hopes that Jules — which also features local ingredients and a full bar — will become a safe haven.

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As of the last week in March, the old CHUBBY MUFFIN kiosk at Burlington International Airport has been transformed into the SKINNY PANCAKE. Which means you don’t have to pass through security to get your locavore crêpe fix. According to co-owner BENJY ADLER, the new-and-improved kiosk maintains its previous espresso, beer and wine bar options.

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owners plan to outfit the back deck with ample seating, ambient lighting and other attractions that will invite patrons to relax and stay a while.

For now, visitors can partake in indoor games such as jumbo Jenga, pool, foosball, air hockey, cornhole, darts and tickets. The bar will also host live bands and karaoke — and, of course, all of the season’s sports games on huge TVs. In keeping with the sporty theme, Ruland and Garrett are soliciting sports pictures from locals. “We have a thousand frames, all ready to go,” Garrett said.

“We want this bar to be a clean bar, a safe bar. We want to match the direction the town is moving in. It’s always been a close-knit place; we want to keep it that way, but we want new people to visit and stay.”

Last Stop will host a grand opening celebration on April 21.

On Wednesday afternoon, March 29, news circulated through the Vermont fooderati that VERMONT CREAMERY had been sold to Minnesota cheese-andbutter giant Land O’Lakes for an undisclosed sum.

On Thursday, creamery cofounder ALLISON HOOPER said that operations will remain based in Vermont, and all the creamery’s 100-odd local employees will remain.

Creamery president ADELINE DRUART will retain her title while becoming a vice president at Land O’Lakes; Hooper said she’s confident Druart will remain a steadfast advocate for the creamery’s social and environmental mission.

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It’s been a little over three months since anyone bought a drink at CK’s Sports Bar. But this Saturday, April 8, two of its former bartenders, SHAYLA RULAND and SHANNON GARRETT, will open LAST STOP SPORTS BAR in CK’s space at 12 Malletts Bay Avenue in Winooski.

To drink, they’ll offer seven draft beers — mostly local — and wines by the bottle and glass. Food service will consist of endless free popcorn, pizzas and soft pretzels.

Though Garrett and Ruland have lots of love for their predecessor bar,

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“We dreamed of cleaning it up and making it into a place where all kinds of people feel comfortable,” Garrett said.

Turns out, the bar needed more than just cleaning to pass a city health inspection; planned updates evolved into a total renovation.

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As grease began to soak through the paper, I picked it up and peeked in.

It was a piping-hot order of fried gobo — known to Americans as burdock or, more commonly, that super-annoying plant whose burrs stick to your clothes and get tangled in your hair.

To the side sat a small dish of red powder (a blend of chile and other spices). “You toss the seasoning with the fries in the bag,” the server explained before darting away again. We did, and then dumped the cream-colored sticks out onto an elegant plate. Because they were hot, we devoured them immediately. Only then did we consider

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directing our chopsticks to a plate of raw hamachi topped with slivers of seaweed and drizzled with a rich sesame sauce.

Although it doesn’t conform to all the customs of an izakaya — a casual Japanese restaurant where people go to drink sake and eat snacks — that’s essentially what

Ichigo Ichie is. It’s as if a gastropub replaced poutine with tempura and fish and chips with sashimi. Dishes range in cost from $3 to $18 Canadian, but most are in the $8 to $12 range.

On a previous trip to Montréal, I’d eaten an excellent bowl of ramen at a tiny spot called Yokato Yokabai. I love bowls of noodles with rich, fatty broth and soft-cooked eggs, but this time I wanted to explore something that hewed more closely to tapas and to experience a wide variety of tastes.

So I chose the highly rated, 2-yearold Ichigo Ichie. “I just cannot believe this place exists in Montréal,” raves one online review. “We just could not stop ordering.” “Arguably the best izakaya in Montréal,” raved another.

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While at the ramen bar, one can only order a few of the elegant small plates from next door, but diners at Ichigo Ichie can have it all.

So that’s what we did, sampling a parade of small plates followed by a bowl of porky tonkatsu ramen.

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a plate of karaage — addictive bites of fried chicken — served with wasabi mayo. After all the meat was gone, we unabashedly licked our fingers.

With each dish, I admired the presentation of the food. A small ramekin of takowasa — raw octopus slicked with wasabi dressing — came piled on julienned daikon with rounds of red radish and a whole leaf of shiso (a plant in the mint family with delicate serrated leaves and a distinctive flavor) A special that night — clams sautéed with Chinese broccoli — was fashioned into a round and topped with a generous pile of microgreens. The petite leaves were all shapes and colors, including striking, slender magenta beet shoots.

The dish tasted as good as it looked, all tender brine-y flesh and slightly bitter brassica.

The serving ware was also noteworthy. Some of the dishes were classic white porcelain; others were beautifully

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glazed stoneware in shades of brown, green and cream. Still others looked like slightly crumpled pieces of paper, with uneven edges, curves, rises and dips.

Each course seemed perfectly suited to the plate on which it was served.

The restaurant’s décor was pleasing, too. The wooden table in our dark corner overlooked the open kitchen, which was illuminated by hanging lamps. Sake bottles lined a shelf above the bar. On the way to the restrooms, two walls were decorated with murals of classic, erotic Japanese paintings, although the genitals were pixelated with blue and white paint.

Having devoured our snacks, we awaited the ramen. Diners order the soup by checking desired ingredients on a little slip of paper and handing it to a server. You can select the kind of broth, as well as pork, chicken or vegetables.

The garnishes include crisp, lacy slices of lotus, kernels of corn and bamboo shoots.

Those sensitive to sodium can request a low-salt variation.

Our bowl — with extra salt, a liberal scattering of scallions and perfectly fatty pork — was just as good as I remembered. The slippery noodles were perfectly cooked. The fat at the top of the bowl gleamed in the light and on our lips.

We barely had room for dessert, but the green-tea tiramisu — sprinkled with shockingly green matcha powder — and an Asian variation on crème caramel were satisfying without being overly sweet.

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LEARNING ABOUT NONVIOLENCE: Participants of all ages explore nonviolence through discussion, song and excerpts of the short documentary Mighty Times: The Children’s March. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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ACRYLICS WITH SUE: Artistic types follow step-bystep instructions to create paintings. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

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COMMUNITY SUPPER: A scrumptious spread connects friends and neighbors. Bring a dessert to share. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 5-5:45 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300.

HOME SHARE PRESENTATION: Those looking for a housemate or to rent space for extra income learn the basics. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 12:30-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

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THE ART OF INCLUSION SYMPOSIUM: THE AGILE NONPROFIT: Accessibility is the focus of a day of professional development for nonprofit managers, directors and board members. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. $65-75; preregister.

Info, 828-5425.

VERMONT TOURISM SUMMIT: A gathering of industry professionals features workshops, social events, and keynoters Jason Dunkel and Mara Gorman. See vttourismsummit.org for details.

Stoweflake Mountain Resort & Spa, 8 a.m. $10-300.

Info, 865-5202.

crafts

KNITTING & MORE: FOUR NEEDLE TUBE SOCKS: Needleworkers of all skill levels pick up new techniques while working on projects. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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DANCE FOR A CHANGE: Montréal belly dancer Pierre Khouri, ethnic Arab desserts and henna designs top off a dance marathon aimed at raising money for Syrian Civil War victims in Aleppo. Angell College Center, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7-11 p.m. $5-8. Info, ecalv001@plattsburgh.edu.

ADAM COHEN: The Passiv Science cofounder looks to the low-carbon future in a state with a large amount of energy-inefficient buildings. Generator, Burlington, appetizers and cash bar, 5 p.m.; talk, 5:40 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0761.

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NEWS & BREWS: Citizens chat up Vermont business people and policy makers over cups of joe.

Generator, Burlington, 8-9 a.m. Free. Info, 540-0761.

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CLASSIC FILM SERIES: Movie lovers view cinematic masterpieces. Call for details. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-5290.

‘LIFE, ANIMATED’: A panel discussion follows a screening of this 2016 documentary in which a family overcomes challenges with the help of Disney movies. Sheraton Burlington Hotel, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 488-6912.

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MULE LOVES MAINE: Beer buffs sip suds from the Pine Tree State. Mule Bar, Winooski, noon-11 p.m.

Cost of drinks. Info, 399-2020.

NEYERS WINE DINNER: Traditional California vinos are featured in a nontraditional way alongside a menu of watercress salad, salt-cured carrots, balsamic glazed lamb chops and more. Cork Wine Bar & Market of Stowe, 6:30-9 p.m. $55; preregister.

Info, 760-6143.

VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: Local products — think veggies, breads, pastries, cheeses, wines, syrups, jewelry, crafts and beauty supplies — draw shoppers to a diversified bazaar. Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 342-4727.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: Strategic players have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $6. Info, 872-5722.

health & fitness

BONE BUILDERS: Folks of all ages ward off osteoporosis in this exercise and prevention class. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 7:30-8:30 & 9:15-10:15 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

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APR.11 | WORDS Poetry Party National Poetry Month in Vermont would be incomplete without a tribute to the state’s first poet laureate, Robert Frost — “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” was penned in his Shaftsbury home, after all. The Northeast Storytellers fête the four-time Pulitzer Prize winner with Remembering Robert Frost, a gathering honoring the life, work and legacy of the late wordsmith and longtime Vermont resident. Members of the public and St. Johnsbury House residents are welcome to join the Storytellers in sharing readings, reflections, anecdotes and experiences with Frost’s works of verse.

POETRY TEA PARTY: REMEMBERING ROBERT FROST Tuesday, April 11, 2-3:30 p.m., at St. Johnsbury House. Free. Info, 751-5432.

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by No Depression, Grammy Award-winning guitarist John Jorgenson “has a rare kind of genius for an instrumentalist in that he’s equally comfortable and capable of playing Buck Owens, Beatles riffs or jazz leads.” From his time in the Desert Rose Band in the ’80s to his six-year stint touring with Elton John in the ’90s to honoring the gypsy-jazz legacy of Django Reinhardt with the John Jorgenson Quintet, the music man has earned a reputation for his skill on the six-string. Jorgenson performs several concerts around the state, allowing students to showcase creative works onstage as part of the Community Engagement Lab’s Vermont Creative Schools Initiative.

APR.6-8 | MUSIC THE JOHN JORGENSON QUINTET Thursday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., at Barre Opera House. $10-25. Info, 4768188. barreoperahouse.org. Friday, April 7, 7:30 p.m., at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort. $20-35. Info, 760-4634. sprucepeakarts.org. Saturday, April 8, 7:30 p.m., at Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph. $10-25. Info, 728-6464. chandler-arts.org

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Samuel Beckett’s Molloy wasn’t written for the stage, but that hasn’t stopped the theater company Gare St Lazare Ireland from sharing it with audiences around the world. For 20 years, the group has taken the Nobel Prize-winning author’s avant-garde prose on the road, performing his non-theater works in more than 80 cities in 25 countries. Actor Conor Lovett returns to the Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse with an adaptation of the first installment in Beckett’s trilogy of novels. Directed by his wife, Judy Lovett, Conor embodies the title character, a vagrant prone to inner monologue who recounts the journey that led him to his bedridden state.

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If you’ve spent the long winter season in a state of hibernation, the Burlington Yoga Conference is the perfect opportunity to awaken the mind and body.

Over two days, seasoned yogis and those new to the mat stretch into spring with a wide variety of classes, workshops and presentations aimed at making yoga accessible to everyone. Participants can limber up over an entire day or start small with one session. After getting a sweat on, active bodies indulge in vegetarian meals, a “mindful marketplace,” and rejuvenating bodywork ranging from massage and Reiki to henna and sound healing.

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INSIGHT MEDITATION: Attendees absorb Buddhist principles and practices. Wellspring Mental Health and Wellness Center, Hardwick, 5:30-7 p.m. Free.

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NIA WITH LINDA: Eclectic music and movements drawn from healing, martial and dance arts propel 3/31/17 12:59 PMan animated barefoot workout. South End Studio, Burlington, 8:30-9:30 a.m. $14; free for first-timers.

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AN EVENING OF POETRY: TONY WHEDON, BARBARA MURPHY & DAVID CAVANAGH A storytime with City Market. Free.

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EILEEN CHRISTELOW: ROBINS! Celebrate spring with a 10am signing & 11am storytime. Free.

TAI CHI CLASS: Folks renew body, mind and spirit by learning Yang-style long-form postures, qigong, partner practice and yin/yang principles. McClure Multigenerational Center, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $15. Info, 453-3690.

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT NURSING STUDENT VISITS: Presentations on different types of healthy lifestyles promote well-being. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SOUND BATH: Draw in the good vibrations of gongs, bowls and didgeridoos — a relaxing sonic massage to get you through the week. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $15. Info, 510-697-7790.

WORKSHOP ON LIVING HEALTHIER: Community members ages 18 and up who are living with ongoing conditions such as diabetes, heart disease or anxiety learn to better manage their wellness in a six-week seminar. United Way of the Adirondack Region, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1:30-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 518-564-3371.

YOGA NIDRA: THE YOGA OF DEEP RELAXATION: Savitri Devi Dasi leads students into a state of deep meditation, which brings profound calmness, quietness and relaxation. Bring a blanket and something comfortable to lie on. Cavendish Gallery, Burlington, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 206-557-9850.

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DOROTHY’S LIST BOOK CLUB: Readers ages 8 through 11 express likes and dislikes about Escape From Baxter’s Barn by Rebecca Bond. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 264-5660.

LEGO CHALLENGE: Kids tackle construction tasks with colorful blocks. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1391.

LEGO CLUB: Kiddos ages 6 and up snap together snazzy structures. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

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LITTLE EXPLORERS: A FAMILY OUTDOOR ADVENTURE PROGRAM: Tykes take in the wonders of spring with Mr. K. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m.

Free. Info, 868-3970.

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RICHMOND STORY TIME: Lit lovers ages 2 through 5 are introduced to the wonderful world of reading.

Richmond Free Library, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036.

Join Farmer John and Laddie to celebrate springtime & Easter. Free.

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SCIENCE STORY TIME: SPRING!: Budding scientists seek signs of the new season. ECHO Leahy Center

STORY TIME WITH A TWIST: Wee ones get the wiggles and giggles out with Ms. Liza. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SPENDING – WHY WE BUY: Dusty Young of GreenPath Financial Wellness talks dollars and sense in a seminar centered on the factors that influence buying behavior. VSECU, Williston, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 800-371-5162.

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Hall Park, 6:30-9 p.m. $5; free for first-timers. Info, YOGA FOR KIDS: Yogis ages 2 through 5 strike a bh3@burlingtonhash.com. pose to explore breathing exercises and relaxation WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: Ladies dribble techniques. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11up and down the court during an evening of 11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. friendly competition. Lyman C. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 8:15-9:30 p.m. $3; preregister at language meetup.com. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

BEGINNER ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Students build a foundation in reading, speaking and writing. talks Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free.

ARTIST TALK: ‘PERFORMANCE AS ACTIVISM’: Tap Info, 865-7211. dancer Michelle Dorrance and singer Toshi Reagon GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community reflect on their roles in carrying on cultural tradimembers practice conversing auf Deutsch. Local tions. Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall, Dartmouth History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, College, Hanover, N.H., 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: Pupils imCAROL BERRY: The First Wednesdays series lecture prove their speaking and grammar mastery. Private “Vincent van Gogh and the Books He Read” looks at residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757. ways in which authors such as Charles Dickens and INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE George Elliot influenced the painter’s life and art.

CLASS: Learners take communication to the next Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. level. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m.

Info, 388-4095.

Free. Info, 865-7211.

CHRIS BOHJALIAN: Words and photographs ilLUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: Hola! lustrate the role that history plays in the Vermont Language lovers perfect their fluency. Kelloggnovelist’s work in the First Wednesdays series Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, talk “The Genocide and the Love Story: Fiction as 223-3338.

Activism.” Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902.

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GINGER’S FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Students get pumped with an interval-style workout that boosts muscle strength, cardiovascular fitness, agility, balance and coordination. Middlebury Municipal Gym, 7-8 a.m. $12. Info, 343-7160.

STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: Engrossing plots unfold into fun activities for tots up to age 6. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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MAKING AN HERBAL FIRST-AID KIT: Now that your kit is ready, how do you use it? Students in the final class in a three-part series role-play emergency situations. Railyard Apothecary and Yoga Studio, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. $25. Info, 540-0595.

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GENTLE TAI CHI: Madeleine Piat-Landolt guides students in a sequence of poses with an emphasis on relaxation and alignment. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

SEWING CLUB II: Stitchers build upon their skills with Karin Hernandez. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

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EVERY WEDNESDAY, EVERYONE TAI CHI: Beginners and longtime practitioners alike improve balance, posture and coordination through the Chinese martial art. Ascension Lutheran Church, South Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Donations. Info, 862-8866.

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EPIC MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: Guided practice and group conversation with Yushin Sola cultivate well-being. Railyard Apothecary and Yoga Studio, Burlington, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $14. Info, 299-9531.

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GEORGE CLANTON: Pop hooks propel tunes from the 2015 album 100% Electronica. Negative Gemini open. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $8-10. Info, 540-0406.

JUNYA IWATA: The solo piano recital “Two TwentyTwos” is the culmination of the student musician’s independent study work. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free.

Info, 443-3168.

THE MOONLIGHTERS BIG BAND: The Farmers Night Concert Series continues with a repertoire ranging from soft rock to swing. House Chamber, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 828-2228.

SONG CIRCLE: Singers and musicians congregate for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes.

Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m.

Donations. Info, 775-1182.

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WILDLIFE TRACKING FOR KIDS & ADULTS: Nature lovers keep their eyes peeled for signs of woodland species during an outdoor expedition. Jericho Town Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 899-4686.

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INNER WORLDS: HUMAN ECOLOGY & THE MICROBIOME: Clinical herbalist Emma Merritt leads an exploration into the connection between wellness and the vitality of the human microbial ecosystem along with fermented foods that support good health. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $12-15. Info, 224-7100.

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DAVID MACAULAY: An overview of his current projects and challenges rounds out the author and illustrator’s First Wednesdays series talk “Life in the Studio.” Rutland Free Library, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

JANE CARROLL: The Dartmouth College professor shares her expertise in “Reformation and Response: What Luther Did to Art,” a First Wednesdays series lecture. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-8291.

SAM QUINONES: The author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic addresses audience members as part of the Mark L. Rosen Lecture Series. A signing and reception follow.

Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4324.

THE SPARK OF CREATIVITY: CONVERSATION SERIES: Fran Stoddard moderates a discussion between artist Rebecca Schwarz and Integrated Arts Academy’s Judy Klima, who consider the topic “Fostering Creativity.” All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8686.

tech

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Electronics novices develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon & 1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.

VERMONT CODERS CONNECTION: ‘BURLINGTON: A COMMUNITY OF OPPORTUNITY ... FOR YOU’: Folks ranging from the curious to the professional lend

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their ears for 20 lightning talks about possibilities for area technologists and entrepreneurs. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com.

and entrepreneurs. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 1-5 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 656-8780.

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A COMIC EVENING OF READERS’ THEATER: Lit lovers listen, laugh and take part in two short comedies by Christopher Durang. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2518.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘HEDDA GABLER’: Ruth Wilson plays the dramatic title role in an on-screen production of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s tale of an aristocratic newlywed who confronts the banality of married life. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $23. Info, 603-646-2422.

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BOOK SALE: Bibliophiles bag gently used books, CDs, DVDs and puzzles for all ages. Rutland Free Library, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

JAY PARINI: The Vermont wordsmith regales lit lovers with a First Wednesdays series reading and discussion of his New and Collected Poems: 19752015. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

WEDNESDAY EVENING BOOK CLUB: Avid readers exchange ideas and opinions about Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:45-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP: Lit lovers analyze works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup. com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

WRITING CIRCLE: Prompts lead into a 30-minute free write and sharing opportunities without judgment.

The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

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VERMONT TOURISM SUMMIT: See WED.5, 8 a.m.6:30 p.m.

CHRISTAL BROWN: Boxing meets hip-hop and modern dance in “The Opulence of Integrity,” a work inspired by the life of Muhammad Ali. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $30. Info, 863-5966.

FRIDAY, APR. 14, 7:30 P.M.

FACULTY DANCE CONCERT: Gabriel Forestieri, Scotty Hardwig, Paloma McGregor, Maree ReMalia and Lida Winfield take the stage with original works. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6-12. Info, 443-6433.

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FOR REAL WOMEN SERIES WITH BELINDA: GIT UR FREAK ON: R&B and calypso-dancehall music is the soundtrack to an empowering sensual dance session aimed at confronting body shaming. Swan Dojo, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $15. Info, bestirredfitness@gmail.com.

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ASTROLOGY MEET-UP: Beginners and advanced practitioners alike come together to talk and share resources on the study of celestial bodies. Railyard Apothecary and Yoga Studio, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 318-6050.

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DANCE, PAINT, WRITE: DROP-IN: Teens and adults create, connect, heal and grow through self-guided movement and art set to music. Expressive Arts Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $20; free for first-timers.

Info, 343-8172.

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HUMAN RESOURCES LUNCH & LEARN: Suzanne Ellis of Ellis HR facilitates a monthly program delving into hot topics in the human resources profession. Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce Office, noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 773-2747.

LA LECHE LEAGUE MEETING: Nursing mothers share breastfeeding tips and resources. Essex Free Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, lllessexvt@gmail.com.

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SPRING BLOOMS! FASHION SHOW & DINNER: Community members model threads from the clothier Expressions at a benefit for the Visiting Nurse Association’s parent-child center. Doubletree Hotel, South Burlington, 5-7 p.m. $75. Info, 860-4435.

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COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Area residents chew the fat over the values of space and community growth. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-4928218, ext. 303.

INVENTION2VENTURE CONFERENCE: MassChallenge’s Scott Bailey keynotes this annual event aimed at connecting academic researchers

To test a vaccine against a respiratory virus

• Ages 18-35 • 8 day/7 night inpatient stay

‘AN AMERICAN IN PARIS’: A struggling artist is torn between two women in this 1951 musical starring Gene Kelly. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 7:309:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3981.

• 2 outpatient screening visits

‘JUNCTION 48’: Vermonters for Justice in Palestine host a screening of this 2016 film about two young Palestinian hip-hop artists who fall in love.

Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 864-4742.

• 4 outpatient follow up visits • Up to $1650 compensation

‘LITTLE JERUSALEM’: Archival images and interviews with their descendants tell the story of Lithuanian Jews who settled in Burlington during the late 19th century. A discussion with director Dorothy Dickie and local historians follows.

Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 503-1132.

Call 802-656-0013 for more info and to schedule a screening.

Leave your name, number and a good time to call back.

food & drink

MINDFUL EATING: A LOOK AT SPRING BITTERS: A workshop encourages eaters to become familiar with the season’s bitter-tasting yet beneficial vegetables. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 861-9753.

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SIMON PEARCE WINE DINNER: AN EVENING OF SPANISH WINES: Specially chosen varieties featuring bright and bold flavors accompany a curated five-course meal. Simon Pearce Restaurant, Quechee, 6-9 p.m. $95; preregister. Info, 295-1470.

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BURLINGTON BUSINESS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL DINNER & AWARDS: The theme “Roaring Twenties” inspires the 39th annual gathering, complete with cocktails, tasty fare, a live auction and an awards ceremony. Hilton Burlington, 5-9 p.m. $100-125; preregister. Info, 863-1175.

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NEWBERRY MARKET: Shoppers browse specialty foods, clothing, pottery, décor, collectibles and more at a weekly indoor bazaar. Newberry Market, White River Junction, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 299-0212.

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BRANCH OUT BURLINGTON! TREE KEEPER TRAINING: Arborist Brian Sullivan gets to the root of planting, caring for and pruning leaf-andtrunk varieties. Parks and Recreation Department Building, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 617-794-7192.

OPEN STUDIO: Friends new and old convene for a creative session. Expressive Arts Burlington, 12:302:30 p.m. $15. Info, 343-8172.

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games

CHITTENDEN COUNTY CHESS CLUB: Checkmate!

Strategic thinkers make calculated moves as they vie for their opponents’ kings. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 324-1143.

CHAIR YOGA: Yogis limber up with modified poses. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 316-1510.

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: A 20-minute guided practice with Andrea O’Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161.

