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The City of Burlington will use federal coronavirus relief funds to build a community of “shelter pods” for unhoused residents. The nearly $3 million plan, which won unanimous support from city councilors on Monday night, also calls for hiring a city staffer to help end chronic homelessness.

“I just hope everyone shares the sense of hopefulness and belief that we can make progress on this long-standing challenge,” Mayor Miro Weinberger said. “I’m hopeful we’re on the cusp of making a big step forward.”

City officials proposed the shelter pods after a citywide survey indicated “overwhelming” support for spending a portion of the city’s $27.3 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to address chronic homelessness. The initiative will use $1.47 million to construct between 25 and 30 pods, or tiny shelters, in a yet-to-be determined location.

Cities such as Madison, Wis., and Seattle, Wash., have used the modules with success, according to Burlington officials. The Queen City’s pods will be between 60 and 120 square feet and outfitted with heat and electricity, but not plumbing.

The city will also use $970,000 to build a “community resource center,” which will include a low-barrier warming shelter with access to food, phones, first aid, and bathroom and shower facilities. Staff from the Champlain Valley

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The facility will be the second low-barrier shelter in the city. The other, at the former Champlain Inn on Shelburne Road, has been operated since fall 2020 by the nonprofit ANEW Place.

The city will use the rest of the cash to hire a new “special assistant to end homelessness” and to provide technical assistance to CVOEO’s “coordinated entry” system described above.

Councilors also discussed a potential amendment, introduced by Councilor Joe Magee (P-Ward 3), to the city’s ordinance that bans camping in public parks. Camping would still be prohibited in some areas, but “no person should be arrested” for doing so, it says.

“This is really about moving forward with a policy that protects the most vulnerable folks in our community in a way that affords them dignity and respect,” Magee said.

Councilors voted unanimously to refer the language to the council’s Community Development and Neighborhood Revitalization Committee for further discussion.

Read Courtney Lamdin’s full story and keep up with developments at sevendaysvt.com.

Planned Parenthood will close its Newport health center at the end of the month. Its closest clinics are 45 minutes away.

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CityPlace Burlington developer Don Sinex said construction could begin this spring.

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1. “Capitol Offense: Nicholas Languerand’s Quest for ‘Belonging’ Led Him to QAnon, the Insurrection — and Now Prison” by Derek Brouwer & Colin Flanders. Seven Days traced the radicalization of a Wolcott man who fought police at the January 6, 2021, insurrection.

2. “Local Industry Pros to Open May Day in Burlington’s Old North End” by Jordan Barry.

A restaurant called May Day is coming this spring to the former Butch + Babe’s space at 258 North Winooski Avenue.

3. “COVID Cases Continue to Drop Sharply in Vermont” by Colin Flanders. COVID-19 infections are still declining, offering hope that the Omicron wave has finally crested.

4. “A Proposed Tweak to Burlington’s Charter Sparks Impassioned Debate Over Sex Work”

by Courtney Lamdin. What was meant to be a simple municipal housekeeping matter has turned into a messy debate about regulating the sex trade.

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DELAYED CONNECTION On July 31, 1973, a commercial jet that took off from Burlington crashed while trying to land in heavy fog at Boston’s Logan International Airport. All 88 people aboard died, though one man from Marshfield survived for 100 days before succumbing to his burns.

Michelle Brennen was 10 when Delta Flight 723 went down. Her father, an architect traveling for business, was one of the passengers.

Now, the Westford woman is trying to find other family members of those who died in the crash as she works to create a memorial at the Boston airport and commemorate the loss half a century later, in July 2023.

“Even though I have never met any of these

people, I still feel a deep connection to them,” she said. “We all experienced the same tragedy.”

Brennen and her family rallied after the crash, drawing on their Catholic faith and getting help from her father’s mother. The event profoundly changed their lives.

Her mother, who never remarried, died last year. That’s when Brennen found letters from her father’s brother, who had traveled to Boston to identify her father’s body; sympathy cards; and correspondence with lawyers about the settlement Delta paid to passengers’ family members.

Seeing the papers her mother saved inspired Brennen to create the memorial, a plaque that Delta will pay for and install at Logan. And she started a Facebook group to find others with connections to the flight. She’s

also arranging a mass next year in a chapel at Logan. A priest will read the names of those who died, Brennen said.

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) remembers the crash well; he told Seven Days on Tuesday that he had planned to be on the plane.

“I canceled the flight just a few hours before takeoff,” Leahy said.

Leicester resident Debbie Muscato lost her 18-year-old sister, Thomasina. The two were 18 months apart in age and grew up in Forest Dale, a village of Brandon. Thomasina is buried in the 240-year-old cemetery there.

Muscato said her health won’t allow her to attend next year’s ceremony, but she’s glad Brennen is organizing it. “Tell that woman, ‘Thank you so much,’” she said.

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Did anyone at Seven Days consider why Nicholas Languerand contacted the newspaper [“Capitol Offense”; From the Publisher: “Inside the Scoop,” February 2]?

It appears Seven Days gave him all the notoriety he was seeking with the splashy front-page coverage.

I believe you can do better and save the front page for worthy stories and individuals.

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BEFORE JANUARY 6…

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Sledding exhibit in Waitsfield

Derek Brouwer and Colin Flanders have put together a fascinating, excellent piece about a Vermonter who joined the coup attempt on January 6 last year [“Capitol Offense,” February 2].

However, I take issue with their reference to that event as “the nation’s worst case of insurrectionist violence since the Civil War.” Even if we strictly hold to the “insurrectionist” definition and set aside our country’s history of race riots and lynchings, the Wilmington, N.C., coup of November 10, 1898, was certainly the

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worst violent overthrow of an elected government in this country since the Civil War. In that event, hundreds were killed by a white supremacist mob directed toward an unlawful, political end. Also distinguishing it from January 6 is the fact that it was largely successful, contributing to the extinguishing of Reconstruction and, at least partially, putting us on the path to the inequality and acrimony we are still living with.

Recognizing the history of Wilmington, and of our country, is important — not to diminish the severity of the January 6 attack, but to recognize that the same sort of violence has happened before.

Our collective memory seems painfully short in this way. We may think ourselves immune to events like Wilmington or January 6 if we fail to remember them or fail to register their significance. Our history teaches us to be vigilant for the sorts of forces that the authors of this article otherwise valuably describe.

Bill Morris

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[Re Ask the Rev, January 26]: I think your “Urethra Franklin” nom de plume for a leaky masturbator is super disrespectful to the Queen of Soul! Leave her out of this ridiculousness. It’s disrespectful to a Black woman of her stature.

Aretha Franklin was a magnificent woman known as one of the most influential singers in recent history and a civil rights activist who used music as a tool for truth, justice, social change, education and entertainment. Your pun at her expense is not funny or clever. At its worst, your coinage is an utterly unnecessary racist microaggression, since your bully pulpit goes statewide on paper with a circulation of 35,000. Your lack of respect reaches worldwide online.

Please consider publishing an apology and editing the column’s online content to remedy this situation. My advice is to use better judgment in the future.

Rick Agran

MONTPELIER

With no shortage of problems requiring the attention of Burlington voters, such as housing, homelessness, policing, etc., one can only wonder how and why sex trafficking merits the current attention it is receiving [“Bawdy Brouhaha,” February 2].

“Burlington police haven’t used the charter to make sex work-related arrests in recent memory, and while state law is more reliable, prostitution cases are still exceedingly rare,” the story reads. “Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George hasn’t charged anyone with prostitution for at least three years, she said.”

Just finished reading the wide-ranging cover story on food insecurity in Vermont [“Hunger Gains,” January 26]. You touched on all the points and programs necessary, giving the average reader excellent info. I’ve been working in the social services realm for years. Retired from Capstone Community Action several years ago. Learned so much here about the new programs. Thank you.

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February 2]: The solution to repetitive radio fare is WGDR/WGDH Central Vermont Community Radio (wgdr.org).

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FEATURES 29 Love Language

Spelling it out in the Love & Marriage Issue

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NEWS & POLITICS 13 From the Publisher Zoned Out

Despite a housing crisis, South Burlington adopts regs to slow rural development

Splitting Headache

PurplCouch demystifies and destresses the divorce process

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Husband-and-wife podcasters offer “Couples Therapy in Seven Words” Photographer Catherine Opie examines distinctive American landscapes

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Bristol couple chronicles navigating love and illness in a new audiobook

For three years, John “Snowdog” Predom has SUPPORTED BY: been strapping on his snowshoes, heading out into his scenic East Brighton backyard and creating massive designs in the snow.

He shares drone footage of his snowshoe art online.

Eva Sollberger spent a chilly hour watching him work.

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All students in Vermont have been able to eat school breakfast and lunch for free, regardless of their family’s income or ability to pay, since the start of the pandemic. Schools have been able to offer Universal School Meals thanks to temporary federal rules.

Universal School Meals work!

Schools are reporting that the stigma around the school meal programs has been eliminated, more students are eating at school, and students are more attentive and ready to learn because they are not hungry and worrying about when they will eat next.

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Visit universalschoolmealsvt.org to learn more and get involved in the campaign. We need your help to make sure Vermont kids have the nutritious food they need to learn.

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Love Games A wealthy tycoon and scheming lovers match wits in Gaetano Donizetti’s classic comedic opera Don Pasquale. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Barn Opera in Brandon presents this marriage heist, set in a New York City pizzeria, where inheritances, disguises, subterfuge and ardent vows keep the energy and folly high.

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Voices of Truth Indigenous culture comes to life in Welcome to Indian Country at the Hopkins Center for the Arts in Hanover, N.H. The show, co-commissioned by the Hop, presents the stories of young musicians, songwriters and poets, including Mali Obomsawin, Delbert Anderson, Julia Keefe and Rena Priest.

Masks and proof of vaccination required.

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Vermont poet Rajnii Eddins hosts a screening of the 2019 film The Last Black Man in San Francisco, which recounts the story of a man and his best friend attempting to reclaim the house his grandfather built. Part of the Black Is Beautiful Film Series at Burlington’s Fletcher Free Library, the movie chronicles an odyssey of time, belonging and friendship.

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AVID FOR AVIANS LGBTQIA++ hikers and birders stroll trails and watch for winged wonders in Pride Hikes: Red Rocks Park + Great Backyard Bird Count. During an easy two-mile route through South Burlington wetlands, forests and rocky ledges by Lake Champlain, bird lovers of all ages practice focusing their peepers on glimpsing and identifying local species.

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Ice Palace Could an igloo support the weight of a polar bear? A lesson in icy architecture at the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich tackles that question and more in Igloo Build and the Science of Winter.

The whole family can get in on this day of snowy, sleuthing fun, with activities indoors and out.

Masks required. Check montshire.org for updates on the weather-dependent igloo build.

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Trouble in Paradise Barbados writer and former Vermont Studio Center fellow Cherie Jones gives a virtual reading from her first novel, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House. Short-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2021, the story follows four people navigating class, violence and love in a tropical town.

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Water Works Since childhood, Vermonter Michael Sacca has been keenly interested in video, photography, art and the natural world. At a reception for his exhibit “In the Surf” at the Tunbridge Public Library, viewers can marvel at how he captured intimate, detailed photos of waves crashing and other water in motion. On view through March 19.

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For many patients at Tamarack Family Medicine in Morrisville, that’s Phil Kiely.

Tamarack’s co-owner has been a physician for more than 30 years. As a primary care provider, he sees patients at all stages of their lives. And he knows they’re looking for more than just a diagnosis.

“People want to be heard, validated, reassured,” he said.

Kiely believes strongly in providing that kind of individualized patient care. It’s why, in 2019, he and two other doctors decided to leave the local community health center and start their own practice.

They needed a loan to buy a building and get their new business off the ground, so they approached a bank with a branch in town. They thought having another clinic in Morrisville would be a boon to the community, and they believed their patients would follow them.

But the bank turned them down. Kiely was stunned.

So he turned to someone from the financial world that he knew and trusted: Peter Jones, who works for Mascoma Bank. The two served together on the Lamoille South School Board. Jones met with Kiely the day he called, and put him and his partners in touch with the Private Banking team at Mascoma, which provides concierge-level personalized services for professional practices like Tamarack.

Unlike most banks, Mascoma is a Certified B Corporation. It makes lending decisions with the communities it serves in mind. Helping local doctors open an independent practice in a small Vermont town made sense to Mascoma.

“They told us right away, ‘we can make this happen,’” Kiely recalled, “and they made it happen. They did everything that needed to be done, and did it fast. We were really impressed.”

With Mascoma’s help, Kiely and his partners got right to work; today Tamarack’s 14-person team serves roughly 6,000 patients. If they call at night, after the doors are closed, they can trust that someone will still answer the phone. The voice on the other end is almost always a familiar one.

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It’s become increasingly clear since the start of the pandemic that Vermonters value local journalism and want to support it. They not only give generously to the state’s nonprofit news operations — such as VTDigger.org and Vermont Public Radio — but also want to donate to their community newspapers, most of which are, legally speaking, for-profit businesses. Ironically, many of those mom-and-pop media outlets are in dire financial straits. They could likely attract larger donations from devoted readers if doing so were advantageous from a tax perspective.

The federal Internal Revenue Service is finally coming around on this. As disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, imperiling democracy, the IRS is starting to view all reputable journalism as a public service — and, hence, worthy of philanthropic and foundation support.

The unofficial policy shift has precipitated big changes around the country. Some for-profit newspapers have become nonprofits, such as Utah’s Salt Lake Tribune, with little to no change to their business models; others are starting nonprofit organizations that can fund their work, such as the Seattle Times and the Seattle Foundation. Last month, the nonprofit that runs public radio station WBEZ bought the Chicago Sun-Times. “Tabloid journalism and public radio in the Midwest are poised to join forces” is how the Wall Street Journal summed up the unprecedented arrangement.

Small newspapers are getting organized, too. In Iowa, the newly founded Western Iowa Journalism Foundation now acts as a fiscal sponsor for a handful of small family newspapers in the area, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Storm Lake Times, the subject of a recent documentary film. I’ve written about the movie several times in this column, and last week consulting editor Mary Ann Lickteig previewed its Vermont tour.

Different funding models are popping up all across the country.

At Seven Days, we are grateful to our Super Readers, whose recurring monthly donations now add up to more than $2,000 a week. The money helps pay for our journalism, which is free and accessible to all, and makes everyone in the trenches here feel valued and appreciated. At the same time, we know that Seven Days has missed out on some major gifts because donors to our local, for-profit newspaper aren’t entitled to a tax deduction.

Until now. Three weeks ago, we inked a deal with a California-based nonprofit, Journalism Funding Partners, that will act as our fiscal sponsor, functioning as a bridge between large donors and fund-seeking projects that serve the public good. Run by former reporters and a diverse board of directors, the organization provides this service for a number of other for-profit media outlets across the country, including the Miami Herald and North Carolina’s News & Observer.

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arah Dopp pulled her Volkswagen onto the shoulder of Old Farm Road, a short byway off Route 116 in South Burlington that rises past what was once forest and pastureland and is now, to her great dismay, a construction zone. To the east, Mount Mansfield appeared almost translucent in the distance, as if it had been carved from the dusky blue winter light. On the other side of the road was a row of nearly identical homes in varying stages of completion, each one less finished than the last.

“There they are, all the little tickytackies,” said Dopp, the founder and president of the South Burlington Land Trust. “‘And they all look just the same,’ in the words of the old song.” The ticky-tackies, she explained, are part of a development called O’Brien Farm. The 460-unit project, which includes plans for 74 permanently affordable properties, will eventually fill the now-empty slope that overlooks Mount Mansfield.

“It’s not just an incredible view,” Dopp said. “It’s an incredible habitat. We’ve had people coming up here recently, tracking animals. They’re finding evidence of deer — deer yards, deer carcasses. All kinds of evidence of critters.”

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fought the creep of suburbia in South Burlington’s more scenic and environmentally sensitive districts. On Monday, she and her allies achieved a major victory: The South Burlington City Council narrowly voted to adopt new regulations that will significantly curtail development in Dopp’s neighborhood, known in zoning parlance as the southeast quadrant. The O’Brien Farm project, which lies just outside the

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CONCERNING THE PACE OF ITS SUBURBANIZATION. southeast quadrant, represents the kind of unchecked sprawl that, in Dopp’s view, would destroy the area’s fragile ecosystem.

In the southeast quadrant, a 3,200-acre swath bounded by the Shelburne town line, Interstate 89, the Williston border and Route 7, the shopping centers and office parks of Vermont’s second-largest city feel deceptively remote, even as the planes destined for nearby Burlington International Airport roar overhead. A century ago, the

southeast quadrant was mostly farmland; now, the landscape is a tableau of mostly big, symmetrical houses echoing throughout a rural panorama. Dopp herself lives in the southeasternmost corner of the southeast quadrant, in an old farmhouse surrounded by conserved land. “I feel very good about my little part of the world,” she said.

In recent years, this part of the city has provided the backdrop for a public argument over land development regulations that, since 2018, has consumed more than 70 city government meetings, incited dozens of sparring editorials in South Burlington’s local weekly newspaper, the Other Paper, and galvanized a group of citizens to form a political action committee to elect city councilors who support restricting development.

Monday’s council meeting seemed to settle the debate, if only superficially.

Three councilors — Meaghan Emery, Tim Barritt and chair Helen Riehle — voted in favor of the regulations; the remaining two, Thomas Chittenden and Matt Cota, opposed them.

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Vermont lawmakers on Tuesday endorsed by a 107-41 vote an amendment to the state constitution that would guarantee the right to abortion.

The measure, known as Prop 5, will go before voters in November as a binding referendum.

“We can no longer rely on federal courts to uphold the protection of fundamental reproductive rights,” Rep. Ann Pugh (D-South Burlington) said before the vote.

Outside of Vermont, abortion prohibitions are becoming more common.

Between January 2011 and July 2019, according to the reproductive rights organization the Guttmacher Institute, U.S. states enacted 483 abortion restrictions. Last year, Texas banned all termination procedures after six weeks of pregnancy. The U.S. Supreme Court appears increasingly likely to limit or overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision that guarantees a woman’s right to an abortion.

Lawmakers have been working since April 2019 to enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution. The measure was previously passed by the Vermont Senate.

In hearings, abortion opponents have testified against the proposed amendment, saying it would open the door to unrestricted access to abortion at any stage of pregnancy. That testimony continued on the House floor on Tuesday.

Amending the constitution might enable other unforeseen changes, such as legalization of prostitution, Rep. Arthur Peterson (R-Clarendon) said.

“Will taxpayers be on the hook to pay for abortion, sterilization, infertility and surrogacy, gender-changing surgeries, and Planned Parenthood itself?” Peterson said. “What about those of us who conscientiously object on moral grounds to supporting these procedures? These questions should be on the mind of everyone as we decide this issue today.”

Rep. George Till (D-Jericho) said he had been working to counter misinformation about Prop 5, including claims that it would lift all restrictions on abortion and allow abortions at any phase of a pregnancy. It wouldn’t change anything in the state’s existing laws regarding reproductive health care, Till said. He added that medical care decisions should rest with patients and health care providers.

“The legislature should not dictate if you can have a hysterectomy. It should not dictate who can have a tubal ligation. It should not dictate if I can get a vasectomy,” said Till, a physician.

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newcomers, both University of Vermont seniors, are vying for the seat: Progendorsed Ali House and Democrat Hannah King.

“It’s absolutely a priority for us,” Josh Wronski, executive director of the Vermont Progressive Party, said of the Ward 8 seat. “It’s one of the truly competitive ones.”

Of the seven other ward seats, five are held by incumbents, who generally hold an advantage due to name recognition. But their voting records and policy positions can also create an opening for challengers to attack. Time, though, is running out on all the candidates seeking to win over voters. The city has already begun mailing out ballots.

Progressive Zoraya Hightower is facing Democrat Rob Gutman in Ward 1; fellow Prog Joe Magee will head off against Republican Christopher-Aaron Felker in Ward 3; and independent Ward 7 Councilor Ali Dieng will compete with Prog-endorsed independent Olivia

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In Ward 2, veteran Prog Gene Bergman is also running unopposed. His predecessor, Progressive Council President Max Tracy, chose not to run again for the Old North End seat.

Another longtime incumbent, Democrat Chip Mason, isn’t running for his Ward 5 seat. But his party is confident about holding on there after endorsing Ben Traverse, who faces two independents, FaRied Munarsyah and Lenora Travis. The South End is reliably Democratic, and Traverse has already raked in $15,000 in donations to fund his campaign, according to recent filings with the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office. His donor list includes U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), his former boss, who gave $500.

There’s more uncertainty in Ward 8.

The city created the seat in 2015 during redistricting, and only two councilors have held it since. In 2015, Adam Roof won Ward 8 as a Prog-endorsed independent. Three years later, he ran as a Democrat-endorsed independent — and defeated a Prog. Roof ran as a Democrat in 2020 but lost to Stromberg, a hardline Progressive. Roof is now chair of the Burlington Democratic Party.

Ward 8 generally comprises the student neighborhoods boxed in by Main Street, South Winooski Avenue, Pearl Street and South Willard Street, plus the University of Vermont’s residential campus and University Heights.

Many Burlingtonians have derided it as a gerrymandered district that gives college students outsize influence in city politics.

In its final report last month, a committee leading the city’s latest redistricting process concluded that Ward 8 should be reconfigured.

Now a Ward 6 resident, Roof described elections in his former neighborhood as “volatile.” Candidates must win support from college students, an inherently transient voter base that, election data show, is more likely to vote in local elections when

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The 6-6 vote on Jon Murad’s nomination highlighted the caucus’ unique power. While members can’t advance their agenda without a seventh vote, they can coalesce to stop proposals they oppose, all on their own. A tie vote in Burlington means the motion fails.

But with Town Meeting Day coming up on March 1, the party is in danger of losing that power. While eight ward seats are up for election, there’s one race, Ward 8, that will likely determine whether the Progs hold their ground — or give it up.

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survey of the city’s scenic and ecologically significant locales.

Both inquiries concluded that the southeast quadrant contained the most critical conservation areas within city limits. Based on those findings, the planning commission drafted a new set of land development regulations, with a much stronger emphasis on conservation.

In the weeks leading up to Monday’s vote, the city council quarreled over the proposed regulations. At a meeting in early January, Councilor Matt Cota, who strongly opposes the new regs, introduced a list of 22 suggested amendments in which he called the wildlife habitat blocks, as defined in the environmental consultant’s report, “legally indefensible.”

(In January, the University of Vermont, the largest landowner in South Burling-

homes for sale in Chittenden County within reach of a buyer earning the state’s median income of $62,000. South Burlington Councilor Thomas Chittenden thinks that the regulations swing too far in the direction of conservation, at the expense of the city’s obligation to meet the dire need for housing. He objects, in particular, to the rule that allows development on just 30 percent of a parcel in the southeast quadrant.

“This is an arbitrary threshold that just prevents housing stock from being built in this area,” said Chittenden, a lifelong resident of the southeast quadrant and a state senator. “It decreases the density, which is what some are advocating for, because frankly, they don’t want to see as many people living out in this part of town.”

The new rules have already stymied some would-be developers. Last spring, while

ton, threatened to take the city to court if the new regulations impeded its ability to develop its property. When the city agreed to give the institution leeway for projects related to educational endeavors, the university’s lawyers backed down.)

Cota, the executive director of Vermont Fuel, thinks that it makes economic sense to develop more housing near the region’s biggest employers, including UVM and Beta Technologies. For better or worse, he said, South Burlington already has the infrastructure to support a larger population than the more rural exurbs, such as Hinesburg and Milton. “We don’t want people to move to the far reaches of Chittenden County because they can’t find housing here,” he said.

In his 2022 budget address, Gov. Phil Scott noted that there were only five

the regulations were still in the works, Alan Long, a lifelong South Burlington resident, submitted a proposal for a 49-unit housing development on a 39-acre parcel of land off of Spear Street that his family has owned for generations. The project included a mix of housing types, including singlefamily homes and more moderately priced duplexes and carriage houses.

Long ’s property is sandwiched between two subdivisions, South Pointe and South Village, which consist mainly of large single-family homes and condominiums on treeless lots that cost, on average, between $400,000 and $700,000.

“We don’t want to put up 10-story apartment buildings, because that’s really not in keeping with what we think the southeast quadrant should look like,” Long said. “On the other hand, we don’t want

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resources an existential imperative; a contingent of developers and affordable housing advocates insists that restricting development will exacerbate both the housing and the climate crises by forcing people to move farther away from the economic hubs of Burlington and South Burlington.

The new regulations contain a raft of environmental protections, including a ban on nearly all development in designated wildlife habitats; a conservation requirement that would essentially limit residential density in most of the southeast quadrant to one single-family home per acre; and mandatory 100-foot wetland buffers in residential areas, twice the state minimum. In total, 71 percent of the land in the southeast quadrant will be off-limits to development.

“This is probably the most significant package of land development regulations in South Burlington since the implementation of zoning in the 1950s,” said Sandy Dooley, who serves as vice chair of the city’s Affordable Housing Committee.

In numerous op-eds and council meetings, Dooley, a former chair of the city council, has argued that the new regulations will only widen the economic divide between the southeast quadrant and the rest of the city. The southeast quadrant is the most affluent corner of the state: With a median income of just over $140,000, it would surpass Norwich as the richest town in Vermont if it were its own municipality.

“Government and zoning has played perhaps the most influential role in creating neighborhoods that are segregated by socioeconomic status,” Dooley said. In her view, climate change has supplied a moral justification for those who want to halt suburban growth: “It accommodates their resistance to change and their desire to act in response to a global crisis.”

South Burlington is no stranger to civic squabbles concerning the pace of its suburbanization, which accelerated after the postwar population boom in the second half of the 20th century. (Dopp grew up in Mayfair Park, a subdivision between Hinesburg and Williston roads that once had a covenant forbidding the sale of homes to non-white buyers.)

For decades, Dooley and her husband, retired Vermont Supreme Court justice John Dooley, fought against the Quarry Hill condominiums, which would have obstructed their view of the Green Mountains from their living room window on East Terrace.

Their case eventually made its way to the state supreme court, where a panel of retired justices ruled that the couple’s right to their view extended only the width

of their lot. The condos went up. “It was entirely about the height of the buildings,” said Sandy Dooley. “It wasn’t antidevelopment; it was antidevelopment over a certain height.”

The current South Burlington zoning drama began in 2018 when a group of southeast quadrant residents hired an attorney to prevent the construction of Dorset Meadows, a 160-unit development on a 40-acre parcel in their neighborhood. The residents argued that the land had been intended for conservation and, therefore, was vital to preserving what remained of the southeast quadrant’s rural character. In response to the pressure, the city council declared a period of interim zoning, which gave the body temporary veto power over any new development proposals in that part of the city.

Mount Mansfield seen from the slope where more housing units are planned for O’Brien Farm

By that point, the Dorset Meadows project, led by developer and Essex Junction real estate agent Peter Kahn, was too far along in the application process for the council to quash it by fiat. But it died in Development Review Board hearings, to the neighbors’ glee, because the developers failed to produce a management plan for the riparian areas on the property. Two southeast quadrant residents, Steven and Dunia Partilo, eventually bought the land from the developers for $1.8 million and placed it in permanent conservation.

The city has remained under interim zoning since the Dorset Meadows debacle.

During the three-year interregnum, the city hired an environmental consulting firm to assess which areas should be prioritized for conservation; meanwhile, a volunteer committee conducted its own

to just build single-family homes. We’ve always thought that having a diversity of housing types and income levels was a good thing to encourage some young people to move into South Burlington.”

The city council scuttled Long’s proposal, because parts of his development would have encroached on the wetland known as the Great Swamp, an ecological feature the new regulations deem a top conservation priority for the city. After deducting the swamp-adjacent acreage, Long could only build 30 units, which would take a considerable bite out of his bottom line.

“I don’t expect the public to line up in favor of individual landowners,” Long acknowledged. “Nobody is concerned about us losing some of our family asset.

But if they were in our shoes, I think it would bother them plenty.”

He feels that the debate over development versus conservation has created a false dichotomy. “It costs you nothing to

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espouse conservation, and it’s very easy to label landowners and developers as the bad guys, even if you recognize that there’s a need for more housing,” he said.

Long partly blames his situation on what he calls the “not in my backyard” crowd, who can energize public sentiment against development.

“Folks who are in need of lower- or middle-income housing don’t get a vote, because they don’t live here yet,” he said.

“And they can’t afford to live here.”

The new regulations will allow for approximately 830 units of housing in the southeast quadrant, compared to 1,180 under the previous rules, according to Paul Conner, the city’s director of planning and zoning. Councilor Barritt, who voted for the regulations, maintains that the opposition has overstated the impact of the potential housing loss. Through a practice called inclusionary zoning, the regulations mandate that new housing

developments with more than 12 units keep 10 percent of the inventory permanently affordable for buyers. But Barritt argues that those lost units wouldn’t make a dent in the need for more affordable housing in the county — and that the vast majority of development in the southeast quadrant would be priced to recoup the developer’s costs.

“Even if you could secure a big enough block of land to build on, I don’t think there’s any way you could build housing in the southeast quadrant that could really be considered affordable, except for those inclusionary zoning units,” Barritt said.

There are more appropriate locations in the city for affordable and middle-income housing, he suggested, such as the already congested Route 7 corridor.

“There’s an empty parking lot across from Zen Gardens, on Shelburne Road, and there was a plan, like, three and a half years ago to build a block of very small apartments there, which would be very affordable, I think,” he said. “And it’s right on the bus line. So there’s a transportation conduit, and there’s also a supermarket not that far away that somebody can walk to.”

He rejects the argument, advanced

by Dooley and others, that concentrating affordable housing in areas that are already less green and more densely populated constitutes a kind of de facto segregation. “There is no land discrimination going on,” he said. “I mean, that’s the current state of the city today — there are some more urban areas, and then there are some more rural areas. And don’t forget,” he added, “that our rural areas have a huge connection of recreation paths that everybody is allowed to enjoy.”

But others feel that the conservationist furor over the southeast quadrant has missed the point. “Climate change is a regional problem, not a neighborhood problem,” said Vince Bolduc, who serves with Dooley on the Affordable Housing Committee.

Bolduc, a retired professor of sociology at Saint Michael’s College, also worked on the volunteer committee that surveyed South Burlington’s open spaces to help with the city’s conservation efforts. By limiting development in the southeast quadrant, he believes that South Burlington will simply outsource the housing shortage to farther-flung communities — and, in the end, the city will still suffer the consequences of the area’s collective carbon footprint.

“If we don’t allow people to live in South Burlington, they will leapfrog into more remote areas of the county, and those people are going to need to travel further, and there’s going to be more region-wide sprawl,” Bolduc said. “And nobody wants to live with that.” m

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“A race like this, if you want to sum it up, it’s a turnout game,” Roof said. “It’s all about building relationships and pointing to important issues that are going to motivate young people, but also not forgetting about the permanent residents.”

King, the Democrat, has never run for office but is no stranger to local politics.

Originally from Massachusetts, she was Roof ’s campaign manager in 2020 and volunteered in 2021 on the failed campaign of Central District council candidate Tiki Archambeau. She’s currently working as the co-finance director for Vermont Sen. Becca Balint’s (D-Windham) Congressional bid. King, 21, is also a recent graduate of Emerge Vermont, an organization that recruits and trains Democratic women to run for higher office.

King says she’s running a campaign on “small p” progressive policies. She wants to work with the administration to create a guaranteed minimum income program that would pay residents a monthly stipend. She also hopes to appeal to renters, a huge demographic in Ward 8, with proposals to bolster the city’s code enforcement office to hold problem landlords accountable and to create a rent stabilization policy that would cap annual increases at a certain percentage.

“I’ve always considered myself to be a more progressive Democrat,” King said.

“I think if you were to put my platform up against a Progressive candidate’s, they’re pretty aligned overall.”

House, 23, has less political experience but perhaps more practical knowledge of the issues that she says Ward 8 voters care about. House took time off from her studies in 2020 to run mental health support groups at Lund, an anti-poverty nonprofit where House still serves as a social worker.

She’s also a per diem substitute teacher in Colchester public schools.

“I’ve been on the front lines of the pandemic as a social worker and educator, and I see the everyday impact that local policy has on people’s lives,” House said.

“I really think my experience will bring a unique lens to city council.”

House is also a proponent of policies to address climate change, and she vowed to hold UVM to its promise of achieving complete carbon neutrality by 2025. On housing, the candidate said she’d push to allocate more funds to groups that help homeless Vermonters and to increase access to low-barrier shelters.

In the end, the candidates’ wideranging platforms may be dwarfed by their positions on policing. Minutes after last week’s council vote, Mayor Miro

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Weinberger announced that Murad would keep his acting chief title “indefinitely,” sparking speculation that the mayor would revisit Murad’s nomination after the March elections, when the council could have a different political makeup.

House said she would vote against Murad’s nomination, echoing her Progressive colleagues’ concern that the acting chief doesn’t support needed police reforms. King, meanwhile, hasn’t picked a side. In a press release last week,

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King said she wants to “fully understand the issue” before committing to a vote on Murad or on specific public safety reforms. She said she’s been meeting with activists and plans to meet with Murad this week. King will also host a forum for Ward 8 residents to discuss public safety issues before the election.

King said voters she’s spoken with have respected her desire to be “thoughtful and deliberative” about public safety and other issues.

“They are understanding and are grateful that there’s a candidate in the race that is willing to go out there and do the work and not just blanket-support the same vote that their political party does,” she said. “People are kind of done with the political nonsense of it all, and they want folks that are going to put in the work and be actual, representative leadership for their neighbors.”

Other candidates have been vocal about the Murad debate. Democrats Gutman and Stith — running in Ward 1 and Ward 7, respectively — issued pro-Murad press releases ahead of last week’s vote and reiterated their support during the meeting’s public forum. Felker, the GOP candidate in Ward 3, retweeted a Burlington Police Officers’ Association statement that bashed the Progressives for voting against Murad.

Roof agreed that Murad’s appointment looms large in this election and said more moderate voters have noticed the Progs’ “power of prevention.” Democratic candidates such as King “will take the responsibility of governance very seriously” if elected, Roof said.

Wronski, the Prog party director, suggested that Weinberger knew Murad’s nomination would fail in an effort to drum up support for Democratic candidates.

The mayor, in a statement to Seven Days, dismissed the conjecture and said there are no immediate plans for another vote on Murad, regardless of the outcome in the election.

“The search for a chief is over, and Chief Murad will continue serving as Burlington’s chief,” Weinberger wrote.

“With or without [the Progressives’] partnership, the Chief and I are focused on the hard work ahead to rebuild the Burlington Police Department,” he continued. “I would welcome the City Council rejoining us in this effort no matter what the partisan make-up is after the election.”

Weinberger said he’s met with all the Democratic candidates, including King, whom he called a “formidable candidate” and experienced campaigner. He said King’s commitment to the city shows she “can absolutely win.” Roof agreed, saying Ward 8 voters want someone with progressive values who isn’t “overly ideological.” “[King talks about] ‘small p’ progressive issues in ways that are focused on actually creating progress,” Roof said, adding, “She knows what she’s talking about, and she’s not afraid to admit when she doesn’t … The city council will benefit greatly for it.”

Wronski said House appeals to voters because she’ll fight for the progressive change that her base wants.

“On the issues, students are with us,” he said, adding, “It’s going to be pretty clear who the candidate is that’s really living the values that the ward wants in their city councilor.” m

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It’s quiet, cheap to operate and surprisingly powerful when the retired financial planner gets the urge to mash the accelerator.

“I’ll tell you, that thing really has some guts to it,” Yurasits said.

It also has a hefty price tag — more than $38,000 before rebates — putting the all-electric ride out of reach for the 75-year-old resident of Burlington’s Old North End. So he rents it, for just a few bucks per trip, whenever he needs to go shopping, visit friends or see a doctor.

The Bolt, nicknamed “Mo,” is one of four new electric vehicles in the 21-vehicle fleet of CarShare Vermont, the Burlington-based nonprofit that provides wheels for short-term use to nearly 1,000 members.

The state helped pay for the car and charger, installed last fall, as part of a policy push to overcome two obstacles in widespread EV adoption: affordability for low-income residents and availability of chargers at apartment complexes.

Sales of EVs are surging, up by 51 percent since January 2021. The number of registered EVs in Vermont last month — both plug-in EVs, which run on nothing but electrons, and plug-in hybrids, which also have gas engines to boost range — reached 6,585 vehicles, including three buses, said Dave Roberts, head of Drive Electric Vermont, a program that advocates for broader EV adoption.

EVs now account for 5.4 percent of Vermont’s passenger vehicle sales, an impressive boost given myriad pandemicrelated shortages disrupting the auto industry, he said. But that’s still far below Vermont’s goal of having 47,000 EVs on the road by 2025 to meet its ambitious greenhouse gas emissions targets. The goal for 2030 is 120,000 vehicles.

Transportation causes 40 percent of Vermont’s climate pollution, one of the highest rates in the nation. Longer average driving distances combined with Vermonters’ penchant for gas-guzzling pickup trucks and SUVs fuel that unfortunate distinction.

Federal, state and utility incentives have made EVs more affordable to all Vermonters, generating brisk sales that state officials want to further accelerate.

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But there is also growing recognition that without more chargers at rental properties, low-income people will have a tougher time making the switch.

Homeowners can have a charger installed as part of their vehicle purchase, but renters rarely have that same freedom.

“We know from many conversations with people living in multifamily apartments and condos they often have significant barriers to installing charging infrastructure,” Roberts said.

Charger costs vary widely, but a typical home unit costs about $600. Utilities such as Green Mountain Power give them away for free, but installation can run up to several thousand dollars, according to Drive Electric Vermont.

The most common chargers installed in residential settings are called Level 2. These use 240 volts and can add 10 to 20 miles of range per hour. More powerful Level 3 fast chargers, such as those designed for Teslas, can add more than 200 miles of range per hour for some models.

CarShare Vermont has made EVs more affordable and accessible for some apartment dwellers. Last year, the nonprofit used $185,000 in state grants, including one from the state Agency of Transportation, to buy three Chevy Bolts and a Toyota Prius and parked them at or near low-income housing complexes in the city.

To be convenient, cars have to be close to CarShare’s members, said Annie Bourdon, the nonprofit’s executive director.

Buying the new cars was one thing, but installing EV chargers proved far more challenging, requiring close collaboration with willing landlords, she said.

CarShare has added chargers at three Burlington complexes: the 68-unit Cathedral Square Senior Living building downtown; the 25 Bus Barns apartments operated by the Champlain Housing Trust in the Old North End; and near the 51-unit Bobbin Mill Apartments on South Champlain Street, operated by the Burlington Housing Authority.

CarShare is still looking for the best place to park the Prius and install a

charger. That vehicle didn’t get as much use as anticipated at a Cathedral Square property off Shelburne Road.

“When we’re investing in EV infrastructure, we need to make sure that we’re really committing to a spot,” Bourdon said.

Given the option, though, residents at multiunit properties are choosing to drive electric. So far, members in the subsidized MobilityShare program for low-income residents are using CarShare vehicles at double the rate of other members, Bourdon said.

Last month, state officials announced a $1 million pilot program to expand availability of chargers near apartment complexes. The funds were approved by the legislature in 2021, but if the program goes well, there’s a lot more where that came from.

Gov. Phil Scott has proposed allocating nearly $20 million to expand the state’s EV charging network, which today has 321 public locations, including at highway rest stops, supermarkets and libraries.

He wants $6.25 million for additional

charging capacity along highway corridors, $3 million at recreation spots such as state parks, and $10 million at workplaces, community sites and housing. While the state is providing the chargers, drivers will still have to pay for their juice.

