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A FERRET TALE

During the nerve-wracking drive home, the ferret “was going pretty wild,” LaBelle recalled. “He got into the back window, under the seats, and then I had to lean over and pull him out when he got under the brake pedal.”

LaBelle owns two cats, so he grabbed a pet carrier, put the ferret inside and brought it into his home. The cats sniffed around the new guy but didn’t get too territorial, he said.

LaBelle named the ferret

Craig, short for Craigslist, which is where he considered publicizing his discovery of the furry fellow.

Instead, LaBelle dropped the animal off at the Humane Society, where Craig awaits his owner or a new home.

All the critter left behind was a distinctive smell in LaBelle’s car and a story he will long tell about an innocent trip to the grocery store.

“I wasn’t expecting to bring a ferret home,” LaBelle said.

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yler LaBelle thought the tail poking out from under a car in the parking lot at the Shelburne Road Hannaford belonged to a squirrel.

But when the furry critter came into view, LaBelle saw that it was a ferret. He watched in amazement as it wiggled its way up into the engine compartment of a parked car.

“It was cold that day, and he looked like he was shivering, so I think he was trying to find a place to stay warm,” LaBelle recalled of his April 6 run-in with the mustelid.

“I didn’t want someone to start their car while he was up there.”

So LaBelle recruited another shopper to help him corner the ferret. With no apparent owner in sight, LaBelle put the animal into his car. The plan was to keep it safe until the Humane Society of Chittenden County opened for the day.

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1. “Selling the Herd: A Milk Price Crisis Is Devastating Vermont’s Dairy Farms” by Paul Heintz. A prolonged dip in milk prices is driving farms out of business, and it’s hitting smaller operations especially hard.

2. “All Aboard for the Champlain Valley Dinner Train” by Sally Pollak. This dinner train will travel the rails from Burlington to Middlebury on weekends during the summer.

3. “As Scott Signs Historic Vermont Gun Laws, Protesters Call Him a ‘Traitor’” by Paul Heintz. Gov. Scott signed a trio of gun bills into law in a public ceremony on the Vermont Statehouse steps last week.

4. “Call to ‘Make Vermont Great Again’ Dismays Some GOP Lawmakers” by Alicia Freese. The Vermont GOP sent out a fundraising email riffing on President Trump’s campaign slogan, but some state lawmakers were not on board with the messaging.

5. “Scott Administration Proposes Draining Clean Energy Fund” by Taylor Dobbs.

The administration proposed removing $500,000 from the Clean Energy Development Fund, which offers financial incentives for individuals and businesses to reduce their fossil fuel use.

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The Supreme Court ruling resonated in the Vermont Statehouse.

“I believe that anyone who takes so many specific steps to prepare to commit a horrific crime, and then confesses he is working to carry it out, needs to be held fully accountable,” Gov. Phil Scott said after the court’s ruling.

Legislators are considering changing the law that defines what constitutes an “attempt” to commit a crime in Vermont. Under the proposal, a perpetrator would need only to take a “substantial step,” defined as “conduct that is strongly corroborative of the firmness of the actor’s purpose to complete the commission of the offense.”

The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont is objecting, and some lawmakers, including Sen. Joe Benning (R-Caledonia), a defense attorney, have warned against moving too quickly.

“One thing I’m a little nervous about is, we’re trying to legislate again in the midst of fear, paranoia and understandable concerns,” Benning said, “but I don’t want to get this wrong.”

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Rutland Superior Court judge on Tuesday set bail at $100,000 for accused would-be school shooter Jack Sawyer, who had been jailed without bail since his February arrest on charges of attempted murder. His lawyer, Kelly Green, told Judge Thomas Zonay it’s possible Sawyer could be admitted to the Brattleboro Retreat for mental health treatment.

The 18-year-old kept a detailed journal outlining plans to shoot people at Fair Haven Union High School, authorities say. He allegedly bought a shotgun and texted a friend about his intention.

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“Each of [Sawyer’s] actions was a preparatory act, and not an act undertaken in the attempt to commit a crime,” the justices wrote. “Therefore, as a matter of law, defendant’s acts did not fall within the definition of an attempt.”

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DAIRY CLARIFICATION

Thank you for covering the current situation facing Vermont dairy farmers [“Selling the Herd,” April 11]. My parents, brothers, and several aunts, uncles and cousins are in that number. It is regrettable, however, that your cover story perpetuates a widespread myth about antibiotics and milk.

You printed that Michael Colby “takes particular issue with large-scale farms that rely on genetically modified feed and antibiotics to enhance milk production in sedentary cows” without clarifying that, unlike some animals raised for meat, dairy cows only receive antibiotics when they are actually sick, and that it is a violation of federal food safety rules to ship milk from cows treated with antibiotics.

For this reason, farmers discard the milk from treated cows, and a sample of every bulk tank of milk shipped is collected at the farm for testing in case contamination is found.

Emily Stebbins-Wheelock

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SHADES OF GRAY

Thank you for the great article on a very important topic [“Gray Areas,” April 4].

I wanted to add that there are several other options available for those seniors who want to stay in their own homes and safely “age in place.” At least six privatepay non-medical home care companies in Vermont offer companion and homemaker services, including Home Instead Senior Care, TLC Home Care, Armistead Senior Care, Home Care Assistance and Synergy HomeCare. Employees of these companies are very carefully vetted and trained. The services are available seven days a week, from just a few hours a week to 24 hours a day. The hourly charge is in the ballpark of $25 per hour. As Monica Hutt, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living, says: She is concerned about the group in the middle — between affluent seniors and those who qualify for government assistance — and these companies offer services to this group.

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Thabault is a former owner of Home Instead Senior Care.

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Re [Daily 7, “Bill McKibben Seeks Someone to Sell Him Milk and Eggs,” April 3]: The retirement of the owners of the Ripton Country Store opens up an opportunity for City Market, Onion River Co-op; the good-food movement and the preservation — and transformation — of a small, local general store into a small, local co-op with the support of a prosperous parent. City Market would bring experience, purchasing power and administrative resources. And a pool of young, idealistic employees to staff the Ripton store or train the locals to do so.

Perhaps the present owners, relieved of the financial burden and the anxieties of business, would be willing to remain in an advisory capacity during a transition period.

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Re [Off Message: “Weinberger Could Veto City Council Resolution on F-35s,” March 28]: Burlington Mayor Weinberger is perpetuating time-honored falsehoods in his public statements about the reduction or closing of the Vermont Air National Guard

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Last week’s cover story, “Selling the Herd,” used the wrong unit of measurement to describe the volume of milk produced in Vermont. The state’s dairies generated 2.67 billion pounds in 2014 and 2.73 billion pounds in 2017.

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I am writing in response to Mark Davis’ recent article, “Family Foundations in Vermont Quietly Manage Vast Holdings” [April 4]. He includes mention of the Three Thirty Three Foundation run by the Dreissigacker family, which founded the successful company Concept2. For some reason, Davis feels the need to end the blurb with a question that raises unfair and incorrect aspersions and frankly, sounds disrespectful: “So where did the Dreissigacker’s money go from there?”

I hope this is not standard journalistic protocol when a reporter cannot get the information they are seeking.

I can say with deep appreciation that some of the Dreissigacker family generosity has helped underwrite the direct service work of Spectrum Youth & Family Services — since 2004. Back then, 98 percent of our revenues came from state or federal funding. Those government sources have been drying up steadily, and this year hover at 48 percent. The only thing that has allowed us to keep our doors open, and even expand services to homeless and at-risk youth, are private donors — the Dreissigackers primary among them. But they give of their plentitude quietly and humbly, not seeking public acclaim, which in this day and age is quite extraordinary.

I can say with confidence that numerous other nonprofit organizations — across Vermont and beyond — could pen the exact words of gratitude I have written here.

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Second, history shows none has ever closed for lack of a mission, though some units have shifted around within a state.

Third, it costs much less for the Air Force to support Air National Guard units than to maintain full-time, active-duty airmen in their place.

Fourth, the U.S. military continues to grow in money spent and new equipment made and old equipment discarded — so it would be senseless to close any guard base.

Fifth, it would take some conjuring to ever believe that one of the U.S. Senate’s most powerful senators, Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who sits on the Armed Forces subcommittee of the Appropriations committee along with the nation’s most popular Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), would ever allow our base to close or suffer harm.

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t was one of the most dramatic scenes in recent Vermont history: Gov. PHIL SCOTT striding toward the Statehouse steps on the afternoon of April 11, his wife, DIANA MCTEAGUE SCOTT, by his side. The governor was about to sign three pieces of gun control legislation, not behind closed doors, not in the confines of his ceremonial office, but outside, in view of anyone who chose to attend.

As he became visible to the crowd, a full-throated volley of “boos” erupted from gun rights advocates, many clad in orange vests and camouflage. Almost immediately, supporters of the bills cheered intensely in an effort to drown Sunday, April 22, 7 pm out their counterparts.

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“As soon as it became clear that legislation was going to move forward, the governor immediately stated that he wanted to do it publicly,” said REBECCA KELLEY, Scott’s communications director.

“It was his decision from the start.”

“I didn’t want to be accused of being ashamed of my actions,” said Scott. “If I’d signed the bills behind closed doors, it might have given fodder to those who accused me of being a traitor or a coward.”

Like former governor HOWARD DEAN, who chose to sign the controversial civil unions bill behind closed doors in 2000?

Just sayin’.

One can only imagine the response of Scott’s security detail and other members of the Vermont State Police, but “that was never going to be the deciding factor,” Kelley said. “The governor had en list and his mind made up.”

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who are deemed an imminent threat to themselves or others. H.422 allows police to immediately remove guns in cases of domestic violence. And S.55 includes a ban on bump stocks, a limit on ammunition magazines, a minimum age of 21 for would-be gun buyers and universal background checks for gun purchases.

“I thought that having all three bills signed together was important,” Scott said. “Making sure everyone heard the same thing at the same time, because there’s been so much misinformation being circulated.”

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As a public speaker, Scott can resemble a man crossing a stream by stepping on a series of rocks — a little tentative between the bits of familiar rhetoric. But this speech was delivered with eloquence and passion. That’s because, much more than usual, it came directly from Scott himself. “He penned the overwhelming majority of the content in it,” said Gibbs.

“That comes through in the authenticity of the content.”

The governor’s wife rarely appears at gubernatorial events. “She doesn’t like the limelight,” Scott explained. The night before the signing, he told her that she would be welcome to attend — fully expecting her to decline. “She made the decision. She was going to leave work to come on her own, which surprised me.”

He said it was “absolutely” a measure of security and comfort to have her by his side.

And in case you were wondering, Scott wasn’t wearing a flak jacket. Why not? Gibbs offered a simple answer: “He said ‘No.’” Scott delivered his speech from a podium high on the Statehouse steps, backed by dozens of lawmakers (almost entirely Democrats and Progressives) and members of his administration.

Reporters and photographers stood in a designated area two flights down, and the audience clustered directly behind them. They had, without prompting, sorted into two camps: pro-gun

advocates to the governor’s right, and gun-bill supporters to his left.

Right in front of the audience was a signing table, less than 10 feet from the thin red tape separating the audience from the press. “I didn’t want it to be above everyone,” Scott explained. “I thought it was important that we have it down at the same level, witnessed by those who supported and those who did not.”

Throughout the speech, jeers and catcalls erupted from the gun-rights section. Cries of “Traitor!” “Coward!” and less polite epithets rained down.

“I’ve never been to an event when there was such incredible disrespect for the office,” said House Speaker MITZI JOHNSON (D-South Hero), who stood beside the governor. On a couple of occasions, Scott responded in kind. “Be careful what you’re booing at here,” he said, when shouts erupted after a mention of school safety. “If you want to boo on that, go ahead and boo!”

After his 25-minute address, Scott walked down to the signing table.

Unbidden, the lawmakers and officials did likewise. “I was surprised that they followed me down,” Scott recalled. “It was nice that they did. It wasn’t planned by me.”

Scott sat down to sign the bills, completely surrounded on all sides — by legislators, reporters, supporters and opponents. That must have been quite a moment for his security team — but nothing happened. The signing concluded, the governor and his wife walked away, and the crowd dispersed peacefully.

“The governor made the right call, letting the people participate,” observed Johnson. “That’s easy to say now. Had something gone differently, there would have been a lot of ‘I told you so.’”

The openness of the event was striking. Scott made himself accessible, and vulnerable. It’s in stark contrast to his first gubernatorial veto of the year, on S.103, a bill to boost regulation of toxic chemicals. His office announced it in a press release after hours on Monday night, when Scott was on an official visit to Montréal.

Which is to take nothing away from April 11, when the governor stepped forward to sign bills that were especially controversial to his political base. And Scott is fully aware that the personal and political risk is far from over. As he travels the state in what’s expected to be

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a campaign for re-election, he will find a decidedly mixed reception at events that used to be friendlier: parades, fairs and the like.

The controversy may even force him to give up his favorite pastime: racing stock cars at Barre’s Thunder Road SpeedBowl.

“I have thought about that,” he said.

“I’m considering what I’m going to do in the future there, because I don’t want to drag politics into it. It’s not fair to the fans who show up to just watch racing.”

He would actually give it up? “I’m going to speak to some of my fellow racers and talk to track officials and get their perspectives,” he said. “Because I don’t want to turn it into a spectacle about this issue.”

The closing rush of the legislative session is just beginning, and there will be disputes aplenty in the days to come. Scott is openly opposed to at least a dozen bills that may reach his desk, which would make for a truly epic faceoff with the Democratic legislature.

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A few hours before the signing ceremony, the Vermont Republican Party launched a new slogan: “Make Vermont Great Again,” in garish orange letters on a green background. It was a clear echo of President DONALD TRUMP’S “Make America Great Again” slogan. In message and in timing, it seemed a direct shot at the party’s top Vermont officeholder, who is no fan of The Donald.

Scott reacted with restraint. “I’m not going to try and second-guess their strategy,” he said. “It wouldn’t have been something that I would have promoted myself, but I don’t have any control over what they do in the party.”

Really? The most successful Republican of the last decade and the party’s top officeholder has no control over his own party?

That’s, well, stunning.

And it’s a sign that the governor and his party may be permanently alienated.

Recall that last November, the VTGOP’s state committee elected Trump supporter DEB BILLADO as party chair over Scott’s choice, MIKE DONOHUE. Things don’t seem to have improved since.

Especially in view of Billado’s appearance at a Statehouse gun-rights rally on Saturday. As she took the podium, an audience member shouted “We’re not supporting Phil Scott!” according

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Billado proceeded to throw her governor under the bus. “It’s everyone’s choice to take that to the poll,” she responded. “I don’t pick winners or losers.

I work for the Republican Party. I work for you.”

She read an excerpt from the party’s platform expressing support for the right to keep and bear arms — and called on the crowd to back pro-gun legislative candidates and defeat gun-control advocates.

For instance, Rep. MARTIN LALONDE (D-South Burlington), who advocated for the high-capacity magazine ban.

“Who is here from South Burlington today?” she said.

Someone shouted “Run against Lalonde!”

“That’s right,” said Billado.

“Get him out of here!” cried another voice.

“That’s right, absolutely,” said Billado.

“He’s a California scoundrel to boot!” came a shout.

“Absolutely,” said Billado, endorsing the nativist “true Vermonter” sentiments of many gun-rights advocates.

(Lalonde was born in California but grew up in Alpena, Mich., a small northern city in the heart of hunting and fishing country.)

It was straight out of the “Make Vermont Great Again” fundraising email, which bemoaned the state’s lost status as a “true bastion” of conservative values, now “co-opted by the liberal elite” who are bent on “stripping away every right and freedom that Vermonters hold dear.”

The contrast with Scott couldn’t have been more explicit. “The lack of civility and respect is going to be our undoing,” he said in response to the party’s Trumpian pitch. “I’m far more fearful of the political polarization than I am about anything that happens outside our borders at this point.”

When asked for his thoughts on the party’s direction, the governor said, “I’ve shown that there is a path forward for Republicans and the Republican Party, but they have to figure out if that’s the path they want to go down.”

Gibbs, who has served the last two Republican governors and once ran for secretary of state as a Republican, opted for subtlety.

“My mom taught me that if there is nothing nice to say, I shouldn’t say anything at all,” he said when asked about the party’s email.

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he Vermont State Police held a press conference in February after one of its troopers killed an armed suicidal man on the side of Interstate 89 — the third fatal shooting in six months. A reporter asked Col. Matt Birmingham: Is it time to empanel a civilian oversight group for the state police?

“We have one. It’s been in place many years,” Birmingham replied and gave a shout-out to the State Police Advisory Commission.

By law, SPAC has the ability to serve as a powerful independent regulator of the state police. Tasked with advising the commissioner of public safety on internal investigations, grievances and promotions, its members have access to internal affairs records and can refer state police cases to outside legal authorities and release information to the public.

But critics of the commission note it operates in secrecy and serves as little more than a rubber stamp for departmental disciplinary decisions.

“It’s a black box,” said American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont staff attorney Lia Ernst, who said she failed to persuade SPAC to release records of a recent internal affairs investigation of a trooper who was eventually fired.

“The public is left in the dark.”

Seven Days first examined SPAC’s work in February 2013, observing that it “conducts most of its business behind closed doors and releases almost nothing about its own findings.”

In the intervening five years, numerous high-profile fatal shootings in Vermont and across the country have increased tensions between the public and law enforcement. Recent studies suggest Vermont troopers disproportionately target minorities for searches during traffic stops.

Yet nothing about SPAC has changed.

The chair of the seven-seat, governor-appointed board is Burlington lawyer Nancy Sheahan. It includes Burlington Probation and Parole supervisor Glenn Boyde, Vermont Law School dean Shirley Jefferson, former Boys & Girls Club of Burlington executive director Mary Alice McKenzie, lobbyist Allison Crowley DeMag and Aon Insurance Managers director

Patti Pallito, the ex-wife of a former DOC commissioner.

SPAC has not released any findings in the past five years, and the minutes from its deliberations read remarkably alike.

I attended one of the group’s bimonthly meetings last Thursday on the second floor of the Department of Public Safety’s Waterbury headquarters. Officers kept my driver’s license at the front desk while a staffer escorted me through locked doors to a tiny conference room, where I took the sole extra seat along a wall.

I was the first member of the public to attend a SPAC meeting in a year and a half.

Everybody else who showed up — five members of the board, along with Col. Birmingham, Commissioner of Public Safety Tom Anderson, and Lt. Julie Scribner, who heads the state police internal affairs unit — sat around a conference table.

For three minutes, the commission members engaged in idle chitchat and approved minutes from the previous

meeting. Then they voted unanimously to go into executive session.

An amiable Birmingham escorted me out of the room to the first-floor lobby, while everyone else remained.

An hour later, I was allowed back inside, where I listened to talk about the state police budget and the recent gun-control bill-signing ceremony.

Five minutes later, Sheahan ended the meeting.

That’s how SPAC sessions usually go, according to minutes from the past few years.

Technically, anyone can petition the commission with a complaint related to state police conduct. In October 2014, Brattleboro attorney Sharon Annis went with a client, Walter Zawalick of Guildford, who wanted SPAC to investigate a case that he claims ruined his life.

Four years earlier, Zawalick had driven to the state police barracks in Brattleboro to report that a woman had attacked him. He told Trooper Kurt Wagenbach that it was not a fight. He had recorded the encounter and asked

the trooper to listen, according to Zawalick’s complaint to SPAC. Wagenbach refused to listen, and, after speaking to others involved, concluded that the altercation had been a mutual fight, according to Zawalick’s complaint. He charged Zawalick with domestic assault. As a result, Zawalick was fired from his security job at a local hospital.

Four months after his arrest, prosecutors listened to the recording — and dropped the charges, according to Zawalick’s complaint.

Zawalick and his lawyer wanted the trooper investigated and potentially disciplined. But the group ruled that Wagenbach’s actions “were neither negligent nor derelict.”

“They listened to us very politely and did nothing at all,” Annis said. “It just got buried. I found it pretty shallow. It’s not worth it. You’re not going to get anywhere.”

Of particular concern to SPAC’s detractors is the involvement of Sheahan, a partner at the Burlington firm McNeil Leddy & Sheahan.

Sheahan isn’t just any attorney; she’s a go-to lawyer for Vermont cops who have been accused of mistakes or wrongdoing. She represented the Brattleboro police officers who shot and killed a suicidal man wielding a knife inside a church in 2002. She was the lawyer for Bennington police officers accused of racially profiling a black man whose conviction for drug dealing was overturned by the Vermont Supreme Court. Sheahan does not represent the state police.

“Stevie Wonder can see that is a conflict of interest,” said Mark Hughes, cofounder of the advocacy group Justice For All, referring to the blind musician. “If the State Police Advisory Commission has responsibility for reviewing alleged police misconduct, and Nancy has a responsibility within her practice for defending law enforcement officers, it is absolutely problematic.”

In an interview after last week’s meeting, Sheahan said her experience is an asset.

“I see it as a benefit,” said Sheahan, a former prosecutor. “I try to stay current on best practices within law enforcement, and I have got a great deal of respect for law enforcement, and I

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pulled over a speeding rabbi, held him at gunpoint and handcuffed his family.

Did the commission find wrongdoing or recommend discipline in any of those incidents? Do commissioners ever disagree with findings by the state police internal affairs unit?

SPAC won’t say.

Nationally, the trend is an increase in transparency. Groups that oversee police have won new powers in recent years, according to the National Association of Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement.

“Years ago, police chiefs were so against any kind of oversight,” said Liana Perez, the association’s director of operations, who sits on one such board in Tucson, Ariz. “Now they’re embracing it. They feel it’s another tool for them to build bridges with their communities, because they need those bridges to do their work.”

In a recent interview, Vermont’s Col. Birmingham said he, too, believes in greater scrutiny of law enforcement.

“It can’t be any other way — we answer to the public,” he said.

“I think what they do is important,” he said of the State Police Advisory Commission. “SPAC doesn’t get enough attention.”

He noted that other groups watch over the police in Vermont, too, including the legislature, selectboards and city councils.

In fact, most Vermont police agencies operate without any oversight.

Only Burlington and Rutland have civilian commissions that monitor local police. “I don’t think we have any tools in place that are doing the kind of oversight we should be doing,” said Burlington Police Commission chair Christine Longmore.

Burlington police leaders update the commission on some internal investigations, but commissioners have no say, Longmore said. Cases involving anything remotely serious are deemed confidential personnel matters outside the scope of the group, she added.

The commission often discusses relatively trivial matters, such as members of the public complaining about cops being rude, or confused interactions between cops and New Americans.

“It’s oversight lite,” Longmore said.

“It’s oversight make-believe.”

Perez said civilian oversight groups need muscle to be effective. Some groups, including bodies in Seattle and San Francisco, now have subpoena power over police. The organizations need active members with no conflicts of interest, Perez said. And they must have transparent meetings and release reports to the public.

“The community shouldn’t have to file a public records request to know what your oversight entity is doing,” Perez said.

In Vermont, even that won’t cut it.

Last week, Seven Days filed a public records request with Sheahan, asking for the results of all internal Vermont State Police investigations and any SPAC findings or reports since January 2017.

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don’t want to see people who violate codes of conduct working as police officers.”

Sheahan said that SPAC “starts from a belief ” that investigations are “confidential,” out of concern for the privacy of troopers. A reporter can’t even discover which cases are being discussed.

Some recent cases that haven’t been made public include: Stephen McGranaghan resigned from state police last year after he and another trooper set an illegal fire on his property in Stannard; trooper Christopher Brown, who fired upon the suicidal man on the side of the highway, shot a man in the leg three years earlier; in September 2017, another trooper

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he granite countertops, sparkling appliances and panoramic lake views look like they belong in a posh condo development.

Instead these amenities enhance a new six-story, off-campus apartment building that Champlain College is leasing to undergraduates in Burlington. The newly constructed units are helping to finally cool the long-overheated student rental market.

The big new building, named after its address — 194 St. Paul Street — is the latest newcomer to the scene, and it’s having an impact. Champlain students have already leased all 314 beds in the steel-and-brick edifice and will move in when the building opens in mid-August.

Some are migrating from Champlain dorms; some from off-campus apartments.

The latter shift is spurring competition to fill student rentals that once could practically lease themselves in a college town with high demand.

By December, though, the Chittenden County vacancy rate had risen to almost 3 percent, according to South Burlington real estate firm Allen, Brooks & Minor.

That’s nearly double the average rates of the previous couple of decades. At least 362 rental units were constructed last year in the county, and another 448 are due this year, including those at 194 St. Paul. In the longer term, with big projects such as Cambrian Rise on North Avenue and City Place on Church Street approved for construction, more than 2,000 units are in the pipeline.

In response, some landlords are cutting rents. Others are waiving deposits and aggressively marketing by doling out free pizza and Red Bull to student renters who aren’t used to being wooed. Students have generally felt lucky to score an $800-amonth bedroom in a dilapidated Victorian with a sagging porch.

“The competition among landlords is markedly increased,” said Rick Sharp, a longtime Burlington investment-property owner. This spring, for the first time in roughly 20 years, he reduced rents in an effort to find tenants for a pair of fourbedroom apartments on Orchard Terrace in the popular student zone between the University of Vermont and downtown.

The apartments typically go quickly to students who rent on a June-to-June basis, usually for about $25 more per bedroom than the previous renters. This year, Sharp got no takers from ads on Craigslist. He dropped the rent from $2,800 to $2,700 a month, but still has not found tenants. “We may have to go to $2,600,” he said.

He points to Craigslist ads offering reduced prices and promising one or two months rent-free in student neighborhoods. The changes reflect the many new units being built, including the big Champlain building, he said.

The new building occupies an entire city block that was formerly home to the Eagles Club. Earlier this month, workers installed appliances, laid gray vinylplank flooring in apartments that range in size from studios to four bedrooms, and painted trim in tangerine and lime.

With polished concrete hallway floors, metal trim and some glass walls, the look is industrial chic. The common areas will be adorned with historic photos of Burlington and artifacts that were excavated during the project — old bottles, coins, horseshoes and tools.

Under an agreement with the city, rooms may be rented only to students.

Each unit has its own kitchen and bathrooms, and no one has to share a bedroom.

Leases are voluntary — students are not “assigned” to the building. First-year students, who are required to live on campus at Champlain, cannot apply. Leases run for 11.5 months and aren’t cheap. They vary in cost from about $965 to $1,355 a month, including utilities and internet.

Apartment-style housing is increasingly common at colleges, and UVM has its own versions, including the Redstone Lofts near the school’s athletic campus. But in that case, an outside company, Redstone, partnered with the school to build and run the facility.

Champlain owns and manages 194 St. Paul Street, which is by far the largest residential building in the school’s portfolio of restored historic structures and new dorms.

“If Champlain were ever to hold a yard sale, this could be its most valuable asset,” said John Caulo, an associate vice president at Champlain, as he gave Seven Days a tour.

The building will plop more than 300 students downtown, about half a mile from the core of the private college’s campus.

The college built the structure partly to reach a 2007 master-plan goal of housing more of its roughly 2,000 undergraduates.

With the opening of 194 St. Paul, about 75 percent of Champlain’s students will live in college housing.

Mayor Miro Weinberger, who has pushed for new housing downtown, hails the construction. For many years, he and other city leaders have pressured UVM

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and Champlain to construct housing to at Lapis Advisers LP, the investor group ease what some see as an Animal House that oversees the building. problem in former family neighborhoods With 84 units and 312 beds, Spinner now overrun by students, especially north is an important anchor in Winooski’s reof Main Street. Noise, litter, drunkenness, developed downtown. When Champlain parking on lawns and disrepair are peren- students moved in a decade ago, they nial problems. enlivened the old mill city and injected Weinberger finds the increasing va- youthful vigor. Businesses such as the cancy rate and anecdotes of discounted Happy Belly Deli and Grill next to Spinner rents encouraging.

Place rely on them.

“That sounds to me like the early stages Students see that corner restaurant of a market reconciling, kind of reca- almost as a dining hall. They come in at “10 librating to deal with the fact that there’s a.m. in their pajamas, getting their Sour substantial amounts of new supply,” Patch Kids and a breakfast sandwich, and Weinberger said. we’re happy to have them like that,” said A UVM project also helped. UVM owner Ron Cameron. demolished several old dorms and built a Some Champlain students are sorry to new 695-bed residence hall that opened leave Winooski. “I’d rather stay here,” said last year, for a net gain of about 305 on- 22-year-old sophomore Christopher Bell, campus beds. UVM now has as he stood outside Spinner the capacity to house about last week, his backpack 61 percent of its roughly slung over one shoulder.

10,000 undergraduate stuBut with Champlain dents, though thousands ending a shuttle service, continue to live off-campus. it will be more difficult to There are no short-term get to campus, so he and plans to build new dorms his three roommates are at UVM. However, college moving to 194 St. Paul. They officials are talking with city leased a two-story townRIC K SHARP leaders about possible new house-style unit at the top of housing on the former Trinity College the building. Bell, of Newburgh, N.Y, will campus along Colchester Avenue, which miss the vibe in Winooski but figures the UVM owns. new location will grow on him. “I like the Champlain has no further plans to fact that we’re closer to Church Street,” he construct housing, at least for now. It said. dropped plans for new units at the old Some students aren’t interested in Ethan Allen Club property on College college housing, even if it has polished Street and instead sold that parcel to the concrete floors. Once they get out of the Greater Burlington YMCA a few years ago. dorms, they want to steer clear of anything Also off the drawing board: plans to lease with an institutional feel. UVM junior units in Phase I of City Place. Critics of the Lauren Bausch, 21, pays $825 a month to downtown mall redevelopment opposed rent a room with three other students in student housing in its mix of units, and an old aluminum-sided house on Greene developer Don Sinex agreed to scrap that Street. On a recent morning, the street was plan last July. packed with parked cars bearing out-ofThat means 194 St. Paul will be the state license plates, and litter blew around biggest development to affect Burlington’s the curbs and sidewalks. The discounts student housing scene for some time. Still, people are seeing on Craigslist haven’t the most immediate ripple effect from its filtered down to Bausch. Rentals remain opening will be on a neighborhood in an- “pricey,” she said. other city — Winooski.

Still, Greene Street feels “more authenChamplain has terminated its lease of tic” than the Redstone Lofts on campus, roughly 280 beds at Spinner Place apart- where some of her friends live, said ments, effective this summer. That change Bausch, who hails from Clifton Park, N.Y. has left the owners of that building on “I like living downtown,” she said. “It’s a Winooski Falls Way hustling to find new little bit more independent.” tenants for the coming school year.

One big question is whether the changSpinner leasing agents are market- ing marketplace will lead owner-occuing heavily at the University of Vermont. pants to reclaim some of the houses that They’ve set up a table at UVM’s Davis were converted to student rentals decades Center and lured students with free pizza ago. That transition could happen on the to talk up the free wifi, new furniture and fringe of the most popular student zones utilities-included rent package at Spinner. as more renters find homes elsewhere, New lease deals waive the typical $700 to said Steve Lipkin, a Burlington real estate $800 deposit. agent and landlord.

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hen Rebecca Holcombe left Vermont’s Agency of Education this month after four years as its leader, she gave just one week’s notice — and zero explanation.

Holcombe’s boss, Gov. Phil Scott, announced her departure by press release and later insisted that hers was “a personal decision,” unprompted by disagreements with his administration.