CORNWALL FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Interval training helps participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness. Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department, 9-10 a.m. $12. Info, 343-7160.

FORZA: THE SAMURAI SWORD WORKOUT: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when using wooden replicas of the weapon.

North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: A peaceful, guided meditation helps participants achieve a sense of stability and calm. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 777-8602.

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TAI CHI: Experienced fitness teacher Denise Ricker leads participants in the slow martial art passed down through generations. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 1:30-2:15 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, pdricker@comcast.net.

TAI CHI BEGINNER CLASS: Students get a feel for the ancient Chinese practice. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

THE USE OF CBD HEMP OIL & ESSENTIAL OILS FOR PAIN RELIEF: Clinical aromatherapist Lauren Andrews suggests natural methods for curbing chronic discomfort. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-7; preregister. Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

YOGA: A Sangha Studio instructor guides students who are in recovery toward achieving inner tranquility. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 5-6 p.m.

Free. Info, 448-4262.

kids

BABY & TODDLER PLAYGROUP: Parents connect while kids up to age 3 enjoy toys, stories, challah and juice. Social Hall, Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, grace@ ohavizedek.org.

LEGO CLUB: Brightly colored interlocking blocks inspire developing minds. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

PJ STORY HOUR: Little ones dress for bed and wind down with tales and treats. Fairfax Community Library, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

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READ TO A DOG: Book hounds ages 5 through 10 curl up with a good story and a furry friend. Fairfax Community Library, 3:15-4:15 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 849-2420.

READ TO ARCHIE: Budding bookworms join a friendly therapy dog for entertaining tails — er, tales. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:15-4 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-6956.

TECH SUPPORT: Need an email account? Want to enjoy ebooks? Bring your phone, tablet or laptop to a weekly help session. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 5:30-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-8291, ext. 302.

BEGINNER-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: Basic communication skills are on the agenda at a guided lesson.

Private residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.

FRENCH CONVERSATION: Speakers improve their linguistic dexterity in the Romantic tongue. Bradford Public Library, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536.

ROGER HILL: In “1816 — The Year Without a Summer,” the weatherman looks back on the snowy months that led to failed crops and near-famine conditions in parts of North America and Europe.

Stowe Free Library, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 253-6145.

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‘WILLY WONKA’: A visit to the chocolate factory entertains young audiences in the Lyman C. Hunt Middle School rendition of the Roald Dahl tale.

Lyman C. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 4 p.m.

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TEEN MOVIE NIGHT: DISNEY: Cinephiles in grades 6 through 12 break out the popcorn for a fun flick.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-8 p.m.

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PLAUDERSTUNDE: Conversationalists with basic knowledge of the German language put their skills to use over lunch. Zen Gardens, South Burlington, noon. Cost of food and drink. Info, 863-3305.

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GEORGE MATTHEW JR.: St. Stephen’s Lenten Concert Series continues with a recital of Scandinavian and Czechoslovakian organ music.

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on the Green, Middlebury, 12:15-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7200.

THE JOHN JORGENSON QUINTET: The guitarist channels the style of Django Reinhardt in an evening of 21st-century world music. See calendar spotlight. Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $10-25.

Info, 476-8188.

NORTHERN FLYER: Four veteran Vermont musicians band together, bringing their first-rate harmonies and instrumental expertise to hard-driving bluegrass numbers. BCA Center, Burlington, 7:309:30 p.m. $10. Info, andysachervt@gmail.com.

SEAMUS BLAKE QUARTET: Toes tap when the New York-based saxophonist serves up contemporary jazz stylings. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

seminars

GLOBAL HERBALISM SERIES: TANZANIA, EAST AFRICA: Educator Guido Masé discusses empowerment, decolonization and East African flora in the context of his work in a rural Tanzania hospital.

Railyard Apothecary and Yoga Studio, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 540-0595.

HOWARD CENTER SPRING COMMUNITY EDUCATION SERIES: Experts soothe nerves with “Nothing to Fear: Anxiety and Its Management Across the Lifespan.” Dealer.com, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 488-6912.

sports

FREE AIKIDO CLASS: An introduction to the Japanese martial art focuses on centering and finding freedom while under attack. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 951-8900.

talks

ASHLEY SPOONER: An installment of the James P. Taylor Outdoor Adventure Series treats listeners to the talk “Day Hiking the Lofoten Islands of Norway.”

Green Mountain Club Headquarters, Waterbury Center, 7-8 p.m. $5-8. Info, 241-8327.

KATIE KIRBY: “Interrupting Whiteness: Racial Estrangement, the Command to Hear and the Reorientation of Reason” gets gears turning. Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, noon. Free. Info, 654-2000.

LUNCH & LEARN: Lit lovers listen in on “The Evolution of British Poetry in the First World War” over a light lunch. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, Northfield, noon-2 p.m.

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‘9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL’: Lyric Theatre has audience members dancing in their seats during this comic musical based on the 1980 hit movie. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $23-38. Info, 863-5966.

‘ARCADIA’: Tom Stoppard’s play, staged by the Middlebury College Department of Theatre, is a compelling blend of science, mathematics, literature, landscape architecture and, of course, sex. Wright Memorial Theatre, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $6-12. Info, 443-6433.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘TWELFTH NIGHT’: Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a broadcast production of Shakespeare’s comedy about love, assumed identities and the hilarious intersection of the two.

Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 2 & 7 p.m. $18. Info, 863-5966. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600.

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BOOK DISCUSSION: Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates sparks a spirited dialogue.

Norwich Public Library, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184.

BURLINGTON WRITERS WORKSHOP NEW MEMBER WORKSHOP: Newcomers learn about opportunities to get involved with the group and review works of fiction, nonfiction or poetry. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

EXTEMPO: Local raconteurs tell first-person true stories before a live audience. Bridgeside Books, Waterbury, 8-10 p.m. $5. Info, 244-1441.

POEMCITY — WRITING POEMS ABOUT PEOPLE: A GENERATIVE WORKSHOP: Existing works prompt penmen and -women to capture another’s life in verse. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 223-3338.

RECITE!: Rhyme-and-meter masters regale listeners with original and chosen poetry at this monthly meet-up. Mon Vert Café, Woodstock, 5:30-7 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 457-299-7073.

TELL IT AT TWIGGS: Moth Story Slam winner Bill Torrey hosts an evening of live first-person storytelling. Twiggs — An American Gastropub, St. Albans, 7-8:45 p.m. $5. Info, 434-4293.

TODD DAVIS: The prolific poet shares his gift of verse. Kreitzberg Library, Norwich University, Northfield, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 704-418-1697.

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PEACE VIGIL: Friends and neighbors come together, bringing along their signs and their hearts.

Top of Church St., Burlington, 5-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 899-1731.

bazaars

SPRING INTERNATIONAL MARKET: Crafts, jewelry, artwork, clothing and other unique items tempt shoppers. Alliot Student Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

community

FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal.

Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288.

conferences

20TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM: PMI Champlain Valley Chapter celebrates two decades of serving the local project management and business communities. Doubletree Hotel, South Burlington, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $185-235. Info, publicrelations@pmicv.org.

VERMONT HONDURAS PARTNERS CONFERECE: Former Vermont governor Madeleine Kunin delivers the keynote address during a day dedicated to exploring relations between Vermonters and Central Americans. Chase Community Center, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, sheldon.novick@gmail.com.

dance

BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: Learn new moves with Ballroom Nights, then join others in a dance social featuring the waltz, tango and more. Singles, couples and beginners are welcome. Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance social, 8-9:30 p.m. $10-14; $8 for dance only. Info, 862-2269.

BEING IN MOVEMENT: ENHANCING POTENTIAL & EXPRESSION: Sara McMahon guides dancers in a monthly workshop aimed at facilitating a lively interplay between inner connectivity and outer expressivity. Chase Dance Studio, Flynn Center, Burlington, 5:45 p.m. $25; preregister; limited space. Info, 652-4537.

‘THE BLUES PROJECT’: Singer Toshi Reagon provides the soundtrack to tap company Dorrance Dance’s tribute to traditional American music and movement. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $1050. Info, 603-646-2422.

CHRISTAL BROWN: See THU.6, 8 p.m.

ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: Jubilant motions with the Green Mountain Druid Order inspire divine connections. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 505-8011.

ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE: Val Medve calls the steps for newcomers and experienced movers in casual dress. Bring snacks to share. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 899-2378.

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AARP TAX HELP: Professionals offer advice and answer questions as Tax Day approaches. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 658-3585.

SPRING AUCTION: Gift certificates, artwork, lawn and garden items, maple syrup, jewelry, and more are up for grabs during live and silent auctions supporting the Champlain Valley Christian School Capital Campaign Fund. American Legion Post 27, Middlebury, 6:30 p.m. $7.50. Info, 759-2031.

film

FLY FISHING FILM TOUR: Viewers embark on a thrilling journey into the art and adventure of the sport. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $15-17.

Info, 388-7245.

GLOBAL ROOTS FILM FESTIVAL: QUÉBEC: International motion pictures grace the silver screen at a celluloid celebration of our neighbors to the north. See vtiff.org for details. Burlington City Hall Auditorium. $5-40; free for Vermont International Film Foundation members. Info, 660-2600.

INTERNATIONAL OCEAN FILM TOUR: Viewers go under the sea during movies capturing water sports, environmental issues and aquatic adventures. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 603-646-2422.

food & drink

COOKING DEMO: James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Molly Stevens and the Intervale Center’s Travis Marcotte dish out a culinary conversation focused on local ingredients. Healthy Living

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Market & Café, South Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $15.

Info, 863-2569.

Winooski Memorial Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 655-6424.

LENTEN FISH FRY: Neighbors rub elbows over helpings of haddock, French fries, coleslaw, beverages and dessert. Bristol St. Ambrose Parish, 5-7 p.m. $6-12.50; $37 per immediate family of five.

Info, 453-2488.

TEEN ADVISORY BOARD: High school students put their heads together to plan programs for the library. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

PREPERFORMANCE DINNER: Concertgoers fuel up for Paul Lewis’ performance with a seasonal buffet-style meal. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 6:30 p.m. $30; cash bar. Info, 443-6433.

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games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.5, 9:15 a.m.

health & fitness

ACUDETOX: Attendees in recovery undergo acupuncture to the ear to propel detoxification.

Turning Point Center, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

BONE BUILDERS: See WED.5, 7:30 a.m.

FITNESS FLOW YOGA: All types of athletes can build strength, increase flexibility and prevent injuries with a moderate-to-vigorous vinyasa flow.

Colchester Health & Fitness, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $15; free for members. Info, 860-1010.

FREESTYLE DANCE FITNESS: Jumps, flips, spins, kicks and squats set to high-energy music help students shake awake their chi. Railyard Apothecary and Yoga Studio, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $14. Info, railyardyoga@gmail.com.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.5.

TAI CHI ADVANCED CLASSES: Attendees keep active with a sequence of slow, controlled movements. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

YOGA DANCE: Participants leave their mats at home for an energizing class combining yogic elements of meditation and stretching with free-flowing movement. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 8-9:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 448-4262.

kids

ACORN CLUB STORY TIME: Little ones up to age 4 gather for read-aloud tales. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

BABY YOGA: Infants and their grown-ups get flexible with poses such as happy baby, flying baby and dancing baby. Jericho Town Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, sharingcircleeducation@gmail.com.

THE JOHN JORGENSON QUINTET: See THU.6, Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7:30 p.m. $20-35. Info, 760-4634.

MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY WIND ENSEMBLE SPRING CONCERT: A varied program including the music of Copland, Tchaikovsky and Henry Mancini demonstrates the versatility of reed instruments.

Auditorium, Middlebury Union High School, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 388-3215.

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PAUL LEWIS: The internationally renowned pianist plays a mixed repertoire program including works

by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Weber. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6-25. Info, 443-6433.

PHIL HENRY ACOUSTIC TRIO: The singer-songwriter pleases the crowd with vivid lyrical imagery.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 518-561-6920.

REVIBE: Tight composition gives way to improvisation in a mix of funk, rock, jazz and electronica by the four-piece group. Swimmer open. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $8. Info, 540-0406.

SOLO JAZZ PIANO FESTIVAL: Eight concerts and five master classes taking place over a day and a half celebrate the 88 keys. Vermont Jazz Center, Brattleboro, 5 p.m. $20-80. Info, 254-9088.

VERMONT CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Poetry by Kerrin McCadden inspired works by four female composers. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $12-25. Info, 777-7361.

WINTER WINE DOWN MUSIC SERIES: Locals welcome the weekend with live music by Dale & Darcy, award-winning wine and mouthwatering eats.

Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, 6-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 372-9463.

outdoors

INTRODUCTION TO BACKPACKING: Aspiring adventurers prepare to hit the trail safely with this Green Mountain Club workshop covering gear selection, trip planning, first aid and nutrition. Green Mountain Club Headquarters, Waterbury Center, 6-8 p.m. $15; preregister; limited space. Info, gmc@greenmountainclub.org.

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6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

RICK WINSTON: Film clips from flicks such as PLAY GROUP: Crafts and snacks amuse young’uns On the Waterfront and High Noon illustrate “The up to age 5. Doty Memorial Elementary School, Hollywood Blacklist.” Maple Corner Community Worcester, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, moonsong148@ Center, Calais, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 454-7013. hotmail.com.

STORY TIME: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers drop in for books, rhymes, songs and activities.

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EARLY-BIRD MATH STORY TIME: Books, songs and games put a creative twist on mathematics.

Community Room, Richmond Free Library, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036.

CONCERT BAND: D. Thomas Toner conducts a varied program featuring student musicians.

University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

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BIG & MESSY — ART SPACE: Process, not product, is the focus of this parent-child creative session with open-ended art stations.

River Arts, Morrisville, 10 a.m.-noon.

Free. Info, 888-1261.

‘2 MOON SMILE’: Soprano Mary Bonhag sings the role of Pink Lycra in Australian composer Padma Newsome’s chamber opera, presented as part of Heliand Consort’s 10th anniversary season.

Federated Church of Rochester, 7:30-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 735-3611.

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ALL-AGES STORY TIME: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers participate in finger plays and action rhymes. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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including counseling, clothing, personal hygiene items, food and survival supplies. American Legion, Post 91, Colchester, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 862-1806.

‘ARCADIA’: See THU.6.

conferences

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‘9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL’: See THU.6.

‘SPAMALOT’: King Arthur and his motley crew of knights meet medieval mishaps in this Tony Award-winning musical, staged by the Mount Mansfield Union High School Theatre Department.

Mt. Mansfield Union High School, Jericho, 7:309:30 p.m. $6-9. Info, 899-4690.

BURLINGTON YOGA CONFERENCE: Limber up!

Yogis align breath and body with two days of classes and workshops led by area teachers. See calendar spotlight. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. $28-170. Info, burlingtonyogaconference@gmail.com.

words

HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM: Families and professional caregivers hear expert information on research, speech and nutrition, advocacy and music therapy. Southern Vermont College, Bennington, 9:30 a.m.-3:15 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 978-905-5588.

FRIDAY MORNING WORKSHOP: Wordsmiths offer constructive criticism on works-in-progress by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

GREEN WRITERS PRESS BOOK LAUNCH PARTY: Special guests join GWP writers and founder Dede Cummings to fête the Vermont-based publisher dedicated to sustainable practices. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 387-0102.

POEMCITY — CELEBRATING THE POETRY & PHOTOGRAPHY OF GEORGE LISI (1952-2014): Words and images meet during a reading and slide presentation of written and photographic works by the late Vermont creative.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 1:30-3 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

TOLKIEN AT UVM CONFERENCE: Scholars and students convene to read papers based on the theme “Romances in Middle-earth.” Lafayette Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. $15-25; free for UVM and high school students.

Info, cvaccaro@uvm.edu.

dance

‘THE BLUES PROJECT’: See FRI.7.

BUNNY HOP DANCE: People with developmental disabilities, their families and friends don their dancing shoes and bust a move to music by DJ Darren Quick. Spring crafts and refreshments round out the fun. Masonic Lodge, St. Albans, 1-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 524-5197.

POEMCITY — POETRY OF POPULAR CULTURE & SUPERHEROES: George Longenecker reads original and selected modern works drawing on everyday imagery, real people and imaginary characters. A wine and cheese reception follows. T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

CONTRA DANCE: Red Dog Riley provide the soundtrack to a social TH R dance called by Adina Gordon. Bring U. YE 6| FL MU clean, soft-soled shoes. Bridport SIC | N OR TH ER N Masonic Hall, 7-9:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 462-3722.

POETRY READING: Five local scribes share their INTERMEDIATE TAP MASTER CLASS: Renowned way with words in conjunction with the opening of dancer and choreographer Michelle Dorrance the exhibition “The Art of the World.” Art on Main, pushes students toward their potential in moveBristol, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 453-4032. ment and music. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 3 p.m. $10. Info, 603-646-2422.

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SYMPOSIUM FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTION GROUPS: Community members scope out opportunities to get involved with local organizations such as Black Lives Matter VT, Migrant Justice and Vermont CARES. Burlington High School, 9 a.m.3:30 p.m. $10-20; free for high school students; preregister. Info, 863-2345, ext. 1.

agriculture

PERMACULTURE WITH KEITH MORRIS: Green thumbs get the dirt on the creating natural landscapes incorporating perennial edible plants while sustaining and supporting the land. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

SHEEP & SHEAR DELIGHTS: From cutting to spinning to felting, animal lovers witness wool in action. Shelburne Farms, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $5-6. Info, 985-8686.

TREE PRUNING WORKSHOP: John Snell presents tips for arboreal upkeep, then demonstrates his techniques outside. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

bazaars

SPRING INTERNATIONAL MARKET: See FRI.7, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

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MONTPELIER MEMORY CAFÉ: People experiencing memory loss and their caretakers connect in a relaxed atmosphere. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-2518.

VETERANS STAND DOWN DAY: Homeless and needy veterans and their families connect with organizations providing products and services

MONTPELIER CONTRA EXCHANGE: CONTRA + CHALLENGING CONTRA: J ​ eremiah McLane, Katie McNally, and Neil Pearlman provide the tunes for regular and difficult dances. Capital City Grange, Berlin, contra, 8-9:45 p.m.; mini workshop, 9:45-10 p.m.; challenging contra, 10:15-11 p.m. $6-12. Info, contraexchange@gmail.com.

SECOND SATURDAY SWING DANCE: Quick-footed participants get into the groove with DJ-spun songs. Bring clean shoes with non-marking soles.

Champlain Club, Burlington, beginner lesson, 8 p.m.; dance, 8:30 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382.

STUDENT CHOREOGRAPHY SHOWCASE: University of Vermont choreography and dance composition students perform original works in various styles.

Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. $5-10. Info, 229-4676.

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ARTISAN AUCTION, WINE RAFFLE & DINNER: Fueled by a Cajun-inspired dinner and New Orleans jazz, attendees bid on big-ticket items to support the Saxon Hill School. Catamount Country Club, Williston, 5:30-9:30 p.m. $30. Info, 899-3832.

FILM VIEWING & BOOK DISCUSSION: Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time author Tanya Stone leads a talk on her 2017 title, accompanied by a screening of the film of the same name. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, noon-2 p.m. $25 includes one movie ticket and one book; $30 includes two movie tickets and one book. Info, 229-0774.

FULL MOON PARTY & KAVA LOUNGE: Music, dance and good cheer are on the menu at a family-friendly gathering where a mocktail bar serves up relaxing herbal beverages. Railyard Apothecary and Yoga Studio, Burlington, 7-11 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0595.

INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY MEETING PLACE: Brainstorming leads to forming activity groups for hobbies such as flying stunt kites and playing

music. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0030.

ONE SPRING FLING: Raffle prizes, an awards ceremony and a photo booth complement live tunes at a fundraiser for the ONE Good Deed Fund. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. Donations; BYOB. Info, 238-7994.

‘SPRING INTO SUMMER’ SPORTSWEAR FASHION SHOW: Dancers and athletes model the season’s hottest styles at a fundraiser for the University of Vermont Cancer Center and Brain Injury Association of Vermont. Sheraton Burlington Hotel, South Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $25; cash bar.

Info, springintosummervt@gmail.com.

fairs & festivals

LEAP ENERGY FAIR: Seventy-five exhibits highlight solar power, heat pumps, weatherization, energy audits and more at this family-friendly affair.

Crossett Brook Middle School, Duxbury, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7829.

VERMONT SPRING BOOK & EPHEMERA FAIR: Bibliophiles browse thousands of old, rare and antiquarian titles along with maps, vintage postcards and prints. Hilton Burlington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free.

Info, 527-7243.

film

‘FENCES’: Denzel Washington and Viola Davis star in an adaptation of August Wilson’s story of a working-class African American father in the 1950s.

Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, preshow discussion, 6:30 p.m.; screening, 7 p.m. $15. Info, info@jagproductionsvt.com.

GLOBAL ROOTS FILM FESTIVAL: QUÉBEC: See FRI.7.

‘SON OF SAUL’: An Auschwitz prisoner forced to burn the dead attempts to save the body of a boy he believes to be his son. This 2015 drama is shown in Polish and German with English subtitles.

Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

food & drink

GLOBAL HERBALISM SERIES: VIETNAMESE TRADITIONAL HERBAL HEALING: Vietnamese acupuncturist Mai Nguyen discusses uncommon uses for common herbs from Southeast Asia. Railyard Apothecary and Yoga Studio, Burlington, 10 a.m.noon. $15-20. Info, 540-0595.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.5, 10:45 a.m.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio A, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

kids

ART PLAY: Children let their imaginations run wild during a free-form paint-and-canvas session.

Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 10 a.m.-noon. $5. Info, 253-8358.

EARTHWALK BARK BASKET WORKSHOP: Crafty kids ages 6 and up learn to identify, harvest and assemble arboreal materials to make a small woven container. Goddard College, Plainfield, 1-4 p.m. $1025. Info, 454-8500.

EILEEN CHRISTELOW: Budding bookworms join the Vermont author for a special story time featuring her book Robins!: How They Grow Up. Phoenix Books Essex, book signing and meet and greet, 10-10:45 a.m.; story time, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 872-7111.

Phoenix Books Rutland, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 855-8078.

ENGINEER FOR A DAY: Students in grades 6 and up reach new heights when developing paper airplane prototypes. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

HOPSTOP FAMILY SHOW: AKWAABA TRADITIONAL AFRICAN DRUM & DANCE ENSEMBLE: Spirited rhythms inspire audience members to get up and move. Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 11 a.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

KIDS’ NIGHT OUT: The SUNY Plattsburgh women’s basketball team entertains youngsters ages 5 through 13 with games, sports, movies, crafts and swimming. Memorial Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 5:30-9 p.m. $10. Info, 518-564-4147.

BURLINGTON WINTER FARMERS MARKET: A bustling indoor marketplace offers fresh and prepared foods alongside crafts, live music, lunch seating and face painting. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonfarmersmarket.org@gmail.com.

LEGO FAMILY AFTERNOON: Kids in kindergarten and up and their caregivers put their heads together while taking on challenging building projects.

Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 1-3 p.m. $15 per adult/ child pair; $10 per additional child; preregister. Info, 253-8358.

CHOCOLATE TASTING: With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics of all ages discover the flavor profiles of four different confections. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807.

PHYSICS PHUN DAY: Youngsters master the force of physics through hands-on exploration. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Regular admission, $13.50-16.50; free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

GREEK PASTRY SALE & TAKEOUT DINNER: Phyllodough delights including baklava and spanakopita complement hearty offerings of chicken souvlaki and beef gyros. Greek Orthodox Church Community Center, Burlington, sale, 10 a.m.; dinner, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Cost of food. Info, 862-2155.

SATURDAY DROP-IN STORY TIME: A weekly selection of songs and storylines engages all ages.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

NORWICH FARMERS MARKET: Farmers and artisans offer meats, baked goods and produce alongside handcrafted items. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447.

VERMONT STATE SCHOLASTIC CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS: Quick thinkers in grades K through 12 vie for their opponents’ king in a meeting of the minds. Berlin Elementary School, registration, 8:30-9:30 a.m.; games, 10 a.m. $12.

Info, 223-1948.

PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Friends and neighbors rub elbows over flapjacks, ham, sausage, bread, butter, juice, coffee, tea and milk. Mad River Lodge #77, Waitsfield, 8-11 a.m. $4-8. Info, 496-6818.