Lawmakers, meanwhile, are working on something they call a Mobility and Transportation Innovation Grant Program that would earmark $11 million for new chargers at public properties, businesses, apartment complexes and schools.

Differences between the two proposals will be hashed out in the coming months, but it’s clear that a major expansion of the state’s charging network is imminent.

Legislators got a glimpse of some of the challenges at a recent hearing of the House Transportation Committee.

Bronwyn Cooke, a planner with the state Department of Housing and Community Development, explained that the apartment building pilot program is meant to reach a “particularly challenging corner of the EV charging market.” Landlords are often reluctant to invest in EV chargers if they’re not sure they’ll be used. And tenants can be similarly hesitant to buy EVs if there’s no charger near their unit.

This creates a kind of chicken-andegg dilemma that makes it difficult for thousands of Vermonters to own an EV, she said.

The grant program is currently open to apartment complexes with at least 10 units. That’s just 6 percent of the state’s housing stock, but those 18,700 units represent an important demographic, she said.

“This is a really critical gap in the market to fill to make sure that all Vermonters have access to reliable, affordable and convenient charging in their homes,” Cooke said.

Rep. Curt McCormack (D-Burlington) doubts that’ll happen. “I think we’re going to run out of money real fast with what I’ve seen so far,” he said.

Landlords must put up a 10 percent match, but they can do so with in-kind contributions, such as agreeing to maintain the chargers with their own staff, Cooke said.

To ensure that the benefits are distributed as widely as possible, housing organiza-

LANDLORDS ARE OFTEN RELUCTANT TO INVEST IN EV CHARGERS IF THEY’RE NOT SURE THEY’LL BE USED. AND TENANTS CAN BE SIMILARLY HESITANT TO BUY EVS IF THERE’S NO CHARGER NEAR THEIR UNIT.

Interest in the program is high. More than 60 people, mostly representing landlords, attended a recent public information session. Organizers explained that affordable housing providers and nonprofit housing owners will get first dibs. Applications are open, and grants are expected to be announced in late April. If there’s money left over, market-rate apartment owners can apply.

tions can receive a maximum of $300,000.

Grants will also be limited to $80,000 per location. No one county can receive more than half of the funding, Cooke said.

Landlords realize that EVs are “the wave of the future” and their residents deserve to have the same access to chargers as homeowners, Cooke said. At some point, it could also give them a competitive advantage.

“If you have a unit that provides EV

charging, maybe you’re able to charge a higher rate or attract tenants a little more easily,” Cooke said.

About 25 percent of the state’s housing stock, or 80,400 units, are rental properties. More than 74 percent of renters earn below median income, according to the 2020 Vermont Housing Needs Assessment. That means that even with generous subsidies, lots of renters wouldn’t be able to afford a new EV. The car that Yurasits favors has a sticker price of more than $38,000, but CarShare got Mo for closer to $22,000, thanks to a manufacturer’s rebate of $13,750 and $3,000 from the Burlington Electric Department.

Despite these discounts, “somebody on a fixed or very low income is not going to be able to afford a $20,000 vehicle or a lease payment that exceeds the cost of their housing,” Bourdon said.

That’s why she’d like to see more subsidies not only for the chargers but also for organizations like hers that make it possible for people to get around without owning a car at all.

With the Bolt juiced up just steps away from his Bus Barns apartment, Yurasits doubts that he’ll ever own another car again.

“It’s a great deal for me,” he said. “Just knowing it’s out there means I don’t have to worry about it.” m

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senior environmental program manager, said testing will begin this spring and take more than two years to complete.

Because of the size of the project, the state has contracted with six environmental consulting firms: five in Vermont and one in New Hampshire. The state will prioritize testing schools with younger students and ones built during “the heyday of PCB use,” between the late 1950s and 1975, Coppolino said.

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FEBRUARY 10, 1935JANUARY 19, 2022 ST. ALBANS, VT.

DECEMBER 2, 1926FEBRUARY 3, 2022 BURLINGTON, VT.

For the 95 years she spent on this Earth, Mary Suzanne “Sue” Haman made it a kinder place. Our compassionate mother, grandmother and great-grandmother died peacefully on February 3, 2022, at Burlington’s Converse Home, surrounded by members of her large and loving family. She held a well-used rosary. Devout but never doctrinaire, Sue fully embraced Catholicism, including its secular definition.

She was always tolerant and respectful of views and beliefs different from her own.

Sue was born on December 2, 1926, in Susquehanna, Pa., to Ross and Lillian Foran. The eldest of four siblings, she led the way to Marywood College in Scranton and graduated cum laude with a BS in home economics, food and nutrition in 1948. Sue earned a coveted internship as a teaching dietitian at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., before landing a job as a therapeutic dietitian at Johnson City’s Wilson Memorial Hospital near Binghamton, N.Y. She met Donald Thomas Haman on a blind date, and they married in 1954. Sue continued to work — as a registered dietitian at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital in New York — until she was six months pregnant with their first child. She and Don had five: David Van Dyke Haman, Timothy Donald Haman, Mary Suzanne “Suzie” McCoy, Eileen Marie Curtis and Laura Anne Snyder.

Even while raising her own family, Sue found time to serve others. She lived and role-modeled her faith by including her children in Meals on Wheels deliveries, soup kitchen work, supporting families in need and other volunteer opportunities. She was a leader in the church, teaching CCD and

RCIA classes, serving as a eucharistic minister and participating in the women’s guilds and parish councils at various churches over the years.

Sue was a doer, mover and shaker who read the newspaper every day and stayed informed and engaged.

She worked as a consulting dietitian for area hospitals and nursing homes and taught behavior modification classes until retirement, whereupon she served on the boards of the American Association of University Women and the American Cancer Society. She also presided over the Nifty Niners Women’s golf group in Martin Downs, Fla. Sue enjoyed golf, walking, bridge, crossword puzzles, reading, travel, cooking and baking — especially her famous Irish fruitcake.

Numerous dogs and cats earned her love over the years. She was also partial to scones, biscuits, waffles, cappuccinos and maple creemees, and she amassed

a fine collection of teapots, rosary beads and nativity sets. Quick to smile and laugh, Sue was a devoted and generous family member with a powerfully loving and caring heart.

She spent the last eight and a half years of her life at the Converse Home, fully engaged with other residents and the many staff. Sue took a genuine interest in others’ careers and lives, always ready to provide a kind and supportive word. She and her family are so appreciative of all the love and care she received, including from the University of Vermont Medical Center hospice team.

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We also would like to extend a huge thank-you to Dr. Karen Sokol, who was always a strong advocate and guide as Sue navigated her changing health needs over the years. Sue loved, respected and trusted Karen completely.

Sue was predeceased by her parents; brothers Ross, Tom and Bill; and several

cousins. Her husband of 63 years, Don, died in 2017.

She leaves behind her five children; their spouses Frances, Ray and Don; and 10 grandchildren: Sarah, Peter, Julia, Kimbriel, Kaitlyn, Bill, John, Geoffrey, Patrick and Nicole. Sue was also blessed to enjoy great-grandchildren Lillian, Margaret, Charlotte, Jack, Nathan, Lucy, Alaina and Oliver.

To celebrate Sue’s full, well-lived life, a Mass of Christian burial will be held at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Charlotte, Vt., on February 12 at 10:30 a.m., followed by a luncheon in the parish hall. A private burial will take place later in the year in Susquehanna, Pa. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Converse Home Mary Wright Education Fund, 272 Church St., Burlington, VT 05401.

Arrangements are in the care of Ready Funeral Home. To send online condolences, please visit readyfuneral.com.

The family of Shirley Ann (McNasser) Leclerc, age 86, announces her peaceful passing on January 19, 2022, in St. Albans, Vt. Shirley was born in Colchester on February 10, 1935, to Dewey and Olive Packard McNasser.

She graduated as valedictorian of her class from Winooski High School in 1952. She was a smart, quiet and kind woman. She married the love of her life, Leonard A. Leclerc, on September 25, 1954. They were married for 67 years.

She was predeceased by her husband, as well as five of her beloved children. They also leave behind their dearest friends, John and Theresa Leclerc, of Fairfax, Vt. There was never a dull moment raising and loving her eight children, 15 grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. She dedicated all her time to her family and will always be remembered as the greatest host of many large holiday gatherings,

celebrations and parties at their family home on Depot Road in Colchester. Shirley and Leonard worked tirelessly to create a beautiful, welcoming and active home for their family, with horses, cats and kittens, a swimming pool, and tennis and basketball courts. It was the place everyone wanted to be.

If there was ever a peaceful moment, you would find Shirley playing her piano or sitting quietly in her favorite spot on the front porch.

Shirley and Leonard spent many years traveling all over the United States and Mexico in their motor home.

They made many new friends along the way and had so many amazing stories to share.

Shirley will be missed by so many.

There will be a private ceremony held in the spring for both Shirley and Leonard.

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company that developed software for the medical field. He then went on to work for Macro International in Burlington, Vt., until he retired.

David loved watching sports, especially football, as well as sampling the various barbecue joints around Burlington.

He and Susan also enjoyed traveling the eastern United States, seeing what life was like in other states and, of course, finding the perfect cherries for cherry pie!

In 2010, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. As the disease progressed, David never lost his love of family, love of life and sense of humor. He was supported throughout his disease by his wife, Susan, and son, Sam. This disease is what eventually took his life.

David is survived by his wife, Susan, and son, Sam; his sisters Debbie Denny, Barbara Haggard and Sandy Gillim; his brothers-in-law Roger Gillim and Greg Haggard; his nephews Sebastian Gillim (and wife Tracy), Seth Gillim (and wife Kayla), Jacob Denny, and Shea Denny; and his nieces Molly Haggard Tuthill (and husband Justin Tuthill), Sarah Haggard, and Jessica Denny (and partner Thach Nguyen); as well as several great-nieces and -nephews.

David’s intelligence, love of life, gentle tenderness toward his family and the sparkle in his eye will be missed by many.

The family would like to thank all the hardworking, kind, caring and dedicated people working in the health care industry during these difficult times. You show up every day, often for very little thanks.

We are especially grateful to the staff and volunteers at the McClure Miller Respite House for taking such gentle care of not just David but also the whole family. You made David’s passing so much more peaceful.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the McClure Miller Respite House or the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

grandchildren, Aaron Minor and wife Lisa, Kellie Minor and fiancé Charles Rowse, Nicholas Bacon and Kristiana Boucher, Addison and Anna Minor, and Kris Irwin and wife Xem; six great-grandchildren, Avery and Nolan Minor, Kira and Kora Irwin, Noah and Skylar Rowse;

and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

Lee was the last living descendent of the Arthur and Evon (Hoben) Minor family and was also predeceased by his children Alan Minor and daughter-inlaw Annette Minor Tefft; son Jeffrey Minor; and son-in-law R. Michael Bacon.

A mass of Christian burial was celebrated on Saturday, January 8, 2022 at St. Luke Church in Fairfax with concelebrants Rev. Karl Hahr and Rev. John G. Feltz. Burial followed in the family lot in St. Luke Cemetery. Memorial contributions in Lee’s memory may be made to Fairfax Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 228, Fairfax, VT 05454.

Please visit awrfh.com to view more of Lee’s life accomplishments and to share your memories and condolences.

DECEMBER 1, 1946JANUARY 16, 2022 WILLISTON, VT.

David Earl Herr passed away very peacefully at the McClure Miller Respite House on January 16, 2022.

David was born to Howard and Mary Lou Herr on December 1, 1946, in Indianapolis, Ind. Despite having a very traditional, conservative Protestant, Midwestern childhood, David became one of the original beatniks in the ’60s.

David moved to Vermont in 1972, along with many other hippies at that time. There he met the love of his life, Susan Barber.

David and Susan were married in 1973. Their love for each other was unwavering through their 48 years of marriage and was a shining example of what a marriage should be. They had one son, Sam, who was the light of David’s life and his whole reason for being.

David carried his love of jazz from his beatnik years through the rest of his life. He was an avid jazz aficionado.

David was also very smart with computers, almost from their inception. Along with his brother-in-law Roger Gillim and John Senning, he formed GHS Associates, a software design

Lee Douglas Minor NOVEMBER 27, 1935DECEMBER 28, 2021 FAIRFAX

Lee Douglas Minor, 86, passed away on December 28, 2021, at Green Mountain Nursing Home in Colchester.

Lee was born in Fairfax, Vt., on November 27, 1935, to Arthur and Evon (Hoben) Minor. He graduated from BFA Fairfax in 1954. In 1956, he married Louise S. Potvin, and they were married for 65 years. They had four children, Alan, Jeffrey, Diane and Glenn.

Lee is survived by his wife, Louise Minor, of Fairfax; daughter Diane Bacon of Colchester; son Glenn Minor and wife Amy of Westford; Greg Tefft and husband Ed; six

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Helen Gjessing

NOVEMBER 22, 1927-JANUARY 29, 2022 SHELBURNE, VT. Helen Witton Gjessing died on January 29, 2022, in Shelburne, Vt. She is survived by sons Erland (Jonathan) Gjessing and Eric Kirchoff; daughter Catherine Gjessing; brother David Witton and his wife, Irene; daughterin-law Ilsa Kirchoff; and the extended family of James McCarthy, Bill and Jean Sioss, and Kathleen McCarthy and their siblings and children. She is predeceased by her husband, Frederick Cheney Gjessing, and her son Craig Kirchoff.

Helen was born in Boston, Mass., on November 22, 1927, and spent most of her formative years in Concord, Mass. Helen was a gifted athlete and played field hockey and basketball and swam competitively. In later years, she learned to play tennis and played well into her seventies. She participated in school choir and retained a deep appreciation for music throughout her life, especially classical chamber music. Helen’s parents were divorced when she was young, and her brother William was killed in the Battle of the Bulge when she was in high school.

Helen claimed that she was not a good student and that other family members were “geniuses,” but her enduring curiosity and intellectual engagement in science, the natural world, history, current events, politics, and art and music were evident throughout her life. She got a BS from Beloit College in 1950 and a master’s in biology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1952. After graduating, she worked as a laboratory research assistant in Boston, Mass.

On September 5, 1955, she married Frederick Gjessing in Glover, Vt. The couple moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and then to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin

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Islands, in 1958. After spending a year in Europe in 1961 and 1962 so that Fred could complete a Fulbright Scholarship studying historic architecture, they returned to St. Thomas. They built a home, and Helen started teaching biology part time at the University of the Virgin Islands. Helen was an excellent cook, and she and Fred had wonderful parties and meals with friends and family. They had strong family ties and connections to the Northeast Kingdom and vacationed in Glover, Vt., every summer.

Helen eventually became a tenured professor and taught a number of classes, including genetics and microbiology. In addition to working full time, Helen raised four children and was a community and environmental activist. She focused on promoting government transparency, protecting the environment and human health, and sustainable development. She was an active member of the League of Women Voters and the recipient of numerous awards, including the League of Women Voters Impact Award and the Environmental Rangers Earth Day Award; she was also the first recipient of the Helen Gjessing Community Service Award.

Although she was an introvert, Helen had a great sense of humor, and she was a smart, tenacious, articulate and outspoken volunteer advocate. She was an inspiration for many young women as well as men pursuing the sciences and environmental activism.

In 2014, Helen moved to Vermont and settled at Wake Robin in Shelburne.

Helen was loved and respected by all who knew her well, and she will be missed. A special thank-you to the Wake Robin staff and Bayada Hospice staff.

A celebration of life will be scheduled in Vermont at a later date and sometime this summer in St. Thomas, USVI.

FEBRUARY 4, 1928-JANUARY 29, 2022 COLCHESTER, VT. Theresia Marie L’Ecuyer of Colchester, Vt., passed away peacefully in her home on January 29, 2022. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held for Theresia at the St. Francis Xavier Church, 3 St. Peter St., Winooski, Vt., on Saturday, February 19, at 10 a.m. Her burial will be held at a later date. Arrangements are in the care of LaVigne Funeral Home.

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Edwin P. Webbley

1954-2021 MIDDLEBURY, VT. Ed Webbley passed from this life on an October afternoon in his apartment at the Residence at Otter Creek in Middlebury. Holding his hand after the heart attack was an EMT, appropriately a former high school teacher — English, of course. A couple generations of students from Vermont, Missouri and Florida lost a teacher, coach, mentor, advocate and, in many cases, friend. Teachers lost an ally in building learner-centered schools. Wrestlers, football and rugby players lost a poet-warrior.

Born in Melrose, Mass., in 1954 and raised from age 11 in Passumpsic, Vt., Ed was nurtured by a family with roots in Wales and Scotland, Middlebury, Maine, and the Northeast Kingdom. His formal education began at the St. Johnsbury Academy, where the three-sport student-athlete excelled.

Not being one of a number of classmates accepted at his first choice colleges, he was all set to “work a woodlot”

until a school counselor interceded. He spent three semesters at Washington and Jefferson College before transferring to the University of Vermont to play football, the year before UVM dropped the sport forever. He also transferred to marry his high school sweetheart, Carrie Ann Moran, on Christmas Eve 1973. He headed to graduate school, teaching and coaching in western Missouri. Divorced in 1980, he married Rebecca Kasten in 1982. Divorced again, Ed then married his third wife, Dottie, in 1987.

This marriage to a fellow educator and member of the Provenzano family gifted him a treasured stepson, Michael; a beautiful daughter, Megan;

and a lifetime of stories related to his in-laws recognizing family and correcting flaws in “The Sopranos.”

After teaching and coaching at Platte County High School, Ed and Dottie returned to St. Johnsbury to join in caring for his aging parents and a 10-year stint as a teacher, coach and dorm proctor at his alma mater, where Megan was born. He earned his master’s degree with distinction from Middlebury College’s Breadloaf School of English.

During his seven years at Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans, he taught, coached and transitioned into administration. Following two years as assistant principal

at Essex High School and one as a middle school principal in Boca Raton, Fla., he arrived at Vergennes Union High School in 2005. During nine years there, he spearheaded a student-centered, teacher-led transition from seat-time to performance-based expectations. His work resulted in his being named Vermont’s 2010 Principal of the Year.

Following a year as coprincipal at Danville High School, he retired.

The impact of Ed’s learnercentered teaching — in literature and civics classrooms, on the field or mat, in his office and the hallways — is reflected in myriad spontaneous entries on his Facebook page. School hallways echoed when Ed, standing on his desk, elucidated Shakespeare or Billy Collins (and sometimes in Middle English), although he was as fond of quoting J. Wellington Wimpy as of Seamus Heaney, Wendell Berry or Chaucer.

The Facebook entries verify that he successfully delivered life lessons to his son and to his St. Johnsbury, BFA and Platte County High School athletes. Incidents of Ed recognizing individual

College of Engineering in 1971, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.

He was also a member of the Vermont Army National Guard.

Tom’s professional career included time at Knight Engineering, Jennison Engineering and Pizzagalli Construction, where he rose

to become a vice president.

He remembered fondly his role at PC as a young project manager in the construction of the Church Street Marketplace. He went on to become an industry leader in the construction of semiconductor manufacturing facilities in Vermont, New York and Arizona.

Tom was the consummate engineer and builder. In 1999, Tom did what he always longed to do and established his own business — TFM Construction and Real Estate.

Completed projects included Burlington landmarks such as the Lake Champlain Chocolate factory and Dealer. com building on Pine Street.

He was awarded the Vermont Business Growth Award for Construction in 2011. Even after his retirement, he volunteered his time and

expertise with many organizations, including St. Mark’s Church and Rice Memorial High School.

Tom is survived by his sons, Seamus Bhatt-Mackin of Durham, N.C., and Padraic Mackin of South Burlington; his beloved grandchildren, Ellora, Ishaan and Kennedy; his siblings Kathy Mackin, Mike Mackin, Mary Lowder and Jim Mackin; his daughter-in-law Deepa Bhatt-Mackin; his brothersin-law Ernest Lowder and Bob Casavaw; his sisters-in-law Mary Tang and Sue Hatstat Mackin; his niece Colleen Mackin; and his former wife, Cindy Mackin. Tom also left numerous cousins. He loved his family dearly.

Tom leaves many close friends, including Tom “Buck” Bitter, whose friendship spanned 50 years, and his

Thomas Francis Mackin

OCTOBER 18, 1947JANUARY 23, 2022 SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT. Thomas Francis Mackin, 74, of South Burlington, Vt., passed away peacefully on the afternoon of Sunday, January 23, 2022, in the intensive care unit of the University of Vermont Medical Center, with his son by his side. Though fully vaccinated and boosted, Tom contracted a COVID-19 infection that, coupled with other long-term health issues, was more than his body could overcome.

Tom was born in Burlington on October 18, 1947, to Francis and Dorothy Welch Mackin. He graduated from Rice Memorial High School in 1965 and the University of Vermont

students’ needs and meeting them abound. His passion for literature, poetry, writing and his students was never in doubt. He was a master in the practice of giving multiple chances.

Both a storyteller and a writer, Ed was proud of his poetry and short stories.

Although his most recent work was a chapbook published by ZigZag magazine, his widest publication, sadly, was the obituary for Megan.

Posted in the October 7, 2019, edition of Seven Days, it was republished and reflected upon in media across the country and in Britain.

Pleased that the issue of maternal rights for addicted mothers was receiving wide attention, he was greatly amused at the irony of his thoughts being reported on Fox News.

His life was shaped by his families — both birth and married — and by sport: He loved playing rugby and baseball, even though his biggest successes were with wrestling and football. His brother affirms his lifelong passion for the Patriots and Red Sox. His worldview was shaped by the English language,

Congregational theology (he ultimately identified as a devout secular humanist), and the disparity between haves and have-nots. In 2017, he lost his first wife, Carrie, whom he had remarried nine years before, and Megan in 2019. These losses contributed to the degradation of his physical health. Although he died of natural causes, many know he died of a broken heart. Through this time, he was sustained by his writing, the thread of music through his life, and the attention of online and in-person friends, Carol and Tom Spencer in particular.

Among the legion of students, colleagues and Facebook friends, Ed leaves his brother Ken, son Michael Henderson and beloved grandchildren: Logan Cash Clements Darah, Quinton Webbley, Angelina Thibeault, Jackson Finnley Michael Ringey and his Ringey siblings.

A public celebration of Ed’s life will occur at Willowell (willowell.org) in Monkton, April 30, noon to 2 p.m.

Donations can be made to the Vermont Young Writers Project (youngwritersproject. org/support).

friends from high school, who provided much joy in the last several years — especially weekly cribbage with John Varricchione and fishing trips with Mark Heinrich.

Tom Chase was also a special person in Tom’s life, as both a close friend and professional mentor.

Everyone who knew Tom will miss him. From Spaldings West Shore to Marco Island to UVM Hockey — and whenever a football game is airing — his spirit will be ever present.

And his work ethic and love for family will continue in his sons and his grandchildren.

Tom was fortunate to be able to visit with and bid farewell to family via video chat in his final days. A funeral Mass and burial will be held on Saturday, February 19, 2022, with attendance by immediate family only,

due to concerns about COVID-19. The service will be livestreamed. An outdoor celebration of Tom’s life will also take place during the summer.

Tom’s family wishes to thank the University of Vermont Medical Center, especially the ICU staff on McLure 4, the Dialysis Unit at Joy Drive, TLC Home Care and Dr. Frank Landry, whom Tom considered a good friend.

Those wishing to honor Tom’s memory are invited to donate to the University of Vermont Medical Center, the University of Vermont and Vermont Works for Women.

Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of the Ready Funeral Home South Chapel, 261 Shelburne Rd., Burlington. Please visit readyfuneral.com to place online condolences.

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NO TO MURAD

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I agree in general with Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George that humans should not be “thrown away” [“Sentence Served?

Prosecutor Sarah George Offers Chance at Parole to Man Who Murdered His Wife in 1993,” January 26].

However, she continues to demonstrate a lack of sympathy for victims and their families. The handling of the resentencing appears to have been questionable and sloppy. Why not let the legal system decide whether the sentence was just?

Amy Fitzgerald did not have any say in the matter when she was “thrown away.” If I may use a phrase popular with George, there is no “counterevidence” to that fact.

Steve Hall

FAIRFAX

INSULTING PORTRAYAL

I am grateful that Seven Days promotes Vermonters’ altruism, inclusivity and ingenuity. Your articles leave me joyful or astounded at the various miscreants they expose — sometimes both! Unfortunately, Mark Saltveit’s “How to Winterize Your Flatlander” [November 10, 2021] infuriated me.

A former Manhattan corporate marketer, I came to Vermont as a secondhome owner four decades ago. Since then, I have served on several nonprofit boards, worked as an assistant professor and fundraiser, and immersed myself in promoting statewide diversity and inclusion initiatives. In 2020, I relocated my consulting practice to Rutland, working with nonprofits along the East Coast.

For you to assert in [Feedback: Editor’s note, December 1] that Saltveit’s piece was “humorous” confirms that many Vermonters found it not humorous at all but, rather,

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I read [“Deciphering a Disease: An ALS Registry Could Help Find Environmental Risk Factors,” January 19] with interest.

In May of 2016, I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s — another neurodegenerative disease with no known cure.

According to “The Rise of Parkinson’s Disease,” an article in the bimonthly magazine American Scientist, research reveals that the rise of Parkinson’s in rural areas is likely elevated by the presence of the following: paraquat, rotenone and trichloroethylene. The first two are used in agricultural applications, while the latter is used in “washing away grease, cleaning silicon wafers, removing spots in dry cleaning.”

To the best of my knowledge, there is no coordinated effort to gather data to establish rates and clusters of Parkinson’s diagnoses in Vermont. While this research may not lead directly to a cure, the establishment of patterns can lead to evidence supporting the ban of harmful chemicals.

For example, “In Canada, investigators have found an almost perfect correlation between areas with the highest pesticide use and the highest rates of disease,” according to the book Ending Parkinson’s Disease: A Prescription for Action.

Furthermore, the “Netherlands is one of the few countries in the world where the rates of Parkinson’s disease are actually waning.” Research indicates a correlation of the wane with the Netherlands’ ban on paraquat.

Please know that while my concerns are specific to Parkinson’s, my efforts are also focused on the overall health of Vermont — its environment and its people.

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with powerful political connections and someone with no experience whatsoever.

She also accuses Gray of being controlled and manipulated by powerful men.

In reality, Gray has worked in the Washington office of Rep. Peter Welch — the very seat for which she is currently running. While male politicians often run on their record of military service abroad, Gray has served in many of these same global hot spots, from Haiti and the Congo to Nigeria and Iraq, leading humanitarian and human rights missions. Surely, time spent protecting the rights of local people in challenging international settings is also valuable experience for the next member of Vermont’s federal delegation?

When the only people with “experience,” as Proffitt narrowly defines it, are those already in positions of power, it creates insurmountable barriers to entry for women and people of color to be elected to office. Can we please stop questioning the motivations of women running for office and holding them to unattainable and contradictory standards?

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filled with animosity. Featuring such drivel in a progressive forum like Seven Days is incongruous with your inclusive brand and an insult to the intellectual firepower of your other writers. Plus, Saltveit’s infantile diatribe leaned heavily on scatology: How is it acceptable — ever — to make denigrating jokes about women’s breasts, let alone associate them with a bird whose name most children stop giggling about in kindergarten?

Perpetuating the myth that Vermonters are ignorant and hostile to newcomers is an affront to every effort under way for promoting Vermont’s economic growth.

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of police, and Mayor Miro Weinberger doesn’t want to bother to spend the money to look for a good one. It seems like the crime here is getting worse, and Murad doesn’t know how to handle it or what to do about it.

I’m all for the council to reopen the search for a different chief and hire the company to find a different one!

FILE

The fear around trafficking could be better monitored if there were laws that allowed sex workers to register and utilize state health care for work-related purposes. It would allow for there to be fluid communication that could protect clients and workers. It would promote communication between workers and law enforcement. The more we strip the stigma of sex work, which will happen with or without laws, the safer our state will be.

Tom Rogers

STOWE

A FULL-TIME JOB

Wouldn’t it be a better use of your valuable pages — and your donors’ dollars — to focus more on the contributions of those whose families, careers, friendships and overall health have thrived after moving here, rather than denigrating us with schoolyard insults?

Liz DiMarco Weinmann

RUTLAND

EXPERIENCE ISN’T EVERYTHING

I’m excited for Vermont to finally end its ignoble status as the only state never to send a woman to Washington, D.C., but I’m disappointed by the sexism the candidates for U.S. Congress have already experienced.

I was particularly surprised that one of the most sexist attacks so far against Lt. Gov. Molly Gray came from another woman in Mary Alice Proffitt’s recent letter [Feedback: “Anyone but Gray,” January 19]. Like most examples of sexism or racism, it is filled with hypocrisy and glaring contradictions. Proffitt somehow paints Gray as both a Washington insider

[Re “Vermont Sen. Becca Balint Announces Run for U.S. House,” December 13, 2021, online]: I’m voting for Becca Balint, Vermont Senate president pro tempore, in her 2022 campaign for U.S. Congress. Honestly, last spring I didn’t know who she was when I started following her on Instagram.

The Vermont citizen legislature is a part-time job, usually from January through May. Sen. Balint led the 2021 session, passing bills for housing, climate justice, voting by mail, broadband and COVID-19 relief!

But Sen. Balint appears to consider her job full time! On her Instagram posts, she documented her very busy 2021 summer and fall, giving speeches and traveling extensively across the state to meet with Vermonters and community leaders in business, government, the arts and education. She was listening, learning and setting priorities from the grassroots for the upcoming 2022 legislative session.

I support her extensive experience in working across the aisle, getting things done, working hard and enthusiastically going beyond what’s required.

Steph Holdridge

BURLINGTON

WEEK IN REVIEW

‘SLINGS AND ARROWS’

[Re From the Publisher: “Buckle Up,” January 26; Newcomb, January 19]: Thank you, deputy publisher Cathy Resmer, for your spot-on assessment of Tim Newcomb’s political cartoon of Lt. Gov. Molly Gray and Sens. Kesha Ram Hinsdale and Becca Balint riding in the car of my favorite Dem of all time, former governor Madeleine Kunin.

I’m sure Kunin was amused by its humor, considering some of the slings and arrows she had to dodge (i.e., Peter Freyne’s “Straddlin’ Madeleine,” for example) from political commentators and Jeff Danziger in particular. This seemed tame compared to that. And I believe that’s the point of the cartoon.

Democratic rep from New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is probably holding her sides laughing at this “mysoginistic, [sic] racist and ageist” illustration. What she’s seen so far? Sheesh.

I agree with Resmer that Gray and Ram Hinsdale need to get tough. Vermont politics may seem like a big deal, but it’s Pee-wee’s Playhouse compared to Washington, D.C. I wait to see what Balint has to say on the subject, but I suspect she’s had her chuckle and moved on. She’s got a race to run, after all.

Christopher Maloney

WASHINGTON

LAUGH IT OFF

I really liked Tim Newcomb’s cartoon [Newcomb, January 19]. It was funny, well drawn and true. When we are unable to laugh at ourselves, and at our public figures, we are in trouble.

Barbara Zucker

BURLINGTON

RAM HINSDALE DESERVES RESPECT

In “Buckle Up” [From the Publisher, January 26], Cathy Resmer pushes back on the negative response to Tim Newcomb’s political cartoon depicting Gov. Madeleine Kunin in a car with Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale and Sen. President Pro Tempore Becca Balint — all of whom are running for the seat being vacated by Rep. Peter Welch.

This cartoon suggests that none of the women is qualified to succeed him. It’s worth noting that Sen. Patrick Leahy was 34, a year younger than Ram Hinsdale, when he went to Washington, D.C. Most insidiously, it suggests that all Ram Hinsdale has going for her is a

healthy ego, the correct gender and attitude. In fact, she served in the Vermont House from 2009 to 2016, currently serves as a state senator and earned a master’s of public administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

This is hardly a case of running on gender, ego and attitude.

Resmer notes that “Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) had to put on a gas mask and flee from an angry mob in his last term in the U.S. House” and asks: If these three women are troubled by a cartoon, “how will they hold up in D.C.?”

Welch had to put on a gas mask because of lies, misinformation and disrespect for the laws of the land. We’ve seen that disrespect extend most vociferously toward progressive young women of color.

Ram Hinsdale is going to face far worse than Newcomb’s tart pen. She deserves respect, not active misrepresentation.

I suggest we lighten up on the accusations and judgment of every little thing we might not agree with. We’ve got bigger issues to solve.

Dan Cox

SHELBURNE

MULVANEY-STANAK RESPONDS

Above: Two Tim Newcomb cartoons, from 2022 and 2007, respectively Below: Llu Mulvaney-Stanak’s cartoon response to Newcomb

Kathryn Blume

CHARLOTTE

GOOD CALL

Cathy Resmer’s From the Publisher note “Buckle Up” [January 26] made the very best of a difficult situation. She shared the straightforward and purely news-based reasons behind the political cartoonist’s choices and the fact that unflattering caricatures are just part of the package. It was clear that these fit far better with the content of the cartoon than any of the misogyny, racism and ageism that Tim Newcomb was accused of playing into.

The title of the editorial and the comments about the environment in Washington, D.C., were also well chosen.

Carl Wermer

ESSEX JUNCTION

CARTOONIST’S JOB

I applaud and support your inclusion of Tim Newcomb’s recent cartoon referencing the candidates vying for election

as a member of Congress [Newcomb, January 19].

Political cartoons have always poked, prodded and oftentimes insulted most everyone running for a political office.

This is part of the political process, along with open town meeting-style gatherings and rallies. Anyone who knows Newcomb would say this is just in keeping with his profession, as he is not a chauvinist, racist or bully but rather ... a cartoonist.

Whoa, y’all added another layer to this Tim Newcomb cartoon debate [From the Publisher: “Buckle Up,” January 26]. The women running for U.S. Congress are tough.

You don’t make it this far in Vermont politics without tough skin. They can handle a joke, and they aren’t too sensitive (eek, another sexist overtone).

My cartoon to the editor [Feedback, January 26] needed the blatant caption because the joke shouldn’t be the candidates’ social identities. It should be about their records and their roles (or lack of them) leading on Vermont issues.

Rib Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale and President Pro Tem Becca Balint on their records or unfulfilled promises.

Rib Lt. Gov. Molly Gray on her experience and voting record.

The online version of your publisher note dusted off Newcomb cartoons that infantilized officials equally. They all referenced the officials’ experience issues, not ages.

In 2022, I’d hope an award-winning political cartoonist, and his editors, could do better than infantilizing female state leaders by putting them in car seats and using their first names, and by calling Sen. Ram Hinsdale’s qualification “attitude” — a dismissive characteristic often assigned to women of color. This is really important to do better on. What went to print shows readers that the literal characterization of women, BIPOC folks and young people as stereotypes is OK — it is not.

Newcomb is relying on tired tropes.

Update your snark, and we’ll all get the badly needed laugh we need during this campaign season.

I am so excited about this race for Congress. Let’s get into it on the content of the race and what’s at stake for Vermont.

Llu Mulvaney-Stanak

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Spelling it out in the Love & Marriage Issue podcast, “COUPLES THERAPY IN SEVEN WORDS,” it wouldn’t surprise us if the South Burlington spouses enjoyed a good word game. They spoke with Chris Farnsworth about helping Vermonters find — and maintain — love (page 38).

Sometimes even the best therapy can’t stop a relationship from ending. But that’s not always a bad thing, writes Jordan Adams. In Vergennes, Sarah Lyman runs PURPLCOUCH, a new business that offers online resources to demystify and destigmatize divorce, reframing the experience in a positive light (page 30).

Lyman should consider hiring Vermont writer KIMBERLY HARRINGTON as a guest speaker. Her latest laugh-out-loud collection of vignettes and essays, But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits, isn’t quite a tell-all. Still, Harrington “dissects some of the more painful moments in her relationship with an unsentimental precision that will make your face hot,” interviewer Chelsea Edgar writes (page 46).

In Bristol, ALEX BELTH AND EMILY SHAPIRO offer a different take on marriage. In their new audiobook, Here I Are: Anatomy of a Marriage, the couple reveals how they’ve navigated their relationship around the incursion of an uninvited third party: Shapiro’s chronic illness (page 48).

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nless you live under a rock or have carved out an existence blissfully free from social media, you’re probably familiar with Wordle. A twist on the guess-thecolor game Mastermind, the daily online puzzle is a global phenomenon; last week, the New York Times paid its creator more than $1 million to add Wordle to the company’s game collection.

The beauty of Wordle is its simplicity. You get six chances to guess one five-letter word, once per day. That’s it. The puzzles are effective brainteasers but rarely diabolically difficult. The addictive distraction has become part of the daily routines of millions. I play it over morning coffee to hot-wire my synapses for the day.

For this issue’s cover, we reverse engineered a love-themed Wordle, a process that was exponentially harder than the game itself. The idea was to use the board to tell a love story in six words. Because here’s a fun fact: Wordle itself is a love story.

Brooklyn software engineer Josh Wardle invented Wordle about six months ago as a game to play with his partner, Palak Shah, who was obsessed with the New York Times’ online Spelling Bee game. He had no designs on becoming popular or a millionaire.

Yet Wordle will soon take its place alongside Spelling Bee, the daily crossword and other Times puzzles because Wardle did something thoughtful for someone he loved. How cool is that?

We couldn’t tell you whether Bruce Chalmer and Judy Alexander (pictured) are Wordlers. But, given the name of their

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SEX THERAPISTS ISRAEL AND CATHIE HELFAND

claim to have saved hundreds of marriages while helping their clients become more sexually comfortable, compatible and

communicative. Israel, who’s working on a book about his sometimes bizarre career, shared tantalizing tales with Ken Picard (page 33).

If the Helfands’ clients wanted to enhance their marriages with an intimatewear upgrade, they could always head to L’IVRESSE LINGERIE in Essex Junction, where owner Nicolette Baron specializes in practical and provocative undies for all body types (page 36).

Finally, love is all about the little things, and the fastest way to many a heart is through the tummy. Food writer Melissa Pasanen highlights THREE SMALL PLEASURES — from chocolates to shrimp bisque to gelato — to savor with a sweetie on Valentine’s Day (page 40).

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arah Lyman hates the word “divorcé(e).” In her view, it has negative connotations, and it doesn’t do justice to the learning and growth that happens during a marriage. To replace it, she coined the term “marriage alumni,” and she doesn’t care if it elicits an eye roll or two.

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such as TED Talks and Spotify playlists.

PurplCouch provides its students with the tools necessary to sort out the complicated process while taking a broad look at the culture of divorce.

“There isn’t the structural support around divorce the way there is around weddings,” Lyman explains in the introductory video. “It’s really profound loss.

But, unlike when you grieve the death of a loved one, no one brings you casseroles.”

PurplCouch emerged from her own experience, she told Seven Days. When she started the divorce process a few years ago, she felt lost, confused and alone.

“I spent a lot of time googling,” Lyman said. Wading through search results that often offered conflicting advice, she knew there had to be a better way.

With a background in communications and archaeology, Lyman has no training or expertise in divorce herself. She works as the communications manager for Farm to Institution New England, which gets local foods into schools, hospitals, correctional facilities and other institutions.

A sort of Nick Fury of divorce, Lyman assembled her own version of the Avengers — a team of professionals to guide PurplCouch students through the major steps in the process. She conducted video interviews with local experts, including financial planner and certified divorce financial analyst Amanda Peden; family therapist and diversity, equity and inclusion consultant Tabitha Moore; tax adviser Keri Brown; psychologist and anxiety specialist Paul Foxman; and divorce attorney Nanci Smith.