But according to State Board of Education chair Krista Huling, a policy dispute was precisely what prompted the secretary of education to part ways with Scott.

“There were differences in opinion about major issues,” said Huling, who spoke with Holcombe before and after the secretary’s resignation. “That’s where the breakdown happened.”

Holcombe has kept quiet since her April 1 departure, creating an air of mystery in education and political circles. “It is time to move on,” she wrote in a March 27 letter to colleagues, declining to elaborate. “I have said what I have to say,” she told Seven Days in a text message the next day. Since then, Holcombe has ignored repeated requests for an interview.

According to Huling, the precipitating event took place shortly after Town Meeting Day. For months, Scott had been urging school boards to increase their budgets by no more than 2.5 percent in order to avoid a tax hike of up to 9 cents per $100 of assessed property. Boards went beyond that, presenting budgets that averaged just 1.5 percent in growth.

But soon after voters approved those spending plans in early March, Scott’s commissioner of finance, Adam Greshin, told reporters that the cost savings were insufficient.

“We have still some work to do,” he told Vermont Public Radio, noting that property taxes were still projected to rise by 5 cents. Scott has said he’ll oppose any tax increase this year — and avoiding a property tax hike would require as much as $40 million in additional cuts. “Our belief is, it’s time for state policymakers to take over,” Greshin said.

According to Huling and two others who have spoken with Holcombe about the matter, the secretary considered the demand an affront to school boards that had worked hard to keep spending down and to the voters who’d authorized that spending. The two sources requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions.

“She felt it was undemocratic to try to go and change budgets when the voters had already approved them,” Huling said. “That was the disagreement that I think led to her resignation.”

In Holcombe’s view, according to Huling, the anticipated tax increase was largely a product of the Scott administration’s own making.

In 2017, the governor and the legislature agreed to use a $26 million surplus and $6 million in education fund reserves to hold down the property tax rate.

Holcombe and her staff privately objected but were

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EDUCATION unable to sway Scott. While the decision saved taxpayers money in fiscal year 2018, it has forced lawmakers to make up for the use of $32 million in one-time funds.

The disagreement between secretary and governor “really stemmed from last year when the governor used one-time money with the education budget,” Huling said.

While Holcombe never publicly questioned Scott’s calls for further “cost containment” in March, she did privately voice dissent at least once.

A person outside the Agency of Education who worked closely with Holcombe recalled getting a phone call from her the week after Town Meeting Day: “Rebecca expressed regret that after school boards had worked so hard to bring budgets in so low, representatives of the administration were calling for a $40 million reduction.”

That demand, which many lawmakers oppose, has become a flashpoint in Vermont’s 2018 legislative session. In recent days, House and Senate leaders have met privately with the governor’s staff in the hopes of avoiding a standoff like last year’s, when Scott vetoed the budget after lawmakers rejected a last-minute proposal to establish a statewide school employee health insurance contract. The Scott administration has resurrected the concept this year and offered several other cost-cutting ideas, including reducing staff-to-student ratios. Lawmakers say the proposals aren’t fully baked and wouldn’t save anything approaching $40 million.

Holcombe stayed out of the fray during last year’s debate and, in general, assiduously avoided public involvement in any political conflict. That may explain how she managed to keep her job when Scott took

office in 2017, even though Scott’s Democratic predecessor, Peter Shumlin, had appointed her.

Scott and Holcombe did share certain convictions.

Throughout her tenure, the education secretary made it clear that she supported Scott’s goal of reining in school spending, as long as doing so wouldn’t diminish the quality of education. She also played a lead role in implementing Act 46, which requires many school districts to merge into larger, more cost-effective units.

“Through her expertise and tenacity on Act 46, Rebecca has had a positive impact on Vermont’s schools and education system,” Scott said in his statement announcing her departure. “In the context of this law alone, Rebecca has likely met with every superintendent and school board member in the state, and this work remains very important as we move forward.”

The reorganization of Vermont’s school districts, which is still underway, has been highly contentious in some communities. Though she served as the primary arbiter of this process, Holcombe was revered by many school leaders, who invariably praise her commitment to ensuring that students have equal access to education opportunities. The administration’s calls for cost containment post-Town Meeting Day caused particular indignation among this crowd.

“I think it’s absolutely ludicrous,” said John Castle, superintendent of North Country Supervisory Union.

“The governor is out to lunch.”

“School boards developed budgets that voters approved, and the General Assembly and administration ought to respect that process,” said Nicole Mace, executive director of the Vermont School Boards Association. “The year-by-year gimmicks aren’t good

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policy, and they undermine the hard at odds with the governor and his staff, work of people at the local level.” according to the Agency of Education Holcombe’s husband, former jour- employee. Among them: how to regunalist James Bandler, has been dropping late private schools that receive public hints on social media about the reasons tuition dollars. Scott has consistently for her departure. The day after Scott shown support for school choice and framed her decision as a “personal” one, raised concerns about subjecting private Bandler wrote on Facebook that it was, schools to the same special education rein fact, “a professional decision and not quirements that apply to public schools. a personal one.”

Holcombe and some of her staff The following week, he tweeted a hold a different view, according to her link to a Morrisville News & Citizen colleague, who said, “The independent editorial that read, “For Holcombe, schools say they don’t want to serve the who tried to shepherd school districts most vulnerable, and we say that’s OK, through merger mania and also find and we’re going to give them taxpayer ways to shave their budgets, the timing dollars? That’s crazy.” of Scott’s cost-cutting must have felt like Earlier this year, the education a knife in the back. The governor under- agency presented lawmakers with data cut her credibility, and that could well be showing that spending in “sending” disthe reason she’s gone now.” tricts — which provide tuWhether Holcombe ever ition vouchers for students confronted the governor instead of operating their over their disagreement own schools — was much isn’t clear. At the March 27 higher than in districts press conference during that have their own public which Scott addressed her schools. departure, he told report“We’re allowed to talk ers, “I believe we had a great about all the ways the public working relationship.” The schools can save money, but governor deflected quesnot the ways the private tions about policy disputes, schools should,” said the even when asked directly agency employee. whether Holcombe had exBefore Holcombe became pressed concerns about his secretary, she directed calls for cost containment.

Dartmouth College’s Teacher Asked again this week Education Program; earlier whether the secretary in her career, she served as raised those objections a public school principal with the governor, Scott and middle and high school KRISTA HUL ING spokesman Ethan Latour teacher. Although Scott has demurred. “I wouldn’t say offered nothing but praise that we felt that that played for Holcombe, he’s also made a big role in her decision,” he said. it clear that he’s looking for something A colleague of Holcombe’s at the different in his next secretary.

Agency of Education noted that it had When filling the position, the Board become increasingly clear that “the of Education selects a minimum of three governor had other ideas and wasn’t lis- candidates, and the governor must choose tening to her,” which made it challeng- from among them. In an April 2 memo to ing to “maintain her credibility as an Huling that quickly drew criticism from education leader committed to what’s educators and lawmakers, Scott asked best for kids. the board to put a high priority on candi“She didn’t feel like a partner in the dates who, among other strengths, “have decisions that were happening under experience managing complex issues her authority,” the colleague continued. (not necessarily in education)…”

“It was important to her that differThe governor modified his stance ent audiences saw her as an authentic after it was pointed out that state law leader, and carrying the governor’s requires the secretary to have expertise water was interfering with that.” in education management.

According to Huling, Holcombe’s But some are still wary about whom priorities became incompatible with Scott will choose. Jeanne Collins, those of the governor. “Her reason for superintendent of Rutland Northeast being in education is equity,” she said. Supervisory Union, said, “I worry that “I think that’s her passion, and if the we’re gonna have a new vision every governor is looking at cost containment, two years, whereas Rebecca was a that’s not her passion.” steady ship.” m There were other areas in which the secretary’s emphasis on equity put her Contact: alicia@sevendaysvt.com

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Drum corps parade marching on Church Street during First Night Burlington

Attendance had been dropping for some time, Mount said. In addition, NorthCountry Federal Credit Union, the event’s principal sponsor for the past 10 years, announced that it would “substantially reduce” its participation in the future, “leaving First Night without a major source of sponsorship income,” according to the release.

Mount raised the possibility of closure at a board meeting two weeks ago, he said. Board members at first were “incredulous,” but in the end, they saw the writing on the wall. “I didn’t see any alternative,” he said. “None of us wanted to be on the board to shut it down.”

Burlington City Arts will explore whether it can run an alternative to First Night, Mount said. Any remaining First Night assets will be donated to the organization.

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Peter Welch

Sanders Raises $1.26 Million for Senate Reelection Campaign Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) reelection campaign brought in more than $1.26 million in the first three months of 2018, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission.

That’s more than five times what the senator raised during the same period last year, but it’s less than the $1.29 million he collected in the second quarter of 2017 and the $1.95 million he raised in the third quarter of that year.

Sanders, who was first elected to the U.S. House in 1990 and the Senate in 2006, has not said whether he will seek reelection this November. No other contenders have filed reports with the FEC.

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Welch: Trump Should Be Impeached If He Fires Mueller Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said publicly for the first time on Monday that President Donald Trump would be committing an “impeachable” offense if he were to seek the removal of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Asked what Congress should do if Trump fired Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in order to remove Mueller, Welch said, “That would be grounds for Congress taking up the impeachment questions.”

In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly criticized Mueller, whom Rosenstein appointed last May to investigate alleged ties between the president’s 2016 campaign and Russia.

While Trump cannot directly terminate the special counsel or end his investigation, he could order the acting attorney general — at the moment, Rosenstein — to do so.

But, according to Welch, “That would be obstruction of justice. The president is not above the law. No citizen is above the law.”

Until now, Welch and Vermont’s other two congressional delegates — Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — have largely avoided weighing in on the impeachment question. Last December, Welch voted against a procedural motion to debate impeachment. At the time, Welch said such a move would “undercut” Mueller’s investigation.

Welch said Monday that he still does not know whether Trump has obstructed justice or committed other impeachable offenses to date.

“I mean, I really deplore his behavior because it’s crossing lines,” he said. “Whether it meets the legal definition or the constitutional definition [of obstruction of justice], let’s follow the facts. The best chance for us to get credible facts is to maintain our support for the independent investigation by Mueller.”

To that end, Welch and Congressman Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) last Friday introduced the first bipartisan legislation in the House seeking to protect Mueller. Welch said he was inspired to take action by Trump’s recent Twitter posts attacking Mueller and Rosenstein.

“Everyone knows there’s a potential for the president to fire Mueller,” he said. “We’d be deaf, dumb and blind if we didn’t have an awareness of that.”

Disclosure: Paul Heintz worked as Peter Welch’s communications director from November 2008 to March 2011.

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After 35 years, Burlington’s annual New Year’s Eve festival will not return next year. The First Night Burlington board of directors announced Tuesday that the event would be discontinued because of low attendance and the loss of a key sponsor.

The frigid temperatures during the most recent festival kept people at home, leading to a “substantial loss” for the organization, board chair Dave Mount explained in a press release. “Our reserves have been fully tapped,” he wrote.

The board will pay off any outstanding debts from the 2018 event before disbanding First Night Burlington, Inc., at the end of April, according to the release.

First Night brought musicians, actors, parades and events to downtown Burlington since the inaugural event in 1983. The stroke of midnight was marked with a fireworks display. Mount said in an interview that he attended the first festival 35 years ago and brought his grandchildren in recent years to see Circus Smirkus perform. “Watching their faces light up with the magic of the circus — I’m going to miss it,” he said.

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First Night Burlington Shuts Down After 35 New Year’s Eve Festivals

The vast majority of Sanders’ donations this year came from individual contributors, though the campaign accepted $10,000 from labor and environmental political action committees, such as the Climate Champions PAC and the National Nurses United PAC. During the same three-month period, Sanders spent nearly $533,000. That left him, at the end of March, with nearly $6.9 million in his Senate reelection fund. But Sanders, who has declined to say whether he would mount a second presidential campaign in 2020, isn’t using the money simply to stump in Vermont.

In a fundraising solicitation that Sanders’ reelection campaign sent supporters Monday, longtime political adviser Jeff Weaver wrote that donations to the organization would “support Bernie’s effort to make Medicare for all the law of the land in this country.”

“Make a $3 donation today to help us re-launch our national grassroots organizing campaign with a focus on expanding support for Medicare for all in Congress, state legislatures, and local governments all across the country,” Weaver wrote. “We’re going to organize in communities everywhere, and then we are going to win.”

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The Long Shadow: The Winds of Freedom, Book One

Beth Kanell, Five Star Publishing, 300 pages. $29.95.

He reached up to take a bundle of clothes, it seemed, from the arms of a tall colored woman cautiously maneuvering her hoopskirts so as to neatly emerge without showing much more than her booted ankles as she stepped down.

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even Days writers can’t possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, a clowder of calicos. So this monthly feature is our way of introducing you to a handful of books by Vermont authors.

To do that, we contextualize each book just a little and quote a single representative sentence from, yes, page 32.

Inclusion here implies neither approval nor derision on our part, but simply: Here are a bunch of books, arranged alphabetically by authors’ names, that Seven Days readers might like to know about.

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On Brassard’s Farm

After penning six thrillers, Montpelier author DANIEL HECHT changes course for his seventh novel. The story centers on Ann Turner, a Boston teacher who, after a divorce and a professional misstep (i.e., inappropriate contact with a student), retreats to rural Vermont.

Suddenly unable to make the final payment on property she purchased from farmer Jim Brassard, Ann agrees to work off her debt as a farmhand.

In her new role, the protagonist, whose experiences the author says reflect his own, gets schooled in the worry-ridden and labor-intensive existence of the state’s farmers. At the outset, the narrator describes this as a love story — but not the typical kind.

While romantic love does come into play, the book explores many types of love, including that of family, nature, farming and friends. And yes, Ann learns to love herself, but not before she gets her hands dirty and redefines herself as a woman of true grit.

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Another bastard hardest thing: For the first two weeks, I brought my water up the hill in plastic gallon jugs.

Reeve Lindbergh, Brigantine Media, 136 pages. $14.95 paperback.

It was clear to me that my father was really smart: how else could he have done all the things he did, and written all those books?

The year is 1850, the place a small Vermont village called North Upton. Two neighboring families do what needs to be done to survive: farming, sugaring, endless cooking and other chores, taking care of one another and passing strangers. As it happens, the occasional stranger is a fugitive slave, and members of these families secretly help them make their way to Canada. Within this close-knit community, three young people become involved in the clandestine cause: teenage Alice; her best friend, Jerushah; and a younger girl, Sarah, herself a fugitive with still-enslaved parents in the South. This engaging youngadult book is grounded in history, redolent of its setting, and packed with detail about both quotidian life and the passionate, perilous mission of northern abolitionists before the American Civil War. Even as Alice’s family members can’t agree on how to end slavery in the fragile Union, the friends find their own strengths — and life-threatening challenges.

The subhead of the novel includes the enticing words “Book One,” so readers evidently can expect more from this Northeast Kingdombased storyteller.

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Reeve Lindbergh, daughter of aviator Charles A. and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh, has accomplished much in her own right over her 50 years in Vermont. She’s authored more than two dozen books for children and adults, as well as pieces for numerous publications. In the state and beyond, Lindbergh has been active with libraries and other nonprofits. With Two Lives, she returns, in a manner of speaking, to her parents. It’s not her first memoir about the remarkable Lindbergh family — two of the 20th century’s best-known celebrities and their six children. Although the title might seem to refer to Charles and Anne, in fact Lindbergh means her own dual existence in the public eye and in the relative quietude of rural Vermont. But the duality is lopsided: Lindbergh admits that “hardly a day goes by” that she doesn’t get a request concerning one or both parents. It is her fate to know, and share, virtually every detail about their lives. With this book, Lindbergh gently and candidly shares her own.

Reeve Lindbergh’s book tour includes stops on Wednesday, April 25, 7 p.m. at Norwich Bookstore; Thursday, May 3, 6:30 p.m. with the Flying Pig Bookstore at Shelburne Town Hall; Tuesday, May 8, 7 p.m. at Phoenix Books Burlington; and other dates at bookstores around the state.

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n old axiom holds that bring in a lot of singers and get more religion and politics people involved in the show,” she said. should be avoided in polite Lourie praised the skills of her conversation. But, with actors. ANDY BUTTERFIELD plays Pastor its latest project, MIDDLEBURY ACTORS Paul. MOLLY WALSH, who was recently featured in Doublewide at VERMONT WORKSHOP charges headfirst into the STAGE, plays his wife. New York Cityformer and hints at the latter.

The Christians, by up-and-coming based Nicholas Caycedo plays Joshua, playwright Lucas Hnath, explores what an associate — and rival — pastor. MARY happens when a charismatic pastor KRANTZ takes the role of a congregant — who has grown his church from a who questions Pastor Paul’s new modest storefront to a mega-church philosophy; GARY SMITH is a church elder.

Despite the play’s title, its themes with a congregation of thousands — has a change of mind that fundamentally are not limited to religious dogma. challenges the dogma of his parish. “It’s not like the play is a diatribe or a He decides there is no such thing as theology discussion,” Lourie explained.

“It examines how beliefs that people hell, and everyone can enjoy a blissful afterlife whether or not they believe in Christ.

“Even Hitler?” a member of his congregation asks. The debate causes a schism so deep that parishioners risk losing not just their religion but their communities and families.

The Christians was first produced in 2015, and Hnath received a Tony Awardnomination, the 2016 Obie Award for excellence in playwriting and other accolades. His most recent Andrew Butterfield as Pastor Paul work, A Doll’s House, Part 2, will be presented at WESTON PLAYHOUSE in August.

MELISSA LOURIE, director of The have and decisions they make impact Christians and artistic director of their relationships in profound ways. It MAW, said she was looking for a play can really be applied to any institution.” that was “interesting, relevant, but It would be easy to caricature different.” REBECCA STRUM, a recent an evangelical pastor and his Vermont transplant from New York congregation, but The Christians City, had seen the show at Playwrights excels at establishing fully fleshedHorizons, where it was developed, and out characters with surprisingly little suggested it. exposition. Their beliefs are revealed Lourie was intrigued by the in the conflict of the moment, and structure of the play, she said, which their decisions will have far-reaching blurs the line between church and influence on their lives, giving the play theater by turning the audience into a sense of urgency. Each character members of the congregation as the grapples in earnest with moral laws, drama unfolds on the altar. without ulterior motives.

And it wouldn’t be a megaAll the characters embroiled in the church without a gospel choir. That debate are sympathetic, Lourie noted, unique detail clinched the choice for and Hnath doesn’t appear to take sides.

Lourie, who was excited to be able “No one’s made to feel foolish, and to incorporate the musical talents of nobody’s made fun of,” she observed. her community. “There are only five “Everyone has a deeply emotional speaking roles, but we were able to and personal testimony. They’re

trying to get along and to reach an understanding, but can’t.”

Throughout the play, Pastor Paul repeats, “I have a powerful urge to communicate with you, but I find the distance between us insurmountable.”

He uses this as a pick-up line with his future wife, and later repeats it to explain why they cannot reconcile their beliefs. As Lourie asserted, “It’s a lesson that can really be applied to both religion and even to politics in this day and age.”

While her own background is not from the “deep evangelical tradition in our country,” as Hnath’s is, Lourie described herself as inspired by the actions of Pastor Paul.

“It takes a lot of bravery and a questioning mind to change what you have always believed and risk losing so much,” she said. “It really drew me to the play.”

She and Hnath are not the only ones drawn to the “pastor with a change of heart” storyline: A new Netflix movie, Come Sunday, has an uncannily similar plot.

It’s based on the true story of Carlton Pearson, who was pastor at one of the largest Pentecostal churches in the country before changing his mind about hell. Lourie calls The Christians “an aggregate retelling of a few true stories.”

With this production, MAW is taking the opportunity to foster discussion about organized religion in its own community. Opening night features a talk-back with a Unitarian minister and a member of the local Jewish congregation. Closing night includes a discussion with Congregational and Baptist ministers.

“I’ve talked to a number of clergypeople,” said Lourie, “and they’ve all been very supportive of this play and of the conversation it will generate.” m

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In 1777, when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 21 years old, he wrote an enthusiastic letter to his father describing a newly popular type of piano. Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence had constructed a keyboard instrument that looked like a harpsichord but replaced its stringplucking mechanism with hammers wrapped in leather. The fortepiano, as it’s now called, introduced a dramatic new element to keyboard playing: dynamics. A performer could hit the keys with more or less force to produce louder or softer sounds.

That letter, among others from the composer’s life, will be read at an intriguing concert this Sunday, April 22, at the Plainfield Town Hall Opera House. “The Many Faces of Mozart: A Life Told Through Music and Letters” will intersperse the readings with performances of Mozart’s works by Sylvia Berry, a fortepianist based in Somerville, Mass. For the occasion, she will transport a replica of a fortepiano by Anton Walter, the builder of Mozart’s piano, to the venue.

Berry, who has studied historical keyboard instruments and related period documents at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, Netherlands, notes that Mozart’s tone in that letter is uncharacteristically serious. He was trying to get his father to buy him one of the newfangled instruments, she explains. Otherwise, she says, “He had a silly sense of humor. The movie [Amadeus] was accurate in that respect. He was a transcendent genius but also a totally goofy guy.”

Author M.T. ANDERSON, based in East Calais, will read the letters. Berry has chosen translations by Robert Spaethling, a native of southern Germany who understands Mozart’s Austrian dialect and “decided to leave in all the crassness and poop jokes.”

Anderson, she adds, also has a sense of humor, “so I know he’ll do the funny ones right.”

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of Mozart’s intentions. “His music has these moments of humor. You can make [the instrument] sound like someone is speaking to you, so you can make the musical gestures and jokes happen,” Berry says. “His music sounds less precious on these instruments.”

Berry previously played harpsichord in a series that Anderson curated on Cape Cod, and the author is a fan. In an email only an awardwinning wordsmith would write (Anderson won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature), he enthuses, “Not only does [Berry] have an incredible dexterity and firmness and lightness of touch, she approaches the written score with a particular freshness, creating a sense of quicksilver nuance and shifts of mood. Like a restorer of 18th-century paintings, she strips away the accumulated centuries of smoke, glare and gloom, so that suddenly the scene sparkles again.”

For all her investment in creating a historically accurate sound, Berry will present a Mozart who’s relatable to the present day.

“People deify these artists,” she comments, “but it’s so much more interesting to find out they were goofy people with humor and sorrows and all those things. Mozart was a great improviser, like a jazz musician. He was playing to audiences that were really more like jazz audiences. He was the pop music of the day.”

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and the Siege of Leningrad and Handel, Who Knew What He Liked, among other works for youth and adults. He helps plan the Plainfield opera house concert series, now in its second year.

Hearing Mozart’s works on a replica period instrument will be revelatory for audiences, Berry promises. “The first time you play these, you can hear everybody suck their breath in,” says the pianist, whose collection of historic instruments includes a fortepiano made by John Broadwood in London in 1806.

Unlike the modern piano, which is a product of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Berry’s replica Viennese piano, built by Chris Maene, has five and a half octaves, or about one-third fewer keys. Instead of pedals, knee levers lift the dampers and activate a moderator, which slips a piece of cloth between the hammers and the strings to create a muted sound. Much smaller than their modern cousins, the hammers are wrapped in two thin layers of leather, where felt would be used today.

“That’s why these instruments have a more percussive sound,” explains Berry. “They don’t have the same level of loudness as a nine-foot concert grand, but the extremes of softness and loudness are greater. I’ve found it’s more explosive.”

During a piece such as Mozart’s Sonata No. 10 — “a hair-raising piece, one of the scariest he wrote,” she says — audience members can find themselves “falling out of their chairs.”

Built for smaller rooms, the fortepiano also has a level of clarity that modern pianos can’t attain. That explains Mozart’s tendency to score short, “speech-like” phrasings that strike today’s performers as “choppy,” Berry notes.

Such clarity allows performers better to approximate the nuances

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ere’s the major challenge of creating a successful potthemed film festival, especially one that’s scheduled on the stoner high holiday of 4/20: Compile an impressive-enough lineup of feature films, shorts and ancillary entertainment — comedians, bands, munchies, trippy visuals — that will convince hardcore cannabis enthusiasts to get off the couch and out on the town for the evening.

That task is made even harder given that most online streaming services, such as Amazon, Hulu and Netflix, are already heavily infused with cannabisthemed content. As Variety reported last year, in California Netflix has even begun marketing its own strains of weed to complement some of its self-produced shows.

Despite such obstacles, a couple of film-fest veterans from New York City — festival cofounder/director Tim Mattson and cofounder David Walters — give it their best shot this week. On Friday, April 20, the third annual CANNABUS CULTURE FILM FESTIVAL blows into Burlington with the goal of “celebrating entertaining and educational films about cannabis,” said Mattson.

Mattson, 43, who’s been organizing film fests around the country since the 1990s, explained that he wanted to create a traveling cannabis-themed celebration of cinema. Hence the name, CannaBus, a reference to both the festival’s mobile nature — the tour moves on to Miami, Fla., and Burbank, Calif., later this year — and ’60s Merry Prankster Ken Kesey’s metaphor of being “on the bus,” or hip to, mind-altering substances.

CCFF doesn’t have an actual bus yet, but Mattson said he hopes to eventually score one and use it to project films outdoors, much the way HBO does in midtown Manhattan for its annual Bryant Park Summer Film Festival.

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national standup comedy acts. The former include festival MC NAT PETERS, a Montpelier comedian, writer and musician; headliner CASEY JAMES SALENGO of Burlington; and fellow Queen City comedian and writer ANTENNA WILDE. National acts include Chicago comedian Ryan Glover and Jersey City, N.J.’s Jonathan Edward Goodman. The latter is best known among the stoner set for his hit YouTube series “The Johno Show.” The evening’s musical guest is Burlington-based synthwave and ’80s cover band, NIGHT PROTOCOL. As for the films themselves, Mattson said that his intention was to move beyond the stupid-stoner stereotypes

and keep the selection “more on the artistic side … to show the positive aspects of cannabis culture.”

Some might question how effectively the organizers achieved that goal.

The festival’s lone feature-length film, 2017’s Pitching Tents, which makes its Northeast premiere at CCFF, stumbled with critics. Part Risky Business, part Porky’s, the ’80s-style coming-of-age teen sex romp was panned by the Los Angeles Times, which called it “all cutesy retro raunchiness without any innovation or comedic payoff.” Variety

labeled it “throwback flotsam … too timorous to risk being truly offensive.”

Alas, the short films also do little to raise the reputation of potheads above the stereotype of guffawing doofuses.

Where Are We? is billed as a sevenminute stoner parody of a Scooby-Doo stakeout in a cloud-filled van, which ends “with disastrous results.”

Elevated Thinking tells the story of a guy who gets baked in his apartment and believes that in a single night he’s painted a masterpiece, recorded a smash-hit single and penned the great American novel. That is, until his girlfriend arrives and points out that it’s all crap.

And, Two High 2 Die, a subtitled short from the Republic of Macedonia, is about two stoners who inadvertently egg the car of a newly released ex-con and then face the existential crisis of a potentially lethal ass-kicking. This film proves that stupid stonerisms transcend international boundaries.

But the festival is not entirely lacking in high points. Recalculating, a nine-minute flick about two buds who smoke some super-potent ganga while en route to a party and get their GPS unit high in the process, includes a cameo by nonagenarian Oscar winner Cloris Leachman. Dude, Where’s My Ferret? features a talking, wise-ass bong and a weasel named Ferret Bueller. And Beginning of the Road is a 20-minute, dead-serious documentary about the therapeutic benefits of using cannabis to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

Ultimately, though, cannabis consumers aren’t portrayed as the brightest of bulbs in this cinematic potpourri, good intentions notwithstanding.

Mattson pointed out that attendees won’t be permitted to consume illicit substances on the premises — legalization in Vermont is still more than two months away. Of course, whatever is already in your system when you arrive is likely to enhance the experience.

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Years ago, I was deer hunting on my friend’s farm in Ohio. As the sun rose, I noticed I was in the middle of a large cow pasture. Some cows walked toward me slowly. When they were about 100 feet away, I decided I had better leave. As I was walking, I could see the cows picking up their pace. I got pretty nervous and decided to run toward a fence. I looked behind me and saw the two cows were now running toward me. I got over the fence in the nick of time. Since that incident I’ve wondered: What would have happened if I hadn’t made it to the fence?

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hen it comes to menacing humans, certain cows hog all the attention. One in Rajasthan, India, made tabloid headlines in February for attacking a British tourist who had begun singing the Black-Eyed Peas song “My Humps” at it; the cow understandably took this as a provocation and charged. A few years earlier, the UK press had gotten on a story about an English farmer who’d tried to raise cattle from a stock originally bred in the 1920s and ’30s

by Germans hoping to recreate the aurochs, an extinct bovine master race once prevalent in the Fatherland. The

present-day herd proved to be so aggressive that the farmer had to send at least half of them off to slaughter: “They would try to kill anyone,” he told the Guardian.

With such splashy examples in the mix, you’d be forgiven for overlooking the routine menace of the workaday cow, at least until one chases you off an Ohio farm. In the United States, though, you’re more likely to be killed by cows than you are by alligators, spiders, sharks and venomous snakes combined, according to a 2015 analysis of Centers for Disease Control data by the Washington Post. Granted, these are still exceedingly small numbers we’re

talking about. When I say it’s 20 times more likely you’ll be killed by a cow than by a gator, that’s only because the country averages roughly one death by gator per annum, and 20 DBCs. As you’d guess, farms, ranches and feedlots are the main venues for cow-on-human violence. In 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics tallied 19 workplace deaths primarily caused by bovines, half the total attributed to nonhuman mammals in all. These numbers are fairly typical, meaning it’s a notably unlucky civilian who goes out this way.

How, specifically, does one come to grief via cow? Blunt injury, mainly, reports a 2013

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“Cattle can weigh more than a car,” the authors remind us, and so when a cow gets a good piece of you, the results tend to be “high-energy injuries with severe, crushing tissue damage.” Overall, they found, kicking is the most common form of impact, though in a cited 2001 study of U.S. cowrelated occupational deaths, the leading mechanisms of fatal injury were, in order: 1. charging, 2. trampling or stomping, and 3. pinning victim against (e.g.) a gate or wall, with kicking in fourth place.

If the cow has horns, that’s a whole other story: Penetrating injuries “most commonly affect the abdomen followed by the perineum,” another way of saying that if they miss you in the stomach they’ll get you in the crotch. The complex mechanics of goring — wherein the victim often gets hoisted up on the horn, then wrenched around — means doctors see a lot of internal damage “even with seemingly small wounds.”

To paw this ground a little further, I’ll refer you to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which in 2009 included a study called “Fatalities Caused by Cattle — Four States, 2003-2008.” This

one isn’t straight statistics but presents some grim case summaries as well. We read about a 65-year-old woman who “was removing a dead, newborn calf from a pasture when a cow knocked her down, stomped her and butted her while she was lying on the ground”; a 65-year-old man loading beef cattle onto a truck who was subsequently crushed against the barn door; and a 63-year-old man who was butted, pinned against a fence and stomped in his dairy barn by a bull with a rep for being threatening.

The CDC editors note a few themes here. One is that cows can be prone to aggression when their young are present.