WHOLE-BOOK APPROACH STORY TIME: Tots learn how words, pictures and book design work together to complete a narrative. Phoenix Books Essex, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 872-7111.

ROAST TURKEY SUPPER: Thanksgiving makes an off-season appearance at this taste-bud pleaser, served buffet-style. Takeout is available. Vergennes United Methodist Church, 5:30-6 p.m. $5-9. Info, 877-3150.

‘WILLY WONKA’: See THU.6, 7-8:30 p.m.

VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: See WED.5, 10 a.m.2 p.m.

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CAMBRIDGE AREA ROTARY BUNCO BASH: Games, prizes, raffles and a silent auction entertain attendees at a fundraiser for rotary club activities.

The Barn at Smugglers’ Notch, Jeffersonville, social hour, 6-7 p.m.; games, 7-10 p.m. $15; cash bar. Info, 793-0856.

health & fitness

GINGER’S FITNESS BOOT CAMP: See WED.5, 8-9 a.m.

language

LUNCH CONVERSATION GROUP: ‘LE DEUXIÈME SAMEDI’: French-language speakers chat and chew in a casual atmosphere. La Villa Bistro & Pizzeria, Shelburne, noon-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, michelineatremblay@gmail.com.

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THE SKY WRITING GROUP: Creative storytelling supports health and community cohesion in a critique-free environment. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, liz@pridecentervt.org.

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‘2 MOON SMILE’: See FRI.7, York Street Meeting House, Lyndon.

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Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 658-5792.

MAXIMIZING YOUR USE OF CENSUS RECORDS: Ancestor investigators learn to make the most of historical population surveys. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $5. Info, 310-9285.

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7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 244-1441.

Info, 651-9692.

THE JOHN JORGENSON QUINTET: See THU.6, sports Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 728-6464.

DOS EQUIS BEAR MOUNTAIN MOGUL CHALLENGE: Amateur racers test their skills on a bumps course.

MILES DONAHUE JAZZ QUINTET: The acclaimed Killington Resort, check-in, 7-8:30 a.m.; competihorn player welcomes special guest Billy Pierce for tion, 9 a.m. $50; preregister. Info, 422-6201. an energetic show. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, THE DRENCH TRENCH — POND SKIMMING FOR 443-3168.

GOOD: Skiers and riders don crazy costumes and do their best to propel across the water without SARAH BLACKER: Rock, pop, indie folk and sinking. Proceeds benefit the Chill Foundation.

Americana sounds meld in the hands of the awardSmugglers’ Notch Resort, Jeffersonville, registrawinning singer-songwriter. Brandon Music, 7:30 tion, 10 a.m.; skimming, noon. Free. Info, 332-6854. p.m. $20; $45 includes dinner package; preregister. Info, 247-4295.

POND SKIMMING: Skiers and riders attempt to stay above water when propelling across a pond SOCIAL BAND: The Burlington choral group gets at this annual rite of spring. Lincoln Peak Village. in tune for the lunar-inspired program “Jewel Sugarbush Resort, Warren, registration, 8 a.m.; of the Night: Musical Reflections on the Moon.” skimming, noon. $20; cash only. Info, 583-6300.

United Church of Hinesburg, 7:30-9 p.m. $15. Info, 355-4216.

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SOLARIS VOCAL ENSEMBLE: Members of the Burlington-based chamber choir lift their voices to the program “Spring Awakening.” White Meeting House, Waterbury, 7:30 p.m. $15-20; free for kids under 1. Info, 863-5966.

SOLO JAZZ PIANO FESTIVAL: See FRI.7, 10 a.m.

SPRING BENEFIT CONCERT: Gypsy-jazz band Swing Noire energize listeners at fundraiser for the Jericho Town Library complete with complementary hors d’oeuvres, artisan cheeses and chocolates.

Emile A. Gruppe Gallery, Jericho, 6-9 p.m. $15; cash bar; for ages 21 and up. Info, 899-4686.

VERMONT CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE: See FRI.7, Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington.

WALINJA & MIGMAR TSERING: Local New American musicians step into the spotlight.

FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 863-5966.

YOUNG TRADITION TOURING GROUP: Talented teens share an evening of music and dance before departing on an international tour. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 7-9:30 p.m. $10.

Info, 233-5293.

Txt U L8R Program Monday, April 10, 6–7:30 pm

AARP Smart Driver™ Course Saturday, May 13, 9 am–1:30 pm

Trait or Symptom? Understanding the Boundaries of Child Temperament Wednesday, April 12, 6–7:30 pm

Responding to Domestic Violence In Our Community: What is Domestic Violence? Who does it impact? What can I do?

Tuesday, May 9, 6–8 pm and Tuesday, May 16, 12–2 pm

Being Mortal – Film Screening Followed by Facilitated Discussion Wednesday, April 19, 6–8 pm In Our Own Voice Monday, April 24, 6–7:30 pm MIND-ful Eating for Brain Health Thursday, April 27, 6–7:30 pm

Pre-registration is required by calling (802) 847-7222 or registering online at UVMHealth.org/MedCenterHealthsource.

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INTRO TO EXCEL: Columns, rows, cells, formulas and data entry become second nature at a tutorial on electronic spreadsheets. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

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‘9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL’: See THU.6, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘ARCADIA’: See THU.6, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘SPAMALOT’: See FRI.7.

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PETER GOULD: Lit lovers line up for a reading and signing with the author of Horse Drawn Yogurt: Stories From Total Loss Farm. Vermont History Center, Barre, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 479-8500.

POEMCITY — NATURE POEMS, FAVORITE POEMS: Verses by Wordsworth, Yeats and Frost illustrate a lively examination of stanzas inspired by the natural world. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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POEMCITY — READING WITH POETS APRIL OSSMANN & CYNTHIA HUNTINGTON: Two meter mavens share original works. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

POETRY SOCIETY OF VERMONT READING: Local bards honor National Poetry Month with selected verse. Phoenix Books Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free.

Info, 448-3350.

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‘REVOLUTION: NEW ART FOR A NEW WORLD’: The history of Russia and the Russian avantgarde is at the center of this 2016 documentary.

Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4 p.m. $15. Info, 603-646-2422.

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BIRD LANGUAGE WORKSHOP: Nature lovers learn to decipher the songs and calls of winged species.

Adults and kids ages 5 and up can take part in separate programs. Bring a notebook and a pen.

Rock Point Nature Trails, Burlington, 9 a.m.-noon. $10; $20 per family. Info, sophie@crowspath.org.

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WILL PATTON ENSEMBLE: Gypsy-jazz, sultry swing and breezy Brazilian music intersect onstage courtesy of the seasoned quintet. Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 7:30 p.m. $10; free for kids and teens. Info, 388-6863.

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VERMONT YOUTH STRINGS: Mini maestros play their best under conductor Asiat “Ace” Ali. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 655-5030.

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UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Melodies by Ottorino Respighi, Hiroshi Hoshina and John Williams come alive in a program led by conductor Yutaka Kono. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 656-3040.

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ANIMA & FIRE & LIGHTNING CONSORT: Listeners delight in traditional Celtic tunes, 14th- and 15th-century strains, and medieval and Renaissance music for the coming of spring. Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 426-3498.

NORTH COUNTRY TRAIL IN VERMONT/ MOOSALAMOO HIKE: Outdoor adventurers step into mud season on an eight-mile trek gaining 1,000 feet in elevation. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 233-8091.

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LULAROE LULAPALOOZA MULTI-CONSULTANT POP-UP: Consultants offer up comfortable and fashionable garments adorned with new spring prints. Doubletree Hotel, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 310-9760.

LULAROE MULTI SALE: Fashionistas spruce up their spring wardrobes with stylish garments.

Hampton Inn, Colchester, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 310-6787.

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COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS WITH THE CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING: Peaceful people gather for guided meditation and interactive discussions.

Burlington Friends Meeting House, 5-7 p.m. $10.

Info, assistant@centerformindfullearning.org.

YOGA NIDRA: Blankets and bolsters support the body while the mind is guided into an altered state.

Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. $5-10. Info, 448-4262.

UKULELE MÊLÉE: Fingers fly at a group lesson on the four-stringed Hawaiian instrument. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m.

Free. Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

ZUMBA FITNESS: High-spirited students dance toward health in an easy-to-follow fitness program set to red-hot international music. North End Studio A, Burlington, 9 a.m. $8-10. Info, 777-7032.

VERMONT WIND ENSEMBLE: Alan Parshley conducts the program “Musical Spirits: A Celebration of Life,” including the world premiere of “Channeling Wind” by UVM professor emeritus C. Robert Wigness. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

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SOLARIS VOCAL ENSEMBLE: See SAT.8, College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 3 p.m.

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THE NEXT GENERATION AUDITIONS: Area high schoolers who are seriously studying classical music vie for the chance to perform in an annual concert. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, noon-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 728-9402.

MOUNT MANSFIELD FOREHEAD HIKE: Trekkers tackle a difficult excursion covering six miles of trail and gaining 2,600 feet in elevation. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister. Info, 355-4135.

PEER-LED MINDFULNESS MEET-UP FOR TEENS: South Burlington High School junior Mika Holtz guides adolescents toward increased awareness through music, movement and other techniques. Stillpoint Center, Burlington, 9-10:30 a.m.

Donations. Info, 720-427-9340.

TRACKING CLUB: Outdoor enthusiasts seek signs of wildlife species in and around Burlington. Email for suggested items. Schmanska Park, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, trackingvt@gmail.com.

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JOYOUS RUNNING FOR NON-RUNNERS: New and lapsed joggers alike make strides by learning to reduce stress and minimize injury. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. $20. Info, 655-0950.

film

GLOBAL ROOTS FILM FESTIVAL: QUÉBEC: See FRI.7.

‘SEEING THROUGH THE WALL: MEETING OURSELVES IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL’: A documentary follows 19 American Jews as they tour the contentious countries. A discussion follows.

Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3981.

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AM/PM — A CELEBRATION OF COFFEE & BEER: Java lovers sample offerings from up-and-coming roasteries including Abracadabra Coffee, Brio Coffeeworks and First Branch Coffee amid snacks, suds and live music. Good Measure Brewing Co., Northfield, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $25 includes a pound of coffee. Info, 485-4600.

CHOCOLATE TASTING: See SAT.8.

BINGO FOR A CAUSE: Players vie for prizes while marking off numbers on cards. Eddie’s Lounge,

5-TOWN FRIENDS OF THE ARTS ANNUAL CELEBRATION: Friends and fellow musicians honor Vermont fiddler, artist and writer Pete Sutherland.

Refreshments and a raffle round out the fun. Holley Hall, Bristol, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, fivetownfoa@ gmail.com.

CHAMBERWORKS: ALMA DEL MUNDO: Italian saxophonist Marco Pignataro joins faculty musicians John Muratore, Naseem Alatrash and Hafiz Shabazz for a program of internationally inspired works. Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

DENISE RICKER & ARTHUR ZORN: “Be Still My Soul: Lenten Meditations for Flute and Piano” lifts listeners’ spirits. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 2 p.m.

Donations. Info, 622-0376.

GLORIA BRECK: Works by Bach, Beehoven and Kabalevsky ring out by way of the student pianist.

Middlebury College Chateau Grand Salon, 2 p.m.

Free. Info, 443-3168.

MAJA & DAVID: Bows in hand, the fiddle duo doles out spirited contemporary folk tunes. Richmond Congregational Church, 4-6 p.m. $17.50-20. Info, 434-4563.

MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY WIND ENSEMBLE SPRING CONCERT: A varied program including the music of Copland, Tchaikovsky and Henry Mancini

TOM SIMON: The baseball historian hits a home run with “The Wonder Team in the White City: U.V.M. at the Intercollegiate Base Ball Tournament of 1893.” Ethan Allen Homestead Museum, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5403.

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‘MOLLOY’: Gare St Lazare Ireland celebrates two decades of touring writer Samuel Beckett’s prose with a revival of its first solo show.

See calendar spotlight. Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, playhouse@vermont coffeecompany.com.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘THE DEEP BLUE SEA’: An encore screening starring Helen McCrory provides a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion in London. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 1 p.m. $10-20. Info, 775-0903.

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OPEN STUDIO: See THU.6, 3-5 p.m.

conferences

GENSLER SYMPOSIUM ON FEMINISM IN A GLOBAL ARENA: The theme “Sex and the State: Feminist Responses and Resistance” threads through lectures, discussions and workshops. Middlebury College. Free. Info, 443-5937.

dance

ADULT AERIAL DANCE CONDITIONING: With or without previous experience, folks forge strength, grace and confidence in the air. North End Studio B, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. $15. Info, 863-6713.

CONTACT IMPROV DANCE: Movers engage in weight sharing, play and meditation when exploring this style influenced by aikido and other somatic practices. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $4. Info, 864-7306.

SALSA MONDAYS: Dancers learn the techniques and patterns of salsa, merengue, bachata and chacha. North End Studio A, Burlington, fundamentals, 7 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 227-2572.

WEST AFRICAN DANCE: Live djembe and dundun drumming drive a family-friendly class with teacher Seny Daffe of Guinea. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 5:30-7 p.m. $10-16; preregister. Info, studio@ zenbarnvt.com.

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CAMPUS TOUR: From culinary arts to carpentry to office administration and beyond, prospective students ages 16 through 24 learn about trade training programs. Northlands Job Corps Center, Vergennes, 9:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 877-0121.

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AARP TAX HELP: See FRI.7.

AMERICAN VETERANS VERMONT POST 1: Those who have served or are currently serving the country, including members of the National Guard and reservists, are welcome to join AMVETS for monthly meetings. American Legion, Post 91, Colchester, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 796-3098.

NEWS & BREWS: Coffee-fueled conversations touch on topics such as fake news and transparency in government. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:15-11:15 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 225-6224.

food & drink

‘9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL’: See THU.6, 2 p.m.

FUNDRAISING NIGHT: Diners dig into mouthwatering Mexican fare to support the Josh Pallotta Fund.

Partial proceeds are donated. Mexicali Grill & Cantina, Williston, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 879-9492.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.5, 7 p.m.

MAGIC: THE GATHERING — MONDAY NIGHT MODERN: Tarmogoyf-slinging madness ensues when competitors battle C |P for prizes in a weekly game. Brap’s JO AU OF LL SY Magic, Burlington, 6:30-10 p.m. $8. Info, E WIS | CO U RTE 540-0498.

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PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Locals connect over a hearty spread of flapjacks, eggs, hash browns, sausage, fruit and beverages. Williston Fire Department, 8 a.m.-noon. $5-8; free for kids under 2. Info, 878-5622.

LGBTQ FIBER ARTS GROUP: A knitting, crocheting and weaving session welcomes all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations and skill levels. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 860-7812.

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PALM SUNDAY BRUNCH: An all-you-can-eat meal includes scrambled eggs, French toast, fruit salad, bacon and hash browns. Fellowship Center, Peru Community Church, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. $5-8; free for kids under 5. Info, 518-643-8641.

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WOMEN’S PICKUP SOCCER: Swift females of varying skill levels shoot for the goal. For ages 18 and up. Rain location: Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center. Soccer fields, Leddy Park, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free; $3 for rain location. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

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KNIFE SHARPENING: Dull blades, be gone! Jim Cunningham of JRC Knife Sharpening whets cutting tools. Chef Contos Kitchen & Store, Shelburne, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $4-5 per knife. Info, 497-3942.

SPANISH GROUP CLASSES: Students roll their Rs while practicing en español. New Moon Café, Burlington, 2:45-4:30 p.m. $15. Info, maigomez1@ hotmail.com.

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UPPER VALLEY INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING: Creative movers learn diverse routines rooted in Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia, and the Mediterranean. Bring clean, soft-soled shoes. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 3-6 p.m. $4-8. Info, 436-2151.

‘DIMANCHES’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Parlezvous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

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fiction aloud in a weekly series. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-2:15 p.m. Free.

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RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.5, 4:305:45 p.m.

SYMPHONY NH: Cheryl Bishkoff brings her oboe prowess to a musical celebration of Smetana, Dvorák and Martinů. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 3 p.m. $10-49. Info, 603-448-0400.

NIA WITH SUZY: Drawing from martial, dance and healing arts, sensory-based movements push participants to their full potential. South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691.

BURLINGTON YOGA CONFERENCE: See SAT.8.

‘A HERO OF OUR TIME’: The Bolshoi Ballet carries out the story of the larger-than-life character Pechorin who endures heartbreaking betrayals.

This is an on-screen performance. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $6-18. Info, 748-2600.

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SOCIAL BAND: See SAT.8, Charlotte Congregational Church, 3-4:30 p.m.

VERMONT YOUTH PHILHARMONIA: A classical concert conducted by Yutaka Kono keeps audience members on the edge of their seats. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 5 p.m. $2-5. Info, 655-5030.

DANCE, SING & JUMP AROUND: Traditional music enlivens an afternoon of intergenerational dancing taught and called by Liz Benjamin and Ethan Guiles. Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, 3-4:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation; free for kids. Info, 223-1509.

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AUTHENTIC ETHIOPIAN NIGHT: EASTER DINNER: Mulu Tewelde and Alganesh Michael serve up traditional African dishes. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 4:30-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink; preregister.

Info, 540-0406.

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POKÉMON LEAGUE: See THU.6, noon-5 p.m.

demonstrates the versatility of reed instruments.

Mount Abraham Union High School, Bristol, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 388-3215.

‘SPAMALOT’: See FRI.7, 2-4 p.m.

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DELICIOUS WORDS: Sweets by dessert chefs John and Liz Snell complement readings by writers Pam MacPherson, Maya Parry and Rosa Costellano.

Dianne Shullenberger Gallery, Jericho, 4 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, 899-4993.

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MAH JONGG IN COLCHESTER: Longtime players and neophytes alike compete in the popular Chinese tile game. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

MAH JONG IN EAST MONTPELIER: Competitors collect winning sets of tiles in this popular Chinese game. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

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BONE BUILDERS: See WED.5, 7:30-8:30 p.m.

END ALLERGIES & ASTHMA WORKSHOP: Sneezing, wheezing and swollen eyes, be gone!

Hay fever-inflicted individuals weed out the root of their symptoms. Wellspring Chiropractic Lifestyle Center, Shelburne, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 985-9850.

NIA WITH SUZY: See SUN.9, 7 p.m.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.5.

TAI CHI: See THU.6.

TAI CHI ADVANCED CLASSES: See FRI.7.

VERMONT CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE HERBALISM STUDENT HERBAL CLINIC: Third-year interns evaluate individual constitutions and health conditions. Burlington Herb Clinic, 4-8 p.m. $10-30; preregister. Info, info@vtherbcenter.org.

ZUMBA: Lively Latin rhythms fuel this dancefitness phenomenon for all experience levels. Vergennes Opera House, 6 p.m. $10. Info, 349-0026.

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BABY LAP TIME: Babes up to 24 months experience color, sound and movement through stories, songs, bounces and rhymes. Richmond Free Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036. CRAFT FOR KIDS: Half-pints ages 5 and up flex their creative muscles with unique projects. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 3:30-4 p.m.

Free. Info, 264-5660.

KIDS’ AERIAL FABRIC DANCE CLASS: Adventurous youngsters ages 7 through 12 learn to hang, climb and spin on silks in a high-flying class for all experience levels.

North End Studio B, Burlington, 3:15-4:15 p.m. $15. Info, 863-6713.

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MONDAY NIGHT COMMUNITY KIRTAN: Instruments are welcome during call-and-response chanting of mostly Sanskrit mantras in the bhakti yoga tradition. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, bpatoine@aol.com.

PATTERN BEHAVIOR: Raab Codec and Elizabeth Virosa make up this Rhode Island-based electronic duo. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2356.

POEMCITY — LOS LORCAS TRIO: POETRY IN CONCERT: Writers Partridge Boswell and Peter Money and guitarist Whit Van Meter blur the boundaries between spoken word and song in the spirit of Federico García Lorca. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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BIOGRAPHY AS PERSONAL ODYSSEY: Archetypal pattern analyst Monika Reis leads attendees in the discovery of universal motifs. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

FAMILY-TO-FAMILY CLASS: The National Alliance on Mental Illness builds understanding between individuals struggling with psychological health and their loved ones. Call for details. 6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 876-7949.

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INTRO TO FACEBOOK FOR SENIORS: An overview of social media helps participants ages 50 and up stay connected in the digital age. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

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Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Captivating narratives pave the way for crafts and activities for words youngsters ages 3 through 6. Burnham Memorial MONDAY NIGHT POETRY WORKSHOP: Wordsmiths Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. analyze creative works-in-progress penned by Info, 264-5660.

Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main ROBIN’S NEST NATURE PLAYGROUP: Outdoor St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister pursuits through fields and forests captivate at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. little ones up to age 5 and their parents. North MUST-READ MONDAYS: Lit lovers cover Hidden Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story Donations. Info, 229-6206. of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped SPANISH MUSICAL KIDS: Amigos keep busy in an Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly. interactive class with Constancia Gómez. Brownell Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Library, Essex Junction, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, Free. Info, 878-6955.

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LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE: Bring a bag lunch to practice the system of communication using visual gestures.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3338.

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Designed by local artist Steve Hadeka, this hand-cut, lacquered and wall-mounted bottle opener features a laser-etched design and hidden magnets to catch the falling caps. Size: 4”x7”x1”, includes mounting hardware. $25.

RENTAL INCOME SEMINAR: Those seeking financial freedom and security get wise to the ways of real estate investment. Preferred Properties, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 318-7654.

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FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: See FRI.7.

TUESDAY VOLUNTEER NIGHTS: Helping hands pitch in around the shop by organizing parts, moving bikes and tackling other projects. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.

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GUITAR CLASS: Notes ring out at a six-string lesson for folks in recovery. Instruments are available.

Turning Point Center, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

OPEN ART STUDIO: Seasoned makers and firsttimers alike convene to paint, knit and craft in a friendly environment. Bring a table covering for messy projects. Swanton Public Library, 4-8 p.m.

Free. Info, swantonartscouncil@gmail.com.

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ADVANCED-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: Language learners perfect their pronunciation with guest speakers. Private residence, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.

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LA LECHE LEAGUE MEETING: Nursing mothers share breastfeeding tips and resources. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:15-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-3000. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 720-272-8841.

PUZZLED PINT: Wordplay and logic lovers tackle tricky problems on puzzledpint.com, which unlocks the location of a Tuesday night get-together with even more puzzles. Various downtown Burlington locations, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 363-0232.

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COMMUNITY RESOURCE FAIR: Adults gain access to local career and education services. Vermont Adult Learning, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 846-7245.

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KNIGHTS OF THE MYSTIC MOVIE CLUB: Cinema hounds view campy features at this ode to offbeat productions. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 356-2776.

‘STRIPES’: Bill Murray joins the ranks — to hilarious results — in this hit 1981 comedy. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 540-3018.

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TAI CHI BEGINNER CLASS: See THU.6.

ZUMBA WITH ALLISON: Conditioning is disguised as a party at this rhythm-driven workout session.

Swan Dojo, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $10. Info, 227-7221.

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CHILDREN’S UNDERGROUND FILM SOCIETY: Monthly movie screenings encourage viewers of all ages to think critically about artful cinema. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 5:30 p.m. $5.

Info, 496-8994.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC: Melody makers ages 3 through 5 sing and dance into the afternoon.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 264-5660.

PRESCHOOL STORY HOUR: MUSIC SPECIAL WITH CAITLIN: Imaginations blossom when kids up to age 6 engage in themed tales and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

READ TO DAISY: Budding bookworms join a friendly canine for ear-catching narratives. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:15-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

SPANISH MUSICAL KIDS: Amigos ages 1 through 5 learn Latin American songs and games with Constancia Gómez, a native Argentinian. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF CENTRAL VERMONT MEET-UP: Interested men and women over age 16 ask questions and learn about the nonpartisan political organization founded by suffragists in 1920. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, lwvofvt@gmail.com.

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MEDICARE & YOU: AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDICARE: Members of the Central Vermont Council on Aging clear up confusion about the application process and plan options. Central Vermont Council on Aging, Barre, 3-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-0531.

STORY TIME WITH A TWIST: See WED.5, 11 a.m.