With a price tag of $329, Fresh Start is designed to be taken at the user’s own pace.

Videos are sequenced but can be watched in any order. Though many online courses require students to keep a workbook or

journal of some kind, Lyman keeps hers homework-free.

“I feel like your divorce paperwork, your financial worksheets — that’s homework enough,” she said.

Early in the course, Lyman details her own divorce story, including a major aha moment as she rebuilt her life postseparation. Among many things, she needed a new couch. After browsing palatable, neutral pieces of which her ex would have approved, she realized that she didn’t have to compromise on color or texture. She picked a purple velour sofa, which inspired her new venture’s name.

As the course progresses, it delves into some of the more confusing aspects of divorce. In the section on law, Smith lays out four basic forms the process can take.

Easiest and cheapest is the DIY version, or “kitchen table” divorce, best for people without complex assets or property to disentangle. Mediation brings a neutral third party to the process. At the other end of the spectrum is litigation, which plays out in the court system and is generally the messiest and most adversarial option.

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Mental health is a central concern at PurplCouch. In a video called “Benefits & Barriers to Therapy,” Lyman recalls a common attitude she used to share: “I had always thought therapy was like the yellow diesel handle at the gas pumps. I’m glad it exists, but it’s, like, for other people, right?”

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Foxman told Seven Days that people tend to think of the toll divorce takes on children as “an acute stress that happens at a particular point in time.” That’s a myth, in his view. “What affects children most about divorce is the ongoing co-parent relationship,” he said.

Founder and director of the Vermont Center for Anxiety Care, Foxman contributed videos to PurplCouch with titles such as “Styles of Co-parenting,” “Dos & Don’ts for Parenting After Divorce,” and “Dating & Stepfamilies.” In “Benefits & Barriers to Therapy,” he notes that many people think that by seeking therapy, they’re acknowledging that they alone are the problem. “[But] in psychology, we don’t think in terms of good guys and bad guys,” he continues.

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srael Helfand isn’t easily shocked by his clients’ sexual proclivities, but he was somewhat taken aback by the district attorney who got aroused by dressing as an adult baby. The DA’s wife was far more surprised when she found her husband sprawled on their bed, wearing nothing but a man-size diaper and sucking a pacifier.

“She freaked. There was no conversation when they met that this was one of his sexual kinks,” Helfand said. “She also felt really betrayed. If he was keeping that a secret, what else was there?”

Helfand, 67, is a certified sex therapist and a licensed marriage and family therapist. Since 1983, he and his wife, Cathie, 68, a licensed psychotherapist and marriage and family counselor, have been in practice together serving primarily affluent couples — doctors, CEOs, celebrities, professional athletes & — who are on the verge of marital meltdown. Their clients’ problems typically arise from infidelity, sexual dysfunction, or complications such as a bi-curious spouse or an unusual fetish.

The Helfands regularly host an intensive three-day counseling retreat called Marriage Quest on their 66-acre property in Cabot. Couples travel from all over the world and spend thousands of dollars on their services. Over the years, by the Helfands’ account, they’ve saved hundreds of marriages and helped spouses become more sexually comfortable, compatible and communicative.

Now, after nearly four decades in practice, Israel Helfand has compiled highlights from his career in a memoir, which he plans to self-publish by his 69th birthday. He shared some of his more colorful tales with Seven Days, including recollections of his path to becoming a sex therapist.

Starting sex therapy can be stressful.

Helfand recalled one woman who smoked crack cocaine in his bathroom right before her counseling session because, as she explained, she needed to be more “present” for the discussion.

Another client, a well-to-do physician, traveled to Vermont with his wife and surreptitiously booked a room for his

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mistress in the same hotel. All weekend, the doctor would tell his spouse he had to attend medical rounds whenever he wanted to sneak into his girlfriend’s room one floor below.

“We found that out afterwards because, unbeknownst to us, [his wife] had hired a private detective to track him,” Helfand said.

Helfand’s stories offer more than a

voyeuristic peek into the life of a professional sex therapist. The counselor is an open book about his own sex life, too, including the formation of what he calls his “core erotic theme.”

Helfand attributes that phrase to Jack Morin, a late psychologist and author of the 1995 book The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Passion and Fulfillment. It refers to each person’s unique

sexual triggers — what turns us on and gets us off.

Understanding the origins of clients’ core erotic themes can go a long way toward helping them resolve their sexual complications, Helfand said. That’s especially true when their theme conflicts with values learned from their parents and community.

Helfand has worked with many evangelical ministers and their spouses. One reason they come to him, he said, is that he’s Jewish, and they assume he’ll be less judgmental than a fellow Christian.

These couples typically have trouble reconciling their religious morals with their sexual fantasies and predilections.

Helfand has found that the act of pegging — in which a woman anally penetrates a man with a strap-on dildo — is remarkably common among his conservative clientele.

“Our core erotic theme in life is often developed by the time we’re 16 years old,” Helfand said. “For many people, it doesn’t change throughout the course of their life … And to some degree, that’s the beginnings of my story, too.”

Helfand received mixed messages about sexuality growing up in the 1960s in New York City, where his father owned an electrical supply store in the heart of Spanish Harlem. As a child, Helfand often accompanied his father to work, where he saw signs of the city’s teeming sex trade.

“From a young age, I saw prostitutes and bums, women at 5:30 in the morning laying on street corners in their own urine,” he remembered. “I witnessed girls going from store to store [offering] $5 blow jobs. That was a lot of my early childhood.”

Though Helfand’s family wasn’t devout, his parents had their own Sabbath ritual of sorts.

“Every Friday night … was predictable,” he said. “After a family dinner, the two of them would excuse themselves and go to the bedroom. We learned to leave them alone … for their conjugal rites.”

For years, Helfand struggled to reconcile two opposing views of sexuality. What he called “the bright side,” or the romantic version of sex, was modeled by his parents, for whom love was the only legitimate aphrodisiac. The “dark side” was exemplified by the prostitutes, pornography and COMING CLEAN SEVEN DAYS FEBRUARY 9-16, 2022

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Helfand’s confusion only grew in his teen years. In his seventh-grade homeroom class at Lincoln High School in Yonkers, N.Y., he experienced the cognitive dissonance of being simultaneously repelled and aroused by the sexual antics that occurred in the back of the room.

Young Helfand sat in front of a girl named Doreen, on whom he had a crush.

During class, Doreen would let two other boys fondle her breasts and put their hands up her skirt.

“As you can imagine, I didn’t do too well in class,” Helfand said. “What was going on behind me was way more interesting than what was going on in front of me.”

Helfand had heard that teen couples went to the roof of the high school to hook up. One day he went up to see for himself, only to find those same two boys having sex with Doreen, the girl he longed to date.

“I was fighting off a hard-on while thinking to myself, This is so fucked up! But I couldn’t stop watching,” he said. “This is where I learned that the brain can have a different message than the body.”

Helfand met his first wife, Colleen, in college and took his first sex therapy course in graduate school at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. Though most of his fellow students were “privileged white kids from Westport,” he said, he also met some nontraditional students, such as a sex worker and the female assistant to Al Goldstein, cofounder of Screw magazine.

In the mid-’70s, Helfand wrote his master’s thesis on sexually open marriages.

He and Colleen had married and begun experimenting with multiple sex partners, following the advice of the 1972 best seller Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples by Nena and George O’Neill.

In a graduate counseling course, Helfand met his now-wife, Cathie, who was herself married at the time. It wasn’t long before the two couples became friends, then sexually intimate.

However, Helfand soon discovered that an open marriage could be a double-edged sword.

“I will never, ever forget walking by the room where they were having sex and hearing the sounds of lovemaking — specifically, my wife very much enjoying herself,” he said. “It tore my heart out. It was one of the most painful experiences of my life and kind of slapped me across the face.”

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fidelity to “marital conservation.” Though he still considers himself sexually progressive, he doesn’t advise open marriages to most clients.

“Marriage is difficult enough,” he said. “Polyamory is difficult to the second power.”

Helfand’s efforts to salvage his first marriage through intensive, weekendlong counseling sessions ultimately failed, but the sessions became a prototype for Marriage Quest. When Cathie’s own marriage ended, she and Helfand reconnected; the two were married in 1985.

The Helfands opened a counseling practice together in Danbury, Conn. Occasionally, Helfand’s clients wanted to do more on his couch than just talk. Among them was a Penthouse centerfold model who repeatedly called him from parties or hotel orgies, asking him to “come rescue” her. (He never did.)

One night, Helfand recalled, the model showed up at his office at 9:30 p.m., knowing that he often worked late and would be alone. Wearing a fur coat and nothing else, she sat down on Helfand’s couch, removed the fur and offered herself to him. “‘You’re a beautiful woman, but would you please put that back on? I’m not going to have sex with you,’” Helfand recalled telling her. While he wouldn’t compromise

his marriage or professional license for easy nooky, he admitted that the temptation was strong — as if he were back on that high school roof, fighting off an erection.

Helfand rarely faces such conundrums anymore, he said, in part because he works so closely with his wife. Even after years of working as a sex therapist, though, he

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still sometimes refers clients to a different practitioner when they have proclivities that make him uneasy, such as being turned on by blood or extreme piercings.

If Helfand is bothered by some kinks, it’s not for lack of exposure. To become a certified sex therapist, he had to undergo Sexual Attitude Reassessment, or SAR. In these intense group trainings, therapists are exposed to sex acts, imagery and even live demonstrations — masturbation,

fisting, piercings — that challenge their beliefs and comfort levels.

Among the more interesting SAR classes Helfand attended was one involving a dominatrix, who requested a volunteer from the audience with no previous experience with bondage. Helfand didn’t volunteer, but he found the experience eye-opening. “A good dominatrix will make you a true believer,” he said.

Helfand said he has no professional regrets, but he has made mistakes. Many years ago, for instance, he worked in Connecticut with a male client who was deeply troubled by deriving sexual delight from nipple stimulation. At the time, Helfand used a practice called aversion therapy to “get [the client] off his nipples and on to something else.”

Today, Helfand said, he’d never take such an approach. Instead, he would help his client feel more comfortable with how he experienced pleasure.

As long as no one is being harmed, Helfand said, he tends to be nonjudgmental about how consenting adults get off. Despite his occasional squeamishness about blood and piercings, he added, “I try to be nonjudgmental even if it does hurt.” m

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aty Abbott pulled the neck of her top aside to flash her bra strap in the showroom of L’ivresse Lingerie on a late-January evening. “I have on this bra that I love,” Abbott explained to store owner Nicolette Baron, who immediately identified the Marie Jo style with molded cups and fabric circles along the straps. Abbott wasn’t sure of her size, but Baron eyeballed it and fetched the favorite style and a few other bras for her to try on.

“Everybody who has owned that bra has that interaction with me,” Baron said, demonstrating that the bra’s straps can convert to a cross-back style, adding versatility to its comfort. “It’s just one that fits really well.”

Baron, 37, opened L’ivresse in the Essex Experience at the end of last year. Her goal is to offer high-end intimate wear that performs as beautifully as it looks, along with an attentive fitting service that she felt was lacking in the region’s marketplace.

L’ivresse — a French word meaning “intoxication” — caters to bodies and bearings of all types, including gendernonconforming customers. The boutique sells bras in cup sizes from A to H and beyond, and Baron eschews brands and styles whose sizes are limited to clients of diminutive stature. Her typical customer wears a 36B or bigger, she said.

The evening a reporter visited, Baron pointed out a bright-red bra with a sophisticated swirl pattern on the cups from PrimaDonna, a Belgian brand known for its support.

“It’s also a very sexy piece, and I carry it in all sizes,” Baron said, noting that the company makes band sizes above 38, which is “tough to find in a pretty bra.

“And it’s tough to find well-made,” she went on, “so it’s really important to me to have more sizes, and that’s what my customer looks like, as well.”

L’ivresse carries specialty bra brands, primarily from Europe, including Maison Lejaby, Simone Pérèle and Conturelle.

Those cost upwards of $100. For less high-tech gear, such as basic, locally made panties from Samaavar, prices start at $28.

Customers can find butt cheek-baring lacy hot pants from the popular Italian brand Cosabella for $34.50 and a matching bralette for $55.

Beyond bras, L’ivresse shoppers will discover a smattering of silky nightgowns

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and soft-fabric sleepwear, selections from Vermont-based and internationally revered Commando, Explore Designs kimonos created in Burlington, and Soak lingerie wash. Baron favors socially and environmentally conscious companies and sustainable fabrics, such as Swiss cotton Calida underwear. The Okko line of no-frills undergarments would work for customers who need extra support and padding after surgery or during gender transition, Baron suggested.

With Valentine’s Day approaching, the shop’s racks held an array of bra-andpanties sets in crimson, black, beige and leopard print. A collection from Thistle and Spire included seductive bodysuits in sheer mesh. A dominatrix style for $98 had metal rings along the torso, a plunging neckline and embroidered tigers facing off over the breasts.

From the start, Baron planned to mix the practical with the provocative by carrying “naughty pieces” — such as crotchless panties — in an upscale setting, she said. “I really wanted it to be an elegant space, so if somebody wants to go that

direction, they can, and if somebody wants the supportive, everyday bra, they can get that here, as well.”

Baron carries a few simple T-shirts and boxer briefs for men. But L’ivresse focuses on products for women and their perennial struggle with proper sizing. Baron

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said she has seen too many women with back pain or straps that cut into shoulders wearing C cups when they need a triple D. “People aren’t aware of what a fitting can do for them,” she said. “For me, it’s incredibly rewarding being able to have that conversation.”

Tiffany Fahl brought her 14-year-old daughter, Alexxus Blow, to L’ivresse late

last month to get a better-fitting bra. “I’m not sure what her size is,” Fahl told Baron.

“That’s my job,” Baron responded with a smile.

Later in the fitting room, she explained to Blow, “A lot of times, when it feels tight in the band, it’s because you’re filling out the cup.”

Blow settled on a Berlei sports bra (the brand that tennis star Serena Williams wears) and a Cosabella bralette, which she deemed so comfortable that she wore it out of the store.

“This has been the best experience for her,” Fahl said, chronicling their failed attempts at shopping online. “We’ve done the Amazon buy and return ... I’ve gotten to know the people at the UPS Store.”

In-person bra shopping is often lacking, too, she added. “There’s not a lot of people who will fit you anymore,” Fahl said. “The fitting is such a big deal for this area.”

Baron, a native of Jeffersonville, attended the University of Vermont and spent three semesters in France.

Enrolled in an out-of-the-way art school where nobody spoke English,

she learned French by reading Harry Potter books in the language. While studying installation design in France, she worked in a costume studio and did her thesis on the way people hide and reveal themselves.

“Clothing, everything that we wear, from our underwear to the hat, is all a piece of our identity,” she said. “It’s either how we choose to portray our identity or how we want others to see our identity.

It’s a very, very personal way of doing that. And that extends to the undergarments.”

After graduating from UVM, Baron worked for several years on Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace & in two now-closed retail operations: women’s clothing store Sweet Lady Jane and lingerie boutique Aristelle. Baron also designed costumes for Burlington-based Spielpalast Cabaret.

Before opening L’ivresse, she worked in customer service for a web design company and operated a booth at the Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace in Burlington. Shoppers who knew her from Church Street would constantly ask

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“So I took all the savings that I thought I was going to buy a house with and opened the store,” she said with a chuckle.

The Essex Experience location provided ample parking and ease of access, she said. L’ivresse moved into half of the former Van Heusen clothing store, which was split into two spaces, one already occupied by the Salt & Bubbles wine bar and market. Baron, with the help of family

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members, built out the space herself with salvaged and vintage furnishings, including mannequins in all shapes and sizes — correctly representing her clientele.

A giant velvet portrait of a tiger, procured from Catland Vintage in Winooski, hangs over the antique glass display case that serves as the front counter. A candy jar of French condoms, printed with phrases such as “Donneur D’orgasme” (“Orgasm Donor” in English) and “Je Suis Celibataire” (“I’m Single”), sits on top of it.

Baron decked out each of the spacious

fitting rooms in a different theme: One has baroque artwork and an ornate floral chandelier; another is a “tropical paradise.”

“In the luxury industry, I think people don’t really think about it a lot, but there are a lot of people with mobility issues that need a specialized store,” she said.

“It’s part of the reason why the fitting rooms are so big and you can get a stroller and you can get a wheelchair through my entire store. It’s very much an intentional design.”

Well-constructed lingerie is an investment, Baron acknowledged, but a worthwhile one.

“Bras are so close to your body,” she said. “It’s the first thing you put on. It’s the thing that links so much to your confidence.” Whenever she dons a matching set of bra and panties, it makes her feel stronger, she said.

Abbott attested to that experience with her Marie Jo bra. “The first time I wore it, I felt more confident,” she said, as she purchased one of the styles Baron suggested. “It was the first time that I actually bought a nice bra.” m

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was having an upbeat day overall, happy with the state of romance in the world, when Bob Epstein lowered the boom. “If you look at relationships, very, very few of them, percentage-wise, work over a long period of time,” the retired teacher and certified life coach told me over the phone. “We always hear that number tossed out: 50 percent of marriages end in failure,” he continued.

“Yeah, well, out of the other 50 percent, how many of those are actually happy marriages?”

While the sound that came out of my mouth was something akin to “Hmm, interesting,” what actually ran through my brain was: All love fades, and we’re all going to die alone.

Before I could reach for the whiskey and put on a Leonard Cohen record, Epstein clarified that he wasn’t trying to bring me down. Rather, he wanted to highlight the importance of resources such as the “Couples Therapy in Seven Words” podcast, on which he and his wife were guests in 2020.

Hosted by South Burlington couple Bruce Chalmer and Judy Alexander, the podcast grapples with some of the thorniest issues facing people in the eternal quest to find and maintain love. Whether Chalmer and Alexander are talking with Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine and his wife about love in the time of COVID-19 or quizzing a psychologist and fourth-degree karate black belt on using self-defense to combat trauma, they bring everything back to their “seven words”: Be kind, don’t panic and have faith.

A couples therapist for almost 30 years,

Chalmer, 70, had a book published in 2020 called Reigniting the Spark: Why Stable Relationships Lose Intimacy and How to Get It Back. That became the seed of the podcast.

“I had been doing some videos by myself, just stuff to promote the ideas I was getting ready to put out in my book,” Chalmer explained, seated beside Alexander, 64, on their couch.

“And I thought about how good she is at being on camera and how she has this voice that I fell in love with.”

Alexander is an educator and former director of education at Temple Sinai in South Burlington. Chalmer hoped that her experience, coupled with their natural chemistry from 18 years of marriage, would help balance out his more clinical nature. They gave the podcast a go.

Alexander smiled at her husband as he praised her voice. Their casual affection is evident in the video versions of the podcasts, posted to their website.

“The podcast reflects our relationship in some ways,” Alexander said. “And, you know, we’re not world-renowned or famous people.”

Their listener count has been increasing, though, she said, “and I think that’s both because of Bruce’s expertise and because I’ve had so much experience with relationships, especially those involving children and family dynamics.”

The podcast’s early episodes focused on chapters of Chalmer’s book. Topics included balancing stability with intimacy and navigating political divides in a marriage. For the fifth episode, Chalmer and Alexander brought on their first guest,

Bruce Chalmer and Judy Alexander

self-described “Orthodox sex guru” Bat Sheva Marcus, and the podcast found its final form.

“That’s definitely one of our most downloaded episodes,” Chalmer said, grinning beneath a snow-white goatee.

“Well, sex always grabs the attention,” Alexander added with a smirk. “But I also think people liked hearing us interact with other experts.”

Indeed, Chalmer and Alexander thrive when paired with friends, with

fellow clinicians and experts, and even with strangers. The couple uses a service called PodMatch to connect them with ideal guests.

They didn’t need any help booking Bob and Susan Epstein, both retired teachers and certified life coaches, for episode 11.

Susan grew up with Alexander and stayed close to her over the years; the couples often have dinner together.

Nonetheless, Susan admitted, when her old friends asked her and her husband to

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“But they make you feel so comfortable,” she continued. “They don’t go over what they’re going to talk about at all. They just start talking to you — which is great, because everything is spontaneous.”

The expertise Chalmer and Alexander bring to their podcast is undeniable, Susan said, but she believes that their chemistry is what makes it great listening.

“There’s a Jewish word called bashert, which means ‘meant to be,’” she said. “And that’s them. They have such a wonderful marriage, but they also have experience and wisdom. They’re not kids talking about relationships; they’re people who work in the field but are open to new things and perspectives.”

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He suggests that couples approach their problems “from the orientation that the universe is fundamentally good.

If a partner hurts the other, they have to acknowledge that and discover the things that lead to that pain. That’s having faith in each other. And you acquire it by practicing it with each other.”

Alexander patted her husband’s arm, a knowing gleam in her eye. Chalmer grinned and shook his head.

“See?” he said. “This is why she’s the perfect cohost: She knows when I’m on a rant.”

“It’s about checking each other,” Alexander replied diplomatically. “That’s why I said the podcast reflects us rather than affects us.”

The two exchanged meaningful Enjoy the Wedding of Your Dreams glances, appearing momentarily to forget about the nosy reporter and indulge in the silent communication that longtime lovers develop.

Thinking about those divorce rates again, I recalled an episode of “Couples Therapy” in which Chalmer and Alexander role-played. To illustrate the concept of being honest with your partner, they playacted the biblical couple Abraham and Sarah, depicting them as older but still sexually active.

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Perhaps sensing my need for hope in the face of modern love’s travails, Bob laughed. “I don’t think that’s necessarily what Bruce and Judy are trying to do,” he said. “They want to get couples talking — being proactive rather than reactive.”

To illustrate those proactive tactics, Susan recalled a segment that she asked Chalmer to edit out of her and Bob’s episode. Bob had revealed that, at the height of the pandemic, he and Susan sometimes tried to keep things exciting on the home front by spending a night in another room of their house. They called it “going to the hotel room.”

“When he said that, I went, ‘Oh, God, Bob! My mother is going to hear this!’”

Susan said.

Embarrassed, she pleaded with Chalmer to cut the exchange. Chalmer politely pushed back, saying it was his favorite part of the interview.

“He loved that it showed us as an older couple still having an active sex life,” she said. “And he was right!”

I asked Chalmer whether he thought the podcast could help a couple reignite their relationship.

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dark-chocolate shell into the rich whiskeyinfused ganache made with Vermont heavy cream sealed the deal. The chocolates offer brightness grounded by fruity and pleasantly bitter notes with a soft, heady center, just like the journey of love.

All of Farmhouse Chocolates’ truffles, bars and chocolate-enrobed caramels are made with certified organic, fair-trade dark chocolate. “We do dark and darker,” said Eliza La Rocca, 36, who co-owns the Bristol company with her husband, Erlé LaBounty, 40.

That theme carries through at multiple levels in their Darkest Hearts seasonal offering.

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Cutesy heart-shaped foods abound on Valentine’s Day. These anatomically correct(ish) veined and valved pairs of filled hearts from Farmhouse Chocolates caught my attention for their ironic nod to the annual heart bandwagon.

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he idiom “love at first sight” is largely a chimera — more myth than reality.

“Love at first bite” is a more common experience.

I remember the anticipatory tingle when I first saw vibrant fuchsia raspberry sorbet ribboning out of Shy Guy Gelato’s machine on social media. My inaugural mouthful shone with pure fruit flavor, confirming that I would embark upon a long-term relationship with the velvety frozen confection.

By contrast, the first time I met my husband, I was not the least bit interested in him, nor he in me. It took us more than two years to meander toward a first date and another seven years to get married, but we’ll celebrate our 37th Valentine’s Day this month.

We’re not big on gifts, but we usually manage to do something delicious to mark the holiday: a spread of sushi in front of the fireplace or an array of Vermont cheeses (heart-shaped Champlain Valley Creamery triple crème!), nuts, fruit and crusty bread with a good bottle of wine.

Sometimes we even remember to buy cards for each other.

Valentine’s Day celebrations often involve sharing food and drink we love with those we love. They also frequently involve last-minute, frenzied planning.

It’s not too late — yet. Here are three small pleasures and one romantic story to inspire to your Valentine’s celebration.

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After more than 35 years in the restaurant and bar business, EMILY ETESSE is applying all she’s learned to her new EMILY’S BAR & BISTRO in Waitsfield’s Village Square Shopping Center. The casual, fullservice spot opened on January 18 with a small menu of comfort food — “a local’s local bar,” in Etesse’s words.

Emily’s took over the space at 5081 Main Street most recently occupied by Stoke Ramen Bar, which closed in December 2021. Etesse, 51, said she plans to do everything herself: tend bar, cook and serve. “I wouldn’t call myself a chef,” she said. “I’m a one-woman show.”

Etesse’s restaurant career started when she was 14 in her hometown of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She has since worked in the hospitality industry from Burlington to Lake Tahoe to Baja California, Mexico. She moved to the Mad River Valley in 2000 and raised her two sons there, working for about a decade as a lead bartender at Sugarbush Resort.

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and Wagyu beef pigs in a blanket. “I don’t care what I serve as long as I serve pigs in a blanket,” Etesse said with a laugh.

She also offers one “big dish” daily, such as lasagna or goulash.

Emily’s is open Friday through Tuesday from 11:30 a.m. until close of the bar; food is served until 5:30 p.m. Don’t expect fancy specialty cocktails; do expect cold cans of Lawson’s Finest Liquids, handed over with a warm smile from the owner.

“My specialty is guest experience,” Etesse said.

“This was my dream.”

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Boston accent, thanks to new executive chef ERIC BUONAGURIO, 31. He made the move from Massachusetts in early December 2021, three years after he fell in love with Vermont while hiking the Long Trail.

Among the items on his fully revamped menu are roasted bone marrow; steamed mussels with lobster broth, Thai basil

and saffron; and ricotta gnocchi with brownbutter cream, seasonal vegetables, pine nuts and Honey Nut Cheerios foam.

Asked which foods pair well with Cork’s extensive roster of natural wines, Buonagurio said, “The beauty is that there’s no boundaries.

I can do Asian; I can do Italian. The sky’s the limit.”

He even serves doggy pot pies, turning scraps that would otherwise be composted into snacks for customers’ canines — and garnishing them with a Milk-bone, of course.

The recycling reflects his focus on sustainability, Buonagurio said, as does his local sourcing; he’s looking forward to getting back in the woods for foraging season. His goal is to own a farm eventually with an on-site diner.

Buonagurio spent 13 years in the Boston restaurant scene, working at Parla and for celebrity chef Jason Santos, among others.

He recently oversaw All Day Hospitality’s four restaurants: Ward 8, Ciao Roma, Bodega Canal, and Tony & Elaine’s. In 2018, he won the first Annual Boston’s Best Meatball Contest.

“I crushed,” he said with a laugh, “which is great, because I’m Italian.

I couldn’t wait to tell my grandpa.”

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— as much as chocolate can look — like a real heart,” La Rocca said. “The name is also suggestive of darker, sensual pleasures, if one likes. I think dark and light, intense and playful are all much closer and connected than perhaps we think.”

The anatomical hearts also “reflect our own sensibility around Valentine’s Day,” La Rocca said. “We don’t take it too seriously.”

The couple first met in 2010 at a Woodstock restaurant where La Rocca was working and LaBounty, a New England Culinary Institute graduate, had previously cooked. Their relationship was not quite love at first sight — at least not on La Rocca’s side.

She remembers thinking, “He’s kind of funny, he’s short, and he keeps staring at me.” LaBounty, however, said he was immediately intrigued by “the new girl” at the restaurant. It only took until their second date for La Rocca to catch up. “I was lovestruck,” she said.

The two are very different. “He lived in a cabin in Vermont without electricity until he was 13,” La Rocca said. “I grew up in the New Jersey suburbs.” But they bonded through their intense work ethic and love of good food, and “we make each other laugh,” she said.

Many Vermont independent and specialty stores sell their year-round line of chocolates, but the Darkest Hearts are available only online or at their Bristol factory store. They offered them last year for the first time, though with a different filling and in sets of three instead of the current pair. “That really messed with people,” La Rocca said with a laugh. “They had to decide if they were going to share the third one or fight over it. It was like a social experiment.”

SHRIMP MEETS CHEF

Vermont shrimp bisque, $16 for 24 ounces, Sweet Sound Aquaculture, Charlotte, vermontshrimp.com

On a recent freezing, windy Saturday afternoon, I was nearly blown away at Earthkeep Farmcommon, formerly named Nordic Farm, on the crest of Route 7 in Charlotte. I was there to pick up my order of Vermont shrimp bisque made with crustaceans raised in the property’s old calf barn.

I was tempted to join the shrimp in their 80-degree saltwater tanks but instead dashed home to heat up my frozen bisque with a good splash of halfand-half. It was delicious, with a sweetness to balance the oceanic brine and deep shrimpy flavor. We dined happily that night on bowls of the rich soup, 42

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alternating spoonfuls with bites of a fresh baguette and a simple green salad with a mustard vinaigrette. It was the perfect light — but indulgent — supper for two, ideal for a cozy and romantic night in.

Prior to the pandemic, seafood farmer John Brawley sold most of his Pacific white shrimp, shells and heads intact, to local restaurants. Due to sharp swings in demand since March 2020, he’s added more direct-to-consumer items, including

the bisque. I ordered it on the Sweet Sound Aquaculture website, but it’s also for sale at Lantman’s Market in Hinesburg and the Vermont Food Collaborative in New Haven. Look for it in more retail outlets soon.

Brawley, 55, partnered with Joe Buley, chef-owner of Joe’s Kitchen at Screamin’ Ridge Farm in Montpelier, to create the soup. The result successfully conveys “the essence of the entire shrimp,” Brawley said.

Buley said he aimed for a classic French-style bisque but added a few tricks of his own. He roasts the Vermont shrimp with heads and shells on until they turn golden brown and then simmers them with caramelized fennel, onions, carrots and tomato paste before straining out all the solids. The gluten-free and dairyfree soup (unless you add dairy at home) is thickened with rice and scented with fresh tarragon.

The chef recommends adding a splash of cognac or anise-flavored Pernod while heating the bisque. To elevate it even more, he suggests garnishing bowls with a little whipped cream, freshly chopped tarragon and a sprinkle of chile flakes. “Not enough to make you sweat,” Buley said with a laugh. “Your date will do that.”

PASSION FOR PINTS

Shy Guy Gelato, $10 a pint, Burlington, 355-2320, shyguygelato.com

I’m not the only one planning to order pints of Shy Guy Gelato for Valentine’s Day. Charlotte shrimp farmer John Brawley and his girlfriend, Liz Walker, are serious fans, too. Their favorite trio is salted maple, hazelnut, and the impossibly smooth and creamy (but vegan!) dark chocolate sorbet.

Although several local ice cream makers now offer winter pint preorders, Shy Guy was the OG and my first love. I’m actually a more regular customer in winter than in summer, when there are many other pleasures to lift my spirits.

My favorite is the raspberry sorbet, which evokes childhood memories of jamming fistfuls of just-picked berries into my mouth. But many of the creative, chunky combos also call to me. My peanut butter cup itch is scratched with great satisfaction by the peanut butter gelato with candied peanuts and nuggets of chocolate. The honey sea salt with Toblerone is another must-have if it’s on the list of six weekly rotating flavors, announced every Monday via Shy Guy’s social media and website. On the simpler side, the Greek

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yogurt delivers sweet purity with just the right hint of tart.

Shy Guy co-owner Paul Sansone, a Jericho native and lifelong restaurant cook, sold everything he had, including his cellphone and car, to escape to Italy just over a decade ago. There, he fell in love with gelato, which includes less air, less cream and fewer egg yolks than traditional ice cream.

With business partner Tim Elliott, Sansone, 41, refined his recipes and started Shy Guy out of Elliott’s apartment in 2014. Two years later, they launched a cart on Church Street and opened their St. Paul Street shop. The cart now appears exclusively at events, including at a steady

Shy Guy Gelato’s raspberry sorbet

stream of weddings of devoted customers. “It’s such a sweet thing,” Sansone said.

The winter preorder pint program was born out of pandemic necessity to keep the enterprise afloat during its slow season. It runs from November 1 — Shy Guy closes the scoop line after its free cone day on Halloween — to the weatherdependent scoop reopening day, usually in mid-April. In the summer and fall, pints are only sold in person at the shop.

If you’re planning to share a pint with your sweetie(s) this Valentine’s Day, make sure to order before the Thursday evening deadline, or cross your fingers and walk up during pickup hours on Saturday, February 12, for any that remain.

Normally, pint pickup hours are on Fridays and Saturdays, but this pre-Valentine’s Day weekend Sansone will be away and could find backup only for Saturday. He has his priorities straight and will be visiting his girlfriend, who is in nursing school out-of-state.

And, no, the gelato maker will not be packing any gelato for the trip. “She’d take a cookie any day over gelato,” he said with a laugh. m Small Pleasures is an occasional column that features delicious and distinctive Vermontmade food or drinks that pack a punch. Send us your favorite little bites or sips with big payoff at food@sevendaysvt.com.

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odd Haire and Bob Grim traveled to Nelson, New Zealand, in April 2019 to look for hops for Foam Brewers. But they came home jazzed up about a different crop: grapes.

At a small winery adjacent to the hop farm they were visiting, Grim and Haire got a tour and a taste. The winery was the home of Kindeli, a much-hyped darling of the natural wine world.

“It was some real esoteric stuff,” Haire said. The brewmaster, who also cofounded the small blendery House of Fermentology, is used to working with fruit as a beer ingredient.

“When we came back,” he said, “wine was in our mind.”

Now, two years of farming Foam’s own tiny vineyard have come to fruition. On February 11, the brewery will release its first wine under the label Natural Hack.

Winemaking isn’t a huge leap for the Foam team; founders and co-owners Haire, Grim, Jon Farmer, Dani Casey and Sam Keane are accustomed to doing “esoteric stuff” of their own. The Burlington brewery’s tagline is “crafting imaginative beers for enlightened palates.”

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fruit-packed sours, and mixed-culture, barrel-aged beers from House of Fermentology, many containing ingredients grown by nearby farmers.

“A lot of the inspiration for the beers we create is pulled from the wine world,” Grim said. “So it does feel normal to be making wine.”

Haire added that “Our motto is ‘It’s better to regret something you have done than something you haven’t.’”

Foam’s vineyard consists of about an acre of cold-hardy marquette vines in Hinesburg, just up the road from Red Wagon Plants. The property’s owner, Paul List, gave the Foam team the go-ahead to manage his 13-year-old vineyard.

“It was vineyard CPR,” Grim said of pruning, re-trellising and replanting the overgrown vines during most of 2020.

Foam’s learn-by-doing approach to farming the one-acre vineyard is where the name Natural Hack comes from, Farmer said. The team members know a lot about brewing and working with local ingredients, but they aren’t professional farmers.

“It was a bit of hack farming,” Haire said.

Hack or not, they grew enough grapes to harvest in September 2020. The entire brewery staff got in on the fun, gathering in the vineyard to pick the fruits of their labor.

They brought the bounty to House of Fermentology’s barrel cellar at Earthkeep Farmcommon (formerly called Nordic Farm) in Charlotte. From that point, the process wasn’t much different from the fermentation, barrel aging and blending they normally do.

The team ran the grapes through a de-stemmer and crusher, then into a foeder, a 10-hectoliter oak barrel. It had held multiple runs of House of Fermentology’s mixedculture beer, brewed with Saccharomyces and Brettanomyces yeasts and lactic acid bacteria. Those resident cultures stuck around, and they went to work on the grapes for a spontaneous fermentation.

At the core of the team’s farming and winemaking is the low-intervention philosophy popular among makers of natural wines. Instead of spraying chemical pesticides or fertilizers during the growing season, they handpicked Japanese beetles off the vines; the grapes, too, were handpicked. Postharvest, nothing was added to the juice during the winemaking process.

“We basically wanted to let this do its thing,” Haire said.

The juice fermented on the skins in the foeder for about five days. Once fermentation subsided, the team free-ran the wine into smaller neutral French oak barrels,

filling roughly eight. (In a side quest that’s still aging, they combined the remaining grape must with a golden sour ale to see what would happen.) Six or seven of those barrels were blended down, Haire said, and aged for 12 months.

When they were ready to bottle the wine, the team primed the juice with honey from the apiary that Hare and House of Fermentology cofounder Bill Mares keep on the Earthkeep property. Their goal: to give the wine a bit of sparkle.

Now, almost a year and a half after their first harvest, the Foam team is preparing to release 1,000 bottles of Natural Hack’s first wine: Beautiful Inside My Mind.

The biggest difference between fermenting a wine and brewing a beer is that you get only one shot a year at the former. That was a little stressful, the Foam team admitted.

“A lot of the House of Fermentology beers are also very small volume, and there’s a chance they might not turn out to be what you want them to be as they age,” Farmer said. “But your ingredients are stable, and you can brew throughout the year. With wine, you’re crossing your fingers a bit.”

The low-intervention approach paid off, though. The deep-red wine is unfiltered and contains no added sulfites. It’s 12 percent alcohol, with high acid content, and it’s got “a good funk to it,” Haire said.

“Funk” is nothing new to fans of House of Fermentology’s Dot series of beers. That quality comes from the Brettanomyces genus of yeast, which has a mixed reputation in the beer and wine worlds for its effect on flavor.

Some drinkers consider the presence of “brett” a flaw. Others seek out its funk, especially in natural wines and sour beers.

According to the University of CaliforniaDavis Brettanomyces Aroma Wheel, the aromas it imparts can range from wet dog to sewer gas to citrus, clove and black pepper.

Beautiful Inside My Mind’s funk falls on the pleasant end of that spectrum; it’s more farmscape than barnyard. The first sip is almost prickly, thanks to the frizzante-like bubbles. The wine is tart and completely dry on the finish. The label recommends serving it chilled, between 40 and 55 degrees Fahrenheit. As it warms up, it develops more of the jammy notes for which marquette is known.

The 500-milliliter bottles are unusual for a wine but typical for House of Fermentology — though these bottles are clear glass, rather than the green or brown needed to keep beer from skunking.

“They’re just the right size to share with somebody,” Haire said. At $27 per bottle, the smaller size keeps the price point more manageable.

“We’re not expecting a classic wine drinker to think that Natural Hack is the greatest thing to come out of the States,”

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Farmer said. “But I think an audience already exists that enjoys a variety of fermented beverages and wants something low-intervention.”

The team believes Beautiful Inside My Mind is a “joyous wine” rather than a serious one, Farmer said. It’s perfect for drinking with friends; he and Grim have enjoyed it alongside bowls of ramen.

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next-door sister restaurant, Deep City. A small number of bottles will be distributed to select local restaurants and shops, including Burlington’s Wilder Wines and Salt & Bubbles Wine Bar and Market in the Essex Experience.

Kayla Silver, the owner of Salt & Bubbles, wasn’t surprised when she heard Foam was playing with grapes.

“The wine is, to me, a very natural part

of their exploration of taste and fermentation,” Silver said. “Yeah, they’re brewers, but they’re fermenters above everything else.”

The two cases of Beautiful Inside My Mind allocated to Salt & Bubbles will be sold on the retail side rather than at the wine bar, due to the bottle’s size.

Silver said the wine is “very Foam,” with a ton of tartness, notes of “brambly” black and blue fruit, and that Brettanomyces character. She called it “almost lambrusco-style,” an expression of marquette that’s becoming more common among Vermont winemakers, evident in recent releases from Ellison Estate Vineyard and Stella14.

For these sparkling red wines, producers are picking the cold-hardy grapes earlier in the season. That means lower alcohol content and a brighter, fresher style.

“They’re not trying to make it like a cabernet,” Silver said.