Another is that cattle victims tend to be getting on in years: Of the 21 cases examined, 14 involved people above the age of 60, and the report pointed to other data on higher injury rates for livestock farmers who used hearing aids or experienced arthritis or rheumatism.

A presumably still-spry hunter out on the open field, not trying to get too near a calf? You might’ve been fine anyway, Crafter. Still, it’s always best to take precautions: Head for the fence pronto, and for god’s sake don’t start singing till you’re on the other side.

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us locals could ski for free on certain days.

They cut that back over the years before finally doing away with it.”

This discussion was stirring my emotions in a way that transcended mere nostalgia. In the mid-’70s, I was all of 21 years old when I landed in Vermont and moved in with my girlfriend in the town of Johnson. About once a week, we

“I once heard an interview with Susan Sarandon,” I said, “where she explained the tough lesson she learned from acting in that movie. Apparently, it was pitched to her that the characters played by the two lead females — her and Elizabeth Perkins — would be as beefy and interesting as the two male leads, Don Johnson and Jeff Daniels. After she signed on and

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She nearly always took the wheel, as this young woman was a skilled backroads driver, while I was still getting my Vermont sea legs.

In my heart as much as my mind, I vividly recall our rides south on Route 15 and the shortcut through Hyde Park, past Cady’s Falls and onto Stagecoach Road. I swear I can hear the music that was playing on the radio back then. Or perhaps I’m remembering my beloved’s musical laughter, the curve of her waist, the light in her soulful eyes.

Back in the present with Cindy, I motored up Route 100 and through Stowe Village before forking onto Stagecoach Road. Hyde Park was the site of a major Hollywood movie in 1988, and I asked Cindy if she had any memories of that.

“Sure, Sweet Hearts Dance, starring Susan Sarandon and Don Johnson. A lot of local folks got jobs as extras.”

got the actual script, however, it turned out that it was all about the two guys.

She said she never made that mistake again. Maybe she even fired her agent — or I might be making up that part of the story.”

“That is interesting. I hadn’t heard that,” said Cindy. “Did you know that one of the main shooting locations was our local elementary school, and the film crew built a new gym for the big scene of the dance of the title? Apparently, though, they didn’t build it too great, because this year we’ve had to rebuild it. My grandson, who also lives in town, is going to school at a Morrisville hotel that the school board rented while the schoolhouse is closed for the renovation.”

“That must be exciting for him,” I speculated. “It must be nice for you to have him living so close.”

“Oh, I just love the kid. He’s 7 and, do you believe, he actually enjoys my music — Neil Young, Bob Dylan,

the Grateful Dead. He used to say, ‘Grandma’s favorite band is the Grapes Are Dead.’”

“Oh, Christ, that is adorable! I’m gonna remember that one — the Grapes Are Dead. Heck, maybe they are!” I said, chuckling.

We passed Cady’s Falls, a graceful set of naturally tiered waterfalls, and quickly reached Cindy’s home, pulling to a stop in her driveway. The house had seen better days — the red paint was peeling, the porch sagging — but it had a charming, lived-in vibe about it. I said as much to Cindy.

“Yup, that it does,” she allowed. “My husband died 10 years ago, and I really haven’t been able to keep it up. Gosh, I still miss Carl. He was this gruff New Jersey boy when we met while he was visiting Stowe on a ski trip with some buddies. Quite a pair we made — me with my Vermont ways and accent, and him, well, ‘Jersey through and through,’ as he put it. But, somehow, we made it work.”

I honor any couple who “makes it work,” knowing how hard it can be. On the way back out of town, I pulled over at Cady’s Falls and snapped a few photos. I had a feeling that someone I knew would love to see them. m All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.

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“Aha, a Stowe townie,” I said with a chuckle. “That’s all kinds of cool. Would that have been, like, the ’80s?”

In truth, looking at Cindy — a sturdy, middle-aged woman with a knowing smile — my actual guess would have been the ’70s. But I always knock off 10 years in these conversations. I’m like this Cumberland Farms cashier I know who routinely cards forty- and fiftysomething women for alcohol (minimum age 21) or even cigarettes (18), which borders on the ridiculous. “Not a one has ever complained,” he claimed. “They just smile and reach for their ID.” Like him, I am an old-school flatterer.

“Yes,” she replied. “The ’70s and ’80s.”

“Did you know Rusty DeWees?”

I asked, pulling out the name of the popular Vermont actor, musician and Stowe townie who I guessed was about her age.

“Oh, sure,” she replied. “We were friends back in high school. He’s a sweet guy.”

“I bet Stowe was a different place back then.”

“Yeah, in so many ways. I mean, there were always a few wealthy, out-of-state property owners with luxurious homes, but nothing like today. There was a real town atmosphere. Like, I remember Maria von Trapp would attend local events, like bake sales and dinners, and she would bring her amazing Austrian pastries. And

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he weather forecast in East Thetford on a recent Friday called for snow flurries, but stepping into a greenhouse on Dave Chapman’s Long Wind Farm evoked a very different season.

The air was warm and moist, and, as far as the eye could see, robust tomato plants climbed 11-foot guidelines toward the light. Their thick stalks dripped with crimson fruit that exploded summer-sweet and juicy in the mouth.

These are the sort of tomatoes that Vermonters expect to find on a farmers market stand in late July: fully ripe, with delicate skins that break easily to reveal richly hued flesh and rounded flavor. They’re nothing like the big, pale, rubber ball-textured slicing tomatoes, or the pints of sweet but characterless grape tomatoes that are shipped these

days thousands of miles to supermarkets year-round.

Long Wind Farm sells pints of multicolored, jewel-toned cherry tomatoes whose quirky, artist-designed labels describe them as grown in Vermont and certified organic. A grinning tomato raises its fists proudly over the slogan “Real tomatoes … with real attitude!”

What the label doesn’t currently specify is that Long Wind grows its tomatoes in soil. To Chapman and many organic farmers, that’s a given. It’s a foundational and nonnegotiable principle of organic farming, they believe, that producing healthy food both requires and contributes to a healthy environment achieved by carefully managing the soil.

This is why Chapman believes that produce grown hydroponically — not in soil but in water — should be excluded

from organic certification. And he’s spent countless hours over the past few years trying to remedy what he and many other organic farmers see as egregious misinterpretation of USDA Organic seal standards. Right now, consumers might find that seal on tomatoes that sit beside Long Wind’s in the organic produce section with no disclosure of their hydroponic cultivation.

For farms large and small, the right to use the label “organic” is crucial. In fact, the stakes could not be higher, economically and environmentally.

According to the North American membership-based Organic Trade Association, organic food sales in the United States reached $43 billion in 2016 and claimed more than 5 percent of total food sales. This reflects an 8.4 percent, or $3.3 billion, increase over the previous year, a rate that greatly

surpassed the 0.6 percent growth rate in overall food sales.

Whether hydroponics are allowed to carry the organic seal affects the entire market, because they are generally less expensive to produce than their soil-grown equivalents. With organic certification, they are likely to undercut produce like Chapman’s on price, leaving consumers with two apparently comparable options at different price points.

The hydroponic issue is at the center of a high-profile debate that has expanded into a full-out battle over the integrity of the National Organic Program, the federal regulatory body that oversees certification standards and their enforcement. Chapman has become a leader in the movement to uphold what he sees as the original intention of organic standards — even if that means

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agriculture in general. “Whether you like hydro or not, it’s here,” he said. But he believes that, if produce isn’t grown in the earth, “it’s just not organic. They should come up with their own label for it.”

For organic farmers who believe in the broader benefits of a soil-based food system to humans and the Earth, the lower cost of hydroponic produce poses a risk they cannot ignore.

“The worst-case scenario is, we are silent and all of the tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce, basil and berries will be hydroponic and nobody knows,” Chapman said. “In that process, we will lose all the real organic producers, just like what is happening with smaller organic dairies trying to compete with the huge CAFOs [concentrated animal feeding operations].”

Proponents of hydroponics — or, as they prefer to call it, “containerized growing” — hailed the NOSB vote as a victory for increased availability of organic food grown using diverse methods. They point out that hydroponics are grown with only organic inputs, such as pesticides and fertilizers approved by the National Organic Program, sometimes in settings where soil growing might not be an option.

But many in the organic farming community, such as Chapman and his mentor, Eliot Coleman, say this practice misses the point completely. To embrace hydroponics is to define “organic” solely as the absence of synthetic inputs, rather than recognizing the positive contributions that soil-based organic agriculture can make to overall environmental health.

“Fertile soil is the cornerstone of organic farming,” declared Coleman, a Maine farmer, writer and organic leader. “It’s just ridiculous to say it isn’t necessary.”

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The mild-mannered farmer and tai chi instructor seems almost surprised to find himself in the national spotlight.

Chapman cofounded the Keep the Soil in Organic movement in 2013 with fellow organic farmer David Miskell of Charlotte, when it became clear that the USDA was allowing organic certification of hydroponics.

They saw that leniency as a direct contradiction of the text of the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990, which was championed by U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and legislated the establishment

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And, Chapman concluded, in the end, “Eaters will lose, because they won’t have a choice to buy real soil-grown organic.”

Starting with a simple petition five years ago, Chapman propelled hundreds of organic farmers, environmentalists and other organic food and agriculture supporters into action. He helped draw demonstrators to rallies in Vermont, California and even Costa Rica, and he led the charge to gather more than 100,000 signatures urging the USDA to “keep the soil in organic.”

But the movement suffered a crushing defeat last November in Jacksonville, Fla., at a meeting of the National Organic Standards Board. The 15-member citizen advisory board includes organic farmers, processors, environmentalists and consumer advocates appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to make recommendations to the USDA National Organic Program.

In an eight-to-seven vote, the board declined to make a recommendation to prohibit hydroponic organic certification, effectively supporting the continued certification of both hydroponic and aquaponic farming operations that, according to Chapman and others, had sneaked in under the radar over the years.

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creating a new add-on label to help consumers understand what they’re buying.

Before organic-certified hydroponics came to his attention, “I wasn’t very political,” Chapman admitted. As he dug “deeper and deeper,” he said, “I realized it was the tip of the iceberg.”

It all comes down to consumer transparency, he believes.

In a December 21 Washington Post article headlined “Organic food fraud leads Congress to weigh bill doubling USDA oversight,” Chapman was quoted as saying, “There are systemic problems … This is not just a few bad eggs.

Unfortunately, consumers have no idea what they’re getting with ‘USDA Organic’ anymore.”

“What they’re growing is not more affordable organic,” he told Seven Days, referring to hydroponic producers.

“It’s fraud.”

Chapman, 65, has been an organic farmer for almost 40 years. He started out with a “classic Vermont mixed vegetable farm,” as he described it. Then, in 1990, seeking a viable agricultural business that allowed for more family time, he decided to specialize in soil-grown, organic greenhouse tomatoes.

In one of his East Thetford greenhouses, a bumblebee buzzed through the verdant canopy as he knelt to gather a handful of moist, rich soil. “There are a lot of good things happening here,” he said, pointing out wriggling worms, sow bugs and a fine tangle of white roots.

“We’re trying to feed the life in the soil.

The basic principle of organic farming is to feed the soil, not the plant.”

Long Wind now produces close to one million pounds of tomatoes annually in two and a half acres of state-of-theart, soil-floored greenhouse structures.

Over the years, Chapman has added more varieties — he’s now up to about 10 — and has gradually extended the season longer into winter’s dark and cold.

This is the first winter he and his 25 employees have produced and sold tomatoes without interruption to restaurants and retailers throughout the Northeast and Pennsylvania.

Chapman is aware that not everyone thinks he should be growing tomatoes year-round in Vermont. He has had his doubts, too, he said, and almost scrapped it all at one point to grow spinach, which requires less energy. But he has worked hard to reduce the operation’s environmental footprint, including transitioning to carbon-neutral energy sources. The farmer’s current priority is replacing the propane he still uses with air-source heat pumps.

“We would have been a lot further along,” he said ruefully, “without all this distraction.”

of the National Organic Program and the USDA Organic seal. That act specifies that “an organic plan shall contain provisions designed to foster soil fertility.”

In 2012, Chapman recalled, he began to notice “a lot of cheap, pretty tomatoes from Mexico in the stores.” He learned from research that they were being raised hydroponically: grown in water or, in some cases, in other non-nutritive material such as coconut husk fiber, and receiving all necessary nutrients through a prepared solution. Such produce did not have to be labeled hydroponic, according to U.S. regulations.

Chapman doesn’t deny that hydroponic tomatoes have hurt his business in the past — although, he noted, it has since rebounded. He is also careful to state that he is not against hydroponic

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The National Organic Program is not legally bound to act on the recommendations of the NOSB, except for those related to the national list of allowable ingredients in organic food. (Even that requirement was recently thrown into question by a precedent-setting USDA decision to permit carrageenan in organic processed foods despite a previous NOSB vote against it.) Still, for those fighting against organic hydroE NID W O NNAC O T T ponic certification, the November vote was devastating.

The bigger picture is troubling, too. A series of Washington Post investigative articles last year made credible allegations regarding noncompliance with certification standards by specific large organic dairy and egg operations. The stories also revealed that some of the organic imports flowing in increasing Last year was his worst year volume from as far away as China were receiving fraud- ever farming outdoors, he said, ulent certifications from USDA-accredited bodies. and tighter food-safety and water On top of those broader organic certification en- quality-protection regulations “make it forcement issues, the USDA announced in March that even harder.” it would withdraw the strengthened organic animal“We’re hedging our bets,” Hartshorn said. He bewelfare standards that passed during the Obama ad- lieves hydroponic has real potential, affording protecministration but had yet to be enforced. The USDA tion from climate fluctuation and pests, and promising press release on the decision cites the growth of the year-round production that enables him to offer steady, industry under existing organic livestock and poultry better-paying jobs. regulations, an “approach that balances consumer With solar-powered electricity and a biomass heatexpectations with the needs of organic producers and ing unit, the hydroponic operation produces 20 times handlers.” the revenue from one-half acre that his soil-grown orOne thing many consumers expect is low prices. ganic crops do from 20 acres. Green Mountain Harvest And hydroponic agriculture can deliver them.

Hydroponic currently supports 10 full-time, yearround employees. Hartshorn and his business partners What’s Wrong looked into greenhouse growing in soil, he said, but it just didn’t produce the numbers. “We need to make a With Hydroponic? living farming,” he added.

From the perspective of some, nothing. Just ask Dave Both ways of farming “have their own merit,” Hartshorn, who has worked on both sides. For the last Hartshorn said. “I’m proud of my organic produce, 25 years, the Waitsfield farmer has raised vegetables and I’m proud of my partnership that produces and berries organically on 20 acres at his Hartshorn hydroponics.”

Organic Farm. He’s also in his sixth year as a partner in As for the organic farmers who would ban hydroa half-acre hydroponic farm. ponics from organic certification, “I respect those guys.

The labels of Green Mountain Harvest Hydroponic’s I know how it is,” he said. “I hate to see a fight between lettuce, basil and other greens clearly state they are farmers. We’re all trying to do the best we can here in grown hydroponically. (The watercress, Hartshorn Vermont.” noted, grows naturally in water.) Hartshorn said he uses many of the same organic-approved production inputs and methods on his hydroponic crops that he A New Label does on his soil-based outdoor acreage, but he and his At the end of March, Chapman chaired a two-day partners have no plans to seek organic certification for meeting at Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee with nearly the hydroponic products. two dozen organic farmers and others involved in “It hasn’t been our fight, and we don’t want it to be organic agriculture. They had traveled from around the our fight,” he said. country to hash out standards for a new, independently Hartshorn’s goal as a farmer has always been “to managed add-on label to the existing USDA Organic produce a crop people want in the safest possible way.” certification.

It’s getting harder and harder, he said, to farm sustainThe group has dubbed itself the Real Organic ably outdoors with climate extremes such as more Project, but its label will have a different name, curfrequent flooding and severe hail, as well as new pests. rently under development.

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What we don’t want to have happen is two classes of organic farmers.

Like the USDA seal, it will be awarded to producers who pass an inspection by a program-accredited, independent certifying organization, such as the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont, which is also currently one of about 80 USDA organic certifiers. To qualify, farmers must first be certified USDA Organic.

The additional label will go beyond the hydroponic issue to represent core organic principles that Real Organic Project members believe the federal program has abandoned or ignored. Those principles include committing to growing produce in the ground and giving animals real access to pasture, as well as prohibiting CAFOs. Iowa crop and dairy farmer Francis Thicke is on the standards board for the new effort. He also recently completed a five-year term as one of the 15 appointed volunteers on the NOSB, where he voted against certifying hydroponics last November. Thicke has been an organic farmer for 30 years, holds a PhD in soil fertility and served as national program leader for soil science for the USDA Extension service.

“To be clear,” Thicke told Seven Days, “the Real Organic Project is not about abandoning the National Organic Program. This is an add-on organic certification.”

“Much of the NOP certification program is still sound and reliable,” he said. “For example, the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances has been carefully vetted by the NOSB over many years.”

The new label, Thicke explained, “will cover areas that the NOP has failed to set rigorous standards for, or where it has refused to adequately enforce existing NOP standards.”

As a result, he continued, “Consumers have no easy way of knowing if organic tomatoes on the grocery store shelf are hydroponic, or if organic dairy products

NOSB declined with the growth of organic and the rise of larger producers and processors.

“There’s a lot more politics and money involved — all these other forces influencing how people vote,” said Enid Wonnacott, executive director of NOFA-VT, where she has worked for 31 years. “Many members have felt powerless. The system kind of lost honor.”

In addition, Wonnacott and Sligh said, loss of funding and staff have weakened the National Organic Program itself. “There is definite lack of USDA leadership and oversight and credibility,” Sligh said.

“This was happening before Trump,” Wonnacott noted, “but it’s gotten worse.”

Both Sligh and Wonnacott are working with the Real Organic Project, but they each admit to concerns about the delicate navigation of launching a new add-on label.

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are from dairy CAFOs. [Our] label will give consumers the option of selecting organic food that has been produced in accord with real organic farming methods.”

Chapman and others involved in the Real Organic Project are not without their critics, even within the old guard.

Among them is Grace Gershuny of Barnet, a longtime organic proponent who worked at the USDA on the original standards. Advocating for another set of standards, she said, “is like shooting yourself in the foot.”

Gershuny argues that the overall goal should be to encourage production of as much organic food as possible, not to complain about one type of production that only applies to some crops, or worry about a few bad actors who aren’t following the rules.

“What we’re talking about is a subset of greenhouse production. Soil is important, and it will continue to be important for the vast majority of what is produced organically,” Gershuny said, noting that the crops that cover the most acreage, such as wheat, corn and soy, are not suitable for hydroponic cultivation.

“The organic label can’t fix all the problems in our food system,” Gershuny said. What people really need to do is “fight like hell to change the way farm policy is structured.”

Despite the growth in organic food sales, Gershuny pointed out, only about 1 percent of total global agricultural land is devoted to organics.

Part of the pushback is against “corporate largescale versus righteous small-scale,” she believes, “but that horse left the barn a long time ago. We need those [corporate] guys to be organic. We need to convert as many acres of land to organic production as soon as possible. Those farms are still doing better than conventional.”

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Compromised as the federal organic label may be, it’s still worth defending, in the view of Charlotte Vallaeys, a senior policy analyst for Consumers Union, the advocacy division of Consumer Reports.

She appreciates that farmers are standing up for the transparent, meaningful organic program that she believes consumers deserve.

“The Real Organic Project came out of multiple serious problems with the USDA organic program,” Vallaeys said. “Those problems shouldn’t be ignored.

The problem is with the USDA; it’s with the big certifiers and producers who are ignoring the standards.”

Vallaeys and her colleagues actively work to defend what they believe are strong consumer labels. While the USDA Organic label has “taken hits,” Vallaeys conceded, “we as an organization feel that the organic label is still a meaningful label, a very strong one, and that its integrity is worth protecting.”

Through its national surveys of consumer behavior, Consumers Union has gained insight into the reasons why people buy organic, Vallaeys said. Along with the main driver of protecting their own and their family’s health, more than half of consumers who said they buy organic often or always think about how animals are treated. About half think about the environmental impacts of food production.

“It’s a very good label because it has meant so many things,” Vallaeys said. “It’s not just ‘no pesticides, no antibiotics.’”

One result is particularly relevant to the hydroponic debate. The Consumers Union 2018 food-label survey showed that a majority of those who buy organic regularly said they expect organic-labeled food to have been grown in well-managed soil by farmers who protected its health. “And that’s because that’s in the [organic] standards,” Vallaeys said.

For labels to matter, she added, it’s critical that they stay consistent over time. They can get stronger — as would have happened if the Obama-era animal-welfare standards had been implemented — but they should never get weaker.

Regarding the proposed add-on label, Vallaeys said it could be beneficial given the issues with the USDA Organic label. There are already many add-on labels such as “certified humane” and “fair trade,” she pointed out.

“In an ideal world, you’d be able to say to consumers, ‘The absolute gold standard, the one label to look for

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“If this wasn’t the fastest-growing market in agriculture, we wouldn’t be here,” said Sligh, referring to sales of organic foods. The question is, he added, “how do we grow the market while protecting the integrity?”

Through his rural development job, Sligh works with many farmers around the globe for whom the U.S. is their single largest market. “These coffee farmers and banana farmers, for the first time in their lives, have a good market,” he said. “They are still benefiting from organic.”

“In a perfect world, we would try to fix the USDA label and not add another label,” Sligh said. “I don’t want to abandon the vast majority of farmers for whom

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If organic advocates don’t always agree with one another, the relationship between the organic farming movement and the USDA has always been uneasy, too.

Coleman of Maine was among many farmers who felt skeptical about allowing the federal government to define organic farming after passage of the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990.

“A lot of people were just blown away that the great USDA was paying attention to organic,” Coleman said.

“But I knew back then that, the minute you define organic in the law, you open it up to people trying to undercut it.”

It took more than a decade for the USDA to develop standards and set up a system for enforcing them. The USDA Organic seal set the first consistent national criteria for production and processing of domestic and imported organic foods. Prior to that, states had their own organic programs with different requirements.

The original legislation also called for the creation of the NOSB. Its founding chair was Michael Sligh, a farmer and now director of the Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA’s sustainable agriculture program, based in Pittsboro, N.C. “We knew we needed to balance authority and share power,” he said. “It was a public-private partnership from the beginning, but it was always a shotgun marriage.”

Over the years, many of the old organic guard noted that the smaller-scale organic farming voice on the

[the USDA Organic label] is working, or cause harm to the thousands of farmers who are out there following the letter of the law — or further confuse consumers who will just throw their hands up in the air.”

Wonnacott agreed that the decision to create an add-on set of standards has not been an easy or simple one. It’s been giving her flashbacks to the ’90s, when she was involved in helping develop the federal organic standards. “It feels a bit like [the movie] Groundhog Day,” she said.

“What we don’t want to have happen is two classes of organic farmers,” Wonnacott said. “It’s hard to create a new label that’s better than X without throwing X under the bus.”

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He estimated that he has spent more than 50 hours a week working on the new standards for the add-on label, as well as talking with the media, sending out detailed updates to his mailing list of several thousand, and flying to Washington, D.C., for congressional meetings as a policy committee member for the Organic Farmers Association.

That’s a lobbying group sponsored by the Rodale Institute.

“I was up at 3:30 this morning thinkCHAPMAN ing about it all,” Chapman said with a weary smile. “But this will pass. We’re going to hire an executive director.”

The Rodale Institute is also working on its own add-on label, called the Regenerative Organic Certified label, built around standards of soil health, animal welfare and fairness regarding the health and safety of farm workers.

“They’re beautiful. They’re the North Star,” Chapman said of the regenerative standards, “but almost no farmer I know qualifies.”

The labor standards, he noted, are very tough to meet, as are tillage requirements for many vegetable farmers.

The standards that the Real Organic Project team is developing, he said, are what the USDA Organic label should be — with stronger animalwelfare requirements and explicit prohibition of hydroponic cultivation.

That isn’t to say farmers should not aim higher, but it sets a higher floor to start. With the current USDA label, he said, “The floor has dropped so low that it’s become subterranean.

“We need a platform everyone can stand on,” Chapman continued. “All we’re going for is transparency. It’s not going to change the world, but at least [our label] will give people the information to make choices.” m Contact: pasanen@sevendaysvt.com

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or its May 5 Masterworks concert, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra will play Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s horn concerto from 1993. It shouldn’t be a momentous occasion, but it is — simply because the composer is female. The VSO has performed only 29 works by women in the last 50 years.

Such numbers are no different from those of nearly every orchestra in America. During the 2015-2016 season, the 89 largest U.S. orchestras dedicated less than 2 percent of their programs to works by women. Those data were gathered by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at the initiative of its female conductor, Marin Alsop.

This antique state of affairs hit Elisabeth Blair hard when she started preparing for a master’s program in composition at Western Michigan University in 2015. She was reading up on composers in The Complete Classical Music Guide (2012) when she discovered that, of the 93 composers listed in its chapter on the year 1900 to the present, only six were women.

“I got really, really discouraged,” said Blair, 37, who moved to Vermont in January. “I’m a feminist, and I like to think I’m empowered, but I remember thinking, Maybe women can’t compose music. Then I thought, What am I thinking?! I started googling and discovered there are many women composers from every century.”

Blair not only persevered with grad school; while taking classes, she took it upon herself to correct the record by creating a podcast about women composers. She called it Listening to Ladies. Blair posted a call for female interviewees on composerssite.com, stockpiled 25 phone and in-person interviews, and spent a year crafting her first episode. (It still takes her 40 hours, on average, to make one.) The podcast now has 16 half-hour episodes, each featuring an interview with, and music by, a woman.

Blair talked about her podcast and other feminist matters on a recent morning at her Burlington studio apartment.

She has a calm demeanor and an articulate voice perfect for radio. From behind a closed door came the rustlings and squawks of her two parakeets.

Blair opened her laptop to play a promotional YouTube video she made for the

podcast. “What do composers look like?” the video begins by asking, over music written by Ingrid Stölzel, the subject of Episode 1. A screen shot of a Google image search shows a succession of dead white men’s portraits. “Sure,” the text continues, “but they also look like this.” The images flash by at high speed to fit in dozens of photos of women.

“It’s basically a Victorian age” in music, Blair said, shutting the computer.

“The canon is groomed and maintained by men.”

Blair grew up in Michigan, finished high school in Idaho, then left the U.S. for England to study photography at Richmond, the American International University in London. She acquired a tattoo of the River Thames’ path on her inner right arm. After graduating, Blair moved to Chicago and found

a secretarial job in the University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts.

Music began as a hobby. Blair took two years of classical voice lessons in Chicago and spent the next year and a half as a guest singer in an all-male bluegrass band.

She began writing songs and trying them out at open-mic nights, then performing regularly as a singer-songwriter. Soon, however, she found that “what I was hearing in my head was so much more than I could perform.”

Blair returned to her father’s house in Michigan and sat down to teach herself composition — notation, theory and all.

She took online lessons with an American composer based in Japan and applied to residencies, retreats and, eventually, master’s programs.

When Blair saw the pathetic dearth of women composers in that classical music

guide, she posted about it on Facebook.

Soon after, she created a separate Facebook page, called Listening to Ladies, where she began to post one female composer a day. She thought she’d run out of composers after a few months; the Facebook posts now number 466. Blair’s singer-songwriter friend, Krystee Wylder, has taken over researching and posting, and Blair tweets each post with a link to a piece by the composer. As of this writing, @ListenToLadies has 2,390 Twitter followers.

The podcast grew out of the Facebook project. Two months after she had launched the page, Blair conceived of the podcast in a conversation with harpist and fellow feminist Jennifer R. Ellis at an artists’ residency in North Carolina. While older feminists objected to “ladies,” citing the word’s patronizing overtones, Blair intended it to imply wryness, even anger.

She’s now struggling with it for a different reason: She wants to feature nonbinary and gender-fluid composers.

Blair selected podcast interviewees based on two basic criteria: The women had to call themselves primarily composers and write contemporary classical music.

“I try to keep it to the hoity-toity music, because we’re all familiar with women pop singers,” she says. She doesn’t necessarily love the composers’ music; as she puts it, “That’s not the point. I don’t like a lot of male composers’ music, either.

We need the right to [broadcast] our own mediocre crap.”

Initially, Blair reached out to wellknown composers including Kaija Saariaho, Jennifer Higdon and Caroline Shaw, but they “very politely said no,” Blair recalls, saying some of them cited interview fatigue.

Nonetheless, a few women featured in the episodes are fairly renowned, at least in the new-music world. Classical singer Pamela Z specializes in live electronic vocal processing. Mari Kimura is a violinist whose compositions explore subharmonics, or notes below the instrument’s assumed range. Lainie Fefferman cofounded the New Music Gathering in Brooklyn, a significant festival scheduled to appear in Boston this year.

Gradually, Blair turned toward promoting lesser-known composers. She also realized that almost all of the women

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Ben Cadwallader, executive director Listening to Ladies demonstrates of the VSO, also said the orchestra doesn’t geographic as well as racial diversity, fea- engage in deliberate “box-checking,” and turing composers from Canada, England, shouldn’t. But he admitted that letting Scotland, Australia, Argentina and Iran. programming happen “organically” is not And the range of creativity is eye-open- enough to right the gender imbalance. ing. Avant-garde Israeli composer Dganit The choice of Zwilich’s horn conElyakim “blurs the boundaries between certo came about because Cadwallader the human and the machine,” as Blair had requested more 20th-century prodescribes. Other composers lean toward gramming and more works to highlight lyricism, such as Beth Anderson, who exceptional VSO musicians. Principal writes new romantic music. horn player Shelagh Abate was one, and Blair left her master’s degree unfin- she suggested the notoriously difficult ished when she realized that academia concerto. wasn’t her best learning environment.

In general, though, Cadwallader deSome of her own compositions, including plores the lack of women composers in a politically inspired work for carillon and orchestral programming. “It’s embarrassa piece for percussion and tape (recorded ing,” he said. “Orchestras are struggling track), are currently being performed by with this, because this field is dominated the musicians who commissioned them. by people like me, frankly: white men.

But she doesn’t consider herself primar- You have to do far more digging than you ily a composer. She’s now writing a book should have to.” of poetry and leading community multiNow, Listening to Ladies makes the media improvisations while working a digging a little easier. m day job at a Burlington nonprofit.

Blair funds her podcast, minimally, Contact: lilly@sevendaysvt.com through three sources: the online membership platform Patreon; the INFO Limited Scholarships available International Alliance for Women Learn more at listeningtoladies.com and tesol@smcvt.edu 802.654.2100 in Music, on whose board she sits; elisabethblair.net.

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ine doors, nine actors and nonstop silliness are the ingredients in Northern Stage’s production of Michael Frayn’s farce-within-a-farce, Noises Off. It’s a loving parody of the stage itself, and this top-notch cast scampers up and down a magnificent two-story set to skewer the illusion of theater and the delusions of its practitioners.

The play depicts a mediocre troupe of British actors stumbling through a feeble farce called Nothing On, the most winceworthy sex comedy imaginable. The little band of overactors may have limited artistic talent, but their version of professionalism guides them through missed entrances, dropped cues and pratfalls that the script never had in mind.

Frayn ridicules theatrical excess while demonstrating precisely what’s wonderful about live performance. The show treats us to three views of the farce’s first act. First up is a technical rehearsal in which the director is still coaxing the company through the mechanics of comedy bits that seem to have no chance of soaring to life when the show opens the next day. The rehearsal keeps breaking down, and the actors keep breaking character.