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BOOK LAUNCH: Penman George Osol premieres his action-suspense novel, Caveat. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

CREATIVE NONFICTION WORKSHOP: Folks give feedback on essays, poetry and journalism written

by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

POETRY TEA PARTY: ‘REMEMBERING ROBERT FROST’: Lit lovers join members of the Northeast Storytellers to honor the patron saint of Vermont poets with readings, biographical sketches and more. See calendar spotlight. St. Johnsbury House, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 751-5432.

SPRING LITERATURE READING SERIES: Ambitious readers cover selected pages from Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup. com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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TOXIC WHITENESS DISCUSSION GROUP: Peace & Justice Center representatives facilitate a conversation on the harmful effects of white supremacy on communities and individuals. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

WHITE FRAGILITY TALK: Attendees take steps to stay involved in conversations about racism, even when they become uncomfortable. McCarthy Arts Center Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

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ART AUCTION: Silent bidders battle over paintings, drawings, photography, pottery, glass, wood and textiles to benefit Cathedral Square Senior Living.

Live jazz and a cash bar keep attendees in a giving mood. Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-2224.

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AMERICAN RED CROSS EVERYDAY HEROES AWARDS: Community leaders honor individuals who have displayed extraordinary acts of courage and compassion. Funds raised support local American Red Cross programs. Sheraton Burlington Hotel, South Burlington, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $25. Info, 660-9130, ext. 107.

REIKI AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE: Students get in touch with the Japanese bodywork technique aimed at restoring physical and emotional wellbeing. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@ hungermountain.coop.

COFFEE HOUR: Friends, neighbors and American Association of Retired Persons Vermont volunteers catch up on upcoming activities and issues facing older adults. New Moon Café, Burlington, 9-10 a.m.

Free. Info, 951-1313.

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SHOEFLY TRAIL RUNNING SERIES: Runners and walkers break a sweat on one-mile, 5K and 10K excursions on Northeast Kingdom trails.

See shoeflytrailrun.org for details. 5 p.m. $45 for the series; free for kids under 10; preregister. Info, julie@ shoeflytrailrun.org.

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CINDY BRUZZESE: Vermont Ethics Network’s executive director offers information on preparing for PO OB SI the future in “Health Care Decisions: UM GL A ON F E MINIS M IN Advance Directives and the COLST Form.”

Northwestern Counseling & Support Services STORY TIME FOR BABIES & TODDLERS: Family Center, St. Albans, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free.

Picture books, songs, rhymes and puppets arrest Info, 393-6717. the attention of children and their caregivers.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:10-9:30 a.m.

DINA A. GRIFFIN: The Interactive Design Architects Free. Info, 878-6956. president delves into her practice and efforts to bring minority women into her field. Room 304, STORY TIME FOR PRESCHOOLERS: Picture books, Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College, songs, rhymes and early math tasks work young4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. sters’ mental muscles. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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by Ousmane energize participants for a flow yoga practice suitable for all levels. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 6-7:15 p.m. $15-20. Info, studio@ zenbarnvt.com.

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VERMONT YOUTH CHORUS: Backed by a chamber orchestra, singers lift their voices to “Frostiana”

by Randall Thompson. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. $3-7. Info, 655-5030.

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PEACEFUL WARRIOR KARATE: Martial-arts training promotes healthy living for those in recovery.

Turning Point Center, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

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A MOSAIC OF FLAVOR: IRAQI LUBIA & MAHALABIA: Hadeer and Abeer Almogalli demonstrate how to prepare traditional dishes from their native country. McClure Multigenerational Center, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 861-9753.

OPEN MIC: Singers, players, storytellers and poets entertain a live audience at a monthly showcase of local talent. Wallingford Town Hall, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 446-2872.

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GENTLE DROP-IN YOGA: Yogis bring their own mats for a hatha class led by Betty Molnar. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free.

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GENTLE CLEANSE WITH FOOD AS MEDICINE: Nourishing spring tonics lead to healthy bodies in a hands-on workshop with educator Lisa Masé. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 5-7 p.m. $17-20. Info, 224-7100.

FITNESS FLOW YOGA: See FRI.7, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

OPEN JAM SESSION: Musicians follow the flow and explore sound together. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

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FELDENKRAIS LESSON: Fitness phobics and exercise nuts alike can improve motion through gentle movements and directed attention. Wear loose, comfy clothing. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 655-0950.

SOCIAL GATHERING: Those who are deaf or hard of hearing or want to learn American Sign Language get together to break down communication barriers. The North Branch Café, Montpelier, 4-6 p.m.

Cost of food and drink. Info, 595-4001.

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Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

FELDENKRAIS: AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT: Whether you consider it relaxing exercise or active meditation, this experience can reduce pain and increase mobility. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 9:30-10:30 a.m. $15; free for first-timers; preregister. Info, 735-3770.

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INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED WEST COAST SWING: Fun-loving folks learn the smooth, sexy stylings of modern swing dance. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $11-16. Info, burlingtonwestie@ gmail.com.

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Frenchlanguage fanatics meet pour parler la belle langue.

New Moon Café, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 363-2431.

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BEGINNER WEST COAST SWING & FUSION DANCING: Pupils get schooled in the fundamentals of partner dance. North End Studio B, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $11-16. Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail.com.

DE-STRESS YOGA: A relaxing and challenging class lets healthy bodies unplug and unwind. Balance Yoga, Richmond, 5:45-7 p.m. $14. Info, 434-8401.

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LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ITALIAN: Speakers hone their skills in the Romance language over a bag lunch. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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OPEN CRAFT NIGHT: Creative sparks fly in the studio as attendees whip out woven wall hangings and crochet, knitting and sewing projects. Nido Fabric & Yarn, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 881-0068.

BRANDON FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Hop to it! Get fit with strength, endurance, agility and coordination exercises. Otter Valley North Campus Gym, Brandon, 5-6 p.m. $12. Info, 343-7160.

‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers are welcome to pipe up at an unstructured conversational practice. El Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

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BELTONE HEARING: Folks perk up their ears for a presentation on hearing and hearing aids.

Attendees can also undergo a screening for hearing loss. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

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GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS’ GUILD OF AMERICA: Needleand-thread enthusiasts fine-tune their techniques. Living/Dining Room, Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free for first-timers; bring a bag lunch. Info, 372-4255.

KNITTING & MORE: FOUR NEEDLE TUBE SOCKS: See WED.5.

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DANCE MASTER CLASS: Participants in Ellen Smith Ahern’s contemporary workshop engage in a rigorous warm-up, playful phrase material and structured improvisations. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 443-3168.

DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: See WED.5.

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WASTE WARRIOR TRAINING: Eco-minded individuals complete this interactive orientation with a team of friendly operatives that brings recycling and composting to Chittenden County events. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 872-8111.

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: See WED.5.

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PIANO RECITAL: Students of Diana Fanning tickle Free. Info, 635-2356. the ivories. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: See WED.5.

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BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.5.

KIDS’ DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Experienced and novice players take on challenges to defeat enemies in this pen-and-paper role-playing game.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, jmuse@colchestervt.gov.

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BONE BUILDERS: See WED.5.

ENDURANCE & NUTRITION: Alternative Roots Wellness Center’s Akshata Nayak teaches athletes to augment training plans with healthy eating.

City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 861-9753.

EPIC MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: See WED.5.

EVERY WEDNESDAY, EVERYONE TAI CHI: See WED.5.

GENTLE TAI CHI: See WED.5.

GINGER’S FITNESS BOOT CAMP: See WED.5.

INSIGHT MEDITATION: See WED.5.

NIA WITH LINDA: See WED.5.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.5.

TAI CHI CLASS: See WED.5.

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT NURSING STUDENT VISITS: See WED.5.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SOUND BATH: See WED.5.

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BOOK DISCUSSIONS FOR HOMESCHOOLED STUDENTS: Grouped by age, youngsters chat about celebrated titles. Call for details. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

LEGO CHALLENGE: See WED.5.

RICHMOND STORY TIME: See WED.5.

SONG CIRCLE & CIRCLE SONGS: Heidi Wilson leads an evening of vocal expression using the Rise Up Singing songbook. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:45-8:15 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: See WED.5.

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GLENN ANDRES: In the special First Wednesdays series talk “Building for a Guided Age,” the architecture professor explores how the United States positioned itself on the world stage for architecture at the turn of the 20th century. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

JENNIFER DICKINSON: From cups and bottles to serving utensils and decorative items, associate professor explores what vessels can teach us about people in her talk “Drinking Cultures.”

Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, noon. Regular admission, $3-10; free for members, faculty, staff, students and kids 6 and under. Info, 656-0750.

POEMCITY — SUSAN ABBOTT: In “A Walk Across Spain,” the artist takes listeners on a virtual journey on the historic Camino Francés via photographs, stories and visual art inspired by her trek.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3338.

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TECHNOLOGY NIGHT: Vermont Technical College’s Ken Bernard elucidates the way a network communicates. Bring your own device. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

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10th Annual Calcutta Fundraiser for Partners in Adventure FRIDAY, APRIL 7, SUNSET BALLROOM AT THE COMFORT SUITES, SOUTH BURLINGTON

CONTACT US: 865-1020, ext. 10 tickets@sevendaysvt.com

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George Clanton + Negative Gemini WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, ARTSRIOT, BURLINGTON

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.5.

WILLIAM E. COLBY MILITARY WRITERS’ SYMPOSIUM: Author presentations, a book signing and a panel discussion salute influential writers on current affairs and military history.

Norwich University, Northfield, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Free for most events; $50 for Meet the Authors dinner; preregister. Info, 485-2965.

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STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: See WED.5.

YOUNG WRITERS & STORYTELLERS: Kindergartners through fifth graders practice crafting narratives. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

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WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP: CHAPTER FOCUS: Folks give feedback on selections of up to 40 pages penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members.

110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

YOGA FOR KIDS: See WED.5.

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STATEHOUSE STORYTELLING: The Farmers Night Concert Series continues with firsthand accounts told by figures in politics and journalists. House Chamber, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2228.

TODDLER TIME: See WED.5.

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SCIENCE STORY TIME: MUD: Stories and crafts celebrate Vermont’s messiest season. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.

Regular admission, $13.50-16.50; free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

STORY TIME WITH A TWIST: See WED.5.

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Beginner walk-in classes, Wed., 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

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GREEN MOUNTAIN MUSIC TOGETHER: Bring your babies to 5-year-olds and join Alison in singing, dancing and playing drums, bells, shakers and triangles. The whole family makes music together in these joyful classes based on the recognition that all children are musical. Every child can learn to sing in tune, keep a beat and participate with confidence in the music of our culture, provided that their early environment

LOOKING DEEPER: AN INTENSIVE FOR ADVANCED IMPROVISORS: These intensives at UVM are designed to support and strengthen the skills and community of practicing contemporary dancers and dance-makers. This series has received support from the University of Vermont Lattie F. Coor Endowment and the Humanities Center. Instructor: Susan Sgorbati. Sun., Apr. 9, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost: $44/one; $80/ weekend. Location: UVM’s Mann Hall Gymnasium, 208 Colchester Ave., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

herbs WISDOM OF THE HERBS 2017: Learn to identify local wild herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees over three seasons.

Experience plant-spirit communication and the camaraderie of a group of fellow plant-lovers.

Hands-on curriculum includes sustainably harvesting and making herbal home remedies and eating wild foods. Open to beginners. Currently interviewing applicants. Starts Apr. 22 & 23; 1 weekend monthly through Nov.; 10 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Cost: $1,750/8-weekend series; $250 deposit; payment plan: $187.50 per mo. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, 1005 County Rd., East Calais. Info: Annie McCleary, 456-8122, annie.mccleary@gmail.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com/ wisdom.html.

kids KIDS ROBOTIC CLASSES: Register online for classes at Generator maker space.

Homeschool Biomimicry for ages 7-12: Study birds and create inventions based on flight. Girl, Make It! for ages 9-15: Students will work with provided kits to engineer robots creations. Lego Obstacle Bots for ages 7-12: Students will learn what it takes to build a robot. Starts Apr. 14; no class week of spring break.

Cost: $100/6 weeks; 1 hour/ week. Location: Generator Maker Space, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington.

Info: Robots For Kids Too, Christine Braun, 735-4924, info@r4k2.com, r4k2.com.

language SPANISH CLASSES BEGINNING NOW: Spanish classes starting this week; you can still sign up!

Our 11th year. Learn from a native speaker in lively small classes or private instruction. You’ll always be participating and speaking.

Lesson packages for travelers.

Also lessons for children; they love it! See our website or contact us for details. Start Apr. 3-6. Cost: $225/10 weekly classes of 90+ minutes each. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

ACHIEVE YOUR POTENTIAL: Come to Wu Xing Chinese Martial Arts. Join other thoughtful, intelligent adults to learn and practice tai chi, kung fu, meditation and dynamic physical exercises.

Maximize your mental tranquility and clarity, physical health and fitness, and self-confidence.

For people who never thought this would be for them. Fri., 6-7 p.m. & 7-8 p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m.noon & noon-1 p.m.; Tue., 6-7:30 p.m. Cost: $15/1-hour class; $50/ mo. (incl. all classes offered); $5/ trial class. Location: 303 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 355-1301, info@wxcma.com, wxcma.com.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial arts combat style based entirely on leverage and technique. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu self-defense curriculum is taught to Navy Seals, CIA, FBI, military police and special forces. No training experience required.

Easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life! Classes for men, women and children.

Students will learn realistic bully-proofing and self-defense life skills to avoid them becoming victims and help them feel safe and secure. Our sole purpose is to help empower people by giving them realistic martial arts training practices they can carry with them thoroughout life. IBJJF & CBJJ Certified Black Belt 6th Degree Instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr.: teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A five-time Brazilian National Champion; International World Masters Champion and IBJJF World Masters Champion. Accept no Iimitations!. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 598-2839, julio@ bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

massage ASIAN BODYWORK THERAPY PROGRAM: This program teaches two forms of massage: amma and shiatsu. We will explore oriental medicine theory and diagnosis as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, yin yang and fiveelement theory. Additionally, 100 hours of Western anatomy and physiology are taught. VSAC nondegree grants are available.

NCBTMB-assigned school. elementsofhealing.net. Begins Sep. 2017. Cost: $5,000/600-hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, Suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: Scott Moylan, 288-8160, scott@ elementsofhealing.net, elementsofhealing.net.

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LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Come alone or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Private lessons also available. Cost: $50/4week class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington.

Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, firststepdance.com.

BEING IN MOVEMENT: ENHANCING POTENTIAL & EXPRESSION: These monthly workshops facilitate a lively interplay between inner connectivity and outer expressivity to enrich and embody your life and movement practice. April 7 session: Movement as Metaphor.

Instructor: Sara McMahon. Fri., Apr. 7, 5:45-7:45 p.m. Cost: $25/ person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

INTRO TO ACTING: Leave your inhibitions behind and join this supportive and freeing romp into your most spontaneous and truthful self. Learn theater exercises, improvisations and an accessible way to approach theatrical text, in class, that can lead to greater confidence and ease of expression. Let’s begin to uncover the mysteries of the actor’s process and your own creative potential! Instructor: Alex Nicosia. Thu., Apr. 6-May 18, 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $160/7 weeks.

Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

ABSTRACT PAINTING FOR TEXTILE ARTISTS: Instructor: Jane Davies. Become familiar with acrylic materials, techniques and composition in relation to how they may help in your textiles work. Tue.-Fri., Apr. 18-21, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Cost: $500/person; $475/members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe.

Info: 253-8358, education@ helenday.com, helenday.com.

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WORKSHOP: BRANCH TO SPOON: Instructor: Rob Palmer.

Learn to carve spoons from locally sourced green wood using hand tools and traditional Swedish carving methods at Rokeby Museum. Learn to identify appropriate species of wood for carving spoons and other utensils. Learn about the anatomy of a spoon and carving safety and techniques. Sat. Jun. 3, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $160/ workshop; incl. materials & a set of carving tools to take home.

Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

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IMPROVISATION LABORATORY: These intensives focus on improvisation skills and movement’s relationship to self, others and the elements of space and time.

This series has received support from the University of Vermont Lattie F. Coor Endowment and the Humanities Center.

Instructor: Lida Winfield. Sat., Apr. 8, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost: $44/ one; $80/weekend. Location: UVM’s Mann Hall Gymnasium, 208 Colchester Ave., Burlington.

Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

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BLACKSMITHING 1: Instructor: Robert Wetzel. Using a forge, you will learn basic blacksmith techniques, from building and maintaining a fire to hammer control. Students will create hooks, pokers and small leaves during this two-day workshop. Sat. & Sun., May 27-May 28, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $235/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@theshelburnecraftschool. org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

KENNY WORMALD LIVE DANCE CLASS: Amazing opportunity to dance with Kenny Wormald: danced with Madonna, JT and more. Starred in Footloose remake. Interactive, large-screen hip-hop class: Instructors and students see each other and communicate. Get big-city dance instruction without the travel, big-city costs and huge class size. Limit 25. Reserve now!

383-8468, arabesqueetcdance@ gmail.com, arabesqueetc.com.

Wed., Apr. 5, 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $25/1-hour interactive class. Location: Arabesque Etc. at Richmond Free Library, 201 Bridge St. , Richmond.

Info: Martina Price, 383-8468, arabesqueetcdance@gmail.com, arabesqueetc.com.

DJEMBE & TAIKO: Classes in Burlington, Hyde Park and Montpelier. Drums provided.

Classes for adults (also for kids with parents) Mon., Tue. & Wed. in Burlington. Wed. a.m. or Friday a.m. in Hyde Park. Thu. in Montpelier. Most classes are in the evenings or after school. Conga classes, too! Visit our schedule and register online. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington; Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin; Moonlight Studios, 1670 Cleveland Corners Rd., Hyde Park. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

supports such learning. Mon., Apr. 3-Jun. 5, 9:30-10:15 a.m. or 10:30-11:15 a.m. Cost: $136/10 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

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ADULT: DRAWING: Instructor: Misoo Filan. Learn fundamental skills of observational drawing.

Explore technical and conceptual foundation of drawing using a variety of drawing materials such as graphite, charcoal, pen and ink. Develop personal goals while examining creative concepts through demonstrations, including drawing from a model in the final class. Materials not included.

Mon., Apr. 3-Jun. 5, 10 a.m.-noon, no class Apr. 24 or May 29. Cost: $258/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world-famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $12/1-hour class. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Jon Bacon, 355-1818, crandalltyler@hotmail. com, dsantosvt.com.

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MINDFULNESS & CANCER WELLNESS: Mindfulness Tools for Health and Wellness. Two 8-week classes being offered for cancer patients/survivors and caregivers at University of Vermont Medical Center. Learn mindfulness practices including a body scan, sitting meditation and gentle yoga. Practice at home with guided recordings.

Discover how mindfulness can help you reduce stress.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) certified instructor. Weekly, starting April 17, 5-8 p.m., & April 21, 8:30-11:30

MAHAYANA MINDFULNESS WITH KENDALL MAGNUSSEN: Come explore uniquely designed methods of mindfulness sourced in the Mahayana tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and taught

by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Learn how to increase compassion and wisdom in your daily experience and, more importantly, come taste the mindfulness that brings you to the full awakening of Buddhahood, for the benefit of all. Save the date, May 27 for work party. Cost: $50/suggested donation; incl. lunch and afternoon tea. Location: Milarepa Center, 1344 Route 5, Barnet. Info: 633-4136, director@milarepacenter.org.

photography SPRING IN VERMONT PHOTO WORKSHOP: Spring in Vermont is one of the most magical times to be outdoors exploring the landscape with a camera.

The streams are full, leaves are bursting and the fields are exploding with green. During this intensive weekend photography workshop, we’ll explore and

psychology JUNG ON THE FATHER: Our experience of a father (or lack thereof) can color our whole lives, impact our careers, how we define success and how we relate to masculine energies. Learn why this is and how to work with your inner “father imago” in this course full of exercises, readings and discussions. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Apr. 12, 19, 26 & May 3; 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/person.

Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

tai chi BEGINNER TAI CHI IN BURLINGTON: At Long River Tai Chi Circle, we practice Cheng Man-ch’ing’s “simplified” 37 posture Yang-style form. The three pillars of our study are Form, Sensing Hands and Sword.

Patrick is a senior instructor at Long River in Vermont and New Hampshire and will be teaching the classes in Burlington. Starts May 10, 9-10 a.m. Cost: $65/mo.

Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: Long River Tai Chi Circle, Patrick Cavanaugh, 490-6405, patrick@longrivertaichi.org, longrivertaichi.org.

SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient

martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings.

Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 8647902, ipfamilytaichi.org.

video GREEN SCREEN VIDEOS AND ANIMATION: Interested in an imaginative way for you to be transported into a scene from a novel, a work of art or the midst of an historical event? During this workshop you will learn the basics of applying two apps — Do Ink Green Screen and Do Ink Drawing and Animation — to tell compelling visual stories with whimsy, creativity and flair.

Thu., Mar. 30, 5:30-8 p.m. Cost: $35/person. Location: RETN & VCAM Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 654-7980, learn@retn.org, retn.org.

voice EASTER RISING: Do you love to sing songs of protest, passion and celebration in glorious, uproarious harmony? Then lend your voice to Easter RiSING: Songs of Resistance & Social Change, a singing workshop with visiting choral activist Kirsty Martin. Kirsty will be sharing an eclectic musical repertoire both contemporary and classic, radical and reflective, clarion call and celebration: songs that evoke and encourage progressive change. Sat., Apr. 15, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $50/advance; $60/ door. Location: Trinity Methodist Church, 137 Main St., Montpelier.

Info: John Harrison, 778-0881, johnmarkharrison@gmail.com.

well-being HEALTHIER LIVING W/ PAIN: If you suffer from long-lasting (chronic) pain from an injury,

surgery or health condition you are not alone. About 100 million Americans are living with chronic pain. That is more than are living with diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined! But there are many things you can do to manage your pain, and we can help. Learn ways to reduce pain, deal with related issues like having trouble sleeping and more.

Family members and caregivers welcome, too. Six Wed., starts Apr. 26, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. CD & Healthier Living w/ Pain book incl.

Location: The Miller Recreation Center, 130 Gosse Court, Burlington. Info: UVM Medical Center, 847-2278, selfmanagement@uvmhealth.org.

yoga EVOLUTION YOGA: Evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers yoga classes for everyone from beginner to expert. Choose from a wide variety of drop-in classes, series and workshops in Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Gentle, Vigorous, Yoga on the Lake, Yoga Wall, Therapeutics, and Alignment.

Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here.

Cost: $15/class; $140/10-class card; $5-10/community classes.

Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 8649642, evolutionvt.com.

HONEST YOGA: Honest yoga offers practices for all levels. We just expanded to have two practice spaces! Your children can practice in one room while you practice in the other. No need for childcare. Yoga and dance classes ages 3 months and up. Brandnew beginners’ course: This includes two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily heated and alignment classes kids classes in yoga and dance, pre- and postnatal yoga.

We hold yoga teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels,

as well as children and dance teacher training courses. Daily classes & workshops. $50/new student (1 month unlimited); $18/class; $140/10-class card; $15/class for student or senior; or $110/10-class punch card; $135/mo. adult memberships; $99/mo. kid memberships.

Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Hana, South Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@ gmail.com, honestyogacenter. com.

NONPROFIT, DONATION-BASED YOGA: Sangha Studio builds an empowered community through the shared practice of yoga.

Free yoga service initiatives and outreach programs are offered at 17 local organizations working with all ages. Join Sangha in both downtown Burlington and the Old North End for one of their roughly 60 weekly classes and workshops. Become a Sustaining Member for $60/month and practice as often as you like!

Daily. Location: Sangha Studio, 120 Pine St. and 237 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Caitlin Pascucci, 448-4262, sanghastudiovt@gmail.com, info@sanghastudio.org.

RAILYARD YOGA STUDIO: Railyard offers classical yoga, meditation and healing classes.

Clearing Subconscious Kundalini Yoga Series with Sukhpran: first 3 Tue. in Apr., 7:30-9 p.m.

Women’s Teachings for Radiance, Health and Invincibility with Sukhpran: Sat., Apr. 15, 4-6 p.m.

Kundalini Yoga (new time!): Thu., 7 p.m., with Mansukh. Dharma Yoga: Tue., 5:30 p.m., with Amy. Life Force Dance: Fri., 6-7 p.m., with Silvia. See website for schedule. Location: Railyard Yoga Studio, 270 Battery St., Burlington. Info: 318-6050, railyardyoga@gmail.com, railyardapothecary.com.