She’s excited to see the beer crowd find its way to wine — and to have another Vermont wine on Salt & Bubbles’ shelves.

“Foam’s reach as a brewery is huge,” Silver said. “The more winemakers we have giving it a real shot in Vermont — revitalizing old vineyard properties, producing in a more sustainable fashion — the better.”

The Foam team was back in the vineyard last growing season. It plans to take the same approach with its 2021 vintage, keeping things small. Natural Hack’s next release, likely to appear this spring, is a mead that’s currently aging in clay amphorae with yuzu and honey from French Hill Apiaries in St. Albans.

The team is also fermenting wild Maine blueberries.

“Our thing is beer,” Haire said. “But it’s interesting to see what we can do with these other ingredients.”

“Now the space is true to its name as the House of Fermentology,” Grim said with a laugh. “We’ve got all sorts of things going on.” m

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myself, which I think is common when things don’t work out. You think you were an idiot; you put it all on yourself.

And then, when I really dug back, a few things stood out, one of which was that I was really in love. I mean, I’ve never doubted that. But when I looked back and saw that all my friends and I were going to weddings, that we all wanted this to happen — this has been going on forever. You go to weddings, and then you feel like, When am I going to be able to do that? So I felt a lot more empathy and forgiveness for myself for having taken that path, because everything told me to take that path. And it made me feel like I belonged, like I was a good adult and I was doing things in the right order.

Party of One

Kimberly Harrington takes on marriage and divorce in her latest memoir

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imberly Harrington began working on her second book, a memoir of her marriage and impending divorce, six weeks after she and her husband announced their separation and seven months after the publication of her first book, a memoir of motherhood. She doesn’t recommend mining your life for your art. “And if you do do it,” she suggested via email, “maybe don’t do it again?”

Her latest collection of vignettes and essays, published in October, is called But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits. It isn’t quite a tell-all, as the subtitle hints, even as Harrington, 53, dissects some of the more painful moments in her relationship with an unsentimental precision that will make your face hot. She alternates between exhuming her past — her ’80s latchkey upbringing; her first date with the man who would someday become her ex-husband, a date on which she scarfed an entire bag of sour-creamand-onion chips and a liter of Diet Coke in his car — and lampooning the whole concept of marriage.

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shoot. “Why are you on a cliff?” Harrington asks in one of the book’s essays, titled “Some Questions for Men in Engagement Photos.” “Also: Why a tie? But you’re on a cliff? Is it a formal cliff?”

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Throughout the book, Harrington, whose work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, the New Yorker and the Cut, confronts her flaws and her unreasonable expectations of marriage. The things we ask of our spouses are so objectively insane, she argues, that we should be more astonished when two people don’t get divorced.

“I thought marriage was the last place,” Harrington writes in the preface. “Instead it is just one place.” She still lives, amicably, with her soon-to-be ex-husband and their two children in northern Vermont.

Harrington spoke with Seven Days about the absurdity of sleeping with one

person for the rest of your life, calling herself out on her bullshit and finding the humor in what doesn’t feel funny.

SEVEN DAYS: You started working on this book shortly after you and your husband decided to get divorced.

Was it hard to jump into writing about something so emotionally intense while it was still relatively fresh?

KIMBERLY HARRINGTON: In some ways, it wasn’t as hard as I expected, and I don’t know if it’s because I had already been through most of the hard things that I was writing about. I was done with the book a year before it came out, and I was writing it for a year and a half before that. So people will email me now and give me some weird pep talk about shit I went through, like, five years ago at this point. But while I was writing it, I wasn’t crying on my laptop, which I did when I was writing my first book. Maybe I’m just dead inside.

SD: You also dug into the past to help you understand how you got here, which took you back to the start of your relationship with your now ex-partner. What did that feel like?

KH: At first, I was pretty unforgiving of

SD: That part of your book hit me particularly hard, because everybody around me is suddenly getting married, and it just feels like this frenzy of monogamy.

KH: Yeah. There’s definitely that point where the rubber meets the road, even for people who were talking a big game. Kids are a driver, for sure. I never had doubts about getting married. I never had doubts about wanting kids. I’m not against marriage. But I think whenever you talk about being OK being alone, or never getting married in the first place, I think what happens — and I don’t see men being treated this way — is that people make you feel like there must be something wrong with you, like you can’t just live your life and be left alone. That adds pressure, and even when that pressure is not overt, it’s there. We get that message from absolutely every direction.

SD: And part of that messaging is that, once you decide to marry someone, that relationship should fulfill all your needs and desires and also shield you from the pain and monotony of existence.

KH: It’s really pretty dumb. One of the pieces in the book grew out of conversations with my friends about what a miracle it is that I have lived with another adult person for 25 years. When I think of all the roommates I’ve had, when I think about me as a person and how difficult I am to live with, I’m like, Why is no one congratulating us for being two adult human beings who have lived in the same space for this long?

And you’re sleeping in the same bed.

And you have to eat the same meals. And you’ve got to watch the same shows. And you’ve got to love all the same stuff. And you have to have really great sex. We don’t put those pressures on any other relationship in our lives. And then the whole thing just got funnier and funnier to me, like, is no one thinking about marriage in this

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way? Because this seems destined to fail every time.

SD: Our culture isn’t very forgiving of women who end relationships, particularly when there’s nothing catastrophically wrong — like, if your partner is a nice, good person, and you, a woman, are still unhappy, then the problem must be you. You’re pretty unsparing in your portrayal of your faults — you refer to yourself once, for instance, as “King Dipshit.”

Meanwhile, your husband comes across as a very decent, likable guy.

Were you playing with those tropes in your depiction of yourself?

KH: I mean, anyone who’s met us would agree with me. He’s a really nice, friendly guy who never gets mad at anyone, and I’ve got a totally hostile personality in certain situations. So that wasn’t a performance or anything. But I think the knee-jerk reaction is to look for the faults, to look for the asshole in the equation.

And that’s just not what happened. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t fault in both

of us, or good things in both of us. It was a really good relationship for a really long time — and ultimately, it’s just one relationship. So I’m not going to feel too bad about where we ended up.

We’ve all read books, especially memoirs, where you know that the author is trying to make themselves look better. I was really direct with myself in my edits — like, Am I just putting this in here to make it sound like I was a cool girl in my twenties?

Take it out! When you’re the one writing the book, and you’re writing about real people, including yourself, I think you owe it to the reader to be honest and not to be unnecessarily hurtful — and if you feel the desire to be hurtful, to ask yourself if you’re doing it to fuck someone over in a book, because you get to write a book.

That’s not what I’m interested in doing.

SD: Is it cathartic to be that direct with yourself on the page?

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Bristol couple chronicles navigating love and illness in a new audiobook B Y D A N BOL L ES • dan@sevendaysvt.com

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mily Shapiro didn’t remember much about Alex Belth from high school. But in a fateful reintroduction as adults years later in New York City, Belth certainly remembered her. How could he not?

“She was one of the hot chicks,” Belth, 50, recalled in a 2018 piece for Men’s Health. Told against the backdrop of a blizzard in the city, that essay, titled “How Our Relationship Survived When My Partner Got Sick,” offered a glimpse of how the couple had navigated their marriage alongside what they call an “uninvited third party” — chronic illness.

When she was 22 and fresh out of college, Shapiro, now 49, developed Crohn’s disease.

Over the course of nine surgeries in five years and countless other appointments with specialists, surgeons and physicians, the incurable autoimmune disorder eventually “consumed her life,” Belth wrote.

In any healthy romantic relationship, partners assume different roles to make it work. But when one partner becomes a “professional patient,” as Belth termed it, and the other a caregiver, the challenges deepen well beyond who’s going to fold the laundry, whose sex drive is higher or who’s more responsible with money.

“When it’s your partner that you’re caring for, you’re not just dealing with an illness,” Belth wrote in 2018. “You’re dealing with a changed relationship.”

This Thursday, February 10, Belth and Shapiro release Here I Are: Anatomy of a Marriage, an audiobook that delves deep into those changes and how they’ve handled them over 20-plus years together. The book, available as an Audible Original, ostensibly grew out of Belth’s 2018 essay. That piece viewed their relationship primarily through his lens as a caregiver, but in Here I Are both Belth and Shapiro present their story the way good partners ideally approach most things: on equal footing.

“I felt really strongly that Emily and I should be partners in this story,” Belth told Seven Days in a joint interview with Shapiro. “Because there’s value in [what we both] are bringing to it.”

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home in Bristol, where they’ve lived since moving from NYC in 2020, the book flows with an easy point-counterpoint rhythm.

Though not quite conversational, the narrative structure allows the two not only to tell their parts of the story but also to respond to each other.

For example, when Belth recalls being

keenly aware of Shapiro in high school, she offers a rather less flattering half-recollection of her future husband: that he wore a bow tie in his yearbook photo. Especially in lighter moments such as those, the couple’s palpable affection for one another is charming and provides a keel for the stormy seas of conflict that inevitably come.

Here I Are takes its title from a phrase Shapiro uses to greet her husband after a good night’s sleep. As Belth recalled in his 2018 essay, “Here I are” was her response as a little girl the first time someone asked her “Where are you?” The title reflects those small moments that sweeten every good relationship. It’s also a declaration.

Belth, an editor at Esquire, is excitable and eloquent, a classic extrovert. Shapiro, a

certified life coach and Reiki practitioner, is an introvert. She’s a thoughtful and private person who avoided burdening others with specifics of her illness because she never wanted to be known as “the sick girl,” she said.

“So for me,” she explained of the audiobook, “this was an opportunity to really come out of my shell and start talking about what’s not talked about.”

Belth and Shapiro don’t shy away from uncomfortable details in their story, particularly when it comes to issues directly and indirectly related to Shapiro’s illnesses.

In addition to Crohn’s, she suffers from chronic migraines and a neurological issue called convergence insufficiency that creates blurred or double vision and can also cause severe headaches.

Their description of the first time they made love, which was also the first time Belth saw Shapiro’s ileostomy bag, is both tender and harrowing. Three months into their promising relationship, Belth was getting cold feet due to her illness.

Shapiro’s ensuing frustration with Belth is gut-wrenching, even though we know they end up together. His confessions of anger born of the helplessness caretakers often feel while watching their partners suffer are heartbreaking and humanizing.

Chronic illness provides Here I Are with a uniquely dramatic framework. But the book is often most compelling in its universal moments, recounted with similarly unvarnished honesty: feeling frustrated when an amorous advance is shot down; stressing over financial problems; finding ways to communicate effectively and give your partner space.

“Yes, illness is a big topic,” Shapiro said. “But we’re also two humans coming together with all kinds of baggage that has nothing to do with illness.”

“It’s not just an illness story,” Belth concurred. “The core of what we’re dealing with is stuff that every couple that’s ever existed goes through. What we’re hoping [we] can be of service to is [the idea] that an authentic life is an untidy life.” m

INFO Here I Are: Anatomy of a Marriage by Alex Belth and Emily Shapiro becomes available on Thursday, February 10, at audible.com.

Party of One « P.47 strip that stuff away when you’re writing, it gets real, real fast. We can all get enamored with what we’re writing and find ways to justify it. But that’s not going to work when you’re talking about a relationship that involves two people and the other person is not writing the book.

SD: Has it gotten easier for you over time to zero in on your bullshit?

KH: This is all pretty new for me. I haven’t done personal writing for very long — I was writing a little bit in my twenties, but I stopped all my personal writing until, like, six years ago. So I’m working on getting my

writing up to the level where my point of view is in life. I want the writing to match how I feel in the conversations I have with my friends, when we’re digging really deep and having no-bullshit talks. It’s easy to be super voicey and make little selfdeprecating jokes and stuff; it’s harder to strip that away and figure out what you’re really trying to say.

SD: There’s some heavy stuff in your book, and it’s easy to imagine how the final result might have been fairly depressing in another writer’s hands.

What does humor allow you to do in these essays that wouldn’t necessarily be possible with a more sober approach?

KH: I process everything through humor, and I have for my whole life. So humor doesn’t feel like a lens I chose. But with the painful and raw moments in this book, it helps to have these breathers. And it also allows me to comment on bigger things or process stuff I’m pissed about in a way that’s not really about me. With personal essays, I feel like, Who knows what I’m doing? When is this going to end and how?

But humor pieces are satisfying in the way that puzzles are satisfying. They need to be short, and they need some kind of format, and when they work, there’s a quick-hit satisfaction, which essays do not provide for me, personally, at all.

But part of the issue with memoir, which I’ve been through twice now, is

that people think they really know you and your whole story and they want to be friends with you across the internet. At the end of the day, this book is 300 pages.

It’s full of humor pieces. I’m framing this up for you the way I want to frame it up.

It’s not the full story, and you’re never going to have the full story. If you did, it would be 50,000 pages and it would be boring as shit. m This interview was condensed and edited for length and clarity.

INFO But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits by Kimberly Harrington, Harper Perennial, 304 pages. $16.99.

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Matty Benedetto and Captain Morgan Team Up on Super Bowl Punch Bowl B Y SA L LY POL L AK • sally@sevendaysvt.com Here are a few necessary Super Bowl inventions: a stellar squad on special teams, a wardrobe that functions (see Janet Jackson, Super Bowl XXXVIII) and seven-time Super Bowl champ Tom Brady.

The list of unnecessary Super Bowl inventions is probably longer. It includes last year’s Jeep commercial starring a boringly earnest Bruce Springsteen, TV coverage that starts six and a half hours before kickoff, and every halftime show that isn’t Prince in Miami in 2007.

This year, along comes a game-day product that straddles the line — like a QB anticipating a sneak — between being a necessary and unnecessary Super Bowl invention. The item, the Captain Morgan Super Bowl Punch Bowl, is stirred by a local hand: Burlington’s Matty Benedetto, the whiz-kid creative force and social media star behind the Unnecessary Inventions brand. You can see him in a TV ad and on YouTube introducing the punch bowl.

Just because something is unnecessary doesn’t mean it’s not useful, Benedetto has previously noted. And it sure doesn’t mean it’s not fun.

Enter the supersize punch bowl — necessary if you and your pals want to slurp gallons of sticky punch and never miss a touchdown; probably unnecessary if you’re satisfied with a beer and chips.

The Captain Morgan Super Bowl Punch Bowl is both a basic and a high-tech creation. The bowl holds four gallons of rum-spiked punch (or other liquid). That’s the basic part — especially on Super Sunday.

As for high tech, the internet-connected punch bowl will signal Super Bowl developments during the showdown between the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals this Sunday, February 13. It features a live scoreboard and LEDs that glow red when a team advances into the red zone. When something big happens in the game, built-in Bluetooth speakers and subwoofers are activated, and sonic vibrations mix the punch.

In all, 12 to 15 different sounds and light-up patterns are keyed to game events, according to Benedetto.

“It’s really cool,” he told Seven Days last Friday. “Mine was supposed to show up this morning, but the snowstorm put a little damper on that.”

Benedetto has more than 7 million followers on his various social media channels, where he hawks fake

products, such as the Cuisine Curtain (a tiny shower curtain for your mouth that you wear while eating) and the All Tic No Tac Case, which stops Tic Tacs from rattling in your pocket. He turned 32 on January 31, the day a plaque arrived celebrating his 1 millionth YouTube subscriber.

Benedetto’s Instagram feed has 1.2 million followers, and he has another 4 million-plus on TikTok. “At this point, I have a pretty decent reach,” Benedetto said. “And I try to make inventions that hit different corners of the internet.”

The team from the Captain Morgan rum brand reached out to him about three months ago to talk about collaborating on a Super Bowl project, Benedetto said.

“They knew they wanted to do something fun and lighthearted for the Super Bowl,” he said. “We started planning different ideas of what would be fun for the project.”

Benedetto added an Unnecessary Invention of his own to go with the punch bowl: his Captain Morgan Sift-andPour Ladle. The two-tier ladle allows the user to scoop up punch only, ice only or both.

“We knew we wanted to have some sort of ridiculous [item] that went with it,” Benedetto said. “This idea matched it well.”

Only 20 Captain Morgan Super Bowl Punch Bowls exist,

including the one whose scheduled delivery to Benedetto was delayed by Friday’s snowstorm. Benedetto expects it to arrive this week and will present a “full unboxing” of the product on social media.

“I’ll give people a little bit more of a deep dive into all the features,” he said.

A couple of days after he dishes on the bowl, Benedetto will fly to California to watch the Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium.

“I’m very excited,” he said, adding that he’ll root for “the team … whoever I’m surrounded by wants to win.”

Benedetto recently appeared on the TV show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” pitching the punch bowl with former New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz. The two form an apt “duality,” Benedetto noted. “There’s the die-hard football person and the person that’s just there at the party to enjoy the punch,” he said.

The deadline to enter a lottery to win a punch bowl passed on Sunday. But before he flies west, Benedetto said he might lend his punch bowl to some homebound friends for the game.

“I would use it myself,” he said, “if I wasn’t lucky enough that I’ll be at the Super Bowl.” m

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At the Current, photographer Catherine Opie examines distinctive American landscapes B Y PA M EL A POL ST O N • ppolston@sevendaysvt.com

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ince the time Catherine Opie requested and received a camera for her 9th birthday, she has been photographing what she sees — and seeks out. As her gallery, Lehmann Maupin, explains on its website, Opie’s photography examines “the ideals and norms surrounding the culturally constructed American dream and American identity.” Her views on identity were inclusive long before that became a buzzword.

Now 60, the Ohio-born, Los Angelesbased artist has earned an international reputation for her acute observations.

Some might know her best for her portraiture, with subjects as divergent as gay, lesbian and transgender individuals; high school football players; and late Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor. And then there are Opie’s self-portraits, in which she appears both deeply vulnerable and assertively present.

But the photographer has also trained her viewfinder on broader subjects: neighborhoods, cityscapes, highways and landscapes from across the country.

Vermont gallerygoers have a rare opportunity to sample the latter in person at the Current in Stowe — specifically, 11 largescale images from Opie’s “Swamps” and “Yosemite” series.

Visitors will engage with this exhibition at superficial or deeper levels, each likely to generate questions. Opie’s photographs invite viewers to look closely, not to find aha clues to a hidden agenda but to think for themselves: What are we looking at here? There are no wrong answers.

On the surface, we’re looking at scenes in the Okefenokee Swamp, a 438,000-acre wetland in Georgia, and Yosemite Falls at Yosemite National Park in California.

Two of the swamp pictures are so dark and enclosed that they induce claustrophobia, pulling the eye toward lush details of lichen and moss and watery mystery. It’s natural to ponder, with some trepidation, what creatures lurk here.

One such beast is in plain sight in “Untitled #2 (Swamps)”: an alligator.

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Looking equal parts sluggish and menacing, the dinosaur-remnant reptile is half submerged. The shallow water, dotted with lily pads, reflects the scrubby vegetation surrounding it.

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Opie uses reflection as a compositional device in “Untitled #7 (Swamps).”

From her vantage point across a body of water, she captures an image that could look almost the same upside down — the

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OPIE’S PHOTOGRAPHS INVITE VIEWERS TO LOOK CLOSELY, NOT TO FIND AHA CLUES TO A HIDDEN AGENDA BUT

TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES. feet. The words “national park” call to mind vistas of splendorous mountains in the American West. But Opie isn’t going for grand. She has cropped these images tightly, eliminating sky and ground, and focuses our attention on that spumewhite crevice in the rock face.

Four of the photos at the Current also dispense with focus — literally. Three are so myopically hazy that they become abstractions, whispers of content. In the fourth, “Untitled #6 (Yosemite Valley),” Opie allows a trace of blue sky to define the top of the waterfall. Two trees in the foreground give the image a vague sense of depth.

Why are these images out of focus? To ask that is to contemplate the meaning of blur. Is Opie implying a landscape in danger of disappearing? Do these swamps and mountains, with their respective water resources, have something in common?

Yes and yes. As the Current’s gallery guide relates, Opie’s landscapes “are both gorgeous documentations and a quiet plea for environmental preservation.”

The Okefenokee is a recreation destination and a wildlife refuge — objectives seemingly in opposition. Worse, according to scientific reports, the climate crisis could bring drought to the region, threatening the wetland’s plant and animal ecosystem. And in California, warming temperatures and drought have already exacerbated forest fires and an influx of non-native insects.

The Current’s gallery guide also hints at the parallels between natural and political landscapes in Opie’s work: “Her swamp series in particular evoke[s] not only the dangers of climate change, but the precarious state of our country, as calls to ‘drain the swamp’ erode fundamental structures of democracy.”

It’s unlikely that viewers will make that conceptual leap; Opie’s exhibition is by no means didactic. Still, her images of iconic American landscapes serve as a reminder that these unique treasures can be lost. Executive director and director of exhibitions Rachel Moore has taken advantage of the theme to present climate-related programming, including a February 17 panel discussion titled “The Land in Which We Live: Responsibility, Caretaking, Fragility and Climatology.”

For this viewer, Opie’s photographs inspired deeper engagement with the artist herself — virtually, that is. The Lehmann Maupin website offers a wealth of biographical information and images from her extensive oeuvre. Best of all are Opie’s video commentaries about her life, her work and how she embraces the world. m

INFO Catherine Opie’s photographs are on view through April 9 at the Current in Stowe. Opie presents a virtual artist talk on Thursday, March 10, 5:30-7 p.m. Register for this and related events at thecurrentnow.org. Learn more at lehmannmaupin.com.

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ATHENA PETRA TASIOPOULOS: “Inner Spaces,” a solo exhibition of mixed-media encaustic collages by the Barre artist that explore themes of interconnectedness, isolation and the delicate nature of equilibrium. February 10-April 2. Info, 324-0014.

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are here for it. And in this case, “it” is power. The females who populate Kathy Black’s paintings, currently on view at River Arts in Morrisville, express action, appetite, self-determination.

But, asks gallery text, “What does it mean for a woman or girl to have power? … Can we think about female power without clashing with expectations of motherhood and femininity?”

AMY BURNS & KEILANI LIME: An exhibition of illustration, cartoons and large-format mixed-media paintings; also, the artists’ collaborative comic about living with chronic illness. February 16-March 30.

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Black’s response to the second question is clearly affirmative. girl appears to be hell on tricycle wheels (pictured). In another, that she’s an “Essential Worker.” In “All of Eden,” a woman with multiple breasts seems to conflate creation stories while holding out the mythical apple tree like a waitress with a tray.

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Virtual opening: Wednesday, February 9, 6 p.m., including a 75th anniversary webinar to learn more about Shelburne Museum founder’s folk-art dealer and friend, with guest scholar Rebecca Shaykin of the Jewish Museum. February 9-October 15. Online.

ART EVENTS COMMUNITY ART AND POETRY: JC Wayne facilitates coming together as community members to create art or poetry responses to Vermont Humanities’ Vermont Reads book, We Contain Multitudes, by Sarah Henstra. No art or poetry experience necessary. Register for Zoom event at kellogghubbard.org. Online, Wednesday, February 16, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

‘INSPIRED BY HIROSHIGE: MAKING COLOR WOODBLOCK PRINTS’: Matt Brown demonstrates and explains how he makes woodblock prints using the traditional Japanese hanga method. Following the workshop is a tour of the exhibition featuring more than 150 prints of images designed by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). And at 1 p.m., artist Patty Hudak leads a tour of “The World Between the Block and the Paper,” an exhibition of prints by the Mokuhanga Sisters collective and invited artists. Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Saturday, February 12, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $5 for SVAC members; $10 for nonmembers. Info, 362-1405.

Goddess” is both slightly disturbing and hilarious. Imagine women with very large, wide-open mouths about to consume a basil plant, a small pet, a baby or planet Earth.

Black, currently program director at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, tackles her canvases with brushy gestures and bold colors. She often hurries through details — replacing an eye with a dot, a nose with a squiggle — which gives the compositions a sense of urgency. Perhaps she consumes the goddess with the very act of painting: Here, Black is the boss lady.

This exhibition of females engaged in performative roles is equal parts entertaining and provocative. “Women and Girls” is on view through April 9.

‘OLD MAPS, NEW PATHWAYS: CARTOGRAPHY, MUSEUM COLLECTIONS, AND DECOLONIAL POSSIBILITIES’: The Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History presents a lecture by historian Christine DeLuci, who discusses maps and material culture collections with regard to Euro-colonial impacts on Indigenous homelands.

This is part of the “Elephant in the Room: Exploring the Future of Museums” series. Register for Zoom link at henrysheldonmuseum.org. Online, Wednesday, February 9, 7 p.m. Free.

inside. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, Friday, February 11, and Saturday, February 12, 5:30-8 p.m. $30 per carload. Info, 533-2000.

STUDIO TOUR WITH ROBERT DUGRENIER: The glass artist gives a virtual tour of his studio and a glassblowing demonstration, presented in conjunction with the exhibit “Vermont Glass Guild: Inspired by the Past” at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Register for Zoom link at brattleboromuseum. org. Online, Thursday, February 10, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 257-0124.

SNOWLIGHTS: An outdoor dance party with an illuminated sculpture park, snow-sculpture demonstrations, live music and snacks by the fire pits. Winter wear recommended; masks required

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JACKSON TUPPER: “Mayo,” a solo exhibition of paintings by the Vermont artist made in response to domestic isolation during pandemic lockdown.

Through March 9. Info, 233-2943. Safe and Sound Gallery in Burlington.

MALTEX ARTISTS: Paintings by Dierdre Michelle, Judy Hawkins, Nancy Chapman and Jean Cherouny, as well as photographs by Caleb Kenna and Michael Couture in the building’s hallways. Curated

by Burlington City Arts. Through March 31. Info, 865-7296. Maltex Building in Burlington.

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PIEVY POLYTE: Paintings by the Haitian artist and coffee farmer. Sales benefit his philanthropic efforts for a farm and school in Haiti. Through February 28.

Info, 540-0406. ArtsRiot in Burlington.

SHANNON O’CONNELL: Botanical paintings with phosphorescent and UV-sensitive pigments mixed into the paint, allowing secondary paintings to be revealed. Through March 2. 865-7296. Burlington City Hall.

STEPHEN SHARON: A solo exhibition of vibrant, multilayered abstract paintings by the Burlington artist. Curated by SEABA. Through March 4. Info, 859-9222. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee in Burlington.

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ERIKA LAWLOR SCHMIDT: Relief monotypes, Skyway. Curated by Burlington City Arts. MAREVA MILLARC: Acrylic paintings, Gates 1-8. Curated

by Burlington City Arts. Through March 31. Info, 865-7296. Burlington International Airport in South Burlington.

‘EYESIGHT & INSIGHT: LENS ON AMERICAN ART’: An online exhibition of artworks at shelburnemuseum.org that illuminates creative responses to perceptions of vision; four sections explore themes ranging from 18th-century optical technologies to the social and historical connotations of eyeglasses in portraiture from the 19th century to the present. Through October 16.

‘IN PLAIN SIGHT: REDISCOVERING CHARLES SUMNER BUNN’S DECOYS’: An online exhibition of shorebird decoys carved by the member of the Shinnecock-Montauk Tribes, based on extensive research and resolving historic controversy. Through October 5. Info, 985-3346.

Shelburne Museum.

FRED DANIZIO: “Things You Can Put in Your Mouth,” paintings by the Art & Design senior. Through February 12. Info, bcollier@smcvt.edu. McCarthy Art Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester.

‘THE GIFT OF ART’: An off-season exhibition featuring a changing collection of artworks. Open by appointment or during special events. Through April 30. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington.

barre/montpelier

f ‘CALL AND RESPONSE’: To motivate creativity during the long months of social isolation, the Photographers Workroom began a visual exchange of imagery to maintain much-needed connection.

Eight Vermont photographers participated: Nancy Banks, Christie Carter, Rosalind Daniels, Lisa Dimondstein, Marcie Scudder, Kent Shaw, Peggy Smith and Shapleigh Smith. f ‘FACE IT’: A group exhibition of portraits. f NED RICHARDSON: “What the Machines Told Me,” images generated by Generational Adversarial Network, a deep learning system, that began with the artist perceiving a connection between the living forest networks around his home and the digital and technological networks that surround us all. Art social: Saturday, February 19, 3:30-5 p.m. Through March 5. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

‘THE CATAMOUNT IN VERMONT’: An exhibition that explores the feline symbol of Vermont through the lenses of art, science and culture. Through May 31. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

CONOR LAHIFF: Meteorologically inspired landscape photography on metal and more.

Through February 9. Info, 479-0896. Espresso Bueno in Barre.

DJ BARRY: The Vermont artist shows pieces from his World Cow series as well as past work.

Through March 5. Info, 225-6232. Filling Station in Middlesex.

JASON GALLIGAN-BALDWIN: “Safety Procedures,” works incorporating acrylics, antique text, childhood books, film stills and other materials to explore American culture, or lack thereof. Curated

by Studio Place Arts. Through February 26. Info, 479-7069. AR Market in Barre.

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‘LET’S COLLAGE ABOUT IT!’: A community exhibition of contemporary collage art featuring Kristin Bierfelt, Liz Buchanan, Katherine Coons, Anne Cummings, Elizabeth Dow, Ren Haley, Holly Hauser, Lily Hinrichsen, Jean Kelly, Jess Quinn, Rachel Marie Rodi, Cariah Rosberg, Anne Sarcka, Peggy Watson and Olivia White. Curated by Quinn.

Through April 15. Info, jess@cal-vt.org. Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier.

VALENTINE SPECIALS

SABRINA FADIAL & GAYLEEN AIKEN: “Corporeal Discretion,” sculptural work that addresses female fertility by the contemporary Vermont artist, Nuquist Gallery; and “A Life of Art,” paintings by the late folk artist, Contemporary Hall. Through March 18. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

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‘SHOW 47’: Members of the gallery display an eclectic exhibition of paintings, sculpture and mixed media. Through February 27. Info, info@ thefrontvt.com. The Front in Montpelier.

SUSAN CALZA: “A Vacant Chair,” a mixed-media, multisensory installation that reflects on concepts of home and homelessness. Through March 13. Info, 224-6827. The Susan Calza Gallery in Montpelier.

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‘THE ART OF THE GRAPHIC’: Eight displays of snowboards that let viewers see the design process from initial conception to final product; featuring artists Scott Lenhardt, Mark Gonzalez, Mikey Welsh, Mishel Schwartz and more. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

CATHERINE OPIE: Photographs of rural and urban American scenes that investigate the parallels between natural and political landscapes and their connections to a sense of identity and community.

Through April 9. Info, 253-8358. The Current in Stowe.

‘LISTENING OUTSIDE THE LINES’: A multimedia group exhibition exploring what it means to be a Person of the Global Majority (Black, Indigenous or other person of color) in Vermont, featuring oral history, visual art and poetry by Sarah Audsley, Alexa Herrera Condry, Harlan Mack, Crystal Stokes, Isadora Snapp and Madeleine Ziminsky. A Lamoille Art & Justice project. KATHY BLACK: “Women and Girls,” paintings that explore the experience the changing perspectives of females over time and the connections that run between women at different points in life. Through April 9. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

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f MISOO BANG: New paintings by the Burlington artist. Closing reception: February 17, 3-5 p.m.

Through February 18. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University, in Johnson.

ROSE PEARLMAN: “Counter-Space,” abstract wall hangings created by punch-needle rug hooking.

Through March 5. Minema Gallery in Johnson.

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‘TEXTURES AND PATTERNS’: Textural paintings

by Sandy Grant, hooked rugs by Judy Dodds and ceramic mosaics by Bette Ann Libby. Through March 5. Info, 496-6682. The Gallery at Mad River Valley Arts in Waitsfield.

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ALEXIS SERIO: Abstracted landscape paintings that explore perceptions of time and memory. Through February 28. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls.

Candylicious Bath & Body Works Suzanne’s Hallmark Asian Therapy

‘ITTY BITTY: TINY TEXTS IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS’: Books from the 17th to 21st centuries that measure between 1.8 and 10 centimeters, from religious manuscripts to cookbooks, children’s books to Shakespeare. Visitors are not currently allowed in the library but may view the works online at go.middlebury.edu/ tinybooks. Through May 31. Davis Family Library, Middlebury College.

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‘PRIDE 1983’: Through interviews with organizers, photographs and scanned images of historic documents, the exhibit, curated by Meg Tamulonis of the Vermont Queer Archives, explores the origins and lasting legacies of Vermont’s first Pride March on June 25, 1983, in Burlington. It can also be viewed online at vtfolklife.org. Through March 25. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

rutland/killington

LOWELL SNOWDEN KLOCK & HEATHER WILSON: ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside, photography on a winter theme and “bombshell” pinup artworks, respectively.

Through February 25. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.

champlain islands/northwest

‘JANUARY: COLOR AND LIGHT’: Painted, CNC-cut wood panels by Scott Brown and illuminated sculptural lanterns by Kristian Brevik. Through March 20. Info, 355-2150. GreenTARA Space in North Hero.

upper valley

CALL TO ARTISTS 2023 SOLO EXHIBITIONS: AVA features three or four Main Gallery opportunities featuring exhibitions that range from thematic, group shows to single/solo artist shows. Deadline: March 31. Find the link for applications at avagallery.org. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, N.H. Info, 603-448-3117.

ARTIST DEVELOPMENT GRANTS: Artist development grants support Vermont-based artists at all stages of their careers, funding activities that enhance mastery of a craft or that increase the viability of an artist’s business. Funding may also support aspects of the creation of new work. Grant amounts range from $250 to $2,000. Details and application at vermontartscouncil.org. Deadline: February 14.

Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier.

CREATION GRANTS AVAILABLE: Intended to support the creation of new work by Vermont artists, creation grants can fund time, materials, some equipment costs and space rental for artists and artist groups. An independent panel of practicing artists and arts professionals reviews applications. Both established and emerging artists are encouraged to apply for this $4,000 award. More info and application at vermontartscouncil.org. Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier. Deadline: April 4. Info, 402-4614.

DIANE GABRIEL VISUAL ARTIST AWARD: Established in 2021 by the family of the late Burlington artist, the award for a Vermont-based emerging artist provides $1,500 cash and $1,000 value toward the use of any BCA Studio facilities. Info and application at burlingtoncityarts.org. Deadline: March 31. BCA Center, Burlington. Info, cstorrs@burlingtoncityarts.org.

‘FINE FEATHERS’: The museum is seeking artworks about birds or feathers for its 2022 juried exhibition.

Almost any medium accepted, except feathers from actual birds. Up to three entries per person, submitted electronically. Use online form or email museum@birdsofvermont.org. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington. Deadline: March 21.

JULIE CRABTREE & AMANDA ANN PALMER: Fiberart landscapes inspired by the Scotland coast, and hand-thrown pottery, respectively. Through February 28. Info, 295-4567. Long River Gallery in White River Junction.

MICRO-GRANTS FOR ARTISTS: The Montpelier Public Arts Commission is offering a micro-grant program for Vermont-based artists for up to $1,500 for permanent or temporary art installations throughout the city. The request for proposals is open for an indefinite period; artists may submit at anytime during the year. The commission will review and award grants twice yearly; the next deadline is March 30. For more info and to review the RFP, visit montpelier-vt.org. Info, 522-0150.

‘LOCAL RELATIONS’: Figurative paintings with moments of humor, hyperrealism and the grotesque

by Vermont artists Joan Feierabend, Leda Nutting and Rebecca Morgan. Through February 27. Info, 347-264-4808. Kishka Gallery & Library in White River Junction.

SEEKING NEW MEMBERS: Become an exhibiting member of the downtown Brandon gallery, participate in group and solo exhibitions and join a vibrant creative community. Apply at brandonartistsguild.org.

Deadline: February 20. Brandon Artists Guild. Free. Info, 247-4956.

northeast kingdom

ARTS CONNECT AT CATAMOUNT ARTS JURIED SHOW: The sixth annual juried show features works by 74 member artists. Slide show of art can be viewed online. Through April 10. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.

THE VERMONT PRIZE: Four art institutions, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Burlington City Arts, the Current and Hall Art Foundation, are collaborating on a new annual award for an artist who is producing “the best visual art” in the state. The winner will receive $5,000 and an online showcase. Find details and application at vermontprize.org. Deadline: March 31. Online.

VERMONT’S GREENEST BUILDINGS AWARD: The 10th annual statewide competition recognizes exemplary residential and commercial buildings that excel in green building strategies and meet the highest standard of demonstrated energy performance. Details and submission form at vtgreenbuildingnetwork.org. Deadline: March 4 at 5 p.m. Online. Info, 735-2192.

BEN BARNES: Recent paintings of northern Vermont: small-town street scenes, landscapes and retired cars and tractors. Through March 25. Info, 525-3366.

The Parker Pie Company in West Glover.

VSC FELLOWSHIPS FOR LAMOILLE COUNTY RESIDENTS: VSC is offering two studio rental fellowships to Lamoille County residents. As part of the Studios at VSC program, visual artists and writers working in all mediums and genres can apply for rent-free studio space for one year on the campus in Johnson. All participants will have access to the center’s public events. Details and application at vermontstudiocenter. org. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson. Deadline: February 20. $10. Info, communications@vermontstudio center.org.

DIANNE TAYLOR MOORE: “Let Us Fly Away,” vibrant pastel paintings of Colorado, the Florida Keys and southwestern U.S. Through February 26. Info, 7480158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

VSC RENTAL GRANTS FOR VERMONT RESIDENTS: VSC is offering Vermont residents rental grants to subsidize a portion of the cost of studio space rental for one year. As part of the Studios at VSC program, Vermont-based visual artists and writers working in all mediums and genres can apply. All Studios at VSC participants have access to VSC events. Details and application at vermontstudiocenter.org. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson. Deadline: February 20. $10. Info, communications@vermontstudiocenter.org.

‘A LIFE IN LISTS AND NOTES’: An exhibition that celebrates the poetic, mnemonic, narrative and enumerative qualities of lists and notes. The objects on display span myriad creative, professional, bureaucratic, domestic and personal uses of lists through the ages. Through May 31. Info, 626-4409.

The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

‘WHY CAN’T ONE GIRL CHANGE IT?’: Submissions accepted for a group show March 4 to April 8 based on a quote from Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai. Due to space limitations, not all works can be accepted. Submit up to four images; 2D work should be no larger than 48 inches, and 3D work no larger than 36 by 84 inches. Deadline: February 14. Find link for application at avagallery.org. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, N.H. $10. Info, 603-448-3117.

OPEN AIR GALLERY: SKI & SNOWSHOE TRAIL: Outdoor sculptures by 20 artists can be seen along a two-mile trail through the center’s grounds and neighboring fields. Reserve free tickets at high landartsvt.org. Through March 27. Info, 533-2000.

Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

STJ ART ON THE STREET WINTER SHOW: Downtown businesses exhibit artworks in storefront windows, including stained glass, lamps, paintings and mixedmedia, in a collaborative public art project. Through February 25. Info, eknarey@catamountarts.org. Various St. Johnsbury locations.

brattleboro/okemo valley

B. LYNCH: “Pull Back the Curtain,” a fantastical universe of the Reds and the Greys, disparate societal factions set in the 18th century, using puppetry, drawing, painting, linoleum block printing and digital animation. Through February 13. DELITA

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state of social tension in the U.S., the reckoning with a history of white supremacy, and the potential for flare-up or collapse. Through March 5. Info, 257-0124.

Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

PETER SCHUMANN: Paintings on bedsheets by the founder of Bread and Puppet theater from his “Bad Bedsheets” and “Handouts” series. Through February 28. Info, breadandpuppetcuratrix@gmail.com. Flat Iron Co-op in Bellows Falls.

SUSAN BREAREY: Paintings of animals in which primal, totemic images take the place of photorealistic details and are set against abstract surfaces.