We next see the show in mid-tour.

Now the set spins around and our vantage point is backstage. The company has been stewing in romantic jealousies and misunderstandings for a month, and these explode into a chaotic backstage pantomime while the show goes on. The stage entrances are made in the nick of time, with every exit a chance to fan the flames of backstage conflicts. Conducted in silence, the sight gags, pranks and vicious glares are hilarious, but also a master class in the acting principle that performers convey their characters’ needs — in this case, idiotic ones.

Finally, as the tour drags to its end, the set spins again, and we see a performance in which everything that can go wrong does. The actors try to salvage things with desperate ad libs and foolish onstage fixes to a rapidly decaying storyline. These doomed heroic gestures are interspersed with surreal moments of mortification, such as the time an actor has forgotten his necktie but his scene partner sticks to her line about how he’s tied it.

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Numerous noises off — the theatrical term for sound emanating from offstage — punctuate the action, usually signaling disasters for the acting company, not the characters. Frayn’s title hints at the audience’s role in

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the experience, for we must make up an explanation for what we hear.

Watching each entrance from front and back peels away mystery and trades it for comedy. But there’s still something unseen behind every closed door.

The characters in Nothing On are pure caricature, their players not much deeper, but Frayn paints their foibles vividly. Dotty Otley (Patti Perkins) is an aging TV star whose career is now reduced to theatrical claptrap but whose billing still assures an audience. Otley’s craft is now no match for managing more than one hand prop, and the shrugging Perkins shows how she’s made peace with her limitations.

Otley has started a dalliance with the much younger Gary (David Mason). He can’t form a coherent sentence that isn’t written in a script, and so communicates through Mason’s hysterically pliable facial expressions.

The show’s self-important director, Lloyd (Jamie Horton), has shuttled his affections from assistant stage manager Poppy (Jenni Putney) to vacuous ingénue Brooke (Emily Kron). As the tech rehearsal grinds on, Horton portrays Lloyd as a man proud of keeping his irritation firmly under control, but of course it’s only a matter of time.

Putney gives Poppy the steely composure to absorb the panic flying around the production, but she, too, reaches a limit. Brooke’s acting skill consists of looking good in a blond wig and garters.

Kron plays her so frozen in a trance of overacting that she never breaks character; even her search for a lost contact lens is conducted as a ditz.

Aging trouper Selsdon (Bill Kux) can’t remember his lines or time his entrances and is in constant danger of getting drunk backstage. Belinda (Susan Haefner) is the company’s gossip and show-must-go-on cheerleader. Stage manager and understudy Tim (Michael Hornig) is a busy bundle of nerves.

Second-billed Fred (Mark Light-Orr) peppers the director with questions about motivation, as if his sex farce character harbored any. Light-Orr rumples

his brow apologetically when confessing how stupid he is about “doors and things,” hoping to be pitied for straining to keep up with the show’s physical demands.

The humor in Frayn’s 1982 satire is still perfectly modern. And though the play is long — more than two and a half hours, with a single intermission — the time flew by for Friday’s audience in continual laughter.

This production emphasizes the three-ring-circus quality of the material.

Director Peter Hackett often unfolds multiple comic bits simultaneously, almost daring the viewer to keep track of the pants drops, door slams and highspeed prop exchanges. The performers maintain brisk clarity during these fusillades of comedy; only a supremely well-rehearsed ensemble can enact the complete breakdown of a stage play.

With precise timing, the performers add that little freeze at the peak of each outlandish gesture that lets the audience relish the action. Just as difficult as all this physical comedy is the matter of portraying actors who are good enough to be employable and bad enough to be hilarious. With stagy voices and campy movement, the ensemble showcases the vanity and affectation of certain thespians.

Theater is about creating illusion, but this show ultimately rests on actors swept up in their own delusions. The director sees himself as God but barely keeps his backstage trysts going. Fred can play a suave romantic but gets nosebleeds under pressure. Both Dotty and Selsdon are past their prime, while Gary and Brooke may never reach theirs.

For everyone in this lovably awful cast and crew, the willing suspension of disbelief includes being oblivious to one’s own shortcomings and carrying on regardless. m Contact: alex@sevendaysvt.com

INFO Noises Off by Michael Frayn, directed by Peter Hackett, produced by Northern Stage through May 13: Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Thursday and Saturday, 2 and 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, 5 p.m., at Barrette Center for the Arts in White River Junction. $13.75-57.75. northernstage.org

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he white tablecloths are gone from the bar area at Burlington’s Bistro de Margot, but the service remains first-rate and full range. I was on the receiving end of such service the other night at the bar, where I had a dish I couldn’t eat fast enough, and a lesson on how to eat it.

Each of these delights came courtesy of a single source: Hervé Mahé, chef-owner of the French restaurant on College Street.

The meal was a pile of steamed mussels.

They were cooked with white wine, diced onion and chopped garlic, and served in the big pot in which Mahé had prepared them.

The French way to eat mussels, he told me, is to use the empty shell of a mollusk to pluck each succulent mussel from its briny trap and deliver it to my mouth.

Wow — a new way to eat an old favorite!

“I love mussels,” Mahé said. “Yes, indeed.”

Mussels at the Bistro de Margot bar belong to a special that Mahé introduced this month. For $20, diners can get an appetizer and a glass of wine, selecting from among six apps and three wines — red, white or rosé. If you typically prefer to eat from the small-plate section of a menu, this special is an excellent addition.

“I wanted to do something that people will talk about,” Mahé said. The foodwine combo and casual setting, he hopes, will show people that “we are a cool, lowkey place.”

The new menu is designed in part to attract diners in their twenties or thirties to a less-formal setting than the bistro’s main dining room, the chef explained.

It’s also an option for those who want a quick bite before a show or who aren’t interested in a “full-on dinner,” he added.

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I arrived solo on a Friday evening and was greeted by the bartender’s prophetic words: “Your day’s about to get a lot better.”

A blackboard listed the appetizers from which I could choose, along with the three wine choices — each of them poured from a box. On the food side of the ledger was snails, onion tart, country terrine, oxtail crisp, Vermont cheese plate, and mussels. (That’s the translation; the prominent listing at Bistro de Margot is in French.)

I considered several options before giving in to the temptation of mussels. (I could eat steamed mussels eight days a week.) I paired the shellfish with a glass of red wine from Burgundy, a 50-50 blend of Gamay and Pinot noir grapes. Don’t let the box pour fool you — my glass of red was fine and full. And I found the box a fun way to get wine in a French bistro.

The mussels arrived from the kitchen in a flash. Along with them came the chef, who took a few minutes from his work behind the line — he cooks five nights a week — to chat at the bar. A mussel fan since his boyhood in France, Mahé extolled their simple and classic preparation.

“The less work, the better,” he said, noting that the mussels “pop,” or open up, in about two minutes.

I nodded and went about the serious business of inhaling the steam rising from the pot and digging out the goods with my fingers (pardonnez-moi). I tried to keep up my end of the conversation even though the next shell was pretty much all I could think about.

How rude, I thought, to indulge in this pleasure without sharing. “Do you want some?” I asked the maker of this magic.

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Things are about to get noodle-y in Barre. MARLYN and PETER BROWN — partners in life and business — plan to open an 18-seat ramen café and Asian market called SI AKU RAMEN at 237 North Main Street, next to Paramount Twin Cinema, this Saturday, April 21.

Peter Brown is a South Royalton native who met his wife in 1991 while doing missionary work in the Philippines. He told Seven Days that Marlyn — a cook Hannah Palmer Egan by trade and Filipino by Y birth — will offer three or ME R RE A TC N four classic ramen O RM VE bowls at the petite Barre storefront.

They include tonkatsu, made with rich, longsimmered pork broth; kimchi-tofu ramen with miso broth; and a chicken Vermont Creamery’s créme frache option.

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Using this method, I recovered a modicum of manners and slowed my pace, truly savoring each bite. Mahé returned to the kitchen, and I turned my full attention to the food. Soon, the empty shells outnumbered the mussels yet to be eaten. And before long, all that remained was rubble.

That’s when it hit me: I’d only spent $20. And a mound of mussels, hefty as it looks in the big steamer pot, amounts to a light meal. It was time for appetizer No. 2. I ordered the onion tart for “dessert” and dug into a rich slice of the savory pie.

Mahé reappeared, as he is wont to do in his dining room. “I love that tart,” he said. “It’s super nice. Once you know how to do, it’s easy.” He proceeded to give me tips on baking and béchamel at the bar.

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n restaurant kitchens, the French phrase mise en place (“setting in place”) describes prepared ingredients set out to facilitate efficient dish assembly during service. When orders come in, the well-prepared cook quickly puts things together, then sends the finished plate out the door.

In Korea, similar arrangements play out on the dinner table. Meals revolve around a main dish, maybe grilled meat or a hearty stew. Along with rice — always rice — come several banchan, or side dishes.

These might include fermented vegetable kimchis, sautéed greens or mushrooms, soy-dressed starchy salads, pickled eggs, or fried pancakes, all usually cut into bite-size pieces. They act as condiments and complements, rounding out the meal and making it whole.

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After immigrating from South Korea to California to be near family in the 1970s, the sisters and their mother (who now prefers to go by Hal Moni, or “Grandma,” An Na said) spent most of their lives in San Diego. Jin Suk worked as a cook in Asian and American restaurants; more recently, she oversaw the busy catering kitchen at Daly City’s Kukje Supermarket and other major San Francisco Bay Area Korean grocers.

An Na writes novels. Her 2001 young-adult debut, A Step From Heaven, was a National Book Award finalist; her fourth book, The Place Between Breaths, was released last month on the day the restaurant opened. She completed an MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts in 1999 but returned to California before moving to the Green Mountains permanently in 2004, when her

then-partner took a job at Saint Michael’s College. Her sister and mother followed this past winter.

When Jin Suk decided to move to Vermont — two years away from retirement, and speaking minimal English — it was unclear how she’d make a living.

In California, she worked high-level cooking and management jobs but carried on business in her native language. An Na said it was hard to imagine a position for her mother in Vermont, where English speaking, reading and writing skills are essential, even for beginning cooks.

So the three women did what new Vermonters often do upon discovering a wan market for their specialized skills: They decided to build something new so Jin Suk could do her thing.

They looked into leasing a food truck and brainstormed a prepared-foods stand for the farmers market. Then An Na noticed a “Space Available” sign in the window of the former Philamena’s restaurant, and Jin An — a numbers and systems whiz, her sister said — ran the math.

With a maximum capacity of 21, running a fullservice restaurant there seemed manageable for “Grandma.”

Expectations were modest: “We didn’t know how many people would want Korean food,” An Na said “The business plan was, if we can fill the restaurant once [a day] with 21 people, and they order at least $10 each,” things would work out.

They’d serve simple Korean dishes during breakfast and lunch, and gah-chi — plates for sharing — in the evening. When dinner service debuts

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But for now, they serve breakfast and lunch. In the morning, guests wake with wide bowls of jook — savory rice porridge similar to Chinese congee — or bone broth with noodles and rice. A dish An Na dubbed “Old Boy” is a cheesy, gratinstyle mélange of chorizo fried rice with kimchi and eggs. The dish is pure fusion, she said, but that’s fairly common in Korean dining these days.

“Koreans have been starting to mix it up,” An Na said. “A lot of restaurants are not super traditional [anymore] — they’ve been using European technique but keeping Korean elements in there.”

In Montpelier, the approach seems to be working. During lunch last week, every seat was full, and multiple parties lingered near the entry waiting for a table. Perhaps that’s because the restaurant is the new kid in town. More importantly, Jin Suk’s cooking is outstanding.

Of course, it’s easy to love Korean food, even for Vermonters to whom kimchi is totally new. The flavors are bright and intense, the textures varied and layered; visually, the colors pop.

And at Banchan, as at any good restaurant, there are surprises.

Based on its menu description, I probably wouldn’t have ordered the soon-dubu, or silken tofu stew. But my table of three was hungry, so we dove right in and ordered one of everything on the fiveitem menu.

Served in a wide but shallow stoneware bowl, the stew nearly glowed, stained an opaque, atomic orange-red

by Korean chiles. Scallions on top glimmered lime-green in contrast; a spray of enoki mushrooms and milky-white cuts of tofu bobbed near the surface.

This is gonna be hot, I assumed. Not so: Korean chiles tend to offer lots of color and penetrating flavor, but less heat than other pepper varieties. So the soup was more saline than spicy — probably a four on the one-to-10 heat scale — but saturated with piquant chile smoke. (The kitchen can make it even milder on request.) The tofu melted easily with each bite, skittering across the tongue in jiggling bits. The

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Diane Colgan Property Specialist City of Burlington’s Code Department of Buildings CITY OF BURLINGTON of Ordinances: & General Services TRAFFIC REGULATIONS 1 Keimel-032818.indd 4 Governor Aiken AveFSBO-Dennis The following traffic 25 Taxicab Stands Montpelier, VT 05633regulations are hereby 7001 enacted by the Public The following locations Works Commission are designated as taxiBids must be received no Christopher Cole, Comas amendments to cab stands: later than 2:00 P.M. on missioner Buildings and Appendix C, Rules and FRIDAY MAY 4, 2018. Any General Services Regulations of the Traffic (1) As Written bids which have not been: Dated April 6, 2018 Commission, and the (2) [On the south (a) delivered, and (b) time Montpelier VT Complete the following puzzle by using the side of College Street, in the three (3) spaces next numbers 1-9 only once in each row, column southerly of Main Street, and 3 x 3 box. between 8:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.] First two (2) parking spaces north of Main Street, on the west side of St. Paul Street, between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.

(3) [Reserved.]

On the south side of College Street immediately east of Church Street extending 20 feet east from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.

(5) [Reserved.]

On the north side of Bank Street eighty-five (85) feet east of Church Street extending forty (40) feet east from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.

(6) [Reserved.]

On the south side of Cherry Street immediately east of Church Street extending thirty (30) feet east from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.

(7) [Reserved.]

No. 528 Difficulty: Medium On the north side of Cherry Street immeBY JOSH REYNOLDS diately east of Church Street extending thirty DIFFICULTY THIS WEEK: ★★★ (30) feet east from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.

Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each (8) [On the north row across, each column down and each 9-box square contains side of Cherry Street, in all of the numbers one to nine. The same numbers cannot be the second space just west of Church Street.] repeated in a row or column.

On the north side of Pearl Street ninety-five ANSWERS ON P. C-7 (95) feet east of George ★ = MODERATE ★★ = CHALLENGING ★★★ = HOO, BOY! Street extending twenty

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and date stamped by the Department of Buildings and General Services Property Management Division, 4 Governor Aiken Avenue, Montpelier VT 05633-7001 by 2:00 P.M. on MAY 4, 2018, will not be opened and shall be unilaterally rejected. All accepted bids will be reviewed to determine compliance with the stated requirements.

The State shall complete its review and notify the winning bidder by MAY 11, 2018. The property shall be sold to the bidder who submits the highest bid conforming to the requirements contained in the Notice of Bid Requirements and Sale Procedures and subject to the conditions and requirements contained in 29 V.S.A. §166. The State reserves the right to reject any and all offers.

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BID NOTICE HISTORIC HOUSE ON 10 ACRES LOCATED IN THE CITY OF MONTPELIER AT 26 TERRRACE STREET PURSUANT TO 32 VSA H 519 Sec. 20(a) THE COMMISSIONER OF BUILDINGS AND GENERAL SERVICES IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO SELL THE BUILDING AND ADJACENT LAND LOCATED AT 26 TERRACE STREET IN MONTPELIER (THE REDSTONE BUILDING) PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF 29 V.S.A. §166(b).

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(10) As Written Adopted this 21st day of March, 2018 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest Norman Baldwin, P.E. Assistant Director – Technical Services Adopted 3/21/18; Published 04/18/18; Effective 05/09/18.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 7 No parking areas.

No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations: (1)-(135) As Written.

(136) [On the west side of South Champlain Street within 10 feet of the driveway leading to the rear of 53 Main Street.] On the west side of South Champlain Street from Main Street to King Street.

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS (137)-(399) As Written.

(400) [On the east side of Pine Street, from Maple Street to 226 Pine Street, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Mondays through Fridays.] On the east side of Pine Street, beginning immediately north of the driveway to 266 Pine Street and extending north for 20 feet.

(401)-(541) As Written.

Adopted this 21st day of March, 2018 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest Norman Baldwin, P.E. Assistant Director – Technical Services

11-1 Thirty-minute parking.

No person shall park any vehicle, at any time, longer than thirty (30) minutes at the following locations: (1)-(15) As Written (16) First five (5) spaces on the west side of South Champlain Street, just north of Maple Street. The restriction is in effect Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Adopted this 21st day of March, 2018 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners:

Adopted 3/21/18; Published 04/18/18; Effective 05/09/18.

Attest Norman Baldwin, P.E. Assistant Director – Technical Services

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances:

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION: BROWNFIELDS REUSE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY LIMITATION PROGRAM 21BrightSt LLC, with business address 88 Oak St, is applying to the

Vermont Brownfields Reuse & Environmental Liability Limitation Program (10 V.S.A. §6641 et seq.) in connection with the purchase of 21 Bright St, Burlington, VT. A copy of the application, which contains preliminary environmental assessment & description of property is available for public review at the Burlington Clerk’s Office and at the Vermont Dept of Environmental Conservation offices in Montpelier.

Comments concerning above referenced documents & application generally, may be submitted to Vermont Dept of Environmental Conservation, Waste Management Division, 1 National Life Drive – Davis, Montpelier, VT 05620; attention: Hugo Martinez. Telephone inquiries to Vermont DEC at 802-828-1138.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS BURLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT The Burlington School District will receive sealed bids from Pizza delivery companies as well as processors of Vermont ground beef and burger patties, on or before, but no later than, May 14th, 2018 at 1:00 PM at the Burlington

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High School Food Service Office, 52 Institute Road, Burlington, VT 05408 The sealed proposals will be opened at 1:00 pm on May 14th, 2018, at the same address. Notification of the award, if any, will be made no later than 30 days from the date of opening.

Please address proposals to the attention of Doug Davis and follow the submission directions in the Bid Packet.

Anyone interested in receiving a full bid packet or more information, contact Doug Davis, Director of Food Service at 802-864-8416.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, BURLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT The Burlington School District in association with the Food Service Directors Association, (FDA) and the Facilities Maintenance Directors Association, (FMDA) will receive sealed bids on, or before, but no later than, May 24th, 2018 at 2:00 PM at the Orange North Supervisory Union Office, 111B Brush Hill Road, Williamstown, VT 05679 c/o Chris Locarno

The sealed proposals will be opened at 2:00 pm on May 24th, 2018, at the same address. Notification of the award, if any, will be made no later than 30 days from the date of opening.

Please address proposals to the attention of Chris Locarno and follow the submission directions in the Bid Packet.

Anyone interested in receiving a full bid packet or more information, contact Chris Locarno at the address above or call 802-433-5818.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, BURLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT The Burlington School District in association with the Food Service Directors Association of Vermont, (FDA) will receive sealed bids on, or before, but no later than, May 18th, 2018 at 2:00 PM at the Burlington School Food Project Office, 52 Institute Road, Burlington, VT 05408.

This solicitation is for all food service products to include, but not limited to: food, bread, supplies, small equipment, and cleaning supplies. This is not a distribution contract, but is open to all manufacturers and

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The sealed proposals will be opened at 2:00 pm on May 18th, 2018, at the same address. Notification of the award, if any, will be made no later than 30 days from the date of opening.

Please address proposals to the attention of Doug Davis and follow the submission directions in the Bid Packet.

Anyone interested in receiving a full bid packet or more information, contact Doug Davis at the address above or email ddavis@bsdvt.org.

STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY IN RE: BT, JT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT FAMILY DIVISION DOCKET NO. 343/34411-14 CNJV TO: Brittany S. Trayah, as the natural mother of BT and JT, you are hereby notified that a hearing to establish permanent guardianship over BT and JT will be held on May 16, 2018, at 9:30 AM, at the Superior Court of Vermont, Family Division, Chittenden County, Costello Courthouse, 32 Cherry

St. Burlington, Vermont.

You are notified to appear in this case. If you do not appear, the hearing will be held without you and the Court could appoint a person to be the permanent guardian of BT and JT until they turn eighteen. If permanent guardianship is established, you would not be able to petition the Court to terminate or modify the permanent guardianship.

TO: Alen Tabakovic, as the natural father of JT, you are hereby notified that a hearing to establish permanent guardianship over JT will be held on May 16, 2018, at 9:30 AM at the Superior Court of Vermont, Family Division, Chittenden County, Costello Courthouse, 32 Cherry St. Burlington, Vermont.

You are notified to appear in this case. If you do not appear, the hearing will be held without you and the Court could appoint a person to be the permanent guardian of JT for the remainder of his minority. If permanent guardianship is established, you would not be able to petition the Court to terminate or modify the permanent guardianship.

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TO: David Roberts, Jr., as the natural father of BT, you are hereby notified that a hearing to establish permanent guardianship over BT will be held on May 16, 2018, at 9:30 AM, at the Superior Court of Vermont, Family Division, Chittenden County, Costello Courthouse, 32 Cherry St. Burlington, Vermont.

You are notified to appear in this case. If you do not appear, the hearing will be held without you and the Court could appoint a person to be the permanent guardian of BT for the remainder of his minority. If permanent guardianship is established, you would not be able to petition the Court to terminate or modify the permanent guardianship. /s/Judge Alison Arms STATE OF VERMONT STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 208-916 CACV U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION v.

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[CONTINUED] OCCUPANTS OF: 80 Duke Street, St. Johnsbury VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Amended Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered July 11, 2017 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given

by Taffy Ste Marie aka Taffy A. White and Paul J. Ste Marie to Union Bank, dated February 15, 2013 and recorded in Book 367 Page 119 of the land records of the Town of St. Johnsbury, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage

from Union Bank to U.S. Bank National Association dated February 15, 2013 and recorded in Book 367 Page 188 of the land records of the Town of St. Johnsbury for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 80 Duke Street, St. Johnsbury, Vermont on May 11, 2018 at 2:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being a parcel of land, together with a dwelling and other improvements thereon, known and numbered as 80 Duke Street, in the Town of St. Johnsbury, Vermont; and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Paul Ste. Marie and Taffy Ste. Marie by Warranty Deed of Dana Emery, dated of even or near date and recorded prior to or simultaneously herewith in the St. Johnsbury Land Records.

And being further described as all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Dana

Emery by Warranty Deed of William Hartranft, dated March 11, 2010, and recorded in Book 346 at Page 10 of the St. Johnsbury Land Records; and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to William Hartranft by Executor’s Deed of Julius M. Proia, Jr., Executor of the Elena Proia Estate, dated June 5, 2002, and recorded in Book 269 at Page 280 of the St. Johnsbury Land Records.

Reference may be had to the aforementioned deeds and the records thereof and to all prior deeds and their records for a further and more complete 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: April 5, 2018 By: /S/Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

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SUMMONS & ORDER FOR PUBLICATION THIS SUMMONS IS DIRECTED TO: Wesley Cookson 1. YOU ARE BEING SUED. The Plaintiff has started a lawsuit against you.

A copy of the Plaintiff’s Complaint against you is on file and may be obtained at the office of the clerk of this court, Lamoille Unit, Civil Division, Vermont Superior Court, 154 Main Street, Hyde Park, Vermont. Do not throw this paper away. It is an official paper that affects your rights.

2. PLAINTIFF’S CLAIM. Plaintiff’s claim is a Complaint in Foreclosure which alleges that you have breached the terms of a Promissory Note and Mortgage Deed dated October 22, 2007.

Plaintiff’s action may effect your interest in the property described in the Land Records of the Town of Johnson at Volume 118, Page 56. A copy of the Complaint is on file and may be obtained at the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of Lamoille, State of Vermont.

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT LAMOILLE UNIT CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET # 221-12-17 LECV BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Plaintiff v.

CHRISTINE R. COOKSON A/K/A CHRISTINE COOKSON AND WESLEY COOKSON OCCUPANTS OF: 163 Wood Drive Ext, Johnson VT Defendants

3. YOU MUST REPLY WITHIN 41 DAYS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS. You must give or mail the Plaintiff a written response called an Answer within 41 days after the date on which this Summons was first

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You must send a copy of your answer to the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff’s attorney, Loraine L. Hite, Esq. of Bendett and McHugh, PC, located at 270 Farmington Avenue, Ste. 151, Farmington, CT 06032. You must also give or mail your Answer to the Court located at 154 Main Street, Hyde Park, Vermont 05655.

4. YOU MUST RESPOND TO EACH CLAIM. The Answer is your written response to the Plaintiff’s Complaint. In your Answer you must state whether you agree or disagree with each paragraph of the Complaint.

If you believe the Plaintiff should not be given everything asked for in the Complaint, you must say so in your Answer.

5. YOU WILL LOSE YOUR CASE IF YOU DO NOT GIVE YOUR WRITTEN ANSWER TO THE COURT. If you do not Answer within 41 days after the date on which this Summons was first published and file it with the Court, you will lose this case.

You will not get to tell your side of the story, and the Court may decide against you and award the Plaintiff everything asked for in the complaint.

6. YOU MUST MAKE ANY CLAIMS AGAINST THE PLAINTIFF IN YOUR REPLY. Your Answer must state any related legal claims you have against the Plaintiff. Your claims against the Plaintiff are called Counterclaims.

If you do not make your Counterclaims in writing in your answer you may not be able to bring them up at all.

Even if you have insurance and the insurance company will defend you, you must still file any Counterclaims you may have.

7. LEGAL ASSISTANCE. You may wish to get legal help from a lawyer.

If you cannot afford a lawyer, you should ask the court clerk for in-

formation about places where you can get free legal help. Even if you cannot get legal help, you must still give the court a written Answer to protect your rights or you may lose the case.

ORDER The Affidavit duly filed in this action shows that service cannot be made with due diligence by any of the method provided in Rules 4(d)-(f), (k), or (1) of the Vermont Rules of Civil Procedure. Accordingly, it is ORDERED that service of the Summons set forth above shall be made upon the defendant, Wesley Cookson, by publication as provided in Rule[s] [4(d)(1) and] 4 (g) of those Rules.

This order shall be published once a week for 3 weeks beginning on April 4th, 2018 in the Seven Days, a newspaper of the general circulation in Lamoille County, and a copy of this summons and order as published shall be mailed to the defendant Wesley Cookson, at 163 Wood Drive Ext, Johnson, VT 05656.

Dated at Hyde Park, Vermont this 14th day of March, 2018. /s/ Hon. Thomas Carlson Presiding Judge Lamoille Unit, Civil Division THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 0102422,01-03511, LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DR. OR 48 INDUSTRIAL DR., OR WINTER SPORT LANE WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT MAY 3RD, 2018 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF SCOTT NICKOLSON. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 0101657 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DR. OR 48 INDUSTRIAL DR., OR WINTER SPORT LANE WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT MAY 3RD, 2018 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF GERALYN SHELVEY. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 0103548 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DR. OR 48 INDUSTRIAL DR., OR WINTER SPORT LANE WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT MAY 3RD, 2018 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF MATT DUGENER. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

WEBSITE REDESIGN & DEVELOPMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL This RFP is for design and development services for a redesign of the website ExperienceMiddlebury.com, a site highlighting the attractions, businesses and events of the Middlebury, Vermont community. Proposals that fall reasonably within the budget range will be considered and weighed based on their merits.

Please review the full RFP by visiting: www. experiencemiddlebury. com/experiencemiddleburyrfp All bids due by April 30.

Contract will be awarded

by May 9, 2018 and target completion date for website August 15, 2018.

Contact Karen at (802) 345-1366 or karen@bettermiddleburypartnership.org with questions.

All bids due by April 30.

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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.

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AHOY BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS Join our floating support group where the focus is on living, not on the disease. We are a team of dragon boaters. Learn all about this paddle sport & its health-giving, life-affirming qualities.

Any age. No athletic experience needed.

Call Penni or Linda at 999-5478, info@ dragonheartvermont.

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.

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, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Brattleboro meets at Brooks Memorial Library on the 1st Thu. monthly from 1:15-3:15 p.m. and the 3rd Mon. monthly from 4:15-6:15 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.

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802 QUITS TOBACCO CESSATION PROGRAM Ongoing workshops open to the community to provide tobacco cessation support and free nicotine replacement products with participation.

Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-noon, Rutland Heart Center, 12 Commons St., Rutland.

Tuesdays, 5-6 p.m., Castleton Community Center, 2108 Main St., Castleton. Info: 747-3768, scosgrove@ rrmc.org.

ALATEEN GROUP New Alateen group in Burlington on Sundays from 5-6 p.m. at the UU building at the top of Church St. For more information please call Carol, 324-4457.

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.

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.

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AL-ANON For families & friends of alcoholics. For meeting info, go to vermontalanonalateen.org or call 866-972-5266.

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.

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WANT TO BE PART OF THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC SOLUTION? The Chittenden Clinic is Hiring!

The Chittenden Clinic Medication-Assisted Treatment Program provides outpatient treatment and medication for individuals struggling with Opioid Use. Explore one of these opportunities:

TRUCK DRIVER

• Clinician

Class A, Class B & CDL license.

Asphalt and gravel experience preferred.

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• Registered Nurse (FT and Substitute) • Senior Lab Technician • Security Officer • Administrative Assistant

Consider a career at the Chittenden Clinic.

Be part of the solution!

Howard Center offers an excellent benefits package including health, dental, and life insurance, as well as generous paid time off for all regular positions scheduled 20+hrs/week. For more information and to apply, please visit our website howardcentercareers.org Howard Center is an Equal-Opportunity Employer. Applicants needing assistance or an accommodation in completing the on-line application should feel free to contact Human Resources at 488-6950 or HRHelpDesk@howardcenter.org.

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF STUDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES Saint Michael’s College Office of Student Financial Services is looking for an energetic and self-motivated individual who shares our commitment to providing excellent customer service to students and families to join our team as Associate Director. We are seeking a dedicated financial aid professional with a passion for liberal arts education who will guide students and families through all aspects of applying for financial aid and financing a St. Mike’s education.

Student Financial Services plays an integral role in the recruitment and retention efforts of the College and the Associate Director will collaborate extensively with colleagues in Admissions, Student Life and Academic Affairs in support of those efforts.

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: http://smcvt.interviewexchange.com/.

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Executive Director We seek a professional, energetic, and enthusiastic Executive Director to lead our innovative nonprofit based in Central Vermont. Home Share Now (HSN) is at the forefront of the home sharing movement and seeks a leader passionate about housing to direct, manage, and grow our organization. Relevant experience in program or large project management and/ or team leadership strongly preferred. Qualified candidates will demonstrate strong organizational skills, experience implementing programs, clear fiscal management, effective communications and influencing skills along with public speaking and writing; plus ability to exercise good and timely judgment in complex situations, build and sustain relationships/partnerships, develop and implement fundraising strategies, and have great computer skills. This is an excellent opportunity for experienced or director track professionals. EOE. For more information about Home Share Now and a full job posting with application requirements visit www.HomeShareNow.org.

Apply now! Join our team to make a real difference every day.