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you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Café (meditation and discussions) meets the first Sat. of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Sun. of each month, noon-2 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt.

Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m.

Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.

a.m. 26-hour workshop.

Location: University of Vermont Medical Center , Burlington.

Info: Mindful Stress Relief, Roz Grossman MA, 233-2461, roz@mindfulstressrelief.net, mindfulstressrelief.net.

photograph some of the most stunning Vermont landscapes.

Fri.-Sun., May 26, at 3 -Sun., May 28, at 4 p.m. Cost: $695/ weekend intensive workshop.

Location: Comfort Inn & Suites, Montpelier. Info: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops, Kurt Budliger, 272-5328, info@ kurtbudligerphotography.com, greenmtnphotoworkshops.com.

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n a recent edition of “Exposure,” the long-running live show on the University of Vermont’s WRUV 90.1 FM, Clever Girls’ front woman Diane Jean Reilly casually fielded questions about her band. And her filter was off, as it usually is.

While radio staff and other onlookers crowded into the tiny studio space, Reilly accidentally dropped the f-bomb.

After a mild scolding from the show’s hosts, the Burlington trio ripped into a new song called “Heaven” … during which Reilly sang the word “shitty.” The hosts frantically pantomimed a ceaseand-desist message, while another staffer retrieved the station disclaimer, which must be read immediately after a Federal Communications Commission violation. In summation: That was two FCC violations in just a few minutes.

As the performance continued, Reilly announced she was certain she was going to say “fuck” again. The singersongwriter seems to have a knack for getting herself into trouble.

Clever Girls are a countrified indierock trio composed of Reilly, Winfield Holt and Rob Slater. The latter two also perform in the Britpop-inspired band 1881. Since the release of Loose Tooth, Clever Girls’ first EP, Reilly has been pondering the concept of taking ownership — specifically of her position as front woman but also of certain regrettable decisions she’s made.

“There are a number of people who want my head on a fucking stick because of [Loose Tooth],” she says during an interview with Seven Days. “They’re not wrong.”

Sitting in a Burlington dive bar, the 25-year-old blonde cracks jokes, explains her various tattoos, boasts of her legendary beer-chugging ability and admits to having a soft spot for singersongwriter Vanessa Carlton.

At one point, Reilly pauses to point out that Lynyrd Skynryd’s “Call Me the Breeze” has started playing. Her knowledge of southern rock is unsurprising, since she’s clad in a vintage Lynyrd Skynyrd T-shirt. Bygone fashions are

Owning It Clever Girls’ Diane Jean Reilly makes bad choices, good music

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Reilly’s bread and butter: She co-owns the Stowe boutique Billie Jean Vintage with her cousin, Meghan Dolliver.

Reilly first came to New England in the late 2000s to finish high school at Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire. She faced difficulties matriculating in both her native New Jersey and later when her family moved to Pennsylvania.

“I was getting bullied quite a bit, and I was hanging out with a group of kids that were arguably negative influences,”

she says of the days before her transfer to KUA. Reilly makes a veiled reference to something called “shit-faced Wednesdays” and admits that she was as much to blame for her delinquency as were any outside factors.

After high school, she relocated to Boston to study political science and Spanish at Emmanuel College. She’d never picked up a guitar until just before the move.

“I had a crush on this guy, and he wanted to teach me some chords,” Reilly

says. After learning the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and Ben Gibbard and Feist’s rendition of Vashti Bunyan’s “Train Song,” she began writing and performing as Koestner, her mother’s maiden name. She also worked with Boston-based indie-rock bands Maura and Kin. Graduation left Reilly feeling lost. She was primed to pursue a career related to her poli-sci degree, but her heart wasn’t in it. Instead, she moved to Vermont’s “bad liver valley,” aka Vermont winter sports mecca the Mad River Valley.

And then, wanting to make something happen, she sought out bandmates.

“I didn’t know how to start a band, so I posted a Craigslist ad,” she explains.

Slater responded and invited her to record harmonies for 1881’s Lights, Camera, Action! trilogy. Reilly’s takes didn’t end up on that project, but she did pique Slater and Holt’s interest when she showed them some of her songs.

“The very first time we practiced, I was like, ‘Here’s this song. I don’t really know how it goes yet, but it starts up here, and it somehow ends down here,’” she says of the song “Loose Tooth.”

“It was supposed to be a slow and sad song,” Reilly recalls. “I remember Rob and Winfield looked at each other and were like, ‘But what if we speed it up?’

That was the first song where I was like, ‘Oh, we could actually be a unit.’”

Holt coined the band’s name, which is a reference to fictional game warden Robert Muldoon’s famous last words in the film Jurassic Park. Muldoon utters the phrase “Clever girl,” just as a sneaky velociraptor makes a meal of him.

The three originally took a casual attitude toward playing, reveling in the late-night madness of the rock-and-roll lifestyle. But an increasingly rigorous regional touring schedule prompted Reilly to think more seriously about the band.

“It was more than getting drunk and slamming on some instruments,” she says of touring New England. “It all kind of happened in a whirlwind.”

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Vermont is a beautiful place. I mean, duh. Every 802-themed coffee-table book and postcard showcases the eye-popping wonders of foliage season, the serenity of Lake Champlain’s shores, the pristine streets and covered bridges of small towns, and Burlington’s Church Street. And why shouldn’t they? Isn’t that what life in the Green Mountains is all about?

Well, sure — but it’s hardly the whole truth.

Enter artist and musician IVAN KLIPSTEIN. The globe-trotting comicIvan Klipstein book maker and bandleader of the AURORATONES has called Burlington his home for the better part of the last decade — when he’s not pursuing creative projects in places like East Timor, Chile or Nicaragua. During his time in the Queen City, he’s come to cherish the spaces between the glossy imagery used to portray life in the Green Mountains.

In his new comic book, Emerald Moon Over Dirty Lake, and its accompanying soundtrack, Klipstein celebrates the Kat Wright daily lives of everyday people and the less-than-touristy spaces they occupy. In other words, forget about orderly rows of tapped maple trees and hot-air balloons hovering over Mount Mansfield.

This Sunday, April 9, the Auroratones perform the soundtrack to Klipstein’s new book at Radio Bean. The band’s name is a representation of its multifaceted approach

to performance. “Aurora” refers to something seen, while “tone” obviously refers to something heard. During a live performance, Klipstein projects his comics, syncing them with live music specifically written to accompany them. He calls it a “musicomix experience.”

The Auroratones are sometimes populated with multiple musicians.

You can hear a glut of instruments on previous recordings, but, for this Sunday’s performance, Klipstein presents a stripped-down version of the band — just guitar, piano and his own voice.

The comic book’s foreword introduces it as a kind of study in folk anthropology. In an email to Seven Days, Klipstein expresses dissatisfaction with the representation of Burlington in art and media. He writes, “[It’s] too shiny and happy, too easy. I wanted to create a document which acknowledged the unique confluence of cultures and struggles, especially that of the Old North End, where refugees, artists, students and scavengers all coexist in a very special and imperfect but ever-changing way.”

Here’s where Emerald Moon gets super cool: Its 60 pages of gorgeous, hand-drawn pen-and-ink portraits feature actual people Klipstein has encountered around Burlington. Given that it’s a fairly small town, you just might see someone you know in the book — especially if you live in the ONE or hang out at Radio Bean.

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Clever Girls head back into the studio later this spring to produce a full-length recorded Loose Tooth. Its release led to album. In the meantime, Reilly is workan uproar in her social circle over the ing on her fronting skills.

“I never wanted to be a front person,” EP’s centerpiece, the grungy, emotionshe says, claiming she’s too awkward ally searing “45.”

The song describes events that led onstage.

As the WRUV audience might attest, Reilly into one of the most tumultuous times of her life. As it reaches its pinna- she appears to have the effortless — if cle, her lyrics are intentionally obscured foul-mouthed — charisma of a seasoned pro. She has and buried under a the chops, too. As tidal wave of guitar Clever Girls worked and cymbals. But through their set, she she does give insight effortlessly pushed into the controversial the limits of her song — and the guy upper register withwho inspired it. out ever breaking “I didn’t even into falsetto. sleep with him, but She’s also begun [we] did have a sort of pursuing a lifelong fling,” Reilly admits dream of playing while finishing her the drums. After her second beer. “I made mother steered her some poor decisions, away from the skins [and] there were a lot D I A N E J EA N R EI L LY in favor of the clariof people that were net in the fifth grade, hurt by [them].”

Reilly finally feels Reilly maintains that her lapse in judgment is not an ac- connected to a musical instrument.

“I feel like [the drums are] the only curate representation of herself. Since the sort-of indiscretion, she says she’s instrument that ever came naturally. made strides to rectify the part of herself [It’s] the only instrument I’ve sat with that’s prone to making bad decisions by and been like, ‘OK. This makes sense to connecting more deeply with her inner me,’” she says. “Whereas [learning] the guitar was arduous. It sucked. I’m still self.

“A lot of times, maybe you’re being not the guitar player I want to be.” m lied to, and you have no idea,” she explains. “But maybe you’re being lied Contact: jordan@sevendaysvt.com to, and there’s that small part of you that’s asking all the right questions. And INFO you’re just saying, ‘Well, fuck that.’

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Reunion announcement: On September 9 at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, Burlington legends DYSFUNKSHUN will reunite for the first time in 15 years.

They played their last show in 2002 at Higher Ground’s original venue in Winooski. And — fun fact! — the reunion coincides with the 25th anniversary of the band’s inception.

The funked-out hip-hop/rock band was a mainstay of the Vermont music scene throughout the ’90s. Cofounder RICHARD BAILEY tells Seven Days via email that the group was built on a staunchly left-leaning political platform. And, while reunions can be super fun on their own, the current state of affairs nationally and abroad partially inspired the upcoming show.

Bailey and cofounder MARC DANIELS return to the group, along with late-era drummer ORNAN MCLEAN. Joining the original members are ARAM BEDROSIAN and FRANKY ANDREAS, both longtime friends and collaborators. Bailey is hopeful that other past members are available to join in the festivities. The DIRTY BLONDES add support.

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reunion approaches. On a personal note: Though I was too young to be clubbing it up during the band’s original run, I have fond memories of listening to theirUntitled-7 reinvention of CHIN HO’s “Hippie Girl” (which they called “Hip-Hop Girl”).

Dysfunkshun recorded the track for the compilation Burlington Does Burlington Vol 2, in which local artists covered each other’s songs. Luckily, I have an older brother who introduced me to local music when I was just a nerdy middle schooler. Because otherwise, I was listening pretty much exclusively to “WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC at the time.

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Klipstein employs substantial cross-hatching and intricate fine lines, which make the images buzz with life and vitality. Chapter 1, “Around Town,” introduces the reader to people found in places such as the Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes, Sunshine Laundry and J&M Groceries. Chapter 2, “Music Folks,” immortalizes local musical heroes such as ROUGH FRANCIS, MICKEY WESTERN, KAT WRIGHT AND THE INDOMITABLE SOUL BAND, and BRASS BALAGAN, to name a few. Chapter 3, “Let’s Go Home,” shows the intimacy of Klipstein’s subjects inside their own living quarters.

And let’s not forget about the soundtrack! After all, the reason for this Sunday’s shindig is to present it live for the first time.

Its three songs correspond to each of the book’s chapters. The first track, “OH VERMONT (Chapter 1 … Around Town)” plays like an artful reimagining of “People in Your Neighborhood” from “Sesame Street.” Its ambling piano line and harmony-heavy background vocals provide a well-rounded sonic palette of what to expect from the Auroratones.

“REDEMPTION CENTER (Chapter 2 …

Music Folks)” is a country-soul number with a groovy, propelling bass line. The soundtrack closes with the wistful pianoand-glockenspiel ballad, “EMERALD MOON (Chapter 3 … Let’s Go Home).”

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ARTSRIOT: George Clanton and Negative Gemini (electro-pop), 8:30 p.m., $8/10.

CITIZEN CIDER: Brett Hughes (country), 6 p.m., free.

THE DAILY PLANET: Silver Bridget (saw folk), 8 p.m., free.

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SIDEBAR: Wavey Wednesday (EDM), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Hannah Fair (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Standup Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

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HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Atlas Genius, Night Riots (alternative), 7 p.m., $28/30.

SUGARHOUSE BAR & GRILL: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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SWEET MELISSA’S: D. Davis (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., donation.

Vinyl Fantasy with Alex Budney (vinyl, eclectic), 8 p.m., donation.

WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

middlebury area CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. Open Mic Night, 9 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

outside vermont MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Bow Thayer (folk-rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., donation. Community Center (orchestral rock and roll), 9 p.m., donation.

alongside her twin sister, Katie, in the pop-

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Eric George and Zack DuPont (folk), 9 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: DJ KermiTT (hits), 8 p.m., free. DJ David Chief, 11 p.m., free.

LA PUERTA NEGRA: Joe Moore (jazz), 6 p.m., free. UNDUN (jazz, rock), 8:30 p.m., $5.

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RÍ RÁ THE IRISH LOCAL & WHISKEY ROOM: The Crooked Jacks (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Get Stood Up: Comedy Open Mic, 6 p.m., free. The Fantastic Partnerz (rock), 9 p.m., free.

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NECTAR’S: Vinyl Night with DJ Disco Phantom (vinyl DJs), 6 p.m., free. Navytrain, Evil People (neo-Americana), 9 p.m., free/$5.

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MARTELL’S AT THE RED FOX: Drunk and in the Woods (soul, funk), 9 p.m., $3.

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MOOGS PLACE: Chris Lyon (solo acoustic), 6 p.m., free.

caffeinated, garage-rock incarnation of Beach backing band, the FIZZ, on Friday, April 7,

RUSTY NAIL: A Night Out to Support the Stowe Education Fund featuring DJ Rekkon (hits), 7 p.m., $50/60.

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HALYARD BREWING CO.: Old Time Mountain Jam with High-Low-Jack (traditional, acoustic strings), first Thursday of every month, 6 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Jon Berry, 9 p.m., free.

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JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Matt the Gnat and the Gators (narrative noir-pop), 8 p.m., free.

Mark Daly (pop), 9:30 p.m., $10.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: The Mangroves (rock, funk), 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free.

PHO NGUYEN: Karaoke with DJ Walker, 8 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ THE IRISH LOCAL & WHISKEY ROOM: The Crooked Jacks (folk), 9 p.m., free. Rob Benton (rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Ben Fuller (country), 7 p.m., free. Joe Davidian Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Major Player (R&B, psych-rock), 11 p.m., $5.

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RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Binger, Kudu Stooge (jam), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Lowell Thompson and Kelly Ravin (country), 7 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Short Jam (improv), 6 p.m., free. Beth Stelling (standup), 7 p.m., $15.

The Daily Grind (improv), 8:45 p.m., $5.

BACKSTAGE PUB: Trivia, 9:30 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Dopapod, Strange Machines (progressive rock, dance), 9 p.m., $15/18.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Irish Jam Session (traditional), 7 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Nobby Reed Project (blues), 7 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Red Hot Juba (country, jazz), 7 p.m., free.

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SWEET MELISSA’S: Dave Langevine (ragtime), 6 p.m., donation. Erin Cassels-Brown (country, folk), 8 p.m., donation.

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MARTELL’S AT THE RED FOX: Ben Slotnick (folk, bluegrass), 7 p.m., free. Open Mic & Jam Session, 9 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Open Mic with Allen Church, 8:30 p.m., free.

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BIG PICTURE THEATER AND CAFÉ: Bruce Sklar and Jeremy Hill (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

ZENBARN: Doug Perkins (folk, bluegrass), 7 p.m., free.

middlebury area CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Throttle Thursdays with DJ Gold (hits), 9 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: Kevin Lewis (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Pete’s Posse (Americana), 8 p.m., $10/12.

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ARTSRIOT: Revibe, Swimmer (jam), 8:30 p.m., $8.

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Rob Morse and Joe Davidian (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Throwback Party featuring Saved By the ’90s, DJ Steal Wool (’90s DJs), 9 p.m., $10.

FOAM BREWERS: Barbacoa (surf), 8 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Lowell Thompson (alt-country), 9 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: George Woods (indie folk, soul), 7:30 p.m., free. Osage Orange (rock), 10 p.m., $5-10. Taka (vinyl DJ), 11 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: DJ Disco Phantom (eclectic dance), 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Midnight North featuring Grahame Lesh, the Original Q (rock, Americana), 9 p.m., $5.

RÍ RÁ THE IRISH LOCAL & WHISKEY ROOM: The Crooked Jacks (folk), 10 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free. A Chance to Bloom (indie

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RED SQUARE: Giovanina Bucci (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., free. Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 7 p.m., $5. Craig Mitchell (house, hits), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ KermiTT (hits), 10 p.m., $5.

RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: The Green Mountain Boys (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free.

Crusty Cuts & Loupo (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Rose Street Collective (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

SMITTY’S PUB: Hi-Note Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Beth Stelling (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20/27.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Jazz Is PHSH (Phish tribute), 8:30 p.m., $15/20.

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TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Sean Ashby, Chris and Erica (rock), 6 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE: Formula 5 (rock, jam), 10 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: All Request Night with DJ Skippy (hits), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Chris Powers (acoustic), 7 p.m., free.

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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Anthony Santor (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Retronome With DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Jeezum Crow (Americana, rock), 7 p.m., free.

FOAM BREWERS: Emma Cook & Questionable Company (folk, funk), 8 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Allison Crutchfield & the Fizz, Vagabon, Empath (indie), 8 p.m., $12/17.

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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Loose Association (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Phil Abair Band (rock), 9 p.m., free.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: DJ Dakota (soul, hits), 9 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Jennifer “Oh, Lord” & the New Riders of the Apocalypse (cabaret), 6:30 p.m., free. Ben Cosgrove (contemporary instrumental), 8 p.m., free.

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REVIEW this Derek and the Demons, Out of the Woodwork

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The ever-productive Derek and the Demons have returned with their new LP, Out of the Woodwork. For those keeping score, that’s four full-length records and two EPs released since forming in 2010.

Few local acts can boast such an impressive and consistent output.

Speaking of consistency, if you’re familiar with the Windsor-based trio, there’s not much new to see here — though that’s not necessarily a bad thing. As on the band’s previous records, Out of the Woodwork follows a tried-andtrue template: three guys playing jamflavored rock and roll. No huge stylistic shifts or production quirks — though there does seem to be less of a bent toward the psychedelic than on 2016’s Rite of Passage.

Wren Kitz, untitled (COMO TAPES, CASSETTE, DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)

“Food of the Gods” exhibit an edge that the Demons wear well — and should do more often. For example, “No Fool 4 U” suffers in contrast, with unfortunate lyrics such as, “She got too much attention, now she lives in another dimension / How can she be sane when the whole world wants her sex?” Lyrics are not Young’s strong suit. He has a clear vision of telling a story, which is a fine trait. But the execution isn’t always graceful.

The album’s final four songs feature the ever-talented Break Maids providing backing vocals. The trio augments Young’s voice with shimmering harmonies as beautiful as a full moon on a cold Vermont night. Alarcón has mixed their parts to sound like an ethereal chorus in a Greek tragedy. The women’s voices float behind the action but are never lost or dull. The Break Maids’ work on the barn burner “Look Out Now” is a particular high point on another solid effort from the Demons.

Out of the Woodwork is available at derekandthedemons.bandcamp.com.

Derek and the Demons play a release party on Friday, April 7, at Windsor Station.

amounts to a few fleeting minutes of acoustic guitar work. This is an utterly uncompromising record. It confronts the listener. There are no easy reference points. And new movements, such as they are, come crashing in out of nowhere.

The soundscapes on untitled feel very much like an outgrowth of Kitz’s work on For Evelyn.

This is especially true on the long, spacious intro to “Canyon,” which juxtaposes Godzilla-size reverb swells against quiet, Nick Drake-style folk moments. But where the tape-noise aspects gnawed and played at the periphery of Kitz’s LP, this tape puts them front and center.

For folks who like their songs with structure, untitled might be something of an endurance contest. But to more adventurous ears, it might sound downright familiar.

Back in 1975, Lou Reed famously fulfilled his RCA Records contract by handing in Metal Machine Music, a brutalist noise album that was more performance art than curated composition. Yet the process was

essentially the same: Reed was manipulating his own recordings with reel-to-reel tape machines and effects pedals, creating solid walls of sound.

Kitz isn’t nearly as harsh or demanding as Reed, fortunately. He’s clearly building from his own quixotic, melodic raw material. Most of the run time here is pleasant, although listeners are advised to keep the volume down on their headphones. Passages of tape-head noise during the second track are hard on the ears.

Overall, this tape is a curious diversion.

Where For Evelyn established Kitz as a seriously talented songwriter, none of that is on display here. So, as his career and catalog goes, untitled is a footnote, a transitional step.

By the standards of experimental music, though, it’s quite nicely done.

Long stretches will test the tolerance of conventional listeners, but it’s a much warmer, more organic experience than anything Thurston Moore or Coil would subject you to. This is artisanal, handmade noise music — and you really can hear the difference.

Untitled by Kitz is available as a digital download from comotapes.bandcamp. com or on limited-edition cassette at comotapes.com.

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The improbably named Wren Kitz has been a longtime collaborator in the Burlington music scene, both as a lead guitarist and songwriter. His highestprofile contributions have probably been with Paddy Reagan’s psych-pop outfit Paper Castles. But last year Kitz released a solo debut, For Evelyn, on Burlington-based Section Sign Records. It was a distinctive, hypnotic work.

His latest project, untitled, comes via Como Tapes, a curious outfit of cassette lovers from Vermont and New Jersey who aim to highlight marginalized music and art. Their manifesto cites 20thcentury French philosopher Michel Foucault and eschews capitalist sentence structure. The Kitz trip is too spaced out for mere politics, though — indeed, budding Trotskyites won’t find any lyrics here on which to hang their critique.

So, what is untitled? It’s a big, weird slab of experimental folk music. In practice, though, the “folk” aspect

Singer and guitarist Derek Young plays it straightforward, as do his Demons.

If nothing else, Out of the Woodwork is incredibly direct.

Opener “Late in the Fall” is a roots rocker with a laid-back groove at the verse and a chorus that just slightly picks up the pace. It sits firmly in the band’s oeuvre like a worn-in shoe. Likewise, “Feel-Good Summer” comes from Derek and the Demons’ comfort zone. It sounds like the band had a go at writing a crowdpleaser for a jam-band festival. The chorus is readymade for sharing a joint and sipping warm whiskey out of a plastic cup — and that’s before the guitar solos start.

Young is a solid guitarist whose playing suits his band’s style. Bassist Kiel Alarcón — who also produced the record — and drummer Chris Egner prove fitting complements to the bandleader.

Derek and the Demons are a robust outfit, and they puff up when leaning toward more aggressive influences.

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RÍ RÁ THE IRISH LOCAL & WHISKEY ROOM: The Crooked Jacks (folk), 10 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Kate Smiles (folk), 7 p.m., free. Eugene Tyler Band (Americana), 8:30 p.m., free.

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SIDEBAR: Sam DuPont (folk), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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fluently flits from breezy bossa nova to sinister blues to wide-eyed folk, never sounding out of its on what the song dictates. Catch Emma Cook & Questionable Company on Saturday, April 8, at Foam Brewers in Burlington.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Andrew Combs, Erin Rae, Eastern Mountain Time (country, soul), 8 p.m., $8/10.

Saicos, the Crimson Ghosts (surf), 9 p.m., $5.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Game Night, 7 p.m., free.

Mic (standup), 7 p.m., donation. Live Band Karaoke, 7 p.m., donation.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: The Milo White Band (Americana), 7 p.m., free.

middlebury area

NECTAR’S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9:30 p.m., free/$3. 18+.

outside vermont

MONKEY HOUSE: Radio Underground (roots, Americana), 9 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Two Count (rock), 5 p.m., free. Cyn City (rock), 9 p.m., free.

SUGARHOUSE BAR & GRILL: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Wes Hamilton (folk), 6 p.m., free.

Stuart Ross and the Temp Agency (Americana, jazz), 9 p.m., free.