Through February 20. Info, 387-0102. Next Stage Arts Project in Putney.

manchester/bennington

‘HIROSHIGE AND THE CHANGING JAPANESE LANDSCAPE’: An exhibition of Japanese woodblock

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prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) that depict how the political climate of 19th-century Japan influenced its art and how the art influenced politics.

Through February 27. Info, 367-1311. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

‘THE WORLD BETWEEN THE BLOCK AND THE PAPER’: An international group exhibition of ecologically sound, sensitively produced mokuhanga prints, organized in collaboration with print collective Mokuhanga Sisters. Through March 27. Info, 367-1311.

Yester House Galleries, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester.

randolph/royalton

f MICHAEL SACCA: “In the Surf,” photographs of water in motion by the Vermont artist. Reception: Sunday, February 13, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Through March 19. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.

‘VOICES OF HOME’: An exhibition that explores the experiences of Vermonters living in affordable housing through audio recordings and painted portraits. Through March 19. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph.

outside vermont

‘STICK WITH LOVE’: A group exhibition in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and love, featuring works by Cheryl Betz, Elizabeth D’Amico, Daniela Edstrom, Laura Graveline, Chris Groschner, Naomi Hartov, Patricia Magrosky, Mary Mead, Matthew Peake, Kathryn Peterson, Jessie Pollock, Jan Sandman, Heather Stearns, Laura Tafe, Susan Wilson, Olivia White and Dana Zeilinger. Through February 18. 14TH ANNUAL REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL EXHIBITION: Artwork created by students at 13 Vermont and New Hampshire high schools. Awards chosen by Norwich University adjunct professor Sabrina B. Fadial.

Through February 25. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. COMMUNITY GALLERY SHOW: Local artists showcase their photography, sculpture, painting, pastels, ceramics, stained glass, printmaking and drawing. Reception: Friday, February 11, 5-7 p.m.

Through February 25. Info, 518-563-1604. Strand Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y. ‘ECOLOGIES: A SONG FOR OUR PLANET’: An exhibition of installations, videos, sculptures, paintings, drawings and photographs that explore the relationship between humans and nature, and disruptions to the planet’s ecosystems caused by human intervention. Through February 27. ‘HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR ONE VOICE TO REACH ANOTHER?’: An exhibition of major works from the museum’s collection, along with new acquisitions and loans, that explore the theme of voice in both physical and metaphorical registers. Through February 13. Info, mbam.qc.ca, 514-285-2000.

Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE WITH LAURA POITRAS: “Terror Contagion,” an immersive, activist exhibition by the London-based research collective in collaboration with the journalist-filmmaker. Narration

by Edward Snowden, data sonification by Brian Eno. Through April 18. Info, 514-847-6226. Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art. ‘THIS LAND: AMERICAN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE NATURAL WORLD’: Drawn from the permanent collection, the museum’s first major installation of traditional and contemporary Native American art set alongside early-to-contemporary art by African American, Asian American, Euro-American and Latin American artists, representing a broader perspective on “American” art.

Through July 23. ‘THORNTON DIAL: THE TIGER CAT’: Part of a new acquisition of 10 artworks from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, the exhibition looks closely at the late artist’s work and the ways in which it broadens an understanding of American art. Through February 27. Info, 603-646-2808. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. m

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New Blood I don’t drink coffee. There, I said it. Recoil in horror if you will. Wonder out loud how I can possibly form coherent sentences in the morning or make it through an eight-hour workday without those beans you all love so much. To me, you’re all like the navigators in Dune, addicted to something that allows you to fold space and time briefly but mostly just makes you want more of the bloody bean.

To be clear, it’s not like I don’t need it. I actually don’t form coherent sentences in the morning — just today, I picked up the dog’s sweater, thinking it was my pants. I even put one leg into the sleeve hole before I realized the level of stupidity happening. The dog just stared at me, probably thinking, This asshole should really start drinking coffee.

So you can imagine how out of place I feel in a coffee shop. I walk in, whatever sad-sack singer-songwriter record that’s playing skips to a stop, and everyone points at me as if they were DONALD SUTHERLAND in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Or at least that’s what I imagine.

The Burlington Discover Jazz Festival used to do something similar to me, except it was spread throughout the whole downtown.

For 10 days, the hepcats would take over and there’d be alto sax coming from every corner.

It was surreal to me — not in the trippy, SALVADOR DALÍ way, but in the I-don’t-belonghere fashion.

Which was dumb. Thinking jazz is the music of some exclusive club is dumb. Maybe hating coffee is dumb; I don’t know.

My point is: Over the years, I came to welcome jazz fest into my life. Last year’s return-from-quarantine edition was easily my favorite jazz fest ever. Whether it was being outside with people again or the necessary emphasis on local music, there was real magic in the air. The BDJF folks did an incredible job of adapting to adversity and trying something new.

That ingenuity made the Flynn’s announcement last week that musician, artist and activist MICHAEL MWENSO would guest curate this year’s festival even more intriguing.

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founded Electric Root, an organization/art collective dedicated both to preserving Black music and to spotlighting new movements in Black music.

Flynn artistic director STEVE MACQUEEN handing Mwenso the reins to the entire festival had me excited enough to traipse through the snow and cold last week to meet up with Mwenso and Gasparro at the Flynn. In town to tour venues, they had just spent the afternoon at the Integrated Arts Academy in the Old North End, speaking to fifth graders about music and playing them cuts by MAHALIA JACKSON and LOUIS ARMSTRONG. “We’re trying to decolonize musical curriculum,” Mwenso told me as we sat across from one another. “So we played them these deep records. And this beautiful boy looked at me and said the music sounded old to him.”

Mwenso laughed beneath his mask, his eyes shining as he recalled the encounter. “I told him, ‘It’s not old if you haven’t heard it before,’” he said.

Sitting beside him, Gasparro gave an emphatic nod.

“We’ve toured and played so many colleges,” he said. “And a lot of students across the country have no idea who JAMES BROWN is now. We can’t let that be.”

“Wynton believes he came into the world to keep jazz in it,” Mwenso added. “We believe we need to save all Black music.”

“Wynton” is WYNTON MARSALIS, legendary jazz trumpeter and managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has been equal parts mentor and family friend to Mwenso since the two met when Mwenso was a teen living in London.

Mwenso was born in the West African country Sierra Leone but moved to England when he was 10 years old. Tragically, his mother was deported to Nigeria a few years later, but Mwenso was taken in by her former landlord, a white man in his fifties, and raised in London.

“He had a massive record collection,” Mwenso revealed. “In his youth, what took him out of loneliness was Black music. So there were all these GLADYS KNIGHT and BOBBY BLAIR records around for me to experience.”

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It wasn’t long before Mwenso was going to Ronnie Scott’s, the famous London jazz club where some of the best musicians in the world played.

There, at the age of 17, he saw Marsalis for the first time. The two would form a deep relationship, and Marsalis eventually brought Mwenso to New York City to work with him at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Marsalis would also connect Mwenso and Gasparro. Born in Ohio, Gasparro did his college internship in NYC with Jazz at Lincoln Center and worked directly for Marsalis after graduation.

“Michael had been putting together shows at Ronnie Scott’s by then and running this great late-night jam,” Gasparro explained. “And Wynton wanted him to come over and bring that same energy to this club in New York called Dizzy’s.”

While Gasparro worked on elevating the programs at Jazz at Lincoln Center, including webcast seminars and educational forums, Mwenso was transforming Dizzy’s. Much like he had done at Ronnie Scott’s, Mwenso reached out to the younger generation of jazz artists, many of whom attended the Juilliard School.

From those late-night sessions, Mwenso & the Shakes were born.

The Harlem-based roots band toured hard for years, with Gasparro serving as tour manager before eventually moving out to California with his wife and newborn.

“We brought the band to all these crazy places,” Gasparro recalled.

“The whitest dive bars, folk and blues festivals, college campuses … We didn’t give a shit.”

Those experiences inspired Mwenso and Gasparro to use Electric Root to stage an event last year called Black Roots Summer at Bard College in New York. Over two weekends, Mwenso and more than 30 other predominantly BIPOC performers premiered three concerts, one of which was a new twist on The Sound of Music.

“We did it as The Sound of Black Music,” Mwenso said. “We took the actual songs from the original show but funneled them through the Black lens.”

Mwenso said the event at Bard showed him a way forward with Electric Root. After the death of GEORGE FLOYD and the national reckoning that followed, Mwenso felt the time was right to push the conversation

of Blackness in America, especially in relation to the legacy and future of Black musicians.

So when MacQueen called him up one day and asked him to curate the 2022 BDJF, Mwenso was ready.

“Our vibration with this is not going to just be coming from jazz,” Mwenso said. “It’ll be about the holistic nature of Black music. We’re going to be asking, ‘How do we present gospel here? Who’s a good, young voice in blues music? Who’s a deep jazz player, a figurehead, and who’s the young cat ready to step up?’”

Gasparro gave his old friend a knowing smile as we prepared to leave the Flynn and head back out into the cold.

“We don’t care about genre. They’re used to sell records,” he said. “It’s like Michael was saying: We want to honor the ancestors by preserving their art and culture. But we also want to make them live.”

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In this week’s edition of Oh, It’s Real, we visit one of my favorite artists — at a particularly low point in his career.

Who doesn’t love TONY BENNETT? The world-famous crooner has graced the world with his silky voice and cool-as-hell demeanor Tony for decades, crafting Bennett a career any musician would envy.

But we all have our fuckups. In 1970, Bennett’s career was floundering, so Columbia Records’ head honcho, CLIVE DAVIS, pressured Bennett to record Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today! Though critically derided, the record isn’t the kind of terrible that would warrant inclusion here — save for his head-scratching, possibly purposely terrible cover of the BEATLES’ “Eleanor Rigby.”

For reasons only Bennett could say, the singer decided to tackle the song in true WILLIAM SHATNER fashion — as in, spoken word. Hearing Bennett speak the lines “Eleanor Rigby … waits at the window … wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door … Who is it for?” like someone just gave CHRISTOPHER WALKEN a hit of weed and asked him to recite his favorite Beatles tune is, well, it’s awful.

The song and album sucked enough to force a divorce between Bennett and Columbia. His career wouldn’t recover until the ’80s. Let that be a lesson: Never half-ass a Beatles cover. m

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Find the most up-to-date info on live music, DJs, comedy and more at sevendaysvt.com/music. If you’re a talent booker or artist planning live entertainment at a bar, nightclub, café, restaurant, brewery or coffee shop, send event details to music@sevendaysvt.com or submit the info using our form at sevendaysvt.com/postevent.

Events may be canceled due to the coronavirus. Please check with event organizers in advance.

TUE.15 & WED.16 // HIPPIE SABOTAGE [ELECTRONIC]

WED.9

Al’s Pals Acoustic Trio (folk) at Mad River Barn, Waitsfield, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Jazz Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Willverine (electronic) at the Wallflower Collective, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Nancy Smith and Friends (singer-songwriter) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

djs

Swimmer with Lazy Bird (jam) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $8.

WED.9

Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $5.

Wooly Wednesdays with DJ Steal Wool (eclectic) 6 p.m. Free.

Willverine (electronic) at the Wallflower Collective, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

THU.10

THU.10

DJ CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Baron (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

American Roots Night at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free.

Memery (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Brett Hughes (Americana) at Filling Station, Middlesex, 6 p.m.

Free.

Dan Bishop Trio (jazz) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Neighbor (rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20/$25.

Open MIc Open Jam Night (open mic) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

King Me (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Neighbor (rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20/$25.

Memery (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Slightly Used (rock) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Soul Porpoise (soul) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Supernatural Rocks (covers) 9 p.m. Free.

Brothers in Bass Originally from Sacramento, Calif., sibling electronic

producers Kevin and Jeff Saurer relocated to Los Angeles to become HIPPIE SABOTAGE. The duo started out making music to skateboarding videos while still in middle school but found success in 2014 with a remix of Swedish singer-songwriter Tove Lo’s track “Habits (Stay

DJ Raul (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

February 15 and 16, with support from DAISY GUTTRIDGE.

DJ Matt Hagen (DJ) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Glass Pony (jam) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Hell Priest, I Destroyer, Snaer, Earthwyrm (metal) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Karl & the Instrumentals (rock) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free.

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Andy Kershaw (DJ) at Monkey House, Winooski, 9 p.m. Free.

hip-hop and chillwave, with hints of indie rock. Their latest record, 2021’s Floating Palace,

SAT.12

Al’s Pals (blues) at South Mountain Tavern, Bristol, 7 p.m.

Free.

‘For the Love of the Culture: An Urban Music Affair’ in Honor of Black History Month (DJ, hip hop) at the Depot, St. Albans, 9 p.m. $10.

DJ A-Ra$ (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Wendigo (rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

AliT (singer-songwriter) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m.

Free.

SAT.12

High).” The Saurer brothers mine from a host of influences, moving effortlessly between marked an expansion of their sound, with pop bombast, high-energy bangers and ice-cold jams. They take the stage at the Higher Ground Ballroom on Tuesday and Wednesday,

Left Eye Jump (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free.

Maple & Hanson (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Neighbor (rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20/$25.

Nottingham Drive (country, rock) at 14th Star Brewing Co., St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Rehab Roadhouse (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

The Smokin’ J’s (funk) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 9 p.m.

Free.

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Still Woozy with Wallice (indie rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $30/$35.

WED.16

SUN.13

Hippie Sabotage with Daisy Guttridge (electronic) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $28/$32.

TUE.15

Jazz Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Hippie Sabotage with Daisy Guttridge (electronic) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $28/$32.

Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $5.

Country Ham (bluegrass) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free.

Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10.

Al’s Pals Acoustic Trio (folk) at Mad River Barn, Waitsfield, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic Night (open mic) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

comedy WED.9

2nd Wednesday Live Comedy Night (comedy) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Standup Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Mothra! A Storytelling/ Improv Comedy Show (improv comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $10.

DJ Craig Mitchell (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Greg Freeman Band, Guy Ferrari, and Greaseface (indie rock) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10.

WED.16

Socializing for Introverts (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m.

Free.

ATAK (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

Free Range Band (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Open Mic Night (open mic) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Weird & Niche (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $5.

After Hours hosted by Malachi (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free.

WED.9

Nice Up: Reggae Hip Hop and AfroBeat with Big Dog and C-Low (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

FRI.11

FRI.11

open mics & jams

No Scrubs: ’90s Night with DJ Ron Stoppable (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Reign One (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m.

Free.

MON.14

THU.10

FRI.11

Miss Sassy Variety Hour (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $20.

SAT.12

Miss Sassy Variety Hour (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $20.

MON.14

Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at the 126, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

WED.16

Standup Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

trivia, karaoke, etc.

FRI.11

Untapped: My Chubby Valentine (drag show) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Mo’ Monday with DJs Craig Mitchell and Fattie B (soul, R&B) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

MON.14

TUE.15

TUE.15

Local Dork (DJ) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

WED.16

Wooly Wednesdays with DJ Steal Wool (eclectic) 6 p.m. Free.

Trivia with Brian & Ian (trivia) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Karaoke with DJ Party Bear (karaoke) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m.

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The ghost of a murdered man gazes down on his broken body and ruined farm. His wife murdered, his flock slaughtered by men with “fouled hearts and hungry eyes,” the vengeful wraith has risen from the grave with a black hole for a face. Slowly, with a terrible inevitability, the specter pursues his killers across the frozen winter lands.

Pardon my French, but that is metal as fuck — as it should be. The spokenword lyrics of the first cut launch Forever but Never Named, a concept

Raw Deff x THEN WHAt, The Others II (SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)

Raw Deff occupies a strange place in the Vermont hip-hop scene.

For years, the rapper has collaborated with many of the 802’s best, playing shows everywhere he can and earning so much respect that he’s often called one of the best MCs in the state. Thing is, though, he’s actually from Lebanon, N.H. Raw Deff’s latest album marks his second collaboration with producer/ Renaissance man THEN WHAt, who also raps under the memorable moniker Selfish Presley. Since we’re talking location, THEN WHAt is technically a

album from Montpelier extreme metal band Lightcrusher. Over the next hour of bruising, dark music, the band follows the ghost’s quest for vengeance, the story playing out from track to track.

The first track, “Steward’s Lament,” sets the stage. Dissonant, rickety guitar, played to resemble a detuned piano, lays down a foundation of ever-building suspense.

Vocalist M. Schrift unravels the story; at times he’s as detached as a somnambulist, but he becomes increasingly unhinged as the song progresses.

“Coursing Through Black Veins of Earth” kicks off the pummeling phase of the record, the band’s second LP after 2018’s Constructing Stairs of Mortared Bone.

Harmonized guitars crest like some

malevolent rogue wave as Schrift all but invokes a curse.

“Within all things that walk or crawl or hold to earth with rooted claw / My spirit fills the cracks betwixt with cold intent of winter’s kiss.”

Winter plays a big part in the album’s story. In an email, guitarist Aaron Sørensen wrote that the themes of desperation and insanity were inspired

by Vermont’s “beautiful, yet isolated surroundings.”

Sørensen formed the group in 2010, combining the slowed-down, dirgelike heaviness of death-doom with the savage attack of black metal. Some might consider two full-length records in 11 years a poor return, but it’s best to compare Lightcrusher records to fantasy novels. Like most good fantasy writers, the band needs time to world build and construct its multilayered, grim epics.

Schrift’s lyrics on Forever but Never Named paint a bleak picture for the

undead protagonist, as well as the killers he hunts. “Soldier’s Lament” shifts from distorted shrieks back to the monologuelike delivery of the opening track. Schrift embodies the voice of an old soldier, full of regret and blame and reminiscing about home.

It can be difficult to present a fully formed concept album. A key factor in success is committing to the scope of the task. A band has to follow through, or it just ends up with bloat.

Lightcrusher are more than game, however, treating their record like a sprawling poem of horror, full of characters and dynamic shifts.

“Of a Dark and Terrible Thing Once Forgotten” closes the hour-plus album.

Spoiler alert: It doesn’t go well for the fleeing murderers — a fitting end to a bleak yet vibrant story.

Download Forever but Never Named at lightcrusher.bandcamp.com, or order the CD from bornforburning.bigcartel.com.

Vermont expat, having relocated to the endless sun of New Mexico. But he’s still an active collaborator and creative consultant for a Green Mountain scene on which he left a big mark.

Which brings us to The Others II, a 10-track LP that’s something of an artistic statement. Raw Deff and THEN WHAt have put in work for years, but what sets them apart isn’t their talent; it’s quality control.

Every song here is a highgloss masterpiece. THEN WHAt’s carefully tailored beats are melodic and bumping, and they always unfold like full-fledged songs, not alternating loops.

Album opener “Dead Flowers” is a scathing manifesto that leads straight into “Been a Long Time,” a reflection on Deff’s years in the game. These two are not here to prove themselves; that’s

already been done. They’re here to cement those legacies with the best work they can do.

To their credit, the biggest challenge for this reviewer was picking the standouts on a tight LP where every track is a worthy single. The upbeat “Finesse Like Me” is a killer workout, showing off Raw Deff’s charisma and flow. “Flip the Script” is a nonstop barrage of clever, disrespectful bars over a constantly evolving beat.

The most unexpected triumph is “Frankenstein.” Most MCs would be content flipping metaphors and movie references, but he puts the listener inside the awakening monster for a riveting first-person, body-horror experience.

Equally compelling is “Habitat,” a heartfelt hip-hop autobiography featuring genial Vermont legend Jibba the Gent.

Yet album closer “Stuck” is perhaps the finest song here. The beat is a lush banger, and Deff is at his best, making

peace with his demons and rendering a lifetime of struggling with doubt and depression into relatable, flawlessly composed rhymes. Weary, wise and hopeful, the song is the perfect note to end on — though listeners may immediately be tempted to replay the whole album.

The sound quality throughout is impeccable, thanks to Street Religion kingpin Yung Breeze, whose mixing and mastering is professional grade.

The product of two prolific artists at the absolute top of their game, The Others II is an early contender for local hip-hop album of the year.

Expect that field to keep getting more crowded, though, because there’s more competition than ever. You can also bet that Raw Deff and THEN WHAt will be involved with more than a few of those contenders.

The Others II is available at rawdeffxthenwhat.bandcamp.com.

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The film opens with an animated re-creation of Rasmussen’s first interview with Nawabi, who’s now a successful academic. He and his longtime boyfriend are discussing marrying and moving to the countryside, conversations that rouse Nawabi’s ambivalence about the whole concept of home.

As Nawabi narrates, the present-day scene gives way to flashbacks of his childhood in Kabul in the 1980s. Young Nawabi barely remembers his father, who never returned from the prison to which Afghanistan’s Soviet-backed government sent him.

What happened next, as the Taliban took control of the country? When he sought asylum in Denmark, Nawabi told the immigration authorities that the Taliban killed the rest of his family, and he escaped on his own to Moscow. Now, however, he tells Rasmussen the true story, which is twistier but no less harrowing.

Will you like it?

While animated documentaries may seem to some viewers like a recent fad, they’ve actually been around since the age of silent film. Animation gives documentarians the power to depict events they couldn’t witness, without resorting to History Channel-style reenactments. And, because animation is so expressive, it can be used to highlight the unreliability of memory and the subjectivity of storytelling.

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esterday it became official — the Danish film Flee has been nominated for the Oscars for Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature. The doc was a labor of love for director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, who met protagonist Amin Nawabi (a pseudonym) when both were teenagers.

Rasmussen first considered making a documentary about his friend’s flight from his native Afghanistan 15 years ago. But Nawabi wasn’t ready yet to open up about those memories. Later, Rasmussen got an inspiration: He would present the story as animation rather than live action, putting a layer of distance and anonymity between the film and real events. Nawabi liked the idea.

Flee is currently playing at Montpelier's Savoy Theater and rentable on various platforms.

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INCREDIBLE JOURNEY An evolving relationship inspires an immigrant to revisit his past in Rasmussen’s doc, nominated for three major Oscars.

Creature Studio, Rasmussen depicts Nawabi’s early childhood in fluid, dreamlike forms reminiscent of A-ha’s 1985 “Take On Me” video. In a sly bit of allusion, Nawabi listens to that very song on his Walkman.

The images soon solidify, but they retain a painterly eloquence. The sundrenched vistas of Kabul embody nostalgia. By contrast, the brutalist tower blocks of Moscow, where Nawabi and his family flee after the rise of the Taliban, offer a merciless northern palette. Here, stuck in a dangerous limbo as they seek passage to Sweden, the family finds sunlight only in Mexican telenovelas.

It doesn’t take long to understand why teenage Nawabi lied about his past when he eventually arrived in Denmark, alone. Fabricated by the same traffickers who decided his destination, the lie was simpler and easier to digest than the truth.

In Flee, though, Nawabi’s real migration story comes vividly alive. While outright atrocities do happen on the margins of his tale, it’s mostly a story of false starts, institutional humiliations, simmering threats and Kafkaesque waiting.

Everything comes to a head in a stunning scene that takes place on a clandestine voyage to Scandinavia. As the migrants desperately bail out their unseaworthy

vessel, a Norwegian cruise ship looms over them like a vision of salvation: “Everything we want to achieve is right there,” Nawabi recalls.

But the cries for help go unanswered.

The wealthy white passengers snap photos, while the captain calls the coast guard to send the migrants back where they came from.

Flee always filters such experiences through the prism of young Nawabi’s individuality — his adolescent restlessness, his love of pop music and his struggle to come to terms with his sexuality, for which “there wasn’t even a word” in Afghanistan, Nawabi says. As we watch global forces shape young Nawabi into someone smaller and warier, we realize that the adult Nawabi’s fear of romantic commitment is actually a fear of trusting in permanence.

After so many forced departures, travel feels safer to him than attempting to build a “home.”

Because the animation is frequently so beautiful and Nawabi so personable, Flee isn’t the bleak experience that a straightforward documentary on the subject might have been. Nawabi may suffer trauma, but he meets it with resilience, and his story will resonate with anyone who’s ever struggled to come to terms with their past.

It’s an easy story to universalize: All refugees seeking safety across a border have certain things in common. But they also have countless vital differences. By focusing on the story of this one secretly gay Jean-Claude Van Damme fan, Flee reminds us that migrations are always movements of individuals.

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WALTZ WITH BASHIR (2008; Documentary

Mania, rentable): In this Oscar-nominated animated doc, Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman tries to fill the gaps in his memories of fighting in the 1982 Lebanon War. TOWER (2016; Kanopy, AMC+, Doc Club,

Sundance Now, CuriosityStream, rentable): For another example of the power of the animated doc form, try this chilling re-creation of the 1966 mass sniper shooting at the University of Texas, featuring vintage audio.

PERSEPOLIS (2007; rentable): Cartoonist

Marjane Satrapi codirected this awardwinning adaptation of her graphic novel about growing up in and eventually fleeing revolutionary Iran.

WEST NILE VIRUS • DENGUE FEVER • ZIKA

NEW IN THEATERS BLACKLIGHT: Welp, Liam Neeson is back in action mode to help us fight the winter doldrums. He plays a U.S. operative who discovers a sinister plot in this spy thriller from director Mark Williams (Honest Thief). (108 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Stowe) DEATH ON THE NILE: Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh, who also directed) must find an heiress’ killer while on a sumptuous vacation in this new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s whodunit, also starring Annette Bening and Gal Gadot. (127 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic)

PARALLEL MOTHERSHHHH1/2 Two women (Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit) of different generations who are both single and giving birth meet and bond in the hospital in the latest acclaimed drama from writer-director Pedro Almodóvar. (123 min, R. Roxy, Savoy) SCREAMHHH Rather than a remake, this is a fourth sequel to Wes Craven’s slasher classic, set 25 years after the original and featuring returning stars such as Neve Campbell alongside newcomers such as Melissa Barrera. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Ready or Not) directed. (114 min, R. Essex, Majestic)

JOCKEY: In this Sundance Film Festival honoree, a veteran jockey meets a challenger who claims to be his son. Clifton Collins Jr. and Moises Arias star.

Clint Bentley directed. (94 min, R. Savoy)

SING 2HH1/2 Show biz-loving critters return in this sequel to the animated hit, featuring the voices of Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Bono. Garth Jennings directed. (112 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Majestic)

MARRY ME: Betrayed by her celebrity fiancé, a pop diva (Jennifer Lopez) makes a split-second decision to propose to a random guy (Owen Wilson) in this rom-com directed by Kat Coiro. (112 min, PG-13.

Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Star, Stowe)

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOMEHHH1/2 Peter Parker (Tom Holland) seeks the help of Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Jon Watts returns as director. (148 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Star)

THE VELVET QUEEN: In this documentary, a photographer and a novelist explore the Tibetan Plateau in search of the elusive snow leopard. Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier directed. (92 min, NR. Savoy)

SUNDOWNHHH1/2 Tensions erupt among family members vacationing in Acapulco after they hear of a relative’s death in this drama from director Michel Franco (New Order). (83 min, R. Roxy)

CURRENTLY PLAYING BELFASTHHHH Kenneth Branagh wrote and directed this semi-autobiographical film about coming of age in the turbulent Northern Ireland of the 1960s. (98 min, PG-13. Capitol) BELLEHHHH A shy high schooler (voiced by Kaho Nakamura) escapes into a virtual world where she is a star in this animated adventure from writerdirector Mamoru Hosoda (Mirai). (121 min, PG. Savoy) C’MON C’MONHHHH Joaquin Phoenix plays a traveling radio journalist who finds himself becoming his young nephew’s guardian in this indie drama from writer-director Mike Mills (20th Century Women). (108 min, R. Playhouse) FLEEHHHHH Animation depicts the harrowing story of a Danish immigrant from Afghanistan as he unveils his history in this documentary from Jonas Poher Rasmussen, the recipient of a slew of critics’ awards. (89 min, PG-13. Savoy; reviewed 2/9) JACKASS FOREVERHHH1/2 Johnny Knoxville and cast members from his erstwhile MTV show return with a fresh set of wacky and hazardous pranks and stunts. Jeff Tremaine directed. (96 min, R. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Stowe) THE KING’S MANHH In this prequel to the Kingsman action-comedy series, Ralph Fiennes plays a spy who organizes a team to defeat an evil cabal. (131 min, R. Big Picture, Majestic) LICORICE PIZZAHHHH1/2 A teenager (Cooper Hoffman) pursues a woman (Alana Haim) 10 years his senior in this acclaimed coming-of-age comedy from Paul Thomas Anderson, set in 1973 Los Angeles. With Sean Penn and Tom Waits. (133 min, R. Big Picture, Essex, Marquis, Playhouse, Roxy, Savoy; reviewed 1/12) MOONFALLHH In the new disaster flick from Roland Emmerich (2012), the moon is on a collision course with the Earth, and only an astronaut can (maybe) stop it! (120 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Roxy, Star)

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETHHHHH1/2 Joel Coen wrote and directed this Shakespeare adaptation starring Denzel Washington as the all-tooambitious Scotsman and Frances McDormand as his wife. (105 min, R. Savoy) WEST SIDE STORYHHHH1/2 Steven Spielberg directed this new adaptation of the Leonard Bernstein musical in which two young people from opposite sides of a gang war fall in love. (156 min, PG-13. Majestic) WHO WE ARE: A CHRONICLE OF RACISM IN AMERICAHHHH1/2 Jeffery Robinson of the ACLU presents the evidence for a tradition of anti-Black racism that continues today in this documentary directed by Emily and Sarah Kunstler. (117 min, PG-13.

Roxy) THE WOLF AND THE LION: Two cubs try to make their way back to the woman who adopted them in this family adventure, starring Molly Kunz and Graham Greene. (99 min, PG. Essex)

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agriculture

FARM SUCCESSION PLANNING WEBINAR SERIES: Land for Good specialists teach a four-week course for farmers looking to transfer ownership to the next generation. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 603-357-1600.

community

CURRENT EVENTS OVER ZOOM: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library leads an informal discussion about what’s in the news. 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister.

Info, programs@damlvt.org.

crafts

FIRESIDE KNITTING GROUP: Needle jockeys gather to chat and work on their latest projects. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

dance

DANCING UPHILL 2022: Guest artists join UVM students and faculty to perform original dance works in a new studio/ performance space. Masks required. Michele and Martin Cohen Hall for the Integrated Arts, University of Vermont, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-15.

environment

WATER QUALITY IN FERRISBURGH & THE HEALTH OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN: At a Ferrisburgh Conservation Commission, Lewis Creek Association presents reasons for local water pollution and possible solutions. 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 989-0531.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: An educational and entertaining film takes viewers on an epic adventure through some of Earth’s wildest landscapes. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘BUFFALO SOLDIERS’: Donald Glover stars in a film inspired by the true story of an allBlack cavalry stationed in the Western Territories after the Civil War. Masks and proof of vaccination required.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: Moviegoers join scientists on a journey through a surreal world of bug-eyed giants and egg-laying mammals. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

HITCHCOCK MOVIE NIGHT: The library screens a classic Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant flick in the auditorium.

South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 846-4140.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: A tenacious mammalian matriarch fights to protect her family

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Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘A SONG CALLED HATE’: VTIFF Virtual Cinema screens a documentary about provocative Icelandic performance group Hatari, who get the chance to make a meaningful political statement at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Israel. $6-12; VTIFF member benefits apply. Info, 660-2600.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: Sparkling graphics take viewers on a mind-bending journey from the beginning of time through the mysteries of the universe. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘UPPERCASE PRINT’: Romanian director Gianina Cărbunariu defies the conventions of documentary in this story about one teenager’s crusade against his Soviet government. Presented

by Vermont International Film Foundation. $6-12; VTIFF member benefits apply. Info, 660-2600.

food & drink

MOSAIC OF FLAVOR: AFGHAN CHICKEN CURRY & NAAN: New

FIND MORE LOCAL EVENTS IN THIS ISSUE AND ONLINE: art Find visual art exhibits and events in the Art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/music.

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FEB. 15 | MUSIC Homecoming Big cities have their perks, but moving home to Vermont can yield surprising results.

When Anaïs Mitchell, the Grammy and Tony award-winning creator of Hadestown, left New York City in 2020 for Bristol, where she went to high school, she discovered a new well of creativity. The singer-songwriter began composing songs about her life and childhood. Last month Mitchell released her first solo album in 10 years, a self-titled compilation that explores her path to adulthood. On her current tour, she sings cuts from the album and performs with Eric D. Johnson and Josh Kaufman as the Grammynominated trio Bonny Light Horseman. Masks and proof of vaccination required.

ANAÏS MITCHELL Tuesday, February 15, 7:30 p.m., at Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. $15-45. Info, 603-646-2422, hop.dartmouth.edu.

Burlingtonian Shakirullah Safi demonstrates how to bake naan dodai and break down a whole chicken into charg carrayee.

Presented by City Market, Onion River Co-op and USCRI Vermont.

5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@citymarket.coop.

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: Those in need of an easy-on-the-joints workout gather for an hour of calming, low-impact movement.

United Community Church, St. Johnsbury, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 751-0431.

CHAIR YOGA: Waterbury Public Library instructor Diana Whitney leads at-home participants in gentle stretches supported by seats. 10 a.m. Free.

Info, 244-7036.

language

ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS: Learners of all abilities practice written and spoken English with trained instructors. Presented by Fletcher Free Library. 6:30-8 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov.

SPANISH CONVERSATION MEETUP ONLINE: Fluent and beginner speakers brush up on their español with a discussion led by a Spanish teacher.

Presented by Dorothy Alling Memorial Library. 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

outdoors

NATURALIST JOURNEYS: MELODY MACKIN & RICH HOLSCHUH: Two Abenaki educators from the Atowi Project discuss Indigenous intersections

between culture, language, place and plant life. Presented by North Branch Nature Center. 6-7 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 229-6206.

WILDLIFE TRACKING WEDNESDAYS: Naturalists teach trackers of all ages how to distinguish the snowy paw prints of coyotes, foxes, minks and more.

North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7:30-8:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 229-6206.

seminars

DEVELOPING SELF: Participants reflect on their experiences and reconnect with their values in order to address life’s challenges.

Presented by Mercy Connections.

10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister.

Info, 846-7063.

FINANCIAL AWARENESS SERIES ONLINE: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library and

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Opportunities Credit Union team up for a four-week series of classes on budgeting, credit, saving and home buying. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

about the ever-changing nature of agriculture. 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, leannep@ farmfirst.org.

L.E.A.N. IN: Health coach Becky Widschwenter teaches a biweekly series on healthy habits and wellness tips.

Presented by Waterbury Public Library. 5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

BIZ BUZZ ZOOM: Vermont Womenpreneurs hosts a virtual networking space for women business owners to meet and connect. 10-11:15 a.m. Free.

Info, 870-0903.

U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION: Adult learners study English, history, government and geography with personal tutors. Virtual options available. Mercy Connections, Burlington, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 846-7063.

sports

2022 BEIJING WINTER OLYMPIC SCREENINGS: WOMEN’S SLALOM: A watch party convenes to see the world’s best skiers dodge those gates on the big screen. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 5 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 760-4634.

talks

HOW IS VERMONT RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGES OF RACISM AND HEALTH?: A panel of experts discusses how policies can better eliminate race-based health disparities. Presented by Kellogg-Hubbard Library and the League of Women Voters of Vermont. 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, league@ lwvofvt.org.

words

ERIC LINDSTROM: A UVM professor uses examples from William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Jane Austen and others to discuss literature and memory.

Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, University of Vermont, Burlington, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 656-1297.

FFL BOOK CLUB: ‘HAMNET’: A young William Shakespeare and his wife lose their son to the Black Death in Maggie O’Farrell’s fictionalized account. Hosted by Fletcher Free Library. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov.

SO YOU HAVE A MANUSCRIPT, NOW WHAT?: BILL SCHUBART: A published author explains the publication process to fiction writers who are ready to get their novels out there. Presented by St. Johnsbury Athenaeum.

7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 748-8291.

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agriculture

ONLINE GATHERING FOR FARMERS: Modeled after an in-person community meeting, Farm First organizers start a discussion among peers

business

HIRING2DAYVT VIRTUAL JOB FAIR: The Vermont Department of Labor gives job seekers a chance to meet with employers from around the state.

11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 828-4000.

community

VERMONT COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP TRAINING: Mercy Connections teaches community-building skills to anyone looking to effect change in the lives of the people around them. 1:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, 846-7063.

crafts

THURSDAY ZOOM KNITTERS: The Norman Williams Public Library fiber arts club meets virtually for conversation and crafting. 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@normanwilliams.org.

dance

DANCING UPHILL 2022: See WED.9.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.9.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.9.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.9.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.9.

food & drink

LOVE BAR: Adventure Dinner hosts a pop-up bar featuring sommelier-selected wines, flirty cocktails and ooey-gooey fondue in a 2,000-square-foot space suited to social distancing. Reservations available; proof of vaccination required.

Adventure Lodge, Vergennes, 4-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 248-224-7539.

SUP CON GUSTO TAKEOUT SUPPER SERIES: Philly transplants Randy Camacho and Gina Cocchiaro serve up three-course and à la carte menus shaped by seasonal Vermont ingredients. See supcongustovt.com to preorder.

Richmond Community Kitchen, 5-8 p.m. Various prices. Info, gustogastronomics@gmail.com.

games

WHIST CARD GAME CLUB: Players of all experience levels congregate for some friendly competition. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 12:30-3 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

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health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA WITH LINDA: Every week is a new adventure in movement and mindfulness at this Morristown Centennial Library virtual class.

10:15-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

music

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WILLIAM FULTON: An opera expert unfolds the history of the form, with a focus on Verdi and Puccini. Presented by the Vermont Italian Cultural Association. 7-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, vtitaliancultural assoc@gmail.com.

seminars

U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION: See WED.9.

words

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CHERIE JONES: Vermont Studio Center hosts a virtual reading from the author of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House. 7-9 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 635-2727.

NO PRESSURE BOOK GROUP: There are no rules and no assignments in this virtual book club, at which readers discuss old favorites, current obsessions and recent recommendations. 7-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

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‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.9.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.9.

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.9.

ONLINE GUIDED MEDITATION: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library invites attendees to chill out on their lunch breaks and reconnect with their bodies. Noon-12:30 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, programs@damlvt.org.

QIGONG WITH GERRY SANDWEISS: Beginners learn this ancient Chinese practice of meditative movement.

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WED.9

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: Mothers-to-be build strength, stamina and a stronger connection to their baby. 5:45-6:45 p.m. $5-15. Info, 899-0339.

burlington

CRAFTERNOON: Weaving, knitting, embroidery and paper crafting supplies take over the Teen Space. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-3403.

ITTY BITTY PUBLIC SKATE: Coaches are on hand to help the rink’s tiniest skaters stay on their feet. Gordon H. Paquette Ice Arena, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $8. Info, 865-7558.

chittenden county

AFTERSCHOOL MOVIE: Young filmgoers enjoy a Pokémon movie at the library.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

COMICS CLUB!: Graphic novel and manga fans in third through sixth grades meet to discuss current reads and do fun activities together. Hosted

by Brownell Library. Essex Teen Center, Essex Junction, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

FLEDGLINGS EXPLORE WINTER: Junior naturalists investigate how animals and plants adapt to February in Vermont.

Ages 4 through 9. Dress for adventures in the snow. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 1-3 p.m. Donations; preregister; limited space. Info, 434-2167.

LEGO BUILDERS: Elementary-age imagineers explore, create and participate in challenges after school. Ages 8 and up, or ages 6 and up with an adult helper.

South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

STORY TIME: Little ones from birth through age 5 learn from songs, sign language lessons, math activities and picture books. Masks required. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10:30-11 a.m.

Free. Info, 878-6956.