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Wednesday, April 25th, 2018 O.N.E. Community Center 20 Allen St, Burlington, VT Summer jobs, internships, careers, and apprenticeships available!

10:30 am - 12:45 pm: • Get help with applications, interviews and more at our workshops!

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm: • Meet employers and training providers who are looking for people like you!

Improve your chances of getting hired by being prepared!

Need help with your application or resume?

Attend a Vermont Dept. of Labor Workshop @ 63 Pearl St., Burlington, VT Monday, April 23rd: • Applications: 9:00 - 11:00 am / Resume: 1:30 - 3:30 pm Tuesday, April 24th: • Resume: 9:00 - 11:00 am / Applications: 1:30 - 3:30 pm

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ROOFERS AND LABORERS • Year round, full time employment • Pay negotiable with experience

Spring Lake Ranch is a long term residential program for adults with mental health and addiction issues.

Residents find strength and hope through shared work and community. We are searching for:

EOE/M/F/VET/Disability Employer

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Responsible for psychiatric care and assessments of residents and clients; prescribing medications; completing medical records, reports and providing referrals to medical services; provide coverage for psychiatric emergencies. Ideal candidate must be licensed psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practitioner; demonstrate ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting; have addiction treatment experience, including MAT Certification.

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SEASONAL POSITIONS AVAILABLE

We are seeking a General Maintenance Technician to join our Plant Facilities’ team for second shift! This position requires a broad knowledge of skills in building trades requiring basic knowledge of other skilled areas inclusive of electrical, plumbing, boiler operations and mechanics.

3-5 years of experience is required.

House Advisor/Crew Leaders

House Advisors/Crew Leaders provide live-in support, structure, and guidance to residents through informal contact, house activities, and work crew activities to create a positive environment and comfortable homelike atmosphere. Ideal candidates will have a bachelor’s degree, an interest in mental health and/or substance abuse recovery work, and a desire to live in a diverse community setting. Full time, residential position with benefits.

Full-time positions with:

Seasonal positions available for Tent Installers and Warehouse Crew Members starting April 30 running through the end of October. Full time and part time positions To apply for either position, send cover letter indicating available, weekend your interest in Spring Lake Ranch and resume to: availability a must. marym@springlakeranch.org, or fax to (802) 492-3331, or Complete an application online at mail to SLR, 1169 Spring Lake Road, vttent.com/application/ Cuttingsville, VT 05738. or visit vttent.com/employment/ to see more about our 1 4/13/18Untitled-9 3:39 PM 1 current openings. 6t-SpringLakeRanch041818.indd Business Analytics OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDE:

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Architect sought by Systems & Software, Inc., Williston, V,T in support of producing BI & analytics solutions, etc. Rqrs. 5% US travel & May Telecommute.

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COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION

EXTRA PAY

for working nights, evenings, and weekends

Learn more and apply online today: UVMHealth.org/CVMC/Jobs

Equal Opportunity Employer

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Procurement Specialist The Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium located in northern Vermont was founded by Champlain College, Middlebury College and Saint Michael’s College in 2013. The Consortium aims to help its members to lower cost while providing better services to their customers. The Consortium and its members are embarking on the implementation of new procurement technology and creating more opportunities for consortium level purchasing.

The Procurement Specialist is a subject matter expert during the implementation of the new system and will be responsible to develop effective policies and procedures in conjunction with the project and local leads. The Procurement Specialist will train support users in the system and be the main contact for new and existing suppliers.

We provide a meaningful benefits program including health, dental, vision, life, disability, retirement with a generous match, paid time off and a wellbeing program.

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Lecturer, ESL

For position details and application process, jobs.plattsburgh.edu and select “View Current Openings.”

SUNY College at Plattsburgh is a fully compliant employer committed to excellence through diversity.

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The Vermont Department of Health is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced nurse to lead a dedicated and caring team towards improving population level health. This is achieved through the delivery of essential public health services and programs such as chronic disease prevention, immunizations, maternal and child health, healthy homes, infectious disease, substance abuse prevention, school health, and emergency preparedness. The 2h-PlattsburghStateESL041818.indd position helps foster community-level systems change to improve health. This is a unique opportunity to have a broad impact on Vermonters’ health and wellbeing. For more information, contact Cathy Vogel at Cathy.Vogel@ vermont.gov or 802-447.6406. Job ID #621805. Status: Full Time. Application Deadline: Open Until Filled.

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C O R R E C T I O N S R E S E A R C H A N A LY S T – W A T E R B U R Y

The Department of Corrections seeks an experienced Research Analyst to support the department’s operations and data reporting requirements. You will use your extensive analytical, research, and evaluation skills to conduct research on programming and operational practices, compile reports, and design and publish the department annual report. Ideal candidates will have experience using SPSS or similar software, the ability to balance competing demands, and strong oral and written communication skills, including experience preparing reports and presentations. For more information, contact Monica Weeber, Department of Corrections at monica.weeber@vermont. gov. Job ID: 622675. Full-Time. Application Deadline: 4/23/2018.

BUDGET UNIT MAN AGER – WATERBURY

DCF’s Business Office is recruiting! The Budget Unit Manager will oversee the work of the Budget Unit. The Budget Unit is responsible for developing DCF’s highly complex $400M budget as well as coding, monitoring, and projecting expenses throughout the year. This position will supervise two budget analysts and a budget support position; while also serving as the budget analyst for specific divisions. For more information, contact Jillian Niggel at jillian.niggel@vermont.gov. Job ID: 623145. Full-Time. Application Deadline: 4/29/2018.

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HEALTH LAW ADVOCATE

Vermont Legal Aid seeks a full-time advocate in its Office of the Health Care Advocate Project located in Burlington.

Responsibilities include: investigating and resolving complaints and questions from Vermonters regarding health insurance and health care; advising consumers about their rights and responsibilities; assisting beneficiaries with appeals; and maintaining case records. A successful candidate must be able to work on a team, doing extensive telephone work in a busy environment. The position requires excellent communication and research skills as well as the ability to learn quickly. Prior health care, human services, health insurance or advocacy experience, and commitment to social justice are desirable. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required. Starting salary $34,917 +DOE, four weeks paid vacation and excellent fringe benefits.

Email your cover letter, resume, contact information for three references, and writing sample as a single PDF file to Eric Avildsen, Executive Director c/o Betsy Whyte (bwhyte@vtlegalaid.org) by April 30, 2018.

VLA is an equal opportunity employer committed to cultural competency in order to effectively serve our increasingly diverse client community. Applicants are encouraged to share in their cover letter how they can further this goal.

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Human Resource and Risk Manager DEW Construction, located in Williston, VT, is seeking a Human Resources and Risk Manager to lead the HR function of its two corporate construction entities.

The HR and Risk Manager drives strategic HR policies and practices while managing and administering all aspects of HR, including recruiting, employee relations, training and development, corporate wellness, compensation and benefits. In addition, the position manages the organization’s corporate insurance policies, including property and casualty, general liability, workers’ compensation, and other industry-specific insurances.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or a related field, and 5 years of solid HR management experience. Proven ability to lead people and get results through others is essential, as are the interpersonal and communications skills to establish and maintain effective relationships with a wide cross-section of individuals. Interested candidates should email a resume, along with cover letter to careers@dewcorp.com A full job description is available on our website at www.dewcorp.com.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

DEW Construction Corp.

277 Blair Park Road, Suite 130 Williston, VT 05495 Attn: Human Resources Department Email: careers@dewcorp.com Fax: 802-872-0707

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Lake Champlain Maritime Museum is looking for fearless, fantastic, people in search of a fun job!

Facilities Manager: The Facilities Manager is a full-time position that requires a motivated, hands-on person to perform daily maintenance projects and maintain high standards of appearance and safety of our fourteen-building Museum campus and working waterfront. The Manager will create a short- and long-term facilities plan and budget, oversee building systems contracts and R&M including security, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, landscaping and janitorial and is responsible for all applicable code compliance.

Full-time Position.

FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY Bergeron Paradis & Fitzpatrick LLP is seeking an attorney to join its busy family law practice in the firm’s Burlington office. The ideal candidate will have a strong desire to pursue a career as a divorce and family law attorney. The firm offers competitive pay and benefits as well as a dynamic and collaborative work environment. Apply by emailing a resume and cover letter to

Museum Retail Assistant: Bright, responsible and friendly retail clerk assistant. The store is open 7 days a week and we are looking for someone in the store who is available for a 3 day a week schedule (Friday-Sunday). Part-time (full-time is an option) Seasonal Position.

Museum Operations Assistant: Works to ensure the safe, efficient, high quality operation of our Basin Harbor campus. This position will share the responsibilities of daily site management, interpretation and engagement with the general public, and assisting with special events and programs. Part Time Seasonal Position: 25 hours/week.

Sales and Marketing, Schooner Lois McClure Crew: As the Sales and Marketing crew member, you will photograph, write and post entries on social media platforms and create blog entries.You will manage marketing displays including digital screens and associated equipment along with other duties. Full-time Seasonal Position.

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Please visit www.lcmm.org/careers/ for more details and to apply!

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PayData Workforce Solutions is seeking an ambitious sales professional who is a goal driven, detail oriented, and career minded self-starter.

We are offering an outstanding long-term career where you are a key member of our team. Use your proven prospecting and networking skills to drive your success and contribute to PayData’s continued growth as the region’s premier provider of outsourced workforce management solutions. Harness our to manage pipeline relationships, Workforce tools Solutions is your looking forand andevelop additional teamunderstand memberneeds, to present solutions and generate sales.

Work with PayData’s team to launch new accounts.

A college ent Service Department as a Payroll Processor/Client Service degree and at least two years of successful B2B prospecting experience are preferred. Familiarity with presenting business ative. solutions would be beneficial. Outside travel to our regional territory as well as to Chamber events, trade shows, and networking functions is an important facet of this position, requiring reliable transportation.

Service Representatives work with our Compensation includes salaryclosely plus commission, and clients PayData’sto richproduce benefit plan. Preference will be given to candidates who effectively demonstrateincluding that they possess skills and attributes listed below, and ayrolls utilizing various import methods datathe entry, whose work history illustrates the related sales experiences for success.

sheets, and time clock imports. The ability to perform multiple & Sales Skills Requiredis necessary. Attention Personal ently and Prospecting manage ongoing projects toAttributes for Success • Listening Skills and a Focus on Client Needs • Energetic, Self-Motivated, Attention to must.

Detail, and Disciplined Work Ethic • Referral Relationship Building and Network Development • Driven to Reach and Exceed Assigned s must have• prior experience customer Goals service Abilitypayroll to Generate Opportunitiesas andwell Closeas Sales e and possess strong communication and organizational skills.

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e handling as well • Professional Appearance mber skills or prior payroll experience is required; working • Understands it When They Say “No.” of the “Evolution” payroll software is desirable. Experience with ncluding Word, Outlook is and required well If you Excel, have whatand it takes to succeed, above all,as enjoy theas art strong of selling, then we want to meet you. ng skills.

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Marketing & Social Media Intern: Assist with documentation of our summer camps and other museum activities during the season and bring these stories to the online world. A fantastic opportunity to hone your skills in strategic digital marketing. Full-time Seasonal Internship.

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Painters and Painters Apprentices for top quality residential work. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. More powerful than a locomotive. Faster than a speeding bullet. Will train. Good social skills and transportation required.

Eat lunch on the lake. Send work history and contact information to:

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Vermont’s premiere continuing care retirement community is seeking to add members to its environmental services team!

Security Officer FULL TIME NIGHTS

Security Officers ensure that our community is secure and that our residents are safe throughout the nighttime hours. Duties include addressing emergency or comfort concerns of residents, responding to and assessing situations involving the physical plant, and ensuring that all buildings are secured according to appropriate schedules. We seek an individual with a background in security or as a first responder, with the compassion and problem solving skills to interact with our senior population. At least 3 years of relevant experience is required.

Housekeeper FULL TIME DAYS

Housekeepers work collaboratively to support residents who live independently as well as those who live in residential care. Housekeepers are critical to the wellbeing of residents and the quality of the Wake Robin environment. Candidates must have housekeeping or industrial cleaning experience.

Interested candidates can apply online at Wakerobin.com or email a resume with cover letter to: HR@wakerobin.com.

Wake Robin is an equal opportunity employer.

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Engaging minds that change the world Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace.

We offer a comprehensive benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions. These openings and others are updated daily.

Payroll & Job Cost Accountant DEW Construction, located in Williston, VT, is seeking a Payroll & Job Cost Accountant to manage payroll and payroll-related project cost accounting for its two corporate construction entities. The position oversees and reviews the payroll administrator’s weekly payroll processing, prepares quarterly payroll tax filings for multiple states, and is responsible for the smooth flow of information between payroll, human resources, budget and other departments. Job Cost Accounting responsibilities include the accurate tracking and reporting of payroll-related expenses for all construction and real estate jobs, monthly GL account analysis and reconciliation, and other job costing-related reporting and analysis.

The ideal candidate will have an Associate’s degree in business or accounting, or equivalent work experience, with a working knowledge of payroll regulation and employer taxation requirements. Customer service skills are essential to establish and maintain effective relationships with a wide cross section of individuals.

Strong IT skills are essential for the development, preparation and distribution of detailed payroll and job costing reports. DEW offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental and 401K. Interested candidates should email a resume, along with cover letter to careers@dewcorp.com A full job description is available on our website at www.dewcorp.com.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

DEW Construction Corp.

277 Blair Park Road, Suite 130 Williston, VT 05495 Attn: Human Resources Department Email: careers@dewcorp.com Fax: 802-872-0707

Digital Content Manager & Communications Professional - Vice President’s Office for Human Resources, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs - #S1529PO - Join a vibrant campus community where we seek to be an exemplar of diversity, equity, and inclusion by creating an environment where anyone can excel in their learning, teaching, and work. The University of Vermont is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded and your abilities challenged. The Vice President’s Office for Human Resources, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs (OVPHRDMA) is seeking a Digital Content Manager and Communications Professional. This position reports directly to the Vice President. This position designs, develops and maintains the Human Resources, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs (HRDMA) websites in accordance with the University’s standards, policies, and processes. Works with HRDMA leadership to provide web content and updates for key announcements, events, and other communications activities.

Works collaboratively with the HRDMA Communications and Marketing Coordinator. Assists in the development of all web content, and the creation and dissemination of marketing publications, presentations, newsletters, social media and other communications for the OVPHRDMA. The position requires Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, graphic design, communications, or a related field. Two to four years of relevant experience. Thorough knowledge of best practices for web accessibility. Broad knowledge of web design, web content development, digital publishing and web-based communications, technologies and tools. Knowledge of HTML, PHP, Javascript, Drupal and other web content management systems and web-based communications, technologies and tools desired, as well as proficiency with digital publishing. Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills. Demonstrated ability to serve as an effective team member on collaborative projects. Demonstrated success working with a range of culturally and ethnically diverse populations and evidence of commitment of fostering a collaborative multicultural environment.

To learn more about the Vice President’s office for Human Resources, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, please visit: http://www.uvm.edu/hrdma. Applications will be accepted until position is filled.

The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution.

Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further these goals.

4-H Family Programs Project Coordinator - University of Vermont Extension- #S1525PO - University of Vermont Extension is hiring a .75 FTE, Family Programs Project Coordinator, that provides project coordination and functional supervision to both the PROSPER (PROmoting School-community-university Partnerships to Enhance Resilience) program, a prevention initiative focused on building strong families and healthy youth as well as Coping with Separation and Divorce (COPE) program. Both are programs of UVM Extension 4-H. The project coordinator provides leadership to a community team responsible for implementing the PROSPER initiative and supervises and supports the COPE Training Coordinator and team. Specific responsibilities include coordinating program logistics, developing outreach materials for both print, social media and web, completing evaluations and written reports. In addition, grant writing and fundraising is an essential component of the job.

The successful candidate must have a Bachelor’s degree and two years’ related experience with focus in youth prevention programming or youth, human and family development. Fundraising experience preferred. Demonstrated ability to write grants and fundraise. Ability to plan, organize, and coordinate programs. Candidate must demonstrate effective interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work with youth and adult volunteers in a team environment.

Computer and electronic communication proficiency required. Candidates must have the ability to frequently travel to various locations. The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal. This position is funded through August 31, 2021 and may be extended subject to additional funds being secured.

Retail Associate - UVM Bookstore- #S1528PO - The UVM Bookstore is seeking a Retail Associate to join the team at UVM’s Catamount Store on Church Street.

The Catamount Store Retail Associate will open and close the store, operate a cash register, stock merchandise to create appealing displays, promote the Catamount Store through various social media platforms, and provide excellent customer service.

Candidates for this position must have a high school diploma, familiarity with retail sales, and knowledge of computer operations and data entry. The candidate should have a demonstrated commitment to diversity, social justice and training, and fostering a collaborative multicultural environment. This candidate also must be able to work weekends, evenings, and University holidays with occasional overtime as needed. Valid driver’s license or ability to obtain and driver’s check is required, and French language skills are desirable. *Job posting contains further position and minimum qualification details.

For further information on these positions and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit our website at: www.uvmjobs.com; Job Hotline #802-656-2248; telephone #802-656-3150. Applicants must apply for position electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Job positions are updated daily.

The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications, from women, veterans, individuals with disabilities and people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

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Office of the Public Defender, St. Albans. Previous secretarial experience required. Law or human services office and transcription experience highly preferred. Full-time, non-classified, PG17 State position with benefits. $16.66/hr. Must be able to work independently and as part of a team in a fast paced office environment. Email resume and cover letter by Friday, May 11th to:

mary.deaett@vermont.gov

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Interested candidates please send resume and cover letter to HR@ , wakerobin.com or visit our website , om in.c rob www.wake to complete an application.

Wake Robin is an EOE.

Busy, mid-sized family practice is looking for a Care Coordinator who will collaborate with patients and their families using the care management process including assessment, plan of care and coordinating delivery of those services while monitoring patients’ progress. The Care Coordinator will facilitate the coordinated utilization of resources to ensure the maximum positive health outcome for the patient.

Successful candidate must be caring, responsible and compassionate. Organizational and communication skills are critical. RN or LCSW required. Competitive wage and benefits package. Send cover letter with resume to Cheryl McCaffrey, Practice Administrator, TCHC, 586 Oak Hill Rd., Williston, VT 05495

You’ve studied You’ve trained You’ve mentored others Now it’s your time to lead Help us create a new path for nursing in senior living.

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Executive Director

Mortgage Originator

Stowe Land Trust (SLT) seeks a visionary, dedicated Executive Director with strong initiative and proven experience implementing strategic priorities, building and maintaining donor relationships, and managing day-to-day operations to fulfill SLT’s mission.

Chittenden County

Northfield Savings Bank is looking for a professional to join our team as a Mortgage Banking Originator for Chittenden The Executive Director will provide strategic leadership for County, who will be responsible for originating a variety of new a talented, experienced staff of four, and work closely with residential loans. This position offers a strong opportunity to an engaged, dynamic Board of Directors. This position work for a growing premier Vermont mutual savings bank. offers an exciting opportunity to build on SLT’s 31-year The selected candidate will be responsible for interviewing history of successful land protection, stewardship and applicants, collecting financial data and making recommendations community engagement programs. regarding NSB’s loan products which will best meet the For more information on Stowe Land Trust, and to view borrower’s needs. The individual will also be assisting customers a complete job description with information on how to with the purchase process from application through closing. apply, please visit www.stowelandtrust.org. Deadline for The Mortgage Originator must possess excellent communication applications is May 18, 2018. and customer service skills for both internal and external customers. A Bachelor’s Degree and two to four years of experience in a financial institution or related area is required.

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Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking Come be part of a vibrant and passionate team dedicated to excellent institution headquartered in Vermont. Compensation includes care and services. This is a salaried 40 hour per week position requiring a base salary plus commission and benefits package including periodic on-call week-end coverage. The Manor offers a generous wage medical, dental, profit sharing, matching 401(K) retirement and benefits package, including 25 days of ETO annually, and a 403(b) program, professional development opportunities, and a positive retirement fund. View details at www.themanorvt.org. work environment supported by a team culture.

If you are a match for this opening, please submit your resume and application in confidence to: Careers@nsbvt.com (Preferred) Or mail: Northfield Savings Bank Human Resources P.O. Box 7180 Barre, VT 05641-7180 Equal Opportunity Employer/Member

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Leasing Consultant The Woolen Mill is looking for a part-time Leasing Consultant. Hours will be Thursday, 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Duties include (but are not limited to) answering phones, scheduling appointments, 3:52 PM showing apartments and accepting rental applications.

This position requires applicant to have good communication skills, be detail oriented, and have the ability to work independently with a professional and friendly demeanor. This fast-paced office demands the ability to multitask.

Please submit resume to The Woolen Mill 20 West Canal Street Winooski, VT 05404.

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MEDICAL ASSISTANT

Busy, mid-sized family practice is looking for a certified medical assistant to assist in the day-to-day clinical duties of family medicine. Duties include rooming patients, taking vitals, taking medical histories, and patient education. Successful candidate must be organized, detail-oriented, compassionate and a team player. Competitive wage and benefits package. Send cover letter with resume to: Cheryl McCaffrey, Practice Administrator, TCHC, 586 Oak Hill Rd., Williston, VT 05495 3h-ThomasChittendenHealthClinicMEDasst041818.indd 1

Director for Communications and Professional Development Vermont Superintendents Association

4/16/18 6:27 PM

The Vermont Superintendents Association (VSA), a non-profit organization of school superintendents, seeks a Director for Communications and Professional Development.

This position develops and implements VSA’s communications and professional development activities and supports the overall work of the Association. The work is accomplished with other VSA staff, Association members, the media and education partners. Other work in support of the Association’s overall mission will also be performed. The position reports to the VSA Executive Director.

The ideal candidate possesses exemplary communications expertise, the ability to develop and execute professional development programs, analytical skills, strong initiative and success in working in a team environment. Experience within, and/or a strong familiarity with Vermont’s public education system is desirable. Anticipated starting date is July 1, 2018. Please respond before May 1, 2018. EOE

AASK-int Tag is a premier manufacturer of RFID products. At ASK, quality is always paramount and we take great pride in satisfying our customers with the very best products and services we can provide. Currently, the following job opportunities are available at our Essex Junction,Vermont facility:

Finance Director This key position will provide senior level Financial and Cash Management support to our manufacturing facility. The responsibilities of the incumbent will include the management and monitoring of the company’s financial reporting as well as the oversight of inventory controls, supply chain, logistics, and cost accounting, along with assisting in the company’s overall strategic planning initiatives. As a member of the management team, the incumbent will apply leadership expertise with regard to improving accounting procedures and practices within the organization. A Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role within a manufacturing environment is required, with a background in public accounting strongly preferred. Familiarity with international currencies and tariffs a plus.

Please submit resume and cover letter to: VSA Executive Director 2 Prospect Street, Suite 2 Montpelier, Vermont 05602 Or email to: ktate@vtvsa.org

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Production Team Members Production team members will contribute an excellent work ethic and attention to detail toward the manufacture of ASK’s quality RFID products and services. Minimum requirements for a position working on our production floor include a high school diploma or equivalent, 1 year previous manufacturing experience which includes the ability to operate different pieces of equipment as well as the ability and desire to grow in the job, and a strong commitment to achieving excellence in job execution. Currently, openings exist on 2nd and 3rd shifts and a shift premium for off-shifts applies.

Resident Assistants Wanted The Gary Residence is seeking an overnight 11pm - 7am Med Tech for our non-profit Residential Care.

Each Resident Assistant participates as a key member of the health care team, implementing care delivery systems in a manner that maintains a nurturing environment supporting the health and independence of the residents. Resident Assistant use their caregiving skills to ensure the physical and cognitive well-being of residents, as well as their emotional and social well-being.

ASK-intTag offers employees a standard benefits package which includes medical/dental/vision coverages and 401(k) participation after completing 60 days of satisfactory service.

To apply for one of the positions above, please forward a resume with cover letter to:

Ideal candidate will bring maturity, a strong sense of compassion and a commitment to teamwork. You can expect to find a fun, energetic and friendly team of people who enjoy working together and creating excellence for the population of residents we serve.

ASK-int Tag, LLC Attn: Demetra Fisher, HR Mgr 1000 River Street, Mailbox 169 Essex Junction, VT 05452

We offer a wide range of benefits, medical, dental, short term disability, sick, vacation, personal days, retirement benefit.

Job Type: Full-time

or if preferred, submit a cover letter and resume by e-mail to:

Experience: LNA: 1 year (Required)

demetra.fisher@paragon-id.com

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VACD seeks a qualified candidate to fill a Cartographic Technician position in the Northwest region of Vermont. The position will work with agricultural producers to reduce phosphorus runoff impacting Lake Champlain.

The Cartographic Technician will assist and support Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and VACD conservation staff in planning and implementing conservation practices by producing maps and other geospatial information and data.

Work assignments will be carried out primarily in an office setting at the St. Albans NRCS field office. Desired qualifications include: knowledge and expertise with ArcGIS and other mapping tools; proficiency with Microsoft Office, Excel and database programs; Bachelor’s degree in natural resources, agriculture or related subjects; working knowledge of natural resources, agriculture, and water quality issues a plus. Starting wage is $15.50 per hour.

NURSES- RN or LPN and LNAs WORK THREE 12 HOUR SHIFTS. BE PAID FOR 40 HOURS 7:00 am to 7:00 pm -OR- 7:00 pm to 7:00 am The Manor, in Morrisville, employs a vibrant and passionate team dedicated to excellent care. The Manor is recognized as a Quality Nursing Home by the State of Vermont and nationally. We offer excellent employee benefits. Also available: 8 hour shifts, part time and per diem.

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Vermont Catholic Charities, Inc., located in South Burlington, VT has an opening for a full time and/or part time Counselor. We are seeking a licensed professional to provide comprehensive assessment, treatment planning and psychotherapy services to a diverse population, and to exercise initiative and independent judgment in their clinical work. The individual is a key part of a professional team that provides counseling to individuals, families, couples and Catholic Schools as needed, respecting Catholic values as applicable. The ability to conduct group therapy sessions is desirable.

Position Requirements: The successful candidate will have a minimum of two years of progressive clinical experience in a multidisciplinary treatment setting and be in good standing and licensed in Vermont, or in another state who would meet the Vermont licensure requirements, to practice in one of the following professions: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LICSW); Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC); Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT); or Licensed Clinical Psychologist. This position requires strong clinical skills and skills in documentation and record-keeping, communication, both written and verbal.

Solid computer skills are necessary. The individual will be a practicing Catholic in accordance with Canon 874 §1, 3˚, 4 ˚ of the Code of Canon Law. Travel required.

4/2/18

SKIRACK is Hiring...

Currently seeking sales associates for multiple departments including:

The Run Center at Skirack is Hiring run enthusiasts for part-time seasonal employment who love to inspire people to reach their aspirations at every level, from beginner to elite for running, walking, hiking in the outdoors.

The Bike Center at Skirack is Hiring bike enthusiasts for part-time seasonal employment who love cycling whether on roads, mountains, gravel, bike paths, commuting.

The Skirack Spring season has begun no matter what the weather. We are hiring for part-time seasonal employment for outdoor enthusiasts who embrace quality clothing and gear for their active lifestyles and who love to help others do the same.

If you like helping others do the same no matter what level of interest or experience then send an up to date resume and cover letter to jobs@skirack.com.

Send resumes to: astrong@vermontcatholic.org

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Retail Sales Associate

EOE

Counselor/Psychotherapist Position

Skilled carpenters and/ or carpenter assistants.

Hardworking, reliable, team player. Join a highend, custom, residential family-owned, construction company. Summer and Full-time positions.

Shelburne/Charlotte location.

Send resumes to: maura@classichomevt.com

Visit www.vacd.org for detailed job description and qualifications. Position includes training, health insurance benefit and generous leave package. Send cover letter, resume and contact information for three references by Monday, April 23rd to joanne.dion@vacd.org or VACD, PO Box 889, Montpelier, VT 05601.

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The Retail Sales Associate is the face of Conant Metal & Light.

You like talking to people and are naturally cheerful, you enjoy 2:04 PM building long-term relationships, you are team-oriented and can be depended on by those around you, and you’re naturally curious.

This is a part time position working Thursday - Saturday with room to grow for the right applicant. Please send resume and cover letter to jolene@conantmetalandlight.com.

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GOLF PROFESSIONAL

Are you an assistant Golf Pro interested in more responsibility and a broader role? Our beautiful community golf course provides just that opportunity.

Position requires PGA status, strong interpersonal skills, golf instruction skills and abilities in the use of Social Media Marketing.

For more information and job description, please send resume and cover letter to General Manager at Info@essexccvt.com.

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REGIONAL SENIOR MANAGER (code#18008)

Full-Time TEAM MEMBER Small residential/commercial cleaning company seeks parttime team member. Our perfect candidate will have: • A Charming personality • The ability to communicate effectively and respectfully with co-workers and clients and take in feedback with grace • A tidy appearance • A judgement-free approach to caring for our clients’ spaces • Reliable transportation Call Lucinda at 338-2070 or email inquiries to: lucindarellavt@yahoo.com.

The Vermont Judiciary seeks experienced manager and leadership coach to oversee six court houses across four counties in northeastern Vermont. This position oversees a team of managers, employees and a multi-milliondollar budget.

As a member of the senior management team, the Senior Manager will be vital to strategic planning, organizational development, and continuous improvement. Must maintain public confidence in the courts during a time of a changing environment through high standards of transparency and accountability.

The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree and eight or more years of proven leadership experience for a public or private entity. Starting pay in upper 80s.

Go to www.vermontjudiciary.org/employmentopportunities/staff-openings for more details and how to apply (position is listed as Regional Superior Court Clerk).

This position is open until filled.

Hours can be flexible as long as consistent. $14 per hour after short probationary period

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Town Hall Theater, the busiest little theater in Vermont, seeks an Executive Director. The ideal candidate will have five years senior management experience in the cultural sector, preferably in a performing arts venue.

A degree in arts and/or business administration or equivalent experience in the field is desirable but not a prerequisite. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Comprehensive benefits package. Deadline for applications: Friday, April 27, 2018. For full job description: genovesevanderhoof.com/ opportunities/executivedirector-2/.

To apply, submit a cover letter and resume with a list of references and salary requirements in confidence to: gvasearch@gmail.com.

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To apply for this exciting opportunity please submit a resume, cover letter and co-op application to Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op, 1 Washington Street, Middlebury, VT 05753.

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Full time or Part time. Food & Beverage, Hospitality, Events.

Join the team that welcomes and takes care of guests at the beautiful historic Inn at Shelburne Farms. The following positions are available and pay is based on experience:

Kitchen Dining Room Manager Inn Front Office & Reservations Housekeeping Event & Catering

If any of the above listed jobs look interesting to you, visit our website for information on how to apply! www.shelburnefarms.org/about/join-our-team You may also send a cover letter and resume to InnJobs@ShelburneFarms.org with the subject of the email being the position you are interested in.

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To lead our Bulk Foods, Cheese and Dairy team, we want you to have • 5 or more years of a leadership role in retail and natural foods • Ability to lead and motivate an amazing team • Experience meeting financial goals (sales, margin, labor, inventory) • Success leading a team of buyers • Familiarity with our natural foods and local products • Proven merchandising skills

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MULTIPLE JOB OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE AT THE INN AT SHELBURNE FARMS

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Do you want a professional leadership position with great people, great food, and an excellent benefit package? We are seeking an experienced Department Manager to grow with us. This leadership position is part of our Management Team.

