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Vermont House lawmakers voted 100 to 49 Tuesday to override Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of a minimum wage increase, handing Democratic leaders a razor-thin and much-needed legislative win.

With the Senate voting last week to override the Republican governor’s veto, the bill now becomes law, having achieved the two-thirds necessary in the 150-member House. The measure will raise the current minimum wage of $10.96 per hour to $11.75 in 2021 and to $12.55 in 2022, before increases will again be tied to inflation.

“Today’s vote reaffirms the legislature’s commitment to Vermont’s working families,” House Speaker Mitzi Johnson (D-South Hero) said in a statement. House Majority Leader Jill Krowinski (D-Burlington) shared that sentiment.

“This is a really good day for hardworking Vermonters who deserve and need a raise in their wages,” she said.

Scott was far less enthused. In a statement after the vote, he said the legislature had overlooked concerns that he and many lawmakers have expressed about the bill’s potential impact.

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GIVING UP THE GHOST This poltergeist is getting another makeover.

Randolph Union High School, home of the Galloping Ghosts, has erased a mural of its mascot over concerns that the hooded figure on horseback looked like a Ku Klux Klansman. Debate over the controversial image has ebbed and flowed in the decade since it first went up, but it gained new urgency after students raised a Black Lives Matter flag on campus last year, Orange Southwest School District superintendent Layne Millington said.

While some alumni argued for keeping the mural, Millington said he made a unilateral

“I hope, for the sake of our rural communities, they are correct,” Scott said of those who voted for the override. “We simply cannot sustain more job losses or closed businesses, particularly outside the greater Burlington area.”

Tuesday’s vote marked the first time in more than a decade that the legislature has managed to override a governor’s veto. It wasn’t an easy task.

The House passed the minimum wage bill last month with 93 votes — seven short of the 100 needed to ensure an override. Democratic leaders looked to flip members of their party who had opposed the measure the first time around.

Rep. Lucy Rogers (D-Waterville) changed her no to yes.

Despite concerns about how the bill would impact small businesses in her area, Rogers said she wanted to support other rural lawmakers who fought to strike a compromise with those who wanted a higher increase.

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WHAT’S WEIRD IN VERMONT “There was an image in the gym prior to that which was actually a little worse, because the mascot had a point on his sheet,” said Millington, who’s been on the job two and a half years. “So [the recently erased image] was the attempt to kind of replace The historic mascot (left) and removed mascot that one.”

There aren’t plans yet decision to erase the controversial image, to create a new mural but any future use of which appeared on the gym wall and on some the mascot will depict a Grim Reaper astride clocks in the school. Workers painted over the a horse, the image the school used until the 1980s, Millington said. mural on Sunday and are replacing the clocks, The Galloping Ghost nickname dates back Millington said.

to the 1940s, when opponents only saw flashes of white — the team jersey color — as quick and agile basketball players flitted around the court, Millington said.

He broke the news of the mural change in an email to the school community last week.

Millington expected a mixed reaction to his decision, which he made on his own as a way to avoid a divisive and protracted community debate, like the one that recently roiled South Burlington when it dropped the Rebels moniker. But the Randolph school superintendent received about 100 emails in the days following, and they were all positive.

“People are kind of happy at this point to just get it out of the way and move on,” Millington said.

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I was born in the former capital of the Confederacy: Richmond, Va. When I was 22 years old, about to head off to Harvard Law School, the city was still effectively segregated. So, when I went into a five-anddime store on the white side of town, I was detained and accused of shoplifting.

As an elementary school child, I had ventured over to the white side of town where the public library was. Everyone in that library was white. But the staffers always made me feel at home, which set the tone for how everyone else treated me, too.

I mention all that as a way of saying thank you for your article “Check This Out” [February 19]. It brought me to tears as I read about all the things Vermont library staff does. They are often lifesavers, just as the memory of the librarians on the white side of town, back in Richmond, helped me survive my experience at the five-and-dime store 12 years later.

In Vermont, the library tradition of assistance has carried on for me. Loona Brogan of the Cutler Memorial Library in Plainfield has always been helpful setting up discussion sessions for my wife and me.

And the librarian in Irasburg assisted me immeasurably when I was writing Howard Frank Mosher and the Classics.

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I very much enjoyed the article about Vermont libraries [“Check This Out,” February 19], until I encountered the description of a librarian taking home a patron’s laundry to wash and fold.

Really? In an article about a profession made up mostly of women — many of whom work in small libraries where there are few benefits, the hours are part time and the pay is not a livable wage — I think you could have offered a more appropriate anecdote.

June Osowski

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TALE OF TWO LIBRARIANS

I know where to begin: Thank you, Seven Days team, for such a comprehensive snapshot of Vermont’s libraries [“Check This Out,” February 19].

I don’t, however, know where to end; there are so many stories I would love to tell about the many Vermont libraries

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means), but many reasonable adults are questioning his motives, his methods and, ultimately, his effectiveness. Trumpism will not be defeated simply by presenting the exact opposite ideas. First we have to keep the nation out of the hands of despots and crooks.

Let’s get serious here. Our nation is still a work in progress. Trump is moving fast to dismantle as much as he can in the time he has. Let’s not assume Bernie — or even Bernie-ism — will win this war.

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I have visited. Instead, I’ll stick to two tales about librarians I knew during my early days in elementary school in Granby, Conn.

The first librarian I met looked like a Norman Rockwell subject: wiry, wizened and wearing half-moon glasses perched on her nose.

Certainly, I checked out books, but I learned more from her than I did from any of those books.

Ms. Brennecke was the child of missionaries to China. During and after World War II, she and her family endured captivity, first by the Japanese and later by the Chinese Communists.

My school librarian TAKE A HIKE? had been one of the first American women to see the newly liberated Nazi death camps. As a U.S. Army photographer, she chronicled the horror that met her eyes. She kept several of the photos she took and hid them in her attic. Once she had children, she destroyed the photos so that her kids would not accidentally find them and be shocked by something they — and, actually, we — could not understand.

Yes, Vermont’s libraries are treasure chests of learning, and among those valuable resources are the fascinating people who help make all that magic happen. Thanks to them, as well.

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[Re Off Message: “Sanders Condemns Reported Russian Support for His Campaign,” February 21]: To the Bernie faithful — cool your jets and come down to Earth! Russia is backing both Sen. Bernie Sanders and President FIGHTING WORDS Donald Trump, and it doesn’t take a political science degree to know why: A Bernie nomination would give both Russia and Trump plenty of fuel.

The Russians are masters at political manipOH, BOILINGTON ulation. Their ON THE MOVES “support” for Bernie is merely to set him up with one hand while demolishing him — and the Democrats — with the other. Divide and conquer is the name of the game.

There are other reasons the Democratic National Committee needs to nominate someone else. Why? First, because Bernie will not deliver on his sweeping promises. A lot of hard work will be needed, and those goals may be achievable sometime in the distant future, not even in Bernie’s lifetime.

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I have a couple of concerns about the article “Out of Commission” [February 19],

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Two, while the article is informative and pretty well balanced, the last paragraph does a disservice to the fair reporting. Ending with a representation that public participation is of little concern in Act 250 history counters your informants who said that public participation is the heart of Act 250. A more neutral ending to the article would have been better.

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Unvetted?

How Bernie Sanders’ opponents are weaponizing his past

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Nursing Home Corp Settles Vermont Neglect Allegations for $740,143

Betting on Billado

Vermont’s GOP closes ranks behind its pro-Trump chair

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Bonds, Internet and Climate Crisis

What Vermonters will decide this Town Meeting Day

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Bernie vs. ‘Richie Rich’

Deal to Streamline Act 250 Collapses in House Committee

The Lives of Women

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Elder Statesman

Culture: Tribal chief Don Stevens represents a new era of Abenaki leadership in Vermont

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Words to Live By

Culture: Educators team up to produce an illustrated Abenaki dictionary

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Fired Up: The Weybridge Congregational Church aims a Christian lens at the climate crisis

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Peer Pressure After moving repeatedly following her father’s death, Izzy, the teenage protagonist in Maria Padian’s new young adult novel How to Build a Heart, finally feels at home in Virginia. That is, until love, money, school and family present challenges.

Padian, a Middlebury College grad, appears at the Vermont Book Shop for a reading and book signing.

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ON BASS In 2014, Danielle Nicole became the first woman to win the Blues Foundation’s Blues Music Award for Best Instrumentalist-Bass. Nicole earned her chops as a founder of the bluesrock band Trampled Under Foot and has since released two solo albums, including 2018’s Grammy Awardnominated Cry No More. The singer, songwriter and instrumentalist blows away blues fans with a Plattsburgh, N.Y., concert.

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On the Catwalk Revelers bring high fashion to the Little City for Carnevale Vergennes, an annual bash that supports area nonprofit organizations. Guided by the theme “Fashion is art and you are the canvas,” partygoers don their best costumes, masks and accessories for an over-the-top night of dancing, drinking and runway walking. Make it work!

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Protest Song “Hound dogs on my trail / School children sitting in jail / Black cat cross my path / I think every day’s gonna be my last,” sang Nina Simone in her 1964 song “Mississippi Goddam.” Highlighting Simone’s message of protest against racial inequity, Middlebury College assistant professor of music Matthew Evan Taylor examines the tune’s lyrics and musical structure in an Essex Junction lecture.

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Meal Plan A current exhibition at Burlington’s BCA Center is more than an art show — it’s a call to action. Guest-curated by interdisciplinary artist Stella Marrs, “Apocalypse Diet: What Will We Eat?” demands reconsideration of humans’ relationship to food production in light of the climate crisis. Themes of resilience and survival emerge from video, sculpture, print media and performance by seven female artists.

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Clap If You Believe “I think everybody has a connection to Peter Pan, but what’s special about Finding Neverland is, it tells the story behind the story,” says director Diane Paulus in a promotional video.

Based on the movie of the same name, Finding Neverland follows playwright J.M. Barrie as he pens the 1904 tale of a boy who never grows up. See the Broadway touring production on the Flynn MainStage in Burlington.

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Root Note “My music is a reflection of who I am and where I’ve come from,” famed jazz artist Kamasi Washington told Seven Days in 2017. The saxophonist, composer and bandleader, who grew up in South Central Los Angeles, demonstrates his musical depth during a concert at South Burlington’s Higher Ground with Brooklyn soul band Lady Moon & the Eclipse.

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Genesis HealthCare, a publicly traded firm that owns and manages hundreds of nursing homes, will pay Vermont $740,143 to settle allegations of neglect resulting in three serious injuries and a death.

The settlement stems from incidents at three facilities in 2018 and 2019. It resolves claims relating to the state’s vulnerable adult statutes and the False Claims Act.

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s Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has become the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, rivals and skeptics have warned that revelations about his past could destroy his chances in a matchup against President Donald Trump.

“The opposition research on @BernieSanders could fill @real DonaldTrump’s empty Foxconn facility in Wisconsin,” former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign manager, Kevin Sheekey, wrote on Twitter last week. “It is very damaging, perhaps even disqualifying.”

Sheekey was just the latest Sanders critic to argue that the senator’s record and fitness for office have never truly been examined. They contend that, during his first run for the presidency in 2016, Sanders got a pass because neither Hillary Clinton nor the journalists who covered the race saw him as a serious contender.

But those who know his record best don’t buy the notion that, after half a century in public life, Sanders remains unvetted.

“That’s absurd,” said Lauren-Glenn Davitian, executive director of the Burlington-based community television station CCTV/ Center for Media & Democracy. “There is nothing secret about Bernie frickin’ Sanders.”

Davitian is well acquainted with the record. Since she cofounded CCTV in 1984 — three years into Sanders’ tenure as mayor of Burlington — the station has produced and collected more than 1,000 hours of footage featuring the future senator. And since he first publicly mulled a presidential campaign in 2014, Davitian has watched journalists pore through the tape in search of scoops. (Ironically, the footage exists in part because Sanders championed the transparency that public access TV brought to municipal government.)

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As early as June 2015, Seven Days spotted a pair of opposition researchers combing through Sanders’ mayoral records at the University of Vermont’s special collections library. Since then, according to UVM librarian Chris Burns, there’s been “a steady stream” of reporters and political operatives availing themselves of the .com archives. “I wouldn’t describe it as overwhelming, in part because he’s gone through a couple of these cycles,” Burns said.

Among the visitors, no doubt, were members of the Clinton campaign. In November 2015, her research director circulated six documents to top staffers containing more than 1,000 pages of Sanders “oppo.” After the Russian government hacked into campaign chair John Podesta’s email account and provided its contents to WikiLeaks, the research became widely

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The three facilities — St. Johnsbury Health & Rehab, Berlin Health & Rehab Center and Burlington Health & Rehab Center — are among the lowest rated in the state, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ online Nursing Home Compare system. The St. Johnsbury and Berlin homes both have one out of five stars, based on metrics that include three years’ worth of health inspections, staffing levels and clinical outcomes for residents. The Burlington facility has two stars. The statewide average for nursing homes is 3.2 stars, while Genesis-owned homes average 2.6.

Genesis is a Pennsylvania-based corporation that owns nine nursing homes in Vermont — a quarter of the state’s 36 federally regulated nursing facilities. Genesis facilities hold 1,019 beds, 33 percent of the state’s total nursing home capacity.

In one incident, the Burlington Health & Rehab Center discharged a resident with lower-body paralysis and dropped him off at a nearby hotel, despite knowing he could not get into bed, use the toilet, or access food, drink or medications without help.

Vermonters researching nursing homes can look up ratings and inspection information on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s online Nursing Home Compare tool. And to look up info on state-regulated residential care and assisted-living facilities, use the Vermont Eldercare Navigator, created by Seven Days and Vermont Public Radio for a joint series called “Worse for Care” last year. The navigator and the stories are available at sevendaysvt.com.

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Sanders activated his loyal network of small-dollar donors and built out a robust campaign infrastructure. He played tough behind the scenes but kept his public remarks focused on his well-worn message of economic equality — drawing a notso-subtle contrast with his self-funded rival. “Together, we will help make government work for all of the people, and not just the wealthy and the powerful,” Sanders pledged.

The opponent in question was not Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and former New York City mayor who is running against Sanders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. It was Republican Rich Tarrant, the millionaire software executive who unsuccessfully challenged Sanders for Vermont’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2006.

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Though the races differ in scale and consequence, those who took part in the 2006 contest — the most expensive in Vermont history — say it offers clues as to how Sanders may take on Bloomberg in the coming weeks or months. “It will be class warfare, and it will be vicious,” predicted Dave Carney, a veteran GOP operative who consulted for Tarrant that year.

According to those who advised Sanders at the time, Tarrant’s challenge shaped the way the senator campaigns to this day.

Though Sanders was no stranger to tough races, .com he had never faced such a well-financed opponent, nor one willing to go quite so negative. By Election Day, Tarrant had spent nearly $7 million of his fortune on his long-shot bid — a portion of it on misleading television ads portraying Sanders as sympathetic to child molesters and terrorists.

“Bernie has been through the experience of going up against somebody with unlimited resources,” said Tad Devine, a former Sanders political consultant who produced ads for him that year. “The

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The documents describe a litany of Sanders’ “past extreme views,” such as his support in the 1970s for the legalization of all drugs and a 100 percent marginal tax rate for income over $1 million. They allege that he flip-flopped on gun rights, immigration and gay marriage. The documents chronicle a series of alleged ethical improprieties that financially benefited members of his family.

And they summarize strange essays he wrote in the ’70s involving rape fantasies and a theory that sexual maladjustment causes breast cancer.

Sanders distanced himself from the essays in 2015, but this week they reemerged on cable television. “Bernie has all of this loopy stuff in his background,” Bloomberg senior adviser Timothy O’Brien said Tuesday on CNN. “Why has this stuff not been surfaced? He’s written about women’s rape fantasies. That hasn’t been surfaced. That’s the loony side of Bernie.”

Though the Clinton research has surely informed many news stories, it wasn’t used as the basis for attack ads in 2016. As former Clinton aide Zac Petkanas wrote for NBC News last year, his former boss “never named [Sanders] in a single negative television or digital ad.”

Until recently, Sanders’ 2020 rivals largely ignored him and instead targeted such early front-runners as former vice president Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.). Now that Sanders has won two early-voting states and tied the third, he’s beginning to face the kind of scrutiny he previously avoided.

On Monday, Bloomberg released a digital ad highlighting Sanders’ evolving position on gun rights and the support he received from the National Rifle Association during his 1990 campaign. CNBC reported that Bloomberg is planning “a multi-pronged

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attack, including the publication of opposition research on Sanders.” Biden, meanwhile, released a digital ad accusing Sanders of Democratic disloyalty for contemplating a primary challenge to president Barack Obama in 2012. And on Tuesday night, after Seven Days went to press, Sanders’ opponents were expected to unload on him at a debate in South Carolina.

According to Mike Casca, a spokesperson for Sanders, there’s nothing new about the attacks. “Sen. Sanders’ opponents have thrown everything they can at him since the launch of his campaign,” Casca said.

“They’ve failed to stop the movement to build a political revolution because of the senator’s consistent, lifelong record of standing with the working class.”

Stuart Stevens, a veteran GOP operative and part-time Vermonter, said he doubts Sanders’ foes will discover some silver bullet. “Had there been something that was

disqualifying per se, it would have come out,” he said.

But when other Americans learn what Vermonters already know about their senator, Stevens argues, they might be less accepting. “I think voters in Vermont have kind of been acculturated to Bernie Sanders,” he said. “He’s eccentric. And I wonder, when people start to really focus on him, is this guy going to seem like a president?”

Sanders’ warm words for Latin American leftists, for example, are no secret to Burlingtonians. But after 35-year-old footage of Sanders defending Fidel Castro aired on “60 Minutes” on Sunday, Florida Democrats — some allied with Sanders’ foes — warned that his nomination could cost them their seats. (The clip came from a 1985 CCTV interview with Davitian.) They appeared less concerned by the original remarks than his unwillingness to amend them.

“As the first South American immigrant member of Congress who proudly represents thousands of Cuban Americans, I find Senator Bernie Sanders’ comments on Castro’s Cuba absolutely unacceptable,” first-term Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell wrote Monday on Twitter, calling Castro a murderous authoritarian.

Sanders’ past praise for Castro and Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega are already featuring in his opponents’ efforts to paint him as a dangerous radical. “Fidel Castro left a dark legacy of forced labor camps, religious repression, widespread poverty, firing squads, and the murder of thousands of his own people,” Bloomberg wrote Monday on Twitter. “But sure, Bernie, let’s talk about his literacy program.”

Trump has made clear that he will engage in red-baiting tactics if Sanders wins the nomination.

Sanders’ case likely wasn’t helped last Friday when the Washington Post reported that intelligence officials believe the Russian government is seeking to assist his candidacy. (The New York Times had previously reported that the Russians were attempting to reelect Trump.) “Wouldn’t [Russian President Vladimir Putin] rather have Bernie, who honeymooned in Moscow?” Trump asked at a rally last Friday in Las Vegas.

The president was referring to Sanders’ 1988 journey to the Soviet Union with his new bride, Jane O’Meara Sanders, and a delegation of Burlington officials.

The trip gained notoriety last year when a two-minute video went viral showing the shirtless and inebriated crew singing “This Land Is Your Land” to their Russian hosts.

CCTV has in its archives a full three and a half hours of footage from Sanders’ Soviet adventure but refuses to digitize and make it publicly available. “No, because it didn’t air on television, so we’re not distributing it,” Davitian explained. The station is willing to show it to those who stop by its Burlington

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The family has long maintained that This would hardly be the first elec- O’Meara Sanders did nothing wrong, and tion in which the senator’s patriotism is in November 2018 it released a statement questioned. During Sanders’ first success- saying she had been informed by the U.S. ful run for Congress in 1990, Republican attorney for Vermont that the case had been incumbent Peter Smith ran a blistering closed and no charges would be brought.

TV ad linking him to Castro and referring But since Vermont reporters began writing to an interview in which Sanders said he about the loan in 2015, Sanders has largely had been “physically nauseated” by the frozen out the local press and refused to late president John F. Kennedy’s inaugural answer questions about the matter. address.

The Burlington College investigation But according to former Sanders is certain to come up during the 2020 campaign manager Phil Fiermonte, such campaign, and it’s conceivable that Trump attacks have never gained much traction. “I could seek to revive it. The Republican offithink it’s going to be pretty hard to muddy cial whose complaint initiated the probe, him up as some kind of crazy communist,” Brady Toensing, now works for the DepartFiermonte said. “I think for folks that have ment of Justice. His mother and stepfather, tried it, they have found it very attorneys Victoria Toensing and hard to make that stuff stick.”

Joe diGenova, helped Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani seek dirt Stevens doesn’t believe redbaiting is as effective as it once on Biden in Ukraine. was. “We’re in a world in which Brady Toensing declined to the Cold War and talking about comment and referred Seven Castro and Russia and the Soviet Days to the DOJ press office, Union is sort of like, for a lot of which did not respond to an these voters, talking about the inquiry.

Crimean War,” he said. “It means Perhaps the most damaging nothing. Like, Paul McCartney issue that could haunt Sanders was in a band before Wings. I is his physical health — and don’t think they care.” his campaign’s reluctance to According to Rodolphe answer questions about it.

“Skip” Vallee, a longtime For days after the 78-year-old Sanders antagonist, the sena- L AU RE N-GLE NN senator suffered a heart attack DAVITIAN tor’s real vulnerability may be last fall, his staff downplayed answering tough questions the incident and refused to about what’s already known. “I don’t provide details. Sanders soon promised think it’s so much that Bernie hasn’t been CNN’s Sanjay Gupta that he would “make, vetted,” said Vallee, a Vermont gasoline at the appropriate time, all of our medical dealer, Republican fundraiser and former records public for you or anybody else ambassador to Slovakia. “It’s more that who wants to see them.” he isn’t asked or stiff-arms the press on In December, Sanders released letters obvious follow-up questions.” from three physicians who declared him Last May, for example, Sanders declined fit to pursue the presidency. But at a CNN an interview request for a New York Times town hall last week, he walked back his story about his forays into Latin American commitment to provide more information, politics in the 1980s. After it was published, arguing that he had released “quite as much he changed his mind and, during a phone as any other candidate has.” interview, berated and belittled the Though there’s no uniform standard for reporter, Sydney Ember. what presidential candidates are expected “I think, Sydney, with all due respect, to release, Sanders’ reluctance raised quesyou don’t understand a word that I’m tions that he might have something to hide. saying,” Sanders said.

Stevens, who opposes Trump’s reelecSome subjects he simply refuses to tion, thinks the key to defeating him is discuss. making the election a referendum on the The senator and his wife have never incumbent. He worries that, even if no been fully pressed on the details of the single piece of opposition research dooms financial transaction that led to a nearly Sanders, an accumulation of it could make two-year Federal Bureau of Investiga- it easier for Trump to keep the focus on his tion probe of O’Meara Sanders’ tenure opponent. as president of Burlington College. The “Every hour they’re not talking about investigation stemmed from a January Donald Trump is a win for them,” Stevens 2016 complaint by a Vermont Republican said. “So I think [Sanders’ potential nomiParty official alleging that she fraudulently nation] is a disaster.” m inflated the size of pledged donations to the school in order to obtain a $6.5 million Contact: paul@sevendaysvt.com

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question is: Is Bloomberg gonna do what Tarrant did?”

The answer appears to be yes. In his debut debate last week in Las Vegas, Bloomberg wrote off Sanders as unelectable and equated his self-described democratic socialism with communism. “What a wonderful country we have!” Bloomberg exclaimed. “The best-known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What did I miss here?”

This week, Bloomberg’s campaign hinted that it would amplify such attacks in his ubiquitous television commercials. According to the tracking firm Advertising Analytics, the billionaire has already spent more than $500 million on TV, radio and digital ads. To date, the vast majority of his spots have burnished his own record or tarnished that of Republican President Donald Trump, but on Monday he released a digital ad criticizing Sanders’ gun-control record.

Sanders, meanwhile, has been following a familiar playbook. Campaigning in Nevada last week, he characterized Bloomberg as nothing more than a power-hungry oligarch.

“He’s going to try to buy the presidency — by spending hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars on TV ads,” Sanders said.

“Well, I got news for Mr. Bloomberg, and that is: The American people are sick and tired of billionaires buying elections.”

Fourteen years earlier, Sanders employed a similar strategy. “Our challenge was to turn Tarrant’s main advantage — his money — against him,” Sanders’ longtime campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, wrote in his 2018 memoir, How Bernie Won. “We had to make every one of his innumerable ads a reminder to our fellow Vermonters that Tarrant was the candidate of big money and Bernie was the candidate of the average person.”

According to Phil Fiermonte, a former Sanders aide who ran his field program in 2006, that directive led to the campaign slogan “Experience That Money Just Can’t Buy.” Like Bloomberg, Tarrant came from a working-class family. The New Jersey native was the son of Irish immigrants and came to Vermont on a basketball scholarship at Saint Michael’s College. After the Boston Celtics drafted and then quickly cut him, Tarrant took a job with IBM selling computers in the Northeast Kingdom.

In 1969, he cofounded the technology company that would become IDX Systems and, 36 years later, sold it to General Electric for $1.2 billion. Tarrant was not available to comment for this story.

Unlike Bloomberg, who spent 12 years governing the biggest city in the country, Tarrant was a political novice when he decided, in 2005, to seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by

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Republican-turned-independent Jim Jeffords. According to Carney, everyone involved in Tarrant’s campaign knew that it would be “an extremely uphill fight.”

Sanders, an eight-term member of the U.S. House and former mayor of Burlington, was universally known in Vermont and, therefore, hard to redefine. “Everybody had an opinion on him,” Carney said. “They either loved him or they hated him. There wasn’t anyone in the middle.”

That wasn’t the case for Tarrant. Sanders’ staffers quickly set about branding him as an out-of-touch and out-of-state elitist.

“We went on the offensive right out of the gate,” Weaver wrote, suggesting that the campaign played a part in seeding stories about Tarrant’s Florida homes and part-time residency.

Sanders had a sympathizer in the late Seven Days political columnist Peter Freyne, who christened the “gazillionaire” Tarrant “Richie Rich” and chronicled his $8.9 million Florida mansion, $156,000 Bentley Coupe GT and “amazing, self-funded, televised ego trip.”

Sanders and his aides often claim he has never run a negative ad. He hasn’t needed to, in Carney’s view, because the press has always done his bidding. “Bernie’s people were very nasty, very negative,” he said.

“They actually used your newspaper to try to disrupt and discredit Rich every week.”

Tarrant was far more overt. For months, he had tried to improve his standing with a series of slick biographical ads illustrating, in episodic fashion, his rags-to-riches story.

When those failed to do the trick, he went on the attack.

The Republican challenger accused Sanders of abandoning dairy farmers, taking money from the sugar lobby, enriching family members and — in the most brutal TV ad of the campaign — coddling pedophiles. “He voted against sending two-time child molesters to prison for life,” Windham

County Republican Party chair George Kuusela says in the ad. “Child molesters!

Prison is where they should be. Bernie should know better.”

In fact, Sanders had opposed a 2003 bill that set up a national coordinator for the Amber Alert child abduction emergency notification system, citing an unrelated provision that he argued would have limited the discretion of federal judges during sentencing.

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The ad quickly backfired. “I’m sure they tested well in polling, but in practice people were never going to believe that Bernie was on the side of sex predators and kidnappers,” recalled Jim Barnett, a political operative who chaired the Vermont Republican Party at the time.

According to Devine, the campaign had been anticipating incoming fire — if not an attack of that nature — and had already filmed a canned response. It was as close as Sanders came to direct criticism of Tarrant’s wealth. “For months, my opponent, Rich Tarrant, has been spending millions telling us about himself,” Sanders says in the directto-camera spot. “Well, it’s his money and he can spend it if he wants, but he has no right to distort my record or what I stand for.”

Rather than get into a “rat-a-tat-tat” with Tarrant, Sanders decided to keep it positive, Devine said. His next ad featured country singer Willie Nelson endorsing him at a Charlotte farm. “If you keep Bernie in there, it’s gonna be better,” Nelson drawls in the ad.

To keep up with Tarrant’s spending, Sanders took the unusual step of holding fundraisers across the country. But it was his

direct mail solicitations that really brought in the dough. According to Fiermonte, the campaign would buy lists of mailing addresses belonging to, say, subscribers to the lefty magazine the Nation and send each household a four-page fundraising letter penned by Sanders. “This is something that Bernie really spent a lot of time over the years developing: a progressive direct-mail list,” Fiermonte said. “I don’t think there was anything that rivaled it at the time.”

By the end of the campaign, Sanders had raised an astounding $5.4 million — not quite as much as Tarrant had dropped, but enough to stay competitive.

“That was a really eye-opening campaign in that you started to see the power of these individual donors who kept giving and giving and giving and never reaching the maximum,” said Bill Lofy, who ran the Vermont Democratic Party’s coordinated campaign that year. “It foreshadowed a totally different way of raising money.”

Sanders made another big change in 2006 that presaged his future runs for the Democratic presidential nomination.

After decades of squabbling with Vermont Democrats, he for the first time sought the party’s nomination and endorsement, which froze out other potential Democratic candidates. Sanders won the nomination, declined it and ran in the general election as an independent. But he also for the first time took part in the party’s coordinated campaign, a biennial effort to pool Democratic resources and join forces on listbuilding, phone-banking and advertising.

“I think it was just pragmatism,” Lofy said. “He’s a very smart politician.”

In the end, Sanders walloped Tarrant, 65 to 32 percent. In Barnett’s view, “Rich never stood a chance.” With George W. Bush in the White House and the Iraq War going south, Republicans throughout the Northeast were decimated. And Tarrant hadn’t done himself any favors by going nuclear on a known and trusted incumbent.

“That flushing sound you just heard, folks, was a certain retired software millionaire’s ego and reputation going down the toilet,” Freyne had written months earlier, declaring Tarrant’s campaign all but dead after it aired the Amber Alert ad.

Whether Bloomberg will suffer a similar fate remains to be seen. If his performance at last week’s debate is any indication, he may be as poor a campaigner as Tarrant was.

One thing that is clear, in Devine’s view: Sanders knows what it takes to face “one of those I’ll-spend-what-it-takes kind of guys.”

“He’s been through this, and he navigated it very successfully,” Devine said. “He didn’t freak out. He stayed the course.” m Contact: paul@sevendaysvt.com

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Billado — her tone more disappointed than angry, as if she were scolding a puppy for peeing in the house — contends that she has been mischaracterized, in part by news media bent on sowing discord.

“I like working with everyone,” Billado told Seven Days during one of several interviews over the last three months.

“Even if I have a difference of opinion with them, I put that aside and I will work with them anyways. I will reach out. I will call. I will treat everyone the same, because at the end of the day, I just need to get the job done.”

During her first two years leading the party, however, Billado seemed to show more interest in drawing battle lines than seeking common ground.

In the state party’s weekly newsletter, she defended President Trump and attacked his opponents, often with a Trumpian flourish. One notably charged message last August warned of a “hatecrazed” mob of “deranged” liberals in mourning over “crooked” Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 presidential

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election. Another newsletter described the Mueller investigation as a “senseless witch hunt.” And a 2018 email blast urged Green Mountain Republicans to rally to “Make Vermont Great Again.”

That message, sent just before Scott signed into law a package of gun-control bills, seemed to make the case that the governor — who has made clear his distaste for the president — was kowtowing to the left.

GOP lawmakers accused Billado of deepening divisions within the ranks and making it harder for them to distinguish themselves from the national party. Compromise, they pointed out, is sometimes the only way for Republicans to survive in a solidly blue state. Some lawmakers even stopped seeking support from the party.

Billado appears to have learned her lesson, telling Seven Days that she is fully focused on her two main responsibilities as party chair: recruiting candidates and fundraising. And with her near unanimous reelection last fall giving her the party’s reins through the November election, Republicans who previously criticized her are now choosing their words more carefully. They appear to have accepted the fact that, whether they agree with her full-throated support of Trump or not, Billado is who they’ve got.

Whether she can maintain this newfound harmony is an open question.

“All I can say is, I hope so,” said Rep. Heidi Scheuermann (R-Stowe).

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or decades, Highgate did Town Meeting Day the traditional way.

Volunteers cooked and served a hearty lunch of spaghetti or chicken and biscuits to break up the hours-long debate about frost heaves, school staffing and snowplowing.

But this year, lunch won’t be on the table March 3. The town of 3,650 is shifting to secret balloting for its elementary school budget instead of in-person voice voting.

Backers feel the change will give more people the opportunity to participate, said Town Clerk Wendi Dusablon. The switch means the meeting will likely end before noon, when lunch would traditionally be served. But fear not, there will be baked goods: Volunteer town firefighters plan to serve pastries and doughnuts.

Over the years, Highgate has weighed proposals to put all business on secret ballots, which would essentially kill the traditional Town Meeting Day gathering. But voters have rejected that — so far. “That leads me to believe it’s still important,” Dusablon said.

While the way voters make decisions varies around Vermont, local democracy depends on the first Tuesday in March.

This year, volunteers are bracing for a bigger turnout than usual because the presidential primary will coincide with Town Meeting Day and features Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on the Democratic ballot.

Here’s a sampling of what municipal voters can expect.

ETERNAL BOND?

Like a parent boasting about an A student, South Burlington has long taken pride in supporting public school funding and rarely voted down budget or bond proposals. But with the largest school construction bond ever proposed in Vermont looming — $209.6 million for a new combined middle and high school building — that could change.

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Affordable South Burlington has launched an organized campaign to defeat the bond. The debt would be like “a ball and chain around every house and residence in this city,” said Annie Leupp, a retiree who has climbed over snowdrifts to distribute “Vote No” flyers. “I know that a lot of the older people are talking about moving out because they can’t afford it, and they are worried.”

Supporters, though, say the current 1960s-era facilities are outdated and should be demolished to make way for a modern new school complex that would include a 90,000-square-foot athletic building and 200-meter indoor track.

The current buildings need expensive renovations and, even if they got them, would not meet the needs of students, said Kay Van Woert, a retiree advocating for the bond. “We might as well have the benefit of a healthy learning environment with good light and good ventilation,” she said.

Debate over the tax hit has been fierce — with critics saying the district projections do not fully represent the impact on homeowners, especially those who qualify for state school tax breaks based on income.

If the bond passes, the district estimates that a household with a combined annual income of $70,000 — the median in South Burlington — would add an average of about $438 annually to the school tax bill for 32 years. A household earning more than $136,500 annually and with a $350,000 home would pay an average of $1,501 per year over 32 years.

And that’s before any regular school budget increases.

PATH TO THE FINISH

At least a half dozen towns, including Danville, Greensboro, Morrisville, Stowe, Highgate and Sheldon, will consider a resolution urging the state to finish construction of the 93-mile Lamoille Valley Rail Trail by 2025.

Now one-third complete, the fourseason recreation pathway meanders through northern Vermont and would stretch from the Connecticut River almost to Lake Champlain when finished. The former rail bed already draws thousands of people who cycle, walk or ski their way through woods, meadows, and the 18 towns and villages along the section of path that’s currently open. “We even have a sled dog race that’s hosted every year on the trail,’’ said Ken Brown, the trail project manager.

Progress has been slow. The state came up with a funding scenario for the project around 2006. But permitting delays and a lack of funding bogged it down. Now the tab for completion is estimated at $14.5 million, with Vermont’s share at 20 percent, or $2.83 million. The feds would pick up the remainder.

Gov. Phil Scott proposed this year to fund the project in the state budget, and supporters hope the Town Meeting resolutions will nudge the legislature to get on board. “It could be a big tourist draw,” Brown predicted.

A VOTE ON ... VOTING

Burlington took a pass, but Vergennes will weigh in on noncitizen voting on March 3. Article II on the ballot asks whether the city council should amend the town charter to allow legal residents who aren’t citizens to vote on local issues.

If you ask Mayor Jeff Fritz, the answer is yes.

“There are so many hyper-local issues that affect everyone, regardless of their citizenship,” he said.

For instance, noncitizens pay property taxes but have no say in setting them, the mayor continued. “It’s an issue of fairness.”

While there are many migrant workers on dairy farms near Vergennes, they tend to live outside the city and their situation

did not spur the proposal, according to the mayor.

Instead, the little city of 2,500 people arrived at the issue as part of a general review of possible charter changes. The council followed the news about other Vermont communities weighing the matter and wanted to take the local pulse, according to Fritz. Montpelier passed noncitizen voting last year, becoming the first community in the state to do so. The Vermont House approved the charter change, but it stalled in the Senate.

The Burlington City Council considered a similar measure but voted last month against putting the question on the March ballot. Meanwhile, Winooski’s charter committee is mulling an “all resident voting” proposal that could be headed for the city council, and possibly the ballot, in the fall.

“If it’s a way that we can say in Vergennes that you are welcome here, and you will have a voice,” Fritz said, “I’m happy to say that.”

GREEN FOR GREEN

One of the wealthiest towns in Vermont is aiming to lead the way on addressing the climate crisis.

At last year’s Town Meeting Day, Norwich voters passed a resolution to gradually phase out fossil fuels in town buildings and operations. This year, residents will vote on one of the first big projects toward that goal: a $2 million renovation of Tracy Hall, the municipal office building, that would install geothermal heat as well as upgraded ventilation and lighting. The project would also cover improvements at the town Department of Public Works garage. All told, the changes would reduce the town’s fossil fuel use by about 15 percent.

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with a $40,000 payment that could be used for green-themed repairs and purchases such as hybrid police vehicles.

And a third item asks to allocate $30,670 for a regional energy coordinator who would serve Norwich and six other towns seeking to collaborate on energy and infrastructure projects.

Supporters hope Norwich could be a model for other communities, said town manager Herbert Durfee III. Still, the $2 million town office renovation proposal could test the town’s resolve. “It will be interesting to see if the voters are willing to cross that threshold,” Durfee said.

GETTIN’ WIRED?

Evan Carlson loves rural living in the Northeast Kingdom — but not the slow and unreliable $125-a-month satellite internet service at his Sutton home.

“If there’s a cloud in the sky or any storm passing through, the quality of the service declines really quickly,” said Carlson, a consultant who grew up in the region and moved back four years ago after stints in Denver and New York City.

Slow and patchy internet access is a persistent problem in rural Vermont and is often cited as a barrier to economic growth. Carlson wants a fix. He’s leading an effort to form a communications district that would bring high-speed internet to the region.

Twenty-seven towns will vote on whether to join Northeast Kingdom Community Broadband, whose goal is to provide 100-megabyte service to every E-911 address in the member towns. How the new entity would pay for fiber and other infrastructure is still to be determined, Carlson said, but it could be a combination of federal and state grants as well as bonds.

Also TBD: whether the new entity would partner with a private firm. Each member town would have a seat on a board that would make decisions, Carlson said.

Towns set to vote include Sutton, Lyndonville, Burke, St. Johnsbury, Hardwick and

Craftsbury. Carlson believes a “yes” vote could finally lead to better internet.

“It might not be tomorrow. It might be 10 years from now. But I think that we’re going to make progress,” he said.

FROM SCRIBE TO SELECTBOARD?

After 18 months of covering municipal meetings for the Valley Reporter, Katie Martin decided she wanted to be on the other side of things.

The 23-year-old Waterbury local has retired her byline and launched a campaign for a one-year term on her hometown selectboard. If elected to the five-member board, she promises “to put in the hours and do the work.”

The Harwood Union High School grad became interested in local government after covering selectboard and school board meetings on an almost nightly basis in Moretown, Warren and Waitsfield.

(Waterbury was not part of her beat.) “It made me really good at taking notes and just talking with people,” Martin said.

She left the paper last November to take a job as a behavioral interventionist at Waitsfield Elementary School, and in January, she decided to run for selectboard. “I’m kind of a newcomer, and the underdog,” said Martin, who is challenging incumbent Nathaniel Fish and candidate Ken Belliveau, who currently chairs the Waterbury Planning Commission.

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A plan to streamline Act 250 review of development projects in Vermont fell apart last Friday after lawmakers refused to fund a new statewide natural resources board to review major projects.

The powerful House Ways and Means Committee stripped from a bill proposed fee increases meant to pay an estimated $600,000 annually for a centralized, professional review board that would have taken over many responsibilities of volunteer local review panels.

The House Natural Resources Committee taking testimony on the bill

“I don’t think the new professional board is a good idea,” said Rep. Janet Ancel (D-Calais), chair of the committee.

“I think it’s overly expensive, I think it will reduce access to the process, and I think it will result in more lawyering up.”

Rep. Jim McCullough (D-Williston) said he was “thrilled” at the turn of events because he never liked the changes that “eviscerated the district commissions.”

Currently, review of development projects under Act 250, the state’s seminal land-use law, begins at one of nine district commissions, each of which is made up of three local volunteers. Their decisions can be appealed to the environmental division of the Superior Court and then to the Vermont Supreme Court.

Critics say the three-step process makes review of contested projects lengthy, expensive and unpredictable.

Under the proposed process, major projects would have gone straight to the new state board. Appeals of its decisions would have headed directly to the Vermont Supreme Court.

Establishing a five-member professional board was part of a delicate compromise struck before the legislative session by administration officials and the Vermont Natural Resources Council. The House Natural Resources Committee made changes to preserve some degree of local control, but several members, in response to testimony from citizens, fretted over the bill.

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Republican lawmakers recognize that November could make or break the party’s hopes to stay relevant on the heels of a disastrous election two years ago. The party relinquished 10 seats in the House along with its ability to sustain a governor’s veto, a dismaying result compounded by the failure to find candidates to compete in every race.

That sting was still fresh last November as Billado presided over a panel discussion about rural Vermont at a community access television studio in Montpelier. Billado said that the result of 2018 “belongs to all of us.” She blamed the recruitment woes on candidates dropping out last-minute, a view shared by Orleans County Republican Committee chair Chet Greenwood.

Referring to the “Trump effect,” Greenwood implied that many candidates feared being lumped in with the national GOP, which spent the first two years of Trump’s term focused on issues that did not play well in liberal Vermont, like the crackdown on illegal immigration and the Supreme Court appointment of Brett Kavanaugh.

“There’s some people who got really weak-kneed,” Greenwood said after the discussion. “I’ve talked to some people, and I’ve said, ‘Listen, you’re not running for national office. You’re not running to address issues in Washington. You’re running to address issues here locally.’”

“It’s really a challenge to be part of Trump but not be part of Trump,” Billado said then, referring to her own job as party chair. “How do you do that? I try to limit my conversation to Vermont.”

While some Republican lawmakers have accused her of straying too far from Vermont issues in the past, even Billado’s staunchest critics have tamped down their criticisms.

Asked what he thought about Billado’s leadership, Sen. Randy Brock (R-Franklin) responded: “I’m not going to characterize it one way or another.” A year ago, he told Seven Days that he believed the party could benefit from hiring an independent accountant because he had concerns about the “professionalism of the operation.”

Sen. Corey Parent (R-Franklin) was equally guarded. Last fall, Parent asked to be replaced as a delegate to the state committee because he disagreed with the party’s focus on Trump. Last week, however, Parent said he believes Billado is “doing the best job that she can.” “[She’s] come a long way, and we’ve seen some improvement,” Parent said.

“But with any of us, there’s always room for improvement.”

Even the two Franklin County Republicans who voted against Billado’s reelection just three months ago were unwilling to

detail their concerns. County committee delegate Joe Luneau and Rep. James Gregoire (R-Fairfield) both declined to comment, with the latter explaining, “Family business is family business, so I don’t want to imply anything.”

Some former Republican critics of Billado now even praise her, although cautiously. Sen. Joe Benning (R-Caledonia), who had called for a change in party leadership after the 2018 shellacking at the polls, believes that after butting heads with Billado for months, moderate Republicans have finally started to win her ear.

“I have seen Deb transform herself over time to understand that there is a group of people out there called the moderates who are not exactly dumb when it comes to getting elected,” Benning said. “Those people are the ones I think she has begun to listen to.”

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Scheuermann, who was highly critical of the “Make Vermont Great Again” message, had a similar read.

“The party, from what I can see, has started to move in the direction of trying to focus much more so on Vermont than other things,” said the Stowe representative. “That’s a really positive [sign].”

That shift seems to have made its way into Billado’s weekly messages. Of her last eight newsletters, six focused primarily on Vermont, including one earlier this month that commended Scott for his recent veto of a bill that would have created a paid family leave program.

Billado, 66, is a businesswoman who owns an Essex Junction beauty salon, Hair Graphix, and a handful of rental properties. She also works as the promoter for East Coast Shows, which manages boat and RV exhibitions.

She got her start in politics on the Village of Essex Junction Board of Trustees and, for 12 years, presided over all sorts of municipal matters, from building budgets to fielding resident concerns. She served two years as chair of the Chittenden County Republican Committee before she was elected to lead the state GOP in 2017.

Billado said that when she was asked to run for the state chair position, she thought about the issues that have plagued her home state for years — the rising cost of living, the exodus of youth, the opioid crisis — and agreed.

“The first two years, I didn’t know what I was getting into,” she said. “Now I know.”

Indeed, she insists she’s entering her second term as chair with her “eyes open” to divisions in the party, which may explain why Trump was barely mentioned at this year’s Lincoln-Reagan Dinner fundraiser.

“It was all about Gov. Scott and his role … as the titular head of the party,” said former Vermont governor Jim Douglas, who was the keynote speaker at the event last week.