STORY WALK: ‘I AM THE STORM’: Little readers bundle up, take a walk around the library grounds and read about how people keep each other safe during storms. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.9, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Energetic youngsters join Miss Meliss for stories, songs and lots of silliness. Presented by Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

VIRTUAL BABYTIME: Librarians bring out books, rhymes and

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Ages birth to 18 months. Presented by Fletcher Free Library. 9:30-10:45 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

LEGO TIME: Builders in kindergarten through fourth grade enjoy an afternoon of imagination and play. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space.

Info, 878-4918.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC WITH LINDA BASSICK: The singer and storyteller extraordinaire leads little ones in indoor music and movement. Birth through age 5. Masks required for kids 2 and up. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

STORY TIME: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers take part in reading, singing and dancing. Masks required for ages 2 and up. Winooski Memorial Library, 1010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 655-6424.

STORY WALK: ‘I AM THE STORM’: See WED.9, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

stowe/smuggs

MIDDLE SCHOOL ADVISORY BOARD MEETING: Students ages 10 through 12 kick off the library’s new participatory program for preteens. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3 p.m.

Free. Info, 888-3853.

upper valley

TODDLER STORY TIME: Toddling tykes 20 months through 3.5 years hear a few stories related to the theme of the week. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

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ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.9, 12:30-1:15 p.m.

chittenden county

FRIDAY MOVIE: Little film buffs congregate in the library’s Katie O’Brien Activity Room for an afterschool screening of a G-rated movie. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, nliuzzi@southburlingtonvt.gov.

OUTDOOR PLAYTIME: Energetic youngsters ages 2 through 5 don warm layers to play with hoops and parachutes out in the snow. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-6956.

PAJAMA STORY TIME: Puppets and picture books enhance a special prebedtime story hour for kids in their PJs. Birth through age 5. Masks required.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 5:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

STORY WALK: ‘I AM THE STORM’: See WED.9.

TEEN ADVISORY BOARD: Teenagers meet new friends and take an active role in their local library. Masks required.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

barre/montpelier

WINTER STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: Participants ages 6 and under hear stories, sing songs, and have hot tea and oatmeal around the fire. Dress warmly.

Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

FEB. 12-16 | FAMILY FUN Bundle Up Though it’s tempting to stay indoors when it’s snowy and cold, outdoor experiences make Vermont winters marvelous. Kids of all ages indulge their senses at Magic of Maple, a family-friendly celebration. Foodies sample sugar on snow, learn how to make maple popcorn and discover how sugarers produce the sweet, sticky syrup. Adventurers build snow creations, go sledding and snowshoeing, make crafts, and take sleigh rides (weather permitting). An outdoor fire thaws out fingers and toes, and hot chocolate and s’mores warm eager bellies.

MAGIC OF MAPLE Saturday, February 12, through Wednesday, February 16, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock. $8-16; free for members and kids 3 and under; additional fees and reservations for some activities.

See website for additional dates. Info, 457-2355, billingsfarm.org.

stowe/smuggs

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Players ages 9 through 13 go on a fantasy adventure with dungeon master Andy. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 888-3853.

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KARMA KIDZ YOGA OPEN STUDIO SATURDAYS: Young yogis of all ages and their caregivers drop in for some fun breathing and movement activities.

Kamalika-K, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Donations. Info, 871-5085.

STORY WALK: ‘I AM THE STORM’: See WED.9, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

upper valley

IGLOO BUILD & THE SCIENCE OF WINTER: A lesson in icy architecture kicks off a day of snowy, scientific fun for the whole family. See montshire.org for full schedule. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

Regular admission, $14-17; free for members and kids under 2. Info, 649-2200.

MAGIC OF MAPLE: Families make candy and learn about sugaring in between $5 horse-drawn sleigh rides and other winter delights. See calendar spotlight.

Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock.

Regular admission, $8-16; free for members and kids 3 and under. Info, 457-2355.

enjoy fun-filled reading time. Presented

by Fletcher Free Library. 9:30-10 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 863-3403.

burlington

ITTY BITTY PUBLIC SKATE: See WED.9.

V-DAY COOKIE DECORATING!: Teens and tweens decorate valentine (or antivalentine!) cookies for friends, dates, family or themselves. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

STORY WALK: ‘I AM THE STORM’: See WED.9, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

upper valley

MAGIC OF MAPLE: See SAT.12.

SUN.13

RECYCLE RAINBOW: Every week, kiddos make crafts and decorations in a new color to brighten up the library. Norwich Public Library, 1-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, circulation.desk@norwichlibrary.org.

burlington

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ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.9, 10:15-11:15 a.m.

DAD GUILD: Fathers and their kids ages 5 and under drop in for playtime and connection. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

GENDER CREATIVE KIDS: Trans and gender-nonconforming kiddos under 13 and their families enjoy coloring, games and snacks. Outright Vermont, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, david@outrightvt.org.

chittenden county

SNOWSHOE WINTER WALK: Winter trekkers of all ages raise funds for the Vermont Garden Network. Prizes, hot chocolate and s’mores await at the end of the family-friendly 2K loop.

Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 1-3 p.m. Free: preregister. Info, abbey@vcgn.org.

upper valley

MAGIC OF MAPLE: See SAT.12.

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ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.9.

VIRTUAL STORIES WITH MEGAN: Bookworms ages 2 through 5

3D PRINTING WORKSHOP: Teens and tweens learn how to make and print a key chain using Tinkercad.

Presented by Fletcher Free Library. 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-3403.

A CELEBRATION OF ANIMATION: Pop-culture expert and author Martin Gitlin leads cartoon lovers of all ages in trivia and a medley of laugh-outloud clips. Presented by Waterbury Public Library. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

GOLDEN DOME GROUP FOR HOMESCHOOLERS: Readers in grades 4 through 8 discuss the month’s middle-grade book together. Presented

by Brownell Library. 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.9, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: See THU.10.

RED CLOVER GROUP FOR HOMESCHOOLERS: The Brownell Library book club for grades K through 4 reads two new books. 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

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heartfelt numbers. Presented in collaboration with Twilight Music, in person and online. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7:30 p.m. $5-24. Info, 451-0053.

‘WELCOME TO INDIAN COUNTRY’: Indigenous culture comes to life through the songs and stories of artists including Mali Obomsawin, Delbert Anderson and Nokosee Fields.

Masks and proof of vaccination required. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, 603-646-2422.

talks

EEE LECTURES: PATRICIA WHALEN: The director of Vermont Afghan Women Judges Education Project tells a little-known story about the recent violence in Afghanistan.

Presented by Education & Enrichment for Everyone. 2-3 p.m. $45 for season pass. Info, 343-5177.

theater

‘CLUE: ON STAGE’: The Valley Players bring Professor Plum, Colonel Mustard and the rest to life in the beloved mystery game turned movie turned play.

Virtual options available. Masks required. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $12-17. Info, 583-1674.

‘DON PASQUALE’: Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Barn Opera presents Donizetti’s classic comedic opera about a marriage heist, set in a New York City pizzeria. Barn Opera, Brandon, 7:30 p.m. $50.

Info, welch@barnopera.com.

‘I DO! I DO!’: Real-life married couple Lyn Philistine and Christopher Sutton star in a musical about marriage, from wedding to midlife crisis.

Masks and proof of vaccination required. The Grange Theatre, South Pomfret, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $35-45. Info, 457-3500.

SAT.12 dance

DANCING UPHILL 2022: See WED.9.

fairs & festivals

WESTFORD WINTER FESTIVAL & CONCERT: Live music, snow sports, a chili-cooking contest, a beer garden and horse-drawn sleigh rides turn Westford into a winter wonderland for all ages.

Westford Common, noon-4 p.m.

Free. Info, 363-0930.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.9.

BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL FILM SERIES: ‘THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO’: Poet Rajnii Eddins hosts a screening of this

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2019 story of a man and his best friend attempting to reclaim the house his grandfather built.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

of the Arcadian and sommelierselected drinks. Adventure Lodge, Vergennes, 5-7 & 7:309:30 p.m. $175; preregister. Info, 248-224-7539.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.9.

outdoors

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.9.

MNFF VERMONT TOUR 2022: ‘THE ANTS AND THE GRASSHOPPER’: A Malawian woman attempts to convince Americans of the realities of the climate crisis in this documentary that was 10 years in the making. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 & 5:30 p.m. $12-15. Info, 457-2355.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.9.

‘SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)’: This documentary celebrates the music and scene of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, where luminaries such as Stevie Wonder and Nina Simone performed.

Screening in honor of Black History Month. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7:30 p.m. Free; $10 suggested donation. Info, 451-0053.

food & drink

MIDDLEBURY FARMERS MARKET: Produce, prepared foods and local products are available for purchase at this year-round bazaar.

Middlebury VFW Hall, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, middleburyfarmers mkt@yahoo.com.

health & fitness

SUN-STYLE TAI CHI FOR FALL PREVENTION: Seniors boost their strength and balance through gentle, flowing movements. Father Lively Center, St. Johnsbury, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 751-0431.

holidays

VALENTINE’S DAY DINNER: A socially distanced soirée features a four-course Italian feast from chef Matt Corrente

FOMO? Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

art Find visual art exhibits and events in the Art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/ music.

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MOONLIGHT SNOWSHOE TOURS: Snowshoers catch the sunset and the moonrise, then enjoy s’mores and beer around the bonfire. Ticket price includes snowshoe and headlamp rentals.

Edson Hill, Stowe, 4:30-5:30 p.m. $50; preregister. Info, 253-7371.

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sports

ETWA PRO WRESTLING: Live throw-downs return to Vermont for the Eastern Townships Wrestling Association’s 30th anniversary. Masks required.

Derby Elks Lodge, 7 p.m. $15; free for kids 6 and under. Info, info@ etwaprowrestling.com.

theater

‘CLUE: ON STAGE’: See FRI.11.

‘DON PASQUALE’: See FRI.11.

‘I DO! I DO!’: See FRI.11.

words

POETRY EXPERIENCE: Local wordsmith Rajnii Eddins hosts a supportive writing and sharing circle for poets of all ages.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.9.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.9.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.9.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.9.

health & fitness

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: New and experienced meditators are always welcome to join this weekly class, virtually or in person. Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, newleafsangha@gmail.com.

lgbtq

PRIDE HIKES: RED ROCKS PARK + GREAT BACKYARD BIRD COUNT: LGBTQIA++ hikers and birders stroll the lakeside trails while getting a head start on their bird counting. Red Rocks Park, South Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, gwendolyn.causer@ audubon.org.

sports

STOWE DERBY: For the 77th year, skiers of all ages race from the peak of Mount Mansfield to Stowe, where an after-party awaits. See calendar spotlight.

Mount Mansfield, Stowe, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. $35-135; preregister.

Info, 253-7704.

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theater

‘CLUE: ON STAGE’: See FRI.11, 4 p.m.

‘I DO! I DO!’: See FRI.11, 2-4 p.m.

MON.14 crafts

VALENTINE VISION BOARDS: Someone get the scissors! Fueled by chocolate, folks snip images from old magazines and travel books to make posters representing their dreams and desires.

Masks required. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.9.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.9.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.9.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.9.

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.9.

holidays

VALENTINE’S DINNER: Lovestruck diners enjoy a distanced, vaccinated meal or cozy, high-end takeout. See thewoodslodge.com for the full, prix-fixe menu. The Woods Lodge, Northfield, 4:307:30 p.m. $50; preregister. Info, 778-0205.

language

ENGLISH CONVERSATION CIRCLE: Locals learning English as a second language gather in the Board Room to build vocabulary and make friends. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

seminars

DEVELOPING SELF: See WED.9.

SETTING A DIRECTION: In this two-week workshop, attendees explore how their experiences can move them toward new possibilities.

Presented by Mercy Connections.

1:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 846-7063.

U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION: See WED.9, noon1:30 & 3:30-4:45 p.m.

words

MUST-READ MONDAYS: Lit lovers cover The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú. Presented by Brownell Library. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.

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DEVELOPMENT: Job seekers drop in for tips on résumé writing, applying for jobs, and training.

Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 888-3853.

‘GEORGE NAKASHIMA: WOODWORKER’: The Architecture + Design Film Series streams this portrait of one of the most well-known and influential woodworkers of the modern era, widely considered the father of the American craft movement.

Free. Info, 865-7166.

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community

CURRENT EVENTS DISCUSSION GROUP: Brownell Library hosts a virtual roundtable for neighbors to pause and reflect on the news cycle.

10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

‘IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT’: A Black detective must solve the crime he’s been falsely accused of in this classic Sidney Poitier vehicle. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free.

Info, 748-2600.

TRASH TALKIN’ & THE 3 R’S: A COMMUNITY EFFORT: Staff from the Chittenden Solid Waste District teach attendees how to correctly sort waste and where it goes when they’re done. 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, rmace@cswd.net.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.9.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.9.

health & fitness

crafts

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.9.

FIRESIDE KNITTING GROUP: See WED.9, 6-7 p.m.

CHAIR YOGA: See WED.9.

language

education

WINTER OPEN HOUSE 2022: High school first-years, sophomores and juniors learn about the Queen City’s career-focused college.

Champlain College, Burlington, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 860-2700.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.9.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.9.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.9.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.9.

language

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING & ACADEMIC TUTORING: Students improve their reading, writing, math or ELL skills through one-on-one time with experienced tutors. Mercy Connections, Burlington, 9-11 a.m.

Free. Info, 846-7063.

music

ANAÏS MITCHELL: The Vermont singer-songwriter and awardwinning creator of Hadestown performs with three-piece band Bonny Light Horseman. Masks and proof of vaccination required.

See calendar spotlight. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $15-45.

Info, 603-646-2422.

POLISH BALTIC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: Poland’s largest musical ensemble serves up a veritable feast of classical delights. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Lyndon Institute, Lyndon Center, 7 p.m. $15-52; free for students. Info, 748-2600.

seminars

MAP!: MAKE AN ACTION PLAN: Guest speakers and the Mercy Connections team help students plan how to live their best post-pandemic lives. 11

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ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS: See WED.9.

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music

Back in 1945, two skiers placed a bet — and the Stowe Derby was born. Austrian ski legend Sepp Ruschp (on alpine skis) and world-famous Norwegian mountaineer and Stowe ski instructor Erling Strom (on Nordic skis) raced from the top of Mount Mansfield to downtown Stowe to see who was faster. Ruschp won the first two annual derbies, but these days ambitious athletes ages 14 and up favor modern Nordic skis for the 12.4-mile course that drops nearly 2,700 feet. Recreational skiers of all ages take the derby’s 3.7-mile short course, and fat-bike racers tackle a 9.9-mile course.

Participants warm up and share tales at an after-party. Masks required on buses that transport skiers.

STOWE DERBY Sunday, February 13, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., at Stowe Mountain Resort and in downtown Stowe. $35-135. Info, 253-7704, mmsca.org. a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 846-7063.

words

INTERGENERATIONAL BOOK GROUP: SOLD OUT. Students, parents and local seniors convene to tackle topical books. Presented by Dorothy Alling Memorial Library. 1:10-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

WINE & STORY: Lovers of libations and tellers of tales gather for an evening of good company.

Shelburne Vineyard, 7:30 p.m. $5.

Info, 863-1754.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Members of this writing group motivate each other to put pen to paper for at least an hour, then debrief together. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 5-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 888-3853.

WED.16 activism

RECOVERY ADVOCACY DAY: Recovery Vermont’s annual celebration honors the power of recovery from substance-use disorder and addiction. Political leaders and others participate in this day of

shared personal stories and recovery resources. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-6263.

agriculture

FARM SUCCESSION PLANNING WEBINAR SERIES: See WED.9.

business

HOW TO GET CONNECTED & GROW YOUR BUSINESS IN VERMONT IN 2022: Andrea Bacchi of Think Dynamic Digital shares free and low-cost resources that help womenowned businesses get off the ground. Presented by Women Business Owners Network Vermont. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@wbon.org.

community

COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO ‘WE CONTAIN MULTITUDES’: JC Wayne guides community members in creating art and/or poetry responses to the Vermont Humanities’ Vermont Reads book by Sarah Henstra. No experience necessary. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, info@ kellogghubbard.org.

VERMONT WOMEN’S MENTORING PROGRAM: Mercy Connections trains new volunteers who want to help support women healing from prison and other encounters with the criminal justice system.

5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 846-7063.

crafts

FIRESIDE KNITTING GROUP: See WED.9.

environment

DO-IT-YOURSELF STORMWATER MANAGEMENT: The Franklin County Stormwater Collaborative and the Friends of Northern Lake Champlain teach locals how to stop the water that runs off their property from polluting nearby waterways.

5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, ddevlin@nrpcvt.com.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.9.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.9.

OPEN MIC: Artists of all stripes have eight minutes to share a song, story or poem. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

WILD WOODS SONG CIRCLE: Singers and acoustic instrumentalists gather over Zoom for an evening of music making. 7:15-9:15 p.m. Free.

Info, 775-1182.

outdoors

MOONLIGHT SNOWSHOE TOURS: See SAT.12.

WILDLIFE TRACKING WEDNESDAYS: See WED.9.

seminars

CBD & THE HERBAL APOTHECARY: Kria Botanicals’ Emma Merritt discusses how working with cannabis through the lens of herbalism creates opportunities for innovation. A Q&A follows.

Noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 201-739-1177.

DEVELOPING SELF: See WED.9.

UNDERSTANDING THE FINE PRINT: CREDIT CARDS: From choosing the right card to managing debt, New England Federal Credit Union talks dollars and sense when it comes to purchasing on credit.

Noon-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 764-6940.

U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION: See WED.9.

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Info, 846-4140.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME ON THE GREEN: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library leads half an hour of stories, rhymes and songs. Masks or social distancing required. Williston Town Green, 1010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

STORY WALK: ‘I AM THE STORM’: See WED.9, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

stowe/smuggs

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Kiddos 5 and younger share in stories, crafts and rhymes. Morristown Centennial Library,

Morrisville, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

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STEAM AFTERSCHOOL: Kids learn art, science and math through games and crafts, including paper airplane races, Lego competitions and origami. Ages 6 and up. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

GMBA BOOK GROUP: High school-age readers discuss thoughts and themes regarding the book of the month. Presented by Brownell Library. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

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burlington

BABY STORY TIME: Librarians and finger-puppet friends introduce babies 20 months and younger to the joy of reading. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 457-2295.

MAGIC OF MAPLE: See SAT.12.

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.9.

together to craft beautiful paper blooms. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

LEGO BUILDERS: See WED.9.

STEAM ACTIVITY: Little engineers and artists gather for some afternoon fun. Grades 3 and up. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 2-3 p.m.

Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

CRAFTERNOON: See WED.9.

STORY TIME: See WED.9.

ITTY BITTY PUBLIC SKATE: See WED.9.

STORY WALK: ‘I AM THE STORM’: See WED.9.

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LEGO CHALLENGE CLUB: Kids engage in a fun-filled hour of building, then leave their creations on display in the library all month long. Waterbury Public Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

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Membership rates incl. unlimited classes. Contact us for info about membership rates for adults, youth & families. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Benjamin Pincus, 951-8900, bpincus@burlington aikido.org, burlingtonaikido.org.

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If you have a disability for which you need accommodation in order to participate in this process (including participating in a public hearing, if one is held), please notify us as soon as possible, in order to allow us as much time as possible to accommodate your needs.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before February 23, 2022, 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 a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or sub-criteria 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 person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. 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 may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

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 that they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the Act 250 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 3rd day of February, 2022.

By: /s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 Stephanie.Monaghan@vermont.gov ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C060822D 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On January 18, 2022, Eurowest Retail Partners, LTD, PO Box 8567, Essex, VT 05451 filed application number 4C0608-22D for a project generally described as change in use of an existing 26,600 sf cinema in Building 3 at the Essex Experience into an arts center with associated site improvements

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

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The District 4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51— Minor Applications. A copy 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 (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0608-22D.”

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No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before February 25, 2022, 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 a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or sub-criteria 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 person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules.

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

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, and by no later than February 25, 2022.

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The District 4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51—Minor Applications. A copy 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 (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0331-14H.”

including a stair tower on the eastern side of the building, an overhead door with paved access to the rear of the building, and a new front entryway.

The arts center previously approved under LUP #4C0608-33 is no longer planned to be constructed. The project is located at 21 Essex Way in Essex, Vermont.

Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C033114H 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On January 6, 2022, City of Burlington, Burlington International Airport, 1200 Airport Drive #1, South Burlington, VT 05403 and Beta Technologies, Inc., 1150 Airport Drive, South Burlington, VT 05403 filed application number 4C0331-14H for a project generally described as construction of a 344,000 sf aircraft assembly facility including a 230,000 sf assembly area, a 114,000 sf three-story office and support space, a driveway and truck access, parking, loading dock, open space, and trails. The project is located at 1200 Airport Drive in South Burlington, Vermont. The application was deemed complete on January 28, 2022.

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PLACE AN AFFORDABLE NOTICE AT: SEVENDAYSVT.COM/LEGAL-NOTICES OR CALL 802-865-1020, EXT. 110. as soon as possible, and by no later than February 23, 2022.

If you have a disability for which you need accommodation in order to participate in this process (including participating in a public hearing, if one is held), please notify us as soon as possible, in order to allow us as much time as possible to accommodate your needs.

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 that they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the Act 250 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 2nd day of February, 2022 .

By: /s/Rachel Lomonaco Rachel Lomonaco, District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5658 Rachel.Lomonaco@vermont.gov ACT 250 NOTICE: MINOR APPLICATION #4C1342 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On January 25, 2022, Jiddu/Sittu Trust, 124 College Parkway, Colchester, VT 05446 filed application number 4C1342 for a project generally described as construction of a 6,000 sf retail building and 15,000 sf, 60 room hotel including associated parking, landscaping, and sidewalks. The project is located at 92-100 Pearl Street in Essex Junction, Vermont.

The District 4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51—Minor Applications. A copy 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 (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C1342.”

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before February 23, 2022, 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 a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or sub-criteria 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 person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules.

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 may 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, and by no later than February 23, 2022.

If you have a disability for which you need accommodation in order to participate in this process (including participating in a public hearing, if one is held), please notify us as soon as possible, in order to allow us as much time as possible to accommodate your needs.

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 that they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the Act 250 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 2nd day of February, 2022.

By: /s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan, District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5662 stephanie.monaghan@vermont.gov ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS: TOWN OF COLCHESTER, VT 781 BLAKELY ROAD, COLCHESTER, VT 05446 Separate sealed BIDS for roadway line striping of various roads around Town. The scope of work includes a combination of line striping of the centerline and edgeline for a combined total of 517,150 linear feet. Work to be performed in accordance with the technical specifications provided in the Appendix, and the Town of Colchester Department of Public Works Specifications and Standards, effective date of November 12, 2019. All work for this project must be completed by June 17, 2022.

Questions related to the bid package are due to Lea Sanguinetti in writing by Friday, February 18, 2022. Bids will be received by Lea Sanguinetti, Assistant Town Engineer at the Town of Colchester, 781 Blakely Road, Colchester, VT 05446 until 11:00 a.m. on Friday, February 25, 2022. Due to covid-19, we will not be publicly opening the bids. A bid tabulation will be prepared and distributed upon request by interested parties.

Each BID must be accompanied by a certified check payable to the OWNER for five percent (5%) of the total amount of the BID. A BID bond may be used in lieu of a certified check.

The CONTRACT DOCUMENTS are available in electronic format upon request. Please contact Lea Sanguinetti at lsanguinetti@colchestervt.gov or 802-264-5635.

CITY OF BURLINGTON, VERMONT NOTICE & WARNING OF VOTE TO INCUR A BONDED DEBT The legal voters of the City of Burlington, Vermont are hereby notified and warned to come and vote at the Annual City Meeting on Tuesday, the 1st day of March, 2022 between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. in their respective wards, at the voting places hereinafter named, for the following purposes: To vote upon two bonding articles placed on the ballot by request of the City Council, said bonding articles being as follows:

funding one or more public improvements and related costs attributable to projects serving the Downtown Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District, specifically: a. Main Street Streetscape Upgrades: For the six blocks between South Union Street and Battery Street inclusive of all intersections: to include streetscape, stormwater, utility, lighting, transportation upgrades, and including relocation of or otherwise upgrading the portion of the so-called “ravine sewer” from its present location crossing mid-block from College Street to Main Street in the block between South Union and South Winooski Avenue; b. Related Costs: payment of or reimbursement for TIF eligible related costs incurred by the City for the creation, implementation and administration of the Downtown TIF District, including costs paid to outside vendors, consultants, and various related fees and other expenses related to the TIF district, as well as direct municipal expenses such as departmental or personnel costs related to creating or administering the district to the extent they are paid from the municipal and not education incremental taxes and are otherwise reimbursed in accordance with law; in a total principal amount not to exceed $25,920,000 (which will bring the total Downtown TIF District debt approved since the Downtown TIF District’s creation to $35,920,000, of which $10,000,000 has been previously authorized by voters and $5,420,000 has been previously borrowed with $4,580,000 that is approved but not yet borrowed), and to issue bonds, notes or make interfund loans for such purpose, and expend up to $1,470,000 for related costs, which will bring the total related costs authorized by voters to $1,848,000 with the understanding that tax increment from the properties within the Downtown TIF District shall be pledged and appropriated for the payment of such indebtedness or direct costs of the improvements; and with the further understanding that the City may utilize more than the statutory minimum requirement of 75 % of all municipal increment, up to and including 100 % of same, in meeting the financial obligations of the Downtown TIF District?”

The following are designated as polling places, viz: Ward One/East District: Mater Christi School, 100 Mansfield Ave. Ward Two/Central District: H.O. Wheeler School (Integrated Arts Academy), 6 Archibald St. Ward Three/Central District: Lawrence Barnes School (Sustainability Academy), 123 North St. Ward Four/North District: Saint Mark’s Youth Center, 1271 North Ave. Ward Five/South District: Burlington Electric Department, 585 Pine St.

1. AUTHORIZATION TO ISSUE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS BONDS FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS

Ward Six/South District: Edmunds Middle School, 275 Main St.

“Shall the City Council be authorized to issue general obligation bonds or notes in one or more series in an amount not to exceed Twenty Three Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($23,800,000) for the purpose of accomplishing a series of capital improvements, replacements, and repair projects within the City, including but not limited to replacement of fire trucks and emergency communication systems, repair of ten city-owned facilities and nine miles of city sidewalks, and allocation of local matching funds for on-going or upcoming capital projects all of which are intended to preserve City facilities and services, avoid further maintenance and repair costs, and to further projects to improve the City and its infrastructure with the condition that if the City succeeds at securing other capital funds in excess of the current projections, which can be used in place of General Obligation bonding, the Administration will prioritize taxpayer savings as a goal with the additional condition that it may not reallocate bond proceeds to other investments, except with explicit City Council approval of the reallocation?”

Ward Seven/North District: Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, 130 Gosse Ct.

2. PLEDGING THE CREDIT OF THE CITY TO SECURE INDEBTEDNESS FOR PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS WITHIN THE DOWNTOWN TIF DISTRICT “Shall the City Council be authorized to pledge the full faith and credit of the City to secure indebtedness or make direct payments for the purpose of

Ward Eight/East District: Fletcher Free Library, 235 College St. The polls open at 7:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m.

Miro Weinberger, Mayor Publication Dates: February 9, 16, and 23 Burlington, Vermont PRIVATE AUCTION OF STORAGE UNIT CONTENTS Jonathan Wish, last known address of 51 Depot Road Colchester, VT 05446 has a past due balance of $1,290.00 owed to Champlain Valley Self Storage, LLC since 8/30/21. To cover this debt, per lease dated 1/31/17 the contents of unit #269 will be sold at private auction on, or after February 18, 2022.

Auction pre-registration is required, email info@ champlainvalleyselfstorage.com to register.

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 21-PR-06096 In re ESTATE of Patricia Eyler

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Patricia Eyler, late of Johnson 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 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: Friday, February 4, 2022 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Steven C Eyler Executor/Administrator: Steven C Eyler, 87 Kingsbury Xing, Milton, VT 05468 sceyler@msn.com (802) 343-6498 Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 2/9/22 and 2/16/22 Name of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court, Lamoille Probate Unit Address of Probate Court: 154 Main St., Hyde Park, VT 05655 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 21-PR-06845 In re ESTATE of Harold Douglas, Jr. NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Harold Douglas, Jr., 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 date 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: 02/07/2022 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ William E. Drislane Executor/Administrator: William E. Drislane, PO Box 1080, Williston, VT 05495 bill@drislanelaw.com 802-860-7266

2005 and recorded in Volume 221, Page 244 of the City of Barre Land Records.

Being the property designated by the City of Barre as 33 Granite Street.

Reference is hereby made to the above-mentioned instruments, the record thereof, the references therein made, and their respective records and references, 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 bank wire, certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date the Confirmation Order is entered by the Court. All checks should be made payable to “Bendett & McHugh, PC, as Trustee”.

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 : January 6, 2022 By: /s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 STORAGE UNIT SALE Notice is hereby given that the contents of the following will be sold to the public by sealed bid.

The sale is being held to collect unpaid fees, late charges an expenses of the sale.

Steven Leclair Unit 23

Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 2/9/22

Aisha Kanku Units 41 & 28

Name of Probate Court: Chittenden Probate Court Address of Probate Court: 175 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401

Storage Unit sale will take place on February 11th, 2022, at 10am at Fort Ethan Allen Mini Storage, 120 Hegeman Avenue, Colchester, VT 05446.

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WASHINGTON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 675-12-19 WNCV MIDFIRST BANK v.

AGATHA KESSLER AND ADAM MUNROE OCCUPANTS OF: 33 Granite Street, Barre VT

THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 01-03668 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, WILLISTON VT, 05495 WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT FEBRUARY 24TH, 2022 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF CHRISTOPHER STONEMAN. 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.

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 November 22, 2021, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Agatha Kessler and Adam Munroe to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for CitiMortgage, Inc., dated January 25, 2008 and recorded in Book 244 Page 919 of the land records of the City of Barre, 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 CitiMortgage, Inc, to MidFirst Bank dated December 11, 2019 and recorded in Book 359 Page 238 of the land records of the City of Barre for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 33 Granite Street, Barre, Vermont on February 23, 2022 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Antonio Silva and Michelle Silva by Warranty Deed of Wendell B. Farrell and Karen Graves Farrell, Trustees of the Farrell Revocable Trust Agreement dated May 12, 2003, said deed is dated March 31,

THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 01-03676 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, WILLISTON VT, 05495 WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT FEBRUARY 24TH 2022 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF NAOMI SHAW. 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.

TOWN OF ESSEX PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING/AGENDA FEBRUARY 24, 2022-6:30 P.M. VIRTUAL OR MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE ROOM, 81 MAIN ST., ESSEX JCT., VT - Zoom link: https://www.essexvt.org/1043/8225/ Join-Zoom— Meeting-Essex-PC - Call (audio only): 1-888-788-0099 | Meeting ID: 950 6840 0813 # | Passcode: 426269 - Public wifi: https://publicservice.vermont.gov/ content/public-wifi-hotspots-vermont 1. Public Comments

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Legal Notices [CONTINUED] 2. Consent Agenda: - BOUNDARY LINE ADJ: Max Pellerin & Lake Champlain Transportation Co: Proposal to transfer .036 acres from 234 Colchester Rd to 250 Colchester Rd located in the I1 Zone. Tax Map 77, Parcels 1 & 2.

3. Workshop: Continued Discussion re: 2022 PC Work Plan 4. Minutes: February 10, 2022 5. Other Business Visit our website at www.essex.org.

WARNING CHAMPLAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT ANNUAL MEETING FEBRUARY 28, 2022 AND MARCH 1, 2022 The legal voters of the Champlain Valley School District, are hereby notified and warned to meet virtually via Zoom at five o’clock in the evening (5:00pm) on February 28, 2022 to conduct an informational hearing with respect to articles of business to be considered by Australian ballot on March 1, 2022.

Zoom Meeting: https://cvsdvt-org.zoom. us/j/88634652241 Meeting ID: 886 3465 2241 Passcode: cvsd11.

Zoom Meeting Phone Participation: 1-646-8769923 Passcode: 854788 The legal voters of the Champlain Valley School District, are hereby notified and warned to meet at their respective polling places on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, at seven o’clock in the forenoon (7:00am), at which time the polls will open, and seven o’clock in the afternoon (7:00pm), at which time the polls will close, to vote by Australian ballot on the following articles of business: BALLOT QUESTIONS ARTICLE I: To elect a moderator.

ARTICLE II: To elect a clerk.

ARTICLE III: To elect a treasurer.

ARTICLE IV: Shall the voters of the Champlain Valley School District authorize the Board of School Directors to borrow money by issuance of bonds or notes not in excess of anticipated revenues for the next fiscal year?

ARTICLE V: Shall the voters of the Champlain Valley School District authorize the Board of School Directors to provide a mailed notice of availability of the Annual Report to residents in lieu of distributing the Annual Report?

ARTICLE VI: To establish the date of the Champlain Valley School District Annual Meeting of Monday, March 6, 2023 at 5pm at CVU High School and recessed and opened back up at Australian ballot voting on Town Meeting Day. ARTICLE VII: Shall the voters of the Champlain Valley School District approve the expenditure by the Board of School Directors of the sum of Eighty-Nine Million, Three Hundred Ninety-Seven Thousand, Seven Hundred Sixty-Two Dollars ($89,397,762) which is the amount the Board of School Directors has determined to be necessary for the ensuing fiscal year commencing July 1, 2022? It is estimated that the proposed budget, if approved, will result in education spending of Eighteen Thousand, Four Hundred Fifty-Four Dollars ($18,454) per equalized pupil. This projected spending per equalized pupil is 9.9% higher than spending for the current year.

ARTICLE VIII: Shall the voters of the Champlain Valley School District authorize the Board of School Directors to allocate its current fund balance, without effect upon the District tax levy, as

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follows: assign One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) of the school district’s current fund balance as revenue for the 2022-2023 operating budget, and assign the remaining balance, One Million, Nine Hundred Thirty-Two Thousand, Nine Hundred Five Dollars ($1,932,905) as revenue for future budgets?

ARTICLE IX: Shall the voters of the Champlain Valley School District authorize the Board of Directors to borrow money by the issuance of notes not in excess of Two Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars ($210,000) for the purpose of purchasing two (2) school buses?

ARTICLE X: Shall general obligation bonds or notes of Champlain Valley School District in an amount not to exceed Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($7,500,000), subject to reduction from the application of available state and federal grants-in-aid and reserves, be issued for the purpose of financing the cost of making certain public school building improvements, namely (1) Charlotte Central School electrical and life safety improvements ($4,785,000) (2) Champlain Valley High School mechanical upgrades and grounds maintenance ($865,000), (3) Hinesburg Community School building repairs and upgrades. ($725,000), (4) Shelburne Community School grounds and building repairs and replacements ($855,000), (5) Williston Central and Allen Brook Schools grounds and building repairs and upgrades ($270,000) the aggregate cost of such improvements estimated to be Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($7,500,000). State funds may not be available at the time these projects are otherwise eligible to receive state school construction aid. The District is responsible for all costs incurred in connection with any borrowing done in anticipation of the receipt of school construction aid.

POLLING PLACES Charlotte-Charlotte Town Hall, HinesburgHinesburg Town Hall, Shelburne-Shelburne Town Center – Gymnasium, Williston-Williston Armory, St. George-St. George Red Schoolhouse.

Ballots shall be transported and delivered to the Champlain Valley Union High School in the Town of Hinesburg and there commingled and counted by members of the Boards of Civil Authority of several towns under the supervision of the Clerk of the Champlain Valley School District.

The legal voters of the Champlain Valley School District are further notified that voter qualification, registration and absentee/early voting relative to said annual meeting shall be as provided in Section 706u of Title 16, and Chapters 43, 51 and 55 of Title 17, Vermont Statutes Annotated.

Adopted and approved at a duly noticed, called and held meeting of the Board of School Directors of the Champlain Valley School District on January 18, 2022. Received for record and recorded in the records of the Champlain Valley School District on January 19, 2022.

ATTEST: David Connery, District Clerk; Angela M. Arsenault, Chairperson

WARNING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING - 2022 COLCHESTER, VERMONT The legal voters of the Town of Colchester, Vermont are notified and warned to mee a Colchester High School Gymnasium, Laker Lane, in said Town on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. to act on the following articles by Australian ballot: ARTICLE 4 - Town Municipal Services Budget “Shall the voters of the Town of Colchester approve total general fund expenditures of Thirteen Million, Eight Hundred Eighty Thousand, Two Hundred Seventeen Dollars ($13,880,217) of which Eleven Million, Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand, Two Hundred Thirty Dollars ($11,750,230) shall be raised by taxes and Two Million, One Hundred TwentyNine Thousand, Nine Hundred Eighty-Seven Dollars ($2,129,987) by non-tax revenues for the Fiscal Year July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023?”

ARTICLE 5 - Town Park Capital Plan

Article Three

“Shall the Town of Colchester reauthorize the Selectboard to maintain a reserve fund accumulating annually through the continuation of the existing tax rate in the amount of $0.005 ( one half cent) per one hundred dollars of assessed property value, for a period of six years, for the purpose of financing the Park Capital Plan?”

Shall the City Council be authorized to apply for and accept funds from sources other than Property taxation, and to expend the same for the benefit of the City in addition to sums for which budget appropriation has been made? (Approval of this article will not impact property taxes.)

ARTICLE 6 - Town Transportation Capital Plan “Shall the Town of Colchester reauthorize the Selectboard to maintain a reserve fund accumulating annually through the continuation of the existing tax rate in the amount of $0.023 (two and one third cents) per one hundred dollars of assessed property value, for a period of six years, for the purpose of financing the Capital Transportation Program?”

ARTICLE 7 - Malletts Bay Sewer Project “Shall revenue bonds or notes of the Town of Colchester in the amount of $11,500,000.00 be issued under Chapter 101 and Subchapter 2 of Chapter 53 of Title 24, Vermont Statutes Annotated, payable only from available grantsin-aid and net revenues derived from the Town’s public sewer system over a period not to exceed thirty years, for improvements with a total estimated cost of $16,700,000.00 to the Town’s public sewer system, specifically the construction of a sewer system in the Malletts Bay area?”

Early/ Absentee Voting: You may request a ballot be mailed to you through the Vermont’s Voter Registration system at “My Voter Page” at https:// mvp.vermont.gov/, pick up at the Town Clerk’s Office or request by phone to the Town Clerk’s Office at (802) 264-5520 (allow time for postal transit). Completed ballots can be deposited into the drive up drop box or mailed using the provided return envelope. If mailing be sure to allow time for postal transit! Ballots must be received in the Town Clerk’s Office or Drop Box by 4:30 PM on Monday, February 28, 2022 or brought to the polling location at Colchester High School on Election Day, March 1, 2022.

DATED AT COLCHESTER THIS 11th DAY OF JANUARY 2022 Pam Loranger Charlie Papillo Tom Mulcahy Jacki Murphy Herbert Downing Colchester Selectboard Julie Graeter Town Clerk WARNING OF THE 99TH ANNUAL WINOOSKI CITY MEETING The legal voters of Winooski are hereby warned and notified to meet at a remote City Meeting on Monday, February 28, 2022 at 6:00 o’clock in the evening to discuss Article Two, Article Three and Article Four, and to conduct an Informational hearing on Australian Ballot questions, and the meeting to be adjourned to reconvene at the Winooski Senior Center, 123 Barlow St., on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 to transact any business involving voting

by Australian Ballot to begin at 7:00 o’clock in the morning and to close at 7:00 o’clock in the evening.