As manager of Bulk Foods, Cheese, and Dairy departments you are an instrumental leader to many operations. You know the products, have strong relationships with vendors, and an eye for natural foods trends. Our manager is a great communicator, embraces a servant leadership style, and knows how to lead a high quality natural foods department. You are in this role because you were looking for a challenge with a progressive organization full of dedicated staff who do awesome things. You are passionate in going above and beyond to offer great customer service.

Here is our job description to learn more about this opportunity:

The Vermont Judiciary is an equal opportunity employer.

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Building a community where everyone participates and everyone belongs.

Employment Specialist Way2Work, a leading developmental service supported employment program, is seeking a creative and outgoing individual to join their dynamic team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting individuals in developing career goals, job seeking skills, securing employment, and on the job training. In addition, the candidate will collaborate with businesses to build partnerships for long-term community based employment.

Must demonstrate reliability, strong communication skills, and the ability to solve problems effectively and professionally.

This full-time position offers a comprehensive benefits package, a great work environment, and the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Submit resume and cover letter to Michelle Paya, mpaya@ccs-vt.org

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PART-TIME, PERMANENT Come work for one of Central Vermont’s best employers!

We are hiring for the following positions:

FULL TIME DINING ROOM SERVER 32-40 hours per week 7:00am-2:00pm. Excellent benefits including a competitive salary, and medical, dental, and paid vacation time.

This is a great place to work! The Converse Home, conveniently located in downtown Burlington, is looking for a Full Time Dining Room Server to join our established team of fun and caring people. Work for our not-for-profit organization and get to know our wonderful residents.

The right person for this job will: • Be responsible and outgoing • Be a quick learner • Enjoy working with an aging population and have great communication skills

Kitchen Help Wanted: Come cook with us! We have a full-time position in our kitchen, making our delicious sandwiches, salads and soups. The ideal candidate takes pride in making excellent food, works cleanly and efficiently, and works well both independently and in a team. We offer competitive pay and excellent benefits including health coverage and paid time off. Please contact Artie at artie@ redhenbaking.com.

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Email your resume to kellie@conversehome.com, drop in to fill out an application or visit our website and go to the “Careers” section to apply online.

Laboratory Technician

4/16/18 12:00 PM

Agri-Mark / Cabot Creamery has a full-time opening for a Laboratory Technician to work 6:30am to 4:30pm, 4 days a week to include one (1) weekend day. Responsibilities will include performing laboratory tests on finished products, plant samples and ingredients to ensure that company quality standards are met.

Candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree in science or math, and at least two years’ related experience is preferred. We are seeking an individual who possesses strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills, as well as the ability to effectively multitask and meet project deadlines. Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite are essential. Must be able to become certified by the State of Vermont to perform all testing associated with the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance.

Agri-Mark / Cabot Creamery offers a competitive wage and a comprehensive benefits package, to include pension plan. Apply online to jobs@cabotcheese.com or email your resume with cover letter to:

Cabot Creamery Attn: Human Resources 193 Home Farm Way Waitsfield, VT 05647 EOE

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The Vermont Public Power Supply Authority, located in Waterbury Center, Vermont, is a joint action agency that works with municipal electric utilities throughout Vermont and New England.

We are currently recruiting for a Power Analyst / Senior Power Analyst to join our team. Position responsibilities involve various power related activities including but not limited to; creating and modifying resource optimization tools to manage power supply transactions and portfolios; preparing power supply simulations for budgeting, planning, analysis, and reporting; maintaining an understanding of wholesale electric markets including but not limited to understanding rules of the New England Independent System Operator (ISO-NE) and other associated entities; performing economic analyses on power supply positions, portfolios and generation projects; preparing and submitting market bids and contracts.

Duties require knowledge of wholesale energy markets, portfolio management, forecasting, power operations, or energy commodity trading equivalent to completion of four years of college. Three or more years of progressively responsible related experience in a utility industry background preferred. Demonstrated proficiency in Excel required and database software experience desired.

If you are a team player and enjoy a fast-paced collaborative environment we want to hear from you. Please send resumes and salary requirements to: Vermont Public Power Supply Authority, PO Box 126, Waterbury Ctr., Vermont 05677 Attn: General Manager, or to knolan@vppsa.com.

The deadline for applications is May 4, 2018.

For more information about employment opportunities at AgriMark / Cabot Creamery, please visit our website at www.cabotcheese.coop/careers

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Stop by our store on Route 7 for an application or call 802-985-2000 for more information.

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POWER ANALYST / SENIOR POWER ANALYST

Please visit www.conversehome.com to learn more about our community.

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Bread Baker: We’re looking for someone who values good bread and enjoys work that exercises your body and your mind as well as the satisfaction that comes from making great food with a great team.

Professional food experience is required. Must be able to work weekends and holidays. This is a full-time position with benefits. Contact Randy at 223-5200 x12 or randy@redhenbaking.com.

We are looking for morning bakers in our busy Shelburne store. Some basic baking experience needed. Some weekend availability.

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Landscape Technicians Needed immediately.

Previous Landscape, stonework, or construction experience a plus, but willing to train. Team work, attention to detail, communication, respect and hard work are what put us a step above. Work lasts through November at least with room for advancement along the way. Reliable transportation, Valid VT drivers license and clean drivers record a must.

Pay based on Experience.

Please respond to: davec230@gmail.com or at 802-324-0350.

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Town Administrator The Town of Cambridge seeks a Town Administrator. Full job description available at, cambridgevt.org/employment.

Please send cover letter, resume, and 3 references via email to: employment@cambridgevt.org with “Town Administrator Search,” in subject line or mail to: Mark Schilling, Clerk/ Treasurer, P.O Box 127, Jeffersonville VT 05464.

Cambridge is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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NURSES-RNS & LPNS SERVER/PREP-COOK/ LINE COOK

Are you interested in joining our medical team? We are now hiring nurses (RNs and LPNs) at our Berlin, Vermont location. We offer competitive pay and benefits, and have positions open for per diem, part time and temporary.

Part-time, Send resumes to: recruiting@baymark.com. baartprograms.com Competitive Wages Mill River Brewing BBQ & Smokehouse is looking 2h-BAART041118.indd 1 4/9/18 for experienced hospitality professionals that have flexible schedules and are available to work daytime, evening and weekend shifts. If you are team oriented, have a strong work ethic, are passionate about beer and food, and pride yourself on providing excellent customer service then please send your resume or request an application by contacting Joyce at: jmfitzgerald@ millriverbrewing.com

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Counselor at Phoenix House We are seeking qualified individuals to fill our Full-time evening Counselor position at our Burlington RISE transitional living site.

The position responsibilities include: facilitation of evidence based groups, case management in an individual session format, attendance of treatment team meetings, completion of intakes and addiction assessments and other recovery responsibilities.

Bachelor’s preferred with Alcohol and Drug experience.

Please send resumes to James Henzel, 435 Western Avenue, Brattleboro, VT 05301 or jhenzel@phoenixhouse.org.

Phoenix House is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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EXECUTIVE CO-DIRECTOR

EXECUTIVE CO-DIRECTOR The Addison County Parent/Child Center (ACPCC) is seeking a new CoThe Addison County Parent/Child Center (ACPCC) is seeking a new CoDirector to lead thisthis well-known andhighly highly respected non-profit Director to lead well-known and respected non-profit located located in Middlebury, Vermont.Founded Founded inin1980, thethe ACPCC is a member of in Middlebury, Vermont.

1980, ACPCC is a member of the Vermont Parent Child Center Network dedicated to providing family the Vermont Parent Child Center Network dedicated to providing family support services, therapeutic childcare and education, prevention and support services, therapeutic childcare and education, prevention and 10:20 AM support for youth, adults and children in Addison County. support for youth, adults and children in Addison County.

This is a great opportunity for an energetic and engaged community who opportunity is passionate about a difference the community This isleader a great for making an energetic andin engaged community by leading an organization in a co-directorship model. leader who is passionate about making a differenceThe in successful the community candidate will possess strong communication skills, a team-oriented by leading an organization in a co-directorship model.

The work style, a passion for working with families and children, andsuccessful a candidate will to possess strong communication skills, a team-oriented dedication social justice issues.

The candidate will have experience humanfor services and state in all and a work working style, awith passion working with agencies, familiesexperience and children, aspectstoofsocial human justice resourceissues. and personnel and experience dedication The management candidate will have experience in managing and overseeing data collections and analysis. Candidates working services and state agencies, experience mustwith also human demonstrate understanding of financial management of in all aspects of human resource andfund personnel management and experience multiple funding streams and development. in managing and data collections and analysis.

Candidates Preference willoverseeing be given to candidates with a graduate degree in social must work, also nonprofit demonstrate understanding financial management, education, or of a related field. management of For funding more information, a full job description, please contact multiple streamsincluding and fund development.

Donna Bailey at dbailey@addisoncountypcc.org.

Preference will be given to candidates with a graduate degree in social Interested applicants are expected to submit their letter of interest, work, resume, nonprofit education, a related field. mail and management, contact information

by April 30,or 2018, sent by regular to: ACPCC Search Committee, P.O. aBox 646job Middlebury, VT 05753 or by contact For more information, including full description, please . to: dbailey@addisoncountypcc.org Donnaemail Bailey at dbailey@addisoncountypcc.org Interested applicants are expected to submit their letter of interest, resume, and contact information

by April 30, 2018, sent by4/16/18 regular 5v-AddisonCountyParentChildCenter041818.indd 1 11:57mail AM Seeking and to: ACPCC Search Committee, P.O. BoxLead 646 Middlebury, VT 05753 or by Skilled Carpenters email to: dbailey@addisoncountypcc.org Cypress Woodworks is a local high end residential contractor and fine woodworking company based out of Waterbury, Vermont. We are growing quickly and have the following position openings: Lead Carpenter and Skilled Carpenters. The ideal candidate for the Lead Carpenter position will have extensive experience in high end residential construction and is a leader who can direct other employees with clear communication to be an efficient and productive team. The Skilled Carpenter position will be filled by those who have at least 2-5 years of professional residential construction experience. They will be knowledgable in every facet from framework to interior and exterior finishes and are also comfortable working on staging and ladders.

Experience in a commercial woodworking shop a plus, but not a requirement.

The right people for our team will have years of experience in the construction industry, leadership, reliable transportation, a strong work ethic, positive attitude and clear communication.

Pay is very competitive and will be discussed during the interview process.

Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume including three professional references to alex@cypresswoodworksvt.com.

We have a keen eye for detail and pride ourselves on providing the utmost in quality to our clients. Check out our website to learn more about what we do and to see our gallery of project photos: cypresswoodworksvt.com.

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Cook - We are seeking a Cook to join our dedicated kitchen staff at beautiful Saint Anne’s Shrine! You will assist in the preparation, cooking, and presentation of meals in our professional kitchen serving guests on retreat and those attending mid-week and weekend services.

Duties include food preparation, cooking and baking, proper cleanup and safe food handling techniques, food safety regulations, cleanliness, and working with the entire Shrine team to ensure the satisfaction of visitors and guests.

Excellent communication skills required. The position is full time (32-40 hrs per week) year-around and offers a generous benefits package. Shifts leave evenings mostly available.

However, flexibility and weekend work are required.

Saint Anne’s Shrine is a Catholic ministry of the Society of St. Edmund whose mission is to serve as a welcoming place of peace and hope ministering to all God’s people through prayer, devotion, hospitality, and spiritual renewal.

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Contact Center Service Representatives provide direct services and support to our members regarding questions as they pertain to our products and services within a fast-paced call center environment.

Ideal candidates will have previous customer service experience, excellent communication skills, ability to manage multiple priorities timely with accuracy and be proficient with computers.

www.nefcu.com. (EOE/AA) Open Position at the

Send your resume and three references to Alyssa Henry at ahenry@nrpcvt.com.

Planned start date: August 2018. For more information please see: www.nrpcvt.com or www.nationalservice.gov.

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Office located in the greater Burlington, VT area.

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• Good pay commensurate with experience • Paid time off • Steady year-round work (8:00-4:15 M-F) • Matching retirement contributions.

• Positive work environment Send resumes to:

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hillviewdesign@gmail.com The candidate will address poverty through a diversity of projects including: implementing the Northwest Regional Plan by developing indicators and managing a data software that assesses the impact of the plan on poverty alleviation 3v-HillviewBuilding041818.indd 1 4/13/18 12:29 PM and related issues; supporting staff to write municipal plans with a focus on economic, housing, health, and hunger issues; providing outreach and assistance in communications; collaborating with and assisting partner organizations; and implementing the Northwest Regional Community Health Primer. Experience in communications, research, public health, planning or grant writing is a plus.

Bachelor’s degree is required.

Seeking Educator to do Sales

This position works with school and district decision makers to conduct Business-to-Business sales. It also works with lead teachers to promote our resources to their administrators and manages current accounts. Prior sales experience a plus!

• Must have experience and expertise in residential building: frame to finish • Willingness and ability to work with and lead a crew • Solid references • Positive attitude and strong work ethic

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Community Development and Health Communications Specialist – AmeriCorps VISTA (Full Time)

Are you an educator or former educator interested in trying something new with your skillset? Established over two decades ago, our educational publishing company possesses an established brand, business model, and clientele. We are looking for a dynamic Lead Sales Associate to promote our research-based materials.

Requirements:

For a more detailed description along with directions on how to apply to the role, please visit our career page located on our website at

Northwest Regional Planning Commission, 75 Fairfield Street, St. Albans, VT, 05478

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Lead Carpenter Hillview Building Company is looking for an experienced lead carpenter/project manager to join our crew.

The schedule for the roles will be Monday-Friday working anytime between 8am -6:30pm, along with working one Saturday per month. NEFCU offers a comprehensive and competitive benefit package.

Northwest Regional Planning Commission

We seek a driven legal assistant with an outstanding work ethic to join our team. The position involves administrative duties and support. Professionalism, experience, and multitasking are required, as are exceptional client service skills. Our ideal candidate will also have experience in transactional and litigation matters. We offer a comprehensive benefits package and salary commensurate with experience.

Please email resume, references, and cover letter to attorneys@LCLawVT.com.

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Office of the Public Defender, St. Albans. Demanding criminal caseload in a fast paced office environment. Must be able to work independently and as part of a legal team.

Duties may require irregular hours and travel for which private means of transportation is required. Previous investigation experience preferred. Full-time with State benefits. Base pay: $21.77/hr.

Email resume and cover letter by Friday, 5/4 to Mary.Deaett@vermont.gov.

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Looking for a charismatic team leader with 3-5 years senior management experience for startup.

Investigator Needed

Job description available upon request.

Margaret Pratt Community is a new Assisted Living under construction and scheduled to open late 2018.

Looking for a motivated, results driven sales person with excellent communication skills for a new community.

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Full time housekeeping positions available immediately.

Weekends/Holidays a must. Very competitive starting wage. Apply in person, 3229 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, VT 05482 or email daysinnshelburnevt@gmail.com

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Full time housekeeping positions available immediately.

Weekends/Holidays a must.

Very competitive starting wage.

Apply in person: 1016 Shelburne Rd., South Burlington, VT 05403 or email: travelodgeburlingtonvt@gmail.com

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Clinician(s) & Supervisor – ASSIST

Multiple full-time evening and overnight positions available to provide support services to adults in psychiatric, emotional, and/or substance crisis in crisis stabilization residential setting (BA and experience with Mental Health/Substance Use Disorder and crisis de-escalation required).

Supervisor position also available to assist with client care coordination, staff scheduling and supervision (MA required, supervision experience preferred).

Community Case Manager

Estimator DEW / MacMillin is one of the region’s leading construction managers. Due to our sustained growth and the future retirement of a long-time member of our estimating department we are currently looking to add to our team.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field, and five to ten years of solid estimating experience. Proven proficiency with Onscreen Take-Off and Timberline Estimating is required. Desired skills are conceptual estimating, experience with construction management and design-build projects and the ability to estimate all CSI divisions. A varied project experience in health care, higher education, K-12, resorts and mixed use is a plus. Candidate must have excellent communication skills, preconstruction services experience and client relationship experience.

Interested candidates should email a resume, along with cover letter to careers@dewcorp.com. A full job description is available on our website at www.dewcorp.com.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

DEW Construction Corp.

277 Blair Park Road, Suite 130 Williston, VT 05495 Attn: Human Resources Department Email: careers@dewcorp.com Fax: 802-872-0707

Join our Team! Seeking compassionate, hardworking individual to provide case management and recovery-focused community supports to adults with mental health challenges and co-occurring substance use challenges.

FT. Bachelor’s degree required.

Cook - Lakeview Community Care Home

Seeking a Cook for the Lakeview Community Care Home. Individual will plan and prepare nutritionally balanced meals for residents. Full-time benefits eligible position.

Coordinator – Transition House

Great leadership opportunity for someone with a Master’s Degree & a Clinical License! Lead a small residential program in Essex VT. Experience working in residential treatment required.

Educator – Life Skills

Provide life skills education, social engagement, resource connection, and supportive counseling to individuals with a major mental illness. Assist in a person’s recovery with a strengths-based and client-focused approach.

Use of a personal vehicle required.

Residential Counselor – Lakeview (Awake Overnight)

Establish and maintain a therapeutic and stable permanent residential housing environment for adults with mental health/substance use challenges and a history of homelessness. Bachelor’s degree required. Full Time.

Howard Center offers an excellent benefits package including health, dental and life insurance, as well as generous paid time off for all regular positions scheduled 20-plus hours per week.

Please visit our website, www.howardcentercareers.org. Enter position title to view details and apply.

Howard Center is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants needing assistance or an accommodation in completing the online application should feel free to contact Human Resources at 488-6950 or HRHelpDesk@howardcenter.org.

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SUMMER CAMP COUNSELORS

NorthCountry is Hiring!

Join the team Gallup ranks in the top 4% worldwide for employee engagement.

Member Resource Specialist I If you have excellent listening, speaking, writing, and problem-solving skills, come join our Member Resource Team. Use your skills and training to reply to member phone calls, online chats, and emails accurately and efficiently. Customer service experience required. This full-time position is based out of our headquarters in South Burlington.

Central Vermont Teller A person’s first face-to-face contact at NorthCountry is often with a teller. We need that first impression and all future contact to be positive, comfortable, trustworthy and perhaps even fun! Tellers perform a variety of financial transactions accurately and pleasantly, and listen for opportunities to recommend NorthCountry products and services when appropriate. This full-time position is based out of Central Vermont. Some Saturday hours required.

Brown Ledge Camp on the shores of Lake Champlain is seeking active self-directed people to complete our activity staff for 2018. Positions to be filled include those in the following areas: Swimming, Waterskiing, Archery, Tennis and Canoeing & Kayaking.

Our co-ed staff hail from all over the US and a number of other countries and have a wide variety of backgrounds, interests and skills. BLC has the feel of a small college with a great sense of community.

Staff must be at least 19 yo and be willing to live at camp.

These positions are full time summer only.

Visit www.brownledge.org to see how Brown Ledge works.

For more info call 802 862 2442 Ext 2 or EMAIL bill@brownledge.org

The Burlington School District4/9/18 has an immediate opening for an experienced Senior Accountant.

The Senior Accountant is responsible for maintaining the District’s finances in accordance with GASB generally accepted accounting principles. The Senior Accountant supports the Director of Finance in all elements related to the fiscal operations of the District. The successful candidate will exhibit strong communication skills, attention to detail, the ability to meet deadlines, and a willingness to be part of a team.

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Facilities Maintenance Technician To keep all twelve of our locations in shipshape, we need a Mr. or Ms. Fix-It with a keen eye and a strong back to tackle everything from installing cabinets and painting, to changing light bulbs and mowing lawns. Three to five years of experience performing basic repairs and maintenance required. This full-time position is based out of our headquarters in South Burlington, but travel between all branches is necessary.

Graphic Design/Marketing Assistant We have a rare opportunity to welcome a new member to our busy marketing team! Assist with graphic design projects, create short videos for internal and public use, and help keep the team on track by monitoring incoming requests for marketing support. A college degree in Graphic Design or a similar program is required, as well as proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud. This full-time position is based out of our headquarters in South Burlington.

NorthCountry offers competitive pay, opportunity for advancement, and a generous benefit program. n Paid holidays & paid time off

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• Strong knowledge of Government Accounting Standards Board’s generally accepted accounting principles.

• Highly proficient in use of technology, particularly Microsoft Excel, and accounting software.

• Experience in preparing and analyzing financial statements.

• Demonstrated planning and organizational skills, including the ability to consistently meet deadlines.

Selected essential duties: • Ensure compliance with generally accepted accounting principles.

• Maintain the District’s accounting system, including preparation of general ledger entries and management of the chart of accounts.

• Support the management of internal control systems for budgetary, procurement, cash collections and accounting operations.

We would love to hear from you!

• Prepare for and support an annual audit of all accounts by an independent auditor.

To apply, submit your information at NorthCountryFederalCreditUnion.appone.com at your earliest convenience.

• Maintain the District’s fixed assets information.

• Prepare and oversee the preparation of reports required by state and federal agencies including the Vermont Agency of Education.

NorthCountry is an equal opportunity employer.

• Oversee the preparation of all payroll-related reporting including W2 and 1099 information reporting.

• Perform month-end and year-end closing procedures in a timely manner.

• Perform other tasks and duties in support of the District’s needs.

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Planning and Zoning Manager The City of Winooski seeks a full-time Planning and Zoning Manager to serve as the City’s Zoning Administrator and to oversee the Master Planning efforts of the City of Winooski.

This role is responsible for the administration and enforcement of zoning and other bylaws. In addition, this position leads the City’s Master Planning efforts, working closely with the Community and Economic Development Officer, the City Manager, the Leadership team, and the Planning Commission.

Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in a related field required. The Master’s degree may be substituted for exemplary professional experience. Required experience of a minimum of five years in municipal planning and zoning. Familiarity with form based code zoning and proven experience writing or participating in master planning processes.

For more information and complete position posting please visit our website at

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Providing Innovative Mental Health and Educational Services to Vermont’s Children & Families

Deputy Director

SEEKING FOSTER PARENTS Howard Center has ongoing foster parent or weekend buddy needs for children ranging in ages 7 – 16. Some need caring adults to support them over the weekend, others need a family for a school year, and some are looking for adoptive families.

There are over 1,300 children in the Vermont foster care system and over 60 children in need of an adoptive family. You don’t have to be married, rich or own a home. You will be supported every step of the way!

To learn more about these opportunities, contact JRodrigues@ howardcenter.org or call (802) 488-6372.

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Clinical Case Manager $300 Sign On Bonus Community Based Services

CERF+, a nationally recognized leader in the field of emergency readiness, relief, and recovery for artists, is seeking a Deputy Director. The ideal candidate for this new position is a missionfocused, seasoned, strategic, and process-minded leader with experience scaling an organization, leading a professional management team, and developing a performance culture among a small group of diverse, talented individuals. The Deputy Director will lead all internal operations, including finance, planning, budgeting, grants management, office administration, human resources, and IT. This is a tremendous opportunity for a dynamic, collaborative leader to help take CERF+ to the next level of growth. With offices in Montpelier, VT, CERF+ offers a wonderful quality of life, collegial work environment, and competitive compensation, including an attractive benefits package. For a complete job description, please visit www.cerfplus.org.

The application deadline is April 20, 2018.

Please send letter of interest and resume to: cornelia@craftemergency.org or

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Looking for an exciting new opportunity? NFI has one for you! CBS is seeking a full time Clinical Case Manager to join our amazing team of mental health professionals and our positive and supportive work environment. Responsibilities include working with children, adolescents, and families with mental health challenges both in the community and in their homes. Ideal candidates work well both autonomously and collaboratively on treatment teams, have a Master’s degree in mental health or social work, have related work experience, have a valid driver’s license, and have reliable transportation.

Come be a part of our positive culture which includes a generous benefits package, $300 sign on bonus, tuition reimbursement, paid time off, and more. Please send a cover letter and resume to BrandieCarlson@nafi.com

Community Integration Specialists $300 Sign On Bonus Community Based Services CBS is committed to empowering youth by providing family based treatment through innovative, diverse and community integrated methods. CBS is seeking full-time community integration specialists to join our talented team of mental health professionals. Responsibilities include working individually with children and adolescents with mental health challenges both in the community and in their homes. The opportunity to bring personal interests/hobbies to share with youth is encouraged. Ideal candidates must have a bachelor’s degree, be able to work afternoon and evening hours, have a valid driver’s license, and reliable transportation. A generous benefits package is provided, which includes tuition reimbursement and a $300 sign on bonus. Please send a cover letter and resume to BrandieCarlson@nafi.com EOE

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Vermont 2-1-1, a statewide Information and Referral Program of the United Ways of Vermont, is seeking a candidate for a position in the Help Me Grow contact center located at United Ways of Vermont in Essex Junction, VT.

The Child Development Specialist

(CDS) provides care coordination functions to Vermont families. The Child Development Specialist assists consumers and providers to understand the services available through Help Me Grow Vermont. The Child Development Specialist handles calls, emails and texts related to the health, development, behavior and learning of children, and supports families by providing parenting information and education on these topics, researching and making referrals to services, and providing continued support, advocacy and follow-up as needed. The Specialist handles contact from families, documents information and concerns, mails information packets, and networks with specialized program’s central office staff and community based providers. All Specialists have both individual and shared responsibility and accountability for delivering quality, professional information and referral, as well as advocacy services. Ongoing training and extensive support will be provided.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services or related field, an Associates Degree plus a minimum of one year’s experience working in health, human, or community services. Computer experience is required and database software experience is preferred. Valid drivers license and reliable means of transportation a must. Interested persons should provide a cover letter, résumé to the Executive Director at unitedwaysvt@ gmail.com.

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Vermont 2-1-1, a statewide information and referral program of the United Ways of Vermont, has a position for a person with just the right skills to join our Management Team!

Vermont 2-1-1, a statewide comprehensive Information and Referral Program of the United Ways of Vermont is growing. We are seeking a full-time Information and Referral Specialist.

Resource Manager

Information and Referral (I&R) Specialists

Full-Time with Excellent Benefits

If you are detail-oriented, organized and a problem-solver with excellent verbal and written communication skills, you may be the person we are looking for. Experience with proofreading and editing is required for this position and computer database experience is preferred.

Primary Job Responsibilities: • Development and maintenance of all aspects of database functionality • Produces statistical reports and responds to specialized data report requests • Work to achieve program quality assurance standards Physical Demands: • Requires ability to sit at computer for extended periods of time • Requires protracted concentration Benefits: • Health insurance, including vision and dental • 403 (b) Thrift retirement plan • Generous combined time off (CTO) The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of three years of experience in human services, experience in Information and Referral (I&R) preferred; supervisory experience, utilizing a supportive coaching model; and experience developing and delivering training. Valid drivers license and reliable means of transportation a must.

Reponds to inquirers through multiple queues within the United Ways of Vermont 2-1-1 Contact Center, including phone, text and email inquiries. Specialists are responsible for assessing each person’s needs and properly referring them to an appropriate health and human service organization, while meeting or exceeding customer service and quality standards. All Contact Specialists have both individual and shared responsibility and accountability for delivering quality, professional information and referral, as well as advocacy services. Ongoing training and extensive support is provided.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services or related field, an Associates Degree plus a minimum of one year’s experience working in health, human, or community services, or comparable High School diploma with 3+ years experience in social service and/or contact center environment.

Computer experience is required and database software experience is preferred. Good to excellent written communication skills, be able to handle crisis situations and deal with difficult inquirers. The ability to work a flexible schedule including early evening hours is essential.

Interested persons should provide a cover letter and resume to Sarah@unitedwaysvt.org.

Applications will be accepted until position filled.

Interested candidates should send a cover letter, resume and writing sample to: unitedwaysvt@gmail.com. No telephone inquiries please.

United Ways of Vermont is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

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The banchan potato gave creamy depth to one bite; scallion pancake lent a touch of toasty sesame to another. We applied dots of gochujang (red chile paste, medium hot) and dragon sauce (very hot), ratcheting up the spice bite by bite, only to wash it all away with sips of warm, palate-soothing corn tea. The traditional Korean cold-weather drink tastes corny and a little creamy, just as the name implies.

As we ate, people gathered at the door, hoping to squeeze in before the restaurant’s 2 p.m. closing time. Jin An and another server, an American woman, dashed about, pausing to welcome each party and introduce the menu, then delivering banchan and tea once orders were in. The room was full, abuzz with excitement as the Capital City lunch crowd got to know its new restaurant.

Even so, the atmosphere was serene and warm, and lunch unfolded smoothly, as things do when everything’s in its place.

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We passed the bowl around the table, sinking spoons full of rice into the thick red broth. We interspersed them with nibbles of the three banchan that Jin An had delivered at the meal’s outset: justsweet soy-marinated potato, garlicky slivers of scallion pancake, and crisp kimchi, which was more briny-clean than funky-sour.

Of all the plates on the table, the strange tofu stew was an unlikely favorite. Then again, it would be hard to compete with a steaming bowl of kalguk-soo, with its pale, cloudy bone broth, petite pork dumplings, and wobbly handcut noodles that practically squeaked with freshness.

Also excellent was the bi-bim-bap, a heap of rice served in a hot stone bowl and loaded with savory goodies. We ordered it with spicy, sesame-scented pork, steeped in garlic and ginger, but beef, chicken or seitan are also options.

Singing backup — along with the banchan — were julienned carrots, winter-sweet chopped kale, thin-sliced omelette egg, bean sprouts, soy-dressed mushrooms and papery nori that tasted of the sea.

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TOXIC WHITENESS DISCUSSION GROUP: Peace & Justice Center representatives facilitate a conversation on the harmful effects of white supremacy on communities and individuals. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-2345.

business

KELLEY MARKETING GROUP BREAKFAST MEETING: Professionals in marketing, advertising, communications and social media brainstorm ideas for nonprofit organizations. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m. Free.

Info, 864-4067.

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GREENER DRINKS: Supporters of commonsense cannabis reform sip beverages and discuss the culture, industry and politics of the agricultural product. Zenbarn, Waterbury, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, info@ vtcannabisbrands.com.

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ROOTS OF PREVENTION AWARDS CELEBRATION & BREAKFAST: Burlington Partnership for a Healthy Community recognizes local professionals working to make the Queen City a safer, healthier place. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 8-10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 652-0997.

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CONTACT IMPROV: Movers engage in weight-sharing, play and meditation when exploring this style influenced by aikido and other somatic practices. The Everything Space, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 232-3618.

DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: Beginners are welcome at a groove session inspired by infectious beats. Swan Dojo, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $15.

Info, 540-8300.

‘GISELLE’: A doomed love affair ends in tragedy in a broadcast Bolshoi Ballet performance. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-18. Info, 748-2600.

HIP-HOP DANCE: A high-energy class mixes urban styles of dance. Women’s Room, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $16. Info, beth@prenatalmethod.com.

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FLOWERS AT FRESH TRACKS FARM: Oenophiles sip glasses of wine while creating eyecatching floral arrangements.

Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Berlin, 5:30-7 p.m. $65. Info, 223-1151.