“What I saw was unity and everyone on the same page.” Billado and Scott sat at the same table and seemed to enjoy themselves, Douglas said, leading him to believe that while their relationship “may have started a little rocky, it seems to be fine at this point.”

Billado would agree. In interviews with Seven Days, she has consistently argued that her disagreements with Scott have been vastly overblown. “Do we work side by side? No. He has a job. I have a job,” she said.

While that may be true, those who support Scott have long hoped that the party would fully embrace his more moderate approach.

It’s not hard to see why. He has been by far the most successful Vermont Republican in the last decade and remains one of the most popular governors in the country. A Vermont Public Radio/Vermont PBS poll published last week found that Scott holds a comfortable lead over his potential Democratic gubernatorial rivals, even though he’s yet to say whether he will run again.

But while Billado says she understands that Trump’s mere presence on the ballot could motivate a Democratic turnout large enough to spell trouble for Republican candidates, she also seems confident that Trump will outperform his 2016 showing in Vermont — potentially by tens of thousands of votes. “[Trump], against all odds, has done tremendous things for the country,” she said. “Any fair-minded, open-minded person would look at that, no matter what political persuasion you are … and say, ‘Yeah, we are way better off than four years ago.’”

The test for Billado, then, will be to keep her attention on Vermont through a campaign season while juggling the expectations of those in her party who agree with her about Trump’s performance and those who view the president as a liability best ignored.

Perhaps that’s why Lamoille County Republican Committee chair Ken Hoeppner says her situation brings to mind the Flying Wallendas, whose famous daredevil stunts included a tightrope walk between two New York City buildings.

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Declan also completed three Ironman competitions. Declan brought his many talents to the University of Vermont, coaching the university rugby team and combining his science and athletic experience to open the Human Performance Laboratory, which helped many athletes to improve their performance. Declan mentored many graduate students and was sought after by professional sports organizations.

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“It’s a tricky thing for the actors to negotiate,” said Sacheli.

SEVEN will come to Middlebury College’s Wright Memo- “They’ve had to do their homework and portray actual women, rial Theater on March 3 and 4. LIZA SACHELI, all of whom have had difficult and often traudirector of Middlebury’s MAHANEY CENTER matic lives.”

In some way, each story is about the FOR THE ARTS , said the performances were intentionally scheduled to coincide with struggle for survival, against overwhelming the college’s programming for International personal and political odds, transformed Women’s Day, March 8 — a day of global into a vocation. One of the seven women, awareness of the struggles and achieveMukhtar Mai, was gang raped in 2002 as a L IZA S AC H E L I ments of women throughout history. form of honor revenge, authorized by decree Since the play’s premiere at New York of a Pakistani village council. Mai fought her City’s 92nd Street Y in 2008 — an event that drew celebrities rapists in court, an unprecedented act in a culture in which raped including Christine Baranski and Kim Cattrall and was emceed women often commit suicide. Ultimately, her attackers were

by Diane von Furstenberg — SEVEN has been performed in 30 imprisoned. In the aftermath, Mai established schools for girls in countries and translated into 27 languages.

Pakistan, founded a women’s aid group in her village and wrote The play was first conceived as a collaboration of Vital Voices, In the Name of Honor: A Memoir (2007). an international nonprofit focused on educating and empowerAnother of the women, Hafsat Abiola, is the daughter of ing women as leaders, and playwrights Paula Cizmar, Catherine the late Chief Moshood Abiola, who was elected president Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere of Nigeria by democratic vote in 1993 and subsequently Smith and Susan Yankowitz. imprisoned after a military coup. In 1996, Hafsat’s mother L.A. Theatre Works, a production company that specializes was assassinated during a protest demanding her husband’s in audio theater, will stage the Middlebury performance. More

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is entering its 40th year with new but familiar leadership. Last week, the nonprofit announced the hiring of executive director BRITTON ROGERS. The architect and landscape designer has a 10-year relationship with the school, first as a student and then, since last year, as an instructor and fulltime staff member.

But his connection to Yestermorrow dates back further. As a kid growing up in Colorado, Rogers visited an uncle in Waitsfield in the summers.

“I knew of Yestermorrow more as ‘What is that interesting place? What’s going on in there?’” Rogers recalled in a conference call with Seven Days that also included Yestermorrow outreach and enrollment director CHRISSY BELLMYER and outgoing Yestermorrow ED CHARLOTTE POTTER KASIC. As an adult, Rogers, 45, who has a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree in environmental design from Yale University, was

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has some issues Interested patrons are asked to with the art world. Throughout schedule an appointment between now her 50-plus-year career, the and the end of March via Mulvaney’s 72-year-old visual and perfor- website. Anyone who signs up and mance artist has been a vocal critic of the takes one of the artist’s oil paintings or machinations that drive art scenes — and drawings must sign a contract promising stifle them. never to sell the piece. Should they give “There’s a lot of disrespect,” the artwork away, the recipients Mulvaney recently told are bound by the same obliSeven Days, citing everygation in perpetuity. thing from stodgy, “This is kind of like gatekeeping instituan autobiographical tions to morally performance piece,” bankrupt economic Mulvaney explained. structures as barri“The performance ers between fine art part is all of these and the community people who have to at large. get involved — not Mulvaney, whose just for now but forever. work has been exhibited These paintings can last a in Vermont, throughout few thousand years.”

New England and in Mulvaney cited New York City, sees two events that the root problem as inspired her giveaway. The first was one of curation. So she’s come up with a 2010 presentation a solution: Ask her from curators at the patrons to curate her Brooklyn Museum art. touting the next 10 J OELE N MU LVANEY In April, the artist years as “the decade will give away 300 of her own pieces of women in arts, or some such thing,” through a project she calls Free Joy Art. Mulvaney recalled.

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The second formative event occurred when Mulvaney hosted a 70th birthday celebration for herself at her studio. The party featured 70 paintings, representing what she called an “artistic autobiography.” Knowing that children would be in attendance, she made a point of hanging several paintings lower, at kiddo eye level.

One piece in particular caught the attention of a young girl named Cora, who, according to Mulvaney, was transfixed. When Cora visited the studio a few months later, the same thing happened with the same painting. Shortly afterward, Mulvaney wrapped the painting, went to the girl’s house and gave it to her.

“She took one look at it, knew what it was right away and started jumping up and down, clapping and laughing,” Mulvaney recalled.

“I thought, Wow, this feels so good.”

Over time, she put her thoughts about her legacy together with the satisfaction she felt giving away her painting, and Free Joy Art was born.

“I’m not gonna burden any one person or foundation or family with my legacy,” Mulvaney said. “I had to figure out a way to do it my way.

“Visual artists aren’t supported in a number of different ways,” Mulvaney continued. “But I want to cut through all of that and say that none of that matters.”

What does matter, in her view, is offering creative work to community members “in a way that they can kind of ‘own.’”

While some artworks, such as community murals, ostensibly belong to everyone, Mulvaney wants individuals to take ownership of her pieces. Her theory, she said, is that people who appreciate her work in a personal way will be more apt to take care of it than museums or wealthy collectors might be. Those people are also more likely to share her work, Mulvaney said, so that her artistic legacy will belong “to the whole community and not an institution.”

“I’m grateful to whoever takes a piece,” she added, “because … they’ll take care of it in some way and appreciate it before it gets passed on to someone else.”

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Cambodian human rights activist Mu Sochua was nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting sex trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia; Marina Pisklakova-Parker founded the first hotline for victims of domestic violence in Russia in 1993, when most women in the country had nowhere to turn for support in abusive relationships.

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rights violations, a stance that has earned her multiple death threats. Farida Azizi, an Afghani women’s rights advocate, has led efforts to educate and support women under the Taliban regime. Her visibility made her a target for the Taliban, forcing her to seek asylum in the United States.

Inez McCormack, who died in 2013, was an Irish labor rights activist who became the first woman to attain leadership positions within Ireland’s major union organizations. She fought for workplace parity for women and minorities; in 2006, she founded a nonprofit to help disadvantaged communities access resources and services.

In SEVEN, all of the actors remain onstage throughout most of the play, even when they aren’t performing. That constant tableau invokes a sense of bearing witness, of a silent sisterhood: “Visually, it creates a powerful feeling of solidarity,” said Sacheli.

The question of who gets institutional billing at Middlebury College has become fraught, particularly in light of the recent announcement that controversial social scientist Charles Murray will return to campus next month; the protests over his 2017 visit made national headlines. For Sacheli, SEVEN represents a multitude of critical perspectives.

“At Middlebury, we have increasingly felt that it’s important to figure out whose voices we put on our stages, who we put on a pedestal,” she said. “So, yes, I definitely sought out this play.”

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new lecture series and the Standby for Locals Program, which offers Vermonters drawn to Yestermorrow as a student after 50 percent off certain classes based on he was laid off from Centerbrook Archi- availability. tects and Planners in Connecticut in the “It’s truly been a collaborative effort,” aftermath of the 2008 economic collapse. Potter Kasic said, crediting Rogers “It became this place where I could and Bellmyer with working on those reinvent myself and make more out of and other initiatives. She added that my career,” Rogers said. Among his long- Rogers was her first hire as ED and she’s term goals, he continued, is “to bring the delighted he’s taking over. experience that I had to as many people “He’s the perfect fit, the perfect as possible, to those people who are trying spokesperson for the school,” Potter to reinvent themselves, to those archi- Kasic said of Rogers. “If I was the person tects who don’t know how to build, and who was well situated to put us on a better those people who might be searching for local footing, Britton is hands down the a career or a vocation or person to do that on a a skill that maybe they national footing.” can’t quite find through Rogers will speartraditional means.” head the implementaRogers replaces Potter tion of Yestermorrow’s Kasic, a Waitsfield-born master plan, which includes campus-wide visual artist who joined Yestermorrow in Deceminfrastructure improveber 2018 and recently ments such as building returned with her family new student housing. to Virgina, where they He’ll also oversee much lived before she took of Yestermorrow’s 40th the Yestermorrow job. anniversary programShe will stay on with ming and initiatives. the school in her new These include replacBRIT TON ROGE RS position as enrichment ing all of the school’s director. signage in collaboration “There are two people in every family, with WOOD & WOOD SIGN SYSTEMS, a company sometimes more,” Potter Kasic said, owned by Potter Kasic’s father, SPARKY regarding her decision to step down as ED POTTER. and transition to a new role. She explained The school also plans a tiny house that when she moved her young family to festival this summer and an instructional Vermont, her husband was able to keep event called the Naked Table Project his job and work remotely. But when he led by furniture maker and Yestermorwas recently (and repeatedly) offered a row board member CHARLIE SHACKLETON. significant promotion, the opportunity Attendees will learn to build their was too good to pass up. own tables from sustainably harvested “We didn’t get that $10,000 incen- materials. tive, by the way,” Potter Kasic joked, More broadly, Rogers plans to lean on referring to the state’s Remote Worker his professional background to restore Grant Program, which offers potential certain emphases to the curriculum. telecommuters a financial incentive to “I hope my experience can bring move to Vermont. “We missed it by, like, renewed design interest into everything six months. I was really annoyed.” that we do here,” he said. “The board Among her accomplishments during tasked me with reinserting design into her brief tenure as ED, Potter Kasic every class we teach, as a big-picture highlighted the creation of a new gallery element, along with carpentry or plumbwhere students and staff can show off ing for homeowners. So I’m hoping to their work. Rogers has been curating that bring design, whatever that means, into space since it opened last year. the conversation again.” m Potter Kasic also stressed her efforts to reconnect the school with the Mad Contact: dan@sevendaysvt.com River Valley community where she grew up. Among those initiatives were free INFO tours of the Yestermorrow campus, a Learn more at yestermorrow.org.

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s we motored north on Route 7 toward Burlington, I respected the silence of Karen McCoy, the customer sitting beside me in my taxi. A short, wiry woman, maybe 40 years old, she appeared to be deep in her thoughts, as if harnessing and focusing her energy.

Karen had just completed a month’s stay at an Addison County rehab facility, so either her life was about to change fundamentally or it wasn’t. I had the sense she was aiming for the change with all her heart, and I honor any person with the courage to confront their personal demons.

“Well, first thing, I’m gonna have to find some new friends,” Karen said spontaneously. “Pretty much all of my old ones are alcoholics or drug addicts. I hope the meetings will help out with that.”

On this arctic-cold February morning, the sun was dazzling my eyes — an atypical winter day that had me reaching into the glove box for my sunglasses. If my vehicle’s temperature gauge was to be trusted, it was two degrees below zero. I had the car heater set at 70, so we were toasty.

“Yes, I bet the meetings will help,” I said, presuming she was referring to the cornerstone activity of the 12-step program. “Do you have a job lined up or something?”

“Nope, not right off. I’ll be staying at a halfway house in Burlington. I haven’t worked much since I left the military. I’m a Marine, and I did four tours in Iraq. I got

wounded twice and have pretty severe PTSD.” “Thanks for fighting for our country, Karen,” I said.

Whatever misgivings I harbored about the Iraq invasion and subsequent occupation, those who fought there did so for all of us American citizens. To me, that’s a core principle of a democracy. At least, while we still live in one.

“Was this your first try at rehab?” I asked.

“Nope, it’s my second. I had three years sober until last July, when my 16-year-old

“Yeah — Jimmy, my son. He’s a great kid. Somehow, he’s managed to avoid the substance issues we all deal with. He’s 23 now and has steady work as a welder. And he’s about to have a second baby with the same woman. She’s a great girl, and we all love her.”

“Is marriage in the cards?”

“Funny you should ask that,” Karen replied. It was great to hear her chuckle, which came out as more of a whimsical cackle. “’Cause I’ve been nagging him to put a ring on it, but he’s proceeding, well, ‘cautiously’ is how he says it. Now, I can

I GOT WOUNDED TWICE AND HAVE PRETTY SEVERE PTSD. daughter was killed by a drunk driver. I just couldn’t cope, and I’ve pretty much been a raging alcoholic since then. Well, until the last month — I shouldn’t forget that.”

“Oh, jeez, Karen — I’m so sorry for your loss. What a blow.”

“My husband and I both went in for treatment at the same time. Charlie served in the Air Force, so he’s a vet, too. He’s staying at the rehab in … I think it’s Bradford? I know it’s a town on the Connecticut River.

We’ve been able to talk on the phone, thank goodness. I miss him terrible, but he’s doing good in his recovery, and that’s all that matters.”

“Do ya have any other children?”

appreciate that — what with everyone getting divorced left and right — but there’s such a thing as overcautious.”

Talking about rings, when we arrived at Karen’s temporary home in Burlington, I noticed the ring finger on her right hand appeared to be set in a splint and bandaged.

She caught me looking and said, “Can you believe it? I fell on the ice yesterday and broke my finger. It still hurts like hell.”

“Didn’t they offer you any pain meds?”

“Sure, but I didn’t want to trade one addiction for another. I got a husband, a son and two grandkids who need me.”

Karen still retains that warrior spirit, I thought, and that’s reason for hope.

Do prayers work? For the better part

of a year when I was a teenager, I nearly wore out an album by the Doors called The Soft Parade. My favorite song was the title track, which begins with Jim Morrison intoning, “When I was back there in seminary school, there was a person there who put forth the proposition that ‘you can petition the Lord with prayer.’” He then repeats the proposition two more times, before bellowing his feeling about it: “You cannot petition the Lord with prayer!”

Though I still enjoy the song, I’m not sure I agree with the notion of prayer as a “petition,” whether to God or anyone else.

When you attempt to analyze the subject via your intellect, it’s easy to get lost in the theological weeds. For me, the act of prayer resonates intuitively. I guess my bottom line is simply: It can’t hurt, right?

Here’s the prayer I sent out for my customer in support of her recovery: “May the bravery Karen brought to the front lines of Iraq serve her well on the new battlefield where she now finds herself.” m All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.

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on Stevens stepped to the podium Virtually no one disputes that the in the Cedar Creek Room of the Abenaki hunted and fished the North Vermont Statehouse on February 5 Country for centuries before the arrival and reasserted the sovereign rights of Europeans. But Stevens, who’s earned a that his people have never ceded: to reputation as a politically astute leader and hunt and fish freely on their ancestral land. advocate for the Abenaki tribes, argued at Stevens, 53, is a political activist, the Statehouse that the legislation is good artisan, educator, environmentalist and for other Vermonters, too. informational technology expert. During A decline in the number of woodthe Wednesday morning press conference, land hunters in recent years has made he served in yet another role: as chief of it more difficult for Vermont to manage the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk-Abenaki its deer herd, he noted. Another concern Nation. is tourism, which Gov. Phil Scott and Dressed in traditional Abenaki garb other lawmakers hope to boost. Stevens — a beaded vest, a bear-claw necklace, a believes enactment of H.716 would attract moose-hair headnon-Vermonter tribal citizens — Abenaki dress dyed red to symbolize the blood of territory extends his people, and eagle into Massachusetts, feathers to carry his New Hampshire and prayers to the Creator southern Maine — to — Stevens called on recreate in the Green state lawmakers to Mountain State. pass H.716. If enacted, “And guess what? the bill would grant They’d have to have free and permanent a place to stay and hunting and fishto eat,” Stevens said. ing licenses to the “They would bring Don Stevens (right) at the approximately 6,000 some revenue in.”

February 5 press conference members of Vermont’s Stevens presented four officially recoghis case with a powernized Native American tribes. ful ally by his side: Vermont Flanked by Abenaki tribal Attorney General T.J. Donovan. elders and state officials, Stevens “Chief, I’m proud to say I’m called the occasion “a really with you, and I want to say historic day. Where there were thank you for asking us to look adversarial relationships before, at the historical record, to look we have found a way to get above at the law … [and] to acknowlthat and work in partnership, to edge our history,” Donovan uplift our people and to acknowlsaid. He noted that, in his view, edge our rights,” he said. the legislation would result in The Abenaki aren’t asking minimal loss of state revenue. for special favors or depriving To those who frequent others of their property rights, Statehouse press events, this Stevens asserted. The Vermont one seemed fairly routine.

J E FF BEN AY Fish & Wildlife Department But its historical significance — an Abenaki chief being already issues free hunting and fishing licenses to seniors, veterans introduced and endorsed by Vermont’s and people with disabilities. This legisla- top law enforcement officer — wasn’t lost tion would simply add another category on the indigenous people in the room. of hunters and fishermen who are exempt Donovan’s predecessor, William Sorrell, from state fees — $229 for a five-year who left office in 2017, opposed Abenaki combined hunting and fishing license. recognition.

Abenaki sportsmen would still need to “For me here today, this is something abide by all fish and wildlife regulations that’s come full circle,” said Charles and seasons. The bill is currently under Delaney-Megeso, a 63-year-old Nulhegan consideration by the House Committee tribal elder. He was chair of the Vermont on Natural Resources, Fish and Wildlife.

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in 2011, when the state recognized the Nulhegan and Elnu Abenaki tribes. Recognition of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi and the Koasek Traditional Band of the Koas Abenaki came the following year.

Stevens was instrumental in moving those petitions through the legislature, too.

It wasn’t the first time the state has recognized the Abenaki. But tribal citizens are hoping to build on such successes, as they did in 2019, when Vermont officially replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. They see Stevens as helping lead that effort.

“The thing about Don is, he works for his own tribe, but he always works for the other three tribes, too. With recognition, he didn’t want to leave any Abenaki behind,” said Roger Longtoe Sheehan, who’s been chief of the Elnu for 25 years.

“I don’t think we would be where we are right now if it wasn’t for Don.”

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In 2010, members of the Nulhegan tribe elected Stevens chief, a position he’ll hold as long as he’s able — and as long as tribal elders want him. Each tribe has its own process of governance — in some tribes, chiefs serve for life — and it’s customary among the Abenaki to make big decisions by consensus. Historically, Abenaki leaders were chosen based on their strengths and the current needs of the tribe. During conflicts, a warrior chief was selected. A tribe negotiating with the Europeans might favor a seasoned negotiator and diplomat.

Stevens’ supporters describe him as a leader in the latter vein, ideally qualified to follow up on the recognition he helped them attain. But Stevens readily acknowledges that he stands on the shoulders of his forebears, who fought long and hard for legitimacy only to see it taken away.

On Thanksgiving Day 1976, then-governor Thomas Salmon granted the Abenaki state recognition, affording members unlimited hunting and fishing rights and creating the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs. In January 1977, Salmon’s successor, Richard Snelling, rescinded that act, saying that he couldn’t recognize a “sovereign nation within a sovereign state.”

As a result, during the late 1970s and ’80s, hundreds of Abenaki tribal members participated in “fish-ins” on the Missisquoi River, challenging the state to arrest them for fishing without state licenses.

Some also removed the Vermont license plates from their vehicles and replaced them with Abenaki versions.

The man behind those acts of civil disobedience was Homer St. Francis of Swanton, the fiery and militant chief of the St. Francis/Sokoki Band of the Abenaki Nation of

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Missisquoi. Beginning in the 1970s, St. Francis periodically landed the Abenaki in the headlines to remind Vermonters that the state’s indigenous people were still there. He told the New York Times in 1989, after withdrawing his tribe’s application for federal recognition, “We don’t need a government we don’t recognize to tell us we exist.”

St. Francis, who died in 2001, didn’t live to see his own tribe recognized by the state legislature. But the Abenaki citizens who attended the February 5 Statehouse press conference said they felt his presence, even as they acknowledged that the current times call for a different style of leadership.

Delaney-Megeso described St. Francis as a “war chief” who was “a voice in the wilderness when we needed one.”

In contrast, he said, Stevens is more of a diplomat and negotiator, adept at navigating the legal and political complexities of Vermont’s dominant culture.

“Do we want to keep fighting? How far is that going to get us?” said DelaneyMegeso, who participated in some of St. Francis’ protests. “To me, we’re better off making … an enemy a friend. That’s what this next generation of leaders, like Don Stevens, is trying to do.”

Others described Stevens as a man who’s as comfortable testifying before a legislative committee as he is drumming and telling Abenaki tales around a fire.

“Don is a wonderful storyteller,” said Eloise Beil, director of collections at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, which hosts an annual Abenaki Heritage Weekend in June. “He is very willing to step out and lead community dance circles, so that people who come can participate and not just stand back and watch.”

Beil, who first met Stevens through Vermont’s ballroom dancing community, later served as one of several independent

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scholars hired by the state to evaluate the Abenaki tribes’ historical documentation before the legislature would consider their petitions.

Stevens, she said, has been collecting the works of Nulhegan artists and artisans for years; he occasionally lends them to the museum for cultural and educational events. In fact, Stevens made several of the Abenaki crafts that currently appear in the “Road to Recognition” display on the first floor of the Statehouse, including a wampum belt and a tobacco pouch. That exhibit, Stevens remarked in an interview several days after the press conference, sits directly across from the official portrait of former governor Howard Dean — who, like Snelling, opposed tribal recognition.

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As for the eagle feathers on his headdress, Stevens sued the U.S. Department of the Interior three years ago for the right to access, possess and wear them.

The Nulhegan are now one of the only state-recognized tribes in the country permitted to request feathers from the National Eagle Repository, a division of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service that stores and distributes eagle parts for religious and cultural purposes.

“Don has evolved in his role [as chief ] because he has a very broad perspective,” Beil said. “He sees the big picture, so he has been acting in a diplomatic role as well as a culture bearer role, and as a leader who is looking after the interests of the Nulhegan people.”

Part of that “big picture” includes getting Vermont’s mainstream institutions to acknowledge the mistakes of the past so they can move forward. In July 2019, Stevens convinced the University of Vermont’s then-president, Thomas Sullivan, to issue a formal apology for the university’s role in the eugenics survey of the early 20th century. That program was aimed at ridding Vermont’s human gene pool of “idiots,” “imbeciles,” “insane persons” and the “feebleminded” via institutionalization and sterilization. Many of those targeted, including Stevens’ grandmother, were of Abenaki lineage.

Stevens negotiated that apology less than a year after students and faculty successfully petitioned UVM trustees to remove former UVM president Guy W. Bailey’s name from the university’s BaileyHowe Library. He now hopes to leverage UVM’s apology to get the state to issue one of its own.

“If you rip the Band-Aid off, then people can heal,” Stevens said. “The state hasn’t ripped off that Band-Aid like UVM has.”

To that end, he has been working with Vermont lawmakers on a joint House resolution, J.R.H.7, which would offer an apology and express condolences to those harmed by state-sanctioned eugenics sterilizations.

“If he’s got two bills in the legislature out in public … you know he’s got three or four things he’s working on in the back of his mind,” said Abenaki Elder Roland Bluto, 73, of Milton. “My God, he’s a tireless worker! I’ve never seen someone put so much dedication into something.”

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Native American Affairs and has known virtually every Abenaki chief since the 1970s.

Benay acknowledged that Stevens, who stands six foot three and weighs 285 pounds, can come across as assertive, even imposing. This may explain why several Abenaki citizens contacted for this story declined interview requests. Others cited internal tribal disputes that they preferred not to air in public. Still others, Benay suggested, are inherently distrustful of the media because of negative past coverage of the Abenaki.

While Benay described the Nulhegan chief as someone who is “not going to take shit from anyone,” state officials consider Stevens a nonthreatening Abenaki leader who can speak the language of politics and the law.

“I think Don Stevens has learned how to walk in both worlds,” Benay said. “In 2020, there’s no longer the need to be as confrontational as possible. There are people who want to work with the Abenaki, and Don has learned how to deal with the dominant culture very, very effectively.”

Stevens at the Snow Snake Games in Derby Line

Stevens with his grandson Shadow

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In the Abenaki language, the name of the Nulhegan tribe translates as “people of the wooden fish traps who live in the pines who see the first light of day.” Today, the tribe’s territory is more commonly known as the Northeast Kingdom. But Stevens and his wife, Diane, actually reside in a modest suburban home in Shelburne, where he met with Seven Days for an interview.

Stevens works full time as an IT manager for the Counseling Service of Addison County in Middlebury; Diane is a physical therapist based in Colchester. Though they have six children and seven grandchildren in their blended family, they’re now empty nesters.

Which is not to suggest that Stevens has much free time on his hands. His tribal leadership, which is an unpaid position, comes with a range of official and unofficial responsibilities: repatriating tribal bodies for burial, working with Abenaki who’ve run out of food or lost homes or custody of their kids, helping other tribes with their legal battles and pipeline protests, and giving talks at public schools and colleges.

Last year, Stevens worked with Jesse Bowman Bruchac, a fellow Nulhegan citizen, to create a pilot Abenaki language school at Middlebury College, which will hold its first classes this summer. An occasional lecturer in UVM’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, he also participates in Benay’s annual summer program that brings Abenaki high school students to UVM for two days to experience campus life and promote college education.

As a storyteller, Stevens focuses on empowering Abenaki students to take pride in their Native heritage.

Such diverse duties regularly occupy Stevens’ evenings and weekends.

“We have an agreement. You can’t take every weekend,” Diane shouted jokingly to her husband from the kitchen.

“She knows how important this work is,” Stevens remarked with a smile. “We’re trying to preserve our culture.”

Stevens grew up in Huntington only vaguely aware of his own Native heritage.

His great-great-grandfather, who was also a chief, his great-grandmother and his grandmother were all listed in the eugenics survey. To avoid detection and possible sterilization, Stevens’ grandmother went by three different names during her life.

As he explained, it was common in those years for Abenaki people to change their names and ethnicities on birth certificates to conceal their heritage.

Only in hindsight did Stevens discover that many of his family’s customs and practices were of Abenaki origin. As a child, he remembers, he went ice fishing with older relatives who used perch eyes as bait and

placed them under their tongues to keep Stevens set out to change that. After them from freezing. four years on the commission, he resigned “You don’t see anyone do that now, his chairmanship and began working because it’s gross, right?” he said with a toward state tribal recognition. In 2010, laugh. the legislature gave the Abenaki a formal There were other clues, too: His family process to follow, which included gathering made mound gardens, gathered specific historical evidence and documentation of plants and roots for medicinal uses, crafted their continued presence in Vermont. That flutes out of poplar limbs, and performed record had to be reviewed by independent ritual thanks after taking an animal in a scholars and historians before it could be hunt. His elders never identified these voted on by the legislature and signed into practices as Indian or Abenaki, Stevens law by the governor. clarified. They were simply “how things When the Nulhegan tribe petitioned were done.” the state for official recognition in 2010, Stevens’ own parents, neither of whom Stevens’ family records from the eugenics graduated from high school, survey worked to his benefit.

“I used those records to prove never encouraged him to explore his Native roots. His mother, in that we never left Vermont,” he particular, had been taunted by explained. “So I turned lemons her non-Abenaki relatives for into lemonade.” being an Indian.

Looking back, Stevens remem“Before my mother died,” bers the advice the tribes received Stevens said, “I wanted to make from then-senator Vince Illuzzi sure she was proud of being of Derby: “Come to us united, or Native, and Abenaki in particular, don’t come to us at all.” Stevens and able to dance in the circle.” took that message to heart.

Stevens graduated from high Illuzzi, who’d worked with school in 1984 and attended the Abenaki for years, warned Champlain College for a year Stevens about some of the obstabefore joining the army. Followcles that had stymied earlier tribal-recognition attempts. ing his honorable discharge, he returned to Champlain College, Chief among them were fears changed majors and earned a that state recognition was a first computer science degree. He DON STEVEN S step toward federal recognition.

This, in turn, was seen as openthen moved to St. Albans and Enosburgh, where he worked for a customs ing the door to casinos, the use of drugs broker; later, he became an IT specialist at under the guise of Native religion, land Century Arms in Fairfax. grabs, home evictions and unenforceable Beginning in the early 2000s, Stevens mortgages. started researching his Abenaki heritage Sure enough, some lawmakers raised in earnest. He spoke to an uncle who was those same concerns in reaction to the enrolled as a citizen of the Missisquoi Abenaki efforts in 2010 and 2011. As Illuzzi Nation, Vermont’s most politically active put it, “There was some level of hysteria tribe in the 1970s. Stevens met with tribal going on at the time.” elders in the Swanton and Highgate area, But, Illuzzi said, Stevens deftly allayed read about the history of New England’s most of those fears. The Nulhegan chief, he tribes, and delved into the historical record said, “touched all the bases and smoothed of his own family. the way to the legislation being enacted by Soon Stevens’ interest in his cultural the General Assembly and being signed into roots extended to indigenous politics. law by [then-governor] Peter Shumlin.”

In 2006, then-governor Jim Douglas Looking back, Stevens noted the irony formally recognized the Abenaki people of the paranoia that surrounded recognias a minority-status population within tion. Today, he pointed out, Vermont has the state. He appointed Stevens to the legalized recreational marijuana. Pending Vermont Commission on Native Ameri- legislation would decriminalize prostitucan Affairs. tion, legalize psychedelic drugs such as Though the governor’s declaration peyote and ayahuasca, and expand statewas a step in the right direction, Stevens sponsored gambling offerings to include said, it did little to help the Abenaki keno. people. In particular, Abenaki artists and “They’re doing everything they were artisans still couldn’t sell their wares with afraid we were going to do!” Stevens an official designation of Native Ameri- said with a chuckle. “But my job is still to can. The federal Indian Arts and Crafts educate people and make them not afraid Act of 1990 makes it illegal to display or of who we are.” sell wares as Native-made unless they’re produced by members of a state- or federally recognized tribe.

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Over the years, Stevens has had to navigate some murky waters. Many locals presume to speak on the Abenaki’s behalf — while others deny their legitimacy outright.

In September 2013, five students at Middlebury College vandalized a memorial to victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The vandals tore up 2,977 American flags that had been placed on campus, claiming they were disrespectful to Abenaki burial sites.

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away alive and with their limbs.”

Stevens’ son survived the war, he said, “but he didn’t survive life.” Struggling with a combination of traumatic brain injuries and posttraumatic stress disorder, Don III got hooked on opioids; he died of a fentanyl overdose last year at age 33.

Other do-gooders have tried to represent the interests of Vermont’s indigenous people without their knowledge or consent. In October 2017, Burlington activist Albert Petrarca used spray paint to deface the “Everyone Loves a Parade!” mural by the Church Street Marketplace, calling it a “white supremacist symbol” that obliterates “First Nation peoples’ lives and history.”

Rather than wading into an ugly public debate on the mural itself, Stevens took the high ground. In an August 2018 email reply to Petrarca, which he also sent to city officials and the press, Stevens acknowledged public concerns about increasing the visibility of people of color — then firmly reminded the activist that the Abenaki people don’t need him, or anyone else, to speak on their behalf.

“In my opinion, this continued controversy is causing just as much harm to race relations as the actual mural itself. So let’s change the conversation and work on positive outcomes for everyone, shall we?”

Stevens wrote. “The community needs to start the healing process to move forward and not keep rubbing the open wound.”

1700s Hudson Bay Company gorget and skunk bean necklace

Beaded bear medicine coat Birch-bark moose call

Traditional beaded buckskin dress, hood and moccasins

COURTESY OF DIANE STEVENS

Unlike many federally recognized tribes, the Vermont Abenaki had no tribal land to call their own when the state recognized them.

That changed in 2012, when Stevens was instrumental in finding one.

Though the property isn’t huge — 68 wooded acres in the Northeast Kingdom — “We wanted to prove we could do it,” he said.

“Town governments have forests. Why can’t the tribes?”

Using the town forest model, Stevens identified a parcel owned by a private citizen in Barton that sat in a wildlife corridor the Sierra Club was already looking to conserve.

Working with the Sierra Club, the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board, and the Vermont Land Trust, Stevens obtained grants and purchased the land for the Nulhegan.

“Because this is ours, no one can kick us off of it,” Stevens said. “Our citizens have a place that is safe, where they can go and do their prayers and we can gather as a group.

We can pick up that soil and know that our ancestors walked on that land.”

That purchase is a prime example of Stevens’ inclination to find legal means to get his people what they need without ruffling feathers. Acutely aware of how the Abenaki are perceived by mainstream Vermonters, he doesn’t want to reignite old fears that the tribe is seeking to create a state within a state.

On the Nulhegan tribal website, Stevens has posted copies of all the licenses and easements he’s negotiated to access property owned by private citizens and corporate and governmental entities, including the Green Mountain National Forest, FirstLight Power & Resources, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and TC Energy of Canada. These permits allow tribal citizens to gather plants for food and traditional medicine, as long as they don’t put them to commercial use.

As Stevens explained, the concept of land ownership was foreign to the Abenaki.

Now his citizens are free to gather what they need without impinging on the landowners’ rights.

“If you want to own it, people feel threatened. I’m using our old way of life to not threaten people,” he said. “I don’t have time to chain myself to a bulldozer and get myself arrested to prove I’m an environmentalist.

I can find ways to work with people to get them to do the right thing.”

Stevens has a similar view on federal recognition. Though becoming a federally recognized tribe would bring his people some benefits, he said, he doesn’t see it as a priority, mostly because it’s time-consuming and costly. “It’d take $20 million and 20 years,” he said.

Nevertheless, Stevens received death threats for months for his perceived involvement in the students’ protest, he said.

In fact, Stevens is a veteran who comes from a family of soldiers. His father served in Korea, and his son, Don III, was a reconnaissance scout in Iraq. When Don III went overseas, Stevens gave him a medallion his father had carried into combat and an Abenaki prayer bundle, which his son hung in his Bradley fighting vehicle.

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Stevens, who had no prior knowledge of the protest, immediately condemned the vandalism, calling it “disgusting.” As he told the Addison County Independent at the time, “Our burial sites honor our warriors and their bravery. Putting flags in the earth to honor bravery would not be disrespectful.”

Stevens signed his email “Waolowzi,” Abenaki for “Be very well.”

About a year later, local musician Eric Maier used a heavy-duty paint stripper to melt away several faces of people pictured in the mural, further defacing them with pink dollar signs. This time, the city invited Stevens to serve on a committee that will ultimately decide the mural’s fate. Stevens respectfully declined.

“If you change [the mural], people who hate the Abenaki will continue to hate. If you change it, people who like it the way it is will be resentful. If you do nothing, the ignorance continues,” he said. “Where’s the win?”

Instead, Stevens negotiated a memorandum of understanding with Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger to hold an annual event on Church Street, paid for by the city, that educates the public about the Abenaki people and their culture.

Then, in a parallel move, Stevens approached Gene Richards, director of aviation at Burlington International Airport, and convinced him to give the tribe exhibition space in the terminal for Abenaki artifacts, history and memorabilia. The 25-by-6-foot glass-walled display case on the second floor will remain there for at least five years — though Stevens, who curated the exhibit, hopes it will become permanent. With more than a half million travelers passing through the airport annually, he said, “If even 10 percent see it, that’s huge.”

Nearly a decade after the tribes received state recognition, with all the historical scrutiny that process entailed, some people still challenge the legitimacy of Vermont’s Abenaki, Stevens noted. They include an academic at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who accuses the tribe of “race-shifting,” or falsely claiming an indigenous heritage.

Asked about those claims, Stevens just shook his head. Native Americans, he said, are the only minority in the United States who need to carry an official identification card to prove their ethnicity. Unlike some tribes, the Abenaki don’t use DNA or “blood quantum” tests to determine whether someone has enough “Indian blood” to qualify for tribal citizenship.

“The only three things that have to have pedigrees in this country are dogs, horses and Indians,” he said. “Think about that.”

But Stevens said he prefers not to focus on the haters — or to play the victim card.

“As a minority, you have to rise above that,” he said. “So we take a bad situation and use it … to change things for the better.”

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of Courage, she said; older kids can volunteer with the program once they’ve completed it.

It was the students who came up with the words — roughly 100 — in the dictionary. “The words the kids picked are the ones they know,” Gagne said. Thirtytwo students are acknowledged in the book by their first names.

“I thought the content should arise from the constituency,” Brookes said.

“If you have a small number of words, that selection becomes, in a way, representative of the people. How are the Abenaki wanting to represent themselves?”

He enlisted Gagne for the project because of her leadership in the Missisquoi community and Circle of Courage.

“The youth groups had great discussions about what words should represent the Abenaki,” Brookes recalled.

“When I met with Brenda,” he continued, “the dictionary started to become S8GM8 less and less like Chief a dictionary. The kids wanted to SAN8BA include creation Man stories. It started to take on a narrative quality.”

Brookes noted that words in different languages might not have conceptual equivalency. For example, drums have different uses and significance in Native and non-Native cultures, and the connotation of the word shifts accordingly.

N’Dakinna — which loosely translates to “our place” or “our home” — includes an introduction that explains how, some 30 years ago, the Sovereign

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Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi (St. Francis/Sokoki Band) was in danger of losing its language.

Teachers worked to revitalize and preserve the Native tongue, AZBAN which originally had Racoon no written representation. Eventually, a young Goddard College senior named Jesse Bruchac conducted an independent study at the Odanak reservation in Québec, where a revered Elder by the name of Cécile Wawanolet spoke and taught conversational Abenaki.

Bruchac, who served as the language consultant for N’Dakinna, is based in Greenfield Center, N.Y. He has continued to teach there and in Vermont, and he is the webmaster of the online languagelearning portal westernabenaki.com.

He will direct a recently announced pilot course in Abenaki at the Middlebury College language school this summer.

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hen technology has vastly expanded the platforms for receiving and sending information, it’s a cruel irony that some populations are watching their very languages disappear.

The loss of indigenous languages was the impetus for the Endangered Alphabets Project, which Burlington resident Tim Brookes, former director of the Champlain College professional writing program, launched about a decade ago.

“Of the world’s 6,000 to 7,000 languages, half will be extinct by the end of this century,” his website declares.

Now, with a cultural heritage grant from the Lake Champlain Basin Program, Brookes has helped create a language-promotion project very close to home.

N’Dakinna: An Illustrated Abenaki Dictionary for Schools is the colorful and pictorial result of a collaboration of the Endangered Alphabets Project and the Abenaki Circle of Courage. The latter is a lauded afterschool program within the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi in Swanton and Highgate. Based on the writings of Native author Larry Brendtro, it promotes generosity, belonging, independence and mastery while teaching participants about Abenaki culture and heritage.

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While intended for use in schools, it’s a helpful primer for students of any age. After all, when taking on a new language, we are all as children.

Brett, who herself has Abenaki (Missisquoi) heritage through her mother, said she has been taking PHANEM Woman language classes about PAKHOLIGAN once a month Drum with Bruchac, so she knew some of the words for the concepts she illustrated. Many of the words are nature-based, but

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“Kelsi did wonderful work on so many levels,” Brookes said. “As soon as you draw a word, it takes on a context … What the dictionary began to do is provide these glimpses into Abenaki life.”

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or Daniel Cooperrider, pastor of the Weybridge Congregational Church, the climate crisis has spiritual roots.

“If you dig a little deeper, carbon emissions have to do with our misplaced moral and spiritual values as a society — greed, excess,” he said. “Not every church is talking about these things. But we probably mention climate change and the environment in every worship service.”

Cooperrider, 35, is younger than his average parishioner by a decade or two. His sense of spirituality began as a deep connection to the lakes and rivers near his family’s cabin in Wisconsin. Eventually, he realized that his experiences in nature were, as he put it, “no different from encountering God” — a sense of communion with something infinite and sacred.

Cooperrider came to Vermont to lead Weybridge Congregational Church in 2013, in part because he felt that its members shared his kinship with the environment.

That kinship, Cooperrider believes, is also an obligation, a moral duty to care for the natural world that fossil-fuel-driven narratives of progress have neglected.

“We’ve made some significant missteps in our relationship to creation, and a mistake about creation is a mistake about God,” he said.

The 80-member Weybridge Congregational Church is part of a growing movement called “creation justice,” a faith-inflected activism that applies a Christian lens to the climate crisis. Last month, the church began the practice of “creation justice pledging” — a voluntary commitment to making lifestyle changes in the name of better environmental stewardship. Members selected from 21 suggestions, compiled by the church’s environmental leadership team, ranging from lower-investment habits, such as bringing reusable shopping bags to the grocery store, to more resource-intensive undertakings: installing solar panels, buying or leasing an electric car, or making a donation to offset one’s carbon footprint.

According to Cooperrider, 15 people submitted pledges — a somewhat disappointing turnout, he admits, which he chalks up to low Sunday attendance during the depths of winter. But Cooperrider said he was heartened by the fact that those who pledged committed to an average of seven new habits, with 108 pledges in total. At a time when eco-anxiety is running high — a recent Vermont Public Interest Research Group found that 61 percent of Vermonters

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are “very worried” about climate change — Cooperrider believes that even the smallest actions can be spiritually restorative. “Anxiety and despair are penultimate responses,” he said. “We’re trying to spend more time on hope.”

The creation justice pledges were the brainchild of David Andrews, one of eight members of Weybridge’s environmental leadership team. Andrews, 75, a retired minister who preached at the Congregational Church of Middlebury, joined the

Weybridge church specifically because of its ecological focus. For the past few years, he’s been charging himself a carbon tax of 10 cents per gallon of gas for his 2017 Subaru Forester (“I feel a little guilty about it, but it’s so good in the snow,” he confessed).

Last year, Andrews donated $300 of those funds to Vermont Interfaith Power & Light, a network of religious communities that shares resources and information to fight climate change.

For his January creation justice pledges,

Andrews committed to minimizing his car use — a more feasible sacrifice in the warmer months, when he can ride his electric bike the four-mile distance between his home in Middlebury and the church. He also resolved to limit his air travel, joining a growing contingent of people galvanized by “flight shame,” one of the climate-related neologisms short-listed for Oxford Dictionaries’ 2019 Word of the Year.

“We tried not to be too heavy-handed in coming up with this list,” said Andrews.

“I’m sure there are people in the church who think our emphasis on the environment is a bit much. But for me, these actions are essentially an antidote to depression.”

As the climate crisis infiltrates virtually all forms of public and private discourse, faith groups have become increasingly visible proponents of environmental causes.

Over the past decade, the notion of “creation care” has come to signify environmentalism with Biblical antecedents, an extension of the belief that human beings are tenants of the Earth, not its masters. The concept has permutations across the religious spectrum — Jews, for instance, talk about “Jewcology;” Muslims use the term “eco-Islam.”

In Cooperrider’s view, Vermonters tend to be highly attuned to the sacred in nature, regardless of whether that attunement is grounded in religion. In each worship service, he includes a creation care moment — a scriptural reading, a Mary Oliver poem, a scientific article on biodiversity loss. After Greta Thunberg gave her trenchant speech at the United Nations’ Climate Action Summit in New York City last year, one of the members read it to the congregation.

The United Church of Christ, or UCC, the national Protestant denomination with which the Weybridge Congregational Church is affiliated, has a history of social activism. In 1972, it became the first mainline Christian group to ordain an openly gay pastor at one of its churches; more recently, the church has publicly backed marriage equality, transgender rights and the Black Lives Matter movement. Last year, the UCC’s governing body officially endorsed the Green New Deal, becoming the first major Christian denomination to support the congressional resolution.

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“Over the last few centuries, Christianity has become hung up on the question of ‘What’s going to happen to my soul?’

It hasn’t always done an adequate job of addressing systemic inequality,” Antal said.

“At this point, hope in individual salvation is completely inadequate. And the Bible actually has much more to say about collective salvation than individual salvation. I think the critique of capitalism offered by Naomi Klein and Elizabeth Warren can be Christianity’s critique of capitalism.”

While faith leaders in the climate justice movement aren’t necessarily unified by political ideology, the church can provide a structure for activism that often brings political issues to the surface. The Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society in Middlebury, which belongs to an interfaith climate consortium in Addison County that includes Weybridge Congregational Church and six others, has hosted talks by Extinction Rebellion; several members of CVUUS are actively involved in the group.