51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Full Share (rock covers), 7 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: City Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

HATCH 31: Onion River Gang (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Twist of Fate (rock), 9 p.m., $3.

rutland/killington

PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Mullett (’80s rock tribute), 8 p.m., free.

champlain islands/ northwest

RÍ RÁ THE IRISH LOCAL & WHISKEY ROOM: The Crooked Jacks (folk), 6 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Clare Byrne (singersongwriter), 11 a.m., free. Maple Street Six (jazz), 1 p.m., free. Andrew Stearns (Americana), 4 p.m., free. The Auroratones (indie, live art), 6 p.m., free. Talking Lake (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Marcie Hernandez (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free.

Christopher Gregory (Americana), 9 p.m., free. Sean-Patrick and the Newgrass Revolution (alternative, Americana), 10:30 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: SideBar Sundays (eclectic), 7 p.m., free. Mitteltöner (house), 10 p.m., free.

ESPRESSO BUENO: Jason Mallery (alt-folk), 7:30 p.m., free. Alex Smith (folk), 8:30 p.m., free.

TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Bob Boyd Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Ron Sweet (acoustic), 6 p.m., donation. Guano Loco (rock), 9:30 p.m., donation.

northeast kingdom

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch, noon, $5-10 donation.

outside vermont

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Good Clean Fun! (family-friendly improv), 5:30 p.m., $5. Naffy (improv), 7 p.m., $5. House Boat! (improv), 8 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Cookie’s Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 7 p.m., free.

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MARTELL’S AT THE RED FOX: Dead Sessions Lite (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5.

RUSTY NAIL: Chad Hollister Band (rock), 8 p.m., $15/20.

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VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Beth Stelling (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20/27.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Tom Segura (standup), 7 & 10 p.m., $32/50.

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PARKER PIE CO.: NEKaraoke, 7:30 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: Mister F (rock), 10 p.m., free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Navytrain (neo-Americana), 7:30 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Gregory Douglass Band, Ricochet Duo, Cricket Blue (rock), 7 p.m., $10/13.

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SUGARHOUSE BAR & GRILL: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

FOAM BREWERS: Zack DuPont (folk), noon, free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Showboat Open

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Bluegrass Brunch, noon, free.

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LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 8 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Seven Leaves, Sead (jam), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

RADIO BEAN: Jesse Taylor (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Family Night (open jam), 9 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Comedy & Crêpes (standup), 7 p.m., free.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: DakhaBrakha, Barika (world, folk), 7:30 p.m., $18/20.

MONKEY HOUSE: Kelly Ravin (country), 6 p.m., free. Motown Mondays! (Motown DJs), 8 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

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MOOGS PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

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PHAT KAT’S TAVERN: Jay Natola (solo guitar), 9 p.m., free.

outside vermont

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: DJ Jessbro Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Shaun and Larry (blues), 5 p.m., donation.

Open Mic, 7 p.m., donation.

middlebury area CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Aliendog (rock), 8 p.m., free.

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HATCH 31: Erin Cassels-Brown (indie folk), 6 p.m., free. Kelly Ravin and Lowell Thompson (country), 7 p.m., free.

THE GRYPHON: P’tit Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Karaoke with Roots Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: HD Quartet (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

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LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: J&M Boutique (alt-pop), 7 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Erin Cassels-Brown (country, folk), 9:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 10 p.m., $3/5.18+.

RADIO BEAN: Stephen Callahan Trio (jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. Paige Thibault (blues), 9 p.m., free.

Honky Tonk Tuesday with Eric George & Friends, 10 p.m., $3.

Myra Flynn (neo-soul), 10:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 7 p.m., free. DJ Aras (dance), 8 p.m., free. Pop Rap Dance Party, 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: ZOLOPHT (funk, jam), 10 p.m., free.

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HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Joshua James, Timmy the Teeth (neo-folk), 7:30 p.m., $15.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free.

SUGARHOUSE BAR & GRILL: Joey Keough (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., free.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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Community Center (orchestral rock and roll), 10:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Sammich (jam), 6 p.m., free. DJ KermiTT (hits), 8 p.m., free. DJ David Chief, 11 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Luke McCartin (alt-country), 8 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Jazz & Fondue, 7 p.m., free.

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albums. Her 2014 record Perfect Animal likens songwriting to a wild beast that must be tamed. She just dropped Regina, a collection of jazz and folk hybrids

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Hannah Fair (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

that celebrates and pays homage to queens from history, fables and stories of

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Standup Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

United We Standup (political comedy), 9 p.m., free.

such as Brad Mehldau, David Crosby and, most recently, avant-pop maven

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OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

All Hail

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: The Hip Abduction (alt-pop), 8 p.m., $12/15.

Stevens’ own creation. She’s collaborated with a number of high-profile artists, Laura Mvula. Stevens stitches her influences together in a dreamlike haze of unconventional harmonies, swells of orchestral strings and Appalachian sensibilities. Becca Stevens performs on Monday, April 10, at the Light Club Lamp Shop in Burlington.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Bluegrass Jam Session, 7 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Quiz for a Cause Literary Pub Quiz (benefit for Friends of the Winooski Library), 7 p.m., $10.

SUGARHOUSE BAR & GRILL: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

burlington

CITIZEN CIDER: Brett Hughes (country), 6 p.m., free.

THE DAILY PLANET: Seth Yacovone (blues), 8 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Mike Martin (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Eric George and Zack DuPont (folk), 9 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Vinyl Night with DJ Disco Phantom (vinyl DJs), 6 p.m., free. Navytrain, Kudu Stooge (neo-Americana), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

barre/montpelier

SWEET MELISSA’S: D. Davis (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., donation.

Cookie’s Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 8 p.m., donation.

WHAMMY BAR: Myra Flynn and Paul Boffa (neo-soul), 7 p.m., free.

middlebury area CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. Open Mic Night, 9 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ THE IRISH LOCAL & WHISKEY ROOM: The County Down (traditional Irish), 7:30 p.m., free.

outside vermont

RADIO BEAN: Dan Weintraub (folk), 7 p.m., free. Jeff Przech (alt-country), 9 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free.

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51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE, 51 Main St., Middlebury, 3888209 BAR ANTIDOTE, 35C Green St., Vergennes, 877-2555 CITY LIMITS, 14 Greene St., Vergennes, 877-6919 HATCH 31, 31 Main St., Bristol, 453-2774 TOURTERELLE, 3629 Ethan Allen Hwy., New Haven, 453-6309 TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002

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BAYSIDE PAVILION, 15 Georgia Shore Rd., St. Albans, 524-0909 SNOW SHOE LODGE & PUB, 13 Main St., Montgomery Center, 326-4456 TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405

UPPER VALLEY

BREAKING GROUNDS, 245 Main St., Bethel, 392-4222

NORTHEAST KINGDOM

BIG JAY TAVERN, 3709 Mountain Rd., Montgomery, 326-6688 COLATINA EXIT, 164 Main St., Bradford, 222-9008 JASPER’S TAVERN, 71 Seymour La., Newport, 334-2224 MARTELL’S AT THE FOX, 87 Edwards Rd., Jeffersonville, 644-5060 MUSIC BOX, 147 Creek Rd., Craftsbury, 586-7533 PARKER PIE CO., 161 County Rd., West Glover, 525-3366 PHAT KATS TAVERN, 101 Depot St., Lyndonville, 626-3064 THE PUB OUTBACK, 482 Vt. 114, East Burke, 626-1188 THE STAGE, 45 Broad St., Lyndonville, 427-3344 TAMARACK GRILL, 223 Shelburne Lodge Rd., East Burke, 626-7390

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OLIVE RIDLEY’S, 37 Court St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-324-2200 PALMER ST. COFFEE HOUSE, 4 Palmer St., Plattsburgh, N.Y. 518-561-6920 THE SKINNY PANCAKE, 3 Lebanon St., Hanover, N.H., 603-277-9115

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BIG PICTURE THEATER & CAFÉ, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994 THE CENTER BAKERY & CAFÉ, 2007 Guptil Rd., Waterbury Center, 244-7500

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BACKSTAGE PUB, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jct., 878-5494 GOOD TIMES CAFÉ, Rt. 116, Hinesburg, 482-4444 HALYARD BREWING CO., 80 Ethan Allen Dr., #2, S. Burlington, 497-1858

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ, 28 Main St., Montpelier, 229-9212 CAPITAL GROUNDS CAFÉ, 27 State St., Montpelier, 223-7800 CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820 ESPRESSO BUENO, 248 N. Main St., Barre, 479-0896 GUSTO’S, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476-7919 KISMET, 52 State St., Montpelier, 223-8646 LA PUERTA NEGRA, 44 Main St., Montpelier, 613-3172 MULLIGAN’S IRISH PUB, 9 Maple Ave., Barre, 479-5545 NORTH BRANCH CAFÉ, 41 State St., Montpelier, 552-8105 POSITIVE PIE, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453 RED HEN BAKERY + CAFÉ, 961 US Route 2, Middlesex, 223-5200 THE SKINNY PANCAKE, 89 Main St., Montpelier, 262-2253 SWEET MELISSA’S, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier, 225-6012 THREE BEAN CAFÉ, 22 Pleasant St., Randolph, 728-3533 WHAMMY BAR, 31 W. County Rd., Calais, 229-4329

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CORK WINE BAR & MARKET, 40 Foundry St., Waterbury, 882-8227 GREEN MOUNTAIN LOUNGE AT MOUNT ELLEN, 102 Forest Pl., Warren, 583-6300 HOSTEL TEVERE, 203 Powderhound Rd., Warren, 496-9222 PURPLE MOON PUB, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-3422 THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM, 1 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-7827 SLIDE BROOK LODGE & TAVERN, 3180 German Flats Rd., Warren, 583-2202 ZENBARN, 179 Guptil Rd., Waterbury Center, 244-8134

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HIGHER GROUND, 1214 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 652-0777 HINESBURGH PUBLIC HOUSE, 10516 Vt., 116 #6A, Hinesburg, 482-5500 JAMES MOORE TAVERN, 4302 Bolton Access Rd. Bolton Valley, Jericho, 434-6826 JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN, 30 Rte., 15, Jericho, 899-2223 MISTER SISTER, 45 Main St., Winooski, 448-3740 MONKEY HOUSE, 30 Main St., Winooski, 655-4563 ON TAP BAR & GRILL, 4 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3309 PARK PLACE TAVERN, 38 Park St., Essex Jct. 878-3015 ROZZI’S LAKESHORE TAVERN, 1022 W. Lakeshore Dr., Colchester, 863-2342 SHELBURNE VINEYARD, 6308 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 985-8222 STONE CORRAL BREWERY, 83 Huntington Rd., Richmond, 434-5767 SUGARHOUSE BAR & GRILL, 733 Queen City Park Rd., S. Burlington, 863-2909 WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK, 20 Winooski Falls Way, Winooski, 497-3525

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A VISUAL CONVERSATION

Best Shot

Photographer Matthew Peterson talks film, zines and gut reactions

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SD: Where do you get your film developed?

MP: I work with PhotoGarden.

They’re great. I drop my film off, and it’s $5 a roll [for development]. They kill it.

SD: At the recent Burlington City Arts Pecha Kucha Night, you were speaking about your zines. How did that project — the Flatlander series — get started?

MP: I started it in 2013 or ’14. It was born out of two trips I took, back and forth from Great Barrington, Mass. My grandmother was in a retirement home. The second trip was for her funeral. She had a huge, influential role in me being a photographer — she used to send me stacks of her photographs. So I went and photographed both aspects of [her passing], but they were really somber trips. I felt like I was losing an inspiration.

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That was the birth of the series.

I made these photos, [and] I really wanted to get them out into a public setting. So I made the first Flatlander, called “Seasonal Depression.” It was nice to have people responding to work again.

SD: You felt like you got a different response to your zines, as opposed to print work?

MP: [Before,] I was convinced that I only needed to make prints. But prints are cumbersome, and you can’t just hand one to someone and let it sit with them. And they’re expensive to make. So I said, “I’ll just make zines.” And if somebody says, “Oh, I’ll give you 10 bucks for this,” then great. Or not. Just give me criticism. Just pick it up and be like, “Huh, I like that. What’s this one

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SEVEN DAYS: You’ve been working with film since you were a kid. Why that, as opposed to digital?

MATTHEW PETERSON: There’s just something [about that] awesome feeling of getting a roll of film back. You get to hold the images up to the light and look at them.

With digital, you can rip through a bunch of photos, you can look at them and delete and edit — but holding something is important to me, especially in my image-making process.

And with film, [I have to be] slightly more selective about the images I do decide to take. If I go out with two rolls, I get 16 exposures. That’s 32 images total. That’s 32 images I have to be thoughtful about. I have to think about the composition and think about the position I’m putting myself in to get an image.

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atthew Peterson’s first camera was the ubiquitous 35mm Canon AE-1. His mom gave it to him when he was 10 years old, and he’s been making photographs ever since.

Now 26, Peterson works as a bartender at Hen of the Wood in Burlington.

Most recently, his work has appeared in limited-edition handmade zines he distributed around town. The series — which will soon reach an end — is called Flatlander, the Vermont term for nonnatives. Which Peterson is: Born in Massachusetts, he grew up in Woodstock, Ga. He moved to Vermont in 2012 after graduating from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Each flimsy paper zine has contained evocative black-and-white images from Peterson’s life, as well as a large foldout poster. He sold them for $10 apiece at coffee shops and other venues, including the Study Hall co-working space on College Street, where he recently participated in a pop-up sale.

Peterson has shown his work in group exhibitions around the country — two or three every year since 2011, he says. This spring he’s in two Vermont exhibits, more than usual.

Former BCA Center curator DJ Hellerman — now curator at Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y. — added Peterson to a lineup of more established Vermont artists for the upcoming “Ready. Fire! Aim.” show at the downtown gallery. And in June, Peterson will show work with Brattleboro-based photographer Vaune Trachtman at the Karma Bird House Gallery.

Seven Days met with Peterson in his Church Street studio to learn more about his work.

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more expensive. It’s a pay-to-play system. And some curators are missing out on really great work because of that.

about?” It prompts conversations that force me to think about my work.

SD: And you’re still working on the last one?

MP: Yeah. The one where I went and photographed my [other] grandmother’s 80th birthday. I feel like it just bookends the sequence of images.

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‘ALNOBAK: WEARING OUR HERITAGE’: An exhibition of recent works by contemporary Abenaki artists paired with historic garments, accessories, photographs and prints that reflect previous generations. Organized by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association.

Opening talk with cocurators Eloise Beil and Vera Longtoe Sheehan: Saturday, April 8, 2 p.m.

April 8-June 17. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington.

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VICKY TOMAYKO & BERT YARBOROUGH: “Collaborations,” works created together by the printmakers. Reception: Friday, April 7, 6-8 p.m. April 7-30. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

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CLARK DERBES: “Self-commissioned,”

SUSAN ROCKWELL: “Adventures in Weaving” presents a variety of colors and structures allowed within the form, as rendered by the Braintree artist. Reception: Sunday, April 9, 3-5 p.m. April 7-May 19. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.

‘LIGHT’: The third annual exhibition of UVM Pottery Co-op teacher and student works, which each interpret light in their way. ‘YOUNG VERMONT’: Curated by UVM students Kat Dooman and Christina Mignosa, this exhibition features emerging artists ages 30 and under who reside in Vermont permanently or are studying at a local university. Reception: Friday, April 7, 6-8 p.m. April 7-30. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.

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photographs of the Burlington artist’s large-scale, geometric paintings on the Burlington waterfront. Reception: Friday, April 7, 6-9 p.m. April 8-May 3. Info, audrie@ thekarmabirdhouse.com. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington.

‘SOJOURN’: A dialogue on temporality and loneliness, created through pairings of photographs by Dana Heffern and paintings

by Sage Tucker-Ketcham. Curated by Wylie Garcia and Christy Mitchell. Reception: Friday, April 7, 5-9 p.m. April 7-29. Info, 578-2512. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

‘TOMCZAK, TOMCZAK & TOMCZAK’: Original works in watercolor, mixed media and photography by Nancy, Grace and Jim Tomczak of Milton. Reception: Friday, April 7, 5-8 p.m.

April 7-30. Info, 660-9005. Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington.

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JO MACKENZIE: “Moments,” watercolor paintings on paper featuring domestic interiors and florals. Reception: Thursday, April 13, 4-7 p.m. April 5-June 30. Info, 828-0749.

Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier.

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JOHNSON BFA THESIS EXHIBITION: Mixed-media works, mandalas, photography and more by graduating seniors Brady Hird, Hannah Leroux, Brittany Miracle, Dani LaPerle, Brendan Walsh, Vanessa Sproates-Horl and Laurel Hubbert Severance. April 10-25. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College.

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‘ART OF THE WORD’: Artist books and handmade journals by New Haven artists Jane Ploughman of Ploughgirl Press, and posters, broadsides and cards by John Vincent of A Revolutionary Press. Reception: Friday, April 7, 6-7:30 p.m., with reading by poets Rachel Baird, Elissa Cobb, Basha Miles, Jon Turner and Karla Van Vliet. April 7-May 8. Info, 453-4032. Art on Main in Bristol.

FRED LOWER: Landscape paintings of Addison County by the Vermont artist.

Reception: Friday, April 14, 5-7 p.m. April 7-May 11. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

‘SCRATCHING THE SURFACE: INTAGLIO PRINTS’: Students from Hedya Klein’s class ART315 present new works that explore traditional and contemporary methods of printmaking. April 11-18. Info, 443-5258.

Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.

ART PLAY: Children ages 2 through 5 are invited to get creative and messy with an expansive blank canvas and no rules. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Saturday, April 8, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $5. Info, 253-8358.

ESSEX ART LEAGUE MEETING: Monthly business and social time for members, followed by an artist presentation. First Congregational Church Essex, Essex Junction, Thursday, April 6, 9-11 a.m.

Info, jdbeebo@yahoo.com.

FIRST FRIDAY ART: Dozens of galleries and other venues around the city open their doors to pedestrian art viewers in this monthly event.

See Art Map Burlington at participating locations.

Friday, April 7, 5-8 p.m. Info, 264-4839.

‘HEALING THROUGH THE ARTS DAY: Local nonprofits SafeArt, Seven Stars Arts Center and Arts Bus, Inc. join together for community presentations and activities centered on the arts as healing entity. The “Clothesline Art Exhibit” is on view, and Arts Bus executive director Sharon Trautwein leads poetry and art projects. At 3 p.m., SafeArt founder Tracey Penfield hosts a reading and signing of her new curriculum. At 4 p.m., Seven Stars president Lindsey Warren leads a song-learning session for “Quiet,” which was popularized at the Women’s March on Washington. Seven Stars Arts Center, Sharon, Sunday, April 9, 2-5 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 763-2334.

‘HOUSES OF JOY’ BIRDHOUSE ART GALA: The Fair Haven Rotary Club auctions more than 60 birdhouses by local artists to benefit several local charities, youth scholarships and nonprofit organizations. Fair Haven Inn Restaurant, Sunday, April 9, 4-7 p.m. $30. Info, 273-3663.

LEGACY WORKSHOP WITH MARY FILLMORE AND MICKEY MYERS: Workshop offering strategies for helping artists and their heirs in dealing with the bodies of artwork an artist can amass during their careers and lifetime.

Complimentary 40-page workbook included. Registration required by April 5. Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, Saturday, April 8, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Info, 644-5100.

TALK: BARBARA BLOOM & SUSAN TALLMAN: The artists offer a lecture in conjunction with current Fleming Museum exhibition “The Collections of Barbara Bloom.” Williams Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, Wednesday, April 5, 5:10 p.m. Info, 656-0750.

TALK: CATHERINE JANSEN: The photographer tells the backstories of selected photographs in “1008” and also explains some of the techniques she developed for this project.

Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, Thursday, April 6, 6 p.m. Info, 656-0750.

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by K-12 students from across Rutland County.

Reception: Friday, April 7, 3:30-6:30pm April 7-May 19. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.

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SD: You also periodically submit and show in group exhibitions around the country. What’s your approach to that aspect of your career?

MP: I follow some galleries whose group shows I really want to participate in, like the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colo. I’ve shown with them a few times. And I subscribe to their email list; then they send you the call for entries. And I research curators, themes, past shows by curators. You calculate your risk, because it’s not cheap [to submit work]. And it’s getting more and

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SD: So we’re not going to stop seeing zines from you?

MP: No, it’s going to be a pretty constant thing. I enjoy it a lot, and it’s just the way I work as an artist.

SD: When’s the last time you had that gut reaction, like, “I have to capture that”?

MP: The last film I processed was from my [other] grandmother’s birthday. My mom’s family is awesome — they’re lovely people. She’s got six brothers, one sister, and she’s the oldest. She definitely helped raise them. One passed away in a motorcycle accident when I was 9. They did a musical tribute [at my grandmother’s birthday] at her favorite bar in Kennesaw, Ga. My aunt Debbie had [also] just passed away. I took a photograph of my uncle Michael crying during the “Free Bird” tribute. A part of me questioned, “Do I take this photo?” But [I thought,] This is my family. I’m not going to not take this photo. It’s very raw.

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SD: How many Flatlander zines have you created, and what’s next?

MP: It will be seven total. I bought a domain — I just want to make zines for people, but also my own work and not have it be tied to the Flatlander idea. It’s going to be called Flatlander Press, but abbreviated [to FLTLNDPR.US.]

SD: DJ Hellerman described your work as “unpretentious.”

When you’re shooting, is that something you consider?

MP: It’s nice to hear DJ say it’s unpretentious.

I think that when I’m out photographing, I see something and have this crazy, innate response to act on it in some way. For me, I’ve just found the language of photography is the best way I can communicate how I feel. But we all have that desire: “OK, I need to share this.”

And that’s where the art-making process comes into play.

For my work, it’s presented casually and very open to criticism. I love criticism. I think anybody that can tell me anything about my work is totally valid.

I’ve had a lot of professors tell me that.

“Sit down with someone. Ask them about your work. They’re going to ask you questions that you’ve never heard before.”

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art Clark Derbes As the ground thaws and the snow melts, Vermont’s robust

recreation culture will thrive once again on the Burlington waterfront, bike path and skate

park. The lakefront concrete landscape reunites with the light of day, and so do Burlington artist Derbes’ so-called “self-commissioned” works. A selection of aerial photographs of these large-scale public paintings will be on view at the Queen City’s Karma Bird House Gallery beginning April 7. At ground level, the geometric abstractions are a bit like hopscotch gone wonky, waiting for creative minds to come and play. Seen from overhead, they carry some of the gravitas of crop circles and show how simple lines can reconfigure a city as canvas. A reception is Friday, April 7, 6 to 9 p.m. Through May 3. Pictured: a “self-commissioned” work.

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funerary contexts. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Wednesday, April 12, 4:30 p.m.

Info, 443-3168.

TALK: ‘DESIGNER AS AUTHOR, EDITOR AND CURATOR’: Cranbrook Art Museum director Andrew Blauvelt speaks about recent projects, including the exhibitions and publications “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia,” “Graphic Design: Now in Production” and the book Parallel Cities: The Multilevel Metropolis. Noble Lounge, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Monday, April 10, 6:15-7 p.m. Info, 828-8600.

TALK: DINA A. GRIFFIN: The president of Interactive Design Architects gives a public talk about her practice and efforts to get more minority women interested in architecture. Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College, Tuesday, April 11, 4:30 p.m. Info, 443-5258.

TALK: ‘GRIEVING THROUGH STONE AND CLAY: AFFECT IN CHINESE FUNERARY ART OF THE MIDDLE PERIOD’: Jeehee Hong, associate professor of East Asian art history at McGill University and current fellow at the Clark Art Institute, examines representations of grief in Chinese middle-period (9th to 14th centuries)

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CALL TO ARTISTS ‘ART WORKS!’: Seeking submissions of art that invites viewers to engage and interact with the work, including manual interactive devices, electronic installations and kinetic sculpture. To submit and for details, visit studioplacearts.com. Deadline: April 28. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Free for members; $10 nonmembers. Info, 479-7069.

‘100 DAYS OF SPACE FOR CREATIVITY’: Inspired to act by the potential call to defund the arts on a federal level, Backspace Gallery offers a free and open space for artists to work while processing reactions to the current political climate.

Thursday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m., through April 29, artists are invited to meet with gallery director Christy Mitchell to pitch ideas on using the venue for displaying, creating, speaking or performing work. Email ideas to spacegalleryvt@gmail.com or show up during open gallery hours for more information. The Backspace Gallery, Burlington.