HU CHANT: SOUND OF SOUL: Folks of all faiths lift their voices in a spiritual exercise followed by contemplation and conversation. Rutland Free Library, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

PITCH IT, FAB IT: Innovative individuals present inventions, vying for support from the University of Vermont’s Instrumentations and

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Earth Day Network president Kathleen Rogers estimates that more than 1 billion people in 192 countries participate in this day of civic participation focused on protecting the planet. Quechee-area residents join in by attending the Vermont Institute of Natural Science’s Earth Day Celebration. In honor of the 100-year anniversary of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which protects certain species from being captured, transported and sold without a permit, this two-day fest features a special focus on birds. Folks can explore local animal habitats, meet resident raptors and delve into the diets of songbirds — and learn to care for the planet and its winged wonders. Visit vinsweb.org for the full schedule.

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Free; preregister to participate. Info, 540-0761.

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TURKISH CULTURAL DAY: Vermonters get a taste of Turkish culture with authentic fare and a photo exhibition.

Cedar Creek Room, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 448-0458.

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Saturday, April 21, and Sunday, April 22, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center in Quechee. Regular admission, $13.50-15.50; free for members and kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5000, vinsweb.org.

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

‘COCO’: Gael García Bernal and Benjamin Bratt voice characters in this 2017 animated adventure about a boy who enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 6 p.m. $5.

Info, 533-9075.

‘FIVE SEASONS: THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF’: Green thumbs go gaga over an immersive documentary about the inspirational designer and plantsman, shown as part of the Architecture + Design Film Series. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 6 p.m.

Free. Info, adfilmseries@ gmail.com.

MOVIE NIGHT: Film buffs point their eyes toward the screen for a popular picture.

Call for title. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS 3D’: An out-ofthis-world film brings audience members closer than ever to far-off planets and galaxies. Northfield Savings Bank Theater: A WED.18

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Dollars and Sense In the introduction to her new book, Screwnomics: How Our Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change, author Rickey Gard Diamond explains its title in no uncertain terms. “Screwnomics is my word for the unspoken but widely applied economic theory that women should always work for less, or better, for free,” she writes. In an effort to empower female readers to engage in the country’s economic conversation, the author breaks down definitions, reexamines male-centric history and shines a light on female experiences. Proceeds from Thursday’s book launch benefit the Vermont Foodbank.

RICKEY GARD DIAMOND Thursday, April 19, 7 p.m., at Phoenix Books Burlington. $3. Info, 448-3350, phoenixbooks.biz.

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MARTIAL MOVEMENT When creating her military-themed dance work, Thousand Yard Stare, choreographer Jessica Lang kept the concept of respect squarely in mind. As she explains in a promotional video, Lang engaged in deep conversations with veterans and therapists focused on treating conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder as she formulated her tribute to the repercussions of war.

Themes of fear, camaraderie, friendship and love thread through this poignant piece, set to Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132. New York City-based Jessica Lang Dance brings this moving meditation to Burlington on Saturday.

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Saturday, April 21, 8 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $15-46.

Info, 863-5966, flynntix.org.

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‘SIMON & GARFUNKEL THROUGH THE YEARS’ Sunday, April 22, 7 p.m., at Barre Opera House. $24-28. Info, 476-8188, barreoperahouse.org.

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Tribute acts often take on the likeness of their subjects through costumes, makeup and mannerisms. The Bookends, an English duo composed of Dan Haynes and Pete Richards, take a more stripped-down approach in their homage to the 1960s folk-rockers Simon & Garfunkel. In Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years, Haynes and Richards forego themed threads and impressions in favor of note-for-note renditions of hits such as “Homeward Bound,” “Mrs. Robinson” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” Images, video footage and recorded interviews with Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon punctuate this dynamic theater experience.

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National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

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COMMUNITY DINNER: Friends and neighbors feast alongside the Winooski Family Center’s annual preschool art show. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 655-4565.

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COMMUNITY SUPPER: A scrumptious spread connects friends and neighbors. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m.

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HEMP & HOPS DINNER: Five palate-pleasing courses showcase the culinary applications of hemp and cannabidiol. Zenbarn, Waterbury, 5:30 & 8:30 p.m. $72.

Info, 244-8134.

THE SMOKE SHOP WITH THE HIPPIE FLAVOR

VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: Local products — veggies, breads, pastries, cheeses, wines, syrups, jewelry, crafts and beauty supplies — draw shoppers to a diversified bazaar. Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 342-4727.

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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.

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ALL-LEVELS HATHA YOGA: With a focus on connecting breath to movement, this class offers yoga for everybody. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 6-7 a.m. $12. Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

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BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: Folks of all ages ward off osteoporosis in this exercise and prevention class.

Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 7:30-8:30, 9:15-10:15 & 10:40-11:40 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

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GINGER’S EXTREME BOOT CAMP: Triathletes, Spartan racers and other fitness fanatics challenge themselves to complete Navy Seal exercises during an intense workout. Come in good shape. Private residence, Middlebury, 7-8 a.m. $8-12; for ages 16 and up. Info, 343-7160.

LYME DISEASE — PUBLIC AWARENESS & HERBAL SUPPORT: Bug off! A presentation clarifies prevention and treatment of the tick-born illness. Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5-20. Info, 540-0595.

NIA WITH LINDA: Eclectic music and movements drawn from healing, martial and dance arts propel an animated barefoot workout. South End Studio, Burlington, 8:30-9:30 a.m. $14; free for first-timers. Info, 372-1721.

PILATES: Students are put through the paces in a strengthand mobility-boosting workout.

Women’s Room, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. $16. Info, beth@prenatalmethod.com.

PRENATAL YOGA: Moms-to-be prepare their bodies for labor and delivery. Women’s Room, Burlington, 12:15 p.m. $16. Info, beth@prenatalmethod.com.

RESTORATIVE YOGA: Props support the body, leaving participants free to truly relax into long-held poses. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $12.

Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

TOMGIRL WALKING CLUB: Pups and pals in tow, pedestrians make strides toward health.

Tomgirl Juice Co., Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0337.

WEDNESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: Individuals learn to relax and let go. Burlington Friends Meeting House, 5:306:30 p.m. Free. Info, 318-8605.

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BUTI YOGA: A fusion of vinyasa yoga, plyometrics and dance is set to upbeat music. Bring water and a towel. Women’s Room, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $16. Info, beth@prenatalmethod.com.

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.

CHAIR TAI CHI: Age and ability level are no obstacles to learning this slow, easy exercise routine. Champlain Senior Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 316-1510.

GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-3403.

EMPOWERED YOGA FLOW: A rejuvenating practice for all levels weaves movement, breath and mental focus. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 9-10 a.m. $12. Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: Pupils improve their speaking and grammar mastery.

Private residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.

GENTLE YOGA IN RICHMOND: A gong savasana closes out an all-levels class benefiting the Williston Community Food Shelf.

Partial proceeds are donated.

Balance Yoga, Richmond, 11 a.m.-noon. $10; preregister. Info, balanceyogavt@gmail.com.

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GENTLE YOGA IN WATERBURY: Practitioners with limitations and seasoned students alike hit the mat for an all-levels class.

Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 9-10 a.m. $12. Info, studio@ zenbarnvt.com.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: ¡Hola!

Language lovers perfect their fluency. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3338.

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‘THE ANGEL AND THE SPARROW’: Classic songs such as “La vie en rose” enliven a new musical drama based on the real-life friendship between Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf.

Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, 8 p.m. $52-66.

Info, 514-739-7944.

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Find club dates in the music section.

CASTLETON STRING ENSEMBLE: A diverse new group makes its debut under the direction of Peter Miller. Casella Theater, Castleton University, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 468-1119.

POEMCITY: THETFORD CHAMBER SINGERS: Powerful literary texts meet complex choral arrangements in “Poetry and Song.” Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3338.

SONG CIRCLE: Singers and musicians congregate for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes.

Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-1182.

STUDENT PERFORMANCE RECITAL I: UVM music pupils showcase their skills on various instruments. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

seminars

SPRING BIRDING PRESENTATION: Folks flock to hear Otter Creek Audubon Society president Ron Payne speak about which species seasonal migration will bring.

Orwell Free Library, 7-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 434-3068.

WOOF! WHAT’S THE DOG SAYING?: A canine communication and safety lecture demystifies Fido’s body language.

Friendly, quiet, on-leash dogs are permitted. The Tap Room at Switchback Brewing, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister.

Info, 651-4114.

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WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: Players dribble up and down the court during an evening of friendly competition. Lyman C. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $3; preregister at meetup.com. Info, 540-1089.

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CURRENT EVENTS CONVERSATION: Newsworthy subjects take the spotlight in this informal discussion.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

IDEAS ON TAP: ‘MYTH MATTERS: MEANING-MAKING AND THE MYTHS IN EVERYDAY MODERN LIFE’: Folklorists Kerry Noonan and Steve Wehmeyer lead a spirited discussion of how stories can take on significance—for good or ill. ArtsRiot,

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Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406.

KYLE OBENAUR & BRENNAN GAUTHIER: With pictures and narratives, the speakers present “The Men Who Move Mountains: The Building of the Interstate Through Williston.”

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

LAURA STROUP: An LSC Department of Natural Sciences weekly seminar series continues with “Energy, Water and Climate.” Room S-102, Thaddeus Fairbanks Science Wing. Lyndon State College, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 626-6413.

TEDX BROWNELL LIBRARY: Lifelong learners watch TED Talk videos centered on the theme of “Truth or Dare.” Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-6955.

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INTRODUCTION TO POWERPOINT: Those new to the program practice making slide shows, charts, footers and animation. 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, 6 & 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.

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‘NOISES OFF’: A British acting troupe is embroiled in its own backstage antics in Michael Frayn’s comedy, presented

by Northern Stage. Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $13.75-57.75.

Info, 296-7000.

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FRANKLIN COUNTY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MIXER: Friends and colleagues catch up in a relaxed environment. CarePartners Adult Day Center, St. Albans, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-8; preregister. Info, 524-2444.

A collaboration of Tamara Hurwitz Pullman & Tracy Penfield, commissioned by the Chandler Center for the Arts, with generous support from the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation.

FOR REAL WOMEN SERIES WITH BELINDA: GIT UR FREAK ON: R&B and calypso-dancehall music is the soundtrack to an empowering sensual dance session aimed at confronting body shaming. Swan Dojo, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $15. Info, bestirredfitness@gmail.com.

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VISITING MORNING: Class observations and faculty meet and greets give parents a taste of the learning community.

Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 8:30-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 985-2827.

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EARTH DAY EVENT: Excerpts from the film The Wisdom to Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism & Community pave the way for a panel discussion.

Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 11:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 635-1408.

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JOB HUNT HELP: Community College of Vermont interns assist employment seekers with everything from résumé-writing to online applications. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 2:305:30 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1393.

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‘IN BRUGES’: Colin Farrell stars in a 2008 comedy about a hit man and his partner who are stuck in Belgium awaiting orders from their boss. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m.

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WRITING CIRCLE: Words flow when participants explore creative expression in a lowpressure environment. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 888-492-8218.

Passing investigates themes of what is passed to us, what we pass on, and how we pass over, in an uplifting layering of dancers, original live music, and stage-sized linen sculpture that suggests the veils between worlds. The piece is meant to spark curiosity and conversations about dying.

FACULTY DANCE CONCERT: Julian Barnett, Christal Brown, Scotty Hardwig and Laurel Jenkins showcase original choreography. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $615. Info, 443-3168.

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ARTS & CULTURE: AN EVENING OF PULP FICTION: Dan Szczesny, editor of the Murder Ink newsroom detective series, joins authors S.J. Cahill and Judith Janoo for a deep dive into the genre. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1393.

WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP: Lit lovers analyze works in progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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ANNE WALLACE & HOWARD RUSSELL: Parents perk up their ears for a facilitated discussion with two of the authors of “I’m Home!!”: A Manual for Providing Therapeutic Childcare. The Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061.

POEMTOWN NOONTIME READINGS IN THE GALLERY: Locals lend their voices to original and well-known works of verse, or simply listen. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1393.

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POEMCITY: PHYLLIS LARRABEE: Author of more than 40 collections, the writer shares her gift for verse. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 2 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3338.

MOUNT MANSFIELD SCALE MODELERS: Hobbyists break out the superglue and sweat the small stuff at a miniature construction skill swap. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:308:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0765.

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‘TIGERS BE STILL’: Vermont Stage actors present a comedy from the writer of “New Girl” that follows the misadventures of a young art therapist. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $29.7038.50. Info, 863-5966.

PLATTSBURGH BIG READ: The Round House by Louise Erdrich inspires a month of literary and cultural events. See plattsburghbigread.com for details.

Various Plattsburgh locations.

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RICK THOMAS: The world-touring magician leaves audience members spellbound with innovative illusions. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $3040. Info, 775-0903.

verse written in response to visual art. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, 6 p.m. Regular admission, $3-10; free for faculty, staff, students, members and kids 6 and under. Info, 656-0750.

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GREEN DRINKS: Those interested in Vermont’s growing cannabis industry hear from Heady Vermont representatives at a social networking event complete with sip-worthy suds.

The Skinny Pancake, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 391-0729.

TASTING: CALIFORNIA WINE & CHEESE: Foodies savor sips of vino and bites of fromage.

Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 4-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-2368.

UVM MEDICAL CENTER FARMERS MARKET: Locally sourced meats, vegetables, bakery items, breads and maple syrup give hospital employees and visitors the option to eat healthfully. Davis Concourse, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, 2:30-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 847-5823.

health & fitness

BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE SUNSTYLE TAI CHI, LONG-FORM: Improved mood, greater muscle strength and increased energy are a few of the benefits of this gentle exercise. Winooski Senior Center, 6:45-8 p.m. Free. Info, 735-5467.

BEGINNERS TAI CHI CHUAN: Standing and moving exercises in this foundational class are suitable for all levels and ages. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $15. Info, 373-8060.

BEGINNERS TAI CHI CLASS: Students get a feel for the ancient Chinese practice. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

THE DAVE GRAM SHOW Interviews with political and business leaders, 9:00 – 11:00 AM authors, educators, and others in the news with call-ins from listeners.

BUDDHIST BABES GENTLE YOGA: Lessons for peaceful living pave the way for a moderate flow-style practice set to music.

Women’s Room, Burlington, 5 p.m. $16. Info, beth@prenatalmethod.com.

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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.

DIGESTIVE HEALTH SERIES: Participants follow their gut in the first of a three-part series

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‘WELCOME TO VERMONT: FOUR STORIES OF RESETTLED IDENTITY’: A 2013 documentary focuses on the lives of forcibly displaced people in search of the American Dream. A discussion with filmmaker Mira Niagolova follows. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 488-6912.

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focused on the benefits of bitter herbs, pungent spices and sour foods. Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $10-25. Info, 540-0595.

FORZA: THE SAMURAI SWORD WORKOUT: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when using wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

GENTLE FLOW YOGA: Individuals with injuries or other challenges feel the benefits of a relaxing and nourishing practice.

Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 9-10 a.m. $12. Info, studio@ zenbarnvt.com.

HEARTBURN & ACID REFLUX SEMINAR: Doctor Michael Hill outlines a strategy for curbing chronic flare-ups without constantly taking medication.

Holiday Inn, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6 p.m. Free. Info, 518-897-2341.

SLOW FLOW YOGA: Tailored to meet students’ needs, this foundational class facilitates overall wellness. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 7:30-8:30 a.m. $12.

Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

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.

YOGA CORE FOR BABES: An empowering practice focuses on the abs and the pelvic floor.

Women’s Room, Burlington, 12:15 p.m. $16. Info, beth@prenatalmethod.com.

language

BEGINNER-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: Basic communication skills are on the agenda at a guided lesson. Private residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.

FRENCH CONVERSATION: Speakers improve their linguistic dexterity in the Romantic tongue. Bradford Public Library, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536.

lgbtq

‘RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE’ VIEWING PARTY: Fans of the televised drag competition stay up-todate on Season 10 with Marjorie Mayhem, Emoji Nightmare and Nikki Champagne. Drink, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Free; for ages 18 and up. Info, 730-2383.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

NORTHERN VERMONT SONGWRITERS: Melody makers meet to share ideas and maximize their creativity. Call for details. Catamount Outback Artspace, St. Johnsbury, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 467-9859.

STUDENT PERFORMANCE RECITAL II: Music students perform classical and jazz compositions on their various instruments. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

THURSDAYS AT NOON SERIES: Bag lunches in hand, locals bask in the sounds of Sweet Prospect performing music for women’s voices. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, noon. Donations.

Info, 223-3631.

seminars

BICYCLE COMMUTING WORKSHOP: Two-wheeled travelers gear up for the season with helpful tips from Local Motion’s Peter Burns. Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, ross@localmotion.org.

BUY SMART: ARE YOU READY TO OWN?: Experienced loan officers simplify home-buying with a step-by-step process. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790.

DISABILITY AWARENESS TRAINING: A training session for nonprofit administrators, volunteers and instructors covers communication strategies, people-first language, access symbols and more. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, 2-4 p.m. $25; free for returning members; preregister. Info, 828-5425.

LEARNING ABOUT STARKSBORO THROUGH MAPS: In an illustrated presentation, Michael Blakeslee and Elsa Gilbertson elucidate all that diagrammatic representations of land areas can reveal.

Starksboro Village Meeting House, 7-8:30 p.m. Donations.

Info, 453-5717.

talks

LINDSEY RUSTAD: Brrr! The research ecologist discusses her team’s work at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in “Why Ice Storms Are Not Cool.”

Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center, Quechee, 7-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 359-5000.

LUNCH & LEARN: Rabbi Amy Small explores how to engage with Israel by embracing and wrestling with its complexity. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, noon. $6. Info, 863-4214.

PANEL DISCUSSION: Title XI Coordinator Butterfly Blaise moderates a dialogue hosted by the Gender & Women’s Studies program. Alumni Conference Room, Angell College Center, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 12:30-1:45 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-3281.

PARKER MERRILL SPEECH CHAMPIONSHIP: Student speakers vie for a cash prize in an oratory competition. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

STEPHEN LONG: The author takes listeners into the eye of the hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States in September, 1938. BYO lunch.

Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 479-8500.

SUSAN MORSE: The environmentalist speculates on the

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future of the region’s species in “Animals of the North: What Will Global Change Mean for Them?”

Waterbury Public Library, 6:308:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

tech

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

Bring your phone, tablet or laptop to a weekly help session. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 5-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-8291, ext. 302.

theater

‘4.48 PSYCHOSIS’: Sarah Kane’s final play centers on a suicidal woman who fights for sanity as the lines between reality and her mind disappear. Hepburn Zoo, Hepburn Hall, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6. Info, 443-3168.

‘THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB’: An annual reunion between five southern women sets the stage for gabbing, giggling and meddling in this laugh-outloud comedy presented by the Shelburne Players. Shelburne Town Center, 7:30 p.m. $12-15.

Info, 343-2602.

‘HAIR: THE TRIBAL ROCK MUSICAL’: Themes of identity, community and global responsibility thread through this classic-rock musical about 1960s counterculture, presented

by Pentangle Arts. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $25-40. Info, 457-3981.

‘LOOKING FOR TIGER LILY’: Oregon-based performance artist Anthony Hudson reckons with his Native American heritage in a comical sendup of stereotypes. Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 & 9:30 p.m. $10-25; limited space. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘SILENT SKY’: Lost Nation Theater presents Lauren Gunderson’s play about an astronomer who trades the comforts of her rural home for a job at the Harvard Observatory.

Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier City Hall, 7:30 p.m. $10-30. Info, 229-0492.

words

AN EVENING OF POETRY WITH GREG DELANTY & B. AMORE: A pair of poets put forth original pieces. Phoenix Books Rutland, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 855-8078.

POEMCITY: FROM WINTER TO WARMTH WITH ROBERT FROST: Lit lovers journey from the depths of winter to the warmth

RICKEY GARD DIAMOND: Avid readers attend a book launch for Screwnomics: How Our Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change.

See calendar spotlight. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-3350.

dance

SECRETS OF PUBLISHING EXPLAINED: Writer Megan Price imparts her wisdom on the steps and choices involved in becoming an author or a publisher. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, maddy.willwerth@bixbylibrary. org.

STORIES FROM THE HEART: Raconteurs Sue Schmidt and Kevin Gallagher headline an evening of “Moth”-inspired storytelling, good eats and live music by the Brevity Thing. Funds raised benefit HomeShare Vermont.

Sunset Ballroom, Comfort Suites, South Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. $35; cash bar. Info, 863-5625.

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ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS WORKSHOP LUNCHEON: The National Life Administrative Professionals Group celebrates the hard-working, multi-tasking employees at the heart of every business setting. National Life Building, Montpelier, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, adminpros@nationallife.com.

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CANNABUS CULTURE FILM FESTIVAL: Feature-length and short films, standup comics and live music by Night Protocol keep the good times rolling. Social Club & Lounge, Burlington, 4 p.m.-1 a.m. $14.9932. Info, 551-226-9647.

community

CYCLES OF LIFE CAFÉ: Community members come together to listen, talk and share their experiences in the ever-changing world. Lunch is available and conversations are confidential. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288.

crafts

CRAFTY CRAP NIGHT: Participants bring supplies or

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BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: Learn new moves with Ballroom Nights, then join others in a dance social featuring the waltz, tango and more. Singles, couples and beginners are welcome.

Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance social, 8-9:30 p.m. $10-14; $8 for dance only. Info, 862-2269.

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ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: Jubilant motions with the Green Mountain Druid Order inspire divine connections. Christ Untitled-32 1 Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 505-8011.

education

OPEN HOUSE: Prospective pupils visit campus for lunch, a tour and the chance to chat with financial aid and admissions representatives. Johnson State College, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 800-635-2356.

PHI ALPHA THETA INDUCTION CEREMONY: Students are entered into the national history honor society. Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 3 p.m. Free.

Info, 654-2000.

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Join us for a unique dining experience recreating the historic days of rail travel.

Savor delicious dishes and signature drinks as you take a relaxing train ride through the Champlain Valley. Visit us online for information and reservations.

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How our economy works against women and real ways to make lasting change. Book launch!

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STORY TIME WITH CITY MARKET

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GREG DELANTY: SELECTED DELANTY

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POETRY SOCIETY OF VERMONT READING INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY

All ages. Free.

An evening of poetry.

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MEG LITTLE REILLY: EVERYTHING THAT FOLLOWS

Book launch celebration.

Phoenix Books Burlington events are ticketed unless otherwise indicated. Your $3 ticket comes with a coupon for $5 off the featured book.

Proceeds go to Vermont Foodbank.

CLASSIC DINNER TRAIN

SIGMA BETA DELTA INDUCTION CEREMONY: The national business and accounting honor society welcomes new members.

Pomerleau Alumni Center, SaintUntitled-3 1 Michael’s College, Colchester, 3:15 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

BENEATH THE SURFACE: WALK A MILE IN THEIR SHOES: Interactive applications and web activities demonstrate the experiences of individuals with mental and physical challenges.

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PHI BETA KAPPA INDUCTION CEREMONY: Fresh affiliates find their place in the nation’s oldest academic honors society.

McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

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NIA WITH SUZY — MOVE. SWEAT. BREATHE.: Drawing from martial, dance and healing arts, sensory-based movements push participants to their full potential. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8:30-9:30 a.m.

Donations. Info, suzy@loveyourbodyvt.com.

QUEEN CITY TANGO MILONGA: Participants put their best feet forward in a lively social dance.

Champlain Club, Burlington, beginner Argentine tango lesson, 7-7:45 p.m.; milonga, 7:45-10:30 p.m. $5-10; free for tango lesson.

Info, qct@queencitytango.org.

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PLATTSBURGH BIG READ: See WED.18.

KNIT NIGHT: Fiber fanatics make progress on projects while chatting in front of a fireplace.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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‘TIGERS BE STILL’: See WED.18.

POEMCITY: VERMONT STUDIO CENTER POETS: Gary Clark, Kylie Gellatly and others share their gifts for verse. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3338.

“Sheer Magic!”

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‘SWEENEY TODD’: Madness and mayhem in 19th-century London drive Stephen Sondheim’s chilling musical, staged by the Twilight Players. Alexander Twilight Theatre, Lyndon State College, 7:30-10 p.m. Donations; free for LSC and Johnson State College students with ID. Info, 626-3663.

ongoing projects and an adventurous attitude to share creative time with other people in recovery. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

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‘NOISES OFF’: See WED.18, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

of spring with readings and discussions of works such as “Storm Fear” and “To the Thawing Wind.”

Vermont Humanities Council, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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Alexander Twilight Theatre, Lyndon State College, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 626-6447.

FAITH ON TAP: What happens when the created surpass their creators? Local church leaders cover this and other questions in a discussion titled “Developing Artificial Intelligence.”

McGillicuddy’s Five Corners, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 899-3932.

RUTLAND YOUNG PROFESSIONALS GALA: A lively bash featuring music, dancing, cocktails and dinner honors local business leaders. The Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Chittenden, 6:30 p.m. $60-80. Info, 483-2311.

SINGLE ADULTS’ VOLLEYBALL/ GAME/LASAGNA DINNER NIGHT: Social butterflies serve, set, spike and snack at a funfilled gathering. Essex Alliance Church, 6-8:30 p.m. $5; preregister. Info, 879-2518.

TAROT READINGS: A spiritual mentor consults her cards to offer guidance and clarity. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $1 per minute; preregister.

Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

film

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

ANIMÉ NIGHT: Enthusiasts view and chat about the latest animated shows from Japan.

Laboratory B, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 777-9012.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS 3D’: See WED.18.

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BIG HUNDO RELEASE PARTY: An Imperial IPA makes its debut at a shindig complete with food pairings, brewery tours and live tunes by Josh Panda. Magic Hat Brewing Company, South Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, mikaela.cruz@magichat.net.

COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER FUNDRAISER: Beer and barbecue fare fill bellies to support the service provider for Vermonters who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

1st Republic Brewing Company, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 857-5318.

Introducing Anytime Dining for Independent Living residents! Enjoy a full menu of chef-prepared specialties at our on-site restaurant – now open all day! With Anytime Dining, you can order what you want, when you want.

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VERMONT RESTAURANT WEEK: Foodies, take note!

Mouthwatering prix-fixe menus and themed events celebrate local fare. See vermontrestaurantweek.com for details. Various locations statewide. Prices vary.

Info, 864-5684.

VT IPA RELEASE PARTY: Suds lovers come for the fresh beer and stay for live music by soulful local Chris Pallutto. Long Trail Brewing, Bridgewater Corners, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 672-5011.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.18, 9:15 a.m.

health & fitness

ACUDETOX: Attendees in recovery undergo acupuncture to 3/7/18 1:10 PM

the ear to propel detoxification.

Turning Point Center, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

ADVANCED TAI CHI CLASS: Participants keep active with a sequence of slow, controlled movements. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 1-2 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3322.

AERIAL YOGA FOR DEEP REST: Fabric supports students as they sink into sustained postures. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. $20-25; preregister; limited space. Info, 448-4262.

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.18, 7:30-8:30 & 10:40-11:40 a.m.

BUTI YOGA: See WED.18.

FELDENKRAIS AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT: Aches and pains, be gone! The physically challenged to the physically fit increase flexibility and body awareness with this form of somatic education. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m. $10. Info, 560-0186.

QIGONG: Gentle movements promote strength, balance and well-being. Waterbury Public Library, 11-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

REFUGE RECOVERY: A LOVE SUPREME: Buddhist philosophy is the foundation of this mindfulness-based addictionrecovery community. Turning Point Center, Burlington, noon.

Free. Info, 861-3150.

TAI CHI: Those with arthritis or mobility challenges are welcome to join in a mild lesson with optional seated movements.

Waterbury Public Library, 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 244-7036.

TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA: A specially designed class helps participants reclaim and calm the mind and body. CPR Room, Memorial Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 4 p.m. Free.

Info, 518-564-3281.

YOGA FOR HIPS, HAMSTRINGS & THE LOWER BACK: Tension, be gone! Grounded static postures target the joints, fascia and connective tissue. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 7:15-9:15 p.m. $20-25. Info, 448-4262.

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DANIKA & THE JEB: A soulful blend of acoustic pop and blues buoys listeners’ spirits. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $45 includes dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295.

FRIGG: The Finnish band fuses traditional Western folk forms with fine-tuned harmonies in a UVM Lane Series concert.

University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $530. Info, 656-3131.

JOHN HUGHES: A concert of kora music, songs and stories finds an eager audience.

Shelburne Town Hall, 7-8:30 p.m. $25-30. Info, 380-5683.

MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY WIND ENSEMBLE: Members of the Middlebury College Community Chorus bring their powerful pipes to a program including music by Copland, Ticheli and others. Mount Abraham Union High School, Bristol, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, mamvermont@gmail.com.

UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN: From film scores to pop classics, no musical stone goes unturned when the eclectic ensemble takes hold of the traditional Hawaiian instrument. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $17-40.

Info, 603-646-2422.

VERMONT CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Words by Vermont’s poet laureate Chard deNiord inspire sounds by five composers. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7:30-10 p.m. $12-25.

Info, 849-6900.

sports

WE 4/20 5K FOR WELLNESS: Healthy choices rule in a 3.1-mile run/walk hosted by UVM’s Wellness Environment.

Food-truck fare, music and an inflatable obstacle course add to the fun. University of Vermont Archie Post Athletic Complex, Burlington, 4:20 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 656-9818.

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BLUE METROPOLIS INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL: Authors from 19 countries are on hand at this 20th-annual book bash featuring 240 events for adults and kids. See bluemetropolis.org for details. Hotel 10, Montréal.

Prices vary; $20-50 for festival pass. Info, 514-932-1112.

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music

Find club dates in the music section.

CAMERATA NEW ENGLAND: Works by Shostakovich, Dvořák and Elgar carry through the air, courtesy of this five-piece ensemble. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $10-37.

Info, 728-9878.

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.

Find club dates at local venues in the music 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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talks

EDUCATION & ENRICHMENT FOR EVERYONE: Journalist Benjamin Dangl reports to listeners with “The Resurgence of the Right in Latin America.”

Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5.

Info, 846-5132.

tech

TECH TUTOR: Techies answer questions about computers and devices during one-on-one help sessions. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

theater

‘4.48 PSYCHOSIS’: See THU.19.

‘THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB’: See THU.19.

‘HAIR: THE TRIBAL ROCK MUSICAL’: See THU.19.

‘NOISES OFF’: See WED.18.

‘OUTGOING TIDE’: In a staged reading of Bruce Graham’s touching play, a family of three faces illness, death and personal choice. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, theoffcenter@gmail.com.

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attracting Vermont wildlife.

Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, info@hungermountain. coop.

Gibson, Emma Hintz, Molly Kaye and others showcase the fruits of their classwork. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, csbyrne@uvm. edu.

GARDEN TALK SESSION: ALL ABOUT TOMATOES: Cultivators brush up on topics ranging from pruning to trellising to disease prevention. Red Wagon Plants, Hinesburg, noon-1:30 p.m. $15.

Info, 482-4060.

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cannabis

MYSTIC CBD YOGA: A yoga, massage and meditation experience is enhanced with cannabidiol. Mystic Waters Day Spa, St. Albans, 4-5:30 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 524-5300.

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE DAY: Group sessions are geared toward prospective students with an interest in NVU-Johnson’s Wellness & Alternative Medicine Bachelor of Science program.

McClelland Hall, Johnson State College, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 635-1320.