Barnaby Feder, minister of CVUUS, said the climate crisis has transformed the way he thinks about his work. “Every week, when I’m writing a sermon, I ask myself, ‘What’s the climate angle on this subject?’” he said. “There’s almost never a week when we don’t address the climate crisis in some capacity, even if it’s not the central point.”

Feder sees the climate crisis as a convergence of social issues — and, in a sense, a prism of class privilege. “If you’re struggling to make ends meet, you’re just trying to get through the week,” he said. “You would never intellectually deny the climate crisis, but you don’t have the resources to dedicate your time to it.”

As the pastor of a small, rural congregation, which worships in a 173-yearold chapel heated by an oil furnace, Cooperrider understands those material constraints. But in spite of Weybridge’s relatively limited means, at least in comparison to the capital footprint of large corporations, Cooperrider believes the church’s financial priorities should align with its spiritual values. Four years ago, the church divested its $300,000 endowment from the fossil-fuel industry. And the creation justice pledges, even the smallest ones, represent a tangible act of hope — which, Cooperrider is quick to point out, isn’t the same thing as optimism.

“Hope reveals that you believe something is true and beautiful and worthwhile, regardless of the outcome,” he said. “I think religion is integral in keeping us in touch with more positive responses to the world — joy, wonder, amazement at the miraculousness of existence.”

Heidi Willis, a retired first-grade teacher who attends the church, has committed to foregoing meat twice a week and purchasing an electric vehicle with the help of the state’s financial incentives. Like Cooperrider, she isn’t optimistic about humanity’s long-term prospects: “In my more lucid moments, I’m not so sure we’re going to get out of this,” she said.

But recently, on a particularly brilliant day after a snowstorm, she found herself overcome with gratitude for the play of light on the ice-covered trees. “I just looked around,” she said, “and all I could think was, Thank you, thank you, thank you.” m Contact: chelsea@sevendaysvt.com Got a suggestion for the Fired Up series?

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handful of Vermont restaurants draw their identities from their chef-founders, including American Flatbread in Waitsfield (George Schenk), Café Provence in Brandon (Robert Barral) and, recently, Honey Road in Burlington (Cara Chigazola Tobin).

Perhaps nowhere is the association between chef and restaurant stronger than at Hen of the Wood, founded by Eric Warnstedt in 2005 in a historic grist mill in Waterbury. In Vermont and beyond, Warnstedt’s name is synonymous with seasonal, uncomplicated cooking — “simple yet techniquedriven,” to use his words — that highlights regional ingredients.

Yet Warnstedt hasn’t made an order of hen-of-the-woods mushroom toast — or anything else on the menu — in more than six years, he said. Though he still cooks for special events hosted by his restaurants, the day-to-day duties belong to chefs Jordan Ware at Hen of the Wood in Burlington and Antonio Rentas at Hen of the Wood in Waterbury. It’s an example of how founding chefs come to delegate as their restaurant groups grow — and Warnstedt says it’s working out well.

When Warnstedt, 44, and his business partner, Will McNeil, opened Hen-Burlington in the fall of 2013, Warnstedt worked as an expediter for six weeks as the new restaurant established its groove. (The expediter coordinates between the kitchen and the dining room

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and has the last look at and touch on a plate before it leaves the kitchen.)

But the only cooking he’s done at Hen-Burlington was for photo shoots, he said.

The kitchen there and in Waterbury continues to turn out hen-of-the-woods mushroom toast. The signature dish of a poached egg atop grilled bread, sautéed mushrooms and house-cured bacon is lovely and down-to-earth.

It’s that earthy smell of foraged mushrooms that Warnstedt misses.

“Those mushroom deliveries were always so exciting,” he said the other day. “I miss cooking a lot. I don’t miss cleaning. I don’t miss pulling hoods. I don’t miss pulling mats. I miss the team. I miss talking to farmers.”

Warnstedt was sitting at a table at Hen-Burlington, wearing a black Hen sweatshirt and joined by his chefs, Ware and Rentas. They are key players in the team of 170 people who work at the four restaurants Warnstedt and McNeil own: two Hen of the Woods, Doc Ponds in Stowe and Prohibition Pig in Waterbury.

“The food at Hen of the Wood does not need my approval,” Warnstedt said. “Whatever the menu says tonight belongs to Jordan and Antonio.”

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A stairway bisects the roughly 1,700-square-foot space that Barrett is gutting and redesigning, he said. The design calls for a 25-seat eat-in restaurant on one side of the

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When the framing and electrical work is complete, Barrett expects to be “very hands-on” in the building project.

“The one in White River Junction, I was much more hands-on [because] the budget was nothing,” he said. “I had three weeks and YouTube to figure out how to tile a floor.”

When Barrett opens the Stowe restaurant with his partner, JOSHUA BROWN, he intends to spend several “intensive” weeks in the kitchen acquiring inventory, developing the menu and “making sure everything’s spot-on.”

Piecemeal Pies in Stowe will provide counter service and table delivery. Open every day but Tuesday, it will serve brunch, lunch and dinner and have a full bar, Barrett said. He

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menus, manage the kitchen team, ensure that the poached egg will drip, and make a final pass on each plate before saying, just loudly enough, “Runner, please.” This signals to servers that the plate is ready for delivery.

“It was hard to give up control, [but] it’s part of the whole game … and it’s been a great thing,” Warnstedt said. “There’s no reason for me to have my thumb on it. You hire people to do a job.”

In addition to his business’ expansion, personal reasons pushed Warnstedt to relinquish his position. He’s had sole custody of his daughter, Ella, now 12, for four and a half years, Warnstedt said. He ends his workday by 5 or 6 p.m. to be with her.

Warnstedt left behind a job that he described as having a certain “romanticism” and also called “fucking brutal.”

On a recent Saturday night, Hen-Burlington served about 300 people, Ware said. In the first five minutes of business, the kitchen had orders for 20 dozen oysters from diners who lined up before the restaurant opened at 4 p.m. In total, the staff shucked and served about 700 oysters that night, according to Ware, who ordered 2,500 oysters last Thursday to get through the weekend.

In Waterbury a week ago, Rentas and his team served a perfectly crafted small plate: housemade cappelletti stuffed with braised short rib in a sauce composed of the rib’s braising liquid, pasta water, butter, sherry vinegar and a little roasted sweet potato purée.

The overarching achievement of both chefs is giving diners the kind of experience they’ve come to expect at Hen of the Wood.

“This kind of food, and this kind of cooking, is just right,” Ware said. “It’s simple. It’s Vermont. It’s about relationships with farmers and community …

When I started at Hen of the Wood, the way Eric cooked and looked at things changed everything for me as a chef.”

Ware, 37, grew up in North Bennington and attended the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. His first cooking job in Burlington was at Smokejacks, a restaurant that occupied the current site of Honey Road from 1997 to 2008. Warnstedt was chef there for a time; Ware was a line cook and brunch cook.

Warnstedt left Smokejacks in 2005 to open Hen-Waterbury. Ware had a few different restaurant jobs (including working for a year in Bozeman, Mont.) before he walked into the Waterbury restaurant one day in 2008.

food+drink “Eric needed a dishwasher,” Ware recalled. “And I washed dishes.”

After a couple of dishwashing shifts, he was hired as a prep cook before moving on to making the desserts and salads — and ultimately becoming sous chef. After two years, Ware left Hen-Waterbury to become chef at the Farmhouse Tap & Grill in Burlington. When Warnstedt and McNeil opened Hen-Burlington, they offered Ware the chef position at the restaurant, which has 100 seats, including the lounge and bar area.

“Hen of the Wood for me always clicked,” Ware said, adding that it was a “no-brainer” to accept the job. He now manages a team of 17 cooks and dishwashers, including sous chefs Micah Tavelli and Nick Frank.

Rentas, 31, was born in the Bronx and raised in Yonkers, N.Y., before he moved with his family to Plattsburgh, N.Y., for high school. He discovered Hen of the Wood as a diner in the spring of 2014.

A new graduate of New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Rentas was about to move to New York City to work at a Daniel Boulud restaurant when he had a meal at Hen of the Wood.

Rentas and his girlfriend sat at the kitchen counter by the “pass” where Ware works. Like many diners who score a seat there, Rentas took in the scene of Ware and his crew on the job. “Everyone was awesome,” he said.

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solid,” he said. “All the plates came out clean; the food was really good.”

A few weeks later, in the spring of 2015, Rentas moved back to Vermont and started cooking at Hen-Waterbury. The 45-seat restaurant, whose interior stone walls are lit by candles in the crevices, stands on the edge of Graves Brook.

“I walked down the stairs in Waterbury; it was like, ‘Whoa!’” Rentas recalled. “It was everything I was looking for.” He became chef three years ago.

Warnstedt, meanwhile, works in an office above Prohibition Pig. He goes to meetings, communicates with managers — there are 31 at the four restaurants — and spends his day “doing a million backend things to keep the machine moving forward.”

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Ware recognizes the importance of giving the cooks who work with him a “voice,” he said. That means ensuring his sous chefs have the opportunity to come up with dishes. It also means working with appetizer cooks until they’re ready to “go live” on the line, a high-pressure, high-visibility position in the open kitchen.

Ware expedites four nights a week and works one day in the office. He said he sometimes spends “all day talking, looking for answers.”

Warnstedt remains a “sounding board” for him, Ware said. “We’ve gotten better at keeping people happy, making sure people have what they want,” he said.

crushed that night,” he said of the dining experience. “We had fun.”

Rentas talked a bit with Ware, who showed him the kitchen and gave Rentas his card. “It sounds like you’ve got a good thing going,” Ware told him. “But if you’re around [here] again, call me.”

A year later, when Rentas decided to leave NYC, he reached out to Ware.

They arranged that he’d come to Burlington for a one-night “stage” at Hen of the Wood, an opportunity for him and the restaurant to feel each other out. Rentas shucked oysters and made asparagus salad — and sensed that it could be the right place for him.

“The communication seemed really

He and McNeil are looking at three possible new projects, Warnstedt said, “hoping something clicks.”

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Stowe last September, when Piecemeal Pies sold its savory pies on the green during the British Invasion car show.

Barrett recalled looking up to see a “for rent” sign on the ice cream shop.

When he called to inquire, “the landlord said, ‘I’ve always wanted a pie shop in one of my buildings,’” he explained.

Barrett drew inspiration for Piecemeal Pies from a trip to the UK, where savory pies are common comfort food, and from his work at New York’s the Spotted Pig, which served English gastropub fare.

“We are really particular with our food and the style of service,” he said of Piecemeal Pies. “We want to make it feel effortless. We want to make it an amazing experience, but we don’t want to make it look like too many people touched the food.”

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When Down Home Kitchen closed in Montpelier on January 1, the folks at neighboring THREE PENNY TAPROOM, at 108 Main Street, spotted an opening for serving breakfast.

“We saw that the town kind of requires a breakfast place, and when Down Home closed, we kind of sprung into action and made it happen,” Three Penny co-owner KEVIN KERNER told Seven Days.

After a couple of weeks of Saturday and Sunday breakfasts, last week Three Penny started Thursday through Sunday service beginning at 8 a.m. The menu includes house-smoked gravlax and cream cheese on a MYER’S bagel, buttermilk pancakes, granola and eggs Benedict.

Three Penny’s kitchen managers, PAT MCGINLEY and DREUX POTVIN, worked with general manager JAY BOTHWELL to develop the breakfast menu with input from the owners, Kerner said. Prices range from $5 for oatmeal to $13 for the lox plate.

“People are loving it,” Kerner said.

“We’ve always maintained a pride aspect of giving people their money’s worth.

We’re a bunch of blue-collar people, and that’s kind of the philosophy of our entire establishment: making it worth your money.”

The menu switches to lunch at noon, when options such as burgers, salads, soba noodle bowls and chicken wings are available until 9 or 10 p.m., or 6 p.m. on Sunday.

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Clean Team Health inspectors monitor the state’s kitchens, and now the public can, too B Y H ANNA H NOR M ANDE AU Andy Chevrefils

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ver wondered what’s really going on behind the scenes at your favorite restaurant? The Vermont Department of Health has a pretty good idea, and anyone can take a look at a According to the Centers for Disease virtual snapshot of every kitchen in the Control and Prevention, about 48 million state with just a few clicks on a website. people get sick each year from a foodborne The Food and Lodging Program sends a illness, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 squad of health inspectors to the 3,854 die. retail food establishments in the state Salmonella and E. coli are among the every year or two for a thorough check. usual suspects, but Chevrefils said noroPublic health inspection manager Andy virus, usually spread by oral contact with Chevrefils is responsible for every one of infected fecal matter, is actually the top those kitchens. He’s been with the health foodborne infectious agent. department since 2007, first working as an asbestos and lead regulatory program engineer, and then INSPECTIONS BY THE NUMBERS as an environmental health risk There are 3,854 food and drink retail coordinator. establishments in Vermont. The state Chevrefils, 40, is neatly coiffed Department of Health’s public portal and has a closely cropped beard. shows scores for each of them from June More than just a style choice, “hair 2016 to the present. is supposed to be controlled,” he Retail Inspection Scores said; it’s actually part of the food (June 2016 to February 13, 2020) safety inspection report.

Score No. of Inspections Percent of “There are some beards that

Inspections people are proud of and get big, and 100 765 6.6% I understand that,” he said with a 99-95 4,636 39.7% laugh. But Vermonters with bushy bristles or long locks need to tie 94-90 3,285 28.1% them back or net them up.

89-80 2,494 21.4% All the health inspection reports 79-70 479 4.1% since 2016 are available through the 69-60 12 0.1% recently launched public portal, which can be searched and sorted 59-50 4 0.03% by business name, town, county, Below 50 1 0.01% inspection date and type, and score.

Source: Vermont Department of Health Earlier reports can be acquired by request.

“It’s an easy way for the public to see what’s going on,” Chevrefils said of the site.

“It’s pretty prevalent out there,” There’s no option to sort by beard Chevrefils said, but “it’s preventable as density, but a recent search through long as you have good training programs dozens of reports found quite a few and you have good communication with mentions of facial hair. staff, making sure that staff don’t come to In all seriousness, foodborne illness is work when they’re sick.” a major concern, which is why Chevrefils’ Tacked to the wall of Chevrefils’ office team is constantly out patrolling. is a poster with a sad little green emoji face 44

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with a zipper for a mouth and a swirly spoonful of what might pass in Vermont for a chocolate creemee. But the meaning becomes clear from the large white words in all caps: “NOBODY WANTS TO EAT YOUR POOP.” Underneath in smaller letters, the poster reminds viewers to “take 20 seconds to wash your hands after using the bathroom.”

Chevrefils chuckled at the mention of the poster. It’s from a similar program in Nebraska, and he also found it pretty eye-catching. “It gets people to talk about it, to talk about washing hands and having good personal hygiene, for sure,” he said.

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Vermont’s food safety laws are based on the U.S. Food & Drug Administration Food Code, which provides a modern scientific model for local, state, tribal and federal governments to regulate retail and food service industries.

Eleven health inspectors cover the entire state of Vermont, and each has a specific territory. Those who canvass higher density areas such as Burlington and South Burlington might cover smaller regions, but most inspectors have 450 to 500 assigned establishments.

Inspectors’ days begin with an email and phone check, and their “do list” is updated every night. A typical week could include rounds of routine and unannounced inspections, as well as opening inspections for new restaurants, prescheduled inspections, checks of food processors (289 statewide, by last count), lodging establishments (580), home kitchens

(257), schools (334) and children’s camps (67). There are even a few Vermont shellfish facilities that need to be thoroughly trawled.

Inspectors might hit four to six establishments in a day, or take all day to go through a single manufacturing facility.

This time of year, restaurants are buzzing around ski destinations, so inspectors in resort areas may spend more time near the slopes.

Food trucks are typically licensed as commercial caterers or temporary food service establishments. They can be “harder to track down,” Chevrefils said, but inspectors generally know where they might post up or can find them ahead of planned events such as fairs and festivals. Trucks are held to the same foodhandling and temperature requirements as restaurants, but the inspection report is a little different than the one for brickand-mortar locations.

“We’ve taken out a few line items that wouldn’t apply,” such as plumbed handwashing stations or full three-bay wash sinks, Chevrefils said, “and it’s a little bit faster for our inspectors to go through,” because they note whether items are in or out of compliance rather than assign a point value. The inspection process is similar for home bakeries and caterers.

Food hubs, where multiple producers may work out of a single facility, have also sprung up around the state — such as the Mad River Food Hub in Waitsfield and the Intervale in Burlington. Each operator must have a food-processing license, Chevrefils said, and the hub manager is usually licensed, as well.

“We do have a close relationship with the owners of the facilities, making sure that everybody is in compliance and prepared for inspection, serving safe food,” he said.

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So how do inspectors decide whether a kitchen is shipshape?

There are five risk factors for foodborne illness: “proper cooking temperatures, proper hot and cold holding, preventing cross- contamination, personal hygiene, and food from unsafe sources,” Chevrefils said. These rules apply to “every single food service establishment.”

The standard inspection is based on a 100-point system with 44 total line items.

Critical violations, of which there are 13, each would knock off four or five points on an establishment’s score. Those are the considerations that can really make people sick, Chevrefils said.

Noncritical violations often include “structural items, like floors, walls and ceiling,” storage, and labeling.

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Most food establishments in Vermont score 80 points or higher (see sidebar) on their inspections; those that score lower could get extra inspections.

A score of 70 or below often means the business needs to voluntarily close to the public until the issues are fixed.

That could take less than a day or much longer.

“Our inspection team is good at educating first,” Chevrefils said. “Let’s help [the businesses] understand the problem and teach them what needs to be corrected, and help them kind of carry that forward for long-term compliance.”

If an establishment receives a low score, it usually indicates that multiple critical violations need to be addressed.

In October 2019, for example, inspectors found opened mayonnaise with a best-used-by date of November 2018 in the cooler of a restaurant in Brattleboro.

The eatery scored 72 overall.

At a restaurant in St. Albans that scored 62, violations included raw meat stored in containers on the ground, shrimp stored above the 40-degree temperature requirement, and live cockroaches spotted on top of a dishwasher.

A Shelburne restaurant scored a 54 in November 2019. Violations included employees not washing up properly and handling ready-to-eat food with bare hands, black mold in an ice machine, a slimy soda gun, and clear evidence of rodents — “all flours/corn meal in four bakery bins in dry storage room noted with mouse droppings on bins and inside bins,” the inspector reported.

If an establishment refuses to close, an emergency health order can be issued if the department thinks there could be a public health risk. But that’s usually not necessary or helpful, Chevrefils said.

“We’re not here to, you know, throw a stick at anybody,” he said. “I don’t think any restaurant is looking to serve unsafe food. No one wants to make people sick.

And we feel the same way. We look at it more as a partnership.”

Despite being on the front lines of food safety, Chevrefils isn’t fazed when he goes out to eat. He said he doesn’t dine out a lot, but it’s because of his lifestyle, not his job. He grew up cooking with his mother and grandmother and now mostly eats at home with his wife and two kids, ages 10 and 5.

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Chevrefils acknowledged that not all staffers are particularly happy to see the health inspector show up. “There’s definitely some, you know, frustration,” he said. “It’s fairly typical, and we try to just address it in a calm demeanor and stick to our rules.

“Our inspectors do a great job. They’ve gone through a lot of training,” Chevrefils continued, “and we as a program take pride in what we do.”

Sometimes there can be a language barrier if the person in charge doesn’t speak English, but usually another employee or relative can help translate.

The inspector in the field can also make a call to hook up with a translation service.

Chevrefils said inspectors used to travel with a “banker’s box” of handouts and fact sheets, but now those documents are attached to the inspection report when it’s emailed to the person in charge.

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O.N.E. Community Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 355-4968.

crafts

CRAFTERNOON: Provided materials pave the way for new creations. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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KNITTER’S GROUP: Crafters share their latest projects and get help with challenging patterns. All skill levels are welcome. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

KNITTING CLUB: Knitters of all levels stitch together. Room 207, St. Edmund’s Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

environment

SOLAR LUNCH & LEARN — PIZZA & SUNSHINE: SunCommon representatives answer burning questions about harnessing the power of the sun for one’s home. KW Vermont, South Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 398-7118.

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NURSING BEYOND A YEAR MEET-UP: Breastfeeding parents connect over toddler topics such as weaning and healthy eating habits.

Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 985-8228.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘EARTH FLIGHT 3D’: Revolutionary aerial techniques and state-of-the-art 3D cameras take viewers on a journey across the world on the wings of birds. 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, $14-17; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

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‘FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES 3D’: Monarchs make an extraordinary journey from Canada to Mexico in this immersive film experience.

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, $14-17; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386.

‘NAPOLEON DYNAMITE’: A teenage underdog with a penchant for drawing and tater tots helps his friend Pedro in his quest to become studentbody president. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘SPACE JUNK 3D’: A growing ring of orbiting debris is at the center of an out-of-this-world film showing natural and manmade collisions. 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, $14-17; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: An immersive film reveals the astonishing lives of the smallest of animals — think chipmunks and grasshopper mice. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14-17; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

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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 local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.

music + nightlife Find club dates at local venues in the music + nightlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music.

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All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.

FEB.28 | MUSIC

Frequent Player Between solo concerts, duo performances with pianist Wu Han and ensemble recitals with the Emerson Quartet, cellist David Finckel has become the Mahaney Arts Center Performing Arts Series’ most frequent performer. It’s apropos that the instrumentalist is scheduled to appear again with Han, who is also Finckel’s wife, as part of the series’ 100th anniversary season. The two are perfectly in tune during a program of works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, Felix Mendelssohn and Frédéric Chopin, as well as a brand-new commissioned piece by Vermontraised composer Pierre Jalbert.

FEB.27 | TALKS A Woman’s Work Balancing work, parenthood and a personal life can be challenging, but particularly if work means serving as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Susan Rice, who held that position from 2009 to 2013 and was president Barack Obama’s national security adviser from 2013 to 2017, reflects on her life and career in her 2019 memoir Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For. From her Washington, D.C., childhood to weathering criticism for her public statements regarding the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Rice lets readers in on her personal and professional journey. She discusses the book with Daniel Benjamin, director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.

SUSAN RICE Thursday, February 27, 4:30 p.m., at Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. Free; preregister. Info, 603-646-2422, hop.dartmouth.edu.

DAVID FINCKEL AND WU HAN Friday, February 28, 7:30 p.m., at Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College. $6-30. Info, 4433168, middlebury.edu.

FEB.27 | MUSIC Behind the Music “If you find that stories and background context relating to the songs you’re listening to make them more enjoyable, you’re not alone,” reads the description of musician Sean Watkins’ podcast “This Is Who We Are.” Released in conjunction with his new album of the same name with neo-folk trio the Bee Eaters, the episodes feature conversations with guests who are in some way connected to each song on the LP. The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known as a member of the Grammy Award-winning bluegrass trio Nickel Creek and the Watkins Family Hour treats fans to an intimate concert with the Bee Eaters.

Choreography

COURTESY OF JASON QUIGLEY

Cultural

SEAN WATKINS AND THE BEE EATERS Thursday, February 27, 7:30 p.m., at Richmond Congregational Church. $20-23. Info, 434-4563, valleystage.net.

COURTESY OF ROBERTO LEON

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ave you ever wished you could experience life in a faraway city, even just for a day? In “24 Hours and a Dog,” Malpaso Dance performers convey aspects of daily life in Cuba’s capital city. Audience members witness this and two other dance works inspired by Cuban culture when the Havana-based contemporary company makes its Flynn Center for the Performing Arts debut as part of its spring tour. The evening’s program also includes “Porque Sigues (Why You Follow),” which combines elements of African, Cuban and Western dance styles, and “Ser,” choreographed by company member Beatriz Garcia.

MALPASO DANCE COMPANY Saturday, February 29, 8 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $15-45.

Info, 863-5966, flynntix.org.

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‘YEMANJÁ: WISDOM FROM THE AFRICAN HEART OF BRAZIL’: Afro-Brazilian culture, worldview and spiritual practice come into focus in a 2015 documentary. A Q&A with director Donna Carole Roberts follows. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 660–2600.

food & drink

EAT FOR CHANGE: Diners chow down to support Relay for Life at the University of Vermont.

Mention the cause to be sure partial proceeds are donated.

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Burlington, 5-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink.

Info, 872-6306.

TASTE OF THE KINGDOM: Folks feast on fare from the region’s top chefs at this fundraiser for Green Mountain Farm-to-School. Foeger Ballroom, Jay Peak Resort, 6-8:30 p.m. $50-85; free for kids 15 and under. Info, 334-2044.

games

BEGINNERS’ BRIDGE: Those looking to get in on the card game learn the basics from longtime player Grace Sweet. Waterbury Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

BRIDGE: Players of varying experience levels put strategic skills to use. Milton Public Library, 1-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 893-4644.

BRIDGE CLUB: Players have fun with the popular card game.

Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $6. Info, 872-5722.

MAH JONGG: Participants of all levels enjoy friendly bouts of this tile-based game. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: Folks of all ages ward off osteoporosis in an exercise and prevention class.

Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 7:30, 9 & 10:40 a.m.

Free. Info, 223-3322.

CHAIR YOGA: Whether experiencing balance issues or recovering from illness or injury, health-conscious community members drop in for a weekly low-stress class.

Waterbury Public Library, 10:1511:15 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

HEALING ART & WRITING: Simple writing, drawing and storytelling exercises for those touched by cancer or chronic illness reduce stress. Hope Lodge, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0649.

RESILIENCE FLOW: Individuals affected by traumatic brain injuries engage in a gentle yoga practice.

Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262.

YOGA4CANCER: Meant for anyone affected by the illness, this class aims to help participants manage treatment side effects and recovery. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, noon-1 p.m.

Donations. Info, 448-4262.

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BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: Learners take communication to the next level. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

FOURTH WEDNESDAY CONVERSATION GROUP: Frenchlanguage conversation flows at a monthly gathering. Alburgh Public Library, 5:15-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, ajp4561@gmail. com.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: ¡Hola! Language lovers perfect their fluency. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

‘PARLIAMO ITALIANO’: Folks who have studied some Italian join Vermont Italian Cultural Association members for a biweekly conversation. Email for Colchester location. 7-9 p.m. Free.

Info, vermontitalianclub@gmail. com.

SOUTH HERO FRENCH CONVERSATION: Catherine Hellman hosts a French-language chat fest. Worthen Library, South Hero, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 372-6209.

montréal

MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE: Performing arts, fine dining and family activities combine for one of the world’s largest winter festivals. See montrealenlumiere. com for details. Quartier des spectacles, Montréal. Free. Info, 514-288-9955.

‘SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS’: Six stressed-out city dwellers attempt a few days of self-care on a silent retreat in the Montréal premiere of Bess Wohl’s charming new play performed with very few words. The Studio, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, 1 & 8 p.m. $45-59. Info, 514-739-7944.

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seminars

AMENDING BIORETENTION MEDIA WITH DRINKING WATER TREATMENT RESIDUALS TO REDUCE STORMWATER PHOSPHORUS LOADING INTO LAKE CHAMPLAIN: Brown-bag lunches are welcome at a Lake Champlain Sea Grant seminar during which researchers share their ongoing work. Room 311, George D. Aiken Center, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 656-8504.

Find club dates in the music section.

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FARMERS NIGHT CONCERT SERIES: BRATTROCK: Three Vermont teen bands infuse the Statehouse with youthful energy. House Chamber, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 828-0749.

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

THE HIGH KINGS: Folk fans tap their toes to tunes by the quartet formed in Dublin in 2008. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $30.75-41.25. Info, 863-5966.

MENTALLY INTUNE: Singers find harmony in a community chorus for people living with depression.

No experience or talent required.

Rumney Memorial School, Middlesex, 6:30-8 p.m. Donations.

Info, 272-7209.

OLD NORTH END NEIGHBORHOOD BAND TEEN MUSIC JAM: Be they accomplished or beginner musicians, young players find harmony in the traditional music of Burlington’s past and present immigrant groups. Boys & Girls Club, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 881-8500.

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art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.

music + comedy Find club dates at local venues in the music + nightlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music.

All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.

Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.

VERMONT WOMEN’S MENTORING PROGRAM: MENTOR TRAINING: Community members prepare to be matched with incarcerated and court-involved women in order to coach them in transitioning to life in Northwest Vermont and Chittenden County. Mercy Connections, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 846-7164.

talks

CYNTHIA SHELTON: Recently selected as a NASA solar system ambassador, the Newport resident reveals what the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is up to in 2020. The Work Commons, Newport, 7 p.m. Free. Info, ssacynthiashelton@gmail.com.

DREAMS & SOUL TRAVEL — KEYS TO HEALING & INNER TRUTH: An open discussion with Eckankar offers spiritual insight. Upper Valley Food Co-op, White River Junction, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, eck.vermont@gmail.com.

NANCY PATCH: The Franklin/ Grand Isle County forester gets to the root of the Vermont sugaring tradition. Worthen Library, South Hero, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 372-6209.

tech

INTRODUCTION TO HTML5 & CSS3: Tech-savvy students in this three-part workshop learn the base language supporting all web pages. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Electronics novices develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon & 1 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 878-6955.

TECH SUPPORT: Need an email account? Want to enjoy ebooks?

Bring your phone, tablet or laptop to a weekly help session. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 3-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-8291.

theater

‘CITRUS’: Written by 2018 Kennedy Center Hip-Hop Theater Creator Award recipient Celeste Jennings, this choreopoem fuses dance, music and spoken word to chronicle the experiences of black women in America from 1840 to the present day. Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $17.75-57.75.

Info, 296-7000.

‘THE FUNERAL OF A GANGSTER’: Mayhem, rival gangs and cool jazz drive a Vermont-based murder mystery put on by October Theatre Company. The Clothier, St. Albans, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $50.

Info, 524-1405.

‘SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE’: In this University of Vermont Department of Theatre and Dance production, the young Bard struggles with writer’s block as a deadline looms, until he discovers his muse, Violet, who inspires him to write his greatest play.

Royall Tyler Theatre, University of Vermont, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-28. Info, 656-3131.

‘VOICES’: A show written, directed and produced by Dartmouth College self-identified women illuminates stories in an effort to end violence against women and girls. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 603-646-2422.

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agriculture

FEBRUARY VACATION WEEKS: See WED.26.

crafts

FIBER ARTS THURSDAYS: No matter their specialty, fiber artists hone their craft together. Sewing machines are available. 2Creative Community, Winooski, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 2creative community@gmail.com.

environment

CLIMATE ACTION FILM FESTIVAL: A first-annual fest presented

by SunCommon shines a light on short films with a focus on solutions to the climate crisis.

Pavilion Building, Montpelier, 6-8:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 272-1195.

WILLIAM KEETON: “ClimateFriendly Forests,” a lecture by the University of Vermont professor, digs into the role of forests in keeping carbon out of the atmosphere. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 434-3068.

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ACT 251 HEARING/SITE VISIT: A visit to the proposed future Barn Opera House leads to a hearing at Brandon Town Hall. 1321 Pearl St., Brandon, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 772-5601.

TAX HELP: Low- and middleincome taxpayers, especially seniors, get help filing their taxes.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:15, 10:15, 11:15 a.m. & 12:15 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘EARTH FLIGHT 3D’: See WED.26.

‘FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES 3D’: See WED.26.

‘SPACE JUNK 3D’: See WED.26.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.26.

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‘VARDA BY AGNÈS’: Illustrated with photos and film excerpts, the late director Agnès Varda’s final picture is an idiosyncratic and imaginative autobiography. The short film “Elegies” plays first. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-8; free for Vermont International Film Festival members. Info, 660-2600.

food & drink

COMMUNITY LUNCH: Gardengrown fare makes for a delicious and nutritious midday meal. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 309.

IN-STORE TASTING & DEMO: Foodies drop in for creamy spinach parmesan orzo. Kiss the Cook, Middlebury, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 349-8803.

games

CHITTENDEN COUNTY CHESS CLUB: Checkmate! Strategic thinkers make calculated moves as they vie for their opponents’ kings. Shaw’s, Shelburne Rd., South Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-5403.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Champlain Senior Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 448-4262.

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: A 20-minute guided practice with Andrea O’Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161.

SEED CLINIC: Small magnetic beads taped to acupressure points offer support for those experiencing difficult or stressful times. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m.

Donations. Info, clinicseed@ gmail.com.

TAI CHI FOR FALL PREVENTION: Active bodies boost their strength and balance through gentle flowing movements.

Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 9:30 & 10 a.m. Free.

Info, 223-3322.

YANG-STYLE TAI CHI: Slow, graceful, expansive movements promote wide-ranging health and fitness benefits. Wright House, Harrington Village, Shelburne, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 735-5467.

YOGA: A Sangha Studio instructor guides students who are in recovery toward achieving inner tranquility. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

language

HAVE LUNCH IN FRENCH: Bag meals in hand, attendees brush up on their linguistic abilities. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 793-1176.

montréal

MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE: See WED.26.

‘SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS’: See WED.26, 8 p.m.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

SEAN WATKINS & THE BEE EATERS: Joined by brothersister duo Tristan and Tashina Clarridge and hammer dulcimer wizard Simon Chrisman, the Nickel Creek cofounder treats fans to tunes from This Is Who We Are. See calendar spotlight.

Richmond Congregational Church, 7:30 p.m. $20-23. Info, 434-4563.

seminars

ENERGY INNOVATIONS FOR YOUR HOME: Eco-conscious community members take notes during an Efficiency Vermont workshop on new technology for home energy savings.

Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 540-7798.

talks

SOUTH BURLINGTON ROTARY CLUB WEEKLY MEETING SPEAKERS: Presenters share their expertise on a wide range of topics. 252 Tavern, DoubleTree

by Hilton, South Burlington, 7:308:30 a.m. Cost of food and drink.

Info, 864-6854.

SUSAN RICE: In a conversation with John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding director Daniel Benjamin, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations delves into her 2019 memoir Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For. See calendar spotlight. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 603-646-2422.

theater

‘CITRUS’: See WED.26.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘CYRANO DE BERGERAC’: James McAvoy stars as the title character in Edmond Rostand’s masterwork about a soldier and dramatist set on winning the heart of his true love, Roxane.

Shown on screen. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600.

‘SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE’: See WED.26.

‘THE SWEET SCIENCE OF BRUISING’: Themes of gender, class, violence and power dynamics come into play in a British theater work about women’s boxing in Victorian England, put on by the Dartmouth College Department of Theater. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $9-15. Info, 603-646-2422.

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MARIA PADIAN: A Middlebury College graduate, the author reads from and signs copies of her new young adult novel, How to Build a Heart. The Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061.

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agriculture

FEBRUARY VACATION WEEKS: See WED.26.

dance

BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: Singles, couples and beginners are welcome to join in a dance social featuring waltz, tango and more. Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, 8-9:30 p.m. $10.

Info, 862-2269.

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COMMUNITY CONTRA DANCE: Hoofers find their footing at a social dance complete with live fiddle and piano music. North End Studios, Burlington, beginners’ session, 7:45 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $5-15. Info, 233-3144.

ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: Inspired by the 5Rhythms dance practice, attendees move, groove, release and open their hearts to life in a safe and sacred space. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, fearnessence@gmail.com.

LINE DANCING: Arranged in rows, movers do choreographed steps with visiting students from Japan. Roy Event Room, Dion Family Student Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

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‘THEY SAY A LADY WAS THE CAUSE OF IT’: Themes of gender, agency and identity thread through an evening-length contemporary dance work presented

by ERGO/movement. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, 382-9222.

New Heirloom Garden Saturday, Feb. 29 • 9:30-11:00am Burlington Garden Center Presenter: Ellen Ecker Ogden Cost: $15

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‘KINTSUGI: A MULTIMEDIA ART PERFORMANCE’: Inspired by the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending it with precious metals, VanDenCross Dance and Fairfax Community Theater address trauma and healing through a unique blend of dance and voice. BFA Middle School, Fairfax, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $8-15. Info, info@fctc.org.

Crazy Color Garden Saturday, Feb. 29 • 11:30-1pm Burlington Garden Center Presenter: Ellen Ecker Ogden Cost: $15

SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO: Students compete for honors such as best individual performance and fan favorite in a SUNY Plattsburgh Learning and Experiencing God talent showcase. E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $2-3; preregister to perform. Info, legopsu@gmail. com.

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‘FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES 3D’: See WED.26.

‘SPACE JUNK 3D’: See WED.26.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.26.

‘WBCN AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION’: A reception with director Bill Lichtenstein and producer Robert Sennott paves the way for a screening of this 2012 documentary about a radical underground radio station.

Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, reception, 6:30 p.m.; movie, 7:30 p.m. $7-9. Info, 457-3981.

food & drink

PUBLIC CUPPING: Coffee connoisseurs and beginners alike explore the flavor notes and aromas of the roaster’s current offerings and new releases. Brio Coffeeworks, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 777-6641.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.26, 9:15 a.m.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA: Students with limited mobility limber up with modified poses. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, 448-4262.

EXERCISE FOR HEALTH: Strength training with light weights focuses on balance and lowerbody strength. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10:40 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

FELDENKRAIS COMMUNITY CLASS: An open mind and the ability to get on the floor and back up are the only requirements for participating in slow, gentle movements that reveal new ways to live with the body. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 8:30-9:30 a.m. Donations; preregister. Info, 540-0186.

GONG MEDITATION: Sonic vibrations lead to healing and deep relaxation. Yoga Roots, Williston, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $18. Info, 318-6050.

QIGONG FLOW: Gentle movements promote strength, balance and well-being. Waterbury Public Library, 10:15-10:45 a.m. Free; limited space. Info, 244-7036.

SUN 73 TAI CHI: A sequence of slow, controlled movements aids in strength and balance.

Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

TAI CHI FOR FALL PREVENTION: Beginners and older adults in this eight-week class with instructor Kenneth Russell engage in a gentle workout done seated or standing. Waterbury Public Library, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 244-7036.

WARM GENTLE YOGA: Not too hot, not too difficult and not too expensive, this class is open to all ages and ability levels. Hot Yoga Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Donations. Info, 999-9963.

YANG 24 TAI CHI: Students get an introduction to a gentle form of exercise said to benefit internal organs. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 2-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3322.

LEGAL CLINIC: Attorneys offer complimentary consultations on a first-come, first-served basis.

274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 383-2118.

STUNT KITE FLIERS & ARCHERY HOBBYISTS MEETING: Open to beginning and experienced hobbyists alike, a weekly gathering allows folks to share information and suggestions for equipment, sporting locations and more. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 658-0030.

holidays

MARDI GRAS POP-UP: Lobster gumbo, jambalaya and pan-fried fish are just a few of the food items available from this collaboration with Southern Smoke.

Simple Roots Brewing, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. $6-15. Info, 399-2658.

montréal

MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE: See WED.26.

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘EARTH FLIGHT 3D’: See WED.26.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

CRYS MATTHEWS: Fresh off opening for Dar Williams, the folk singer graces the stage with a special Martin Luther King Jr.-inspired show. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Upper Valley, Norwich, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 649-8828.

DAVID FINCKEL & WU HAN: “Chamber music’s busy power couple” (New York Times) performs pieces by Beethoven, Debussy, Mendelssohn, and Chopin on piano and cello, as well as the world premiere of a new work by Vermont-raised composer Pierre Jalbert. See calendar spotlight. Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $630. Info, 443-3168.

MASEFIELD, PERKINS, BOLLES & ROSS: A noteworthy lineup of local string players serves up acoustic selections as part of the casual Live & Upstairs series.

Esther Mesh Room, Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Donations; BYOB. Info, 728-9878.

RED BRICK COFFEE HOUSE: Hot beverages are provided at an open mic and jam session, where community members connect over music, cards and board games. Red Brick Meeting House, Westford, 7-10 p.m. Donations.

Info, mpk802vt@gmail.com.

TURTLE UNDERGROUND SHOWCASE: Students and members of the public convene for a complimentary concert in a coffee house-style setting. International Commons, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 6 p.m.-midnight. Free. Info, 654-2000.

TUSK: This Fleetwood Mac tribute band excites fans with note-fornote renditions of popular songs by the “Say You Love Me” hit makers. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $29-39. Info, 775-0903.

WINTER WINE DOWN MUSIC SERIES: Oenophiles let loose with live music by the Fabulous Wrecks, award-winning wine and mouthwatering eats. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, wine service begins, 5 p.m.; music, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 372-9463.

‘FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES 3D’: See WED.26.

outdoors

WINTER WILDLIFE: A morning class investigating how animals have adapted to survive Vermont winters leads to a session testing participants’ wilderness survival skills. Attend one or both sessions. Craftsbury Outdoor Center, Winter Wildlife, 10 a.m.-noon; Wilderness Skills, 2-4 p.m. Free.

Info, 434-3068.

talks

EDUCATION & ENRICHMENT FOR EVERYONE: University of Vermont associate professor of history Sarah Osten presents “Live From the Border of Mexico.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5; $45 for the series. Info, 658-6554.

theater

‘CITRUS’: See WED.26.

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‘DRINKING HABITS’: The nuns at the Sisters of Perpetual Sewing have been making wine to keep the convent out of the red. Will two undercover reporters spill their secrets? Presented by the Essex Community Players. Essex Memorial Hall, 7:30 p.m. $16-18.

Info, 878-9109.

‘GREASE’: North Country Community Theatre Teens stage Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey’s famed musical about the students of Rydell High School. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $11.50-15.50. Info, 603-448-0400.

‘THE IDEAL CANDIDATE’: An original play by Nick Gutierrez examines the challenges of choosing a path forward. Presented as a workshop production. Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE’: See WED.26.

‘THE SWEET SCIENCE OF BRUISING’: See THU.27.

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 local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.

music + comedy Find club dates at local venues in the music + nightlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music.

All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.

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words

SPIRITUAL BOOK STUDY GROUP: Not a religious book club, this group focuses on examining worry, doubt, depression and other obstacles in everyday life.

Barre Area Senior Center, 1 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

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FREE TRADE VS. FAIR TRADE: Locals learn the basics of globalization and how certain policies pave the way for companies to profit at the expense of people and the planet. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-2345.

agriculture

FEBRUARY VACATION WEEKS: See WED.26.

WORKING WOODLANDS WORKSHOP: TREES FOR STREAMS: Private landowners are encouraged at a seminar on forest management and facing an uncertain future with a changing climate. Forest Center, MarshBillings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 9-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 4573368, ext. 226.

dance

MALPASO DANCE COMPANY: Cuba’s first independent dance troupe presents three pieces exploring Cuban culture. The show includes music composed

by Grammy Award-winning Cuban American jazz master Arturo O’Farrill. See calendar spotlight.

Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-45. Info, 863-5966.

MONTPELIER CONTRA DANCE: Sarah VanNorstrand calls the steps at a traditional social dance with high-energy music

by Maivish. Capital City Grange, Berlin, introductory session, 7:45 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $5-15. Info, 225-8921.

‘THEY SAY A LADY WAS THE CAUSE OF IT’: See FRI.28.

environment

SYLVIA DAVATZ & ANNE MILLER: A lecture series rooted in farming and gardening with an eye on the climate crisis continues with two seed growers looking at increasing the adaptability and fortitude of plant varieties. Snow date: March 1. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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CARNEVALE VERGENNES: Revelers dance the night away at a seventh annual themed bash benefiting area nonprofit organizations. Vergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $35; cash bar.

Info, 877-6737.

‘KINTSUGI: A MULTIMEDIA ART PERFORMANCE’: See FRI.28, 2-4 & 7:30-9:30 p.m.

LEAP DAY RUCKUS: The meadery marks February 29 with a familyfriendly fête. Groennfell Meadery, St. Albans, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 582-4661.

‘SPACE JUNK 3D’: See WED.26.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.26.

‘THE WHISTLERS’: A police inspector embarks on a high-stakes heist in a comedic crime movie from 2019. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m.

Free. Info, 443-3168.

food & drink

CAPITAL CITY WINTER FARMERS MARKET: Meats, cheeses, crafts and more change hands at an off-season celebration of locally grown food. Caledonia Spirits, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 279-7293.

ROAST PORK DINNER: Mashed potatoes, maple-roasted carrots and green beans, applesauce, and homemade pies make mouths water. Brandon Congregational Church, 5-7 p.m. Donations. Info, 247-6121.

health & fitness

ALL-LEVELS FLOW YOGA CLASS: Guided by Sangha Studio founder and director Caitlin Pascucci, students link breath with a continuous flow of movement. Sangha Studio – South, South Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

CHAIR YOGA CLASS: Incorporating seating for personal modification, this lesson incorporates all the elements of a traditional flow class, including breathing exercises, yoga poses and an ending relaxation. Sangha Studio – South, South Burlington, 3-3:45 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

NAMI VERMONT MENTAL ILLNESS & RECOVERY WORKSHOP: Family, peers, professionals and community members at this National Alliance on Mental Illness seminar brush up on symptoms, treatment methods, coping strategies and more. Preregister for Shelburne location. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 876-7949.

NEWBIE NOON HOT YOGA: First-timers feel the heat as they get their stretch on in a (very) warm environment. Hot Yoga Burlington, noon. Free; preregister. Info, 999-9963.

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language

ARMENIAN LANGUAGE CLASSES: Singing, dancing, drama and games promote proficiency. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

lgbtq

PRIDE YOGA: LGBTQ individuals and allies hit the mat for a stretching session suited to all levels. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Donations.

Info, 448-4262.

montréal

MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE: See WED.26.