‘BELLS & WHISTLES’: Seeking artists and contributors for the museum’s upcoming 2017 exhibition consisting of or relating to all aspects of bells and whistles.

May include bells for cows and sheep, bellhops, alarms and timekeepers, as spiritual or musical instruments, jingle bells, etc. Contributions may be personal artifacts accompanied by individual narrative, raw ideas for displays, fully

TALK: OFF THE WALL: Take a closer look at an object from the museum’s collection with the Robert F. Reiff curatorial intern, then enjoy further conversation over a light lunch in the lobby.

Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Friday, April 7, 12:15 p.m. Info, 443-5007.

TALK: ‘THE LURE OF THE OBJECT’: Photographer and art historian Kirsten Hoving joins photographer and sculptor Eric Nelson to discuss the role of the object in their respective artistic practices, in conjunction with “Focus on the Sheldon.” Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Wednesday, April 12, noon. Info, 388-2117.

TOUCH DRAWING: Registered expressive arts therapist Jennie Kristel leads this workshop in touch drawing, a form of printmaking on tissue paper using your fingertips. JourneyWorks, Burlington, Monday, April 10, 6-8 p.m. $20. Info, 860-6203.

realized art objects or theoretical writings and research. To contribute, or for more info, contact Clare Dolan via museumofeverydaylife.org. Deadline: May 5. The Museum of Everyday Life, Glover. Info, claredol@sover.net.

‘CHICKENS!’: Established and emerging artists are invited to submit one or two pieces of 2D artwork in any medium for a May through August exhibition. Works must depict one or more chickens; roosters OK. Register by April 15: call 878-8887 or email blgreene@myfairpoint.net.

Jericho Town Hall.

COMPASS MUSIC & ARTS CENTER: Welcoming proposals of innovative work for solo or group exhibitions from artists working in a variety of mediums.

Emerging and established curators encouraged to apply. For more info, visit cmacvt.org. Rolling deadline. Compass Music and Arts Center, Brandon. Info, 247-4295.

‘HONORING TREES’: Welcoming submissions of images that celebrate trees in all their forms, locations and seasons for an upcoming exhibition juried by Laura Valenti of Photolucida. For details and to submit, visit photoplacegallery.com.

Deadline: April 24. PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury. Up to five photographs for $35; $6 for each additional. Info, 388-4500.

ONGOING SHOWS

Through April 30. Info, 860-4972. Black Horse Gallery in Burlington.

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EMILY MITCHELL: Narrative paintings by the Richmond artist. Through June 30. Info, 859-9222.

SEABA Center in Burlington.

AARON SCOT INGHAM: The artist behind Bent Nails Studio shows his works and furniture made from found and salvaged materials. Thursdays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Info, 595-4148. Burlington Town Center.

‘ART/JOURNALISM AND DEMOCRACY’: Works created by 2016 UVM Cynic newspaper illustrators.

Through April 30. Info, cynicnewsroom@gmail.com.

Davis Center, University of Vermont, in Burlington.

‘IMBIBE: DRINKING IN CULTURE’: An exhibition using an eclectic selection of drinking vessels to investigate the complex social, physical and aesthetic experience of liquid consumption.

BARBARA BLOOM: Conceptual artist’s books accompanied by texts from print scholar Susan Tallman. CATHERINE JANSEN: “1008,” an exhibition of the photographer’s images of India, including digital prints and projections as well as ambient sound from field recordings. Through May 21. Info, 656-8582. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, in Burlington.

DURFEE PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVES: Blackand-white photographs taken in 1950s Europe, documenting the aftermath of World War II.

‘LAND AND LIGHT AND WATER AND AIR’: Welcoming submissions for this annual fall juried exhibition of Vermont and New England landscape paintings. For details and to submit, visit bryangallery. org. Deadline: July 14. Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100.

‘LIGHTS! CAMERA! AUCTION!’: Seeking tax-deductible donations of art, beautiful and useful things, amusements, experiences, and events for this annual auction to benefit Town Hall Theater and its programming. To contribute, contact Magna Dodge at magnadodge@gmail. com. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury.

Through May 22. Info, 462-3898.

OPEN STUDIOS WEEKEND INVITATION: Shelburne Pond Studios invites Vermont artists and artisans to join their venue in the Vermont Craft Council Spring Open Studios Weekend on May 27 and 28. For details and application, email Katharine Stockman at kastockman@aol.com.

Deadline: April 15. Shelburne Pond Studios. $35.

PECHAKUCHA NIGHT: Inviting artists, designers, scholars, scientists and otherwise creative thinkers to present 20 slides for 20 seconds each at this May 4 community event. For details and to register, email fleming@uvm.edu.

Deadline: May 1. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington.

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ART LISTINGS AND SPOTLIGHTS ARE WRITTEN BY RACHEL ELIZABETH JONES. LISTINGS ARE RESTRICTED TO ART SHOWS IN TRULY PUBLIC PLACES.

‘GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT’: Burlington artists Rose C. Hebert and Sarah Ingraham show new works. Through April 6. Info, 865-6223. Cavendish Gallery in Burlington.

JACQUES BURKE: Mixed-media works by the Vermont artist. Through April 30. Info, 859-9222.

The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

f JOHN ROSE: “Grace Within the Contours,” minimalist sculpture by the internationally acclaimed West Coast artist. Reception: Friday, April 7, 5-8 p.m. Through May 23. Info, 863-9553.

The Havoc Gallery in Burlington. f JURIED STUDENT ART EXHIBITION: Second annual showcase of works by 34 students, selected by a jury of visiting professionals and faculty members.

Mediums include photography, 3D modeling, painting, digital illustration, filmmaking and graphic design. Award ceremony: Wednesday, April 5, 5 p.m.

Through April 15. Info, cthompson@champlain.edu.

Champlain College Art Gallery in Burlington.

‘MOMENSION’: A sculptural environment made primarily from glass, metal and clay by Vermont

RUTLAND COUNTY AUDUBON WILDLIFE ART SHOW: Inviting visual artists working in any medium to submit up to three works to be included in an art show featuring nature and wildlife, May 26 through June 11. Scenic landscapes will not be considered. Works need not be for sale. For details and to submit, contact birding@rutlandcountyaudubon. org. Deadline: May 22. Stone Valley Arts, Poultney.

SOLO & SMALL GROUP SHOWS 2018: Inviting proposals for upcoming exhibitions. To submit, send a brief written statement about yourself or the artist group and what you want to accomplish with a show, as well as a CD or DVD with eight to 12 images of representative work. Label carefully with name, medium, size, price and date of your work. Mail submissions to 201 N. Main Street, Barre, VT 05641. Deadline: June 9. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Free for members; $10 for nonmembers. Info, 479-7069.

SOUTH END ART HOP: Registration is now open for the 25th annual South End Art Hop, to take place September 8-10.

For details, visit seaba.com/art-hop.

Deadline: June 16. SEABA Center, Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

‘TEN’: Seeking submissions of artworks inspired by the old counting nursery

rhyme, “One, two buckle my shoe…” For the full rhyme, details and to submit, visit studioplacearts.com. Deadline: June 2. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Free for members; $10 for nonmembers. Info, 479-7069.

VART: Seeking contemporary visual art made in Vermont for a forthcoming print magazine. All work must be made in Vermont within the past seven years; all mediums welcome. To submit, send four portfolio samples, a one-paragraph artist bio and statement to armpriester@ hotmail.com with Attn: Kenelle, “Vart submission” and artist name in the subject line. Label each image with artist’s name, title of work, date, medium, dimensions, editions (if applicable) and artist’s email. Include contact info in body of email. Deadline: April 15. Various locations statewide. Info, armpriester@ hotmail.com.

ZEN CENTER ART SHOW: Seeking art submissions in any medium for the Zen Center’s third annual art exhibition to be held May 4 and 5. To submit, send a photograph or description of the work, accompanied by dimensions, price and artist’s statement, to uppervalleyzencenter@gmail.com. Deadline: April 10. Main Street Museum, White River Junction.

Info, 603-448-4877.

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artists Bech Evans, Alissa Faber and Patrick O’Shea.

Through April 25. Info, joseph@newcitygalerie.org.

New City Galerie in Burlington.

‘THE PAST PRESENT’: Works by Molly Bosley and Athena Petra Tasiopoulos, who use metaphorical objects to explore humanity and unpack our relationship to the past. Through April 8. Info, 865-7166.

Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center, in Burlington.

PETER KATZ: Mixed-media works by the self-taught Burlington artist. Through May 31. Info, 658-6016.

Speeder & Earl’s Coffee, Pine Street, in Burlington.

ROBERT WALDO BRUNELLE JR.: A series of paintings of Winooski’s concrete bridge, painted throughout the year by the local artist. STEVE SHARON: Abstract paintings by the local artist.

Through May 31. Info, 651-9692. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

SHANE LAVALETTE: “One Sun, One Shadow,” a photographic series of the American South by the Burlington native, informed by the rich history of southern music: bluegrass, old-time, gospel and blues. WYLIE SOFIA GARCIA: “With My Voice, I Am Calling You Home,” a new body of work featuring paintings and lenticular prints that embody themes of domesticity, meditation and personal place-making. Through April 8. Info, 865-7166.

Burlington City Arts.

STEPHEN BEATTIE: Digital photographs by the local artist. Through May 31. Info, 651-9692. RETN in Burlington.

f ‘VERMONT STANDS WITH’: Works that meaningfully engage with issues of advocacy, justice and community building. Reception: Friday, April 7, 5-7 p.m. Through April 30. Info, 859-9222.

Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington.

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‘THE ART OF CARTOONING’: An exhibition organized by Vermont Comic Creators, which represents more than 100 cartoonists and illustrators. Through April 15. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

“BACKSTAGE PASS: ROCK & ROLL PHOTOGRAPHY”: An exhibition featuring more than 300 photographs, many rarely seen by the public, of famous rock-and-roll and jazz greats including Miles Davis, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, David Bowie, Prince and the Beastie Boys. Through May 7. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

BOSTON NEARY: “A Bird’s Eye View of the Beauty of Shelburne Bay,” photographs by the local photographer. Through April 30. Info, asig@ allsoulsinterfaith.org. All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne.

JANE SANDBERG: “Another Perspective,” watercolors and stained-glass work by the Jericho artist.

Through May 31. Info, 434-2550. Mt. Mansfield Community Television in Richmond.

LAINEY RAPPAPORT: A display about frogs by “The Vermont Frog Lady.” Through April 30. Info, laineyrapp@yahoo.com. Brownell Library in Essex Junction.

‘FOLLOWING THE RULES, BREAKING THE RULES’: A group exhibition of 25 works by 20 artists in pastel, acrylics, oils, photography and sculpture.

Artists include Nitya Brighenti, Hasso Ewing, Cindy Griffith, Lysa Intrator, Joyce Kahn, Hannah Morris, Maggie Neale, Dan Neary, Jack Sabon, Sarah Spletzer and Ann Young. NORTHERN VERMONT ART ASSOCIATION EXHIBITION: A group exhibition of works by NVAAE members. Through April 28.

Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

‘FREAKS, RADICALS & HIPPIES: COUNTERCULTURE IN 1970S VERMONT’: An exhibition that explores the influx of people and countercultural ideas to the state, from communes to organic agriculture, progressive politics to health care reform, alternative energy to women’s and gay rights. Through December 31. Info, 479-8500. Vermont Heritage Galleries in Barre.

‘IN PRAISE OF WATER’: Goddard College artists approach the theme of water from multiple perspectives: aesthetic, ecological, social, political, spiritual and contemplative. Artists include Richard Ambelang, Susan Buroker, Kate Egnaczak, Dan Goldman, Tom Hansell, Seitu Jones, Phillip Robertson, Cynthia Ross, Sharon Siskin, Ruth Wallen and Nanci Worthington. Through April 15.

Info, 322-1604. Goddard Art Gallery, Pratt Center, Goddard College, in Plainfield.

‘STATION TO STATION’: Paintings by Art2D2 Industries and Babelon Williams inspired by apophenia (perceiving patterns or connections in meaningless data) and which incorporate mixed media including antique text, childhood books, film stills and random materials from the artists’ youths.

‘UNDER CONSTRUCTION’: An exhibition of works made by joining two or more dissimilar mediums, such that one plus one equals more than two.

Assembled by director Sue Higby and guest curator Mark Waskow. JAMES SECOR: ‘#nomophobia,’ paintings about phones, lives and memories by the Vermont artist. Through April 15. Info, 479-7069.

Studio Place Arts in Barre.

f LAURA JANE WALKER: “Studies in the Art of Chance,” abstractions made using dyed saltwater, meticulously placed steel nails and cotton string.

Reception: Friday, May 5, 4-7 p.m. Through May 25.

Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

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f LINDA MIRABILE: “All Things Avian,” paintings of birds by the Berlin artist and designer. Reception: Thursday, April 13, 4-7 p.m. Through April 28. Info, jack.zeilenga@vermont.gov. Vermont Statehouse Cafeteria in Montpelier.

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f MARIA ANGHELACHE: “From Nature to

Abstract,” pastel and acrylic works on paper and canvas. Reception: Thursday, April 13, 4-7 p.m. Through June 30. Info, 828-0749. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

PRIA CAMBIO: “And Somewhere Else There’s a Beach,” beachscape paintings and drawings by the Vermont artist. Through April 8. Info, 479-7069.

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CAROLYN MECKLOSKY: “Women, Beasts and Dreams,” vibrant acrylic paintings by the Waterville artist and arts instructor. TED ZILIUS: “Jazz and Sad,” mixed-media works created through a process of collage and dance by the Vermont artist.

Through May 9. Info, 888-1261. Gallery at River Arts in Morrisville.

STOWE/SMUGGS SHOWS

Thursday, April 13 6:30-9 PM • $75 per person The Essex, Vermont’s Culinary Resort & Spa Join us for an evening of good food, good wine and all-around good time!

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ZANELE MUHOLI: “Documenting Identity, Teaching Activism,” photographs by the South African visual activist, who documents her home country’s LGBTQ population. Through April 21. Info,

ELLIOT BURG: “Sunset Park, Brooklyn,” black-andwhite images by the Middlesex photographer.

Through April 20. Info, 272-4920. Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier.

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KATE LONGMAID: “Freedom Speak,” an exhibition of portraits with graffiti-like phrases and slogans that merge the artist’s interest in capturing individual identities and political realities through image and voice. Through May 31. Info, 985-8222.

Shelburne Vineyard.

‘SHOW 16’: An exhibition of recent works by the collective gallery’s Vermont contemporary artists.

Saturday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., and Friday, 5-8 p.m. Info, 272-0908. The Front in Montpelier.

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GABRIELLE T. REGISTRE: “Down to Earth,” a travel-inspired exhibition of new paintings based on photos taken from an airplane. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through April 6. Info, 865-7296. Burlington International Airport in South Burlington.

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Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction.

654-2667. International Commons, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester.

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‘GLASSTASTIC’: Glass sculptures inspired by children’s drawings of imaginary creatures.

CLAIRE VAN VLIET: “Ghost Mesa,” lithographs of rock formations printed on a variety of handmade papers and collaged with pulp paintings and marbled papers. EDWARD KOREN: “Seriously Funny,” works by the Brookfield-based New Yorker cartoonist. MARY WELSH: “Appearances & Reality,” collages that use art historical and pop-culture sources, among others. PAUL SHORE: “Drawn Home,” drawings of every object in the artist’s home, inspired by Audubon’s project to draw all the birds of North America. SOO SUNNY PARK: “Luminous Muqarna,” an immersive sculptural installation based on muqarnas, ornamental vaults found in Islamic architecture, especially mosques. Through June 18. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

DOROTHY SIMPSON KRAUSE: “A Matter of Time,” an exhibition of mixed-media works and UV-cured flatbed prints that address the increasing threats to Earth’s ecosystems. Through April 29. Info, 881-0418. 571 Projects in Stowe.

‘LAND MARKS: JANET FREDERICKS & MICHAELA HARLOW’: The two Vermont artists explore abstract landscapes on macro and micro scales in a variety of mediums, pushing references to the natural environment behind graphic mark-making. KRISTA HARRIS: “Retracing My Steps,” a solo exhibition of richly layered, gestural abstract paintings by the Colorado artist. Through May 30. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

NATALIE JEREMIJENKO: The artist, engineer and inventor exhibits a mixture of recent and past works that focus on activating the space through environmentally conscious projects, in conjunction with her Spruce Peak artist residency. Through April 8. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

DIANNE SHULLENBERGER: “Personalities of Nature,” an exhibition of natural object collages, colored pencil drawings and fabric collages.

Through April 6. Info, 985-3819. All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in West Brattleboro.

PHOTOS BY MARIE LAPRÉ GRABON: Photographs by the Vermont artist. Through June 30. Info, 635-7423. Dream Café in Johnson.

VERMONT LANDSCAPES: An exhibition of 38 artworks by 20 artists, featuring landscapes in oil, watercolor, pastel and acrylics, curated by Bryan Memorial Gallery. Through June 30. Info, 644-5100.

Lamoille County Courthouse in Hyde Park.

‘Tomczak, Tomczak & Tomczak’

into mandala-like collages. Grace’s cartoon-

Burlington’s Dostie Bros. Frame Shop and

and a definite penchant for tentacles.

gallery welcomes three members of the

Why? “Octopods and cephalopods are just

‘TOWN BY TOWN’: Works by Carolyn Enz Hack that explore how traditional landscape paintings can incorporate history and time into their imagery.

Through May 7. Info, 244-6606. White Meeting House in Waterbury.

Tomczak family of Milton, each of whom

fun to draw,” she writes on her website.

has an artistic practice. Husband and wife

A reception is Friday, April 7, 5 to 8 p.m.

Jim and Nancy both train their eyes on the

Through April 30. Pictured: “Goldfinch

middlebury area

natural world; Nancy has recently begun to

Sunflower” by Nancy Tomczak.

ing fascination with the Acropolis. Through April 23.

Info, 443-5007. Middlebury College Museum of Art.

‘SPIRIT OF ODANAKSIS’: Ten members of the 14-year-old art collective, named for the Abenaki term for “little village,” show works in oil, watercolor, pastel, multimedia, photography and prints.

Artists: Gail Barton, Le Liu Browne, Becky Cook, Helen Elder, Anne Webster Grant, Linda Laundry, Anne Rose, Jonathan Rose, Susan Rump and Jo Tate. Through May 10. Info, 295-3118. Zollikofer Gallery at Hotel Coolidge in White River Junction.

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‘THE BOOK AS ART’: Nine women artists explore the possibilities of the book as art. Cocurated by visual artist Marilyn Gillis. Through April 8. Info, 244-7801.

Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.

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‘AMERICAN FACES: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF PORTRAITURE AND IDENTITY’: An exhibit that brings together 90 portraits from more than 20 collections, exploring and explaining Americans’ 300-year fascination with images of themselves.

Through April 30. Info, 443-6433. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College.

‘THE COLOR OF LIGHT’: A group exhibition juried

by Arthur Meyerson, displaying the work of 35 photographers from around the world. Through April 8. Info, 388-4500. PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury.

DELSIE HOYT: “Re-imagine the Braided Rug,” an exhibition of innovative textiles by the West Fairlee artist. Through April 29. STANLEY HORACE LYNDES: “Family Traits: Art, Humor and Everyday Life,” an exhibition exploring family identity through the artist’s cartoons, caricatures, carved objects and fiber arts. Through May 12. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

‘FOCUS ON THE SHELDON: FIVE-POINT PERSPECTIVE’: Photographs of objects from the Sheldon’s collection by local artists Suki Fredericks, Paul Gamba, Kate Gridley, Kirsten Hoving and Eric Nelson. Through May 13. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

‘GLASS ART: MOLTEN COLOR AND FROZEN FORMS’: Glass sculpture by Alyssa Oxley, hand-blown glass

by Bud Shriner, and glass jewelry and objects by Micaela Wallace, as well as works by emerging glass artists Anne Hulvey, Mary Ellen Jeffries, Cherie Marshall, Lori Pietropaoli and Christie Witters.

Through May 7. Info, info@creativespacegallery.org.

Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes.

GRACE MELLOW: “Not for Show,” an exhibition of figurative drawings by the Rutland-born, New York City-based artist. Through April 9. Info, 877-2173.

Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

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‘SIGNS OF LIFE’: An exhibition featuring the works of married artists Roger Sandes and Mary Welsh.

Through April 21. Info, 258-3992. The Great Hall in Springfield.

‘UNTOUCHED BY TIME: THE ATHENIAN ACROPOLIS FROM PERICLES TO PARR’: Early archaeological publications, antiquarian paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, books and more that represent endur-

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DICK KIRBY: “Metal Madness,” a solo exhibition of artist-designed steel works, including lamps, weathervanes, candleholders and coatracks. Through April 30. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

PAM BROWN: “The Final Cut,” figurative, organic and animal sculptural forms made from synthetic polymer clays, recycled sheet metal, copper, rubber and fabric. Reception: Friday, April 7, 6-8 p.m. Through May 6. Info, 282-2396. Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland.

‘THE SHE PROJECT – PART I’: An interactive exhibition exploring what women of all ages experience as they cope with the pressure to maintain a youthful appearance at any cost, by Vermont multidisciplinary artists Mary Admasian and Kristen M. Watson.

Closing Reception: Friday, June 16, 5-8 p.m. Artist talk: 7 p.m. Through June 24. Info, galleries@castleton.edu.

Castleton University Bank Gallery in Rutland.

expand her observational bird watercolors inspired illustrations have a flair for fantasy

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KELLY DOYLE: “Improbable Surfaces,” an exhibition of mixed-media works that transform existing materials. Through April 22. Info, 748-0158.

Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

KENT SHAW: New images by the Vermont photographer. Through April 10. Info, 525-3366.

Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

MARIE LAPRE’ GRABON: Selected drawings and paintings by the Vermont artist. Through June 3.

Info, 578-8809. 3rd Floor Gallery in Hardwick.

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DAVID CRANDALL & JIM MAAS: Fine jewelry and painted bird carvings, respectively, by the local artisans. Through September 30. Info, 235-9429.

Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock.

‘MIRROR/MIRROR’: An exhibition reflecting upon the looking glass and all that it contains, from telescopes to magic tricks, disco balls to dentistry, fashion to psychotherapy, myth to superstition.

Through May 1. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

GLORIA KING MERRITT: “Take Flight,” photorealistic digital paintings on canvas that capture singular moments of birds in flight. Gallery open by appointment. Through May 1. Info, 436-2200.

VermontArts.Gallery in Hartland.

ROSIE PREVOST: “Under the Surface,” nearly 30 sepia or selenium-toned, silver-gelatin prints that explore the idea of visual metaphor by using historic techniques. Through April 29. Info, 7482600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.

‘MAKING MUSIC: THE SCIENCE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS’: An exhibition that explores the science behind making rhythms and harmonies heard. Through September 17. Info, 649-2200.

Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

‘X-RAY VISION: FISH INSIDE OUT’: A traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution featuring 40 large-scale digital prints of X-rays of several species of fish. Through June 1. Info, 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium in St. Johnsbury.

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RENÉE BOUCHARD: “We the People,” new paintings and sculptures by the college artist-in-residence.

Through April 7. Info, 447-4041. Southern Vermont College Gallery in Bennington.

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JASPER TOMKINS: “Expansions,” colorful acrylic paintings by the award-winning author and illustrator. Through April 30. Info, 498-8438. White River Gallery at BALE in South Royalton.

YOUTH ART MONTH: An exhibition of paintings, drawings and other artwork created by 50 South Royalton School elementary, middle and high school students. Through April 14. Info, 763-7094.

Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton.

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‘AMERICAN ARTISTS IN EUROPE: SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION’: An exhibition of works by American artists who were inspired by their travels, including Frank Duveneck, Leonard Freed, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer and Elihu Vedder. Through June 11. ALLEN BLAGDEN: “Marking the Moment,” an exhibition of 62 paintings by the contemporary realist, curated by Caroline Welsh. Through April 16. LORNA BIEBER: “Forces of Nature,” eight large-scale photo murals and montages made by manipulating stock media photography to reinterpret the natural world.