The legal voters of the City of Winooski are further notified that voter qualification, registration and absentee voting relative to said meeting shall be as provided in Chapter 43, 51 and 55 of Title 17, Vermont Statutes Annotated. In Addition, Act No. M-6 (H.227).

Article One To elect two (2) City Councilors for a term of two (2) years each.

Article Two, City Budget Shall the voters of the City of Winooski approve the budget for the Fiscal Year for 2023 in the amount of Eight Million, Seven Hundred Fourteen Thousand, Eight Hundred Eighty-Five Dollars and Sixteen Cents. ($8,714,885.16)? The amount to be raised from property taxes is Six Million, Three Hundred Thirteen Thousand, Six Hundred Eighty-Seven and Forty-Three Cents. ($6,313,687.43).

Article Four Shall general obligation bonds of the City of Winooski in an amount not to exceed One Million, Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,300,000} be issued for the acquisition and equipping of a Fire Truck and related capital improvements for the City’s Fire Department?

Dated at Winooski, Vermont this 24th day of January 2022. s/s Kristine Lott Mayor Kristine Lott s/s Hal Colston Councilor Hal Colston s/s James Duncan Councilor James Duncan s/s Bryn Oakleaf Councilor Bryn Oakleaf s/s Michael Myers Councilor Michael Myers WARNING POLICY ADOPTION CHAMPLAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT The Board of School Directors gives public notice of its intent to adopt local district policies dealing with the following at its meeting scheduled on February 15, 2022: F34 - Prevention of Harassment, Hazing, and Bullying of Students Copies of the above policies may be obtained for public review at the Office of the Human Resources Dept. in Shelburne, VT.

WARNING: MARCH 1, 2022 BURLINGTON ANNUAL CITY ELECTION PUBLIC INFORMATION HEARING A Public Information Hearing on the Public Questions to be voted on at the Annual City Election will be held on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. The hearing will be only remote and streamed via Zoom.

Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85662773925 Or One tap mobile : US: +13017158592,,85662773925# or +13126266799,,85662773925# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 929 205 6099 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 669 900 6833 Webinar ID: 856 6277 3925 International numbers available: https://us02web. zoom.us/u/kcL3nDp41U Members of the public wishing to speak remotely may sign up in advance here: https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/citycouncil/publicforum or by using the “raise hand” function on Zoom during the hearing.

The hearing will provide information on the following five public questions that have been placed on the ballot, the full text of which can be found posted in the City Clerk’s Office and on the City’s webpage https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/CT/ Copies-of-Sample-Ballots-Warnings-and-Notices: 1. APPROVAL OF SCHOOL BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023 2. PROPOSED INCREASE TO GENERAL FUND TAX RATE 3. AUTHORIZATION TO ISSUE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS BONDS FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS 4. PLEDGING THE CREDIT OF THE CITY TO SECURE INDEBTEDNESS FOR PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS WITHIN THE DOWNTOWN TIF DISTRICT 5. PROPOSED CHARTER CHANGE TO REMOVE CITY COUNCIL AUTHORITY TO REGULATE SEX WORKERS For more information, contact the Burlington Clerk/Treasurer’s Office, 802-865-7000 or http:// www.burlingtonvt.gov/ContactUs

Support Groups CONTACT CLASSIFIEDS@SEVENDAYSVT.COM OR 802-865-1020 X110 TO UPDATE YOUR SUPPORT GROUP VISIT SEVENDAYSVT. COM TO VIEW A FULL LIST OF SUPPORT GROUPS A CIRCLE OF PARENTS FOR MOTHERS OF COLOR Please join our parent-led online support group designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes!

Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. We will be meeting weekly on Wed., 10-11 a.m. For more info or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@pcavt. org, 802-498-0607, pcavt.org/familysupport-programs.

A CIRCLE OF PARENTS FOR SINGLE MOTHERS Please join our parent-led online support group designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes!

Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. We will be meeting weekly on Fri., 10-11 a.m. For more info or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@pcavt.org, 802-498-0607, pcavt. org/family-supportprograms.

A CIRCLE OF PARENTS WITH LGBTQ+ CHILDREN Please join our parent-led online support group designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes!

Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. We will be meeting weekly on Mon., 10-11 a.m. For more info or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@pcavt. org, 802-498-0607, pcavt.org/familysupport-programs.

AL-ANON For families & friends of alcoholics. Phone meetings, electronic meetings (Zoom), & an al-Anon blog are avail. online at the Al-Anon website. For meeting info, go to vermont alanonalateen.org or call 866-972-5266.

ALATEEN GROUP Alateen group in Burlington on Sun. 5-6 p.m. at the UU building at the top of Church St.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Daily meetings in various locations. Free.

Info, 864-1212. Want to overcome a drinking problem? Take the 1st step of 12 & join a group in your area.

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUPS Support groups meet to provide assistance & info on Alzheimer’s disease & related dementias.

They emphasize shared experiences, emotional support & coping techniques in care for a person living w/ Alzheimer’s or a related dementia.

Meetings are free & open to the public.

Families, caregivers & friends may attend.

Please call in advance to confirm date & time.

Four options: 1st Mon. of every mo., 2-3 p.m., at the Residence at Shelburne Bay, 185 Pine Haven Shores, Shelburne; 4th Tue. of every mo., 10-11 a.m., at the Residence at Quarry Hill, 465 Quarry Hill Rd., South Burlington; 2nd Tue. of every mo., 5-6:30 p.m., at the Alzheimer’s Association Main Office, 300 Cornerstone Drive, Suite 130, Williston; 2nd Mon. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., at Milton Public Library, 39 Bombardier Rd., Milton. For questions or additional support group listings, call 800-272-3900.

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION TELEPHONE SUPPORT GROUP 2nd Tuesday monthly, 4-5:30 p.m.

Preregistration is required (to receive dial-in codes for toll-free call). Please dial the Alzheimer’s Association’s 24-7 Helpline, 800-2723900, for more info.

ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS W/ DEBT? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Anonymous. Wed., 6:30-7:30 p.m., Methodist Church in the Rainbow Room at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington.

Contact Jennifer, 917-568-6390.

BABY BUMPS SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS AND PREGNANT WOMEN Pregnancy can be a wonderful time of your

life. But it can also be a time of stress often compounded by hormonal swings. If you are a pregnant woman, or have recently given birth & feel you need some help w/ managing emotional bumps in the road that can come w/ motherhood, please come to this free support group led by an experienced pediatric registered nurse. Held on the 2nd & 4th Tue. of every mo., 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Birthing Center, Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans. Info: Rhonda Desrochers, Franklin County Home Health Agency, 527-7531.

BETTER BREATHERS CLUB American Lung Association support group for people w/ breathing issues, their loved ones or caregivers. Meets on the 1st Mon. of every mo., 11 a.m.-noon at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. For more info call 802-776-5508.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP Vermont Center for Independent Living offers virtual monthly meetings, held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury. It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment. To join, email Linda Meleady at lindam@vcil.org & ask to be put on the TBI mailing list. Info: 800-639-1522.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets on the 3rd Thu. of every mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:30-2:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1:00-2:30 p.m. Colchester evening support group meets on the 1st Wed. of every mo., at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m. White River Jct. meets on the 2nd Fri. of every mo., at Bugbee Sr. Ctr. from 3-4:30 p.m.

Call our helpline at 877-856-1772.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP The Champlain Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group will be held every 2nd Tue. of the mo., 6-7:45 p.m. via conference call. Newly diagnosed? Prostate cancer reoccurrence?

General discussion & sharing among survivors & those beginning or rejoining the battle. Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS, ACNS-BC, 274-4990, vmary@aol.com.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY Overcome any hurt, habit or hangup in your life w/ this confidential 12-Step, Christ-centered recovery program. We offer multiple support groups for both men & women, such as chemical dependency, codependency, sexual addiction & pornography, food issues, & overcoming abuse.

All 18+ are welcome; sorry, no childcare.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; we begin at 7 p.m.

Essex Alliance Church, 37 Old Stage Rd., Essex Junction. Info: recovery@essex alliance.org, 878-8213.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY Celebrate Recovery meetings are for anyone struggling w/ hurt, habits & hang ups, which include everyone in some way.

We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton, which meets every Fri. at 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us & discover how your life can start to change.

Info: 893-0530, julie@ mccartycreations.com.

CENTRAL VERMONT CELIAC SUPPORT GROUP Last Thu. of every mo., 7:30 p.m. in Montpelier.

Please contact Lisa Mase for location: lisa@ harmonizecookery. com.

CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE Cerebral Palsy Guidance is a very comprehensive informational website broadly covering the topic of cerebral palsy & associated medical conditions. Its mission is to provide the best possible info to parents of children living w/ the complex condition of cerebral palsy. cerebralpalsyguidance. com/cerebral-palsy.

CIRCLE Online on Thu., 11 a.m.-noon. Continues through Jun. 23. Circle is a supportive online experience, led by Sister Ann Duhaime, where people reflect on peace, hope & healing. Participants find renewal & gain strength as they listen to & talk about experiences & insights. Take this special time to feel part of a nurturing community & imagine new possibilities! Free. 802846-7063, hgilbert@ mercyconnections. org, mercyconnect ions.org/programs/ schedule.

CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy & fulfilling relationships. By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new joy, acceptance & serenity in our lives. Meets Sun. at noon at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. Tom, 238-3587, coda.org.

DECLUTTERERS SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming?

Maybe 2 or 3 of us can get together to help each other simplify.

989-3234, 425-3612.

DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE! SMART Recovery welcomes anyone, including family & friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction. It is a science-based program that encourages abstinence. Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership. Sun. at 5 p.m. The meeting has moved to Zoom: smartrecovery.zoom. us/j/92925275515.

Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 399-8754. You can learn more at smartrecovery.org.

We hope to return to face-to-face meetings this summer.

DIVORCE CARE SUPPORT GROUP Divorce is a tough road.

Feelings of separation, betrayal, confusion, anger & self-doubt are common. But there is life after divorce. Led by people who have already walked down that road, we’d like to share w/ you a safe place & a process that can help make the journey easier. This free 13-wk. group for men & women will be offered on Sun., 5:30-7:30 p.m., Sep. 8 through Dec. 1, at the North Avenue Alliance Church, 901

North Ave., Burlington, VT. Register for class at essexalliance. churchcenter.com. For more info, call Sandy 802-425-7053.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT Steps to End Domestic Violence offers a weekly drop-in support group for female-identified survivors of intimate partner violence, including individuals who are experiencing or have been affected by domestic violence. The support group offers a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect w/ others, to heal & to recover. In support group, participants talk through their experiences & hear stories from others who have experienced abuse in their relationships.

Support group is also a resource for those who are unsure of their next step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship.

Tue., 6:30-8 p.m.

Childcare is provided.

Info: 658-1996.

EMPLOYMENTSEEKERS SUPPORT GROUP Frustrated w/ the job search or w/ your job?

You are not alone.

Come check out this supportive circle. Wed. at 3 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602.

FAMILIES COPING WITH ADDICTIONS (FCA) GROUP (ADDICTION SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES) Families Coping W/ Addiction (FCA) is an open-community peer support group for adults 18+ struggling w/ the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. FCA is not 12-step based but provides a welcoming & stigma-free forum for those living this experience, in which to develop personal coping skills & to draw strength & insight from one another. Group meets weekly on Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m., on Zoom. Check Turning Point Center website (turningpointcentervt. org) for Zoom link, listed under “Family Support” (click on “What We Offer” dropdown).

FAMILY & FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends & community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety & other types of distress. The group

is a confidential space where family & friends can discuss shared experiences & receive support in an environment free of judgment & stigma w/ a trained facilitator.

Wed., 7-8:30 p.m.

Downtown Burlington.

Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586.

FAMILY RESTORED: SUPPORT GROUP FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES OF ADDICTS AND ALCOHOLICS Wed., 6:30-8 p.m., Holy Family/St. Lawrence Parish, 4 Prospect St., Essex Junction. For further info, please visit thefamilyrestored. org or contact Lindsay Duford at 781-960-3965 or 12lindsaymarie@gmail. com.

FIERCELY FLAT VT A breast cancer support group for those who’ve had mastectomies.

We are a casual online meeting group found on Facebook at Fiercely Flat VT. Info: stacy.m.burnett@ gmail.com.

FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS (FA) Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? FA is a free 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating or bulimia. Local meetings are held twice a wk.: Mon., 4-5:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Norwich, Vt.; & Wed., 6:30-8 p.m., at Hanover Friends Meeting House, Hanover, N.H. For more info & a list of additional meetings throughout the U.S. & the world, call 603-630-1495 or visit foodaddicts.org.

G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction?

Find support, peer-led support group. Meets once a mo. on Mon. in Burlington. Please call for date & location.

RSVP mkeasler3@ gmail.com or call 310-3301 (message says Optimum Health, but this is a private number).

GRIEF AND LOSS FOCUS GROUP FOR MEN Fri., 10-11:30 a.m.

Continues through Mar. 27. Please join us as we learn more about our own grief & explore the things that can help us to heal. There is great power in sharing our experiences w/ others who know the pain of the loss of a loved one, & healing is possible through the sharing.

BAYADA Hospice’s local bereavement program

coordinator will facilitate this weekly, 8-wk. group through discussion & activities.

Everyone from the community is welcome; however, space is limited. To register, please contact bereavement program coordinator Kathryn Gilmond at kgilmond@bayada.com or 802-448-1610. Start date to be determined, based on registration. bayada.com.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS Meet every 2nd Mon., 6-7:30 p.m., & every 3rd Wed. from 10-11:30 a.m., at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to the public & free of charge.

More info: Diana Moore, 224-2241.

HEARING VOICES SUPPORT GROUP This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice-hearing experiences as real lived experiences that may happen to anyone at anytime. We choose to share experiences, support & empathy.

We validate anyone’s experience & stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest & accurate representation of their experience, & as being acceptable exactly as they are. Tue., 2-3 p.m.

Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-777-8602, abby@ pathwaysvermont.org.

HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107.

People living w/ cancer & their caretakers convene for support.

HELP AND HEALING FOR THOSE WHO ARE GRIEVING Wed., 5:30-7 p.m.

Walking W/ Grief: Sharing your sadness, finding your joy. Please join us as we learn more about our own grief & explore the things that can help us to heal.

There is great power in sharing our experiences w/ others who know the pain of the loss of a loved one, & healing is possible through the sharing.

BAYADA Hospice’s local bereavement support coordinator will facilitate our weekly group through discussion & activities. Everyone from the community is welcome. To register, please contact bereavement program coordinator Kathryn Gilmond at kgilmond@ bayada.com or 802-4481610. Bayada Hospice, 354 Mountain View Dr., Ste 305, Colchester.

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Support Groups [CONTINUED] INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/PAINFUL BLADDER SUPPORT GROUP Interstitial cystitis (IC) & painful bladder syndrome can result in recurring pelvic pain, pressure or discomfort in the bladder/pelvic region & urinary frequency/ urgency. These are often misdiagnosed & mistreated as a chronic bladder infection. If you have been diagnosed or have these symptoms, you are not alone.

For Vermont-based support group, email bladderpainvt@gmail. com or call 899-4151 for more info.

KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients, as well as caregivers, are provided w/ a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers.

For further info, please contact info@vcsn.net.

KINSHIP CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP A support group for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. Led by a trained representative & facilitator. Meets on the 2nd Tue. of every mo., 6:30-7:45 p.m. (Jan. 14, Feb. 11, Mar. 10, Apr. 14), at Milton Public Library.

Free. For more info, call 802-893-4644 or email library@miltonvt.gov.

Facebook.com/events/ 561452568022928 LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE The SafeSpace Anti-Violence Program at Pride Center of Vermont offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship, dating, emotional &/or hate-violence.

These groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share info, & offer & receive support. Support groups also provide survivors an opportunity to gain info on

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LGBTQ VETERANS GROUP This veterans group is a safe place for veterans to gather & discuss ways to help the community, have dinners, send packages & help the families of LGBTQ service people.

Ideas on being helpful encouraged. Every 2nd & 4th Wed., 6-8:30 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church (the little red door), 64 State St., Montpelier. RSVP, 802-825-2045.

LIVING THROUGH LOSS Gifford Medical Center is announcing the restart of its grief support group, Living Through Loss. The program is sponsored by the Gifford Volunteer Chaplaincy Program & will meet weekly on Fri., 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., in Gifford’s Chun Chapel beginning on Aug. 6. Meetings will be facilitated by the Rev. Timothy Eberhardt, spiritual care coordinator, & Emily Pizzale MSW, LICSW, a Gifford social worker. Anyone who has experienced a significant loss over the last year or so is warmly invited to attend & should enter through the hospital’s main entrance wearing a mask on the way to the chapel. Meetings will be based on the belief that, while each of us is on a unique journey in life, we all need a safe place to pause, to tell our stories &, especially as we grieve, to receive the support & strength we need to continue along the way.

MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem w/ marijuana? MA is a free 12-step program where addicts help other addicts get & stay clean. Ongoing Wed., 7 p.m., at Turning Point Center, 179 S. Winooski, Suite 301, Burlington. 861-3150.

MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP Area Myeloma Survivors, Families & Caregivers have come together to form a Multiple Myeloma Support Group. We provide emotional support, resources about treatment options, coping strategies & a support network

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by participating in the group experience w/ people who have been through similar situations. 3rd Tue. of every mo., 5-6 p.m., at the New Hope Lodge on East Ave. in Burlington.

Info: Kay Cromie, 655-9136, kgcromey@ aol.com.

NAMI CONNECTION PEER SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Weekly virtual meetings. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, program@ namivt.org or 800639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living w/ mental health challenges.

NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Weekly virtual meetings. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, info@namivt. org or 800-639-6480.

Family Support Group meetings are for family & friends of individuals living w/ mental illness.

NARCONON SUNCOAST DRUG AND ALCOHOL REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION Narconon reminds families that overdoses due to an elephant tranquilizer known as Carfentanil has been on the rise in nearly every community nationwide. Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid painkiller 100 times more powerful than fentanyl & 1,000 times stronger than heroin. A tiny grain of it is enough to be fatal. Click here to learn more about carfentanil abuse & how to help your loved one. You can also visit narconon-suncoast. org/drug-abuse/ parents-get-help.html for more info. Addiction screenings: Narconon can help you take steps to overcome addiction in your family. Call today for a no-cost screening or referral: 1- 877-841-5509.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live w/ out the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join.

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516 or cvana.org. Held in

Burlington, Barre & St. Johnsbury.

NARCANON BURLINGTON GROUP Group meets every Mon. at 7 p.m., at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, in Burlington.

The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. Info: Amanda H. 338-8106.

NEW (& EXPECTING) MAMAS AND PAPAS! EVERY PRIMARY CAREGIVER TO A BABY! The Children’s Room invites you to join our weekly drop-in support group. Come unwind & discuss your experiences & questions around infant care & development, self-care & postpartum healing, & community resources for families w/ babies. Tea & snacks provided. Thu., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Bring your babies! (Newborn through crawling stage). Located w/in Thatcher Brook Primary School, 47 Stowe St., childrensroomonline. org. Contact childrens room@wwsu.org or 244-5605.

NORTHWEST VERMONT CANCER PRAYER & SUPPORT NETWORK A meeting of cancer patients, survivors & family members intended to comfort & support those who are currently suffering from the disease. 2nd Thu. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 11 Church St., St. Albans. Info: stpaulum@myfair point.net. 2nd Wed. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m. Winooski United Methodist Church, 24 W. Allen St., Winooski.

Info: hovermann4@ comcast.net.

OPEN EARS, OPEN MINDS A mutual support circle that focuses on connection & self-exploration. Fri. at 1 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) A 12-step program for people who identify as overeaters, compulsive eaters, food addicts, anorexics, bulimics, etc. No matter what your problem w/ food, we have a solution!

All are welcome, meetings are open, &

there are no dues or fees. See oavermont. org/meeting-list for the current meeting list, meeting format & more; or call 802-8632655 anytime!

802-847-7333 or email quittobaccoclass@ uvmhealth.org to get signed up, or visit myhealthyvt.org to learn more about upcoming workshops!

PONDERING GENDER & SEXUALITY Pondering Gender & Sexuality is a twicemonthly facilitated mutual support group for folks of any identity (whether fully formed or a work in progress) who want to engage in meaningful conversations about gender, sexuality & sexual orientation, &/or the coming-out process.

Discussions can range from the personal to the philosophical & beyond as we work together to create a compassionate, safe & courageous space to explore our experiences. The group will be held on the 2nd Sun. & 4th Tue., 1-2:30 p.m., of every mo., either virtually or at the Pride Center of Vermont.

Email pgs@pride centervt.org for more info or w/ questions!

RECOVERING FROM RELIGION Meets on the 2nd Tue. of every mo., 6-8 p.m., at Brownell Public Library, 6 Lincoln St., Essex Junction, unless there’s inclement weather or the date falls on a holiday.

Attendees can remain anonymous if they so choose & are not required to tell their story if they do not wish to, but everyone will be welcome to do so. The primary focus of a Recovering From Religion support group is to provide ongoing & personal support to individuals as they let go of their religious beliefs. This transitional period is an ongoing process that can result in a range of emotions, as well as a ripple effect of consequences throughout an individual’s life.

As such, the support meetings are safe & anonymous places to express these doubts, fears & experiences w/o biased feedback or proselytizing. We are here to help each other through this journey.

Free.

POTATO INTOLERANCE SUPPORT GROUP Anyone coping w/ potato intolerance & interested in joining a support group, contact Jerry Fox, 48 Saybrook Rd., Essex Junction, VT 05452.

QUEEN CITY MEMORY CAFÉ The Queen City Memory Café offers a social time & place for people w/ memory impairment & their fiends & family to laugh, learn, & share concerns & celebrate feeling understood & connected. Enjoy coffee, tea & baked goods w/ entertainment & conversation.

QCMC meets on the 3rd Sat. of every mo., 10 a.m.-12 p.m., at the Thayer Building, 1197 North Ave., Burlington.

316-3839.

SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND Support group meeting held on the 4th Tue. of every mo., 6:30-8:30 p.m., Williston Police Station. Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732.

QUEER CARE GROUP This support group is for adult family members & caregivers of queer &/or questioning youth. It is held on the 2nd Mon. of every mo., 6:30-8 p.m., at Outright Vermont, 241 North Winooski Ave. This group is for adults only. For more info, email info@outrightvt. org.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT HOPE Works offers free support groups to women, men & teens who are survivors of sexual violence. Groups are avail. for survivors at any stage of the healing process. Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our office at 864-0555, ext.

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READY TO BE TOBACCO-FREE GROUPS Join a free 4-5-wk. group workshop facilitated by our coaches, who are certified in tobacco treatment. We meet in a friendly, relaxed & virtual atmosphere.

You may qualify for a free limited supply of nicotine replacement therapy. Info: call

SEX & LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem w/ sex or relationships? We can help. Shawn, 660-2645.

Visit slaafws.org or saa-recovery.org for meetings near you.

STUTTERING SUPPORT GROUPS If you’re a person who stutters, you are not alone! Adults, teens & school-age kids who stutter, & their families are welcome to join 1

of our 3 free National Stuttering Association (NSA) stuttering support groups at UVM (join by Zoom or in person). Adults: 5:30-6:30 p.m., 1st & 3rd Tue. monthly; teens (ages 13-17): 5:30-6:30 p.m., 2nd Thu. monthly; school-age children (ages 8-12) & parents (meeting separately): 4:15-5:15 p.m., 2nd Thu. monthly. Pomeroy Hall (489 Main St., UVM campus). Info: nsachapters.org/ burlington, burlington stutters@gmail.com, 656-0250. Go, Team Stuttering!

SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide.

Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 N. Main St., Wallingford, 446-3577. 6:30-8 p.m., on the 3rd Tue. of every. mo.

SUICIDE HOTLINES IN VT Brattleboro, 2577989; Montpelier (Washington County Mental Health Emergency Services), 229-0591; Randolph (Clara Martin Center Emergency Service), 800-639-6360.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Circle (Washington Co. only).

Please call 877-5439498 for more info.

compassionate friendsvt@gmail.com.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) chapter meeting. Hedding United Methodist Church, Washington St., Barre. Wed., 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info, call David at 371-8929.

TRANS & GENDERNONCONFORMING SUPPORT GROUP As trans & GNC people in the world, we experience many things that are unique to our identities.

For that reason, the Transgender Program hosts a support group for our community on the 1st & 3rd Wed. of every mo., 6:30-8 p.m., either virtually or at Pride Center of Vermont. The Trans & GNC Support group is for Vermonters at all stages of their gender journey to come together to socialize, discuss issues that are coming up in their lives & build community. We welcome anyone whose identity falls under the trans, GNC, intersex & nonbinary umbrellas, & folks questioning their gender identity. Email safespace@pride centervt.org w/ any questions, comments or accessibility concerns.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE If you have lost someone to suicide & wish to have a safe place to talk, share & spend a little time w/ others who have had a similar experience, join us on the 3rd Thu. Of every mo., 7-9 p.m, at the Faith Lighthouse Church, Route 105, Newport (105 Alderbrook). Please call before attending. Info: Mary Butler, 744-6284.

TRANSGENDER EXTENDED FAMILY SUPPORT We are people w/ adult loved ones who are transgender or gender-nonconforming.

We meet to support each other & to learn more about issues & concerns. Our sessions are supportive, informal & confidential.

Meetings are held at 5:30 p.m., the 2nd Thu. of each mo., via Zoom.

Not sure if you’re ready for a meeting? We also offer 1-on-1 support. For more info, email rex@ pridecentervt.org or call 802-318-4746.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE: S. BURLINGTON This group is for people experiencing the impact of the loss of a loved one to suicide.

1st Wed. of each mo., 6-7:30 p.m., at the Comfort Inn & Suites, 3 Dorset St., Burlington.

Info: Heather Schleupner, 301-5142445, raysoflifeyoga@ gmail.com.

VEGGIE SUPPORT GROUP Want to feel supported on your vegetarian/ vegan journey? Want more info on healthy veggie diets? Want to share & socialize at veggie potlucks & more in the greater Burlington area? This is your opportunity to join w/ other like-minded folks. veggy4life@ gmail.com, 658-4991.

THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP The Compassionate Friends international support group for parents, siblings & families grieving the loss of a child meets every 3rd Tue. of the mo., 7-9 p.m., at Kismet Place, 363 Blair Park Rd., Williston. Call/email Jay at 802-373-1263,

WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT GROUP FAHC. Led by Deb Clark, RN. Every 1st & 3rd Tue., 5-6:30 p.m. Call Kathy McBeth, 847-5715.

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Evernorth is seeking a Project Manager to join our real estate development team. The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator, team builder and problem solver, with experience in project management – design/construction related, preferred.

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Finance Director The Finance Director is responsible for all financial matters of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFAVT) and Vermont Organic Farmers LLC (VOF) with a combined budget of $3.5M. Reports to the Executive Director.

The Finance Director also works with Program Directors, the Development Director, and is a member of the senior leadership Administrative Team.

Overall responsibilities include: overseeing the financial health of the organization, general bookkeeping, managing all financial aspects of grants, and leading all financial reporting.

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Please send a cover letter and resume with salary requirements by February 28, 2022, to Sue Cobb, Director of Project Management c/o hr@evernorthus.org. Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

CAREGIVERS • Full & Part-Time Caregivers for day and evening shifts, both Traditional Assisted Living and Memory Care.

URGENT NEED - CUSTODIANS HUUSD has 3 full-time custodial positions and 1 long-term substitute custodial position available within our schools, working in a dynamic team environment. Must complete and pass a criminal background check.

Competitive wages are commensurate with experience. Great benefit package available with health, dental, disability, and life insurance. Leave time including sick, personal, holiday, and vacation time.

Schools included are Brookside Primary School, Moretown Elementary School, and Harwood Union Middle/High School.

Interested candidates may apply on schoolspring.com or send a letter of interest, resume and 3 current letters of reference to Ray Daigle, Director of Operations & Maintenance by US mail (Harwood Unified Union School District, 340 Mad River Park, Suite 7, Waitsfield, VT 05673) or email rdaigle@huusd.org.

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Converse Home is an Assisted Living Community located in downtown Burlington. If you are looking for a rewarding position as a caregiver, working with wonderful residents and staff, please consider applying. Long term care is one of the fast-growing industries in Vermont and the world. The Converse Home is looking for seasoned caregivers or good humans new to the healthcare industry.

New care staff do on-site training with our Nurse Educator to make sure you feel confident in your new skills. If YOU ARE A SEASONED CAREGIVER OR WANT TO BECOME A CAREGIVER, INQUIRE WITH US! Please apply online & learn more about us: conversehome.com.

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FIELD COORDINATOR The Burrows Project Field Coordinator is a critical position to the implementation of planned re-construction of the Burrows Trail on Camel’s Hump. The project is a joint effort of the Green Mountain Club and the Vermont Dept. of Forest, Parks, and Recreation. The Coordinator will be a part of the GMC’s professional field leadership staff working closely with the Director of Field Programs to ensure successful project completion.

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Select is looking for a Project Manager to directly support the Client Services Department with accurate and timely project and programs management related to product development, execution, planning, and communication.

Responsibilities: work cross-departmentally to ensure project parameters are consistently met; provide proactive solutions and value to project & process management; process orders and assist in overall program outcomes; ensure all elements of programs are accurately deployed and managed; collaborate and communicate effectively with internal stakeholders.

Qualifications: detail oriented; actively manage several overlapping projects; comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines; previous experiences in client services or project management preferred.

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DISPATCHER/SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR Applications are invited for a part-time Dispatcher/Switchboard Operator for Public Safety/Fire & Rescue Departments at Saint Michael’s College to dispatch radio calls and operate the College switchboard. This person will be responsible for answering all incoming calls and directing calls to the appropriate party quickly, accurately, and professionally. All emergency calls are received for SMC campus and the surrounding community. Dispatch, switchboard, emergency services experience desirable, but we will provide training for a motivated and dependable person with demonstrated aptitude.

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Slate is looking for a part-time delivery driver as well as someone who can help fix/build/maintain store features, hardware and furniture.

This is a part-time role but we do see the opportunity for this to grow into a full-time position.

We can be flexible and work with you to determine which days and hours per week make sense based on the needs at the store and your schedule.

Operate a sustainable and profitable business that benefits the community Continuously improve systems, customer experience, and personal skills

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Burlington Water Resources is seeking TWO experienced Customer Care Associates to join our lively, dedicated team of utility professionals.

Saint Michael’s College seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or Instructor in Digital Marketing beginning in fall 2022. All applicants should be digitally savvy teachers who demonstrate passion and effectiveness in undergraduate teaching. Assistant Professor candidates should also be active in various forms of peer-reviewed scholarship or creative work. Candidates should also be interested in developing and growing a new major in Digital Marketing, a joint program between the Departments of Media Studies, Journalism, and Digital Arts (MJD) and Business Administration and Accounting (DBAA). Core teaching responsibilities include courses in the areas of Digital Marketing, Digital Analytics, Digital Marketing/SEO/SEM Strategy, Social Media: Connectivity, Interactivity and Creative Storytelling, and other courses in business, media studies, journalism, or digital arts. Depending on academic discipline/area of expertise, the position will be housed in MJD or DBAA. Teaching load is six courses per academic year.

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This position is based onsite and our offices are located on the shores of Lake Champlain, with direct access to the bike path, and waterfront park. Apply today to experience a collaborative work environment where celebrating successful moments, no matter how large or small, is highly encouraged.

The City offers competitive wages and a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, life insurance, retirement plan, FSA and much more! We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Are you a strategic leader with strong management and planning skills?

The Vice President for Grants and Community Impact will spearhead the organization’s work in ways that bring together people, ideas, and charitable capital in support of strong, healthy, and vital Vermont communities. This position will be responsible for managing the Grants and Community Impact team, developing strategy, and implementing programs that deepen the Foundation’s impact in Vermont communities, as well as connecting with and inspiring the Foundation’s donors.

If this sounds like a good fit for you, visit vermontcf.org/careers for complete job description and instructions for applying.

Downstreet Housing & Community Development is seeking a dynamic and experienced leader to guide this respected regional housing organization.

Downstreet is Central Vermont’s premier housing advocacy organization, with a primary focus on affordable housing, homebuyer education and assistance as well as the nationally recognized SASH® (Supports and Services at Home) program.

For the full job description and application instructions, please visit: eostransitions.applicantpool.com/jobs/ Downstreet Housing & Community Development is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and actively seeks a diverse pool of candidates for this position.

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Multiple Positions Knoll Farm is hiring for our 2022 season! Berry pickers, assistant retreat managers, cooks & other seasonal positions.

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Pinnacle Search Professionals, LLC., is expanding its Burlington office. We need sales oriented, and motivated individuals to join our team. If you have strong drive and are looking for an above average income, please email your resume to Eric@PinnacleSearchPros.com and then call 802.662.4541.

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(w/sign-on bonus) Do you see the future in the eyes of our youngest community members? Join the Sara Holbrook Community Center & Champlain Valley Head Start collaborative, 5 STAR-rated Early Education Program as we guide children on a path of curiosity & lifelong learning.

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Does making a difference in the lives of people you’ve never met matter to you? Are you passionate about the needs of seniors, reducing our carbon footprint and improving the health and wellbeing of your community?

Tri-Valley Transit (TVT) has been providing critical transportation needs for community members for 45 years. The Volunteer Coordinator plays a vital role in supporting the mission of TVT through the recruitment and retention of volunteer drivers and the support of program management. The position is full-time based in Randolph.

We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits, including: • 24 paid days off to start (Holidays & PTO) • 100% employer paid health insurance for the employee + funds towards deductible (HRA plan) • Retirement plan with employer match • Long & short-term disability insurance • Life Insurance • Access to low-cost dental and vision insurance • Employee Assistance Program Please visit trivalleytransit.org/job-openings and complete our application in addition to submitting your resume for consideration of employment.

Submit resume via email to: shari@trivalleytransit.org.

Employment is contingent upon passing required background checks and pre-employment drug testing.

TVT is an AA/EO Employer

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Join us as our Northwest Project Director. We are seeking candidates who are excited to:

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The SHCC Preschool Teacher will work closely with their Co-Teacher and Assistant Teacher to plan and implement Creative Curriculum, utilize the Early Multi-Tiered System of Support principals, and provide a program of activities that promote the social, emotional, physical, and academic development of each child. This is a fulltime position with paid time off, health/dental, and life insurance.

Generous SIGN-ON BONUS offered to candidates with a current Vermont Teaching License in Early Education.

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Northwest VT Project Director

CONTROLLER

• Create thriving connections between agriculture, land, and communities • Manage the ins and outs of land conservation projects in the Franklin County region • Communicate and collaborate across teams

Apply by February 18 at vlt.org/employment.

The starting salary for this position is between $60,400 and $68,700, depending upon experience.

The Vermont Land Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We honor and invite people of all backgrounds and lived experiences to apply.

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Butternut Mountain Farm is one of the larger packagers and distributors of pure maple syrup and sugar products in the United States. We continue to grow and are seeking a Controller.

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As Controller, you will be responsible for managing the daily operations of the Accounting Department and working closely with departments throughout the organization.

The successful candidate must be able to lead and build the Accounting Team and be highly ethical and reliable.

Important qualities include being able to prioritize in a fast-paced setting, being forward-thinking, analytical, an excellent problem solver and a good communicator.

This position reports directly to the CFO. Applicants should have a Bachelor’s in Accounting or Finance with a minimum of 8 years of experience that is on par with the requirements. This is a full-time position offering a competitive compensation and benefits package. This position may work remote with some required office time.

Butternut Mountain Farm is an employer of choice and offers a very friendly work setting, professional development, and growth. We are an equal opportunity employer. Please forward a cover letter and resume to katem@butternutmountainfarm.com for consideration.

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Seeking a key STAFF ACCOUNTANT person for Director of Engineering/ To view position descriptions and application shop drawing development instructions, please visit our website: and documentation. This is a goddard.edu/about-goddard/ foundational, key-person position employment-opportunities/ and will require significant experience in architectural millwork drafting and engineering, fabrication, installation, and 4t-GoddardCollege020222.indd 1 1/27/22 management. Willing to train the right candidate. We offer extremely competitive pay including profit The Woodworks at Silver Maple sharing, a 401k plan, and health/ Construction is looking for a Cabinet dental benefits. Please send Finisher to join our team. Our company is resumes and a letter of interest to: dynamic, high-energy, and team-oriented and skimmer@starkmountain.com.

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We believe in equal access to affordable housing and economic opportunities; the power of partnerships based on integrity, respect and teamwork; and a collaborative workplace with professional, skilled and dedicated staff.

To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to Kathy Beyer, HR@evernorthus.org. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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our culture is one of customer service, collaboration, and agility. Qualified applicants must have at least 5 years of experience applying lacquer and various finishes but willing to train the right applicant. Applicants should be ready to lead our finish department spraying high-end custom cabinetry and woodwork and, as an important part of the finished product, should expect to collaborate with the Silver Maple team, clients, and designers in creating custom finishes. Applicants need to be self-directed, eager to learn and work in a fast-paced environment, be detail-oriented, and be an extremely reliable member of the woodshop team.

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Evernorth is growing and hiring! The Real Estate Development Coordinator is a member of an eleven person team of developers and project managers.

This individual coordinates activities between Evernorth and our partners for real estate closings for affordable rental housing. The role encompasses broad activities related to due diligence, document management, financing applications and many other related activities. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills and attention to detail. We are looking for someone with a bachelor’s degree in a related field, 3-5 years of related experience, and a highly proficient user of Microsoft Office 365.

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Goddard College, a leader in non-traditional education, has the following benefit-eligible position openings:

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Through gardening, our customers control their access to safe and affordable food, and grow food to share with their neighbors. At Gardener’s Supply, we are committed to doing everything we can to help our customers keep gardening, but we need your help.

We’re hiring for SEASONAL POSITIONS AT ALL LOCATIONS: • Pick/Pack customer orders at our DISTRIBUTION CENTER IN MILTON • Provide exceptional customer service to our customers over the phone at our CALL CENTER • Help customers with their gardening needs at our WILLISTON & BURLINGTON, VT GARDEN CENTERS We are 100% employee-owned and a Certified B Corporation. We offer strong cultural values, competitive wages and outstanding benefits (including a tremendous discount!). Please go to our careers page at www.gardeners.com/careers and apply online!

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PARKS HORTICULTURE SPECIALIST Looking for an opportunity to be part of building a growing City?

Want to make a positive impact on the residents and visitors of your community? Is living and working in a beautiful location with an abundance of recreational, social, and wholesome options important to your quality of life?

The City of South Burlington is looking for a Full time Parks Horticulture Specialist. This position will perform tree care and vegetation management on City owned property, including City streets, stormwater and wastewater facilities. Coordinate design, purchase, installation, and maintenance of flower beds/landscaped areas in the City.

For further information and job descriptions please visit: sbvt.gov. To apply, please send cover letter, resume & references to Jaimie Held, Human Resource Manager at jheld@sburl.com. The City of South Burlington is an equal opportunity employer. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), immigrants, women, and LGBTQ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Middlebury College is looking for an Art Events Manager This person will manage performance and residency activities with visiting and on-campus artists, educational outreach, receptions, hospitality, and our student front-of-house staff to support a busy season of diverse events at the Mahaney Arts Center and across campus. Middlebury is an equal opportunity employer.