‘SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS’: See WED.26, 8 p.m.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

ALOUETTE: Playing classical flute and guitar, Barbara Boutsikaris and Gregg Jordan play selections from their repertoire spanning more than 350 years of music. Community Room, Allard Square, South Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 846-4140.

DERVISH: The Celtic touring ensemble — and longtime Lane Series favorite — returns for a pre-St. Patrick’s Day bash.

University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, preshow talk, 6:30 p.m.; show, 7:30 p.m. $1040. Info, 656-3131.

LE VENT DU NORD: Traditional music with a cosmopolitan edge delights listeners of this Québécois quintet. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10-46. Info, 728-9878.

MICHELE FAY BAND: Elements of folk, swing and bluegrass blend in understated originals and traditional covers. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $45 includes dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295.

PAUL ASBELL JAZZ QUINTET: The lifelong guitar player tunes into his own blend of jazz, roots and blues in songs from 2018’s Burmese Panther. Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

SATURDAY KARAOKE: Amateur singers belt out their favorite tunes. Burlington VFW Post, 7:30-10:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6532.

SOCKS IN THE FRYING PAN: Hailing from County Clare on the western coast of Ireland, the award-winning trio adds its own flair to Irish traditional melodies.

Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $27. Info, 476-8188.

outdoors

BIRD MONITORING WALK: Adults and older children don binoculars and keep an eye out for winged wonders. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 8-9 a.m. Donations; preregister.

Info, 434-2167.

LEAP DAY SNOWSHOE TO SPRUCE LEDGE CAMP HIKE: Snowshoers keep a moderate pace on a six-mile trip. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 373-8613.

WEEKEND SLEIGH RIDES: Giddyap! Weather permitting, horses trot folks over snowcovered open fields. Rides leave every half hour. Seats are first come, first served. Shelburne Farms, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $8-10; free for kids under 3. Info, 985-8442.

seminars

HEMLOCK WOOLLY ADELGID MONITORING WORKSHOP: A hands-on lesson with foresters Jim Esden and Caitlin Cusack prepares locals to identify and slow the spread of the invasive insect. Holley Hall, Bristol, 9 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 476-2003.

tech

GOOGLE DRIVE 2: Folks who are familiar with using the internet get dialed into the basics of Google Sheets and Google Slides.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

theater

‘CITRUS’: See WED.26.

‘DRINKING HABITS’: See FRI.28.

‘GREASE’: See FRI.28, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘THE IDEAL CANDIDATE’: See FRI.28, 3 p.m.

METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD: ‘AGRIPPINA’: Handel’s black comedy about the abuse of power is performed at the Met for the first time, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in the title role.

Shown on screen. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600.

Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, preshow talk, 12:15 p.m.; show, 1 p.m. $10-24. Info, 382-9222.

Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $1025. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘PRETTY FACE: AN AMERICAN DREAM’: Written and performed

by Amanda Huotari, this funny and fearless solo show “chews up the unbearable American newsfeed and spits out a story that you’ll love to hate and hate to love.” Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, grangehallcc@ gmail.com.

‘SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE’: See WED.26, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘THE SWEET SCIENCE OF BRUISING’: See THU.27.

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agriculture

FEBRUARY VACATION WEEKS: See WED.26.

WINTER PLANT SWAP & SHARE: Green thumbs exchange seeds, seedlings, houseplants and gardening supplies. Community Room, Flynn Avenue Co-op, Burlington, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

Info, laura@lehale.com.

Participants Needed for a Research Study on the Brain

bazaars

2C’S SUNDAY MARKET: From brewers and bakers to artists and farmers, purveyors tempt shoppers with locally produced offerings. 2Creative Community, Winooski, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 2creativecommunity@ gmail.com.

Healthy, non-smoking participants (18-30 years old) needed for a 4 visit UVM study on a chemical system in the healthy brain. Participants will receive $400 for completion of the study.

community

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: Sessions in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh include sitting and walking meditation, a short reading, and open sharing. Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, newleafsangha@ gmail.com.

Contact us at 847-8248 or brainage@uvm.edu.

CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH UNIT

dance

BALKAN FOLK DANCING: Louise Brill and friends organize participants into lines and circles set to complex rhythms. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 12v-uvmdeptpsych-Brainstudy062718.indd 1 3:30-6:30 p.m. $6; free for firsttimers; bring snacks to share.

Info, 540-1020.

COMMUNITY CEILI: Hoofers learn and participate in traditional social dances of Ireland. Food and live music round out the fun.

Richmond Free Library, 1-3 p.m.

Donations. Info, gerlisa.garrett@ gmail.com.

ISRAELI FOLK DANCING: No partner is required for a beginner-friendly session of circle and line dances. Call to confirm if the weather is questionable. Social Hall, Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5.

Info, 864-0218.

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SALSALINA SUNDAY PRACTICE: Salsa dancers step in for a casual social. Salsalina Dance Studio, Winooski, 5-8 p.m. $5. Info, eingelmanuel@hotmail.com.

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‘KINTSUGI: A MULTIMEDIA ART PERFORMANCE’: See FRI.28, 2-4 p.m.

SOCIAL SUNDAYS: A weekly community event offers music, refreshments and art workshops for families. Milton Art Center & Gallery, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 355-6583.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘EARTH FLIGHT 3D’: See WED.26.

‘FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES 3D’: See WED.26.

AT ESSEX February SAT 29 DIANA D. DUNN: 11AM PIPSQUEAK’S ADVENTURE Story time & crafts. Free.

SERIOUS ANIMATION: THE FILMS OF ORLY YADIN: Cinephiles feast their eyes on a selection of short films produced by the Vermont International Film Festival executive director. A filmmaker Q&A follows.

Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum, 4 p.m. $5-15. Info, 660-2600.

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SEED CLINIC: See THU.27, 5:30-7 p.m. language

‘DIMANCHES’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual dropin chat. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, stevenorman@fastmail.fm.

montréal

MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE: See WED.26.

‘SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS’: See WED.26, 2 & 7 p.m.

‘THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN’’: Louise Pitre and W. Joseph Matheson step into the spotlight for a concert celebration of Jewish musical artists of the 1960s. Sylvan Adams Theatre, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, 1:30 p.m. $67. Info, 514-739-7944.

music

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COMMUNITY SONG CIRCLE: Singers of all ages and abilities lift their voices in selections from the Rise Up Singing and Rise Again songbooks. Center for Arts and Learning, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 595-5252.

DARTMOUTH OPERA LAB: THE OPEN WORKSHOP: Lovers of opera and musical theater revel in an informal program of songs, arias, duets, trios and ensemble singing. Top of the Hop, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 12:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL: THE WHITNEY HOUSTON SHOW’: Joined by a five-piece band, two backing singers and four dancers, Belinda Davids brings breathtaking vocals to a heartfelt journey through the late singer’s greatest hits. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $39. Info, 775-0903.

MAPLE JAM: Vermont’s own jazz septet performs a cappella arrangements of classic numbers by artists such as Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, 2 p.m.

Free. Info, 899-4962.

seminars

DIVORCE CARE CLASS: A 13-week course is geared toward those who are separated or divorced.

Essex Alliance Church, 5:307:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, sandybrisson@gmail.com.

sports

theater

‘CITRUS’: See WED.26, 5 p.m.

‘DRINKING HABITS’: See FRI.28, 2 p.m.

‘GREASE’: See FRI.28, 3 p.m.

METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD: ‘AGRIPPINA’: See SAT.29, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $1025. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘PRETTY FACE: AN AMERICAN DREAM’: See SAT.29, 1 p.m.

‘SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE’: See WED.26, 2 p.m.

‘THE SWEET SCIENCE OF BRUISING’: See THU.27, 2 p.m.

words

BURLINGTON WOMEN’S POETRY GROUP: Female writers seek feedback from fellow rhyme-andmeter mavens. Email for details.

Private residence, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, jcpoetvt@gmail. com.

POETRY OPEN MIC NIGHT: Creative writers express themselves through verse.

BALE Community Space, South Royalton, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 498-8438.

SPOKEN WORD SUNDAYS: Artful language used aloud inspires listeners. 2Creative Community, Winooski, 4-6 p.m. Donations.

Info, 2creativecommunity@gmail. com.

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community

HOMESHARING INFO SESSION: Locals learn to make the most of spare space in their homes by hosting compatible housemates. Refreshments are served.

HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 4-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625.

crafts

HANDWORK CIRCLE: Friends and neighbors make progress on works of knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch and other creative endeavors. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

etc.

ONENESS BLESSINGS: Through guided meditations, attendees work toward harmony with humanity and the Earth. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 383-8583.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

WINTER CARNIVAL ICE SKATING SHOW: New and seasoned skaters glide across the ice in a dazzling exhibition. Kenyon Arena, Middlebury College, 2 p.m. $6.

Info, 443-6433.

‘EARTH FLIGHT 3D’: See WED.26.

‘FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES 3D’: See WED.26.

‘SPACE JUNK 3D’: See WED.26.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.26.

food & drink

FIRST MONDAY MEAL: OPEN MIC NIGHT: All are welcome to join Pathways Vermont Community Center’s founding executive director Hilary Melton and staff members for spaghetti and entertainment. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, clara@pathwaysvermont.org.

games

802 CORN HOLE: Competitors vie for points in this popular lawn game during 10 weeks of league play. Barre Elks Lodge, registration, 6 p.m.; games, 6:45 p.m. $10; cash bar. Info, 479-9522.

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.26, 6:30 p.m.

MAGIC: THE GATHERING — MONDAY NIGHT MODERN: Tarmogoyf-slinging madness ensues when competitors battle for prizes in a weekly game. Brap’s Magic, Burlington, 7-11 p.m. $8.

Info, 540-0498.

health & fitness ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.26.

CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 10:45-11:45 a.m. Free.

Info, 448-4262.

COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: Supervised clinical interns offer guidance and support to those looking to care for themselves using natural remedies. By appointment only. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, and Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 4-8 p.m. $10-30; additional cost for herbs; preregister.

Info, 224-7100.

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dance

montréal

SWING DANCING: Quick-footed participants experiment with different forms, including the Lindy Hop, Charleston and balboa. Beginners are welcome.

Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:309:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

PLATTSBURGH CONVERSATION GROUP: French speakers maintain their conversational skills in a weekly meet-up. Plattsburgh Public Library, N.Y., 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, ajobin-picard@ cefls.org.

‘THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN’’: See SUN.1, 8 p.m.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

ALTAN: Emerging in the 1990s as one of the Emerald Isle’s top traditional musical groups, the ensemble serves up everything from touching old Irish songs to hard-hitting reels and jigs.

FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. $37.50. Info, 863-5966.

MAD RIVER CHORALE REHEARSAL: The community chorus welcomes newcomers in preparation for its spring concerts. Chorus Room, Harwood Union High School, South Duxbury, 7-9 p.m. $75 for the season. Info, 496-2048.

talks

STATE OF THE WORLD COMMUNITY DISCUSSIONS: Activist Sandy Baird leads an open forum reflecting on and analyzing current events in a nonjudgmental setting. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10 a.m.

Free. Info, 865-7211.

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POC IN VT AFFINITY GROUP: People of color come together in the name of sharing stories and building community in a predominately white state. New attendees are welcome. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 9.

community

Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

COMMUNITY DROP-IN CENTER HOURS: Wi-Fi, games and art materials are on hand at an open meeting space where folks forge social connections. GRACE, Hardwick, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 472-6857.

film

crafts

art

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.

music + comedy Find club dates at local venues in the music + nightlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music.

All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.

Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.

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CHAMPLAIN VALLEY QUILT GUILD MEETING: New and seasoned quilters gather to learn and share their skills and enthusiasm.

Holy Family Parish Hall, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $10; free for member guests; $35 for membership. Info, 272-5794.

COMMUNITY CRAFT NIGHT: Makers stitch, spin, knit and crochet their way through projects while enjoying each other’s company. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

BOLSHOI BALLET IN CINEMA: ‘SWAN LAKE’: Dancers interpret good versus evil in this broadcast production of Tchaikvosky’s masterpiece. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-18. Info, 748-2600.

etc.

CULTS & CULTURE: A brief presentation of the day’s topic paves the way for an open discussion of the harmful effects of misused power. Morristown Centennial Library, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, gerette@dreamhavenvt.com.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT’: Two drag queens and a transgender woman travel the Australian outback by tour bus in this 1994 comedy. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, 540-3018.

‘EARTH FLIGHT 3D’: See WED.26.

‘FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES 3D’: See WED.26.

‘SPACE JUNK 3D’: See WED.26.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.26.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.26, 7 p.m.

MAH JONGG: Fun, friendship and conversation flow as players manipulate tiles. Milton Public Library, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4644.

health & fitness

ASHLEY WARWICK: A lecture and workshop delivers calming breathing techniques. Arrive 15 minutes early with a blanket or cushion. Bole Community Room, Rita L. Bole Complex, Northern Vermont University-Lyndon, 5 p.m. Free. Info, ashley.warwick@ northernvermont.edu.

COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: See MON.2, Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

language

‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers and learners say it all in French at a social conversational practice.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Parla Italiano? Language learners practice pronunciation and more in an informal gathering. Hartland Public Library, 12:30-2:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 436-2473.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ITALIAN: Speakers hone their skills in the Romance language over a bag lunch. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Frenchlanguage fanatics meet pour parler la belle langue. ¡Duino!

(Duende), Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 430-4652.

montréal

‘THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN’’: See SUN.1, 8 p.m.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

DANIELLE NICOLE BAND: Bass guitar in tow, the Grammy Award nominee brings her big voice to a powerhouse blues concert. Monster Mike Welch opens. Strand Center Theatre, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30-10:30 p.m. $20-40. Info, 518-563-1604, ext.

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politics

TOWN MEETING DAY: Legal voters practice democracy by voicing their opinions on local matters.

Various locations statewide. Free.

Info, 828-2363.

sports

FREE AIKIDO CLASS: A one-time complimentary introduction to the Japanese martial art focuses on centering and finding freedom while under attack.

Open to prospective students.

Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6:15-7:15 p.m. Free.

Info, 951-8900.

talks

REIKI CLINIC: Thirty-minute treatments foster physical, emotional and spiritual wellness.

JourneyWorks, Burlington, 3-5:30 p.m. $10-30; preregister. Info, 860-6203.

MARGARET MACMILLAN: Deliver the annual Charles S. Grant Memorial Lecture, the author and historian looks at “The Long Shadow of the Great War and the Paris Peace Conference.”

Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5320.

TAI CHI FOR FALL PREVENTION: See THU.27.

theater

TUESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: Participants learn to relax and let go. Stillpoint Center, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 318-8605.

WARM GENTLE YOGA: See FRI.28.

‘CITRUS’: See WED.26.

‘FINDING NEVERLAND’: This stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning film tells the story of young playwright J.M. Barrie as he becomes the writer who would pen one of the enduring children’s stories of all time, Peter Pan. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25-75. Info, 863-5966.

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‘SEVEN’: Seven female playwrights from Pakistan, Nigeria, Ireland, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Russia and Cambodia offer stories of courage perseverance in this documentary play put on

by L.A. Theatre Works. Wright Memorial Theatre, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $6-22. Info, 443-3168.

words

BOOK GROUP: Akaeke Emezi’s Pet and Nic Stone’s Clean Getaway spark conversation.

Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 1:15 p.m. Free. Info, 985-3999.

BURLINGTON FREE WRITE: Aspiring writers respond to prompts in a welcoming atmosphere. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-1664.

STORYTELLING VT: Locals tell true tales before a live audience. Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, deenastories@gmail.com.

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KNITTER’S GROUP: See WED.26.

KNITTING CLUB: See WED.26.

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CHITTENDEN COUNTY STAMP CLUB MEETING: First-class collectibles provide a glimpse into the postal past at this monthly gathering. Williston Fire Station, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 660-4817.

DINNER & A MOVIE: A summertime-themed potluck dinner gives way to a viewing of Vermont Mountain Peaks & Valley Tales. Milton Historical Society, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4546.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘EARTH FLIGHT 3D’: See WED.26.

‘FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES 3D’: See WED.26.

‘OF INK AND BLOOD’: A novelist’s murder sets off a dramatic turn of events in this 2016 Frenchlanguage picture shown as part of the Québec Film Festival.

Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

‘THE PRADO MUSEUM: A COLLECTION OF WONDERS’: Shown as part of Great Art Wednesdays, a 2019 documentary takes viewers on a journey through one of the world’s most visited museums. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 11 a.m. $813. Info, 382-9222.

‘SPACE JUNK 3D’: See WED.26.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.26.

games

BEGINNERS’ BRIDGE: See WED.26.

BRIDGE: See WED.26.

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.26.

health & fitness ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.26.

CHAIR YOGA: See WED.26.

HEALING ART & WRITING: See WED.26.

RESILIENCE FLOW: See WED.26.

YOGA4CANCER: See WED.26.

language

BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: See WED.26.

GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.26.

SOUTH HERO FRENCH CONVERSATION: See WED.26.

montréal

‘THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN’’: See SUN.1, 8 p.m.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

OLD NORTH END NEIGHBORHOOD BAND TEEN MUSIC JAM: See WED.26.

politics

PROGRESSIVE PARTY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON MEETING: With candidates often in attendance, this monthly meeting is an opportunity for locals to address current issues. Denny’s, South Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 495-0733.

talks

BILL HART: “I Am a Man: Martin Freeman, Colonization and Identity” looks at the life and work of the second black graduate of Middlebury College and the first black president of an American college. Rutland Free Library, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

DAMIAN COSTELLO: A historical lecture explores the life and legacy of Lakota holy man Nicholas Black Elk. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3338.

‘HAITI: THE LONGEST REVOLUTION OF THE AMERICAS’: Ten years after the earthquake, where does hope lie? A Vermont Institute of Community and International Involvement winter conversation series discussion addresses this and other questions. Center of Recreation & Education, O.N.E. Community Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 355-3256.

JESSAMYN WEST: Sharing history, trivia and photos, the librarian reflects on her quest to visit Vermonts 183 public libraries. Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902.

Make Your Opinion Heard on March 3rd!

KATHERINE PATERSON: Listeners take note as the National Book Award-winning writer of Bridge to Terabithia speaks on the importance literacy. Norwich Congregational Church, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184.

MATTHEW EVAN TAYLOR: The Middlebury College professor examines the meaning behind music in “The Poetics of Protest in Nina Simone’s ‘Mississippi Goddam!’” Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

ROLF DIAMANT: The University of Vermont historian delivers “Central Park, the Civil War and the Creation of the National Parks.” St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 748-8291.

SARWAR KASHMERI: Lecturing as part of the Vermont Council on World Affairs Speaker Series, the international relations specialist presents “China’s Grand Strategy: Weaving a New Silk Road to Global Primacy.” The Gallery at Main Street Landing, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $15-30; free for students. Info, vinson@ vermont.org.

WHITNEY KIMBALL COE: The Rural Assembly director of national programs sheds light on rural communities as resources for solving global problems such as hunger and the climate crisis.

Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

tech

INTRODUCTION TO HTML5 & CSS3: See WED.26.

TECH SUPPORT: See WED.26.

theater

‘CITRUS’: See WED.26.

‘MARIE AND ROSETTA’: Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a critical influence on the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley and Ray Charles. This Vermont Stage production of George Brant’s play chronicles her first rehearsal with Marie Knight, with whom she would form one of the most revered musical duos in American history.

Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $29.70-33.

Info, 862-1497.

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art MIXED-MEDIA ART JOURNALING: We are all familiar with written diaries, but visual art journals go a step further by using images to tell a story. Visual art journals are made up of drawings, paintings, collaged images, old photographs and all manner of mementos.

Come create your own beautiful, one-of-a-kind art journal. All materials provided. Tue., starts Mar. 10, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $85/4-week class. Location: Champlain Valley Union High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 482-7194, access@cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt.ce.eleyo.com.

BCA Studios

Burlington City Arts winter/spring class registration is now open!

Find these classes and many more at burlingtoncityarts.org.

GRAPHIC NOVEL: Ages 18 and up. Instructor: Rachel Lindsay.

Learn the art of visual storytelling through this immersive class in the comics discipline. Students will learn a broad range of techniques for communicating with both words and pictures, with an emphasis on using pen and ink. The class will also review the work of a variety of cartoonists as inspiration for student work.

Some basic drawing experience is encouraged; students should be comfortable with and enjoy doodling. BCA will provide all basic materials. Register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Thu., Mar. 26-Apr. 30, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $225/person; $202.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Melissa Steady, 865-7166, msteady@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

DARKROOM CRASH COURSE: Ages 18 and up. Instructor: Rebecca Babbitt. Explore the traditional, analog, black-and-white darkroom!

Learn how to properly expose black-and-white film, process film into negatives, and make silver gelatin prints. Students will leave with the skills and confidence to join the darkroom as a member. All 35mm film, paper and darkroom supplies included. Bring your manual 35mm or medium-format film camera and an exposed roll

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of black-and-white film to the first class. Register at burlington cityarts.org. Mon., Mar. 23-Apr. 13, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $180/person; $162/ BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: Melissa Steady, 865-7166, msteady@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

DIGITAL PRINTING CRASH COURSE: Ages 18 and up.

Instructor: Mark LaRosa.

Prerequisite: proficiency editing digital photographs in Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom. Are you comfortable with organizing, editing and sizing your digital photographs in Photoshop or Lightroom but have never printed your work? Curious about testing paper surfaces or printing large?

This intensive workshop goes through the basics of printing to the large-format, archival inkjet Epson printers at the BCA Photo Labs. Bring a selection of digital files on a Mac-compatible external flash or hard drive to the first class.

Register at burlingtoncityarts. org. Thu., Mar. 12, 19, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $60/person; $54/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Melissa Steady, 865-7166, msteady@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

DRAWING, OPTION 2: Ages 18 and up. Instructor: Janet Armentano.

Learn a variety of drawing techniques including basic perspective, compositional layout, and use of dramatic light and shadow.

Students will work mostly from observation and will be encouraged to work with a variety of media, including pencil, pen and ink, ink wash, and charcoal in this small, group setting. All levels of experience, including beginners, are welcome. Price includes all basic drawing materials, as well as open studio access during the weeks of your class. Register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Tue., Mar. 10-Apr. 21, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Cost: $255/person; $229.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Melissa Steady, 865-7166, msteady@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

FAMILY CLAY, OPTIONS 5, 6 & 7: All ages. Instructors: Kate McKernan, Kim DeMaria and Sheilagh Smith. Spend a Friday night with your family! Ticket provides a wheel demonstration at the beginning of class, wheel access (ages 6+), hand building, unlimited clay, and time to create.

Youth must be accompanied by an adult. Adults may assist their child(ren) free of charge.

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adults to join the fun and either hand build or use a wheel on their own. $5 fee per piece for your work to be fired and glazed by the studio. Finished pottery available for pick-up three weeks after visit. Tickets are nonrefundable.

Register at burlingtoncityarts.org.

Fri., Mar. 6, 13, 20, 5-6:30 p.m. Cost: $10/person; $9/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Melissa Steady, 865-7166, msteady@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

FAMILY PRINTMAKING: Ages 6 and up. Instructor: Kate McKernan. Spend a morning with teaching artist Kate McKernan in BCA’s print studio. Using our printing plates, inks and press, your family will create beautiful works of art. All supplies are provided; no experience needed. Youth must be accompanied by an adult. Adults may assist their child(ren) free of charge. Additional tickets are required for adults who’d like to join the fun and print on their own.

Register at burlingtoncityarts.org.

Sun., Mar. 22, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $10/person; $9/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Melissa Steady, 865-7166, msteady@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

LIFE DRAWING, OPTIONS 4, 5, 6, & 7: Ages 18 & older. Instructor: Misoo Bang. *Purchase a drop-in card and get the sixth visit for free! Spend the evening with other local artists drawing from one of our experienced models. Please bring your drawing materials and paper. Purchase a ticket to hold your spot; drop-ins are welcome if space is available. Register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Fri., 7-9 p.m., Feb., 28, Mar. 13 & 20. Cost: $10/person; $9/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Melissa Steady, 865-7166, msteady@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

LINOCUT: Ages 18 and up.

Instructor: Ashley Stagner.

Students create small designs with the relief technique of linoleum block printing. We will print these one-color blocks by hand or with the printing press, and then add color by experimenting with watercolor paints. A fun opportunity to make cards and other art to share, since we will have the chance to print multiples once you make your block. Please bring ideas or sketches (8” x 10” or smaller) to the first class so we can get started right away! All other materials will be provided.

Register at burlingtoncityarts. org. Tue., Mar. 24-Apr. 14, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $150/person; $135/ BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: Melissa Steady, 865-7166, msteady@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR ARTWORK, OPTION 5: Ages 18 and up. Instructor: Mark La Rosa. In this 90-minute, assisted photography session, work oneon-one with a BCA professional to photograph your 2D or 3D artwork in the BCA Lighting Studio. Staff handles lighting and camera work and applies color correction, density and contrast adjustments. Bring up to 10 unframed pieces no larger than 40” x 60’’ or 10 objects no larger than 24” x 24’’. BCA provides a digital camera during the session and a flash drive for taking home. Register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Wed., Mar. 18, 10:30 a.m.-noon or 1:30-3 p.m. Cost: $120/person; $108/ BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: Melissa Steady, 865-7166, msteady@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

PHOTOGRAPHY & SCREENPRINTING WORKSHOP: Ages 18 and up. Instructor: Renee Greenlee and Kate McKernan.

Transform your digital photographs into screen-printed artwork in this immersive full-day workshop. Using the digital lab, students learn how to edit image files for screen-printing and print digital transparencies of their edited photographs. Using the printmaking studio, students transform their images into prints on both paper and T-shirts, posters, bags and more. Bring a selection of digital images on a Mac-compatible flash or hard drive to the workshop. Register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Sat., Mar. 21, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $90/person; $81/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Melissa Steady, 865-7166, msteady@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

SCREEN PRINTING, OPTIONS 2 & 3: Ages 18 and up. Instructor: Kara Ware. This introduction to screen printing will show you how to design and print T-shirts, posters, fine art and more. Discover a variety of techniques for transferring and printing images using hand-drawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. Students will learn how to apply photo emulsion, how to use an exposure unit and how to print on a variety of surfaces. Class price includes the use of studio equipment, emulsion, transparencies and ink, as well as open studio access during the weeks of your class.

Students can bring their screens or rent one through the studio.

No experience necessary. Register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Thu., Mar. 19-May 7, 6:30-9 p.m.; or Tue., Mar. 24-May 12, 9:30 a.m.noon. Cost: $340/person; $306/ BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: Melissa Steady, 865-7166, msteady@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

STUDENT-CENTERED ART PROJECTS: Ages 18 and up.

Instructor: Carolyn Crotty. Learn strategies and lesson plans for how to integrate art projects that incorporate student well-being and support social emotional growth. Participants are guided in experiential activities that foster awareness and understanding of wellness in their own lives, as well as activities that can be adapted to support their students’ development of wellness habits across domains, including social, emotional and physical. Register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Fri., Mar. 6, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Melissa Steady, 865-7166, msteady@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

WATERCOLOR: Ages 18 and up.

Instructor: Carolyn Crotty. Learn how to paint with watercolor. This class will focus on observational painting from still life, landscape and photos. Students will paint on watercolor paper and will gain experience with composition, color theory, layering, light and shade.

The class may move outdoors to paint en plein air on nice days!

No experience necessary. Price includes all basic materials.

Register: burlingtoncityarts.org.

Wed., Mar. 25-Apr. 29, 6-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $225/person; $202.50/ BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: Melissa Steady, 865-7166, msteady@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

business SEON PRESENTS TRAINING FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDERS AND ARCHITECTS: The Sustainable Energy Outreach Network (SEON) will offer its highly acclaimed training program “Basics of High-Performance Building” on Thursday, March 12 and 19. Nationally renowned trainer Peter Yost will be the instructor. See details online.

Thu., Mar. 12 & 19, 3:30-7:30 p.m.

Cost: $237.50/person. Location: Center for Technology Essex, 2 Educational Dr., Essex Junction.

Info: Sustainable Energy Outreach Network (SEON), Guy Payne, 376-9262, admin@seon.info. eventbrite.com/e/basics-ofhigh-performance-buildingtickets-87830129281.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes: nightclub-style, group and private, four levels. Beginner walkin classes, Tue., 7 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout..

Location: 32 Malletts Bay Ave.,

Winooski. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

design/build UX DESIGN BOOTCAMP: In this 12-week, full-time course, you will learn both user experience (UX) design and user interface (UI) design. You will quickly advance through topics of increasing complexity, applying creative problem-solving skills to design based on research. You will leave this course career ready, knowing every step of the design process.

Jun. 8-Aug. 28, Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Location: Burlington Code Academy, 182 Main Street, Suite 305, Burlington. Info: Sadie Goldfarb, 978-380-2440, sgoldfarb@ burlingtoncodeacademy.com. burlingtoncodeacademy.com.

drumming DJEMBE & TAIKO: JOIN US!: New sessions Mar. 23, May 18, Jul. 6, Sep. 7, Oct. 26 & Jan. 18! Classes for adults, kids & parents. Parade & conga classes. Taiko for adults, Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m., and Wed., 6:30-7:50 p.m. Djembe for Adults, Wed., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Kids and Parents World Drumming, Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Kids and Parents Taiko, Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Drums provided. Montpelier-Barre classes coming soon! Schedule/ register online. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255. burlingtontaiko.org.

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BROADWAY KIDS: Ages 6-8.

Instructor: Annalisa Ledson. Our shining stars learn kid-friendly showstoppers, gaining confidence and onstage skills. We even discover some cool behind-the-scenes secrets when we tour the backstage areas of the Flynn MainStage theater. A special Broadway-style performance for family and friends ends the week. Mon.-Fri., Feb. 2428, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $350/ person. Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org.flynncenter.org.

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gardening CRAZY COLOR GARDEN: Presenter: Ellen Ecker Ogden. This lecture may change the way you look at your edible garden, with an eye toward deep color and bitter flavors that most closely resemble their wild origins. Sat., Feb. 29, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $15. Location: Gardener’s SupplyBurlington, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: Meredith White, 660-3505, meredithw@gardeners.com, gardeners.com/store.

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Location: Gardener’s SupplyBurlington, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: Meredith White, 660-3505, meredithw@ gardeners.com, gardeners.com/ store.

LOW-MAINTENANCE GARDENS: Learn how to have a lush and attractive landscape that requires a minimal amount of input in terms of regular care. Register at gardeners.com/store. Presenter: Becca Lindenmeyr. Sat., Mar. 7, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $15. Location: Gardener’s Supply-Burlington, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington.

Info: Meredith White, 660-3505, meredithw@gardeners.com, gardeners.com/store.

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NEW HEIRLOOM GARDENS: Presenter: Ellen Ecker Ogden. Take a journey to the past and rediscover exceptional heirloom varieties.

Register at: gardeners.com/store.

Sat., Feb. 29, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $15. Location: Gardener’s SupplyBurlington, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: Meredith White, 660-3505, meredithw@gardeners. com, gardeners.com/store.

healing arts AYURVEDA POSTPARTUM DOULA TRAINING: Serve the women and families in your community during a time of huge transition and growth. During this training, you will learn about pregnancy, birth and postpartum through the lens and language of Ayurveda, while receiving training in traditional postpartum care practices balanced with practical understanding for modern women. Mon.-Fri., Apr. 6-10, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Cost: $995/5-day training. Location: The Ayurvedic Center of Vermont, 34 Oak Hill Rd., Williston. Info: Allison Morse , 872-8898, info@ ayurvedavermont.com, ayurvedavermont.com.

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FLOWER ESSENCES FOR THE PEOPLE: Have you ever heard of a flower essence? It is the magical infusing of a plant (and sometimes other natural elements) into water to seek guidance and healing through spirit. Join us to learn how to make one yourself and how to use the essence for divination, healing and justice.

Tue., Mar. 3, 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $11/1.5-hour class; sliding scale.

Location: Railyard Apothecary, 270 Battery St., Burlington. Info: Emma Merritt, 540-0595, emma@ railyardapothecary.com, railyardapothecary.com.

ALLIANCE FRANCAISE: SPRING SESSION: Eleven-week session and also shorter French courses starting on March 9. Morning, afternoon and evening classes offered in Burlington and also a conversation course in Montpelier, as well as a six-week session in Stowe. Some classes focus on core foundation of the French language, but we also offer classes that focus on culture.

We serve the entire range of students from the true beginners to those already comfortable conversing in French. For questions, please contact Micheline at education@ aflcr.org, or go to aflcr.org to see the entire session’s offerings.. Location: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, Burlington.

Info: Micheline Tremblay, 881-8826, education@aflcr.org.aflcr.org.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Brazilian jiujitsu is a martial arts combat style based entirely on leverage and technique. Brazilian jiujitsu self-defense curriculum is taught to Navy SEALs, CIA, FBI, military police and special forces.

No training experience required.

Easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life! Classes for men, women and children.

Students will learn realistic bully-proofing and self-defense life skills to avoid becoming victims and help them feel safe and secure. Our sole purpose is to help empower people by giving them realistic martial arts training practices they can carry with them throughout life. IBJJF and CBJJ certified black belt sixthdegree instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr.: teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A five-time Brazilian National Champion; International World Masters Champion and IBJJF World Masters Champion.

Accept no Iimitations!. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 598-2839, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

HERBS FOR STRESS REDUCTION: Life can feel hectic, making it difficult to relax after a busy day. Imagine being able to fall asleep easily, wake rejuvenated and move through your day with a clear and serene mind.

In this class, you will learn herbal strategies and simple recipes for calming, centering and grounding. Wed., Mar. 4, 6-7 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hour class.

Location: Railyard Apothecary, 270 Battery St., Burlington.

Info: Emma Merritt, 540-0595, emma@railyardapothecary.com, railyardapothecary.com.

ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES: Join us for adult Spanish classes this spring. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring.

You’ll always be participating and speaking. Lesson packages for travelers, lessons for young children; they love it! Our 14th year. See our website or contact us for details.

Beginning week of March 23. Cost: $270/10 weekly 90-minute classes.

Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail. com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

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ASIAN BODYWORK THERAPY PROGRAM: This program teaches two forms of massage: amma and shiatsu. We will explore oriental medicine theory and diagnosis, as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, and yin-yang and five-element theory.

Additionally, Western anatomy and physiology are taught. VSAC nondegree grants are available.

FSMTB-approved program. Starts Sep. 2020. Cost: $6,000/625hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, Suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: Scott Moylan, 288-8160, scott@ elementsofhealing.net, elementsofhealing.net.

CREATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS: An in-depth examination of Carl Jung’s image of God and his understanding of our role as carriers of the numinosum and cocreators of reality, via the seminal work of Jung’s student, Edward Edinger.

Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author. Registration required; for info or to register, call Sue 2447909. Mar. 11,18, 25 & Apr. 1 (snow day Apr. 8), 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/.

Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue Mehrtens, 244-7909, info@jungiancenter. org, jungiancenter.org.

meditation

NEW BEGINNER TAI CHI CLASS IN WINOOSKI: We practice Cheng Man-ching’s “simplified” 37-posture Yang-style form. The course will be taught by Patrick Cavanaugh, longtime student and assistant to Wolfe Lowenthal, student of Cheng Man-ching and founder of Long River Tai Chi Circle. Patrick is a senior instructor at LRTCC in Vermont and New Hampshire. Starts Mar. 10, 6-7 p.m., open registration until Mar. 31. Cost: $65/month.

Location: North End Studios Winooski, O’Brien Community Center, 32 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski. Info: Long River Tai Chi

LEARN TO MEDITATE: Taught by qualified meditation instructors at the Burlington Shambhala Meditation Center: Wed., 6-7 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Free and open to anyone. Free public meditation: weeknights, 6-7 p.m.; Tue. and Thu., noon-1 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Classes and retreats also offered. See our website at burlington.shambhala.org..

Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795.

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Circle, Patrick Cavanaugh, 4906405, patrick@longrivertaichi.org, longrivertaichi.org.

SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings.

Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 3636890, snake-style.com.

well-being SELF CARE WOMEN’S RETREAT: Discover the most nourishing, rejuvenating and rewarding selfcare routines for vitality through the daily practice of self-massage, healing meal practices and mental health rituals. Our retreat day is dedicated to you and how we can heal through self-care and in community connection. Turn inward, rest, reflect and make new friends on the journey to wholeness.

Detox Kitchari cooking lesson and lunch provided. Mar. 1. Cost: $150/ person; incl. lunch. Location: The Ayurvedic Center of Vermont , 34 Oak Hill Rd., Williston. Info: Allison Morse, 872-8898, info@ ayurvedavermont.com, ayurvedavermont.com.

women

yoga

HORMONE REPAIR: FIND RELIEF: Hormone repair: a road map to relief. This hands-on workshop will give you the tools to naturally balance your hormones. We will explore different options for hormone testing and the root causes of hormone imbalance.

Sat., Mar. 7, 10-11:45 a.m. Cost: $30/2-hour class. Location: Railyard Apothecary, 270 Battery St., Burlington. Info: 540-0595, emma@railyardapothecary.com, railyardapothecary.com.

200-HOUR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING: The UVM Campus Rec 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training is all new for 2020-21! Learn all about the enhancements we’ve made and get all of your questions answered at our upcoming info sessions. Early registration open Feb. 14-Mar. 20. Don’t miss out on the discounted rate! go.uvm.edu/yoga. Location: UVM Campus Rec Studio, 97 Spear St., Burlington. Info: John McConnell, 488-0124, mindbodyfitness@ uvm.edu, uvmcampusrec.com/ sports/2017/7/5/yoga-school. aspx.

writing THE VISUAL/VERBAL JOURNAL: Welcome spring by freshening up your journal-keeping possibilities. Make a new or modify an old journal (bring it with you) and become a better “noticer.” We’ll take our journals out to explore on the Saturday class. Materials provided, but feel free to bring easily portable media. Led by Ann Turkle, MFA, Ph.D. Registration required; to register call Sue 2447909. Mar. 16, 23, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $30/. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue Mehrtens, 244-7909, info@jungiancenter.org, jungiancenter.org.

EVOLUTION YOGA: Practice yoga in a down-to-earth atmosphere with some of the most experienced teachers and therapeutic professionals in Burlington.

All are welcome. Try our Yoga for Healthy Back Series, Tue., Mar. 3-Apr. 7; or Kaiut Yoga for Biomechanical Health Series, Thu., Mar. 5-Apr. 9. This is your invitation to enjoy learning the basics and start exploring the benefits of a yoga practice. Daily drop-in classes including $10 community classes. Yoga Wall and Yoga Therapeutics classes led by physical therapists. Dive deeper into your practice!. $10-15/ class; $140/10-class card; $10/ community class. New students $100/10-class card. New! Student

Monthly Unlimited just $55/ mo. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 8649642, evolutionvt.com.

LAUGHING RIVER YOGA: Located in a beautiful setting overlooking the Winooski River. We offer inspirational classes, workshops and trainings taught by experienced teachers from a place of wisdom and love. Class types include Vinyasa, Katonah, Kripalu, Jivamukti, Yin, Restorative and Gentle. All bodies and abilities welcome. Explore our Prenatal Yoga training March 28-29. Daily classes, workshops, 200- and 300-hour yoga teacher training.

Cost: $49/first month of unlimited classes; workshop & training prices vary. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, Suite 126, Burlington. Info: 343-8119, laughingriveryoga.com.

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Night Writer Couchsleepers’ Harrison Hsiang’s nocturnal transmissions

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arrison Hsiang works best at night. Or at least he did when he was first writing songs in college. “Only the really late hours of the night were productive for me,” he says. Those nighttime fits of creativity always ended with Hsiang passed out on the couch, he recalls, fully clothed. Hence the name of his new indie-rock project, Couchsleepers.

Tall, biracial and brilliant, Hsiang is one of the most fascinating bandleaders in the Burlington scene. Currently a PhD student at the University of Vermont, the New Jersey-born 25-year-old is equally drawn to neuroscience and music, the subjects he double-majored in at Middlebury College.

While synapses and neurotransmitters may consume his professional life, music dominates his personal time.

“They’re both searches for truth,” Hsiang says of his dichotomous interests.

“One is objective, and one is subjective.”

Couchsleepers are set to release their debut album, the appropriately titled Only When It’s Dark, this Friday, February 28.

The record, which was written, produced and largely mixed and recorded by Hsiang, is full of sensual, nocturnal transmissions. Hsiang’s tunes largely ruminate on

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romantic relationships — or perhaps one name.” (Though not a literal reference to romantic relationship in particular. But Roald Dahl’s classic 1961 children’s novel, Hsiang defines his experience in relatable James and the Giant Peach, the moniker ways. Anyone who’s spent a night staring clearly infringed.) up at the ceiling with questions rattling “I think professionalism is the definaround their head about the warm body ing difference,” says former Giant Peach breathing softly next to them should find member Mike Nunziante by phone of the meaning in his music. two bands. Now based in Stamford, Conn., Before Couchsleepers emerged from the musician plays slide guitar throughthe ether, Hsiang fronted another band out Only When It’s Dark and is part of with a similar, albeit somewhat lighter Couchsleepers’ live lineup. “Couchsleepsound, called the Giant ers has a very focused Peach. He formed it sense of direction,” while he was still a he continues. “It’s student at Middlebury. heavier … in terms of (He also sang with and the emotional depth arranged tunes for two of the album.” a cappella groups at Hsiang also occathe school, Stuck in sionally plays keys H AR R IS O N H S IANG the Middle and You with the formerly Know Me Well.) The local, now-New York band put out its one and only record, Pull- City-based group Fever Dolls. That band’s ing Teeth, in 2018, about a year after he front person, fellow Midd grad Evan Allis, was accepted into the doctorate program encouraged the strikingly handsome Hsiang at UVM. to literally put his face on Couchsleepers, Hsiang is glad to have moved on from since Allis saw it more as a solo project than his first band. a true band. Hsiang appears in all of the “I could see that we were direction- album’s promotional art. less,” he admits. “The songs felt immature “He cares more about music than to me. [And] we ran into problems with the anybody I’ve ever met,” Allis says of

IT’S ABOUT CHASING

SOMETHING THAT’S OUT OF YOUR GRASP.

Hsiang by phone. “Each line is incredibly autobiographical. His music has so much meaning and importance to him, and I think that comes across a lot more than it does with other people.”

The album’s closing track, “Sleepless,” was the first tune Hsiang penned for the record.

“It felt like the first sentence I ever made,” he recalls.

Released as the album’s fourth and final single, the wispy, slow-burning closer encapsulates the entire collection of songs, at least in terms of production: spacious atmospherics with heavy reverb, a doublehelix of piano and guitar, emotionally heavy crescendos, and Hsiang’s intimate, spine-tingling vocals. His voice control is athletic, switching from delicate whispers to bright bursts of vocal splendor.

As Hsiang began writing the material that would become Only When It’s Dark, he realized he was constructing a narrative.

“I’d written a lot of songs, but this was my first lens into what it meant to be a real songwriter,” he says.

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A New Memorial Auditorium?

Burlington’s Community and Economic Development Office recently released a memo stating that it had received a qualified bid from South Burlington nightclub Higher Ground to lease the entire Memorial Auditorium building. The memo, which was first reported by VTDigger. org, further noted that Higher Ground proposed to operate the site as a “multi-purpose events space that focuses on community gatherings that range from music to culinary events to civic debates and town meetings.”

In other words, it won’t be a nightclub.

In an official statement emailed to Seven Days, Higher Ground owners ALEX CROTHERS and ALAN NEWMAN explained that CEDO and the City of Burlington “are currently undergoing an evaluation process to determine if that proposal will get advanced to the next stage of consideration.”

In 2016, all tenants of Memorial Auditorium, including long-standing DIY rock club and teen center 242 Main, were evicted due to significant structural hazards. The entire building was deemed uninhabitable.

In October, CEDO issued a request for proposals seeking a third party to operate Memorial Auditorium as part of the city’s plans to renovate the building. The Higher Ground proposal was the only qualified bid, according to the CEDO memo.

Crothers and Newman stressed that the proposed Memorial Auditorium project “isn’t Higher Ground, or a replacement for it.” Instead, they continued, under the proposal the two would “operate the building as Memorial Auditorium for the purposes of public assembly through a wide variety of uses, including commercial, civic, and nonprofit.”

That would seem to rebut any implication that the project is related to Crothers and Newman’s reported explorations into moving the Higher Ground nightclub from its current Williston Road location. In 2019, the Burlington City Council voted to rezone an area of the city’s South End that would allow Burton Snowboards to expand its campus to include a new entertainment facility, including the revamped Talent Skatepark, which opened earlier this year, and a music venue. At the time, Higher Ground was anticipated to be the new facility’s anchor tenant.

Compilation Nation As the Democratic primaries heat up, so do candidates’ tactics for fundraising and drawing in potential voters. Recently, a new music compilation in support of Sen. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) appeared on Bandcamp featuring a couple of noteworthy Vermont outfits. Released by New Jersey DIY tape label Baklava, the anthology, simply titled Bernie Sanders 2020 Comp, includes new music from University of Vermont slowcore group

FATHER FIGUER and Burlington oddball

singer-songwriter JOEY AGRESTA. “We were inspired by this Bernie Sanders compilation that [Philadelphia indie-rock group] STRANGE RANGER put out,” Baklava cofounder and UVM fourth-year student DYLAN HERTZBERG said in a recent phone call. He referred to Bernie Speaks With the Community, which Pitchfork recently featured. It includes music from indie darlings JUSTUS PROFFIT & JAY SOM and alt-R&B singer-songwriter SHAMIR, to name a few.