Through May 14. Info, 518-792-1761. The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, N.Y. AMY BALKIN AND LUIS DELGADO-QUALTROUGH: Works by two artists who use big data to inform their practice. San Francisco-based conceptual artist Balkin presents her poster essay “The Atmosphere: A Guide.” Delgado-Qualtrough’s “10 Carbon Conundrums” series of prints constructs a conversation across time between two fictional characters contemplating human impact on the Earth. Through May 28. Info, 603-646-2426 |.

Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. ‘CHAGALL: COLOR & MUSIC’: An exhibition exploring the importance of music to the Russian-French artist, presenting 400 works including paintings, sculptures, maquettes, gouaches, stained-glass windows, photographs, films, costumes and puppets. Through June 11. Info, 514-285-2000.

Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

INGO GÜNTHER: “World Processor,” more than 50 illuminated plastic globes featuring data mapped by the artist and journalist. Through May 28. Info, 603-646-2426. Hood Downtown in Hanover, N.H.

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ot often, but certainly as I write this, I wish we weren’t limited in the number of stars we can give a movie. If I could grant Maren Ade’s third feature the rating it deserves, its title would be followed not by five stars but by a constellation. The Academy blew it. Toni Erdmann is by far the finest foreign language film of the past year.

The 40-year-old writer-director (Everyone Else) has quietly established a reputation as a maker of comedy-dramas with a flair for laser-sharp social commentary. With her latest, Ade has set her sights higher than ever before, and the result is both a supremely human work of art and an international breakout smash. It’s easily the most entertaining and affecting three hours of German cinema you’re likely to see.

Though you’d be unlikely to guess that from its opening moments. This is a picture whose greatness sneaks up on you. In the first scene, the camera is fixed on the front door of a nondescript residence. A deliveryman rings the bell and is greeted by a rumpled, unshaven bear of a boomer, who informs him that the package he’s carrying is actually for the latter’s brother. Who just got out of jail. And has probably ordered pornography. Possibly a bomb.

The occupant disappears, ostensibly to fetch the pervert, only to reappear a moment later sporting a fright wig, joke-shop teeth and a handcuff. After savoring the look on the poor deliveryman’s face for a beat or three, the gray-haired goofball chuckles, admits he’s the same guy who answered the door and slips the grateful driver a fistful of Euros for his trouble. We may not suspect we’ve just met one of the great screen creations of the millennium.

His name is Winfried Conradi, and he’s played by Peter Simonischek in one of the most magnificently multilayered performances I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching. To make a long story short, Winfried is a part-time music teacher and full-time merry prankster whose daughter, Ines (Sandra Hüller), is a tightly wound corporate climber with zero patience for him.

A series of spectacularly uncomfortable situations ensues when Winfried shows up unannounced in Bucharest, where Ines is consumed by an assignment that will make or break her career. Her father assumes the alter ego of “Toni Erdmann” — life coach and German ambassador to Romania — and inserts himself without the slightest invitation into her daily existence.

You won’t believe where the film goes

GERMAN WEASELS Simonischek is tremendous as a fun-loving father who fears his daughter is selling her soul to corporate creeps.

from there. Everywhere except where you expect. In addition to featuring movie history’s most outrageous wardrobe malfunction, Toni Erdmann works astoundingly well on a ludicrous number of levels. It’s a fishout-of-water story, a contemplation of international capitalism, a study of workplace sexism, a satire of deal making that couldn’t be more timely, a riotous sex farce, a meditation on generational rebellion and a comedy in which characters discuss “the meaning of life” casually over lunch. But, first and foremost, it’s an achingly beautiful ode to fatherdaughter bonding.

The filmmaker doesn’t waste a minute of that nearly three-hour running time. So, can you imagine the number of delightfully daffy, deeply meaningful scenarios she’s able to envision and bring to unforgettably funny, poignant life? Believe me, you can’t even begin. Having met and now spent a considerable amount of time with the title character, I envy you. You have a singular treat in store.

What I wouldn’t give to get to meet Toni Erdmann all over again.

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Ghost in the Shell ★★★

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ome of the most interesting stuff in Ghost in the Shell happens in the background. Director Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) and production designer Jan Roelfs (Gattaca) have created a fascinating future Tokyo that goes the LA of Blade Runner one better: Instead of enormous digital billboards, vast animated advertising holograms crowd the cityscape. Viewers may find themselves distracted by these monstrous ghostly figures — What on earth is that body builder shilling for? Or that retro ’60s flight attendant? — to the point where they lose track of the foreground narrative.

Problem is, that narrative is not the most compelling. Based on Shirow Masamune’s visionary manga series, which debuted in 1989 and has already spawned numerous TV and feature anime versions, Ghost in the Shell feels like a middling cyberpunk flick that has sat on a shelf since the early ’90s.

Back then, plots involving cyber-enhanced brains jacked directly into the internet were cutting-edge. Now, they seem like relics of a time before most people actually went online.

That’s not to say the premise of Ghost in the Shell isn’t still full of potential. Its protagonist, a kick-ass anti-terrorism agent known only as the Major (Scarlett Johansson), consists of a human brain in a synthetic body. Recent sci-fi successes such as Ex Machina and HBO’s “Westworld” have

CITY OF MEMES Visuals and setting overshadow the humans in Sanders’ manga adaptation.

gotten plenty of dramatic mileage out of exploring the ever-finer line between human and machine.

But this Americanized version of Ghost doesn’t “explore” those questions so much as use them to tell a pretty standard superhero-style origin story. Resurrected by a corporate scientist (Juliette Binoche) after the death of her human body, the Major fights crime with a team of underdeveloped human buddies and a stoic expression.

When a mysterious hacker starts bumping off officers of the corporation that created her, the Major pursues him — and learns she may have been sold a bill of goods about her own past.

It’s a lot like RoboCop, frankly, if you subtract all the humor and add trippy visuals.

From android geishas that crawl like crabs to people coming apart into digital confetti, Ghost is the rare film that explores the unsettling potential of CGI. When the Major goes

to work, she throws off her clothes to reveal a Barbie-doll body that replicates its background and camouflages her — an uncanny, mesmerizing effect. If only she had a personality or occasionally cracked a joke, but the comic relief is left to her partner, Batou (Pilou Asbaek).

The filmmakers made a controversial — and, no doubt, market-driven — choice to replace most of the manga’s Japanese characters with white Americans and Europeans.

A revelation late in the film seems intended to offer a self-aware commentary on that practice, but, like so many intriguing motifs in Ghost, it doesn’t lead anywhere.

While the Major’s blankness is supposed to be a symptom of her alienation from her former self, her eventual reclaiming of humanity lacks much weight. She ends up posed like Batman in Gotham, ready to defend her city, as if she has resolved the embryonic conflict between her robot body and human mind simply by getting rid of a few bad apples.

While it’s a serviceable sci-fi thriller, Ghost in the Shell ends up feeling like just another action-oriented franchise starter, with nothing new to say about the increasingly more feasible prospect of cyber-enhanced humanity. Its shell is a marvel of design, but the spirit isn’t there.

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GOING IN STYLE: In this “reboot” of the 1979 comedy, three cash-strapped seniors set out to improve their fortunes by robbing a bank. With Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Alan Arkin and Joey King. Zach Braff (Garden State) directed. (96 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace) SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE: Smurfette and three friends go on a walkabout in search of “the biggest secret in Smurf history” in this sequel to the 2011 family-film adaptation of the cartoon about little blue gnomes with big tie-in product potential. With the voices of Demi Lovato, Jack McBrayer and Julia Roberts. Kelly Asbury (Gnomeo and Juliet) directed.

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GET OUTHHHH Writer-director Jordan Peele (“Key & Peele”) swerves from comedy to socially conscious horror with this thriller about a young African American (Daniel Kaluuya) who senses something very wrong at the home of his white girlfriend’s folks. With Allison Williams, Lakeith Stanfield and Bradley Whitford. (103 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 3/1) GHOST IN THE SHELLHH1/2 Based on the acclaimed Japanese manga by Masamune Shirow, Rupert Sanders’ futuristic sci-fi thriller stars Scarlett Johansson as a cyborg counterterrorist confronting mind-hack attacks — and her own twisted past. (106 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 4/5)

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Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson and Brie Larson star. Jordan Vogt-Roberts (The Kings of Summer) directed. (120 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 3/15) THE LAST WORDHH A notorious curmudgeon (Shirley MacLaine) sets out to craft her own perfect obituary with the help of a reporter (Amanda Seyfried) in this comedy-drama from director Mark Pellington (I Melt With You). (108 min, R)

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LOGANHHHH Hugh Jackman returns as the impregnable X-Man in a new take on the comicbook mythos, set in the near future and featuring Patrick Stewart as a decrepit Professor X. James Mangold (The Wolverine) cowrote and directed.

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LIFEHHHHH Things go very wrong as a space station crew examines humanity’s first sample of Martian life in this sci-fi thriller from director Daniel Espinosa (Child 44). Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal star. (103 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 3/29)

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BEAUTY AND THE BEASTHHH1/2 Disney reworks the 1991 animated hit with this live-action musical featuring the original songs and Emma Watson as the book-loving girl forced into imprisonment in the castle of the dreaded Beast (Dan Stevens).

Bill Condon (Mr. Holmes) directed. (129 min, PG; reviewed by M.H. 3/22)

THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIEHH A breakout star of The LEGO Movie gets his own animated showcase.

With the voices of Will Arnett (as the Caped Crusader), Jenny Slate, Channing Tatum and Ralph Fiennes. Chris McKay directed. (104 min, PG; reviewed by R.K. 2/15)

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THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFEHHH Jessica Chastain and Johan Heldenbergh play Antonina and Jan Zabinski, the real-life Warsaw Zoo caretakers who rescued humans as well as animals during the Holocaust — unnervingly right under the nose of a Nazi zoologist (Daniel Brühl). Niki Caro (Whale Rider) directed. (124 min, PG-13)

NOW ON VIDEO OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTYHH Somehow a wild holiday bash becomes office drones’ only hope of keeping their jobs in this comedy directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck (Blades of Glory). (105 min, R) THE SENSE OF AN ENDINGHHH Memory-related mysteries abound when a letter forces a senior (Jim Broadbent) to reckon with his past — specifically, his long-ago first love (played by both Freya Mavor and Charlotte Rampling). Based on the novel by Julian Barnes; directed by Ritesh Batra. (108 min, PG-13) WILSONHH1/2 In this adaptation of Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel, Woody Harrelson plays a prickly loner trying to forge a relationship with his estranged wife (Laura Dern) and daughter (Isabella Amara). Craig Johnson (The Skeleton Twins) directed the dark comedy. (94 min, R)

PATERSONHHHHH The latest from writer-director Jim Jarmusch showcases Adam Driver as a bus driver-slash-poet quietly going about his daily routines. With Golshifteh Farahani and Nellie. (118 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 2/8) ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORYHHH1/2 Set between Episodes III and IV, this standalone addendum to the sci-fi universe shows us how the Rebels pulled off a major coup. Gareth Edwards directed. (133 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 12/21)

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Be interested in first things, Aries.

Cultivate your attraction to beginnings. Align yourself with uprisings and breakthroughs. Find out what’s about to hatch and lend your support. Give your generous attention to potent innocence and novel sources of light. Marvel at people who are rediscovering the sparks that animated them when they first came into their power. Fantasize about being a curious seeker who is devoted to reinventing yourself over and over again. Gravitate toward influences that draw their vitality directly from primal wellsprings. Be excited about first things.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): How big is your vocabulary? Twenty thousand words? Thirty thousand? Whatever size it is, the coming weeks will be prime time to expand it. Life will be conspiring to enhance your creative use of language ... to deepen your enjoyment of the verbal flow ... to help you become more articulate in rendering the mysterious feelings and complex thoughts that rumble around inside you. If you pay attention to the signals coming from your unconscious mind, you will be shown how to speak and write more effectively. You may not turn into a silver-tongued persuader, but you could become a more eloquent spokesperson for your own interests.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): We all need more breaks from the routine — more holidays, more vacations, more days off from work. We should all play and dance and sing more, and guiltlessly practice the arts of leisure and relaxation, and celebrate freedom in regular boisterous rituals. And I’m nominating you to show us the way in the coming weeks, Leo. Be a cheerleader who exemplifies how it’s done. Be a ringleader who springs all of us inmates out of our mental prisons. Be the imaginative escape artist who demonstrates how to relieve tension and lose inhibitions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): People in your vicinity may be preoccupied with trivial ques-

tions. What’s more nutritious, corn chips or potato chips? Could Godzilla kick King Kong’s ass? Is it harder to hop forward on one foot or backward with both feet? I suspect you will also encounter folks who are embroiled in meaningless decisions and petty emotions. So how should you navigate your way through this energy-draining muddle? Here’s my advice: Identify the issues that are most worthy of your attention. Stay focused on them with disciplined devotion. Be selfish in your rapt determination to serve your clearest and noblest and holiest agendas.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I hope that by midMay you will be qualified to teach a workshop called “Sweet Secrets of Tender Intimacy” or “Dirty Secrets of Raw Intimacy” or maybe even “Sweet and Dirty Secrets of Raw and Tender Intimacy.” In other words, Libra, I suspect that you will be adding substantially to your understanding of the art of togetherness.

Along the way, you may also have experiences that would enable you to write an essay entitled “How to Act Like You Have Nothing to Lose When You Have Everything to Gain.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you have a dream of eating soup with a fork, it might mean that in your waking life you’re using the wrong approach to getting nourished. If you have a dream of entering through an exit, it might mean that in your waking life you’re trying to start at the end rather than the beginning.

And if you dream of singing nursery rhymes at a karaoke bar with unlikable people from high school, it might mean that in your waking life you should seek more fulfilling ways to express your wild side and your creative energies. (PS: You’ll be wise to do these things even if you don’t have the dreams I described.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you’re

a quixotic lover, you’re more in love with love itself than with any person. If you’re a cryptic lover, the best way to stay in love with a particular partner is to keep him or her guessing.

If you’re a harlequin, your steady lover must provide as much variety as three lovers. If you’re a buddy, your specialties are having friendly sex and having sex with friends. If

you’re a histrionic, you’re addicted to confounding, disorienting love. It’s also possible that you’re none of the above. I hope so, because now is an excellent time to have a beginner’s mind about what kind of love you really need and want to cultivate in the future.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your new vocabulary word is “adytum.” It refers to the most sacred place within a sacred place — the inner shrine at the heart of a sublime sanctuary. Is there such a spot in your world?

A location that embodies all you hold precious about your journey on planet Earth?

It might be in a church or temple or synagogue or mosque, or it could be a magic zone in nature or a corner of your bedroom. Here, you feel an intimate connection with the divine or a sense of awe and reverence for the privilege of being alive. If you don’t have a personal adytum, Capricorn, find or create one. You need the refreshment that comes from dwelling in the midst of the numinous.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You could defy gravity a little, but not a lot. You can’t move a mountain, but you may be able to budge a hill. Luck won’t miraculously enable you to win a contest, but it might help you seize a hard-earned perk or privilege. A bit of voraciousness may be good for your soul, but a big blast of greed would be bad for both your soul and your ego. Being savvy and feisty will energize your collaborators and attract new allies; being a smart-ass show-off would alienate and repel people.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here are activities that will be especially favorable for you to initiate in the near future: 1. Pay someone to perform a service for you that will ease your suffering. 2. Question one of your fixed opinions if that will lead to you receiving a fun invitation you wouldn’t get otherwise. 3. Dole out sincere praise or practical help to a person who could help you overcome one of your limitations. 4. Get clear about how one of your collaborations would need to change in order to serve both of you better. Then tell your collaborator about the proposed improvement with lighthearted compassion.

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Is it increasingly difficult to keep forbidden feelings concealed? Have your friends been wondering about the whip marks from your self-flagellation sessions? Do you ache for redemption? If you answered yes to any of those questions, listen up. The empathetic and earthy saints of the Confession Catharsis Corps are ready to receive your blubbering disclosures. They are clairvoyant, they’re nonjudgmental and, best of all, they’re free.

Within seconds after you telepathically communicate with our earthy saints, they will psychically beam you eleven minutes of unconditional love, no strings attached.

Do it! You’ll be amazed at how much lighter and smarter you feel. Transmit your sad stories to the Confession Catharsis Corps now!

cellent time to free your memories. What comes to mind when I suggest that? Here are my thoughts on the subject. To free your memories, you could change the way you talk and feel about your past. Reexamine your assumptions about your old stories, and dream up fresh interpretations to explain how and why they happened. Here’s another way to free your memories: If you’re holding on to an insult someone hurled at you once upon a time, let it go. In fact, declare a general amnesty for everyone who ever did you wrong. By the way, the coming weeks will also be a favorable phase to free yourself of memories that hold you back.

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JOE(L) FROM MONTPELIER BLM DAY Black V-neck Joel/Joe. We met before the POC meeting. I think you’re Asian.

My sleuthing’s led to nothing besides that you’re maybe a designer and live in central Vermont. Were we catching glances across the table, or was that just hopeful illusion? Or are you a strikingly handsome infiltrator? If not, let’s meet. When: Thursday, February 9, 2017. Where: the Statehouse.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #913926 JAC HUNTLEY SALON 4 p.m. You were standing, blow-drying your long, brown hair. I was in the small room on the other side of the bamboo divider. The divider slipped. We both caught it at the same time. Let’s pretend that was a good omen. Would you be interested in having a drink at Leunig’s? When: Thursday, March 30, 2017. Where: Jac Huntley hair-coloring salon. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913924 ACE I miss you. Let’s spend a night together before you leave to explore the Mississippi on barges. Love your face and everything about you. When: Wednesday, February 8, 2017. Where: Riding Ravel. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913923

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A SWAN SONG From the Nender on Sunday nights to Trinity campus (almost) running late, I see you running around Burlington kicking ass and still somehow finding pockets of time for a movie or an episode of “Planet Earth.” Maybe we will be able to meet up for a game of chess again. :) When: Thursday, March 23, 2017. Where: Burlington.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #913922 HOT FOR TEACHER Hello sexy lady working hard, preparing for classes. Maybe you can teach me a lesson. I was digging all of the funky 50 shades of gray you were wearing.

Perhaps we could reenact that story ourselves sometime. When: Monday, April 3, 2017. Where: Feldman’s.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #913921 BEAUTIFUL PIZZA You’re small and beautiful and had way too much ice in your cup. I’ve never been left speechless by somebody smiling at me like that before. We will probably never see each other again, but on the off-chance you see this and know it’s you, look me up. We can get a slice somewhere else. When: Wednesday, March 29, 2017. Where: Burlington.

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TALL MIDDLE EASTERN COFFEE LOVER I see you at practically every coffee shop in town. You seem to be best friends with every barista, and I heard them call you by an Arabic name. You have the most intense dark eyes and serious face, but when you smile, you light up the room. Why won’t you look at me? When: Saturday, March 25, 2017. Where: all over. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913919 HOTTIE AT PFIT SB Caught your glance at the beginning of my workout Monday morning. I smiled at you as I was leaving to return the favor, and you were waiting for it. Margaritas sometime? You: blonde, 5’6 or so, black leggings, white top. So pretty. Me: backward hat, Star Wars tee, brown hair.

When: Monday, March 27, 2017. Where: Planet Fitness, South Burlington.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #913918 SUNDAY, HANNAFORD IN SWANTON To the gray-haired gentleman who drives the silver Toyota Echo: We flirted, we talked, you bought steak and milk. I would like to get to know you better and continue our talk about cars, etc. —Lady with light blue Chevy Spark. When: Sunday, March 26, 2017. Where: Hannaford, Swanton.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #913917 SWEET SMILE AND EYES You greeted me at the door. You rang me out, and you made small talk with me and told me to enjoy the beautiful day. I tripped on my words a few times because I couldn’t stop looking at you. I was wearing a brown sweater and jeans. Thank you.

You made my day. When: Sunday, March 26, 2017. Where: Petco, Barre-Montpelier Rd. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913916 BRETT BACKSTAGE 3/25 You: tall, handsome and the most genuine smile I’ve seen in a long time ... being cornered by many women and seeking assistance. Me: chatted with you a couple of times, but you left with only a goodbye. When: Saturday, March 25, 2017. Where: Backstage.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #913915 RE: FELL FOR A NARCISSIST I don’t know you but feel compelled to respond. I also discovered my relationship was a mirage created by a manipulative narcissist. You’re right; your life will never be the same — it will be even better. I know. My life without that vermin is incredible! Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. Hang in there. When: Friday, March 24, 2017.

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IF YOU FOLLOW... ...the trail of acorn tops, you will find the field of ashes have been replaced by forget-me-nots. Under strands of starlight I will be waiting for you, knowing that love is when you take my hand, cook my eggs, and bring me wooden spatulas and wind-up pigs.

When: Saturday, March 18, 2017.

Where: on Moretown Mountain. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #913913 SWEET PERFECTION I rounded the corner and saw you standing there. It was then I knew you were mine. You make me feel something I didn’t know was possible.

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MBSK. I am yours. When: Wednesday, November 16, 2016. Where: Waterbury.

You: Woman. Me: Woman. #913912 HONEY AT HOME I finally caught up to you after being away. I missed you so much. Your smile was just the perfect sight after being away from home. Will you always be mine? All my love. When: Wednesday, March 22, 2017. Where: in the kitchen.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #913911 MIKE, YOU PLOWED MY DRIVEWAY You said to “pay it forward.” What a wonderful thing to do for someone you don’t know. I want to make you dinner to thank you again. I too believe in karma. Black truck and a smile that was alluring. I am the blonde in Essex who has noticed you often when you plow and mow next door. When: Tuesday, March 14, 2017. Where: Essex.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #913908 MCGILLICUDDY’S, ST. PATRICK’S DAY, ESSEX JUNCTION You: beautiful blonde in corner of the bar with a large group wearing green shirts. Me: guy on the other side of the bar. We smiled back and forth.

You came over on your way out and asked me to join you and your friends at Backstage. Sounded fun, but it wasn’t the right night for me. Grab a beer? When: Friday, March 17, 2017.

Where: McGillicuddy’s, Essex Junction.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #913906 RUMINATING SHOPPER It was approaching 10 p.m. I was standing in the foyer wearing a blue denim jacket, looking at the bulletin board. You (slim, attractive, meditative) passed by, and on your way out you picked up a free newspaper, paused and smiled at me.

I was shy and tongue-tied. Ever since, I’ve been thinking about what I could’ve said. When: Saturday, March 18, 2017.

Where: City Market/Onion River Co-op.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #913905 WILL YOU BE MY MULTITOOL You unlocked the knife case and my heart when you fingered through the features of a multitool and spoke passionately of the benefits of a well-honed blade. I like your tightly coiled ringlets. Will you bury your blade in mine? When: Sunday, March 19, 2017. Where: OGE. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913904

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Forget “springing forward” — it seems a number of readers are more interested in going back. I’ve been barraged with queries about backside lovin’ lately. Here are answers to all of your questions about anal sex.

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Dear Athena,

How do I get my girlfriend to try anal?

Buggin’ for Her Behind If it’s something she’s never tried, she’s probably nervous about the unknown. Pressuring her will backfire, so broach the topic in a relaxed, easygoing conversation about sexual acts you’d each like to try. Be open to her desires and, when it comes to expressing your own, be dignified if she says no — anal isn’t for everyone, and it’s certainly her call. Be respectful if she’s hesitant, and work with her to address her concerns. If she’s down to try it, come to the party prepared — that is, go heavy on the foreplay and ease into slow, gentle lovemaking with lots of lube. Happy humping!

Dear Athena,

What’s the best way to clean yourself to prepare for anal?

Squeaky Clean Well, there’s always an enema if you wanna do some serious spring cleaning. But if that’s too involved, a quick rinse with warm water and a pH-neutral soap will do the trick. If you have time to take a shower, go to town with that showerhead — heck, use a washcloth while you’re at it! If you’re wiping properly and bathing regularly, you should be good. PS: To tidy up and start the sensual fun, invite your partner in for a pre-coitus bath!

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My boyfriend loves anal, and I prefer regular missionary sex. What should we do? Can this relationship last?

Penis in Vagina, Please How about this: Two days are reserved for anal, and the rest of the week can be of the penis/vagina variety.

Weekends are winner’s choice — you determine the winner via a sexy game of poker or round of rock-paperscissors. As long as you don’t resent doing anal every so often and you guys are able to have fun no matter what, you’ll be all right.

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