Learn more at https://apptrkr.com/2829155 Middlebury is an equal-opportunity employer where diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values. To this end, the College recruits talented and diverse faculty, staff, and students from across the United States and around the world. Middlebury encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of other protected classes and historically underrepresented communities. Middlebury also invites applications from individuals who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Equity & Engagement Manager Application Deadline: February 25, 2022 Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) is seeking to hire a full-time Equity and Engagement Manager to lead organizational and project-specific equity and racial justice efforts. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Develop, execute, and monitor strategies in alignment with the federal requirements and CCRPC’s equity and racial justice goals to center justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in all facets of the CCRPC’s work; build relationships with diverse populations; and leverage resources to become a regional equity leader.

The ideal candidate has an in-depth knowledge of racial inequality, systemic racism, and race-based bias, and familiarity with public engagement, public policy analysis, organizational and program design, and implementation demonstrated through a combination of education and at least 3 - 5 years of relevant work experience. A full job description is available at ccrpcvt.org/jobs.

CCRPC is the regional planning agency for the greater Burlington region in Vermont. Our offices are in downtown Winooski along the river in a great walking environment with a variety of restaurants, services and businesses. The workplace is supportive, friendly, and flexible. During the pandemic, employees may work from home or in the office.

The individual selected must be a self-starter, able to work independently and meet deadlines. Regular night meetings and inperson meetings (when the pandemic allows) will be expected. Valid driver’s license required. Salary is expected to be $60,000-70,000.

Please send a letter of interest and resume to Charlie Baker, Executive Director, at: cbaker@ccrpcvt.org. For full consideration, apply by February 25, 2022. Interviews will be virtual. The position will remain open until filled.

The CCRPC believes a diverse and culturally proficient staff are pivotal to creating an environment free of inequities. Accordingly, the CCRPC seeks to provide our membership and community with services enhanced by the professional contributions of culturally competent representatives of different races, socioeconomic backgrounds, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, physical ability, age, and sexual orientation. Successful candidates must be committed to working effectively with diverse community populations and expected to strengthen such capacity if hired. CCRPC is an E.O.E.

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PROGRAM DIRECTOR The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont is hiring a Program Director.

Based in Williston, this position manages our educational and support programs for peers, family members and professionals. Responsibilities also include tracking and reporting of outcomes, volunteer management & budget management.

Full time with excellent benefits.

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Established nearly three decades ago, our educational publishing company possesses an established brand, business model and clientele. We are looking for a dynamic Graphic and Multimedia Designer to join our team.

Projects will cover a wide spectrum. The ideal candidate possesses multiple design disciplines, from print graphics, to digital graphics, to animation to video editing.

We are looking for a self-starting team player with a great attitude, good organizational skills, the ability to multi-task, and savviness in both digital and print design.

A Bachelor’s Degree in graphic design or a related field is required as well as 1+ years of experience in the field or an internship. Advanced working knowledge of Macs, Google Drive, Adobe Design Apps and Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere is essential. Experience with HTML and CSS is a plus!

To get started on this exciting path, please send a copy of your resume and a digital portfolio with at least three work samples to us at megan@exemplars.com.

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DRILLER'S HELPER WATER WELL PUMP TECHNICIAN We are looking for a self motivated person with a "clean" DMV record and reliable transportation, who takes pride in being on time and is willing to work 40+ hours a week. Position requires driving company vehicles. Must pass pre-employment drug test. Strong mechanical and technical abilities and a basic understanding of electrical wiring and plumbing, Must be able to lift and move 100 lbs; ability to work outdoors in all types of weather. Applicants will be able to with training pass the required certifications within 2 years of hire as a condition of employment. All training will be provided including safety training. Competitive wages and benefits offered (health insurance, life insurance, vacation and more).

Please submit resume in person or email to our office: Spafford and Sons, 11 North Main St., Jericho Vt. Monday - Friday between 7:00 am and 4:00 pm. Starts immediately. info@spaffordwaterwells.com

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“Seven Days sales rep Michelle Brown is amazing! She’s extremely responsive, and I always feel so taken care of. I can only imagine how many job connections she has facilitated for local companies in the 20 years she has been doing this.”

The ideal candidate has a professional manner and is a self-starting team player with a great attitude, good organizational skills, and the ability to multi-task. This position supports sales and marketing efforts as well as our renewal program through data processing, research, and general administrative support.

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A Bachelor’s Degree, plus 3 years of work experience is required along with advanced working knowledge of Macs and Google Drive.

Experience in education is a plus!

We are a Vermont-based, food and nutraceutical laboratory with a commitment to quality, exceptional customer care, community involvement and employee wellness.

To get started on this exciting path, please send a copy of your resume and a cover letter to alaina@exemplars.com.

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Established nearly 30 years ago, our educational publishing company possesses an established brand, business model, and clientele. We are looking for a dynamic part-time Sales Assistant to join our team 10-15 hours a week.

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Do you dream in spreadsheets?

Do you want to work for an organization with a mission to make a difference in Vermont?

The Accountant is responsible for assisting in the reconciling and administration of finances and investments for the Community Foundation and its supporting organizations. Including providing financial preparation, reporting, statements, and analysis, and special projects as assigned, such as implementation of new accounting guidance and other compliance.

Science background to include experience with HPLC. Cannabis analysis experience helpful.

Additional work may include GC/MS, ICP/MS, LC/MS/MS, ELISA, PCR, and Microanalysis.

LABORATORY TECHNICIAN Science background to include experience with some or all of the following: Lab experience or equivalent.

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We need people who are: • Critical thinkers • Detail oriented • Good communicators • And most importantly, team players!

Potential to grow as we do!

Excellent Benefits: Great Health Care, Tuition Reimbursement, five weeks CTO to start and more!

Great work environment!

Competitive salary to commensurate with experience and education!

Please direct all resumes and inquiries to: robin@biadiagnostics.com

If this sounds like a good fit for you, visit vermontcf.org/careers for complete job description and instructions for applying.

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Ohavi Zedek Synagogue is looking for a very special person, one who would love to be our full-time Engagement Coordinator, supporting our staff, clergy and lay leadership with overall communications and outreach programming to deepen a welcoming and belonging community.

Specific responsibilities include: • Communications - managing the website, publishing our weekly emails, managing our social channels and much more.

• Membership – welcoming potential new members, supporting our Membership Committee’s outreach program and engaging with current members.

Find a job that makes it easier to sleep at night.

If you are interested in bringing a joyful spirit to our outreach and communications efforts and get paid for it, please send a resume, including salary requirements to our president Jeff Potash, at Jeffpotash@comcast.net.

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Center Coordinator Center for Teaching/Learning/Research The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research (CTLR) at Middlebury College is seeking an administrative coordinator to join their team! This essential role will facilitate the mission of the CTLR by providing administrative support to programs, events and the Director while ensuring compliance with college-wide administrative procedures.

Ideal candidates will possess strong organizational and communication skills and have a proven track record of multi-tasking and supporting a variety of programs, essential tasks, and meeting deadlines.

Are you creative, curious, and looking to develop new competencies?

Apply today: https://apptrkr.com/2833319 Middlebury is an equal-opportunity employer where diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values. To this end, the College recruits talented and diverse faculty, staff, and students from across the United States and around the world.

Middlebury encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of other protected classes and historically underrepresented communities. Middlebury also invites applications from individuals who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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And that’s on top of being a “Best Place to Work In Vermont” for three years running.

Great jobs in Service Coordination ($45k) and Direct Support Professionals ($18 per hour) at an award-winning agency serving Vermonters with intellectual disabilities. Plus a $500 sign-on bonus and an incredible benefits package.

• Engagement – providing staff, clergy and lay leadership with event and program support.

Qualifications and Skills: • Minimum 2 years’ experience in related position.

• Ability to build relationships and work successfully and respectfully with staff, clergy and congregants.

• Strong written, verbal, and computer skills; advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Google docs, and social media; ability to learn and use database systems, develop publicity materials • And most importantly, being able to make people laugh and see the joy in Jewish life.

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MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN The Champlain Water District (CWD) is seeking applications from qualified candidates for the position of Electrical Maintenance Technician.

The Electrical Maintenance Technician is responsible to perform all scheduled and unscheduled maintenance of all CWD’s electrical/electronic equipment and all computerized control process systems. Employee shall also be responsible for CWD property and equipment as directed by CWD Policy.

Employee will often perform job related responsibilities with limited supervision and will be required to make decisions, and take action, on his/her own without continuous supervision.

Candidate must have a working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and electronic practices as they apply to water systems. Minimum of 4 years’ working experience in the electrical/electronics field at a level equivalent to a licensed journeyman electrical, while successfully demonstrating selfmotivation and competence in mechanical, and particularly electronics/electrical components of water systems operation, is required.

Employee shall possess and maintain a State of Vermont Journeyman Electrician’s license, or have ability to attain such within a time determined by the District, and shall complete all required National Electrical Code continuing education, achieving National Electrical Code recertification.

Must possess a valid State of Vermont driver’s license with a clean record and the ability to meet the insurability criteria of the District’s insurance carrier.

The starting hourly wage for this position is $24.00, including an excellent benefits package.

To view the complete job description: champlainwater.org.

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SHARED LIVING PROVIDER Provide an accessible home for an easy-going 38-year-old gentleman who enjoys being part of a dynamic household. This individual has a comprehensive team and strong family support, along with respite and weekday supports.

The ideal provider will have strong interpersonal communication and personal care skills as all aspects of ADLs will be provided. This position includes a comprehensive training package, generous tax-free stipend, $500 sign-on bonus and a handicap accessible van for transportation.

Contact Jennifer Wolcott at jwolcott@ccs-vt.org or 802-655-0511 x 118 for more information Join us! Visit ccs-vt.org to apply today.

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MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN The Champlain Water District (CWD) is seeking applications from qualified candidates for the position of Lead Water Maintenance Technician.

This position is responsible for maintenance and general repair of all types of CWD machinery, vehicles, tools, equipment, and facilities. Employee will be required to perform in all the different areas of the District facilities, i.e. treatment plant, pump stations, storage tanks, underground vaults and water mains. Employee will perform a wide variety of duties to maintain and troubleshoot all types of CWD equipment. The Lead Technician is responsible for the leadership and liaison of the maintenance personnel as well as any CWD personnel working in and utilizing the garage facilities. Employee is required to make decisions and take action on his/her own without constant supervision.

Candidate must have a minimum of a high school education or equivalent and have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a position of similar responsibilities requiring advanced mechanical ability and knowledge. Employee shall be hired as a Lead Technician I (Grade 11) and is eligible for advancement to Lead Technician II (Grade 12) upon successful completion of the on-call checklist, completion of his/her probationary period, and possession of a valid State of Vermont Class D Water System Operator’s Certificate.

Must possess a valid State of Vermont driver’s license with a clean record and have the ability to meet the insurability criteria of the District’s insurance carrier.

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The starting hourly wage for this position is $25.46, including an excellent benefits package.

To view the complete job description: champlainwater.org.

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COMMUNICATIONS & DOWNTOWN PROGRAM COORDINATOR COORDINATOR, TRIO STUDENT SUCCESS For position details and application process: jobs.plattsburgh.edu, select “View Current Openings.”

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RESPITE PROVIDER Open your home to a sociable, pet-loving, wheelchair-using gentleman who is seeking regularly scheduled overnight respite (2-3 overnights per month). This individual enjoys watching movies, spending time outdoors and watching big trucks, machinery, and buses. He has a wheelchair accessible van for transportation needs, a portable ramp that can be used for accessibility into a home with 3-4 steps and a Hoyer lift for transferring in and out of his wheelchair.

The ideal candidate will be fun-loving, have an accessible home with an extra bedroom and will be able to support him with all Activities of Daily Living. Person centered training is provided.

Contact Pam at Pamelacook24@aol.com or 802-324-7012 for more information.

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Randolph Area Community Development Corporation (RACDC) seeks a full-time (30-40hrs/week) Communications & Downtown Program Coordinator to join our team.

This position leads the organization’s communications strategy, including outreach to members, donors, volunteers and the public to advance our mission and organization. This role also provides direct program management of Randolph’s Designated Downtown Program, including goalsetting, planning and execution of events, and organizing multi-stakeholder initiatives to strengthen and promote our region. A successful candidate is detail-oriented, creative, personally driven to make a difference, and able to communicate effectively with diverse audiences. Potential for hybrid position for the right candidate.

A bachelor’s degree in community development, communications and/ or an equivalent combination of background and experience is needed.

Full description at racdc.com. To apply, send cover letter & resume to personnel@racdc.com. RACDC is an equal opportunity employer.

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EDUCATION ASSIS TANT DIVISION DIRECTOR – MONTPELIER

Looking for a challenging and fulfilling position? The Assistant Division Director plays a key leadership role within the AOE’s Federal & Education Support Programs Division in support of students, schools, and educators. The position requires excellent strategic planning, supervisory, budgetary, and communication skills, as well as the ability to accurately interpret and succinctly communicate federal and state regulations. For more information, contact Anne Bordonaro at anne.bordonaro@ vermont.gov. Department: Agency of Education. Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier.

Job Id #24202. Application Deadline: February 13, 2022.

RECORDING SECRETARY The Town of Jericho, VT is seeking the services of a Recording Secretary for the Jericho Selectboard.

Services required include attending meetings (1st & 3rd Thursday of each month starting at 7pm for Jericho Selectboard) via Zoom or in person and furnishing written minutes of each meeting to town staff within five days of each meeting. Compensation is based upon experience.

Interested persons may submit a resume to Paula Carrier, Administrative Assistant, via email at pcarrier@jerichovt.gov or via mail at P.O. Box 39, Jericho, VT 05465. The town will receive applications until position is filled.

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The VT Disability Determination Services is seeking to hire a licensed physician in such fields as general or internal medicine, family practice, etc. to provide medical eligibility decisions for applicants filing for Social Security disability, SSI and Medicaid disability. Program training is provided with no patient care responsibilities. For more information, contact Jack McCormack at jack.mccormack@ ssa.gov. Department: Children and Families Services. Location: Waterbury. Status: Temporary-Part-Time. Job Id #27442. Application Deadline: February 13, 2022.

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The Vermont Center on Behavior and Health (VCBH) located at the Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont announces an opening for a Business Administrator in our internationally recognized center of excellence for tobacco and substance use disorder research. This position oversees, coordinates, and performs administrative and business operations in the VCBH in coordination with the Center director, the admin team, and in alignment with departmental business practices.

The Business Administrator will provide high-level support for the VCBH and subsequent sub-centers including, but not limited to, cradle-to-grave grant management on a variety of research projects. The grant portfolio consists of multidepartmental center/multi-site grants (COBRE and TCORS), T32 training grant, R01s and various research projects.

Responsibilities include grant administration, oversee staff/ trainees working in the VCBH, and meeting regularly with VCBH faculty to keep them informed of a variety of issues that arise in the grant lifecycle.

Apply online: uvmjobs.com/postings/50065

This position directs the Department of Finance & Management’s Statewide Reporting staff and serves as the State’s professional expert for financial accounting and reporting. He/she performs some of the most complex financial reporting in state government. An advanced level of knowledge and skills in PeopleSoft reporting tools is required. Duties are performed with significant independence under the general direction of the Commissioner of Finance and Management. For more information, contact Adam Greshin at adam.greshin@vermont.gov. Department: Finance & Management. Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier. Job Id #27062.

Application Deadline: February 14, 2022.

EXECUTIVE S TAFF ASSIS TANT – LIBRARIES – BARRE

The Executive Assistant to the Commissioner of Libraries/State Librarian performs administrative and office management duties at a professional level for the Department of Libraries. The Executive Assistant manages and supports the Board of Libraries and the Department’s geographic naming staff. The Executive Assistant prepares and maintains budget spreadsheets and reports and performs legislative tracking. For more information, contact Janette Shaffer at janette.shaffer@vermont. gov. Department: Libraries. Status: Full Time – Exempt. Location: Barre. Job Id #28026.

Application Deadline: February 16, 2022.

COMMUNIT Y BROADBAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MANAGER – MONTPELIER

The Vermont Community Broadband Board is recruiting an Economic Development Manager to assist Communication Union Districts leveraging existing funding to create additional financing opportunities. This position will perform finance and lending technical assistance, administrative, and policy work related to funding the expansion of affordable broadband to all under-served addresses in Vermont. For more information, contact Rob Fish at rob.fish@vermont.gov. Department: Public Service.

Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier. Job Id #26567. Application Deadline: February 24, 2022.

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Inbound Call Center Service Representatives People’s United Bank is currently seeking Inbound Call Center Service Representatives for their Williston Operations Center.

People’s United Bank is a premier, community-based bank in the Northeast. Our management team places a priority on creating a workplace where associates can learn, grow and achieve their career aspirations. We believe in an inclusive environment that encourages empowerment and accountability.

These positions are eligible for a $1,000 sign on bonus!

Who are we looking for?

• Prior banking experience is a plus • Effective verbal & listening skills to provide courteous & professional customer service.

• Ability to remain calm and courteous when handling difficult calls and requests.

• Effective PC skills. Ability to learn to use additional applications • Ability to work well in a team environment If you are interested and want to learn more-please go to peoples.com/careers Our comprehensive benefits package features: • Competitive Medical, Dental & Vision Programs • Generous paid-time off and holiday time •Multiple health and wellness programs • 401K with employer match E.O.E.

V Smiley Preserves makes honey sweetened preserves in Vermont.

We specialize in intricate textured flavors, making no-added pectin preserves, investing in our local food-shed, and supporting organic growing practices. V Smiley Preserves is the country’s only nationally available honey sweetened preserve company. We have created a new category of preserving within small batch canning, discovering all that is possible with just fruit and local honey. The company took home Good Food Awards in 2019, 2020, and 2021.

In 2021, V Smiley Preserves purchased the Bristol Cliffs Cafe at 16 Main St. to reopen as Minifactory. Minifactory = coffee shop, eatery and retail location for specialty grocery and local produce.

Minifactory homes V Smiley Preserves production. We are located in downtown Bristol.

We are currently hiring:

• OPERATIONS / FINANCE MANAGER • PASTRY CHEF • HEAD JAMMER AKA PRODUCTION LEAD

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Himalayan Cataract Project (HCP | Cureblindness), a VTbased nonprofit, is actively seeking a Staff Accountant.

Please visit our website for a complete job description: cureblindness.org/careers.

Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS) provides prevention resources, emergency shelter, support services, and housing for those without homes or at risk of becoming homeless. Join our team to make a difference in your community!

COTS is currently hiring for multiple staff positions within our shelters, including full-time with benefits, part-time, and as needed substitutes (per diem). Shelter Staff positions work directly with clients/guests to support them in their search for permanent housing, while ensuring a safe, welcoming, and positive environment within the shelters.

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Engaging minds that change the world

Minimum of HS degree or equivalent required; BSW or BA in a related field strongly preferred. At least one year of related experience required; a combination of coursework and experience will also be considered. Strong candidates will have experience with individuals experiencing homelessness and crisis intervention, as well as knowledge of resources and services for individuals and families.

Base pay for regular team members starts at $16.96/hour.

To apply, submit resume & cover letter to jobs@cotsonline.org.

We are a team of passionate individuals who believe in the value and dignity of every human life. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and welcome all. Join us on our mission to end homelessness!

Planning & Zoning Administrator The Town of Underhill seeks to hire a Planning & Zoning Administrator (PZA). The successful candidate will administer and enforce the Town of Underhill’s zoning and subdivision bylaws, as well as general planning functions.

The PZA will work with the Development Review Board, and Planning Commission when necessary. Land use and zoning experience, the ability to read and interpret building and engineering plans, and the ability to effectively communicate zoning regulations and permit requirements to the public is required.

The individual must enjoy working in a small dynamic office, have knowledge of V.S.A. 24 Chapter 117 and experience working with engineers, attorneys and land developers. This is a full-time position with benefits, 40 hours per week. Pay is commensurate with experience; range is 50-55K with competitive insurance and benefits package. Seeking to hire as soon as possible.

Review the complete job description at underhillvt.gov.

Send cover letters, applications and resumes by Monday 2/28, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. to: Jennifer Silpe-Katz, PO BOX 120 Underhill, VT 05489 Or email: Jsilpe-katz@underhillvt.gov

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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.

Counseling and Psychiatry Services Front Office Assistant Center for Health and Wellbeing - #S3359PO - The University of Vermont’s Center for Health and Wellbeing is recruiting for a Counseling and Psychiatry Services Front Office Assistant. This position schedules appointments and provides information on the telephone and in person to students, staff, and faculty about mental health services offered, and how to access care. Checks clients in/out, and assists in determining needs of students in coordination with the CAPS Office Manager, Counselors, Psychiatrists and Case Manager. Utilizes electronic health record system for scheduling and communicating with clients and providers. Works with client charts when necessary. Provides administrative support to Counseling and Psychiatry staff. Promotes a safe Center for Health and Wellbeing for students and staff of all races, ethnicity, religious, national origins, gender sexual orientations, disabilities and ages. Supports the mission and philosophy of the CHWB, Division of Student and Campus Life and the University of Vermont.

Minimum Qualifications: Associate’s Degree and one to three years’ experience providing administrative office support required. Experience with standard office software applications and internet resources required.

Ability to organize work priorities, plan, and adhere to structured regulations required. Effective interpersonal communication skills and ability to maintain confidentiality and discretion required. Commitment to diversity and social justice education and training required.

Desirable Qualifications: Experience in a college setting, medical or mental health office. Experience with electronic health records highly desirable. Proficiency with Outlook, Teams, Excel, Drupal, and Adobe highly desirable. Knowledgeable of adolescent behavior desirable.

Chief Safety and Compliance Officer - VP Operations & Public Safety - #F2134PO - Reporting to the President, the Chief Safety and Compliance Officer (CSCO) provides leadership and direction for a multi-function workforce charged with the protection of the health, safety, and welfare of the entire University of Vermont community, and its compliance with necessary policies and protocols. This senior administrator must work collaboratively with UVM leadership, as well as local, state, and federal entities, to ensure a coordinated approach to safety, service, compliance, and campus operations.

The CSCO leads a division charged with overseeing The CSCO supervises services delivered by five departments/offices, specifically: Emergency Management, Risk Management and Safety, Police Services, Compliance and Privacy Services, and the CATcard Service Center.

Bachelor’s Degree required, graduate degree preferred, in public administration, management, sociology or criminal justice, or a related field.

Minimum of seven years of risk management, emergency management, and/or public safety experience, in a senior position, preferably at an institution of higher education or other organization of similar size and complexity to the University of Vermont.

For further information on these positions and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit www.uvmjobs.com. Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted.

Open positions are updated daily. Please call 802-656-3150 or email employment@uvm.edu for technical support with the online application.

The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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AES Northeast is still GROWING! As one of the largest full-service design firms in Northern NY and Vermont, we are adding several new positions to our team. We have openings in our Plattsburgh, NY and Williston, VT offices for talented professionals.

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Home and community support position for friendly young adult autistic male.

Public Relations & Guest Services COORDINATOR The Vermont Historical Society seeks a full-time Public Relations and Guest Services Coordinator based in Montpelier. The coordinator conveys VHS’s story to the public through all media channels, administers the Society’s retail sales, and coordinates guest services at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. Bachelor’s degree and experience in a public relation and/or retail environment required.

Strong customer service and computer skills preferred.

Salary Starts at $42k plus benefits.

Full job description at vermonthistory.org/careeropportunities. To apply, send a cover letter and resume to tori.hart@vermonthistory.org.

Hours are: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Mon-Thurs, Fridays are half days 8:30 am - 12:30 pm. One part time position Wednesdays and Thursdays 8:30 am - 3:30 pm, Fridays half day 8:30- 12:30 pm.

Super Thin Saws, of Waterbury, VT manufactures precision circular saw blades and similar tooling, primarily for the woodworking industry. We are seeking highly motivated individuals to work & grow in our manufacturing operation We are currently seeking a manufacturing technician and a Quality Control Technician. Candidates must be mechanically inclined (previous experience with measuring tools, such as micrometers, calipers & dial indicators, is desired).

We will also provide training to successful candidates.

Please send your resume to bookkeeping@superthinsaws. com or call 802-244-8101.

Project Administrator Assistant Project Manager

Qualifications: degreed applicants highly preferred, experience a plus but not essential but your references will be, must be athletic. Must be one who really enjoys service to others, respectful, friendly, likes to sing. Good work ethic is essential.

You will work as a team and must be a team player. Clean driving record. Note: these are not short term temporary positions.

Resident Project Reps (Full Time & Seasonal) Project Manager

Project Architect Administrative Assistant Environmental/Process Engineer Civil Engineer Landscape Architect

AES offers competitive salaries, generous benefits package, and flexible work environment/schedules.

If it sounds like your style please send us a resume, a cover letter of your interest and include 3 references please. Send to nbgteamvt@gmail.com.

For more information and to apply visit: aesnortheast.com/our-firm/career-opportunities/.

WAREHOUSE PACKAGE HANDLER VOCATIONAL CASE MANAGER

• Up to $18.00/hour to start* • Includes a pay enhancement of $1 per hour for all package handlers.

This location is participating in an Hours Worked Bonus Program. If part-time package handlers work 25+ hours within the week, they will earn a $100 bonus. If full-time package handlers work 40+ hours within the week, they will earn a $200 bonus.

Valid through 2/12/22.

All enhancements, surges, and bonuses are valid through 2/12/22. The Referral Program is valid through 1/29/22.

• Fast paced and physical warehouse work – why pay for a gym membership when you can get paid while working out?

• Warehouse duties include loading, unloading, and sorting of packages of various sizes.

The Vocational Case Manager provides vocational rehabilitation services to Injured Workers through coordination with the employee, referral source, physician, employer, attorney, State partners and others with the ultimate goal being the client’s timely return to gainful employment. The Vocational Case Manager interviews and evaluates the client to determine vocational services eligibility based on Transferrable Skills, Labor Market Research, Suitable Wage and Work Capacity. This position identifies suitable job goals consistent with the clients’ interests, aptitudes and physical abilities; supporting the RTW goals of the Vermont Department of Labor jurisdictional rules, in collaboration with all parties.

This is a home office position, with regular travel up to 70% of the time throughout Vermont & may include travel to surrounding states.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: • Master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling or related field is required.

• CRC preferred • Vermont Certification or eligible for certification post 6 month internship.

• Knowledge of Managed Care or Workers’ Compensation preferred.

• Part time employees work one shift a day; full time employees work two shifts.

• Shift lengths vary based on package volume – generally part time employees work between 3 and 6 hours a day. Full time employees can expect to work between 6 and 10 hours.

• Overtime paid after 40 hours per week.

• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities.

• Excellent benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, tuition reimbursement, and more.

Super Thin Saws provides excellent pay, benefits including medical and flexible hours.

We are currently filling the following positions:

Both positions pay $26/ hr. Centrally located in Burlington for easy walking, biking or driving to work.

This location is participating in a Referral Program. If a package handler refers someone to work as a package handler and that person stays 45 days, they will earn a $250 bonus. Valid through 1/29/22.

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A comprehensive benefits package is available for full-time regular employees and includes Medical (HDHP) w/Pharmacy, Dental, Vision, Long Term Disability, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account Options, Life Insurance, Accident Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Pre-paid Legal Insurance, Parking and Transit FSA accounts, 401K, ROTH 401K, and paid time off. In addition, Medical Case Managers are eligible for bonus and will be provided stateof-the-art technological devices to ensure ready access to CorVel’s proprietary Case Management application, enabling staff to retrieve documents on the go and log activities as they occur.

Send resumes to: Donna_Curtin@corvel.com CorVel is an Equal Opportunity Employer, drug free workplace, and complies with ADA regulations as applicable.

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AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)

Actor Leelee Sobieski was mourning her romantic adventures — or rather the lack of romantic adventures.

She said, “If only I could find a guy who wasn’t in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I’d be madly in love.” The good news is that Sobieski knows precisely what she wants, and it’s not all that complicated. The bad news is that there are few men near her own age (38) who enjoy discussing the fine points of the endangered bird species known as the white crane. I bring her predicament to your attention, Aquarius, in the hope that you’ll be inspired to be as exact and lucid as she is in identifying what you want — even as you cheat just a bit in the direction of wanting what is actually available.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): “Real love is a pilgrimage,” declared author Anita Brookner.

“It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.” That’s the bad news, Aries. The good news is that you have more potential than ever before to free your love of strategic maneuvering and manipulation. For the foreseeable future, I invite you to drop all romantic agendas and simply make yourself extra receptive to love’s teachings. Are you

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): In the near future, I’ll be pleased if you dole out lavish praise to allies who enchant you. I will celebrate if you deliver loving inspirations and lush invitations to those who help you fulfill your reasons for being here on the planet. To get you in the mood, here are some suggested provocations: 1. “Your body makes mine into a shrine; holy, divine, godtouched.” —Ramona Meisel. 2. “Your luster opens glories on my glowing face.” —Federico García Lorca. 3. “All night long if you want. We’ll tell our secrets to the dark.” —Gayle Forman. 4. “I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.” —Bob Dylan.

5. “We are each other’s harvest. We are each other’s business. We are each other’s magnitude and bond.” —Gwendolyn Brooks.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun. 20): In Gemini author

Orhan Pamuk’s novel Snow, the main character Ka asks a woman named Ipek, “What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?” Ipek’s answer: “Be yourself.”

In the coming days, Gemini, I would love you to engage in similar exchanges with those you care for. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, now is a favorable time for you and your best allies to shed all fakery and pretense so that you may be soulfully authentic with each other — and encourage each other to express what’s most raw and genuine.

CANCER (Jun. 21-Jul. 22): Are you in the

mood to make extravagant gestures in behalf of love? Are you feeling an urge to move beyond your habitual approaches to intimate togetherness as you dare to engage in fun experiments? Now is a good time for such behavior with allies you trust. To spur your imagination, immerse yourself in the spirit of this poem by Nizar Qabbani: “I abandon my dictionaries to the flames, / And ordain you my language. / I fling my passport beneath the waves, / And christen you my country.”

Your homework: Dream up and carry out a playful and audacious venture that will energize one of your close relationships.

LEO (Jul. 23-Aug. 22): I’ve created a list of splashy titles for stories or poems or songs or

artworks or dances that you could compose for beloved allies or people you want to be beloved allies. I hope my list inspires you to get gushy and lyrical. I hope you’ll be creative and marvelous as you express your passionate appreciation. Here are the titles: 1.

Glistening Passion. 2. Incandescent Rapture.

3. Succulent Dazzle. 4. Molten Luminosity. 5.

Splashy Fire Bliss. 6. Shimmering Joy Beams.

7. Opulent Delirium. 8. Wild Soul Synergy. 9.

Sublime Friction. 10. Fluidic Gleam Blessings.

11. Throbbing Reverence. 12. Sacred Heart Salvation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): Author Eve Ensler tells us, “You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.” This is perfect counsel for you to carry out in the coming weeks, Virgo. Life will conspire to help you heal yourself, in dramatic and even semi-miraculous ways, as you offer the people and animals you care for the same blessings that you crave to receive. I foresee an influx of restorative karma flowing in your direction. I predict the fixing of at least some of your broken parts.

LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): In Michael Chabon’s novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, the character named Arthur says to the character named Cleveland, “Love is like falconry. Don’t you think that’s true?” Cleveland replies, “Never say love is like anything. It isn’t.” I propose we make that your meditation during this Valentine season, Libra. In accordance with astrological omens, you will be wise to purge all your preconceptions about love. Use your ingenuity to revive your innocence about the subject. Cultivate a sense of wonder as you let your imagination run wild and free in its fantasies about love and sex and intimacy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I’ll love it if sometime soon you create a situation in which you tell an ally words similar to what author Jamaica Kincaid spoke to her lover: “To behold the startling truths of your naked body frees me to remember the song I was born from.” Do you think you can make that happen, Scorpio? The astrological indicators at play in your life suggest that it would be right and sacred for you to do so. And if there is no such ally, then I hope you will deliver the same mes-

sage to your naked self. And by the way, what is the song you were born from? (PS: There has never been a better time than now to learn treasured truths about yourself through your connections with others.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m

afraid I must be downright practical and mundane in my oracle for you. Don’t hate me! I’m only reporting what the planetary omens are telling me. They say that now is a favorable time for you to practice, practice and practice some more the fine arts hinted at by author Ivan Goncharov: “A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: It requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other’s good qualities without being irritated by each other’s shortcomings and blaming each other for them.” Be diligently positive, Sagittarius, as you work through the demanding daily trials of togetherness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’ll offer you a radical idea about love from author Hélène Cixous. Although it’s not always true for everyone, it will have special meaning for you in the coming months. She wrote, “It is easy to love and sing one’s love. That is something I am extremely good at doing. But to be loved, that is true greatness. Being loved, letting oneself be loved, entering the magic and dreadful circle of generosity, receiving gifts, finding the right thank-you’s, that is love’s real work.” How about it, Capricorn? Are you up for the challenge? Are you willing to expand your capacity to welcome the care and benevolence and inspiration coming your way from others?

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): I’ve never offered you the wisdom of actor Natalie Portman, but her idealistic attitude about relationships is exactly what I think you should aspire to in the coming months. She said, “I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn’t comfortable for them to do just to please me? And the answer is no.” What do you think, Pisces? Do you suspect that it might be interesting to apply that principle to your closest alliances? I hope so. If you do, the planetary energies will conspire to deepen your intimate bonds.

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My fiancé and I are getting married next year.

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INDIAN BROOK DOG WALKER Crossed your path. You were handsome and put together, and there was some auburn in your beard. Your dog’s bark was louder than her bite. She was a 4-y/o German shepherd who played with my little husky gal. I froze, literally and figuratively. Want to walk the dogs sometime? When: Sunday, January 16, 2022. Where: Indian Brook.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915491 MEHURON’S GROCERY Me: in black bibs. You: in brown bibs and black hoodie. Locked eyes by the chips, I believe, and then I ended up in line behind you at checkout. I had a dream you gave me your number on a torn dollar bill. I can’t shake your eyes from my mind. When: Wednesday, January 12, 2022. Where: Mehuron’s grocery.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915490 NECTAR’S TRIVIA BADDIE I see you every week. Your team is called Uncredited Bird #7; mine, A.M. Lumber.

You always beat us by a small margin, and it makes me so mad but also kind of turns me on. You have long brown hair and effortlessly attractive facial hair. Hope to beat you (at trivia) soon.

When: Thursday, December 16, 2021.

Where: Nectar’s Thursday night Trivia.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915488 MORE THAN A SLIM JIM You carelessly slid a Slim Jim and two barbecue-flavored, hard-boiled huevos onto the counter, sighing as if this meager snack was not going to satiate a burning hunger for much, much more. Your dark, mysterious eyes rose to meet my awe-stricken gaze.

Trying on my deepest voice, I asked, “Is that all?” Your sly smile indicated that maybe it wasn’t. When: Tuesday, January 11, 2022. Where: 7-Eleven.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915487 AMANDA FROM DC (ON MATCH) Your profile is wow! I’m not a member of that site, or I’d be messaging you directly. But I like all six of the three things you look for (as well as you making your own rules). Nice guy here, active and fun and single. Would really like to chat and see if there’s chemistry.

I hope you see this. When: Friday, January 7, 2022. Where: Match.com.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915486

Dear Surname Stressed,

We’re not talking about compromising on pizza toppings here. It’s your name — the identity you’ve had your whole life. You shouldn’t feel pressured to change it just because your fiancé is a little grumpy.

It befuddles me when married women who have taken their husband’s name talk about smashing the patriarchy. They’re participating in one of the most socially acceptable forms of sexism ever. The custom originated in a time when women were considered the property of their husbands.

Somehow, centuries later, it’s viewed as tradition.

Granted, some people think it’s romantic and signifies a couple’s bond. But I think most people do it just because that’s

LADY IN PURPLE AT WALGREENS I saw a polite, outgoing man. I was wearing a purple jacket and driving a black car. You were driving a large black truck. You impressed me.

Would like to find out more about you. When: Thursday, January 13, 2022. Where: Walgreens. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915489

DANCING AT HIGHER GROUND You said you watched me dance all night. You were with your friend. You said you were 51 like me. We laughed.

I’d like to meet you again. You were blond, your friend brunette, and I was Mr. Clean. When: Saturday, November 27, 2021. Where: Higher Ground.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915481

WELCOME TO MOE’S We glanced at each other when your friend pulled into the parking space directly across from where I was sitting, eating my burrito. You were in the passenger seat. I was wearing a black beanie hat with a navy blue jacket. As I was leaving, you were sitting with your friend, and we caught each other’s eyes again. Let’s meet up! When: Friday, December 31, 2021. Where: Moe’s in Williston.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915485

WILLISTON WHISTLER When I heard that it was so early in the morning, I may have said something in passing. Still sorry if it sounded sharp.

But I wonder if you think about it. I do.

I look around but never see you to say something nicer. If you see this and would like to chat, let me know! When: Monday, May 30, 2016. Where: in the stairway to heaven. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915480

DOMINO’S ON 12/30/21 6:30 p.m. You: tall, dark and handsome.

Me: tiny, curly, long blond hair. You asked if we knew each other, and I jokingly replied in a whisper, “Probably the cover of Vogue magazine.” We both laughed. If you’re single and would like to spend some time together, please reply. I’d love to hear from you!

When: Thursday, December 30, 2021.

Where: Domino’s in Essex Junction.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915484 VAPS 2005 OR 2006 Hi, this is a long shot. We attended a VAPS conference in 2005, 2006, 2007, and you were sitting somewhere behind me and so noticed that my back hurt because I kept tortuously twisting my posture. You came up to me outside at break to empathetically comment on it. I’d like to meet again this person who was so kind. When: Monday, November 20, 2017. Where: VAPS conference at the von Trapp lodge.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915483 PEARL/WINOOSKI CROSSWALK We both crossed diagonally and went west on Pearl. After I removed my mask and put my glasses on for a better look, I glanced across the street and saw you looking, too! After a big smile, I turned north. When: Friday, December 31, 2021. Where: middle of Pearl and Winooski intersection.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915482

4RUNNER GRILLE GUARDS, WILLISTON You asked me where I got my grille guard outside of the Xfinity store. You were so pretty with your blond hair that I couldn’t stop myself from dropping several F-bombs as we talked briefly.

I immediately started kicking myself for not giving you my number. Want to see if we have more in common than our vehicle choices? When: Thursday, December 30, 2021. Where: Williston.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915479 MAD WAIT AT MAD TACO We made eyes and chatted it up, but you were with your son/nephew/mentee, and I got shy. You were in a blue jacket, and I had a teal hat and a gray shirt. I almost went back in to give you my number, but this is more fun. When: Tuesday, December 28, 2021. Where: Mad Taco in Waitsfield.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915478 WINE AND CHEESE TRADERS You were coming out and had a large box filled with gifts. I was just entering. I held the door for you, and you said, “You are a gem.” I said “Thank you” but couldn’t think of what else to say. Thought maybe there was more? When: Wednesday, December 22, 2021. Where: Wine and Cheese Traders. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915477 THE MOMENT WE MET The moment we met, I knew it was you.

I put my hands on yours to warm them up while ice skating. You were shocked.

But maybe you were shocked because it was simply love. xoxo. When: Friday, January 25, 2019. Where: Charlotte, Vt. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915476

the way it’s been done forever — and we all know that’s rarely a good reason to do anything.

If hubby-to-be is stuck on sharing a last name, explain to him how you feel and ask whether he’d consider taking your name instead. That may change his tune, but you never know — he may just go for it.

A recent survey showed that 3 percent of married men in the U.S. took their wife’s surname. It’s not a particularly popular choice, but it does happen.

You could also ponder the option of each taking a hyphenated version of both last names.

I don’t imagine this name hubbub will wreck the wedding, but one thing is for sure: If you’re planning to have children, you ought to figure out how you’re going to handle their last name before they arrive.

Good luck and God bless,

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