Father Figuer’s contribution is an icy, lumbering shoegaze tune called “Clothes,” while Agresta’s “Don’t Be a Dick Head” recalls the bleak, gothleaning pop of STEPHIN MERRITT’s FUTURE BIBLE HEROES. Avid indie-music fans and followers of the local DIY scene might recognize some of the other bands included, such as Boston’s HORSE JUMPER OF LOVE and JOYER, both of whom performed in Burlington in 2019.

Agresta and Father Figuer’s tracks will appear on official releases from the respective artists, both of which will most likely see the light of day in 2020.

Obviously, all proceeds from Bernie Sanders Comp 2020 support the senator’s bid for the presidency.

Should Sanders secure the Democratic nomination, Hertzberg speculated that another comp is possible.

“I don’t know what it will look like, but we’ll see,” he said.

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The Travelin’ McCourys

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Kamasi Washington

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Michal Menert

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Summer Salt

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Circles Around The Sun

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Rockin’ for a Reason

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First Friday: Hoedown Throwdown

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104.7 The Point welcomes

Lady Moon & The Eclipse

Malachi

Okey Dokey, Breakup Shoes

Frank LoCrasto

Ft. A House on Fire

Caroline Rose Good Baby

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Saving Vice

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The Music of Phish for Kids

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The Lil Smokies

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Ghostfame, Kingpin, The Path, No Soul

Quaker City Night Hawks The Mister Chris & Friends Band Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams Karina Rykman Start Making Sense: Talking Heads Tribute

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open mics & jams

Bitter Bones, Desmo., Modest, Call Shotgun (pop-punk) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10/12.

Christine Malcolm (folk) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8 p.m. Free.

WED.26

Irish Sessions at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

The Floozies, SunSquabi, Late Night Radio (electronic) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $22/25/28.

Open Mic with Andy Lugo at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Francesca Blanchard, Guthrie Galileo (indie pop) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $5.

Open Mic with Austtin at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Mike Martin and Geoff Kim (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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Gaelic Sessions at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m.

Free.

The Mosaic Band (funk, jam) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5/8.

18+.

Open Mic Night at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

Open Mic Night at Stone Corral, Richmond, 8 p.m. Free.

The Ray Vega Quartet (jazz) at Juniper, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

Open Mic with Alex Budney at Localfolk Smokehouse, Waitsfield, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Staygold + the Ponyboys (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m.

Free.

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American Roots Night (folk) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free.

Bill Frisell (jazz) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $55.

Blackwolf (blues, Americana) at Edson Hill Dining Room & Tavern, Stowe, 6:30 p.m. Free.

The Chicago Boston Connection (rock) at Babes Bar, Bethel, 6 p.m.

Free.

Cookie’s Hot Club, Jim Thompson (jazz) at Rabble-Rouser Chocolate & Craft Co., Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free.

Detective Logan, Barbacoa, Pons (dance-punk) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8:30 p.m. $3/8. 18+.

Django Soulo (singer-songwriter) at Tap 25, Stowe, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Duncan MacLeod Blues Band at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free.

First Taste: Kris the $pirit, David Chief (hip-hop) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free/$1/$3.

18+.

Harsh Armadillo (funk) at Pickle Barrel Nightclub, Killington, 8 p.m. $10.60.

Kamasi Washington, Lady Moon & the Eclipse (jazz) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $30/33.

Lara Cwass Band (rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Light Club Jazz Sessions and Showcase at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 10:30 p.m. Free.

Nate Goyette (indie rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

The Travelin’ McCourys (bluegrass) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $28/30.

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Aren’t They Lovely?

WEST END BLEND have risen from a group of friends playing basement shows in

Hartford, Conn., to a powerhouse act that performs at noteworthy nightclubs all over the Northeast. Fronted by indelible vocalist Erica T. Bryan, the ensemble’s soulful, funk-centric sound ignites the fiercest of dance parties. This week, the band pays tribute to one of the godfathers of pop soul, Stevie Wonder. The living legend’s influence is clearly heard in the octet’s original tunes, so it’s no surprise the band is fully capable of reimagining the “Superstition” singer’s material, too. West End Blend perform on Saturday, February 29, at Nectar’s in Burlington.

FRI.28

B-Town (covers) at the Old Post, South Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

The Balladeer and the Bluesman (folk, blues) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 8 p.m. Free.

Bobby Chevalier (sing-along) at the Clothier, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free.

Brothers & Sister: A Vermont Tribute to the Allman Brothers Band featuring the Tenderbellies wtih Ryan Clausen, Mike Fried and Lara Cwass, Red Hot Juba at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

Chad Hollister Band (rock) at Tres Amigos & Rusty Nail Stage, Stowe, 9 p.m. $8/12.

Citizen Pine (rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

Collin Cope and Chris (folk) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 6 p.m. Free.

Danny of the Parts (country) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

The Dirty Looks Band (covers) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9:30 p.m. $5.

Django Soulo (singer-songwriter) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 9 p.m.

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Eric King (singer-songwriter) at the Tap Room at Switchback Brewing Co., Burlington, 6 p.m.

Free.

Michal Menert, Malachi (jazz, hiphop) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $12/15.

Fiddle Witch (Americana) at Babes Bar, Bethel, 7 p.m. Free.

Never in Vegas (covers) at Pickle Barrel Nightclub, Killington, 8 p.m. $10-20.

Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free.

George Murtie (singer-songwriter) at El Toro, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Free.

Hamjob (funk, blues) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand at Sweet Melissa’s, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Inflatable Alien (jazz) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Jacob Green (singer-songwriter) at Gusto’s, Barre, 5 p.m. Free.

John Smyth and Ivan Goldstein (singer-songwriter) at Spanked Puppy Pub, Colchester, 6:30 p.m.

Free.

Josh Knowles (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Martin Fogel (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Seafood, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Northeast Traffic (funk) at CharlieO’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Paul Asbell (jazz) at the Old Foundry at One Federal Restaurant & Lounge, St. Albans, 6:30 p.m.

Free.

Rebel Alliance (reggae, rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

Roan Yellowthorn, the Mountain Carol (indie pop) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5.

Robin Gottfried Band (rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Rough Francis, Blowtorch, Gone Wrong (punk) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $12.

Sam Lisbeth’s Foreign Movies (groove) at Hostel Tevere, Warren, 9 p.m. Free.

Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Seth Yacovone Band (blues, rock) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Shane Murley Band (folk-rock) at the Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

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Allen Church Project (Celtic, bluegrass) at El Toro, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Free.

Band X (rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

Barry Bender (singer-songwriter) at Bagitos Bagel and Burrito Café, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free.

Big Eyed Phish (Dave Matthews tribute) at Tres Amigos & Rusty Nail Stage, Stowe, 9 p.m. $10/15.

Chris Lyon (Americana) at Twiggs — An American Gastropub, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Danny & the Parts, Happy Spangler (country) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

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The Big Pick (open bluegrass jam) at Hatch 31, Bristol, 8 p.m. Free.

Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue at Red Square, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free.

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Irish Session at Bagitos Bagel and Burrito Café, Montpelier, 2 p.m.

Donation.

MON.2

Family Night (open jam) at SideBar, Burlington, 9 p.m.

Free.

Open Mic at SideBar, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Open Mic at Gusto’s, Barre, 8 p.m. Free.

Open Mic (singersongwriter) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Open Mic Night with Kyle Stevens at the Double E Lounge at Essex Experience, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic with Chris Parker at Twiggs — An American Gastropub, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

WED.4

Irish Sessions at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

John Lackard Blues Jam at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 6 p.m.

Free.

Open Mic with Andy Lugo at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic with Austtin at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

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hosting a really nice networking event last Thursday. The group scoured Vermont’s local press, broadcasters, arts organizations and other like-minded companies for working professionals to speak to students interested in pursuing careers in those fields. Be on the lookout for future events, UVMers.

If you didn’t attend last week, I highly recommend checking them out.

I spoke with a number of students, all of whom pretty much asked the same question: How did you get to where you are now?

It’s not the first time local college and high school students have come a-knockin’, looking for advice on how to jump into a career in media. And like I tell anyone who asks me that, my personal experience isn’t likely to bear any resemblance to yours. But, over the last couple of days since the event, I’ve been thinking about “how I got to where I am now” a lot more than I usually do. And the one thing I don’t think I’ve stressed enough to eager beavers looking for a way in is this: Do what you love.

I know, I know. That’s a stupid, cheesy platitude that’s as overused as “don’t sweat the small stuff ” and “the squeaky wheel gets the grease.” But hear me out.

What I mean is, you should consider as experience the things that you’re already doing for fun that bear some relation to the field you want to enter.

In my twenties, while living in San Francisco, I saw countless concerts and also cohosted an indie-music radio program, which often allowed me to interview local and regional bands and artists. At the time, I thought I was just doing all of that for fun. But I later realized that all of that fun at least partially prepared me for the job I have now.

So, I advise any young job seekers out there to look back at the fun things they’ve done in a new light. You never know how it might help you in the future.

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Speaking of compilations featuring local artists recently released on Bandcamp, the latest installment of Live From Robot Dog With Tim Lewis, Vol. 3 hit the web on February 12. Like its predecessors, it was culled from Vermont music super-fan TIM LEWIS’ WBKM internet radio program of the same name, which broadcasts from RYAN COHEN’s Robot Dog Studio in Williston.

The 52-track collection (yup, you read the right) includes live in-studio takes from MATTHEW MERCURY, CRICKET BLUE, BLOWTORCH, SAD TURTLE and scads of other local notables. Lewis previously released compilations, which include music performances and interviews with the artists, in 2018 and 2019.

Local punk-rock heroes ROUGH FRANCIS return to ArtsRiot on Friday, February 28. The band has been somewhat dormant lately, notwithstanding their New Year’s Eve 2020 set at Burlington’s Radio Bean. But, according to front person BOBBY HACKNEY JR., a new Rough Francis album is on the way in 2020.

No official release date has been set, but Hackney confirmed via email that the band is looking at next fall to drop the upcoming project. He also mentioned that Rough Francis will perform new music at this week’s show.

In 2018, the group released MSP3: Counter Attack, a long-gestating followup to its 2013 debut, Maximum Soul Power.

Burlington dance-punks ROOST just dropped a “mini EP” hilariously titled Pair Off & Die. Recorded at Leilani Sound, the two-track release features a pair of songs simply called “#1” and “#2.” The first plunges into dark housemusic territory, with singer-songwriter ZACK SCHUSTER’s trademark brooding vocals spilling out over acidic beats like Grade A maple syrup. It concludes with “#2,” a mid-tempo chill-zone song with subtle surf-rock vibes. Stream it on Bandcamp.

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WED.26

Danville Dan, Roland & Fran (Americana) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 9 p.m. Free.

DJ KermiTT (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

DJ Capt. Dave (open format) at Waterworks Food + Drink, Winooski, 9 p.m. Free.

DJ Two Sev (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m.

Free.

Django Soulo (singer-songwriter) at the Old Foundry at One Federal Restaurant & Lounge, St. Albans, 6:30 p.m. Free.

THU.27

D Jay Baron (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Eugene Tyler Band (bluegrass) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

DJ A-RA$ (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

DJ Abby and Friends (vinyl DJs) at Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Flashback (rock) at the Parker Pie Company, West Glover, 8 p.m. Free.

Footworks (Celtic) at the Den at Harry’s Hardware, Cabot, 7 p.m.

Free.

DJ Bay 6 (hits) at Gusto’s, Barre, 8 p.m. Free.

Fran Briand (covers) at the Old Post, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

The High Breaks (surf) at Hostel Tevere, Warren, 9 p.m. Free.

The Hubcats (folk, blues) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 8 p.m. Free.

Jeff Wheel (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Seafood, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Josh Carey and Friends (covers) at Smitty’s Pub, Burlington, 8 p.m.

Free.

Kind Bud and Nug (acoustic) at Hatch 31, Bristol, 7 p.m. Free.

Left Eye Jump (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Lovewhip (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. $5.

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DJ Cre8 (open format) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10:30 p.m. Free.

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puts on one of the fiercest live shows in the realm

of contemporary jazz. The saxophonist grew up in a musical family with connections to

DJ Disco Phantom (open format) at Finnigan’s Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

as a top-notch bandleader, composer, musician and overall creative maverick. Through

Throwback Thursday with Ron Stoppable (retro hip-hop and pop) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

three musical suites, he and a full band sonically explore the black experience. A frequent

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Los Angeles’ oft-overlooked jazz scene. His 2015 masterpiece, The Epic, cemented him

hip-hop collaborator, Washington has appeared on albums from Kendrick Lamar, Run the Jewels and Flying Lotus. Washington performs on Thursday, February 27, at the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington. LADY MOON & THE ECLIPSE add support.

Mitch & Devon (rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m.

Free.

Peaceful Faces (indie rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

Never in Vegas (covers) at Pickle Barrel Nightclub, Killington, 8 p.m. $10-20.

Shanty Rats (sea shanties, singalong) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Northeast Traffic (funk) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Sputoola, Daniel Waterhouse, Some Hollow and guests (rock) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 9 p.m. Free.

OldBoys (folk, punk) at 14th Star Brewing Co., St. Albans, 6 p.m.

Free.

Night Writer « P.58 volumes about the themes within.

Modeled after UK artist Miles Johnston’s drawing “Boundaries,” the photograph centers Hsiang and a woman, Anna Chamby, standing together in what should be a tender embrace — yet their arms pass through each other’s torsos as if they were incorporeal. The pose implies an unfulfilled longing, a disturbing, otherworldly disconnection between two people.

With a little prodding, Hsiang distills the album’s essence into poetic phrases, such as, “I sleep much worse without you,” and “too-late love songs.” His song titles and lyrics support these sound bites. Throughout the record, Hsiang wrestles with the finality of a passionate 62

DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5.

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Summer Salt, Okey Dokey, Breakup Shoes (indie pop) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $17/20.

Sutter Kain (hip-hop) at Olive Ridley’s, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9 p.m.

Free.

Tom Caswell (blues) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 6 p.m. Free.

relationship, the thought of which keeps him from catching many Zs. Hsiang’s songs continually come back to themes of late-night (or early-morning) restlessness. On the foggy “Half the Night,” he wonders aloud, “What’s going on in that head of yours, darling?” while “lying awake after half the night spent.” And in the opening seconds of “On Your Mind,” he ponders why “Only when it’s dark that I feel like I can talk to you like this.”

Further clues into Hsiang’s psyche emerge in the video for “In My Head.”

Directed by Macaulay Lerman, the seminarrative clip depicts a literal and figurative search for answers about romantic relationships.

“It’s about chasing something that’s out of your grasp,” Hsiang says.

The totality of his work hinges on the precarious moments at day’s end when

West End Blend: Tribute to Stevie Wonder (funk, soul) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. $7.

SUN.1

Circles Around the Sun (rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $20/23.

SUN.1

DJ A-RA$ (open format) at Rí Rá Irish Pub & Whiskey Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Craig Mitchell (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5.

DJ Dakota (hip-hop) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Disco Phantom (open format) at Monkey House, Winooski, 9:30 p.m. Free.

DJ Ryan Donnelly (hits) at City Limits Night Club, Vergennes, 9:30 p.m. Free.

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people examine and reexamine the minutiae of human existence. Sleep, in many ways, is about surrender. And the phantasmagorical parade of unanswerable questions Hsiang presents is, in many ways, a silent battle against that capitulation.

Hsiang has a perennial interest in sleep, cognition and consciousness. He began his career in neuroscience studying the subjects.

“We need sleep because we get tired, but that doesn’t really answer anything,” he says. “Why do you get tired?”

Currently, he’s working on research relating to “a two-receptor system that’s involved in hypersensitization of nerves and inflammation” — or, in layman’s terms, “Why is the fire alarm going off if there’s no smoke?”

With a little help from melatonin, Hsiang says he’s a perpetually vivid

Now That’s What I Call: The Hits (hip-hop, R&B) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

SAT.29

BASSment BBQ with Hiram, oddpaco, War&co, MTL., Sobe, Shredz (electronic) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 9 p.m.

DJ A-RA$ (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

DJ ATAK (house) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

DJ C-Low (open format) at Monkey House, Winooski, 9 p.m. Free.

DJ Earl (hits) at City Limits Night Club, Vergennes, 9 p.m.

Free.

DJ Kaos (hits) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9:30 p.m. $3.

DJ Raul (Latin) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 5 p.m.

Free.

DJ Rekkon (open format) at Rí Rá Irish Pub & Whiskey Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5.

EARFQUAKE: An Odd Future-Inspired Dance Party (hip-hop) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Mardi Gras Dance Party with DJ Craig Mitchell and the House of LeMay (open format) at Three Needs Brewery & Taproom, Burlington, 4 p.m.

Free.

SUN.1

Disco Brunch with DJ Craig Mitchell at Misery Loves Co., Winooski, 11 a.m. Free.

dreamer. Though he puts little stock in the new-agey, prophetic style of interpretation, he doesn’t exactly write off his dreams as nonsense.

“As a means of introspection, or an unconscious prompting to look at stuff, I think [dreams are] fascinating,” says Hsiang.

If Only When It’s Dark is as cathartic for its songwriter as it sounds to the listener, perhaps future Couchsleepers music will dive deeper into what’s on the other side of consciousness. Hsiang is certainly qualified to explore it.  Contact: jordan@sevendaysvt.com

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I’ll probably get internet-attacked on this one, but the Queen City punk scene ain’t what it used to be. No doubt, there are some fabulous punk acts raging across the greater Burlington area. But the halcyon days of 242 Main and all-ages basement shows happening all over town are decidedly in the rearview mirror. Nothing is permanent and scenes change all the time, but in the year 2020 one has to say the healthier punk-rock scene is just across the lake in Plattsburgh, N.Y. The Lake City has been pumping out the punk in recent years with acts such as Marco Polio, Comrade Nixon and others.

Call Shotgun fit right in, while retaining their own take on the genre. Namely, they embrace pop punk, hewing closer to the sound of Alkaline Trio than, say, Green Day.

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With This Strange New Religion, the act’s second full-length album, Call Shotgun have laid down a marker of sorts, producing a slick, energetic record that drives from the first track to the last. There are blistering rockers, such as “Some Things I’ve Been Meaning to Say,” which comes complete with the big whoa-ohhs and an outro-breakdown guitar solo.

These types of songs pair with more contemplative, roomier numbers, including the album-closing title track.

“140 Characters or Less” has all the feel of a late-’90s radio hit. When singer/ guitarist Steve Murray declares, “I want to wake up and get high every morning / But I don’t know what I’d do with the rest of my day,” you can just hear the song becoming a stoner’s anthem for the summer.

Murray fronts the group with clever songwriting and a disciplined style of singing that thankfully avoids the sometimes-whiny tone of his contemporaries. Lyrical tropes have a sordid history in pop-punk music. And the older one gets, the less those tropes appeal,

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CMBN8R is an electronica producer from the Burlington area who has been releasing top-notch product for many years. Known to his friends and the government as Guy Derry, he is more of a composer than an EDM DJ chasing trends. Much of his SoundCloud catalog occupies the overlap between bass music and ambient, but neither subgenre really does justice to his refined, musical touch.

His latest EP, Inbound, stands as his best work so far.

Which is really saying something, because CMBN8R has an impressive body of work.

From his first release in 2013, Basecamp, he displayed all the elements of a signature style: a tranceheavy rhythm section holding down an ambitious, but never busy, range of melodic and textural samples. (You could also tell Derry was raiding the worldmusic stacks to procure those samples.)

Inbound marks his sixth release. Over

those projects, CMBN8R has grown more comfortable and capable as a producer.

His technical chops allow his imagination to go anywhere. Here he delivers four monumental tracks that demonstrate a lot of range and fit together perfectly.

The project opens with “Balance,” a bricolage of broken parts that cohere nicely over a classic four-to-the-floor house pulse. This would move any crowd, but it’s also a clinic on flipping samples — the five-minute workout is absolutely packed with ideas.

“Mycelium” is a prime example of what makes CMBN8R’s sideways approach so compelling.

Built around vocal chops and some lovely, skittering piano lines, the track plays against fan expectations for a big, satisfying “drop” moment. After a long intro, the song lurches into a stutter-step bass line that builds tension and never quite resolves it. Even after a second break, once the beat finally hits, it keeps skipping around in sync with that bass. Instead of hitting like a glitch cliché, though, it feels organic enough to still work on the dance floor.

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The EP closes with “Transience,” the longest cut and a strong finish. It’s perfectly suited for 4 a.m. sets — or Spotify playlists that prominently feature the word “chill.” Yet even here, melodies and motifs are woven into the margins, rewarding careful listeners.

CMBN8R has been honing his production for years, and Inbound is the sound of a professional at work.

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Karaoke Night with Jenny Red at Park Place Tavern & Grill, Essex Junction, 9:30 p.m. Free.

FRI.28 & SAT.29 // MIKE FINOIA [STANDUP]

Karaoke with Dave Bourgea at Burlington St. John’s Club, 8:30 p.m. Free.

SUN.1 CONTINUED FROM P.62 Danny Coane & his Bluegrass Buddies at the Skinny Pancake, Burlington, noon. Free.

Karaoke with DJ Jon Berry & DJ Coco at Olive Ridley’s, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9 p.m. Free.

El Modernist (hip-hop, rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10:30 p.m.

Free.

Trivioke with Glitter Bomb Entertainment (trivia and karaoke) at Dale Boca Argentinean Café, Winooski, 6 p.m. Free.

Eric Friedman (folk) at Bagitos Bagel and Burrito Café, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free.

SAT.29

Eugene Tyler Band (bluegrass) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 1 p.m.

Free.

‘Becoming Nobody’ (film screening) at Double E Performance Center’s T-Rex Theater, Essex Junction, 8 p.m. $8.25/11.75.

Lindsay Mower (jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Haus of STDs presents: Kinky Toots (drag) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10.

Matt Hagen’s Murder Ballads and Fairy Tales (singer-songwriter) at Hostel Tevere, Warren, 5 p.m. Free.

Karaoke at JP’s Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Over the Bridge (reggae, rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7:30 p.m.

Free.

Karaoke with Mike Lambert at Park Place Tavern & Grill, Essex Junction, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Pete Sutherland and Tim Stickle’s Old Time Session at Radio Bean, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free.

SUN.1

Sounds & Scenarios, the Silent Mile (emo) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $3/8. 18+.

Karaoke with Samantha Dickey at Ruben James, Burlington, 10 p.m.

Free.

Taylor Ashton (alt-folk) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

Trio Gusto (jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free.

Wallows, Penelope Isles (sold out) (indie rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $25/99.

MON.2

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Dirt Merchant Mondays featuring Nick Awad, Bishop LaVey (alt-country) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

Old North End, Case Closed (punk) at the Howlin’ Mouse Record Store, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Ryan Fauber with Erich Pachner (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Seth Yacovone (blues) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Free.

Vermont Comedy Club. During the nearly hourlong set, he joked about scheming to obtain a prescription for medical marijuana, his complicated relationship with his father and the need for tolerance in today’s society. The hosting the podcast “Finer Things With Mike Finoia.” He returns Friday, February 28, and Saturday, February 29, to

Dayve Huckett (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5/8. 18+.

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And That’s Why We Drink (sold out) (truecrime comedy) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $25/50.

WED.26

Indie Rumble (improv) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Mike Finoia (standup) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $20/27.

Open Mic at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Weird & Niche: A Comedy Showcase (variety) at Revelry Theater, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $7/8.

Flying V (variety) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

The Mainstage Show (improv) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $5.

Lowell Thompson and Friends (roots-rock) at Hatch 31, Bristol, 7 p.m. Free.

Reid Parsons (folk) at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, 5 p.m.

Free.

Ukulele Kids with Joe Beaird at the Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free.

Bella and the Notables (jazz) at Juniper, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

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Hotel Karaoke at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

SAT.29

Anders Lee: ‘Dummy’ (standup) at Revelry Theater, Burlington, 8 p.m. $7/8.

Completely Stranded (improv) at Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 p.m. $10.

Mike Finoia (standup) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $20/27.

Stand Up, Sit Down & Laugh (standup) at FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $16/20.

MON.2

Comedy & Crêpes (standup) at the Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.4

March Madness (improv) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

Open Mic at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Karaoke with Glitter Bomb Entertainment at the Rotisserie, South Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

StorytellingVT at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Trivia at the Skinny Pancake, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. Free.

Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.4

Girls Night Out: The Show (all-male revue) at the Engine Room, White River Junction, 8 p.m. $21.95/39.95.

Karaoke at JP’s Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Gua Gua (psychotropical jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6:30 p.m.

Free.

Honky-Tonk Tuesdays with Pony Hustle at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Karaoke with DJ Molotov at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

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Karaoke with Rob Jones at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Ensemble V (jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

John Fealy (folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free.

The Mosaic Band (funk, jam) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5/8.

18+.

Paul Asbell Trio (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

Roulette (rock) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

Zack DuPont and Tom Pearo (folk) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

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ast Friday, the BCA Center in Burlington opened three new exhibitions, including, on the main floor, “Apocalypse Diet: What Will We Eat?” Among the works in the show are a large, pink-lit display of plants, an interactive seed library, and multiple films about the reclamation and restoration of land.

All of the work is by women, curated by local artist Stella Marrs as part of Burlington City Arts’ Artist’s Artists program, which invites Vermont creatives to assemble exhibitions.

In her previous home in Washington State, Marrs was both a familiar and a mysterious fixture of the Pacific Northwest art scene, selling collage postcards featuring retro images and creating largescale installations and social gatherings featuring women’s voices. She moved to Burlington eight years ago when her partner got a job teaching at Champlain College, where Marrs has since taught as well. Locally, she has exhibited her massive, inflatable figures made of shiny Mylar — a shifting, modern take on sculpture.

The interactive nature of Marrs’ work is apparent in the BCA show, too. The “Next Epoch Seed Library,” by Ellie Irons and Anne Percoco of Troy, N.Y., and Jersey City, N.J., respectively, features seeds from wild plants gathered around Burlington.

Packets are available for viewers to take home and plant. A film by Brooklyn artist Candace Thompson highlights her project the C.U.R.B., which teaches urban dwellers about food systems and will host a banquet, urban walking tour and weedidentification class in Burlington in May. It’s remarkably difficult to learn about Marrs online and nearly impossible to find her photo. She’s pleased with this; long ago, she said, as her art gained traction, she decided to keep her personal life private.

During a coffee shop conversation with Seven Days, Marrs frequently closed her eyes for long moments to pick her words, focusing intently on the images in her mind as she spoke about her experience curating the BCA show.

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SEVEN DAYS: Where did the idea for “Apocalypse Diet” come from?

STELLA MARRS: I was asked a couple years ago if I wanted to curate for the Artist’s Artists series, and I said yes. And then I thought, What would my topic be?

And it was like, well, of course it would be climate change.

I have always started with this premise of focusing on trying to pay attention to work that women make. My work has always come from this position that I want to hear women’s voices and make platforms for women’s voices.

Also, personally, from time to time I’ve developed projects that have been environmentally focused.

So it was just kind of this very natural evolution from this moment of time we’re in.

BCA Center curator and director of exhibitions Heather Ferrell (left) and guest curator Stella Marrs

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SD: How did you come to food systems specifically?

SM: I didn’t start out with the idea it was going to be food systems. I really initially was approaching just the wider question: “What are we making in terms of this question of environmental work and climate change?”

I think that growing food is very difficult, and you have to have a very intimate relationship, and be slowed down, to have a relationship with seeds and soil and that those things are tied into broad systems.

It’s not just food in this show. It’s also individual attempts to think about new systems that are outside of the box and new kinds of relationships with plants and animals. It’s a shift in relationships between us and the living things that we depend on. Everyone in the show is actually thinking in those terms. What’s our past as a species? How do we retool it so that we have these active and true relationships? So that we have a sense of camaraderie, instead of colonialism?

SD: Do you think artists make this kind of work to feel hope? Or do you

“Next Epoch Seed Library” co-collaborator Ellie Irons with her daughter

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think they make it as a call to action? feel like it has had an ecological bent, Or an expression of grief? What kind too, for a long time? of feelings did you get, looking at all SM: Yeah. Specifically, my expression of environmental themes came out of my this work?

SM: All of those things. There’s this kind background of finding myself basically of research in terms of figuring out the chemically poisoned — multiple chemical images that are coming to you, what to do sensitivity. We have been inundated with them and how to with petrochemical products express them. Because in every part of our lives, such what you’re doing is, that there was just an entire you’re trying to forge group of people that could be a sense of possibility. labeled as canaries in the coal What’s most intermine, that were responding and esting to me is, right reacting and not being able to when I started doing be a part of modern life because this work, trying to they were so poisoned. And I figure out what people was in that category.

ST EL L A MARRS were making, I was seeing things that kind SD: Did you always know of took my breath away that you wanted to do art and kind of felt too wild, too futuristic, professionally? too edgy, too scary. But then, a year or a SM: Well, I’m dyslexic, and I think year and a half later, they were actualized. making art has always been, by default, Their meaning was completely different. what I can do. Because art gives me the They were no longer too edgy or too scary. possibility of defining my terms and making something based off of what I see.

SD: So the work was the same, but your perspective had changed.

SD: Has living in Vermont changed SM: Yeah, because what had happened your thinking in any way? politically, socially, economically had SM: It’s been really an incredible shifted that much, just in that small experience to move here at this point amount of time. Those images were for me, because of how much less of accurate. The things they were expressing a population it has, and how much were accurate. The things they were more open space is still available in the pointing to were true. landscape. And that, those things being If you really want to cultivate ideas true, the culture here is more gentle and about the future, artists really can be slower, in terms of how people approach in that next space if you give them the and interact with each other. And that opportunity. seems and feels really healthy to me. And [it makes you want] to envision a way to contribute. I feel like that’s really possible SD: It sounds like the work in this show is solutions oriented. if you have an idea. You can make things SM: It’s speculative solutions oriented happen here. m — some of the work is. For me, the point of this platform and the people I put Contact: margaret@sevendaysvt.com forward is to show examples of individual agency in relation to this topic.

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f ‘QUIET TIME’: More than 20 artists present 2D works including photography, watercolor, oil, ink, fabric, stained glass and mixed media. Reception: Sunday, March 1, 2-4 p.m. March 1-31. Jericho Town Hall.

‘WOMEN SPEAK: RESISTANCE ART’: An exhibition featuring mixed-media artist Meta Strick, fiber artist India Tresselt, and painter, illustrator and cartoonist Sarah Rosedahl, created in response to recent political and cultural events and concerns. March 2-31. Info, 434-3036. Richmond Free Library.

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f ‘RECOLLECTION’: Works by central Vermont

members of the Art Resource Association that address themes of memory, transition and learning from the past. Reception: Saturday, March 14, 1-3 p.m. f ‘TELL ME WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON’: A group exhibition that addresses social justice and injustice, and looks at political art through both a historical and contemporary lens, curated by Jen Berger. Reception: Friday, April 3, 4-8 p.m. February 29-April 30. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

MEET THE ARTIST: GREG NEWBOLD: Students and the public have an opportunity to talk with the illustrator. Harvey Academic Center, Lyndonville, Tuesday, March 3, 11:30 a.m. Info, barclay.tucker@ northernvermont.edu.

OPEN STUDIO FIGURE DRAWING: Sessions featuring a variety of approaches to working from the figure are suited to all levels of drawing, painting and sculpture backgrounds and expertise. Easels and tables available. River Arts, Morrisville, Tuesday, March 3, 3-5:30 p.m. $10. Info, 888-1261.

‘SERIOUS ANIMATION: THE SHORT FILMS OF ORLY YADIN’: The director of Vermont International Film Festival shows her own short works. Shelburne Museum, Sunday, March 1, 4 p.m. $5-15. Info, 985-3346.

TALK: ‘OUT OF THIS WORLD’: Chief curator Kory Rogers discusses the story behind the museum’s beloved “A Peep at the Moon” bandbox, which is decorated with papers depicting scenes from an 1835 hoax about extraterrestrial life. Preregistration appreciated but not required. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum, Wednesday, February 26, 2-3 p.m. Info, 985-3346.

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TALK: SAFIYA WAZIR: The Democratic state rep in New Hampshire, the first refugee to serve in the statehouse, talks about fleeing from Afghanistan as a child, in conjunction with a current exhibit. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, Friday, February 28, noon. Info, 656-0750.

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‘TURNING POTS INTO GROCERIES’: An interactive panel discussion featuring local potters Barbara Nelson, Su Shannon and Stacey Stanhope includes the topics: selling at craft shows and online, starting and running a gallery/shop, and the ins and outs of interacting with customers, plus audience Q&A. Middlebury Studio School, Friday, February 28, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 247-3702.

f BRENDA GARAND: The sculptor and Dartmouth College studio art professor exhibits drawings that address a vocal disability due to an illness. Closing reception: Wednesday, March 25, 3-5 p.m. March 1-26. Info, 635-2727. Red Mill Gallery at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson.

ASHKA DYMEL: “Designs in Geometry,” fine jewelry inspired by the Bauhaus. March 1-31. Info, 458-0098.

Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

ROBERT O’BRIEN: Watercolors of the winter landscape. WOODY JACKSON: Paintings and prints featuring iconic Holsteins in colorful landscapes.

March 1-31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls.

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f KATIE RUNDE: Realist portrait paintings by the

Bethel-based artist. Reception: Friday, February 28, 4-6 p.m. February 28-March 20. Info, 457-3500.

ArtisTree Gallery in the Village in Woodstock.

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f ‘THE ARTISTIC UNIVERSE OF ROBERT WALDO

BRUNELLE JR.’: Paintings by the Vermont artist and former president of the Northern Vermont Artist Association. Reception and artist talk: Friday, March 6, 4-6 p.m. March 2-April 18. Info, 748-0158.

Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

ART EVENTS COMEDY & ART SHOW: Comics Max Palmer, Carrie Rae Shamel, Corey Richardson, Jared Hall and Liam Welsh entertain while local artists display their work. Live jazz by Jack Hanson. Hotel Vermont, Burlington, Friday, February 28, 6-9 p.m. $10. Info, artssowonderful2@gmail.com.

COMMUNITY ART OPEN STUDIO: A self-guided art-making event for all ages. Many art materials to choose from. Expressive Arts Burlington, Wednesdays, February 26 and March 4, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., and Thursday, February 27, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, 343-8172.

FIGURE DRAWING SOCIAL: A two-hour session to allow artists to practice figure drawing and form study in a friendly, inclusive environment. Model provided, all skill levels welcome. BYOB. Wishbone Collective, Winooski, Wednesday, March 4 , 6-8 p.m. $5-10 donation. Info, 662-3050.

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‘WHERE ARE ALL THE GREAT WOMEN ARTISTS?’: Award-winning portrait artist August Burns gives a thought-provoking take on art history, inspired by the #MeToo movement. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, Wednesday, February 26, 6:30-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3338.

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f ‘ALL THE FEELS’: A group exhibition of artwork that exudes emotion and feeling and causes reactions. Closing reception: Friday, February 28, 5-9 p.m.

Through February 29. Info, 578-2512. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

‘ANEW’: A traveling exhibition of works in a variety of mediums and styles by 29 local artists with disabilities, presented by Inclusive Arts Vermont.

Through April 24. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington.

‘ANIMAL TRANSFORMATIONS’: Objects from the permanent collection that represent animalhuman relationships, curated by UVM’s Museum Anthropology class, led by professor Jennifer Dickinson and the museum’s manager of collections and exhibitions, Margaret Tamulonis. ‘LET’S HAVE A BALL’: Vibrant paintings by Samuel Wood Gaylor featuring spirited social scenes from the New York art world, 1913 to ’36. ‘WARP: WAR RUGS OF AFGHANISTAN’: Woven rugs that document the history of the war-torn region, incorporating stylized representations of political figures, Kalashnikovs, flags, maps, drones and more amid floral and geometric patterns. Through May 8. Info, 656-0750.

Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, in Burlington.

‘APOCALYPSE DIET: WHAT WILL WE EAT?’: Curated by interdisciplinary artist Stella Marrs, the exhibition

by Jane Adams, Suzanne Anker, Andrea Haenggi, Ellie Irons, Anne Percoco, Li Sumpter and Candace Thompson challenges viewers to rethink our relationship to food production within the context of climate change. BRIGITTA VARADI: “Exploring the Invisible,” an installation of more than 2,000 ceramic tiles created by the artist and community members during Varadi’s residency at Shelburne Farms last summer. ESTEFANIA PUERTA: “Sore Mouth Swore,”

‘Creature Comfort: Animals in the House’ Shelburne Museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb famously kept more than one poodle by her side, and animal themes show up in her extensive collections of folk art, as well, from sculptures to ceramics to textiles. A current exhibit at the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education gets right at the heart of our love for furry — or feathered — friends.

Assembled by chief curator Kory Rogers, the selection of decorative objects from the permanent collection as well as items on loan variously explore the human/animal bond, emotional connections, ethical treatment and fantastical plays on the notion of “Creature Comfort.” According to a survey by the American Pet Products Association, some 65 percent of American households have at least one animal companion. Whether or not you’re among them, vicarious warm-and-fuzzies await you at this exhibit. Through August 23. Pictured: one of “Pair of Guard Beasts: Brooke Shields” by the Haas Brothers. an immersive, mixed-media installation that addresses displacement, identity and language by the immigrant Latina artist. Through June 7. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

‘THE ART SHOW’: An unjuried show in which artists are invited to bring one piece each in any size or medium; the people’s choice winner takes home a mini grant. Through February 29. Info, publicartschool@ gmail.com. The Gallery at RL Photo in Burlington.

BRENDAN BUSH: “A Cross Section,” artwork with intersecting colors, interrupted visual patterns and imperfect lines, reflecting the artist’s attempts at love and acceptance of self. Through February 29.

Info, 859-9222. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee in Burlington.

‘CREW NECK’: New artwork from 12 artists using T-shirts as their canvas: Annemarie Buckley, Noah Butkus, Aaron Draplin, Cody Hudson, Marin Horikawa, Scott Lenhardt, Sarah Letteney, Zak Jensen, Byron O’Neill, Tyler Stout, Jackson Tupper and Ty Williams.

Proceeds from sales will be used to provide art classes for children. Through March 5. Info, 2332943. Safe and Sound Gallery in Burlington.

‘EMPATHY & ETHOS’: An installation by Liz Conard and Kaylie Flannigan that explores “a culture of understanding” around the spectrum of mental and physical illness. Through May 10. Info, kaylieflannigan@ gmail.com. Burlington Record Plant.

JESSE MILES: Fresh artwork, including technicolor animals, anxiety paintings and fornicating food products, that straddle gruesome and beautiful, funny and sexual. Through February 27. Info, 338-7441. Thirty-odd in Burlington.

JUSTIN LEE HOEKSTRA: “The Pleasures of Being a Ghost,” a suite of seven site-specific paintings, the continuation of a yearly series of paintings in which the artist eliminates all color from the process and utilizes only black and white paint. Through February 28. Info, flynndogexhibits@gmail.com. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington.

KARA TORRES: Graffiti-influenced paintings by the local artist coincide with the gallery’s grand opening.

Through March 21. Info, artssowonderful2@gmail.com.

Arts So Wonderful Gallery in Burlington.

ART SHOWS

KASEY CHILD: “Plastic River,” a solo exhibition of large-scale paintings focused on climate change by the Burlington artist. Through February 29. Info, 652-2400. The Silo in Burlington.

‘A LINK TO THE PAST’: Immerse yourself in a retro gaming experience spanning several decades and many platforms, all drawn from the Game History Teaching Collection in the college’s Game Studio.

Through February 27. Info, 865-8980. Champlain College Art Gallery in Burlington.

SHARON RADTKE: “Wild Things,” photography that captures the personalities of birds and other wildlife in the artist’s backyard in Milton, and beyond.

Through March 14. Info, 865-7211. Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.

VANESSA KOTOVICH: “Lugo-Natura,” photographs by the Hinesburg artist focused on sanctuary and history. Through February 29. Info, 391-4083. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

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BARBARA WATERS: “2020 Hindsight,” a 25-year retrospective of the artist’s creative explorations.

Through February 29. Info, 425-6345. Charlotte Senior Center.

‘CREATURE COMFORT: ANIMALS IN THE HOUSE’: An exhibition of objects from the museum’s permanent collection as well as on loan that illustrate the human-animal bond, including domestication, emotional connections and ethical treatment.

Through August 23. ‘TIME LAPSE: CONTEMPORARY ANALOG PHOTOGRAPHY’: An exhibition of 14 national and international artists who use the darkroom as a laboratory and find inspiration in 19th-century photographic processes. Also on view are historic photographs from the museum’s permanent collection.

Through March 8. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

‘HEART SHOW’: More than 100 heart-shaped works by local artists, sales of which benefit Camp Thorpe in Goshen, a summer camp for children with disabilities. All donations matched, up to $15,000.

Bid online through February 29. Through March 29.

Info, 448-0108. Rustic Roots in Shelburne.

MAGGIE CAHOON: “Wild Harmonies / Vast Horizons,” encaustic paintings that evoke the inner and outer landscapes of the human psyche and the possible realities that lie just beyond ordinary awareness.

Through February 26. Info, 985-3819. All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne.

‘NOT MY AMERICA’: An exhibition of film, visual and performance art featuring Aaron Masi, Bettina Desrochers, David Schein, Dominique Vitali, Doug Hoffman, Eden Stern, Jen Berger, Jenni Bee, John Douglas, Kate Longmaid, Kelly Hickey, Kristian Brevik, Matt Morris, Maxwell Comejean, Michael Kuk, Rhoda Ratray, Rob Koer, Ross Connelly, Sara Baker, Travis Will and Vanessa Compton. Through March 17.

Info, 718-415-7135. 2Creative Community in Winooski.

f SARAH CARLSON-MCNALLY: “This Is Not a Painting,” mixed media on canvas and video.

Reception: Thursday, February 27, 5 p.m. Through March 1. Info, 654-2851. McCarthy Art Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester.

SCOTTIE RAYMOND: Opening for “Hardened Lines Softened Time,” new works by the graffiti artist and member of Anthill Collective. Through February 29.

Info, 391-9560. Ante Gallery in Shelburne.

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‘20 YEARS OF SPA!’: A celebratory exhibit including highlights from shows that took place in each of the years since 2000. 3rd Floor Gallery. ‘BOTANICAL BLITZ’: A group exhibit of colorful works that depict the plant, insect and animal worlds. JANET VAN FLEET: “Offerings,” found wood sculptures in the Quick Change Gallery, a former phone booth. LOIS BEATTY: “Making My Mark,” recent monoprints.

2nd Floor Gallery. Through March 7. Info, 479-7069.

Studio Place Arts in Barre.

ANNUAL INVITATIONAL GROUP ART SHOW: An exhibition of works in a variety of mediums by 17 artists, each of whom had previous solo shows at the library. Through February 27. Info, 426-3581. Jaquith Public Library in Marshfield.

CAT MCQ & JEANNE THURSTON: “United Signs of America,” photographs by McQ, in the second-floor gallery, takes the viewer on a road trip looking backward. Paintings by Thurston, on the first floor, feature intense, dimensional bars of color. Through March 28. Info, 595-5252. Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier.

snowboard technology with examples from Burton’s archives, curated by VTSSM Hall of Famer John Gerndt. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

f ‘THE DAMES’: Photographs and oral histories, prepared by the Vermont Folklife Center, about 13 members of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. Reception: Thursday, April 23, 3-5 p.m. Through July 31. ‘THE SHELDON RELIC CHAIR’: Middlebury historian Henry Sheldon’s 1884 Windsor-style “relic chair,” with each spindle carved from a fragment of different sites of local, national and historical significance, paired with a version constructed by Middlebury College students in 2018.

Through August 1. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

‘WINTER IS HERE’: Photographs of the season by Orah Moore, Dorothy Koval and Ross Connelly, members of the River Arts Photo Co-op in Morrisville. Through April 23. Info, 253-2691. Plate in Stowe.

HEATHER KRALIK: “Within Landscapes,” paintings by the Vermont artist. Through March 31. Info, 2296206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.

JAMES SECOR: “Peanut Butter Garlic Toast,” 12 acrylic paintings that include responses to scenes in Montpelier, Barre, Idaho and Québec, curated

by Studio Place Arts. Through February 29. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre.

KATHLEEN GRANT & SUE DUPRAT: Paintings in a variety of mediums, and handcrafted leather and wood journals, respectively. Through February 29.

Info, 223-1981. The Cheshire Cat in Montpelier.

NITYA BRIGHENTI: “Of Cities and Deserts,” oil paintings and watercolors featuring nomadic landscapes, still lifes and portraiture by the Vermont artist, poet and architect. Through March 30. Info, 279-5558.

Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

‘SHOW 37’: The gallery kicks off 2020 with the first of six all-member shows. Through March 1. Info, 552-0877. The Front in Montpelier.

‘THAW: A CONVERSATION’: A multimedia exhibition by artist Evie Lovett and poet Diana Whitney, whose encaustic paintings and poetry, respectively, are inspired by the Connecticut River. Reception: Friday, February 28, 5-7 p.m. Through March 14. Info, 738-3667. The Garage Cultural Center in Montpelier.

‘VERMONT ARTISTS TO WATCH 2020’: The Vermont Art Guide and Vermont Arts Council present a survey of contemporary local art in exhibition and print.

Curator Ric Kasini Kadour asked 10 Vermont art professionals to nominate other artists who are making work that commands attention. Through March 27.

Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

‘VERMONT ETUDES’: Images of the state’s landscape

by Norwich photographer Kip King. Through February 29. Info, 223-3338. Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier.

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‘ART OF SOUND’: In participation with 2020 Vision: Seeing the World Through Technology, a statewide initiative of the Vermont Curators Group, this group exhibition created by Kelly Holt features works that present a variety of ways to interact with sound, from ambient to immersive. Artists are John Bauer, Susan Calza, Sean Clute and Otto Muller of the Rural Noise Ensemble, and Kathryn Lipke Vigesaa. Through April 30. Info, 760-4634. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort.

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‘ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS IN WOOL’: Fifteen artists exhibit works that show the creative potential of sheep’s wool, as well as its practical qualities. Part of the Vermont Wool Felting Project. Through March 13. Info, 244-7036. Waterbury Public Library.

‘HEARTFULLY YOURS’: A valentine-themed exhibition featuring artworks by Jenni Bee, Monica Callan, Madeline Clark, Geoff Hewitt, David Klein, Nicole Knowlton, Joanne Lattrell, Dawn Littlepage, Emma McCallum, Jerry Rayla and Joy Spontak.

Through March 1. Info, grangehallcc@gmail.com. Grange Hall Cultural Center in Waterbury Center.

ORAH MOORE: “Faces of Vermont,” portraits by the fineart photographer. Through March 28. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.

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for her wedding, Vermont scenic and other commercial photography preserved in giclée prints and greeting cards.

At Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury, a new exhibit titled “Faces of Vermont” reveals a more spontaneous body of work. The images, taken between 2007 and 2020 on 35mm or cellphone, capture a variety of Green Mountain denizens in informal situations. Two of her subjects have subsequently passed on, she notes. Accordingly, “documentary photography often ends up as a record of who came before and as such becomes part of our shared history,” Moore writes in a statement. She gives an artist talk on Tuesday, March 24, at noon. Through March 28. Pictured:

Burlington City Councilor Ali Dieng (D/P-Ward 7).

‘RUSSET RESPLENDENCE’: Engraved designs using pyrography — the art of applying f PAUL FORLENZA: “Boats, Barns and More: Images burn marks on wood with a heated object — by From Ireland, Prince Edward Island and Vermont” by Barb Godwin; and digitally manipulated fine-art the local photographer. Reception: Friday, February photography by Roarke Sharlow in which color is 28, 5-7 p.m. Through March 27. Info, 453-4728. removed from an image and replaced with a sepia Walkover Gallery and Concert Room in Bristol. tone. Through February 29. Info, 496-6682. Vermont Festival of the Arts Gallery in Waitsfield.

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CORRINE YONCE: “Somewhere Between Place and Home,” a multimedia exploration of three projects by the community organizer, artist and documentarian that considers what it means when one’s primary residence is something other than fully home.

Through February 29. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

ERIN DAIGLE: A dozen plein air oil paintings of downtown Vergennes storefronts, restaurants and street scenes, all of which are featured in a 2020 calendar. Through February 29. Info, 324-7140.

Kennedy Brothers Building in Vergennes.

‘LOVE LETTERS’: A group show of nine local and international artists that celebrates the concepts of love and relationships of many kinds. Through April 18. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

HONG CHUN ZHANG: “Hair Story in Charcoal and Ink,” drawings by the contemporary Chinese American artist in which waves of hair become a channel for her explorations of personal identity. Through May 3. ‘LOST LUXURIES: ANCIENT CHINESE GOLD’: An exhibition exploring the artistry and history of ancient Chinese gold (circa 500 BCE-900 CE) and the story of how it entered American museum collections. Digital features bring to life recent excavations and traditional goldsmithing techniques. Through April 19. ‘WEIMAR, DESSAU, BERLIN: THE BAUHAUS AS SCHOOL AND LABORATORY’: An exhibition of artworks that considers the Bauhaus’ (1919-33) farreaching influence on the practice and teaching of art, design and architecture, as well as its enormous social and political impacts. Through April 19. Info, 443-5007. Middlebury College Museum of Art.

‘ORIGINS: SKIING AND RIDING IN VERMONT’: “Green Mountains, White Gold” is a photographic journey through Vermont’s ski history, and “Surfing Snow: Vermont Inspired Boards” tells the story of

KATHLEEN KOLB: “A Winter Series,” realist paintings that capture the magic of the season. Through February 29. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

CYNTHIA BOWLER: A retrospective of mixed-media work by the late Vermont artist. Through March 13. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University, in Johnson.

JILL MADDEN: “Woods,” meditative plein air paintings by the artist-in-residence. Through February 29.

Info, 635-2727. Red Mill Gallery at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson.

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WOODY JACKSON AND JANE DAVIES: Colorful Vermont landscapes with iconic Holsteins by featured artist Jackson, and vivid abstract paintings on paper by Davies. Through February 29. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls.

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STUDENT ART EXHIBIT: An annual exhibit of new artwork by local students, grades K to 12, in Otter Valley UHS, Barstow Memorial, Neshobe Elementary, and Lothrop, Sudbury and Leicester elementary schools. Through March 1. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

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‘ELEMENTS OF GLASS: FROM THE WORKSHOP OF SIMON PEARCE’: A collaborative exhibition with the renowned Vermont glassmaker explores the transformation from sand to glass, from design to finished product. Through March 31. Info, 649-2200.

Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

JOAN HOFFMANN: “America’s Public Lands,” impressionistic plein air oil and watercolor landscapes at national parks and monuments by the South Royalton artist. Through March 31. Info, 295-4567.

Long River Gallery in White River Junction.

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f ‘2-BY-2’ COMMUNITY EXHIBIT: Tiny works measuring no more than two inches square by artists of all ages. Closing reception: Tuesday, March 17, 6 p.m. Through March 19. Info, barclay.tucker@ northernvermont.edu. Quimby Gallery, Northern Vermont University-Lyndon, in Lyndonville.

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THE 99 FACES PROJECT: Photographic portraits, without labels, featuring people on the bipolar or schizophrenia spectrum and those who love them.

Through March 2. Info, 748-7313. Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury.

AMANDA CAMARGO: “The Friends of My Youth,” photographs. Through March 3. Info, 525-3366. The Parker Pie Company in West Glover.

‘INSIDE OUT: HIDDEN ART IN NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS’: X-ray images of taxidermied animals and seashells, along with historic mounts and photographs of the objects. Through December 31.

Info, 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium in St. Johnsbury.

KINGDOM EAST ART SHOW: Artwork in a variety of mediums, styles and subject matter by students from seven schools in the Northeast Kingdom.

Through February 29. Info, 229-8317. The Satellite Gallery VT in Lyndonville.

PETER SCHUMANN: “The Bad Bedsheet Existibility Show Part I,” large and small works, as well as props and puppets, by the founder of Bread and Puppet Theater. Through March 3. Info, 533-2000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

f ROSS CONNELLY: Photographs from travels to Ireland. Reception: Friday, March 6, 4 p.m. Through March 31. Info, 586-2414. Craftsbury Community Care Center in East Craftsbury.

VANESSA COMPTON: “Sisters of the Dune,” collages by the Vermont artist. Through February 26. Info, vanessa_compton@yahoo.com. Bread & Butter in St. Johnsbury.

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‘ALCHEMY: METAL, MYSTERY AND MAGIC’: A group show featuring sculptures and painting by Jeanne Carbonetti, Sabrina Fadial, Alexandra Heller, Peter Heller, Pat Musick, Dan O’Donnell, Gerald Stoner and Johnny Swing. Through February 29. Info, 258-3992.

The Great Hall in Springfield.

‘ASK THE RIVER’: A community art and creative placemaking project addressing the nearby Connecticut River, including large cyanotypes, mixed-media sculpture and visitor-made postcards.

FAFNIR ADAMITES: “Interfere (with),” a sculptural installation created with felted wool and burlap that focuses on intergenerational trauma and generational emotional turmoil. GORDON MEINHARD: “The Lives of Tables,” modernist still life paintings of tables that appear to become more animated as the series progresses, by the cofounder of the museum.

Through March 7. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

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‘MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE’: A suite of exhibitions addresses topical issues: Photographic portraits from the Yellow Tulips Project tackle the stigma associated with mental illness; the Forty-Seven Main Street Artists Group demonstrates the inspirational power of abstract self-expression in paint; Gisela Gamper documents her personal journey of love and mourning; Terry Boddie examines the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade; Carl Austin Hyatt shows portraits made from two decades of travels in the Andes of Peru; and local students present themselves as they want to be seen in mixed-media portraits. Through March 15. Info, 362-1405, info@ svac.org. Yester House Galleries, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester.

RICHARD D. WEIS: “Beyond Words,” a solo show of paintings by the Vermont artist. Through March 14.

Info, 768-8498. Ellenbogen Gallery in Manchester.

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JORDAN LAURA MCLACHLAN & MORTON BARTLETT: “Family Matters,” a special exhibition of outsider art, in association with Marion Harris Gallery in New York City. Through February 29. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

JYL EMERSON: A solo show of paintings by the local artist. Through April 30. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.

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12TH ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL EXHIBITION: Artworks in a variety of mediums and styles by area students. Through March 13. BEN FRANK MOSS: “An Imaginative Life,” vibrant abstract paintings by the late Dartmouth College professor, curated by Hood Museum of Art director John R. Stomberg. Through March 6. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

CALL TO ARTISTS ‘2-BY-2’ COMMUNITY EXHIBIT: Artwork measuring two inches square welcome from artists of all ages for an exhibit through March 19. Work can be brought to the gallery or mailed to gallery director Barclay Tucker, Quimby Gallery, NVU, 1001 College Rd., Lyndonville, VT 05851. Quimby Gallery, Northern Vermont University-Lyndon, Lyndonville, Through March 17. Info, barclay.tucker@northernvermont.edu.

‘2020 VISION: SEEING THE WORLD THROUGH TECHNOLOGY’: Now accepting applications for a partially crowdsourced exhibit on Vermont innovation and technology in the Local History Gallery as part of this statewide project. Details and application at vermonthistory.org. Deadline: February 28. Vermont Historical Society, Barre.

Info, 479-8500.

‘THE ART SHOW’ CALL TO ARTISTS: Seeking artwork for a show in which anyone is invited to bring one piece. All sizes/media accepted. Drop-off time for artwork is every First Friday of the month between 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Opening reception 6-9 p.m., with people’s choice-awarded mini grant. The Gallery at RL Photo, Burlington. Through July 3. $10 entry fee. Info, publicartschool@gmail.com.

‘BORDERS: ILLUSIONS THAT CONSTRAIN US’: The museum seeks works that share visions of birds, borders and boundaries for our 2020 art exhibit.

What borders do birds encounter? How do their boundaries connect to human borders or those of other species? How do and will these encounters alter us, birds and the borders themselves?

Submission info: birdsofvermont.org. Deadline: March 16. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington.

Free. Info, 434-2167.

CALL TO ARTISTS: EARTH DAY 2020: In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, a group exhibition will honor our planet through art. All artwork inspired by the Earth is welcome. Details at whiterivercraftcenter.org. Deadline: March 1. White River Craft Center, Randolph. Free. Info, 728-8912.

CALL TO ARTISTS: ‘FOR THE BIRDS’: Across Roads Center for the Arts with the Grange Hall Cultural Center will present a curated exhibition about and in appreciation of birds. Interpretations include their physical appearance, flight and migration patterns, songs, social structures and historical or regional significance. All mediums accepted. Proceeds of the exhibit to benefit ARCA school scholarships. Details at grangehallcc.com.

Deadline: April 15. Artwork drop-off: May 17. Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center. Free. Info, grangehallcc@gmail.com.

‘CIPX DARTMOUTH WITH KALI SPITZER & WILL WILSON: Photographer Wilson conceptualized the Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange, which responds to ethnographic photography of Native Americans in the early 20th century. He and Spitzer take tintype photos of locals during a residency and display them alongside labels written by the subjects. Through March 29. COLLEEN RANDALL: “In the Midst of Something Splendid,” abstract paintings on canvas and paper by the art faculty member.

Through May 31. ‘RECONSTITUTION’: A group exhibition of artists who counter the long-held Eurocentric narratives of museums and encourage agency in creating current and future histories. Through May 31. ‘SCHOOL PHOTOS AND THEIR AFTERLIVES’: An exhibition that sets an array of school photographs in dialogue with works by contemporary artists who have reframed them, drawn from the museum’s permanent collection as well as loaned images. Through April 12. ‘SHIFTING THE LENS’: Contemporary Indigenous Australian photography from the permanent collection featuring images by CALL TO ARTISTS: KNOTS: The museum welcomes contributions of any kind for its 2020 exhibit about knots, from personal artifacts (crocheted doilies, prayer bracelet, a knot that saved your life?) or stories to fully realized art projects. Details at museumofeverydaylife.org. The Museum of Everyday Life, Glover. Through April 18. Info, claredol@sover.net.

CALL TO ARTISTS: ‘MUD (SEASON) 2020’: Now accepting artwork by Vermont and New Hampshire artists for the upcoming exhibition opening March 27. Details at artistreevt.org. Drop-off dates: March 9-12. ArtisTree Gallery, South Pomfret. $15. Info, 457-3500.

CALL TO ARTISTS: ‘THE PARADE IS COMING!’: This show (July 7-August 22) includes work in a variety of mediums and installations that depict the excitement, content and colors associated with parades, as well as more solemn processions and marches. In addition to works on the walls, we’ll assemble a parade involving a group of artists’ sculptural works. Deadline: April 24. Info at studioplacearts.com. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10; free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069.

COMMUNITY FUND APPLICATION OPEN: Burlington City Arts’ Community Fund, which provides one-year funding of up to $3,000 for Burlington-based practicing artists, creative professionals, or small arts organizations, is accepting applications. Grants are in two categories: individual artists/informal artist groups and organizations. BCA Center, Burlington. Through April 20. Info, burlingtoncityarts.org.

‘ECOSYSTEM SERVICES THROUGH AN ARTISTS’ EYE’: The MAC Center, in partnership with the Orleans County Natural Resources Conservation District, seeks artwork related to ecosystem services protected and enhanced by Vermont farmers and foresters. All mediums welcome, must not exceed 48 inches in height or width. Deadline: March 2. Juried show to open April 3. More info at vacd.org/conservation-districts/orleans-county, or contact Emily Irwin at emily.irwin@vt.nacdnet. net. MAC Center for the Arts, Newport. Free. Info, 624-7022.

‘PORTFOLIO SHOWCASE’: SEABA is seeking 2D artwork in various mediums for quarterly exhibitions. Artists may exhibit up to 10 pieces, medium to large in size, with one edge being a minimum of 24 inches. Paper or photo works should be framed, canvas pieces may be unframed. Email images of work to info@seaba.com for consideration, with the subject line Portfolio Showcase, or for more details. Technology Park, South Burlington.

Through March 18.

CHRIS GROSCHNER: Found-object assemblages inspired by the seasons, the time of day, the past and the endless river of time. Through March 14. Info, 685-4699. North Common Arts in Chelsea.

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Through June 21. Info, 603-646-2426. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. DAVID KANIETAKERON FADDEN: “Indigenous Reflections,” paintings by the renowned New York State artist. Through February 28. Info, 518-5631604. Strand Main Gallery in Plattsburgh, N.Y. ‘EGYPTIAN MUMMIES: EXPLORING ANCIENT LIVES’: An international exhibition created by the British Museum combines arts and science to tell the stories of six people who lived along the Nile in ancient times. Through March 29. Info, 514-2852000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

JUDY GUGLIELMO: Watercolor and acrylic paintings by the month’s featured artist, along with other gallery artists. Through February 28. Info, 518-563-1604.

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SABLE PROJECT ARTIST RESIDENCY: A summer artist-in-residence program is geared to younger artists in their twenties or thirties; deadline March 15. The summer guest artist residency is for professional individuals or groups, who will be asked to teach a workshop or present their work; deadline April 1. Apply at thesableproject. org. The Sable Project, Stockbridge. Info, info@ thesableproject.org.

SPRING NEW MEMBER JURY: All styles of fine art and crafts welcome. Judging criteria include originality, impact, clarity, craftsmanship, consistency of style and quality, presentation and marketability. Apply at brandonartistsguild.org.

Brandon Artists Guild. Through March 13. Free. Info, thebag@brandonartistsguild.org.

SWEETEN YOUR PALETTE FOR A SAPPY ART SHOW: The Vermont Maple Festival and gallery seek work in any medium with a theme, “Vermont Maple: A Sweet History” for juried exhibition. Cash prizes awarded for Best of Show and first, second and third place in each category: Process, People, Scenic and Using Maple Syrup. Online registration at vtframeshop.com. Deadline: April 12. Village Frame Shoppe & Gallery, St. Albans. Free. Info, 524-3699.

‘THIS IS VERMONT’ PRINT SERIES: The downtown Burlington store is hosting its second annual print series featuring works by Vermont artists.

Submit 2D artwork that represents the state.

Selected artists will receive a cash-value purchase contract. Details at commondeer.com. Deadline: March 15. Common Deer, Burlington. Info, britt@ commondeer.com.

TRUCKIN’ TUESDAYS: Seeking family-friendly musicians to busk for at least one hour, 6-8 p.m., on Tuesdays through the summer. More info at vtapple@upickvermont.com. Adams Farm Market, Williston. Through April 30. Info, 879-5226.

‘UNNATURAL LIGHT’: Seeking online submissions of artworks that glow under blacklight, or generate their own light, and that are best experienced in darkness rather than bright illumination, including such mediums as light sculpture, painting, sculpture and video. For upcoming exhibition curated by Alex Costantino. Submission form at spacegalleryvt.com. Deadline: March 3. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington. Free. Info, 578-2512.

WATERCOLOR GROUP EXHIBITION: SEABA is seeking artworks utilizing watercolors as a medium for quarterly exhibitions. Artists may exhibit up to 10 pieces of varying sizes and content; must be framed and ready to hang. Email images of work to info@seaba.com for consideration, with the subject line Watercolor Group Exhibition. The Innovation Center of Vermont, Burlington. Through March 18.

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native of Buffalo, N.Y., she’s dreamed from her earliest days of getting rich and getting out of town. (Real-life residents will no doubt give the picture a big thumbs-down owing to its portrait of the place as a festering, economically depressed hellhole.) How money-hungry is she? Accepted by an Ivy League college, Peg decides student debt is for suckers and prints up a batch of counterfeit Buffalo Bills tickets to scalp in broad daylight outside the stadium.

Until (surprise!) police catch her in the act and throw her in jail.

Upon her release three years later, Peg finds herself with nearly $30,000 in legal bills and zilch in the way of professional prospects. All that changes one day when a call from a debt collector leads to an aha moment. Figuring she’s a born salesman and debt collection is essentially phone sales, Peg barges into the office of the agency that just called her and pretty much demands to be given a shot.

What happens next is straight out of Scorsese’s film. Except that, instead of talking losers into buying penny stocks they can’t afford, as Belfort did, Peg shamelessly manipulates and lies to strangers to get them to make payments on old bills they can’t afford, even if that means taking advantage of an elderly widow’s dementia. Are we having fun yet?

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ry to imagine Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street without the Quaaludes, coke, morphine, pep pills, pep talks, martinis, penthouses, mansions, pool parties, Ferraris, private helicopters, yachts, hookers, orgies, Swiss bank accounts, international intrigue, scams, lions, snakes, roller-skating chimps, flying little people, lingerie, out-of-bounds comic debauchery or swaggering mendacity. Imagine a movie about a fast-talking hustler without any of those things or anything compelling to take their place. Then try to imagine a single reason why you’d want to see it.

That, in a nutshell, is the problem with Buffaloed. Director Tanya Wexler (Hysteria) hasn’t made a feature film in nearly a decade.

When interviewed, she’s consistently maintained that this is the result of sexist hiring practices. Based on everything I endured for the 95 minutes of this movie, however, I maintain the explanation may be somewhat simpler. There’s just the slightest chance she’s not a particularly gifted director.

The up-and-coming actress Zoey Deutch stars as Peg Dahl, a young woman who makes Jordan Belfort look like Mahatma Gandhi. A

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Wexler’s debt collection comedy comes up short in every conceivable respect.

The blame for this exercise in pointlessness can be allotted fairly equally, I think, between Wexler and screenwriter/cast member Brian Sacca. He should have had a better sense of how to pen a rip-off of The Wolf of Wall Street, considering he played one of the Wall Streeters in it.

Nonetheless, his script is a relentlessly grating, fun-free affair. It’s Sacca’s first stab at a feature screenplay. Audiences can only hope it proves his last. If so, every one of us will truly be in his debt.

It gets grimmer. Our insufferably spunky heroine’s decision to start her own collection company earns her the murderous wrath of her boss, Wizz. He’s an over-thetop cartoon sleazeball played by Jai Courtney, who gives the impression of channeling Andrew Dice Clay. The movie’s idea of entertainment is Wizz attempting to intimidate Peg by dumping a bucket of menstrual blood all over her as she sits on a public toilet. To be fair, the film also features a great many jokes involving Buffalo wings, which are every bit as unfunny.

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wo of my favorite 2019 movies were female-directed ones that stayed well outside the Oscar conversation: Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale and Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which opens Friday at Montpelier’s Savoy Theater. Known for contemporary coming-of-age tales such as Tomboy and Girlhood, Sciamma performs a strange alchemy here, using her modern, minimalist style to heighten a tragic romance in the classic mold.

Set in 18th-century Brittany, Portrait of a Lady on Fire has the headiness of early romanticism — you can imagine George Sand or Honoré de Balzac concocting the plot — even as it fiercely asserts its relevance to our present moment. Imagine Call Me by Your Name thrust back a few centuries, with two equally riveting performances at its heart.

The plot pivots on the tricky logistics of arranged marriage in the way, way pre-selfie era.

SLOW BURN In 18th-century France, an artist and her aristocratic A countess (Valeria Golino) hopes to marry subject fall in love in Sciamma’s ravishing feminist romance. her daughter off to a Milanese nobleman. He wants a pic first. So young painter Marianne (Noémie Merlant) is hired to produce a por- her on the sly — a tall order for any artist, nent artist — and maidservant Sophie (Luàna trait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), the prospec- both technically and ethically. When Hé- Bajrami) flies under the radar. A subplot inloïse finally agrees to pose, things get even volving Sophie’s unwanted pregnancy occative bride.

Arriving at the remote estate, Marianne more complicated, because the two women sions two of the most quietly revolutionary scenes I’ve ever seen on screen. soon learns that Héloïse is neither a willing are falling in love.

Quiet is key to this film, which has no The film has no speechifying, but a femibride nor a willing portrait subject. A previous artist’s attempt to capture the young nist message comes through loud and clear. musical score in the usual sense. Instead of woman on canvas ended up violently de- Raised in a convent, Héloïse is a privileged strings swelling to underline passionate mofaced. The countess instructs Marianne to prisoner, while Marianne enjoys more free- ments, we hear the roar of surf or the crackact as Héloïse’s companion while sketching dom — largely thanks to her father, a promi- le of a hearth fire. On the rare occasions 72 SEVEN DAYS FEBRUARY 26-MARCH 4, 2020

when music is heard, the diegetic sounds have the impact of long-repressed emotion bursting forth.

Withholding and release are key to Sciamma’s visual aesthetic, too. The whole plot hinges on the challenge of painting Héloïse, an act of violence that becomes one of love.

Yet the title character doesn’t appear for the first 20 minutes, and when she does, we initially see her only from behind.

When Héloïse turns to face us, she needs to be a striking presence, and Haenel does not disappoint. By turns angry, childlike, perceptive and tender, Héloïse dominates the screen, and it’s not hard to see how the cagey, professional Marianne falls for her.

Merlant holds her own with a performance of fierce authority. “Look at me,” Marianne orders a room of art students in her first scene. The movie makes us look harder, too — beyond whatever the prospective groom hopes to see in Héloïse’s portrait.

In this world where men have only walk-on roles, women express themselves with their eyebrows, and their smiles are precious and hard-won. Whenever Marianne tries to paint Héloïse with a smile, she fails — “Anger comes to the fore,” we’re told.

By the end, we’ve seen some genuine smiles — and tears. Sciamma’s film is the very definition of slow burn, but when it catches, it sets the audience on fire, too.

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NEW IN THEATERS IMPRACTICAL JOKERS: THE MOVIE: The hiddencamera comedy game show comes to the big screen, as troupe members challenge one another to hoodwink unsuspecting bystanders. Brian Quinn, Joe Gatto and James Murray star. Chris Henchy directed. (93 min, PG-13. Essex) THE INVISIBLE MAN: In this modern horror twist on H.G. Wells’ novel, Elisabeth Moss plays a woman who fears that her abusive ex, supposedly deceased, has found a way to torment her without being seen.

With Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Aldis Hodge. Leigh Whannell (Upgrade) wrote and directed. (110 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount) ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND: Daniel Roher’s documentary tells the story of the iconic pop group that started out backing Bob Dylan, with an emphasis on its frontman.

(100 min, R. Savoy) PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIREHHHHH In 18th-century France, an aristocrat (Adèle Haenel) falls in love with the artist (Noémie Merlant) hired to paint her portrait in this romantic art-house drama from director Céline Sciamma (Girlhood). (119 min, R. Savoy; reviewed by M.H. 2/26)

NOW PLAYING 1917HHHH1/2 Director Sam Mendes brings us a one-take World War I movie about two privates tasked with carrying a crucial message across enemy lines. With Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch and Richard Madden. (118 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 1/15) BAD BOYS FOR LIFEHHH Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return as the titular maverick cops (last seen in 2003) to take down a Miami drug boss in this action comedy threequel. With Vanessa Hudgens.

Adil El Arbi and Billal Fallah (Gangsta) directed. (123 min, R) BIRDS OF PREYHHHH In the latest installment of the DC Comics cinematic saga, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) leaves the Joker and teams up with a group of female superheroes on a rescue mission. Also starring Mary-Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rosie Perez and Ewan McGregor. Cathy Yan (Dead Pigs) directed. (109 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 2/12) BOMBSHELLHH1/2 Charlize Theron plays Megyn Kelly in this ripped-from-the-headlines docudrama about the women who brought down Roger Ailes at Fox News, also starring Margot Robbie, Nicole Kidman and John Lithgow. Jay Roach (Trumbo) directed. (108 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 1/22) BRAHMS: THE BOY IIH1/2 Was anyone on the edge of their seats waiting for a sequel to The Boy, the 2016 horror flick about a creepy toddler-size doll? This time around, Katie Holmes plays a woman whose kid forms an unhealthy attachment to the plaything. William Brent Bell again directed. (86 min, PG-13) THE CALL OF THE WILDHH1/2 The dog is fully animated, but Harrison Ford is not, in this family adaptation of Jack London’s novel about a sled dog fighting for his life in the Yukon. Dan Stevens, Omar Sy and Karen Gillan also star. Chris Sanders (The Croods) directed. (100 min, PG) DOLITTLEH1/2 The doctor who can talk to animals, last played by Eddie Murphy, returns in an adventurecomedy reboot of the classic children’s property starring Robert Downey Jr. The actors voicing the menagerie include Emma Thompson, Rami Malek and John Cena. Stephen Gaghan (Syriana) directed. (106 min, PG; reviewed by M.H. 1/22)

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DOWNHILLHHH1/2 It’s hard to imagine anything less romantic than realizing your spouse wouldn’t save you first in a catastrophe. That’s the subject of this comedy-drama remake of the Swedish film Force Majeure, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell.

Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Way Way Back) directed.

(86 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 2/19) FANTASY ISLANDH Dreams come true at a tropical resort — with a dark twist — as Blumhouse attempts to transform the cheesy ’70s TV show into a horror property. With Michael Peña as Mr. Roarke, Lucy Hale and Maggie Q. Jeff Wadlow (Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare) directed. (110 min, PG-13) #FEMALE PLEASUREHHH1/2 In this documentary, director Barbara Miller (Forbidden Voices) profiles women around the world who have resisted the social control of their sexuality, including a sex educator in India and a manga artist in Japan. (97 min, NR) FROZEN IIHHH1/2 Royal sisters Anna and Elsa must find the source of Elsa’s icy powers to save their kingdom in the sequel to Disney’s animated mega-hit.

With the voices of Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff and Idina Menzel. Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee again directed. (103 min, PG; reviewed by M.H. 11/27)

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THE GENTLEMENHH1/2 An unscrupulous private detective (Hugh Grant) tangles with a drug lord (Matthew McConaughey) who has ties to Britain’s aristocracy in this action flick from cowriter/director Guy Ritchie, also starring Charlie Hunnam and Michelle Dockery. (113 min, R) JOJO RABBITHHHH Everybody has an opinion on this anti-Nazi satire from Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok), in which a young follower of Hitler (Roman Griffin Davis) makes discoveries that change his world. With Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell and Rebel Wilson. (108 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 11/13) JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVELHH1/2 Teens caught in a virtual-reality game face yet more dangerous challenges in this sequel to the 2017 comedy-action hit Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, again directed

by Jake Kasdan. Karen Gillan, Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Awkwafina star. (123 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 12/18) JUST MERCYHHHH Michael B. Jordan plays civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson in this drama about his fight to free a death-row prisoner. With Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson. Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12) directed. (136 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 1/15) KNIVES OUTHHHH1/2 Daniel Craig plays a detective investigating the death of a crime novelist in writerdirector Rian Johnson’s dark comic riff on Agatha Christie-style mysteries. The all-star cast includes Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson and Toni Collette. (130 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 12/4) LITTLE WOMENHHHH1/2 Director Greta Gerwig offers her take on the Louisa May Alcott novel about four spirited young New Englanders weathering the Civil War, with Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen as the March sisters. (134 min, PG; reviewed by R.K. 1/8) OLYMPIC DREAMSHHH This romantic comedy involving a skier and a volunteer doctor, set and shot in the Olympic Village, has a core cast and crew of just three people: director Jeremy Teicher and stars Nick Kroll and Alexi Pappas. (85 min, PG-13) PARASITEHHH An unemployed family finds plenty to do — and money to be made — in an affluent home in this satirical drama from Bong Joon Ho (Snowpiercer), which won the Palme d’or at the Cannes Film Festival.

With Kang-ho Song and Yeo-jeong Jo. (132 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 11/6) THE PHOTOGRAPHHHH1/2 A famous photographer’s estranged daughter (Issa Rae) falls for a journalist who’s writing about her late mother in this drama from director Stella Meghie (The Weekend). With LaKeith Stanfield and Chelsea Peretti. (106 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 2/19) SONIC THE HEDGEHOGHH1/2 The classic Sega game comes to multiplexes as a family adventure about a small-town cop enlisted to help a speedy blue critter defeat an evil mastermind (Jim Carrey).

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks,” says Taurus filmmaker, actor and author John Waters. I trust that you have been intensely cultivating that kind of success in the last few weeks, Taurus — and that you will climax this wondrous accomplishment with a flourish during the next few weeks.

You’re on the verge of achieving a new level of mastery in the art of immersing yourself in environments that bring out the best in you.

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(FEB. 19-MARCH 20):

If you’re like most of us, you harbor desires for experiences that might be gratifying in some ways but draining in others. If you’re like most of us, you may, on occasion, get attached to situations that are mildly interesting but divert you from situations that could be amazingly interesting and enriching. The good news, Pisces, is that you are now in a phase when you have maximum power to wean yourself from these wasteful tendencies. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to identify your two or three most important and exciting longings — and take a sacred oath to devote yourself to them above all other wishes and hopes.

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(March 21-April 19): You may sometimes reach a point where you worry that conditions are not exactly right to pursue your dreams or fulfill your holy quest. Does that describe your current situation? If so, I invite you to draw inspiration from Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), who’s regarded as one of history’s foremost novelists. Here’s how one observer described Cervantes during the time he was working on his masterpiece, the novel titled Don Quixote: “shabby, obscure, disreputable, pursued by debts, with only a noisy tenement room to work in.” Cervantes dealt with imperfect conditions just fine.

you to become more powerful, Gemini — not necessarily in the sense of influencing the lives of others, but rather in the sense of managing your own affairs with relaxed confidence and crisp competence. What comes to mind when I urge you to expand your self-command and embolden your ambition? Is there an adventure you could initiate that would bring out more of the swashbuckler in you?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): For my Cancerian readers in the Southern Hemisphere, this oracle will be in righteous alignment with the natural flow of the seasons. That’s because February is the hottest, laziest, most spacious time of year in that part of the world — a logical moment to take a lavish break from the daily rhythm and escape on a vacation or pilgrimage designed to provide relaxation and renewal. Which is exactly what I’m advising for all of the Earth’s Cancerians, including those in the Northern Hemisphere. So for those of you above the equator, I urge you to consider thinking like those below the equator. If you can’t get away, make a blanket fort in your home and pretend. Or read a book that takes you on an imaginary journey. Or hang out at an exotic sanctuary in your hometown.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo author Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a pioneer in the genre of the historical novel. His stories were set in various eras of the Scottish past. In those pre-telephone and pre-Internet days, research was a demanding task. Scott traveled widely to gather tales from keepers of the oral tradition. In accordance with current astrological omens, Leo, I recommend that you draw

inspiration from Scott’s old-fashioned approach. Seek out direct contact with the past.

Put yourself in the physical presence of storytellers and elders. Get firsthand knowledge about historical events that will inspire your thoughts about the future of your life story.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Over a period of 40 years, the artist Rembrandt (1606-1663) gazed into a mirror as he created more than 90 selfportraits — about 10 percent of his total work.

Why? Art scholars don’t have a definitive answer. Some think he did self-portraits because they sold well. Others say that because he worked so slowly, he himself was the only person he could get to model for long periods. Still others believe this was his way of cultivating self-knowledge, equivalent to an author writing an autobiography. In the coming weeks, I highly recommend that you engage in your personal equivalent of extended mirror gazing. It’s a favorable time to understand yourself better.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): From author Don DeLillo’s many literary works, I’ve gathered five quotes to serve as your guideposts in the coming weeks. These observations are all in synchronistic alignment with your current needs. 1. Sometimes a thing that’s hard is hard because you’re doing it wrong. 2. You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen. 3. Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look. 4. The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace, I find unexpected themes and intensities. 5. What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself just by being a cabbage,” wrote Scorpio author Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944). “Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage — unless you have an agent and pay him a commission.” He was making the point that for us humans, it’s not enough to simply become good at a skill and express that skill; we need to hire a publicist or marketing wizard or distributor to make sure the world knows about our offerings.

Generally, I agree with Giradoux’s assessment. But I think that right now it applies to you only minimally. The coming weeks will be one of those rare times when your interestingness will shine so brightly, it will naturally attract its deserved attention. Your motto, from industrialist Henry J. Kaiser: “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When he

was 29 years old, Sagittarian composer Ludwig van Beethoven published his String Quartet, op. 18, no. 4. Most scholars believe that the piece was an assemblage of older material he had created as a young man. A similar approach might work well for you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. I invite you to consider the possibility of repurposing tricks and ideas that weren’t quite ripe when you first used them. Recycling yourself makes good sense.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are there parts of your life that seem to undermine other parts of your life? Do you wish there were greater harmony between your heart and your head, between your giving and your taking, between your past and your future? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could infuse your cautiousness with the wildness of your secret self? I bring these questions to your attention, Capricorn, because I suspect you’re primed to address them with a surge of innovative energy. Here’s my prediction: Healing will come as you juxtapose apparent opposites and unite elements that have previously been unconnected.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When he was

19, the young poet Robert Graves joined the British army to fight in World War I. Two years later, the Times of London newspaper reported that he had been killed at the Battle of the Somme in France. But it wasn’t true. Graves was very much alive and continued to be for another 69 years. During that time, he wrote 55 books of poetry, 18 novels and 55 other books. I’m going to be bold and predict that this story can serve as an apt metaphor for your destiny in the coming weeks and months.

Some dream or situation or influence that you believed gone will in fact have a very long second life filled with interesting developments.

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THE BIG EASY Big on the outside, pleasant on the inside. Looking for long-term companion for dinner, theater, romance and just living life. I am a retired civil engineer with many interests, a good listener, easygoing, look much younger than my age. Ready to share everything with the right woman.

SpirirtYoung, 68, seeking: W,l SEEKING PEACE IN THE NOW This isn’t my favorite format, and I’m glad to chat by email. I am a secure person in my profession and person, and I enjoy recreation and renewal by the lake and in the woods.

I am open-minded, kind and curious.

Email me if you’d like to talk more.

Lakewalker4life, 49, seeking: W COUNTRY MUSIC TYPE OF GUY I am an easygoing person with a big heart who wants a friend and maybe a boyfriend, if we would want each other and get along with each other. Like to do things together with the right man. Bearliker, 63, seeking: M, Cp

SPECIAL, HANDY, LOVABLE I am self-sufficient. I can play in the mud in the day and dress to the nines at night. I love to give parties but also love to sit by a fire and cuddle. I am a lady and always will be. If you want someone who cares and is intelligent, I am waiting. Starchild, 61, seeking: M,l

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LIVE THE DREAM! Compassionate, kindhearted but brutally honest, tall, slender, inquisitive, very sassy, no punches. goldenmoments327, 62, seeking: M,l

LOOKING FOR A GOOD MATCH I am interested in meeting someone who truly enjoys the sensation of long, passionate kisses. Slow, relaxed meetings to exchange physical pleasure. down_to_earth, 59, seeking: W

MYSTICAL, MAGICAL, HARD-CORE OFFGRIDDER I’m empathic, loving and deeply caring, so I’m looking for a partner who honors my heart and treats it with care and respect. I am truly a forest dweller and a homesteader.

I would love a partner with the skills and desire for self-sufficient homesteading and wild living. I want something lasting and committed. I want a life partner(s). MountainWoman, 49, seeking: M, W, NBP,l ARTISTIC, EASYGOING, AMBITIOUS Intrigued by the world. Compassionate.

I like stormy days and sunny days.

I can be somewhat fearless, mostly mellow. Strong-willed; caring.

Chilldog89, 30, seeking: M,l ACTIVE, FUN, EDUCATED, HAPPY, SINCERE Enjoys the outdoors, traveling, biking, curling up with a book, watching movies & listening to a wide range of music, cooking vegan meals & practicing yoga.

Environmentalist & social activist, non smoker, non drinker. Good humor, good energy. Seeking a partner who shares my values to enjoy life and have some fun! smc444, 59, seeking: M, W,l FUNNY, ARTICULATE, SENSITIVE I’m irreverent, honest and direct but also sensitive and emotionally aware.

I love hiking, walking and spending time outside in most kinds of weather.

I enjoy listening to music, going to the Roxy and the Flynn. Can’t wait to travel again with the right partner. Can’t wait to meet you! Lucy, 59, seeking: M,l

SEEKING COOKING AND FORESTBATHING FRIEND I like to spend time in the woods, biking, cross-country skiing, walking and more. I work hard and have good friends, just not that special someone.

If you are interested in learning more, please email me. I know you are out there. :) I would like to meet someone who is low-key and truly active. VTMTGUY, 55, seeking: W,l OLD-SCHOOL EMPATHY I enjoy the small things in life. I’ve always been the nice guy who trusts the wrong people, and that has just made me a better person. I’m looking for compassion on a deep level, honesty and someone who is not afraid of being real. I enjoy trying new things and not being in charge. :). Mrlivelife38, 38, seeking: W LOOKING FOR A LOVER Competent DIYer, DIYing, looking for a woman to do it with. I’m naturally kind. And brave. I’m still healthy and in good shape. Lucky. I bought a boat on Malletts Bay. Fixing it up now for sailing Lake Champlain this summer. It would be nice to have a cocaptain. Looking for friends first, and last relationship.

Unshellfish, 64, seeking: W,l QUIETLY EXPLORING LIFE I’m recently retired and looking forward to the next part of my life. Looking to meet someone who is open, easygoing, honest and likes to travel the back roads. MovingOn, 67, seeking: W,l

ARTIST, WEIRD, FUNNY, ENERGETIC, CONFIDENT New to the area and looking for new friends, dates and more. I hike, bike and kayak. Love movies, dinners, travel, antiquing, taking photos and just having a great time every chance I get.

420 friendly. No cigs. Scorpio. I have worked in film, TV and radio. Chemistry is everything! I prefer talking to texting.

VT AF. Artist802, 48, seeking: W, Cp,l CREATIVE, KINKY & POLY I live in rural Vermont and have a professional career in Burlington. I support all flavors of self-identification, sexuality and expression. Consent and respect are fundamental to me. I’m less likely to connect physically with those who don’t share an interest in kink in some way, shape or form. Please feel free to contact me if I’ve sparked your interest. SparkVT, 49, seeking: W,l

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I relish exploring new dance moves, fishing spots and social arrangements that nurture community. By gender nonconforming, I mean enrolling in home ec; in 1970, that was a radical move.

My degree is in elementary education.

I offer wisdom from extraordinary life experiences, unflagging curiosity and a spiritual foundation. abear, 67, seeking: W

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HEY THERE, GORGEOUS You: the gorgeous blue eyes and the cool shades that I commented on. We held hands. I know you probably forgot my number. When: Saturday, February 22, 2020. Where: McDonald’s drive-through.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914993 FORGOT PURSE, MISERY LOVES CO. Friday evening. Very cute woman. You came back to your table for your purse, and we spoke together about my man-purse.

(I grew up in Montréal.) Kicking myself that I didn’t ask for your name. Would love to be in touch, maybe share a drink and learn more about each other. Hope we connect! When: Friday, February 21, 2020. Where: Misery Loves Co., Winooski.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914992 TRISHA FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS 10 a.m. I thought you were from New Hampshire. I had so much fun talking to you! I hope you get the job at the hospital.

I would love to grab a coffee with you and go for a walk together. When: Saturday, February 15, 2020. Where: BTV airport.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914991 VISITING YOUR SISTER FROM OVERSEAS We made small talk at the register. You humored my attempts at an English accent. Enjoy the slopes, but don’t stay out too long. Half the fun is coming back in to something warm! When: Saturday, February 15, 2020. Where: Moretown.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914990 COURTNEY AT MORRISVILLE PRICE CHOPPER You were the cashier when I was helping my mother with groceries. You noticed me checking you out and smiled. I asked about your tattoos, and we chatted a bit as I bagged the groceries. I’m the guy with the spiked necklace. I hope you notice this. When: Thursday, February 13, 2020. Where: Price Chopper, Morrisville.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914989

WAS THAT YOU, SHANNON? There is that moment when the heart skips a beat and you feel the energy around you circulate. Best Italian food in Winooski. You: tall, blond and glowing.

Me: tall and frozen. I should have had you open the door? When: Friday, February 14, 2020. Where: Frank’s.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914988 VTC BASKETBALL GAME You look like someone I’ve met before. I heard you talking to your son about the game and loved your way of communicating and encouraging him. When: Sunday, February 9, 2020. Where: VTC. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914986 BUMBLE MATCH WHO FLEW AWAY We matched. You liked that I didn’t have a smartphone and said, “I’m in love.” I liked that mountains were in your blood and said, “I’m in love.” It was your move. Then you flew away.

How am I supposed to track you down without a smartphone? When: Saturday, February 8, 2020. Where: online.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914984 HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY, LULLABY LAD Everything about you resonates with me. Our heartwarming relationship deserves two [injured] thumbs up. I sure am glad we both swiped right.

Love you ‘til your teeth turn black — oh wait, they already have! Xoxo. When: Thursday, November 21, 2019. Where: Hinge. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914983 BABE AT BABES QDP You: beautiful, dark curly hair, double bun, reddish lipstick. We made eyes while “Despacito” played. I was shy, wearing a vest over turquoise and leading my tall friend in salsa spins. Wanna dance with me? When: Saturday, February 1, 2020. Where: Babes Bar, Bethel. You: Woman. Me: Genderqueer. #914982

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‘I BEEN SEARCHIN’’ Heard you complain your sandwich was on the small end of the rye. I took it back and got you a big fat egg sandwich. We sat and talked a while.

Didn’t get your name because “Our Day Will Come,” and we’ll be “Reunited.”

Remember, “My Mission’s to Please You!” I’m at Wally’s every morning!

LOL. When: Friday, January 24, 2020.

Where: Wally’s bagels, South Hero.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914981 COOL GIRL TRYING SNOWBOARD BOOTS Cool chicka in OGE: WOW! You: leggings and skirt with tank top, shawl-like sweater and trucker cap trying on white and day-glo orange snowboard boots. Me: svelte, noir cross-country dude with purple print kufi hat, sunglasses, playing with phone. You smiled, but I had to run ‘cause my meter was up. I should have stayed and asked you to lunch. HMU! When: Wednesday, February 5, 2020.

Where: Outdoor Gear Exchange.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914980 SALLY, WAS THAT YOU? One year ago, I saw you in Nutty Steph’s.

Your smile captured me, although we didn’t speak, and I was stunned, crushed that I didn’t say anything before you drove off. Three weeks later, we were in love and living together. I’m so grateful that you I-Spied me, babe. One year, and our love is only growing. Another year together? When: Thursday, February 7, 2019. Where: Nutty Steph’s parking lot. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914979 DAZZLED AT ICE ON FIRE You: shiny silver boots with mintgreen one-piece ski suit with fun black fuzzy hat. I said hi once you said hi back. Ski, hike, tea or coffee sometime? Didn’t get the opportunity to introduce myself. When: Sunday, February 2, 2020. Where: Ice on Fire.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914978 KINNEY DRUGS, MILTON, JANUARY 30 Keith sitting outside. Hiked from California. Black hat, backpack. I gave you hot chocolate, a sandwich. I left, came back to get you, but you were gone. Been looking for you. If you see this, I want you to know I came back for you. If anyone comes across him, please contact me. When: Thursday, January 30, 2020. Where: Kinney Drugs, Milton.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914977

Dear Not Butti-Giggling,

Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

Dear Reverend,

My husband has the scalding hots for Pete Buttigieg. Unfortunately, I kind of look like him, and my beau wants to call me “Mayor Pete” in bed. I know it’s all in good fun, but this idea sort of turns me off. Probably because I’m a huge Bernie fan. I’m game for trying a lot of things, and I want to make my hubby happy, but I think this might squash the mood. What do I do?

Not Butti-Giggling

(male, 33)

Role-play can be a fantastic way to spice up your sex life, but only when all parties involved are down with the plan. Call me crazy, but it sounds like you’re on the fence with this one.

I say let some sixo’clock shadow grow, throw on a tie, hop in the sack and see how it goes. What’s the worst that could happen? It may be too weird to go through

I SPIED YOU SPYING ME You: in blue car headed north, 8:30 a.m.

Me: in a commercial truck. You really got my attention/made my day when I saw your smiling face rise into your windshield and make a clear offer to me.

I would love to take you up on that! Let’s meet. When: Friday, January 31, 2020.

Where: Colchester Route 7 in front of VNA Hospice. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914976 CLINIC LOVER Asmar, you are great security and very kind and handsome. I am bettering my life, and you are a good part of why. I have liked you since you started here, and I want to know if we can sometime go get baklava or Booger Bubbles together.

Let’s talk soon! When: Wednesday, January 29, 2020. Where: Chittenden Clinic. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914975 WINTER SHORTS, SUMMER UKE A tall, skinny male in shorts and a tightfitted sweatshirt. You were doing laundry in the afternoon. I’ve seen you in the summer mountain biking and playing music by the water. I hope I can kiss you before the summer begins again. When: Monday, January 27, 2020. Where: King St. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914974 BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN Six years now I have known the other part of my heart. Six years it’s been since you held me with your arms. I wish you were still here and not floating around hurt.

Six years of missing a chance. What could be, we’ll only want to know. Someday I’d like to know. CM. When: Monday, January 26, 2015. Where: Montpelier.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914973 HARDWICK DINER THURSDAY NIGHT I was in a booth in a dirty hooded sweatshirt. You: beautiful beyond words, long dark hair, eyes to get lost in. You knocked on the window and blew me a kiss. My heart melted, and I haven’t stopped smiling. Let’s meet there for breakfast. When: Thursday, January 23, 2020. Where: Hardwick.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914972 BEAUTIFUL LIZ! Just visiting Match, but I saw you there and cannot believe someone with as much to offer in fun and beauty and values would be single. We are acquaintances already. I don’t kite surf, but I can learn, and everything else sounds sweet. Say hello?

When: Tuesday, January 21, 2020. Where: Match. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914970

PEEK UNDER MY HOOD! You: in your Bokan uniform, covered in oil and smelling like a long day. I love the way you look at me in such a loving way. If only I had the nerve to tell you how I really feel. It’s a love to last a lifetime that is so very real. Oops, guess the word is out! If you feel the same, give me a shout! When: Sunday, December 3, 2017. Where: Highgate.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914971 BLOND HAIR, BLUE EYES Thanks for the art. Who knew Crayola could look so good? Let’s do that together sometime. When: Wednesday, January 15, 2020. Where: Burlington.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914969 BRUNETTE AT MONKEY DO SATURDAY To the beautiful brunette who was there with her son and daughter: You are beautiful, and I just wanted to have a conversation with you.

You were wearing black leggings and a brown sweater. I didn’t see a ring on your finger, and I’m hoping you see this. I was there with my son and his friend. When: Saturday, January 18, 2020. Where: Monkey Do. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914968 THE LAMP SHOP BATHROOM We both wanna move in. We were at Emma’s show a few weeks ago. I almost went last night to see if you were there, but I couldn’t think of a way to ask if you are single. If you are, reply to this message. When: Friday, December 13, 2019. Where: LCLS. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914967 RUNNING MAN OBSESSED WITH GREEN Your lean physique more than makes up for your questionable penchant for lime tones. Running in 25 degrees must mean you have a stoked inner fire. Let me warm my hands over you? When: Saturday, January 30, 2016. Where: OP. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914966 STEALING GLANCES AT TACO GORDO We stole a few glances. Couldn’t decide if it was reciprocal. When my takeout order was ready, I got toppings. You followed, asked what they were. I ran out the door. Honestly, every part of me wanted to stay, but I was terrified, because, for years, I was convinced I was gay. And you made me think twice about it. When: Friday, January 10, 2020. Where: Taco Gordo.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914965

with, but I bet you’d both have a good laugh about it and wind up having fun either way.

If trying it for real is a complete boner-kill, tell him that he can call you “Mayor Pete” in his head all he wants. I’m sure he’d understand where you’re coming from if you ask him whether he’d be OK with you yelling, “Feel the Bern!” in the throes of passion.

Good luck and God bless,

The Reverend

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CENTRAL VERMONT SUPERVISORY UNION FOOD SERVICE MANAGEMENT COMPANY INVITATION FOR PROPOSAL The Central Vermont Supervisory Union (CVSU), consisting of the Northfield Middle High School, Northfield Elementary School, Williamstown Middle High School, Williamstown Elementary School, Washington Village School, and Orange Center School is accepting proposals for Food Service Management Companies (FSMC) to run the food service program in the CVSU beginning with the 2020 – 2021 (FY21) school year.

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AUCTION – MOBILE HOME Sale Date & Location: Thursday, 3/5/2020 at 11:00 a.m. – Windy Hollow Mobile Home Park, 525 River Street, Lot #7 in Castleton, VT. For more info. call (802) 860-9536.

2002 ASTRO, BA01, 16’x 80’ Min. bid $11,592.80 Must be moved 5 days after sale.

Auctioneer: Uriah Wallace – Lic. #0570002460

Please submit proposals and inquiries to: Chris Locarno, Director Finance and Facilities Central Vermont Supervisory Union 111b Brush Hill Road Williamstown, Vermont 05679 802-433-5818 clocarno@cvsu.org Proposals must be received on or before 12:00 noon, Friday May 08, 2020 The Central Vermont Supervisory Union reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, to waive any formalities in the proposal, or negotiate individually with any vendor to serve the best interest of the school district.

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INVITATION FOR BID The Winooski Housing Authority is soliciting bids from qualified electrical contractors for an Electrical Upgrade project in Winooski, VT. This project scope is: 1.

The removal, relocation, replacement, and rewiring of 57 electrical panels and associated work. 2.

The removal, replacement, and reconnection of 55 bathroom fan ventilation units. Related patching and carpentry work by others, please see project manual for details.

Sealed bids are due at the Winooski Housing Authority’s office at 83 Barlow St., Winooski, VT, on March 26th at 2:00pm ET. Sealed bids may be delivered via mail or in person. Davis Bacon wage rates will apply. Late bids will not be accepted. Bids will be opened and publicly read aloud.

There will be a pre-bid conference on site, March 4th. Please contact Hunter Gomez, Owner’s Project Representative at (802) 730-3534 or email at hunter@pcivt.com to express interest, request access to bid documents, and the pre-bid conference details.

Minority-owned and women-owned businesses are encouraged to participate.

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[CONTINUED] Jeffery Kenyon C109 Easy Self Storage 46 Swift St, South Burlington, VT 05403 (802) 860-8300 NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE LIEN SALE MALLETTS BAY SELF STORAGE, LLC 115 HEINEBERG DRIVE, COLCHESTER, VT 05446 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid.

Name of Occupant Storage Unit David Buhl # 72E Said sales will take place on 03/13/20, beginning at 10:00am at Malletts Bay Self Storage, LLC, (MBSS, LLC)115 Heineberg Dr, Colchester, VT 05446.

Units will be opened for viewing immediately prior to auction. Sale shall be by sealed bid to the highest bidder. Contents of entire storage unit will be sold as one lot. The winning bid must remove all contents from the facility at no cost to MBSS, LLC on the day of auction. MBSS, LLC reserves the right to reject any bid lower that the amount owed by the occupant or that is not commercially reasonable as defined by statute.

NOTICE TO VOTERS FOR MARCH 3, 2020 ELECTION BEFORE ELECTION DAY: CHECKLIST POSTED at Clerk’s Office by Sunday, February 2, 2020. If your name is not on the checklist, then you must register to vote. SAMPLE BALLOTS will be posted

by Saturday, February 22, 2020.

HOW TO REGISTER TO VOTE: There is no deadline to register to vote. You will be able to register to vote on the day of the election.

You can register prior by visiting the town clerk’s office or going online to olvr.sec.state.vt.us.

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If you have physical disabilities, are visually impaired or can’t read, you may have assistance from any person of your choice. If any voters you know have disabilities, let them know they can

If you know voters who cannot get from the car into the polling place let them know that ballot(s) may be brought to their car by two election officials.

If you have any questions or need assistance while voting, ask your town clerk or any election official for help.

NO PERSON SHALL: • Vote more than once per election, either in the same town or in different towns.

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FOR HELP OR INFORMATION: Call the Secretary of State’s Office at 1-800439-VOTE (439-8683).

(Accessible by TDD) If you believe that any of your voting rights have been violated, you may file an Administrative Complaint with the Secretary of State’s Office, 128 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05633.

If you believe you have witnessed efforts to commit any kind of fraud or corruption in the voting process, you may report this to your local United States Attorney’s Office.

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ON ELECTION DAY: If your name was dropped from the checklist in error, or has not been added even though you submitted a timely application for addition to the checklist, you can fill out a new registration form.

• If the clerk or Board for Registration of Voters does not add your name, you can appeal the decision to a superior court judge, who will settle the matter on Election Day. Call the Secretary of State’s Office at 1-800439-VOTE (439-8683) for more information.

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You may also use the accessible voting system to mark your ballot. If you want to use the accessible voting system tell the entrance checklist official. An election official will take you to the accessible ballot marking device, enter a security code, and then leave you to mark and print your ballot privately. More details about our new accessible ballot marking device are available at https://www.sec.state. vt.us/elections/voters/ accessibility.aspx

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Board of Tax Appeals: Term Expires 6/30/20: One Opening Applications may be submitted to the Clerk/Treasurer’s Office, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401 Attn: Lori NO later than Wednesday, March 18, 2020, by 4:30 pm.

If you have any questions, please contact Lori at (802)865-7136 or via email lolberg@burlingtonvt.gov.

City Council President Wright will plan for appointments to take place at the March 23, 2020 City Council Meeting/ City Council With Mayor Presiding Meeting STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT

DOCKET NO. 149-2-20 CNCV IN RE: ABANDONED MOBILE HOME OF LORI LATULIPPE NOTICE OF HEARING A hearing on The Housing Foundation, Inc.’s Verified Complaint to declare as abandoned and uninhabitable the mobile home of Lori Latulippe located at the Birchwood Manor Mobile Home Park, Lot #173, 192 Taylor Street in Milton, Vermont has been set for March 10, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. at the Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Civil Division located at 175 Main Street, Burlington, Vermont.

Date: February 18, 2020 Nancy J. Bean, Deputy Clerk/Docket Clerk VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR ABANDONMENT PURSUANT TO 10 V.S.A. § 6249(i) (Uninhabitable) NOW COMES The Housing Foundation, Inc. (“HFI”), by and through its counsel Nadine L. Scibek, and hereby complains as follows: 1. HFI, a Vermont nonprofit corporation with a principal place of business in Montpelier, County of Washington, State of Vermont, is the record owner of a mobile home park known as the Birchwood Manor Mobile Home Park (the “Park”) located in the Town of Milton, Vermont (the “Park”). The Park is managed by the Vermont State Housing Authority.

2. Lori Latulippe (“Latulippe”) is the record owner of a certain mobile home, described as a 1971 Pacemaker FK2, 50 feet, bearing serial #6747 (the “Mobile Home”), located on Lot #173, Birchwood Manor Mobile Home Park, 192 Taylor Street in Milton, Vermont. See attached.

3. Latulippe leased a lot in the Park for her mobile home from HFI pursuant to a written lease.

Latulippe paid a security deposit in the amount of $317.00 to HFI. 4. Latulippe is deceased.

Latulippe’s date of death is September 24, 2019.

See attached Death Certificate.

5. No petition to open a probate estate has been filed for Latulippe per the Franklin County Probate Court. Latulippe’s daughter Caitlin Gendron has advised HFI’s Counsel that she agrees that the Mobile Home is uninhabitable.

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS 6. The last known occupant of the mobile home was Andrea Deyoung who continued to reside at the mobile home after Latulippe passed away without the Park’s prior written permission. She was evicted from the mobile home/Park on January 16, 2020. A judgment for possession was entered against her on December 12, 2019. See The Housing Foundation, Inc. v. Deyoung et. al., Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Civil Division, Docket No. 1064-11-19 Cncv. See attached Judgment. The mobile home has been empty since that date.

7. The following security interests, mortgages, liens and encumbrances appear of record with respect to the mobile home: a. Latulippe is in arrears on obligations to pay property taxes to the Town of Milton, Vermont in the aggregate amount of $335.82 plus any additional interest and penalties. The delinquent property taxes are now a lien on the property. Current taxes in the amount of $191.48 are due May 15, 2020. b. Latulippe is in arrears

on obligations to pay water bills to the Town of Milton, Vermont in the aggregate amount of $2,321.63, plus any additional interest and penalties. The delinquent water bills are now a lien on the property.

8. Mobile home storage fees continue to accrue at the rate of $321.00 per month. Rent, storage fees and late charges due HFI as of February, 2020 total $1,559.86. Court costs and attorney’s fees from this action to date exceed $1,750.00.

9. HFI sent written notice by certified mail to the Town of Milton on January 22, 2020 of HFI’s intent to commence this abandonment action as required by statute. See attached.

10. The mobile home is uninhabitable. Thomas Young, Property Manager and duly authorized agent for HFI, will testify under oath as to the poor and unlivable condition of this mobile home at the abandonment hearing.

WHEREFORE, HFI respectfully requests that the Honorable Court enter an order as follows:

1. Declare that the mobile home has been abandoned; 2. Transfer the mobile home which is unfit for human habitation to the Park owner, HFI without public auction so that it may be removed and disposed of accordingly.

3. Order pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6249(j) that the mobile home and any security deposit paid be conveyed to the Park Owner in “as is” condition, and free from all liens and other encumbrances of record.

DATED at Burlington, Vermont this 14th day of February, 2020.

By: Nadine L. Scibek, Attorney for The Housing Foundation, Inc. DATED at Woodstock, Vermont this 14th day of February, 2020.

By: Thomas Young, Duly Authorized Agent The Housing Foundation, Inc. VERIFICATION STATE OF VERMONT WINDSOR COUNTY, SS. At Woodstock, on this 14th day of February, 2020, Thomas Young, duly authorized agent of

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The Housing Foundation, Inc., owner of the Birchwood Manor Mobile Home Park in Milton, Vermont, being first duly sworn, made oath that he has read the foregoing Complaint, and that the facts contained therein are true.

Before me, Notary Public – Nadine L. Scibek Commission Expires: 1/31/21 Lic. #157.0007638 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO. 141-2-19 CNCV HVL VERMONT, LLC, Plaintiff v. ROBERT ANDRES, Defendant NOTICE TO FORMER LESSEE TO THE FORMER LESSEE: ROBERT K. ANDRES OF 156 COLLEGE STREET, BURLINGTON, VERMONT I am the Managing Member and duly authorized agent of the Plaintiff, HVL Vermont, LLC, in the above matter. Notice is hereby given to Robert K. Andres, and any and all third parties acting on behalf of, through or agent for the said Robert K. Andres, that any re-

sidual leasehold interest formerly held by the said Robert K. Andres, not otherwise extinguished through the Orders of the Court in the abovereferenced matter, are TERMINATED AND EXTINGUISHED. Any personal property formerly located at Lot #511 Mills Point in Colchester, Vermont, is abandoned.

HVL VERMONT, LLC, Plaintiff Dated: February 20, 2020 By: s/ Managing Member & Duly Authorized Agent c/o Eric G. Parker, Esq. 401 Water Tower Circle, Suite 101 Colchester, VT 05446 (802) 863-5538 Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 02/26/20 & 03/04/20 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO. 148-2-20 CNCV IN RE: ABANDONED MOBILE HOME OF KAYLEE LANGEVIN NOTICE OF HEARING A hearing on The Housing Foundation, Inc.’s Verified Complaint to declare as abandoned the

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Date: February 18, 2020 Nancy J. Bean, Deputy Clerk/Docket Clerk VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR ABANDONMENT PURSUANT TO 10 V.S.A. § 6249(h) (Auction) NOW COMES The Housing Foundation, Inc. (“HFI”), by and through its counsel Nadine L. Scibek, and hereby complains as follows: 1. HFI, a Vermont nonprofit corporation with a principal place of business in Montpelier, County of Washington, State of Vermont, is the record owner of a mobile home park known as the Birchwood Manor Mobile Home Park (the “Park”) located in the Town of Milton, Vermont.

2. Kaylee Langevin (“Langevin”) is the record owner of a certain mobile

home described as a 1988 Tower mobile home, 14’ x 70’, bearing serial number THPH1541 (the “Mobile Home”), located on Lot #94, Birchwood Manor Mobile Home Park, 125 Owen Court in Milton, Vermont (the “Lot”) according to the Milton Land Records. See attached.

3. Langevin leased the Lot in the Park from HFI pursuant to a written lease. HFI is holding a security deposit of $289.00 paid by Langevin.

4. Langevin’s last known mailing address is 125 Owen Court, Milton, VT 05468.

5. The mobile home has been abandoned and is empty. The last known resident of the mobile home was Kaylee Langevin.

6. HFI’s Counsel has attempted to communicate with Langevin with no response. See attached letter.

7. Langevin was evicted from the Park for nonpayment of rent on October 3, 2019. A Judgment for the outstanding lot rent, court costs and attorney’s fees was entered against

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Langevin on September 11, 2019 in the amount of $2,738.78. See The Housing Foundation, Inc. v. Langevin, Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Civil Unit, Docket No. 600-7-19 Cncv. See attached Judgment.

8. The following security interests, mortgages, liens and encumbrances appear of record with respect to the mobile home: a. Langevin is in arrears on obligations to pay water bills to the Town of Milton, Vermont in the aggregate amount of $171.47, plus any additional interest and penalties. The delinquent water bills are now a lien on the property. There are no delinquent taxes owed to the Town of Milton. Current taxes in the amount of $749.43 are due May 15, 2020. b. The Housing Foundation, Inc. v. Langevin, Judgment Order dated September 11, 2019, Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Civil Division.

9. Uriah Wallace, a duly licensed auctioneer, is a person disinterested in the mobile home and the mobile home park who

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TERMS OF SALE: The sale will be held at 18 Third Street, Barre, Vermont. The property shall be sold AS IS, WITH ALL FAULTS, WITH NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY

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Being the land and premises, including all improvements located thereon, commonly known and designated as 18 Third Street, in the City of Barre and being

The description of the property contained in the Mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this Notice.

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3. Grant judgment in favor of the Park Owner and against the mobile home for past due and

Before me, Notary Public – Nadine L. Scibek Commission Expires: 1/31/21 Lic. #157.0007638

Reference is hereby made to the aforementioned deeds and to their records, and to the deed and references contained therein, for a more complete and particular description of the land and premises herein conveyed.

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2. Approve the sale of the mobile home at a public auction to be held within 15 days of the date of judgment, pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6249(h); and

2. Quit claim deed from Central Vermont Community Land Trust, Inc. And being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Central Vermont Community Land Trust, Inc. by Warranty Deed of Randy S. Ensminger and Naomi J. Ensminger dated February 6, 1997, recorded in Book 165, Page 404-405 of the Barre City Land Records.

Title to the land and improvements having now been merged in Naomi Isabelle, all ground lease rights are effectively terminated, specific reference being hereby made to Short Form Ground Lease dated February 6, 1997, recorded in Book 165, Page 426-428 of the Barre City Land Records

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1. Declare that the mobile home has been abandoned;

By virtue of the Judgment Order, Decree of Foreclosure and Order for Public Sale entered on June 5, 2019, and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain Mortgage given Naomi Higginbotham, f/k/a Naomi Isabelle, dated February 25, 2011 and recorded in Volume 263 at Pages 576-581 of the City of Barre Land Records, which Mortgage NorthCountry Federal Credit Union is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said Mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same, the undersigned will cause to be sold to the highest bidder at Public Auction at 18 Third Street, Barre, Vermont, at 9:00 a..m. on the 17th day of March, 2020, all and singular the

1. Quit claim deed from Randy S. Ensminger and Naomi Isabelle, f/k/a Naomi J. Ensminger and being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Randy S. Ensminger and Naomi J. Ensminger by Warranty Deed of Timothy W. Duquette and Penny A. Brown, f/k/a Penny A. Duquette dated February 6, 1997, recorded in Book 165, Page 390 of the Barre City Land Records; and

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WHEREFORE, the Park Owner respectfully requests that the Honorable Court enter an order as follows:

VERIFICATION STATE OF VERMONT WINDSOR COUNTY, SS. At Woodstock on this 14th day of February, 2020, Thomas Young, duly authorized agent of The Housing Foundation, Inc., owner of the Birchwood Manor Mobile Home Park, 125 Owen Court, Lot #94 in Milton, Vermont, being first duly sworn, made oath that he has read the foregoing Complaint, and that the facts represented therein are true to the best of his knowledge.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Naomi Isabelle by the following quit claim deeds:

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11. The Park sent written notice by certified mail to the Town of Milton on January 14, 2020 of its intent to commence this abandonment action.

See attached.

DATED at Woodstock, Vermont this 14th day of February, 2020.

By: Thomas Young, Duly Authorized Agent The Housing Foundation, Inc.

The property is known as 18 Third Street, Barre, Vermont. The real estate is described in the aforesaid Mortgage as follows:

further described in various deeds in the chain of title as “Being Lot 47 as shown on the ‘Plan of Building Lots in Barre, Vt., Belonging to D.R. Sortwell & A.D. Morse, Scale 1 inch equals 100 feet’ on file in the Barre City Clerk’s office in Book 3, Page 194 of the Old Barre Town Land Records. The said lot has frontage of 50 feet on Third Street and extends in depth 100 feet, and the rear lot line is 50 feet...”

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10. Mobile home storage fees continue to accrue at the rate of $321.00 per month. Rent, storage fees and late charges due the Park as of December, 2018 total $3,056.67.

Court costs and attorney’s fees incurred by the Park exceed $3,500.00.

DATED at Burlington, Vermont this 14th day of February, 2020.

By: Nadine L. Scibek, Attorney for The Housing Foundation, Inc.

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is able to sell the mobile home at a public auction.

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION WASHINGTON UNIT DOCKET NO. 160-3-18 WNCV NORTHCOUNTRY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, v. NAOMI HIGGINBOTHAM f/k/a, NAOMI ISABELLE, CENTRAL VERMONT COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, INC. n/k/a DOWNSTREET HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, VERMONT HOUSING AND CONSERVATION BOARD, OCCUPANTS residing at 18 Third Street, Barre, Vermont Defendants.

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unpaid rent and mobile home storage charges through the date of judgment, together with Park Owner’s court costs, publication and mailing costs, auctioneer’s costs, winterization costs, lot cleanup charges, attorney’s fees incurred in connection with this matter and any other costs incurred by Park Owner herein.

KIND, subject to all easements, rights-ofway, covenants, permits, reservations and restrictions of record, title defects, unforeclosed liens, environmental hazards, unpaid real estate taxes (delinquent and current), current and delinquent assessments in favor of homeowners associations, if any, and municipal liens, to the highest bidder for cash.

At the sale, the successful bidder, other than the Mortgagee, shall pay $10,000 down (nonrefundable) in cash or bank treasurer check (or a combination thereof).

The deposit must be increased to at least 10% of the successful bid within five (5) calendar days of the public sale by an additional payment in cash or by bank treasurer’s check. The successful bidder shall execute a Purchase and Sale Agreement requiring payment of the balance of the purchase price within ten (10) days of entry of the court order confirming the sale. Before being permitted to bid at the sale, bidder shall display to the auctioneer proof of the ability to comply with these requirements. The successful bidder, other than the Mortgagee, must sign a NO CONTINGENCY Purchase and Sale Agreement satisfactory to Mortgagee at the sale.

Title will be transferred by the Order Confirming Sale. The person holding the sale may, for good cause, postpone the sale for a period of up to thirty (30) days, from time to time, until it is completed, giving notice of such adjournment and specifying the new date by public proclamation at the time and place appointed for the sale, or by posting notice of the adjournment in a conspicuous place at the location of the sale.

Notice of the new sale date shall also be sent by first class mail, postage prepaid, to the Mortgagor at the Mortgagor’s last known address, at least five (5) days before the new sale date. The public sale may be adjourned for a period of time in excess of thirty (30) days by agreement of the Mortgagor and Mortgagee or by order of the court. Other terms to be announced at the sale or contact Ward Law, P.C., 3069 Williston Road, South Burlington, Vermont 05403; (802) 863-0307.

The record owner is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by pay-

ing the full amount due under the Judgment Order, Decree of Foreclosure and Order of Public Sale dated entered June 5, 2019, including the costs and expenses of sale.

Dated at Bridport, Vermont this 5th day of February, 2020.

WARD LAW, PC Attorneys for Plaintiff By: /s/ Cynthia R. Amrhein Cynthia R. Amrhein, Esq. 3069 Williston Road South Burlington, VT 05403 (802) 863-0307 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 143-1-20 CNPR In re ESTATE of Marion M. Fukushima NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the Creditors of Marion M. Fukushima, late of Burlington, VT. I have been appointed to administer this estate.

All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their calims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: February 20, 2020 Signature of Fiduciary: Elizabeth Fukushima Executor/Administrator: Elizabeth Fukushima PO Box 36, Plainfield, VT 05667 802-989-0430 elizabeth.fukushima@ me.com Name of publication: Seven Days Publication Date: February 26, 2020 Name of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court Chittenden Unit - Probate Division Address of Probate Court: PO Box 511, Burlington, VT 05402 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 46-1-20 CNPR In re ESTATE of DAVID HOLMES NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the Creditors of: David Holmes late of South Burlington.

I have been appointed to administer this estate.

All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: February 19, 2020 Signature of Fiduciary /s/ Lisa Pratt c/o Launa L. Slater, Esq., Jarrett & Luitjens, PLC, 1795 Williston Rd., Suite 125, South Burlington, VT 05403 (802) 864-5951 Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 2/26/2020 Name of Probate Court: Chittenden Probate Court Address of Probate Court: P.O. Box 511, Burlington, VT 05402-0511 STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WASHINGTON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 280-5-18 WNCV JPMORGAN MORTGAGE ACQUISITION CORP. v.

MALINDA L. MOSER A/K/A MALINDA MOSER AND JEREMY P. MALONE OCCUPANTS OF: 359 Sierra Lavin Road, Barre VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered July 15, 2019, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given

by Ira Moser and Malinda L. Moser to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Century 21(R) Mortgage (SM), dated June 22, 2006 and recorded in Book 218 Page 449 of the land records of the Town of Barre, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Century 21 Mortgage to PHH Mortgage Corporation dated February 2, 2007 and recorded in Book 223 Page 648; (2) Assignment of Mortgage from

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS PHH Mortgage Corporation to EMC Mortgage Corporation dated June 28, 2011 and recorded in Book 254 Page 798; (3) Assignment of Mortgage from EMC Mortgage LLC fka EMC Mortgage Corporation to J. P. Morgan Acquisition Corp. dated July 25, 2011 and recorded in Book 254 Page 851; (4) Corrective Assignment of Mortgage from EMC Mortgage Corporation to J. P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp. dated March 16, 2012 and recorded in Book 259 Page 988; (5) Assignment of Mortgage from J. P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp. to U.S. Bank National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee for the RMAC Pass-Through Trust, Series 2016-CTT dated March 29, 2017 and recorded in Book 294 Page 1 and (6) Assignment of Mortgage from to U.S. Bank National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee for the RMAC Pass-Through Trust, Series 2016-CTT to J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp. dated April 12, 2018 and recorded in Book 298 Page 270, all of the land records of the Town 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 359 Sierra Lavin Road, Barre, Vermont on March 17, 2020 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 Melinda Moser and Ira Moser, husband and wife, by warranty deed of Leo W. Sanborn, Jr. of approximately even date hereof and about to be recorded in the Barre Town Land Records.

Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Leo W. Sanborn, Jr. by quitclaim deed of Amanda Shiverick, Susan Smith, Ginger Sanborn, Jennifer Frye and Lisa Perreault dated June 12, 2006 and about to be recorded.

Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Amanda Shiverick, Susan Smith, Ginger Sanborn, Jennifer Frye and Lisa Perreault by deed of Leo W. Sanborn, Jr. dated March 7, 2001 and recorded in Book 163 Page 468 of the Barre Town Land Records.

Subject to utility easements and public rightsof-way of record.

Reference is hereby made to the aforesaid deeds and their records and to the deeds and records cited therein for a further and more particular description of the land and premises hereby conveyed.

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

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

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

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

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : February 4, 2020 By: /S/Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WASHINGTON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 337-6-19 WNCV BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. v.

ANN M. MURPHY, WOODBURY ELECTRIC, VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY-INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OCCUPANTS OF: 14 Leo Avenue, Barre VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered December 23, 2019, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Ann M. Murphy and the late Larry A. Murphy to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for People’s United Bank, dated October 13, 2010 and recorded in Book 249 Page 636 of the land records of the Town 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 People’s United Bank to Bank of America, N.A. dated January 17, 2019 and recorded in Book 302 Page 239 of the land records of the Town 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 14 Leo Avenue, Barre, Vermont on March 16, 2020 at 11:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Larry A. Murphy and Ann M. Murphy, husband and wife, by deed of Clara M. McLeod, Executrix of the John L. McLeod Estate dated December 10. 1985 and recorded in Book 99 Page 3 of the Town of Barre Land Records. Reference is made to a License to Sell dated December 2, 1985 and recorded in Book 99 Page 2. Further being all and the same land and premises conveyed to John L. McLeod by deed of Clara M, McLeod and John L. McLeod dated September 6, 1975 and recorded in Book 68 Page 132.

Subject to utility easements and public rightsof-way of record.

Reference is hereby made to the aforesaid deeds and their records and to the deeds and records cited therein for a further and more particular description of the land and premises hereby conveyed.

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

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

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

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

DATED : February 10, 2020 By: /s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WINDSOR UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 275-6-18 WRCV NEWREZ LLC, F/K/A NEW PENN FINANCIAL, LLC, D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING v.

BRADFORD C. HOUK AND DARYL M. HOUK OCCUPANTS OF: 214 Vt Route 11 W, Chester VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered September 5, 2019, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Bradford C. Houk and Daryl M. Houk to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Flagstar Bank, FSB., dated May 19, 2011 and recorded in Book 126 Page 52 of the land records of the Town of Chester, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following

Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Flagstar Bank, FSB to Ditech Financial LLC, dated April 5, 2018 and recorded in Book 183 Page 220 and (2) Assignment of Mortgage from Ditech Financial LLC, by NewRez LLC f/k/a New Penn Financial, LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing to NewRez LLC f/k/a New Penn Financial, LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing dated June 13, 2019 and recorded in Book 195 Page 163, both of of the land records of the Town of Chester for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 214 VT Route 11 W, Chester, Vermont on March 25, 2020 at 10:45 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Property Description For Property Located at 214 VT Route 11 W. Chester Owned by Bradford C. Houk and Daryl M. Houk Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Bradford C. Houk and Daryl M. Houk by Warranty Deed of Damien R. Noel dated September 4, 2003 and recorded in Volume 90 at Page 462 [452] of the Town of Chester Land Records. The property is described in its aforesaid Deed from Noel to Houk as follows: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Damien R. Noel

by Decree of Distribution of the Windsor District Probate Court in the Estate of Hettie M. Paige dated March 25, 2002 and recorded March 29, 2002 in Book 88 at Page 276 of the Chester Land Records and in said Decree described as follows: Being all and the same lands and premises as were conveyed to H. Raymond Paige and Hettie M. Paige, as husband and wife, by the following deeds: Warranty Deed from Harry D. and Ina M. Gardner, dated July 8, 1964, recorded in Book 41, Page 137; and by Administrator’s Deed of Russell A. Clark, Administrator of the Estate of Margaret E. Sherwin, dated January 14, 1970, recorded in Book 44, Pages 333-4,

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

Ward One/East District: Mater Christi School, 100 Mansfield Ave. Ward Two/Central District: H.O. Wheeler School (Integrated Arts Academy), 6 Archibald St.

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.

Ward Three/Central District: Lawrence Barnes School (Sustainability Academy), 123 North St.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

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

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : February 24, 2020 By: /s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren__ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 THE TOWN OF BOLTON, VERMONT is soliciting bids from qualified vendors with demonstrated abilities to perform highway edge mowing on approximately 20 miles of the Town of Bolton paved and gravel Town Highways. Please see the town website for specific RFB information: www.boltonvt.com WARNING & NOTICE 2020 ANNUAL CITY MEETING The legal voters of the City of Burlington, Vermont are hereby warned and notified to come and vote at the Annual City Meeting on Tuesday, the 3rd day of March, 2020 between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. in their respective wards, at the voting places hereinafter

Ward Four/North District: Saint Mark’s Youth Center, 1271 North Ave. Ward Five/South District: Burlington Electric Department, 585 Pine St. Ward Six/South District: Edmunds Middle School, 275 Main St. Ward Seven/North District: Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, 130 Gosse Ct. 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. for the purpose of electing certain city officers as follows: WARD ONE/EAST DISTRICT – one Ward One City Councilor for twoyear term; one Ward One School Commissioner for two-year term; one Ward One Insp two-year term; one Ward One Inspector of Election for three-year term; all terms beginning April 6, 2020; and in WARD TWO/CENTRAL DISTRICT - one Ward Two City Councilor for twoyear term; one Ward Two School Commissioner for two-year term; one Ward Two Inspector of Election for two-year term; one Ward Two Inspector of Election for three-year term; all terms beginning April 6, 2020; and in WARD THREE/CENTRAL DISTRICT - one Ward Three City Councilor for two-year term; one Ward Three School Commissioner for two-year term; one Ward Three Inspector of Election for three-year term; all terms beginning April 6, 2020; and in WARD FOUR/NORTH DISTRICT – one Ward Four City Councilor for twoyear term; one Ward Four School Commissioner for two-year term; one Ward Four Ward Clerk for one year term; one Ward Four Inspector of Election for three-year term; all terms beginning April 6, 2020; and in

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WARD FIVE/SOUTH DISTRICT – one Ward Five City Councilor for twoyear term; one Ward Five School Commissioner for two-year term; one Ward Five Inspector of Election for three-year term; all terms beginning April 6, 2020; and in WARD SIX/SOUTH DISTRICT – one Ward Six City Councilor for twoyear term; one Ward Six School Commissioner for two-year term; one Ward Six Ward Clerk for one year term; one Ward Six Inspector of Election for two-year term; one Ward Six Inspector of Election for three-year term; all terms beginning April 6, 2020; and in WARD SEVEN/NORTH DISTRICT – one Ward Seven City Councilor for two-year term; one Ward Seven School Commissioner for two-year term; one Ward Seven Inspector of Election for three-year term; all terms beginning April 6, 2020; and in WARD EIGHT/EAST DISTRICT – one Ward Eight City Councilor for two-year term; one Ward Eight School Commissioner for two-year term; one Ward Eight Inspector of Election for two-year term; one Ward Eight Inspector of Election for three-year term; all terms beginning April 6, 2020.

The legal voters shall also vote upon three special articles being placed on the ballot by request of the City Council by Resolutions duly adopted and approved and one special article being placed on the ballot by request of the Board of School Commissioners by action of the Commissioners duly approved, said special articles being as follows: 1. APPROVAL OF SCHOOL BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021 “Shall the voters of the school district approve the school board to expend $91,525,288 which is the amount the school board has determined to be necessary for the ensuing fiscal year?

It is estimated that this proposed budget, if approved, will result in education spending of $16,920.53 per equalized pupil. This projected spending per equalized pupil is 5.66% higher than spending for the current year.”

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[CONTINUED] SAFETY TAX RATE AUTHORIZED “Pursuant to Sec. 102a of the City Charter, shall the police and fire tax rate be increased by $0.03 so that the public safety tax rate (one component of the overall city tax rate) for FY21 is increased from $0.0807 to $0.1107, a 3.5% increase to the FY20 overall city tax rate, for the operations of a third ambulance and other public safety needs?”

3. PROPOSED CHARTER CHANGE RE HOUSING TRUST FUND “Shall the Charter of the City of Burlington, Acts of 1949, No. 298 as amended be further amended to add a new section 102f as follows: 102f Annual assessment for Housing Trust Fund use authorized.

The city council shall annually assess upon the property grand list of the city to assist in meeting the appropriation made for distributions and uses of the Housing Trust Fund as set forth in Article 18404 of the Code of Ordinances a tax that will, in the judgment of the city council, be sufficient to assist in meeting such appropriation, but the rate shall not exceed one cent upon the dollar of the property grand list, except when a larger rate shall be authorized by the legal voters of the city. The tax shall not be included within the limitations of the amount of tax for city purposes prescribed in section 99 of this chapter.?’

4. PROPOSED CHARTER CHANGE RE CHANGES TO LOCAL ELECTION DATES “Shall the Charter of the City of Burlington, Acts of 1949, No. 298, as amended, be further amended to change the timelines in Article 2 Elections and City Meetings—City Elections, Section 3; Article 3 Warnings, Section 6; and Article 8 Method of Conducting elections,

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Section 22, for submission of petitions relating to charter changes, ballot questions, and candidates in special elections (all elections other than the city annual meeting) so that local ballots are available during state elections at the same time as state ballots, forty-five (45) days prior to the election?” /s/ Miro Weinberger Miro Weinberger, Mayor Publication Dates: Seven Days, Burlington, Vermont, February 5, 2020 WARNING CHAMPLAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT ANNUAL MEETING MARCH 2, 2020 AND MARCH 3, 2020 The legal voters of the Champlain Valley School District, are hereby notified and warned to meet at the Champlain Valley Union High School Room 160 in the Town of Hinesburg at five o’clock in the evening (5:00pm) on March 2, 2020, to transact any of the following business not involving voting by Australian ballot, and to conduct an informational hearing with respect to Articles of business to be considered by Australian ballot on March 3, 2020.

ARTICLE I: To elect a moderator, clerk and treasurer.

ARTICLE II: To hear and act upon the reports of the school district officers.

ARTICLE III: 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 IV: 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 V: To establish the date of the Champlain Valley School District Annual Meeting of Monday, March 1, 2021 at 5pm at CVU High School and recessed and opened back up at Australian ballot voting on Town Meeting Day. ARTICLE VI: To transact any other business

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proper to come before the meeting.

BALLOT QUESTIONS The legal voters of the Champlain Valley School District, are hereby notified and warned to meet at their respective polling places on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 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: 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-Two Million, Three Hundred NinetyEight Thousand, Seven Hundred Sixty-Nine Dollars ($82,398,769) which is the amount the Board of School Directors has determined to be necessary for the ensuing fiscal year commencing July 1, 2020?

It is estimated that the proposed budget, if approved, will result in education spending of Sixteen Thousand, Five Hundred Eighty-Five Dollars ($16,585) per equalized pupil. This projected spending per equalized pupil is 3.2% 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 follows: assign Seven Hundred TwentyFive Thousand Dollars ($725,000) of the school district’s current fund balance as revenue for the 2020-2021 operating budget, and assign the remaining balance, One Million, Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand, Four Hundred and Seven Dollars ($1,750,407) 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 SixtySix Thousand Dollars ($266,000) for the purpose of purchasing three (3) school buses?

ARTICLE X: Shall general obligation bonds or notes of Champlain Valley School District

in an amount not to exceed Six Million Dollars ($6,000,000), 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 building mechanical, electrical and energy efficiency upgrades ($4,500,000), (2) Champlain Valley Union High School grounds and building repairs and replacements ($545,000), (3) Hinesburg Community School grounds and building repairs and upgrades ($395,000), (4) Shelburne Community School building and grounds repairs and upgrades ($380,000), (5) Allen Brook School security upgrades ($90,000), and (6) District-wide stormwater management improvements ($90,000), the aggregate cost of such improvements estimated to be Six Million Dollars ($6,000,000).

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 Central School – Multi Purpose Room Hinesburg - Hinesburg Town Hall – Upstairs Shelburne - Shelburne Town Center – Gymnasium Williston - Williston Armory St. George - St. George Town Hall/ 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 21, 2020.

Received for record and recorded in the records of the Champlain Valley School District on January 22, 2020.

ATTEST: David Connery, District Clerk Lynne Jaunich, Chairperson

support groups VISIT SEVENDAYSVT. COM TO VIEW A FULL LIST OF SUPPORT GROUPS ADDICT IN THE FAMILY: SUPPORT GROUP FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES OF ADDICTS AND ALCOHOLICS Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., Holy Family/St. Lawrence Parish, 4 Prospect St., Essex Junction. For further information, please visit thefamilyrestored. org or contact Lindsay Duford at 781-960-3965 or 12lindsaymarie@gmail.com.

ADULT SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE LOSS SUPPORT GROUP Meetings are every third Thursday of the month from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Williston, VT. The support group is for anyone who has been touched by suicide loss recently or long ago who wants to work through their grief in a safe, respectful environment. Contact Joanna at joanna. colevt@gmail.com or 802-777-5244. Maria at mariagrindle@msn. com or 802-879-9576.

Please leave a message so we can get back to you for a mutually acceptable time to talk.

AL-ANON For families & friends of alcoholics. For meeting info, go to vermont alanonalateen.org or call 866-972-5266.

ALATEEN GROUP Alateen group in Burlington on Sundays from 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 first step of 12 & join a group in your area.

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUP This caregivers support group meets on the 2nd Tue. of every mo. from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Alzheimer’s Association Main Office, 300 Cornerstone Dr., Suite 130, Williston.

Support groups meet to provide assistance and information on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

They emphasize shared experiences, emotional support, and coping techniques in care for a person living with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. Meetings are free and open to the public. Families, caregivers, and friends may attend. Please call in advance to confirm date and time. 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.

Pre-registration is required (to receive dial-in codes for toll-free call). Please dial the Alzheimer’s Association’s 24/7 Helpline 800-272-3900 for more information.

ALZHEIMER’S CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP Meets the second Monday of the month at Milton Public Library.

Led by Alzheimer’s Association representative and trained facilitator. Free. For more information, call 802-893-4644 or email library@miltonvt. gov. Facebook.com/ events/ 547688285632277.

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 that is often compounded by hormonal swings. If you are a pregnant woman, or have recently given birth and feel you need some help with managing emotional bumps in the road that can come with motherhood, please come to this free support group lead by an experienced pediatric Registered Nurse. Held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, 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 with breathing issues, their loved ones or caregivers. Meets first Monday of the month, 11 a.m.-noon at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. For more information call 802-776-5508.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., St. Johnsbury. 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. Info, Tom Younkman, tyounkman@vcil.org, 800-639-1522.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets the 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:30-2:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets the 3rd Wed. monthly at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Colchester Evening support group meets the 1st Wed. monthly at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:307:30 p.m. White River Jct. meets the 2nd Fri. monthly 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. at the Hope Lodge, 237 East Ave., Burlington.

Newly diagnosed?

Prostate cancer reoccurrence? General discussion and sharing among survivors and 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 with this confidential 12-Step, Christ-centered recovery program. We offer multiple support groups for both men and women, such as chemical dependency, codependency, sexual addiction and pornography, food issues, and 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 with struggles with hurt, habits and hang ups, which includes everyone in some way.

We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton which meets every Friday night at 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us and discover how your life can start to change.

Info: 893-0530, julie@ mccartycreations.com.

CENTRAL VERMONT CELIAC SUPPORT GROUP Last Thu. of every month, 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 and associated medical conditions. It’s mission it to provide the best possible information to parents of children living with the complex condition of cerebral palsy. cerebralpalsy guidance.com/ cerebral-palsy.

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YOUR TRUSTED LOCAL SOURCE. JOBS.SEVENDAYSVT.COM Gallery Manager Art on Main, a community-oriented gallery in Bristol, is seeking a Manager. Our ideal candidate will have skills in retail sales, technology, exhibit/event planning and financial oversight. The position requires working collaboratively with artists, volunteers, and the community and affords an opportunity to bring your unique ideas to a well-established local non-profit.

The position is salaried at 30 hrs/week, offers a flexible schedule and begins in April. Send your resume to aom@gmavt.net or call 802-453-4032.

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PROGRAM ASSISTANT, DRIVERS & DRIVER’S AIDES Want to enjoy your job, be appreciated by your employer, feel good about what you do, and receive a comprehensive benefits package?

Champlain Community Services, named a “Best Places to Work in Vermont 2020,” wants you to be a part of our team. Our 2:10 PMcurrent openings for Direct Support Professionals, Shared Living Providers and Service Coordinators offer opportunities to make a positive impact on someone’s life, and in yours.

Work at CCS & support, and live, our mission: “to build a community where everyone participates and belongs.”

Be a part of it and apply today at www.ccs-vt.org.

Seasonal Hiring Spring is just around the corner! We’re looking for avid gardeners, reliable and quick learners who are enthusiastic, outgoing, upbeat, flexible, teamoriented and who will thrive in a busy store! Ability to work weekends is a must.

Join Our Team!

Full and part-time positions available at our Vermont & New Hampshire Garden Centers: •

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Installation Crew & Seasonal Gardeners

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Yard Associates/Equipment Operators

APPLY NOW thru March 14!!!

Visit one of our Garden Centers or go to gardeners.com/careers.

128 Intervale Rd., Burlington, VT • (802) 660-3505 472 Marshall Ave., Williston, VT (802) 658-2433 220 Mechanic St., Lebanon, NH • (603) 448-6110

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Our Ready To Go program is looking for an experienced Program Assistant in our Burlington office as well as personable and reliable Drivers and Driver’s Aides in Barre, Burlington, Newport, St. Albans, and St. Johnsbury.

Full-time and part-time positions available to assist in safely transporting our clients and their children. Vans and mobile phones provided.

Job description and to apply: GoodNewsGarage.org/careers E.O.E.

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Part-Time Bookkeeper

Henry Sheldon Museum Middlebury Middlebury’s Sheldon Museum seeks a skilled bookkeeper with payroll experience. Responsibilities include accounts payable and receivable, bank reconciliations, processing payroll hours, handling sales and use taxes, tracking grants, and reconciling Museum Store sales. Parttime position of 8 to 9 hours a week. QuickBooks and Excel software experience necessary and QuickBooks Point of Sale software experience a plus. Hourly compensation commensurate with experience. Please send resume and list of three references with contact information to wbrooks@ henrysheldonmuseum.org.

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MANAGING DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT Himalayan Cataract Project (HCP | Cureblindness) is a VT-based nonprofit working to cure needless blindness with the highest quality care at the lowest cost. HCP has offices in Vermont and in the Washington, DC metro area, with programs in 7 countries on 2 different continents. HCP is actively seeking a Managing Director, Development.

Please visit our website for complete job description: cureblindness.org/ careers.

To apply, please submit resume & cover letter to: jobs@cureblindness.org.

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Lake Champlain Education & Outreach Steward Seeking one creative individual to work with the Education and Outreach team on water quality outreach at public events, camps, and in the LCBP Resource Room within the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, and assist with social media postings, partner meetings, and print material development. Work area will be throughout the Lake Champlain basin.

Please send cover letter and résumé in .pdf or Microsoft Word format by March 13, 2020 to jobs@neiwpcc.org, and reference position number 20-LCBP-002 in the subject line.

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CLERICAL ASSISTANT (Job code #20007)

The Vermont Judiciary is recruiting for a full-time, permanent Docket Clerk position to perform specialized clerical duties including data entry and extensive customer service over the phone.

Located in Burlington, VT. High School graduate and two years of clerical or data entry experience required.

Starting at $17.11 per hour with excellent benefits, paid holidays and leave time.

Candidates shall submit a complete and up-to-date Judicial Branch Application and resume. An electronic version of the Application may be found at: vermontjudiciary. org/employment-opportunities/staff-openings.

Open until filled. Equal opportunity employer.

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Shelburne Museum is hiring for the Summer 2020 season. Available positions include:

• Education Interns • Gardening Assistant • Groundskeeper • Museum Services Assistant • Museum Store Sales Associate • Part Time Educators • Shuttle Drivers • Visitor Guides

SCHOOL CUSTODIAN, 2ND SHIFT Full Time, Part Time

For full job descriptions and application instructions, please visit shelburnemuseum.org/ employment.

Moretown and Waitsfield Elementary Schools are seeking a school custodian for the 2nd shift, beginning immediately.

8 hours/day, or could be divided into 2 part-time positions.

Hours outside of school time, but otherwise flexible.

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executive assistant/ office coordinator The Vermont Arts Council, an independent nonprofit statewide organization based in Montpelier, seeks an executive assistant/ office coordinator to join the Vermont Arts Council team. The executive assistant/ office coordinator is a key member of the Council’s administrative staff, providing daily assistance for the executive director and coordinating the smooth and effective operation of the office as a whole. The position is based at the Council offices in Montpelier.

For a full job description, please go to vermontartscouncil.org/ about-us/employment.

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Lake Champlain Boat Launch Stewards Seeking up to 12 individuals to deliver aquatic invasive species spread prevention messages and conduct voluntary watercraft inspections and decontaminations. Stewards will work at Lake Champlain boat launches in New York and Vermont to collect survey information Thursday through Monday and holidays from Memorial through Labor Day/Mid-September.

Please send resume, letter of interest with relevant experience, and two references in .pdf or Microsoft Word format

by March 13, 2020 to jobs@neiwpcc.org.

Include reference position number 20-LCBP-001 in the subject line.

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Operations Support

True North is a year-round therapeutic program for adolescents and young adults located in Positions open until filled. EOE Waitsfield in the Mad River Valley.

We are seeking a full-time, yearround Operations Support person.

4T-Harwood022620.indd 1 2/25/20 9:46 AMThe ideal candidate is an adaptable team player with a positive attitude who is willing to work both indoors and outdoors performing a variety of tasks associated with the CVOEO’s Mobile Home Program is looking for a logistics of running our program.

Resident Organizer that is a motivated problem-solver Tasks including food packing to provide education and outreach to residents of and rationing, gear outfitting, Vermont’s mobile home parks. Our ideal candidate will transportation and facilities have the ability to work closely with our clients and maintenance. Candidates must community demonstrating strong facilitation skills as be willing to work weekends and well as to learn and maintain a working knowledge of occasional evenings. A clean and related statutes and regulations. valid driver’s license is required.

Competitive salary and Excellent verbal and written communication skills needed, comprehensive benefits offered. bilingual abilities a plus. A valid driver’s license, clean Benefits include health, dental, driving record, access to private transportation, and vision and accident insurance, an willingness and ability to travel extensively in state is employee assistance program required. This is a 30 hours/week position with excellent and a SIMPLE IRA. benefits. To learn more, please visit: cvoeo.org/careers.

Send resumes to: CVOEO is an Equal Opportunity Employer. jobs@truenorthwilderness.com

RESIDENT ORGANIZER

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Lead Hazard Control Project Manager

PHYSICAL SERVICES MEMBER (TUESDAY - SATURDAY)

Saint Michael’s College is looking for a full-time Physical Services Member. This position (Tuesday - Saturday) will perform landscaping tasks, move furniture and facilitate snow removal. Training will be provided in a variety of skills in order to supplement other Physical Services crews as needed.

Applicants should be flexible, dependable and motivated.

Benefits include health, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k), generous paid time off, employee and dependent tuition benefits, and discounted gym membership.

VHCB’s Healthy & Lead-Safe Homes Program is seeking an experienced construction professional to oversee the development and completion of lead hazard control projects throughout the State. This position provides assessment of lead paint hazards, development of mitigation plans, and direct oversight of construction activities. It requires on-site interaction with property owners, tenants, contractors and affordable housing developers and extensive state-wide travel.

Knowledge of the hazards associated with lead paint and mitigation preferred.

QUALIFICATIONS: Substantial experience in housing rehabilitation, specification writing and preparation of bid and contract documents. Experience with specification development or construction management software preferred.

Vermont Drivers License and reliable vehicle required. Ability to obtain necessary professional certifications/licenses in Vermont. Required training will be provided.

Full-time position with comprehensive benefits. EOE. Please reply with letter of interest and résumé to: Laurie Graves, VHCB, 58 E. State Street, Montpelier, Vt. 05602 or jobs@vhcb.org. Position open until filled. See the full job description at: vhcb.org/about-us/jobs

For full job description and to apply online go to: smcvt.interviewexchange.com.

2/14/20 DIRECTOR OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT

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STAFF ACCOUNTANT Saint Michael’s College is seeking a Staff Accountant.

Responsibilities include monthly and year end reconciliation of several general ledger accounts, fixed asset accounting including maintenance of the fixed assets software and support to the Saint Michael’s College community for accounting or process inquiries.

Accounting duties include the reconciliation of various receivables and payables, prepaid and accrued expenses, sales tax calculation and remittance, review and compliance over invoicing, review and posting of various intercompany charges. The position assists with the year-end general ledger close and preparation of annual financial statements and assists with the audit over federal expenditures.

Benefits include health, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k), generous paid time off, employee and dependent tuition benefits, and discounted gym membership. For full job description and to apply online go to: smcvt.interviewexchange.com.

Take a leadership role and work with partners on innovative and sustainable new construction and rehab projects that make a difference.

Downstreet is Central Vermont’s mission-driven non-profit organization dedicated to achieving social justice through the power of housing.

BOARD MEMBERS West Coast - East Coast investment group is recruiting Board members from Vermont in establishing a property-casualty insurance captive. Health care insurance is the next initiative to organize.

We are looking for overall strong business acumen and insurance experience. Also a professional with solid 2:30 PM character references and good credit.

Base, stock options, dividends & commission overrides are available for negotiation.

Please send a resume to viccelis@gmail.com.

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22 Keith Ave., Ste. 100 Barre, Vermont Apply online: downstreet.org/careers

PROJECT MANAGER Cure Needless Blindness

Himalayan Cataract Project (HCP | Cureblindness) is a 4t-StMichaelsCollege022620.indd 1 2/21/20 4t-Downstreet021920.indd 12:37 PMFUND DEVELOPMENT 1 2/14/20 4:05 PM VT-based nonprofit working MANAGER to cure needless blindness Seeking a dedicated and hardworking with the highest quality care part-time Fund Development Manager at the lowest cost. HCP has to help lead fund development, prospect outreach, donor communications and other fundraising work in line with our offices in Vermont and in the mission to support rural Vermont communities and advance Washington, DC metro area, policies that create a prosperous and sustainable future. with programs in 7 countries We’re looking for someone who: Sign On Bonus - Up to $3,000 on 2 different continents.

• Demonstrates excellent written, oral, and social media HCP is actively seeking a The Ambulatory LPN - Primary Care is an communication skills.

Project Manager.

• Is a self-starter with the ability to work independently as integral part of the care team and a key

AMBULATORY LPN

contributor to delivering high quality care that is compassionate, consistent and reliable for our patients, families and the practices within a medical home.

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well as part of a team.

• Is proficient with software and digital tools and communications.

• Is eager to advance rural communities and work with our team in donor solicitation, grant writing and reporting.

Hours and compensation negotiable based on experience.

Full job description: vtrural.org. Send a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and list of three references by March 9th, 2020 to info@vtrural.org.

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Please visit our website for complete job description: cureblindness.org/ careers.

To apply, please submit resume & cover letter to: jobs@cureblindness.org.

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EMERGENCY ROOM RNs

DIRECTOR

Mansfield Hall is a private, innovative residential college support program for students with diverse learning needs.

We are looking for dynamic individuals to fill the following position:

The Emergency Room at Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital (NVRH) is currently looking for experienced Emergency Room RNs. Full-time, part-time, and per diem positions available.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

The Director of the Vermont The Administrative Assistant functions in an administrative Convention Bureau leads efforts to capacity at Mansfield Hall. This position is responsible for providing The Emergency Room RN position provides direct administrative support across all Mansfield Hall locations. Support bring meetings and conferences to care, evaluates outcomes, consults with other across all sites includes but is not limited to: executive assistant tasks, Vermont, introduce new visitors to specialties as required, and adjusts nursing care special projects, and general administrative work. Like all Mansfield the state, and grow our economic processes as indicated. Working well under pressure, Hall employees, the Administrative Assistant should embody the opportunity. If you are an experienced RNs collaborate with other health team members mission, values, philosophy, and approach of the organization. marketing professional that has a to coordinate medical and nursing management of Minimum Qualifications: patient care. Our knowledgeable and passionate strong entrepreneurial spirit and can • Bachelor’s degree.

RNs continuously learn and grow within their roles develop and execute new strategies, at NVRH thanks to our tuition reimbursement, loan • Two or more years of experience working in an administrative we would love to hear from you. repayment, and scholarship programs. capacity, supporting multiple locations and departments.

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Applicant information available at: mansfieldhall.org/employment.

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LCC provides equal employment Flooring Sales/Project Manager opportunities to all applicants for employment without regard to race, Current opening for a retail flooring sales professional. Come work in a fast paced environment engaging with the public color, religion, sex, national origin, and construction professionals. Position is extremely dynamic. age, disability or genetics.

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project management, field measuring, and estimating. Candidate must have strong basic math skills and great attention to detail.

Must be highly organized, punctual and able to handle multiple tasks and responsibilities concurrently.

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We are a small company that has been around for nearly forty years. We strive to have a positive work environment and try to laugh as hard as we work. We offer health insurance, a matched 401k, paid vacation time, year end bonuses and other perks.

We are not open on the weekends so that we can all have time for family and leisure. Experience in sales or construction is preferred, but we are willing to train the right candidate.

PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Salary is negotiable. Send resumes to: bcherry@nefcvt.com.

Cure Needless Blindness Himalayan Cataract Project (HCP | Cureblindness) is a VT-based nonprofit working to cure needless blindness with the highest quality care at the lowest cost. HCP has offices in Vermont and in the Washington, DC metro area, with programs in 7 countries on 2 different continents.

HCP is actively seeking a Program Coordinator.

For complete job description: cureblindness.org/ careers.

To apply, please submit resume & cover letter to: jobs@cureblindness.org.

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NOFA-VT was founded in 1971, and works to support organic farms, healthy food and strong communities.

VOF, an LLC owned by NOFA-VT, is a USDA accredited organic certifier and provides Vermont producers with a credible verification program for their organic production practices. Our offices are located in Richmond, Vermont.

We are announcing openings for the following positions:

• Certification Specialist (focus crops and livestock) • Organic Inspectors for Hire (dairy, maple & processing) For full job descriptions and more information about our organization, visit our website at nofavt.org/about-us/join-our-team.

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CARING PEOPLE WANTED Burlington Area

Home Instead Senior Care, a provider of personal care services to seniors in their homes, is seeking friendly and dependable people.

CAREGivers assist seniors with daily living activities. P/T & F/T positions available. 12 hours/week minimum, flexible scheduling, currently available. $13-$17.50/hour depending on experience. No heavy lifting.

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ELDERWOOD AT BURLINGTON IS HIRING! Are you ready to take your skill set to the next level?

Ready for that Leadership position but don’t know where to look? Come talk with us! Elderwood at Burlington desires strong leaders to contribute to our Seniors stories! We put the CARE in career!

Licensed Psychologist & Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Hardwick - Full/Part Time

Part-Time Grant Writer Henry Sheldon Museum Middlebury

Middlebury’s Sheldon We are seeking a VT Doctoral Museum seeks a part-time, Level Licensed Psychologist and a experienced researcher VT Licensed Master’s Level Clinical • ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF NURSING Mental Health Counselor to join and accomplished grant our established practice. Duties to • RN EDUCATOR writer familiar with funds include providing clinical services available through Vermont • SAR RN UNIT MANAGER Apply online at: and supervision for clinicians-infoundations, businesses, homeinstead.com/483 training. The best candidates will Elderwood offers a generous benefit package, including a individual donors, and Or call: 802.860.4663 have a therapeutic orientation sign-on bonus, health, dental, and vision as well as a 401(k) state agencies, as well as incorporating somatic-based, match and much more!!!! For more information, including federal sources. Knowledge neuro-relational, and mindful responsibilities and qualifications, please visit of funding for capital approaches, as well as experience us at www.elderwoodcareers.com. improvements, historic working with trauma and preservation, museum attachment issues. At least one of education, art exhibit the candidates will have training 1 2/24/20 10:39 AM and experience in working with 2v-HomeInstead022620.indd 1 2/24/204t-ElderwoodBurlington022620.indd 1:02 PM sponsorship, historical children and families. Prefer FT research, endowment VHCB is seeking an experienced, enthusiastic individual to oversee the sustainbut will consider PT. growth, and staff ability of VHCB funded housing developments. This individual collects data and enrichment very helpful.

If interested, please send monitors the financial health of housing developments, problem solving issues, cover letter and resume to making recommendations for action, and overseeing implementation of approved Send resume and contact wellspringvt@gmail.com. actions. The Stewardship Coordinator also makes recommendations regarding information for three For more information about VHCB and federal debt and manages the monitoring of properties. references to wbrooks@ our organization, go to QUALIFICATIONS: Prior experience and training in housing development, and/ henrysheldonmuseum.org. wellspringvt.org. or financial analysis of housing projects and underwriting. Strong communication and writing skills, attention to detail, a creative and organized thinker, and a problem solver. Experience working with non-profit housing developers, property 2/25/203v-HenrySheldonMuseum022620.indd 12:59 PM 1 2/24/20 12:56 PM managers, social service providers and state agencies is highly desirable, as is3V-Wellspring022620.indd 1 knowledge of building construction and database management. Ability to work well as a member of a team is essential. Full-time position with comprehensive benefits. EOE. Please reply with cover letter and résumé to: Laurie Graves, VHCB, 58 E. State Street, Montpelier, Vt. 05602 or jobs@vhcb.org. Position open until filled. See the full job description at: vhcb.org/about-us/jobs The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts is hiring part-time Concession Supervisors for our Front of House team.

Elderwood at Burlington is a beautiful 150-bed SNF and is looking to fill the following positions:

Housing Stewardship Coordinator

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ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE PARKING & TRAFFIC DIVISION

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The Department of Public Works is seeking an Assistant Director of the Parking & Traffic Division to join the management team.

For a detailed job description and more information, visit:

This position is responsible for the management, oversight, and general leadership of the Parking and Traffic Division. The person in this role will advance the goals of the downtown parking and transportation study and the City’s Master plan to increase environmentally friendly mobility options.

In addition, this position will offer guidance, direction and opportunities for staff development, empowerment and open communication among team members. A Bachelor’s Degree and four years of experience in Public/Business Administration in a management role required. Certified Parking Professional or Certified Administrator of Public Parking (CAPP) preferred.

To view the full job description visit governmentjobs.com/careers/burlingtonvt.

flynncenter.org/about-us/employment-and-internshipopportunities.html Please submit application materials to: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Human Resources Department 153 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 or email HResources@flynncenter.org No phone calls, please. EOE. The Flynn Center is an employer committed to hiring a breadth of professionals, and therefore will interview a qualified group of diverse candidates; we particularly encourage applications from women and people of color.

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This position oversees operations of the concession counter for all applicable scheduled shows. This includes set-up, serving alcohol and snacks, clean up at closing time, and end of shift cashing out. Must be able to sustain physical activity and work non-traditional hours at a variety of events and performances.

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EXPERIENCED AUTO BODY COLLISION TECH

We are currently seeking a...

Senior Designer RADIO NORTH GROUP IS LOOKING...

Come work at a family owned shop - 32 years in business and a reputation we are proud of!

If you are a full phase, start to finish tech that is reliable, produces quality work and like being part of a team, please contact us. You must have your own tools and a valid driver’s license. Shop hours are M-F 7:30 to 5:00. Paid holidays; 2-week paid vacation plus sick/personal days. SIGN ON BONUS, PLUS we pay competitive wages and offer a health insurance benefit.

Select is looking for a senior designer to deliver exceptional creative and inspired thinking to some of the world’s leading brands.

If you have interest or experience in Motorola Communications products and systems, look to Radio North. We see opportunity ahead!

SALES PERSON who has knowledge of the sales process, can use lead generation software, and is willing to make cold calls and appointments with leaders in the education, healthcare, manufacturing, security and financial marketplace. Some sales experience will be an asset.

MOBILE RADIO TECHNICIAN with some automotive electronics experiences will be helpful. Knowledge of inbuilding electronics systems is an asset. Job entails installation of two-way radio, siren and lighting systems in Police, Fire and Rescue as well as commercial vehicles and office electronics.

We’re seeking a strategic thinker who loves what they do and thrives in a fast paced, team environment.

High standards for creative execution, delivery, and communication are critical. The right individual will be a problem solver with a high EQ, an awareness of design trends, a passion for brands and the ability to bring ideas to life across a variety of media.

Email majesticauto@ comcast.net or call Tom or Martha with interest: 802-244-5465.

A minimum of five years creative experience and demonstrated ability to deliver superior design solutions within tight deadlines is required.

Compensation is based on experience and capabilities.

Benefits include medical and dental, 401k with profit

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sharing, ski and ride discount passes and an exceptional

BENEFITS include competitive salary that rewards performance and dedication, along with a comprehensive benefit package.

Data Data & & Research Research Specialist Specialist email: careers4@selectdesign.com Join development Joinour our development team!

Support resource Please send resume with salary requirements team!

Support resource www.selectdesign.com/senior-designer development functions to John.P@RadioNorthGroup.com. development functions, 208 FLYNN AVE • BURLINGTON, VERMONT • 802.864.9075 including gift including giftprocessing, processing, datamanagement, management, analysis data reports, grant & &analysis reports,and grant tracking research, andresearch, special events tracking and 5v-RadioNorthGroup022620.indd 1 2/21/205v-SelectDesign022620.indd 4:38 PM 1 2/21/20 3:55 PM asand needed. specialIdeal eventscandidate as hasneeded. strongIdeal attention to detail, candidate excellent organizational and has strong attention to The Deep Root Organic Cooperative robust communication skills, detail, excellent analytical is seeking a motivated sales person written & verbal. The position and organizational skills to sell organic produce that is is 20 hours/week.

E.O.E. and robust communication produced by its member farms. skills both written and mercyconnections.org/aboutCandidates should have interest in us/employment forisfull verbal. The position 20job description. resumes to: organic produce and sustainable, hours/week.Send EOE. ashaw@mercyconnections.org.

Creativity is your life! From print that demands a second regional food production. The Co-op consists of 23 various mercyconnections.org/about-us/employment for full job description. To apply, send resume look to digital that invites click throughs, your passion is sized vegetable farms that are located in Vermont and to: ashaw@mercyconnections.org clean, compelling design and communication. CSWD needs Quebec. The coop sells and distributes to large supermarket SCHOOL 2/24/20 1:07 PM a graphic design/digital communications professional to chains, regional distributors and retail coops throughout the 2v-MercyConnections022620.indd 1 DIRECTOR complete our dynamic, passionate, mission-driven team. northeast and mid-Atlantic region.

This position is About You: We are seeking a full-time Marketing Creative The Sales Manager is responsible for all sales, overseeing multi-faceted Specialist who excels at graphic design for all platforms. distribution and logistics, food safety compliance, and and would require a This position will also assist in social media campaigns and communication with growers. Experience preferred but blend of knowledge & updating the CSWD website; high comfort level in the digital willing to train the right candidate. Position is salaried understanding of early realm is a must. full-time; compensation is commensurate with experience. childhood and progressive work environment.

SALES PERSON

MARKETING CREATIVE SPECIALIST

Applicants should have: Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, marketing, or a related field. The ideal candidate possesses advanced skills in Adobe Creative Suite applications, working knowledge of WordPress, and a solid understanding of web design, website architecture, and SEO. Candidates must possess strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and problem-solve.

Competitive salary and excellent benefits package.

Apply at cswd.net/jobs by 3/9/20.

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Applicants must be able to: • Work independently • Communicate effectively • Have strong organizational skills • Multitask and be adaptable to variable day-to-day demands of the job • Utilize Excel, Google docs, and other basic computer skills Please email your cover letter and resume to info@deeprootorganic.coop.

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elementary education as well as experience fundraising and marketing for independent schools.

Salary: $58,000 - $62,000, 12-month employee.

Please send a resume and cover letter highlighting your interest and experience to hiring@ bellwetherschool.org.

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CHILDCARE PROGRAM LEAD TEACHER Do you love to laugh? Love to play? If you love children and are looking for a job that feels more like play than work, then we are looking for you! The Moretown Education Center for All (MECA Program) is seeking a Full-Time Lead Teacher to join our team.The MECA Program is a Preschool Childcare, PreK 6th Grade After School and Summer Camp Program based out of the Moretown Elementary School. Our mission is to provide children a safe environment where they are given an opportunity to explore new interests and friendships and develop tools for growth in their physical, social and emotional selves.

At the MECA Program, you will be joining a vibrant team that works collaboratively to create engaging children’s programming. We are fun-loving people who are passionate about creating exciting and enriching environments for kids. We are looking for someone who can bring that same positive energy to our program. Qualifications: Minimum high school graduate or GED; at least 18 years of age; has taken Fundamentals of Education or a 3-credit course in child development; has at least 12 months experience working with children; strong leadership and collaboration skills.

Contact MECA Assistant Director Kaitlin Ames at kmcdonagh@huusd.org or (802) 583-7854 for more information and to apply. Application should include a cover letter, resume, and 3 letters of reference. Multiple positions open until filled.

NEW JOBS POSTED DAILY!

When you work for the State of Vermont, you and your work matter. A career with the State puts you on a rich and rewarding professional path. You’ll find jobs in dozens of fields – not to mention an outstanding total compensation package.

PUBLIC GUARDIAN – HYDE PARK

The Office of Public Guardian seeks an independent, enthusiastic and organized person to protect and monitor the legal and human rights of individuals under court-ordered guardianship. This position is located at the Hyde Park Regional OPG office and covers a caseload of individuals with developmental disabilities or age-related cognitive impairments in Northeastern Vermont who require assistance and judgment for critical decision making in several life domains. For more information,

contact Maryann Willson at 802-828-3669 or maryann.willson@vermont.gov. Department: Disabilities Aging and Independent Living. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 5861. Application Deadline: March 1, 2020.

Learn more at: careers.vermont.gov

The State of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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CORPORATE SUPPORT ASSOCIATE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY SERVICE

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DIRECTOR

With the retirement of our long-time Developmental Disability (DD) Service Director, Northwestern Counseling & Support Services (NCSS) seeks a forward-thinking leader who is capable of informing and executing strategic decisions at both the organization and system levels. The successful person will foster and support a collaborative workforce that is personcentered and advocates on behalf of people with developmental disabilities. The successor will advance services and supports through program development.

As an innovative, non-profit community mental health center serving Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, NCSS is recognized as a Center of Excellence, having received accolades for using data to inform program decisions, and being seen as a leader in health care integration activities.

NCSS is truly a rewarding place to work!

The Director will provide leadership oversight and direction of diverse programs including clinical, residential, community-based day services, and contractual activities of the programs. Candidate will have a strong financial background in order to manage the divisions $16M budget. Understanding and analyzing data to continuously improve quality, integrate strategic directions into everyday practice, and improve business controls and operations to produce positive outcomes is required.

Master’s degree in Human Services or a related field, plus 2 years of experience at a management level with responsibility for program planning, budget management, and staff supervision required.

Strong consideration will be given to the applicants with considerable knowledge of Vermont Medicaid Waiver policies, working in a managed care delivery system, as well as philosophical overview of best practices within the field of developmental disabilities.

Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or equivalent experience required. Other requirements are an understanding of the Vermont region and business community, an understanding of media, advertising, marketing, fundraising, being donor focused, and detail oriented.

For more information please visit: vermontpbs.org/careers Please submit resume and cover letter by March 20, 2020 to: Vermont PBS Attn: HR Dept. 2 204 Ethan Allen Avenue Colchester, VT 05446 Or: hresources@vermontpbs.org An equal opportunity employer and provider

Please apply online at ncssinc.org/careers with a cover letter, resume and references or by mail at 107 Fisher Pond Rd, St. Albans, VT 05478. Any questions, contact Human Resources at careers@ncssinc.org. NCSS is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).

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Vermont PBS is seeking a team member who possesses integrity and professionalism who will work to secure corporate funding for Vermont PBS. Duties include stewardship of corporations, researching and pursuing corporate accounts, preparing and presenting proposals, negotiating final terms of agreements, maintaining documentation regarding each contact and account, and tracking of deliverables.

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GENERAL MANAGER

Interested in making a difference in people’s health?

Want to work with a small but mighty Vermont team with high energy and low drama? Are you capable of providing guide service for an innovative company as it moves to a higher plateau of success and satisfaction? Please apply for the position of General Manager for Restorative Formulations, based in our Montpelier, Vermont office: restorativeformulations.com.

We’re looking for someone who can balance leadership and management, people and processes, and customers and contractors.

You’ll have proven experience in business management; sales and marketing; finance and operations; and being the caring leader of personnel, profitability, and social responsibility. In short, this is a unique opportunity in a unique organization.

To continue the process, please submit three questions you have about who we are or what we do, a list of your demonstrated competencies, and three professional references to Paula Woods at paula@restorativeformulations.com. If we’re interested, we will reply with more information about the position, including the details of our salary range, generous benefits, and flexible time off.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) seeks an authentic, mission-oriented, visionary individual to serve as its next Executive Director.

CVOEO addresses fundamental issues of economic, social, and racial justice and works with people to achieve economic independence. This is an outstanding opportunity to lead a community-focused, highly-regarded community action agency. CVOEO provides vital services to over 23,000 individuals every year. The agency employs a dedicated staff of approximately 200 employees and engages more than 1,700 volunteers annually. CVOEO has nine programs within four counties of the Champlain Valley region and three programs that are statewide with a budget of approximately $21 million.

As Executive Director you will lead a team of exceptional Program Directors & senior operational staff. You will provide strategic direction & oversee the administration and operation of all programs and services of CVOEO. You will represent CVOEO by working closely with a broad range of community and statewide organizations, government agencies, elected officials, businesses, and individuals. As a result of the wide area of representation travel will be required.

You will provide leadership to the CVOEO Board of Directors to ensure growth and long-term sustainability through implementation of the Strategic Plan as adopted by the Board.

We are seeking candidates with a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree preferred, in a relevant discipline with proven progressive leadership experience of at least seven years.

In addition, candidates must have in-depth knowledge of human services; excellent verbal and 12:17 PM written communication skills, bilingual abilities a plus; experience managing programs including evaluation; and most importantly, be of high integrity and character as the representative of the organization and all of the people it serves.

Community Banker

Shelburne Road & Chittenden County - Floating There is no better time to join NSB’s team!

Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We are looking for professionals to join our team as a Community Banker for our Shelburne Road Branch and for a Community Banker – Floating for Chittenden County. As a Community Banker-Floating you will have the opportunity to work in multiple branches within our Chittenden County region. Both positions offer an excellent opportunity to work for an established & growing premier Vermont mutual savings bank.

We offer an excellent benefit package including medical, dental and vision insurance, generous time off, a retirement plan and discounted gym membership. Please apply by sending a cover letter with salary requirements and resume by e-mail to: ExecDir2020@cvoeo.org. Deadline to submit applications is Monday, March 16, 2020. To learn more about CVOEO and this position please visit www.cvoeo.org. E.O.E.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES & REQUIREMENTS • The Community Banker will be responsible for receiving and processing

customers’ financial transactions, matching customers’ needs with appropriate products and services, protecting customer information and maintaining customer confidentiality. We are looking for someone who will consistently provide outstanding customer service, has excellent communication skills, and will build rapport and develop relationships with our valued customers. A high school diploma, general education degree (GED) or equivalent is required.

OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH

• The Community Banker position offers room for growth and the opportunity to learn about the banking industry. The successful candidate will enjoy a wide variety of changing duties and build relationships with our valued customers. We offer a comprehensive Community Banker training program to assist with learning the fundamentals of this position.

If you are looking for a career in banking, this is the place to start.

WHAT NSB CAN OFFER YOU

• NSB offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, profit sharing and a matching 401(K) retirement program.

NSB also offers professional development opportunities, and a positive work environment supported by a team culture. NSB has ten paid holidays.

Northfield Savings Bank hours of operation are Monday – Thursday, generally 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Northfield Savings Bank appreciates that their employees need to enjoy time with family, friends and community on the weekends. Please submit your application and resume in confidence to: Careers@nsbvt.com (Preferred) Or mail to: Northfield Savings Bank - Human Resources P.O. Box 7180, Barre, VT 05641-7180 E.O.E./Member FDIC

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ASPIRATIONS PROJECT COORDINATOR We’re all about mission at Vermont Student Assistance Corporation (VSAC). Help us fulfill our mission of providing all Vermont students with information and financial resources to reach their educational goals. You’ll work in a relaxed yet challenging environment. We offer many top-notch benefits.

VSAC is looking for a goal oriented team player and change agent to join its Aspirations Project team. This full-time, 46-week/year position is instrumental in working directly with High School students, families and school staff to increase exposure to college and career planning. The Aspirations Project provides resources, strategies and access to career and college readiness preparation through information and activities designed with host schools to build a school’s college and career culture and capacity to engage all students in future planning.

The Aspirations Project Coordinator works with VSAC’s Aspirations Supervisor and each School’s Steering Committee at Spaulding High School, Twinfield Union High School and Central Vermont Career Center as well as on-site at VSAC. The ideal candidate will be a team player and action oriented, have a Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Counseling or related field, experience in working with whole schools, a valid driver’s license and a satisfactory motor vehicle and background check.

This is a grant funded position that is contingent upon continued grant funds. VSAC offers a dynamic, professional environment with competitive compensation and generous benefits package.

Apply ONLY online at vsac.org.

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INTERNATIONAL SALES MANAGER This full-time position manages Bee’s Wrap’s international business growth & partnerships. The position works closely with sales, operations, accounting, and marketing teams to ensure account needs are met, fulfillment is accurate & timely, and to drive brand standards & operational excellence among international accounts. This position will serve as the primary point of contact for all international accounts, as well as the subject matter expert for the competitive landscape, in current & new territories. Occasional overseas travel. This position reports to the VP of Sales & Marketing.

Bee’s Wrap, located in Middlebury, VT, is a growing B Corp that produces & distributes a sustainable alternative to plastic wrap for food storage, made from beeswax & cloth. We are a place of productive & creative work, aiming to provide a place of employment that is engaging, supportive & open-minded. Bee’s Wrap is committed to using our business as a vehicle for social change & to bettering the lives of our customers, employees, community and planet. EOE.

Supported Apartment Project Manager We are looking for a dynamic and creative program leader with experience in residential services for adults coping with mental health conditions to support daily operations and lead a team of staff for a new and innovative staff supported apartment project.

This project leader will develop and facilitate this program that supports recovery and community re-connection for people coping with life impacting mental health challenges and hospitalization. We offer a supportive team environment with a commitment to learning and innovation informed by an international scope of inquiry into best practices.

Applicants should have a master’s degree or commensurate clinical experience and training, experience with residential services for adults coping with mental health conditions, supervisory experience, and excellent organizational and communication skills.

Full time with full benefits.

To apply, visit: https://apptrkr.com/1833244 Equal Opportunity Employer

Email resume and cover letter to: careers@beeswrap.com.

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Vermont Economic Development Authority

(VEDA) and its component unit

OFFICE ASSISTANT

Vermont Agricultural Credit Corporation (VACC)

Williston, Full Time Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, a member-run, active union of nurses and technical professionals at UVM Medical Center is hiring a smart, committed Office Assistant to help us win power for our members and our patients.

This is a full-time, full-benefits position based in our Williston office. This position will support our member-leaders and help with the tools that allow us to organize and win.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Excel is a requirement.

Please send a cover letter, resume and writing sample as pdfs to DebS@VFNHP.org and let us know you saw this position in Seven Days. Visit our website at: VFNHP.org.

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JOB OPPORTUNITIES: AGRICULTURAL CREDIT ANALYST (based in Montpelier) Support agricultural loan officers by providing credit investigation and analysis of loan applications and servicing requests. Duties include entering data to financial accounting software, preparing and analyzing spreadsheets, and drafting credit memorandums and letters.

Knowledge of agricultural and/or forest industry is required. Previous experience as a credit analyst or similar position and an associate’s or bachelor’s degree in a related field are preferred.

AGRICULTURAL LOAN OFFICER (based in Middlebury)

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Visit farm and forestry applicants and borrowers throughout the state, analyze loan requests, prepare loan write-ups, service a diverse loan portfolio and perform annual financial analyses.

Knowledge of agricultural and/or forest industry, strong written and verbal skills, and excellent customer service are required. Previous agricultural lending experience, proven team approach and a bachelor’s degree in a related field are preferred. Leadership experience is a plus.

Successful candidates will have a positive customer service attitude, strong written & verbal skills, and accuracy & attention to detail. Computer literacy & ability to learn financial database software is required. Each position includes travel within Vermont.

VEDA/VACC offers a competitive salary and benefits package and is an E.O.E. To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter to: chouchens@veda.org or mail to: VEDA, Attn: Cheryl Houchens 60 Main Street, Suite 202 Burlington, VT 05401 9t-VEDA022620.indd 1

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GRAPHIC DESIGNER MUST know Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Must follow customer direction to build custom designs and logos.

The hours are flexible with potentiality for full time hours depending on skills and experience.

WE’RE HIRING IMMEDIATELY. Send us an email at info@deerfielddesigns.com for an application.

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Floral Merchandiser

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PT, 4 mornings per week, approximately 15-20 hours.

Fun and flexible job perfect for a creative person who likes to work independently. Please email resume to cindy@gmavt.com.

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Spring Fever? We have a cure!

Interested in helping our gardeners create a greener world and do a little good through gardening? Then let’s get to work! Join the customer service team at American Meadows for a little spring season mayhem. Help gardeners across the country discover and purchase just the right seeds and plants for their gardens from our online retail catalog.

It is not necessary to be a master gardener to join our team, but we do ask that you be ready, willing, and eager to learn about plants. This job also requires that you be comfortable learning new internal systems, navigating multiple websites, and helping gardeners place orders or problem-solve on the phone. (A computer assessment is required for all candidates in the interview process.) You must be available for a mandatory training period followed by a 20+ hour weekly schedule from March through the end of May. What we offer: a fun-loving team of plant nerds who are looking to make the world a little better—one flower at a time; a few well-behaved dogs who offer free puppy kisses upon request; great plant and seed discounts; a kitchen stocked with mostly healthy snacks; and pay that starts at $12.00/hour.

Schedule options are: • 11:00 am - 7:00 pm • 1:00 pm - 9:00 pm Monday - Friday schedules are available, however we have some part-time options as well!

All employees are required to work at least one Saturday/ month, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. We are closed on Sundays to rejuvenate and dig in our gardens!

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TSA APPLICATION ASSISTANCE EVENT Delta Hotel 1117 Williston Rd, South Burlington, VT 05403

Saturday, February 29, 2020 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Please bring two forms of government-issued ID, a mobile phone and allow 3 to 4 hours to complete all hiring components.

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at Burlington International Airport (BTV) Apply online: tsajobs.tsa.dhs.gov or text: “BTV” to 95495 Questions? Call: 877-872-7990

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DIRECTOR OF FOOD SERVICE Lamoille South Unified Union is accepting applications for a Director of Food Service. This is a full-time, full year position with benefits that will begin April 1, 2020.

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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 ongoing, full-time positions.

The Director of Food Services will assume responsibility for the efficient management and operation of LSUU’s food service program across six schools and four kitchens: Morristown Elementary, Peoples Academy Middle Level, Peoples Academy, Stowe Elementary, Stowe Middle and Stowe High School. We have a strong Farm-to-School program and grow, harvest and utilize many of the vegetables planted on site. The food service program includes the following: National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program, Summer Food Service Program, Afterschool Snack Program, and Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program.

Information Technology Specialist - University Libraries #S2435PO - The Statistical Design and Data Specialist serves as a consultant to students, trainees, and faculty at the University of Vermont on statistical methodologies, data interpretation and analysis, experimental design, data management, and the use of software supporting such work. This position will be a vital member of the existing “Statistics Core,” a collaborative, shared resource team that has extended its mission to developing and coordinating statistical support for the entire UVM campus. While reporting to the Libraries’ Director of Access and Technology Services and a key element in the libraries’ program of research consultation, this position – like other positions in the Statistical Core – responds to the needs of the campus as a whole. The priorities of the incumbent derive from the coordinated and consensus-driven vision of the Statistics Core team. The incumbent meets regularly with members of the team for strategic and tactical planning and continuing education.

Applicants should have involvement and experience in the areas of: • USDA Child Nutrition Program and Guidelines • Farm-to-school programs • selecting and procuring foods per USDA regulations • nutrition • menu planning

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on-site production quality control employee supervision staff and management training marketing public relations.

Candidates are required to submit a cover letter, résumé, and contact information for three references. The search will remain open until the position is filled. For best consideration, complete applications should be received no later than April 3, 2020.

The food service program: • Provides an appealing and nutritionally sound school reimbursable meal and a la carte program for students as economically as possible • Promotes nutritional awareness & interfaces with the district's instructional programs • Provides a staffing structure which offers adequate expertise to ensure consistent and high quality food preparation Financial Management and Reporting • Manage NutriKids and MySchoolBucks software • Assist the Director of Finance and Operations in the development of the budget • Maintain an inventory of supplies and equipment • Recommend meal prices for approval by the district board • Prepare information necessary for school lunch reimbursement claims from State and Federal agencies • Oversee daily receipts and cash deposits • Assist in the preparation of a three to five year plan for facility renovations and equipment upgrades • Attend mandatory Child Nutrition Program trainings provided by the State

For further information on this position 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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The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts is hiring part-time House Managers for our Front of House team.

Program Accountability • Monitor food service operation through on-site visits to ensure the program is in compliance with regulations • Implement the free and reduced price meal program across the district • Provide a monthly menu consisting of a daily menu meal pattern • Serve reimbursable meal pattern lunches pursuant to the National School Breakfast and Lunch Program • Keep administrators informed of program implementation concerns

HOUSE MANAGER

House Managers are in charge of front-of-house procedures and facilities during Flynn events.

Oversite of patron areas and exemplary customer service are needed as well as the ability to effectively manage in a fast-paced environment.

Must be able to sustain physical activity including lifting up to 50lbs and able to work non-traditional hours at a variety of events and performances.

Employee Relations • Interview, train, supervise and evaluate food service employees • Conduct staff training programs • Support the Farm-to-School Coordinator and collaborate with school staff on nutrition education activities Safety • Maintain and inspect food service equipment • Ensure food service areas are clean and safe in accordance with standards • Comply with all Federal, State and local sanitation requirements in the preparation and service of food Ideal candidates will hold a bachelor’s degree & state-recognized certificate for school nutrition directors. Please submit letter of interest, resume and current references to:

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For a detailed job description and more information, visit our website at: flynncenter.org/about-us/ employment-and-internship-opportunities.html.

Please submit application materials to: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Human Resources Department 153 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 or email HResources@flynncenter.org.

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RECORDING SECRETARY The Town of Jericho, VT is seeking the services of a Recording Secretary for the Jericho Selectboard and/or the DRB. Services required include attending meetings (1st & 3rd Thursday of each month starting at 7pm for Jericho Selectboard/the 2nd & 4th Wednesday for DRB) and furnishing written minutes of each meeting to town staff within five days of each meeting. The expected hourly rate range is $12.00-$15.00.

Interested persons may submit a resume for service 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 person is selected.

PARALEGAL Prominent mid-size law firm in downtown Burlington, Vermont, seeks paralegal for our litigation practice.

Candidates must have the following skills: hard work ethic; willingness to adapt quickly to challenging and stimulating assignments; excellent writing and communication skills; fluency in Microsoft Office programs and adaptability to technology generally; good time management skills; and the flexibility to work with multiple supervisors. Qualified candidates must have at least a four-year undergraduate degree. Prior legal and/or law firm experience is a plus.

We care most about top analytical, organizational & communication skills.

We offer a competitive base salary, and comprehensive health insurance and other benefits. For more information about Gravel & Shea PC, please visit gravelshea.com.

A qualified candidate should submit cover letter, résumé, references, and at least one writing sample to: fmiller@gravelshea.com.

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RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL The Rutland City Public School District in Vermont, serving our upbeat, picturesque and supportive community, seeks an innovative, studentcentered leader to guide Rutland High School toward its development as a model learning community in the 21st century.

Rutland High School (RHS) gains its inspiration from serving more than 800 students and their families at the base of the western Green Mountains in the center of Vermont. RHS is the predominant school of choice among surrounding towns who tuition their secondary students. The school supports the growth of the city of Rutland and the surrounding communities. Rutland’s citizens are committed to the city’s well-being. Rutland Public Schools are integral partners in moving the region forward.

RHS supports that mission as a learning institution recognized regionally, nationally, and internationally. The core structure of curriculum, instruction, and assessment is established on the system of Professional Learning Communities (PLC). The high school staff contributes interests and talents to build educational offerings that serve our diverse community of learners. The school features three campus settings that offer opportunities to all learning styles. Rutland High School and Stafford Technical Center partner and share a residence. Rutland High School offers a comprehensive range of activities, athletics, and fine arts. Our students take advantage of concentrations in STEM and Global Studies, featuring advanced learning through Capstone projects and field work in school-to-work internships. Student voice is a strong feature of Rutland High School, recognized yearly in events like the Vermont Global Issues Network Conference. RHS students are expected to lead.

The RHS Principal will foster the growth and development of the institution as it continues to innovate. Successful applicants must demonstrate knowledge and forward vision toward best practices in secondary school education, now and into the next decade. The applicant must be committed to PLC systems that support teacher collaboration. Candidates should demonstrate a commitment to professional learning and an ability to forge partnerships with supporters outside the school. The successful candidate will be expected to lead RHS, a truly progressive high school, to its next stage, featuring the talents and interests of its students and staff.

The RHS Principal must carry forward the vision of the Rutland Public Schools: Rutland City Public Schools cultivates a passionate, diverse, and resilient community of critical thinkers who learn with purpose, create innovative and responsible solutions, and lead lives of integrity.

Candidates must have licensure, or be eligible for the same, as a Vermont Secondary School Principal.

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