Magazine SECOND-—Yankee CITY: The famed comedy troupe tackles touchy subjects with gut-busting humor in Look Both Ways Before Talking.

Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $25-40.

Info, 518-563-1604, ext. 105.

community

SPRING OPEN HOUSE: Academic information sessions, campus tours and a student panel tempt potential pupils. E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2040.

‘TIGERS BE STILL’: See WED.18.

words

conferences

environment

FRIDAY MORNING WORKSHOP: Wordsmiths offer constructive criticism on works in progress

by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

PLATTSBURGH BIG READ: See WED.18.

activism

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY MEETING: Activists gather with the goal of advancing human rights. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 238-7634.

ERIN O’HARA: TheTurtle Hill Native Plants representative offers tips and techniques for

CAN/AM CON: Hobbyists display miniature replicas of everything from aircraft and ships to armor and science fiction figures.

Holiday Inn, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $1; free for kids under 12; additional cost for contest entries. Info, 518-561-4265.

SHARING IN THE GROOVE: A SYMPOSIUM ON JAM MUSIC & CULTURE: Coming from across disciplines, members of the jam community converge for a day dedicated to the culture and spirit of the genre. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 1 p.m. $10-15. Info, kevin@statesirrealprojects.com.

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COMMUNITY EARTH DAY CELEBRATION: Eco-minded folks reduce their carbon footprint with a book swap, electronics recycling, vendor demos and more. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Free.

Info, info@hungermountain. coop.

EARTH DAY CELEBRATION: Ecoconscious community members honor the planet with two days of activities with a special focus on birds. See calendar spotlight. Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center, Quechee, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $13.50-15.50; free for members and kids 3 and under.

Info, 359-5000.

THE ART OF POLE: Performers from pole dance studio Bohemienne Fitness put on a dazzling display of strength, flexibility and sensuality. deMena’s, Montpelier, 8-9 p.m. $10. Info, delightfuldiscord@ gmail.com.

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CONTRA DANCE: A traditional social dance comes complete with calls by Adina Gordon and music by Cloud Ten. Capital City Grange, Berlin, instruction session, 7:35 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $5-15. Info, 249-7454.

BREAKFAST & LIVE AUCTION: A morning meal gives way to a lively bidding war. Bethany Church, Montpelier, breakfast, 8-9:30 a.m.; auction, 9:30 a.m.noon. Cost of food and drink.

Info, 223-2424.

JESSICA LANG DANCE: Interviews with veterans and therapists inform Thousand Yard Stare, a conceptual homage to the aftershocks of war.

See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-46. Info, 863-5966.

GENUINE JAMAICAN DINNER & DANCE NIGHT: Authentic island cuisine satisfies revelers who move and shake to reggae music spun by a DJ. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, dinner, 5-7

SPRING ADVANCED UNRAVELING IMPROVISATION UNSHOWING: Dancers Anna

ADOPTION EVENT: Adoptable fur babies show off at a shindig with Little Woof Small Dog Rescue.

Tractor Supply Company, Shelburne, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free.

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POEMCITY: WRITING POEMS OF HISTORY, WITNESS & CONSCIENCE: George Longenecker leads a workshop on writing about historical and political events without sounding preachy or prosy. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 2-5 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 223-3338.

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POEMCITY: BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE ... A READING WITH GEZA TATRALLYAY & INA ANDERSON: Themes of beauty and destruction thread through poetic works. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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THETA ALPHA KAPPA INDUCTION CEREMONY: The national honors society for religious studies and theology recognizes its newest entrants. St. Edmund’s Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 654-2000.

‘SWEENEY TODD’: See THU.19.

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PI SIGMA ALPHA INDUCTION CEREMONY: Fresh faces join the national political science honor society. Pomerleau Alumni Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

QUEEN CITY MEMORY CAFÉ: People with memory loss accompany their caregivers for coffee, conversation and entertainment. Thayer House, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 656-4220.

‘SILENT SKY’: See THU.19.

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INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY MEETING PLACE: Brainstorming leads to forming activity groups for hobbies such as flying stunt kites and playing music. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0030.

LATTE ART THROWDOWN & DANCE PARTY: Burlington’s best baristas serve up eye-catching designs before busting a move to music from DJs Crystal Jonez and Gold Cheng. Maglianero, Burlington, 6-11 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3155.

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LEGAL CLINIC: Attorneys offer complimentary consultations on a first-come, first-served basis. 274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free.

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NORTHWESTERN VERMONT MODEL RAILROAD OPEN HOUSE: Locomotive enthusiasts follow the tracks to a display of large and small operating layouts. Used trains and accessories are available for sale. Northwestern Vermont Model Railroad Association, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Donations. Info, 879-8616.

RAPTOR ENCOUNTER: Nature lovers learn the defining characteristics that make a bird a raptor during a presentation by the Vermont Institute of Natural Science. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

RESOURCE WILLISTON GRAND OPENING: Shoppers browse gently used household goods and building materials amid food, music and a raffle. ReSOURCE, Williston, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free.

Info, 658-4143.

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STEM PRESENTATIONS: Students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math showcase their work in a competition. Sibley Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 2 p.m. Free.

Info, rspin004@plattsburgh.edu.

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‘THE DAY AFTER TRINITY’ & ‘CAGE OF DOOM’: Movie mavens mark Earth Week with screenings of two pictures addressing the threat of nuclear war.

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‘LORRAINE HANSBERRY: SIGHTED EYES/FEELING HEART’: Shown as part of the Black Is Beautiful Film Series, this American Masters documentary focuses on the life and work of the first-ever black woman to author a play performed on Broadway. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-3403.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS 3D’: See WED.18.

‘THINGS TO COME’: A philosophy professor carries on in the wake of her mother’s death, losing

her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful.

Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

WEEKEND MOVIE: CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD FILM: Suspense, romance and drama ensue as a notorious thief evades police.

Call for title. Norwich Public Library, 1-2:45 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184.

food & drink

BREWHOP: Bottoms up!

Imbibers board a spacious bus for a flavorful excursion to five craft breweries. Foam Brewers, Burlington, noon-6 p.m. $49.

Info, info@bestinvt.com.

BURLINGTON WINTER FARMERS MARKET: A bustling indoor marketplace offers fresh and prepared foods alongside crafts, live music and lunch seating. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonfarmersmarket.org@gmail.com.

CALEDONIA WINTER FARMERS MARKET: Fresh baked goods, veggies, beef and maple syrup encourage foodies to shop locally. St. Johnsbury Welcome Center, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, cfmamanager@gmail.com.

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN BURLINGTON: Let’s go bar hopping! With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics discover the flavor profiles of varieties such as toffee almond crunch and salted caramel latte. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807.

MIDDLEBURY WINTER FARMERS MARKET: Crafts, cheeses, breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. VFW Post 7823, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Free. Info, mosefarm@gmail. com.

POLISH DINNER: Smoked kielbasa, pierogi, cabbage, potatoes, sauerkraut, dessert and drinks leave diners satisfied.

St. Thomas Church, Underhill Center, 5-6:30 p.m. $8-14; $40 for families. Info, 899-4632.

VERGENNES FARMERS MARKET: Local food and crafts, live music, and hot eats spice up Saturday mornings. Kennedy Brothers Building, Vergennes, 9 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 233-9180.

VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: See WED.18, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

VERMONT RESTAURANT WEEK: See FRI.20.

health & fitness

AERIAL YOGA: INTERMEDIATE FLOW, SPINAL FOCUS: Twists, inversions, forward folds and back bends are on the agenda in a class with Nicole Dagesse.

Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 9-11 a.m. $20-25; preregister; limited space. Info, ndagesse@gmail.com.

BUTI FLOW: Yogis benefit from power yoga and deep abdominal toning. Women’s Room,

Burlington, 9 a.m. $16. Info, beth@prenatalmethod.com.

CAPOEIRA: A blend of martial arts, music and dancing challenges adults and kids. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 1-2 p.m. $12.

Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Ma’am, yes, ma’am! Exercise expert Ginger Lambert guides active bodies in an interval-style workout to build strength and cardiovascular fitness. Middlebury Recreation Facility, 8-9 a.m. $12.

Info, 343-7160.

FOREST BATHING: NATURE MINDFULNESS: Folks unplug, slow down and experience nature through a guided mindfulness practice. Rock Point Nature Trails, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $23. Info, natureconnectionguide@gmail.com.

NEWBIE NOON INTRO TO HOT YOGA: First-timers in loosefitting clothing get their stretch on in a comfortably warm environment. Hot Yoga Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 999-9963.

POUND ROCKOUT WORKOUT: Fitness fanatics get their sweat on in a full-body cardio session combining light resistance with constant simulated drumming.

Colchester Health & Fitness, 10:15-11 a.m. $15. Info, 860-1010.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program.

North End Studio A, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

YIN YOGA: Students hold poses for several minutes to give connective tissues a good stretch.

Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 8-9:30 a.m. $12. Info, studio@ zenbarnvt.com.

YINYASA FLOW: Yogis find unity between opposing energies through deep yin postures and a dynamic vinyasa flow using the yoga wheel. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 448-4262.

language

DUTCH LANGUAGE CLASSES: Planning a trip to Amsterdam?

Learn vocabulary and grammar basics from a native speaker.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, bheeks@ yahoo.com.

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BLUE METROPOLIS INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL: See FRI.20.

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ANNA & ELIZABETH: The traditional American duo combines the best of the fiddle, the banjo and vocal harmonies to support the Vermont Folklife Center.

Moira Smiley opens. Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $30-40; limited space. Info, 373-4736.

CAPITAL CITY CONCERTS: Six chamber musicians, including Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

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Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, info@ capitalcityconcerts.org.

A CELEBRATION OF SUSAN SUMMERFIELD: Folks fête the longtime faculty member on the occasion of her retirement with live music, a reception and general merriment. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30-9 p.m.

Free. Info, 654-2284.

DOWNTOWN BOB STANNARD & THOSE DANGEROUS BLUESMEN: Blues and jazz lovers break out their dancing shoes for a high-energy concert.

Weston Playhouse at Walker Farm, 7-9 p.m. $30-35. Info, 824-5288.

AN EVENING WITH LESLIE ODOM, JR.: Known for his Tony Award-winning portrayal of Aaron Burr, the Broadway star serves up the songs he loves best. Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $40-60.

Info, 603-646-2422.

GREEN MOUNTAIN MAHLER FESTIVAL: The combined forces of three vocal and orchestral groups powers a rendition of Mahler’s “The Resurrection.”

Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 863-5966.

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.

STUDIO STOMP: THE CRAFTSBURY VIBRATIONS: A blend of up-tempo country, rock and pop keeps the dance floor full. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7:30-10 p.m. $10.

Info, 533-2000.

WINDSCAPE: Flute, clarinet, oboe, French horn and bassoon find harmony in “Paprikash:

VERNAL POOL EXPLORATION: Biologist John Jose leads nature lovers into the great outdoors to observe spotted salamanders and other creatures. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 3-5 p.m. Free;” preregister. Info, info@hunger mountain.coop.

SPRING VOLUNTEER WORK PARTY: Folks tackle indoor and outdoor chores to help prepare the museum for the open season. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 434-2167.

seminars

HOW TO PLAN A GENEALOGY RESEARCH TRIP: Family-tree fact-finders pick up tips for formulating effective excursions to others states and countries.

Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $10. Info, 310-9285.

PROVIDER PROGRAM LEADERSHIP TRAINING: A weekend learning opportunity prepares folks to be teachers in a National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont program focused on family and peer experiences. Location is provided upon registration. Rutland. Free; preregister. Info, 800-639-6480, ext. 102.

SPRING CAR CARE: Albert Caron of the Waterbury Service Center breaks down basic maintenance to ensure a long and smooth road for your vehicle.

Waterbury Public Library, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister.

Info, 244-7036.

VCAM ORIENTATION: Videoproduction hounds master basic concepts and nomenclature at an overview of VCAM facilities, policies and procedures. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free.

Info, 651-9692.

sports

THE GREAT GRAVELO: Spectacular scenery rewards cyclists on a 25-mile gravel-road ride. Cambridge Community Center, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $49.

Info, 760-7371.

theater

‘4.48 PSYCHOSIS’: See THU.19.

‘THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB’: See THU.19.

‘HAIR: THE TRIBAL ROCK MUSICAL’: See THU.19.

METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD: ‘LUISA MILLER’: Plácido Domingo stars in a broadcast production of the Verdi opera about fatherly love. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:30 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600.

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‘SILENT SKY’: See THU.19.

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‘TIGERS BE STILL’: See WED.18, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

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FIVE COLLEGES BOOK SALE: Thousands of rare and collectible volumes delight bibliophiles at a benefit for New England collegiate scholarships. Lebanon High School, N.H., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 603-428-3311.

PODCAST LITERARY CONVERSATION & WORKSHOP: Avid readers reflect upon a recorded interview with an author. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

POEMCITY: POETRY SLAM: Prepared with two pieces of writing, wordsmiths ranging from age 8 through adult take the floor. Center for Arts and Learning, Montpelier, 3:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3338.

POEMCITY: BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT: Poet, composer and jazz bass clarinetist Toussaint St. Negritude presents an evocative collaboration of words and tones. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

VERMONT POETRY FESTIVAL: Be they writers or fans of poetry, area residents read, recite and listen. MAC Center for the Arts, Newport, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister to read. Info, 334-1966.

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COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE WITH NEW LEAF SANGHA: 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.

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS WITH THE CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING: Peaceful people gather for guided meditation and interactive discussions. Burlington Friends Meeting House, 5-7 p.m. $10.

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VT BLUEGRASS PIONEERS: Banjo Dan and Willy Lindner join forces with Danny Coane of the Starline Rhythm Boys for a night of pickin’ and grinnin’. Music Box, Craftsbury, 8-10 p.m. $10; free for kids under 16. Info, 586-7533.

‘OUTGOING TIDE’: See FRI.20.

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Federated Church of Castleton, 7 p.m. $10-20. Info, 235-2050.

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MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY WIND ENSEMBLE: Members of the Middlebury College Community Chorus bring their powerful pipes to a program including music by Copland, Ticheli and others. Middlebury Union High School Auditorium, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, mamvermont@gmail.com.

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EARTH DAY CELEBRATION: See SAT.21.

VERMONT RESTAURANT WEEK: STRETCH & SIP YOGA: Yogis join Sarah Quinttus of Soulshine Power Yoga for an all-levels flow with a focus on digestion, detoxification and mindful eating. Students end their practice with a pint or a flight. The Tap Room at Switchback Brewing, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $20; preregister. Info, 651-4114.

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THE BIG CHILL: BE A HERO FOR EPILEPSY: Brave souls kick off spring with a quick dip in Lake Champlain to raise funds for the Epilepsy Foundation of Vermont.

A barbecue follows. Bayside Park, Colchester, registration, 10:30 a.m.; swim, 11:30 a.m. $100-500; $5-10 for barbecue.

Info, 318-1575.

‘DIMANCHES’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat.

Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, stevenorman@ fastmail.fm.

SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN BASEBALL RESEARCH SPRING 2018 MEETING: Sports fans converge for research presentations on the history of the sport. A trivia contest makes for a home run. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, ctrutor@ gmail.com.

LGBTQ FIBER ARTS GROUP: A knitting, crocheting and weaving session welcomes all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations and skill levels. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

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‘PORTRAIT OF A GARDEN’: A 2015 documentary captures a year in the lives of an 85-yearold pruning master and a gardener. Attendees receive a seedling. Shelburne Museum, 2-4 p.m. Regular admission, $5-10; free for members, active military and kids under 5. Info, 985-3346.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS 3D’: See WED.18.

food & drink

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN BURLINGTON: See SAT.21.

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN MIDDLESEX: Candy fanatics get an education on a variety of sweets made on-site. Nutty Steph’s Granola & Chocolate Factory, Middlesex, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 229-2090.

VERMONT RESTAURANT WEEK: See FRI.20.

health & fitness

KARMA YOGA: Attendees practice poses while supporting the Richmond Food Shelf. Balance Yoga, Richmond, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $10; $5 with a food donation. Info, balanceyogavt@gmail. com.

RESTORATIVE YOGA FOR SCOLIOSIS: Students strive for balance, ease and relaxation in a class where poses are tailored to the individual. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 2:30-4 p.m. $15-20; limited space. Info, 448-4262.

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‘THE ANGEL AND THE SPARROW’: See WED.18, 2 & 7 p.m.

BLUE METROPOLIS INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL: See FRI.20.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

FRED HAAS & MICHAEL ZSOLDOS: Two saxophonists hit all the right notes in “Locking Horns.” Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

GLORIA BRECK: Four years of study culminate in a solo piano recital by the Middlebury College senior. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 4 p.m. Free.

Info, 443-3168.

GREEN MOUNTAIN MAHLER FESTIVAL: See SAT.21, Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 3 p.m. $20-25. Info, 760-4634.

MONTPELIER COMMUNITY CHOIR’S SMALL CHOIR: Footstomping gospel numbers lift spirits. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Jericho, 4-6 p.m.

Donations. Info, 778-0881.

SIMON & GARFUNKEL THROUGH THE YEARS: Made up of Dan Haynes and Pete Richards, the duo Bookends perform the folk-rock tunes of the “Mrs. Robinson” hitmakers.

See calendar spotlight. Barre Opera House, 7 p.m. $24-28. Info, 476-8188.

UKULELE MÊLÉE: Fingers fly at a group lesson on the fourstringed Hawaiian instrument.

BYO uke. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m.

Free. Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

outdoors

HONEY HOLLOW HIKE: Trekkers traverse five miles of logging roads, stopping for ferns, wildflowers and birds along the way.

Contact trip leader for details.

Free; preregister. Info, 878-6828.

TRAIL WORK DAY: Helping hands spruce up woodland paths. Millstone Trails Association, Websterville, 8 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 272-6199.

sports

WOMEN’S PICKUP SOCCER: Swift females shoot for the goal.

Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3; $50 for unlimited drop-in pass. Info, 864-0123.

talks

ABDULLAH ANTEPLI & YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI: Two scholars find common ground in “Across the Abyss: How a Former AntiSemite and a Former Jewish Extremist Are Changing the Muslim-Jewish Relationship.”

Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0218.

theater

‘HAIR: THE TRIBAL ROCK MUSICAL’: See THU.19, 4-6 p.m.

‘NOISES OFF’: See WED.18, 5 p.m.

‘OUR TOWN’: See SAT.21, 3 p.m.

‘SILENT SKY’: See THU.19, 2 p.m.

‘SWEENEY TODD’: See THU.19, 2-4:30 p.m.

‘TIGERS BE STILL’: See WED.18, 2 p.m.

words

DELICIOUS WORDS: Sweets by dessert chef Kim Hollister complement readings by writers Bill Drislane and Nancy Hinchliff.

Dianne Shullenberger Gallery, Jericho, 4 p.m. $25; preregister.

Info, 899-4993.

FIVE COLLEGES BOOK SALE: See SAT.21, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

PLATTSBURGH BIG READ: See WED.18.

POEMCITY: SIX OLD POETS TEA PARTY: Listeners hear from Montpelier Senior Activity Center teachers and students while noshing on tea and treats.

Down Home Kitchen, Montpelier, 4 p.m. Cost of food and drink.

Info, 223-3338.

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GENSLER FAMILY SYMPOSIUM ON FEMINISM IN THE GLOBAL ARENA: “Resist! Feminists Respond to Racism” gives rise to an examination of the ways in which women are responding to racial discrimination.

Middlebury College, 7-9:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 443-5937.

NATIONAL OUTDOOR RECREATION CONFERENCE: “Building Resilient Communities, Economies and Environments” guides four days of learning, networking and mentoring. See

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2018norc.org for details. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington. $225-675.

Info, sergio.capozzi@recpro.org.

crafts

FRIENDLY FIBER MEETUPS: No matter the material, projects ranging from quilting to felting take shape during a monthly gathering. Waterbury Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

dance

BUTOH: TRIALITY OF DARK, LIGHT & SELF: Julian Barnett creates a safe space for folks of all ages and levels to experience the physical art form that embodies Japanese post-war expressionism. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4-5:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 443-3168.

CONTACT IMPROV: See WED.18, Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $4.

Info, 864-7306.

SALSA MONDAYS: Dancers learn the techniques and patterns of salsa, merengue, bachata and cha-cha. North End Studio A, Burlington, fundamentals, 7 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $12.

Info, 227-2572.

etc.

JOB HUNT HELP: See THU.19, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

film

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

BODY SIGNALS WORKSHOP SERIES: BREATHING ISSUES: Those suffering from swollen eyes and runny noses get to the root of allergies and asthma.

Wellspring Chiropractic Lifestyle Center, Shelburne, 6:30-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 985-9850.

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.18.

BUTI YOGA: See WED.18.

GENTLE HONEY FLOW: A slowmoving yoga class awakens the body for the week ahead.

Women’s Room, Burlington, 12:15 p.m. $16. Info, beth@prenatalmethod.com.

MEDITATION: A group practice including sitting, walking, reading and discussion promotes mindfulness. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

POWER YOGA: Yogis move, sweat and rock out to fun music.

Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 6-7 p.m. $12. Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

SEATED TAI CHI: Movements are modified for those with arthritis and other chronic conditions.

Winooski Senior Center, 11 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 735-5467.

TIBETAN YOGA: A cleansing practice leads to greater clarity off the mat. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, noon-1:15 p.m. $12.

Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

YIN YOGA: See SAT.21, noon-1:15 p.m.

language

VERMONT RESTAURANT WEEK: See FRI.20.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE: Bring a bag lunch to practice the system of communication using visual gestures.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3338.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS 3D’: See WED.18.

FORGET-ME-NOTS BROWN BAG LUNCHEON: Women ages 65 and up meet for a midday meal. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., noon. Free. Info, 518-561-6920.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.18, 6:30 p.m.

health & fitness

ADVANCED TAI CHI CLASS: See FRI.20.

ALL-LEVELS HATHA YOGA: See WED.18.

MONTHLY BOOK GROUP FOR ADULTS: No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

by Naomi Klein sparks conversation. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

FREE Pansy Pack with purchases over $50 Green Mountain Compost Buy 3 Bags, Get 1 FREE

POEMCITY: READING ALOUD: EXPLORING POETIC VOICES: Penmen and -women develop an appreciation for the rhythm and music of poetry and spoken word through an exploration of breath, annunciation and diction. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

Giveaways throughout the day!

Beer tasting by Switchback Brewing 12–2pm Burlington & 3–5pm Williston Light Snacks & Beverages

READING THROUGH THE BIBLE: Participants gather near the fireplace to peruse the Scriptures. Panera Bread, South Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 893-6266.

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agriculture

BURLINGTON GARDEN CLUB MEETING: Seeds of knowledge sprout thanks to the presentation “Floral Arrangement With Art.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 1 p.m.

Free. Info, djvanmullen@gmail. com.

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community

COMMUNITY MEETING: Vermonters join Natural Resources Secretary Julie Moore for a conversation on long-range management of agency lands. National Life Building, Montpelier, 4-5 p.m.

Free; preregister; limited space.

Info, elle.ocasey@vermont.gov.

FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: See FRI.20.

conferences

GENSLER FAMILY SYMPOSIUM: See MON.23, 4:30-6 p.m.

NATIONAL OUTDOOR RECREATION CONFERENCE: See MON.23.

music

crafts

BRIT FLOYD: Complete with dazzling lights and lasers, a Pink Floyd tribute show pays homage to the iconic 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $38.75-163. Info, 863-5966.

Gift bags to first 500 people

PLATTSBURGH BIG READ: See WED.18.

BLUE METROPOLIS INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL: See FRI.20.

Find club dates in the music section.

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COMMUNITY CRAFT NIGHT: Makers stitch, spin, knit and crochet their way through projects while enjoying each other’s company. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

talks

CARLOS ODRIA: In “Practicing Music, Practicing Culture: Exercising Bodies and Civic Activism,” the musician explores

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ADVANCED SUN-STYLE TAI CHI, LONG-FORM: Elements of qigong thread through the youngest version of the Chinese martial art. Winooski Senior Center, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 735-5467.

‘THE ANGEL AND THE SPARROW’: See WED.18, 7 p.m.

words

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MAH JONGG: Competitors collect winning sets of tiles in this popular Chinese game.

Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3322.

montréal

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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.18, noon & 1 p.m.

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MAGIC: THE GATHERING — MONDAY NIGHT MODERN: Tarmogoyf-slinging madness ensues when competitors battle for prizes in a weekly game.

Brap’s Magic, Burlington, 6:30-10 p.m. $8. Info, 540-0498.

SPANISH GROUP CLASSES: Speakers brush up on their language skills en español. New Moon Café, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. $25. Info, maigomez1@ hotmail.com.

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ADVANCED-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: Language learners perfect their pronunciation with guest speakers. Private residence, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.

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BEGINNER WEST COAST SWING & FUSION DANCING: Pupils get schooled in the fundamentals of partner dance. North End Studio B, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $11-16.

Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail. com.

CIRCULATING TOUCH: A QI GONG-BASED MASTER CLASS: Melanie Maar melds the Chinese five-element system with somatic and improvisational approaches. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 443-3168.

INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED WEST COAST SWING: Fun-loving folks learn the smooth, sexy stylings of modern swing dance.

North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $11-16. Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail.com.

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

Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

film

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS 3D’: See WED.18.

food & drink

NO FUSS KITCHEN: PLANTBASED PROTEIN CLASS: Omnivores and vegans alike find recipe inspiration in this culinary class with instructor Meredith Knowles. Community Teaching Kitchen, City Market, Onion River Co-op, Burlington South End, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 861-9700.

VERMONT RESTAURANT WEEK: See FRI.20.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.18, 7 p.m.

CHESS CLUB: Players of all ages put on their thinking caps in a relaxed, supportive atmosphere.

Pierson Library, Shelburne, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5124.

health & fitness

BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE SUNSTYLE TAI CHI, LONG-FORM: See THU.19, South Burlington Recreation & Parks Department, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

BEGINNERS TAI CHI CLASS: See THU.19.

BRANDON FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Hop to it! Get fit with strength, endurance, agility and coordination exercises. Otter Valley North Campus Gym, Brandon, 5-6 p.m. $12. Info, 343-7160.

CHRONIC CONDITION? STRESS MANAGEMENT CAN HELP!: Individuals with a medically diagnosed stable chronic condition participate in eight weeks of Stress Management and Resiliency Training. University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 847-1089.

DE-STRESS YOGA: A relaxing and challenging class lets healthy bodies unplug and unwind. Balance Yoga, Richmond, 5:45-7 p.m. $14. Info, 434-8401.

FELDENKRAIS AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT: See FRI.20, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

GENTLE FLOW YOGA: See THU.19.

HATHA YOGA FLOW: This practice provides a great stretch and strengthens the body through a combination of sustained and flowing poses. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 5:30-6:45 p.m. $12.

Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

LOW-IMPACT FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Strength, agility, coordination and heart-healthy exercises are modified for folks

of all ability levels. Charlotte Senior Center, 9:15-10 a.m. $10.

Info, 343-7160.

PEACEFUL WARRIOR KARATE: Martial-arts training promotes healthy living for those in recovery. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

PILATES: See WED.18, Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 7:30-8:30 a.m. $12. Info, studio@zenbarnvt. com.

REIKI CLINIC: Thirty-minute treatments promote physical, emotional and spiritual wellness. JourneyWorks, Burlington, 3-5:30 p.m. $10-30; preregister.

Info, 860-6203.

RESISTANCE & MEDICINE: HISTORY OF SAFEKEEPING ANCIENT MEDICINE: Olga Maria Mardach-Duclerc looks at the history of Puerto Rico from the perspective of an anti-colonial struggle and the preservation of herbal remedies. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $1620. Info, 224-7100.

RESTORATIVE YOGA & MEDITATION FOR STUDENTS: Need a study break? Pupils destress with sustained poses, soothing essential oils and comforting music. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 448-4262.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See SAT.21, 6-7 p.m.

YIN YOGA — A FIVE-WEEK SERIES: Students practice a slow and simple — but not always easy — style of yoga. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 6:45-8 p.m. $15 per class; preregister. Info, 540-0186.

YOGA AT THE WINOOSKI VFW: Certified instructors guide veterans and their families through a series of poses. Arrive five to 10 minutes early. Second floor, Winooski VFW Hall, 6-7 p.m.

Donations. Info, 655-9832.

YOGA CORE FOR BABES: See THU.19.

language

‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers and learners are welcome to pipe up at an unstructured conversational practice. El Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m.

Free. Info, 540-0195.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ITALIAN: Speakers hone their skills in the Romance language over a bag lunch.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3338.

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Frenchlanguage fanatics meet pour parler la belle langue. Meet in the back room. ¡Duino! (Duende), Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 430-4652.

SOCIAL GATHERING: Those who are deaf or hard of hearing or want to learn American Sign Language get together to break down communication barriers. The North Branch Café, Montpelier, 4-6 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 595-4001.

montréal

‘THE ANGEL AND THE SPARROW’: See WED.18, 8 p.m.

BLUE METROPOLIS INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL: See FRI.20.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

CARLOS ODRIA ENSEMBLE: Upright bass, drums, percussion and nylon-string guitar combine to deliver an exciting blend of international styles. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

CATAMOUNT SINGERS: Inspired by the salon music of Victorian England, “Music in the Grand Parlor” features vocal music in English, French and German.

University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 656-3040.

CROSS-CULTURAL IMPROVISATION: Hailing from the University of Massachusetts Boston, the musician schools

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‘INGRID GOES WEST’: Aubrey Plaza portrays a young woman who takes her stalkerish practices from social media to real life. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

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intermediate and advanced instrumentalists in new techniques. Room 221, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

OPEN JAM: Instrumentalists band together for a free-flowing musical hour. Borrow an instrument or bring your own. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free.

Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300.

seminars

MEDICARE & YOU: AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDICARE: Members of the Central Vermont Council on Aging clear up confusion about the application process and plan options. Central Vermont Council on Aging, Barre, 3-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-0531.

talks

MARK LABARR, MARGARET FOWLE & MURRAY MCHUGH: Fans of feathered friends flock to hear “There and Back Again: Migration Patterns of GoldenWinged and Blue-Winged Warblers in the Champlain Valley.” Grace Congregational Church, Rutland, 7-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 434-3068.

tech

INTRODUCTION TO FACEBOOK FOR SENIORS: Folks ages 50 and up who are comfortable using the keyboard and mouse and have an email address learn the ABCs of the social-networking tool. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

POEMCITY: RENGA POETRY WORKSHOP: Participants become familiar with a form of collaborative Japanese poetry. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-3338.

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words

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

‘NOISES OFF’: See WED.18.

BOOK LAUNCH: In an open house-style event complete with cookies from Monarch & the Milkweed, author Cinse Bonino releases her latest title, Relationship Residue. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Burlington, 6:308 p.m. Free. Info, 355-7203.

BURLINGTON POETRY GROUP: Writers of verse ages 18 through 30 field constructive feedback on original works. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, btvpoetry@ gmail.com.

ELENA GEORGIOU: The awardwinning wordsmith celebrates her new short-story collection, The Immigrant’s Refrigerator, with a reading, signing and talk.

Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.

PLATTSBURGH BIG READ: See WED.18.

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 Find club dates at local venues in the music 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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conferences

WALK FOR THE SILENT: Students and members of the public show support for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault by making strides around the campus quad. Johnson State College, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1265.

NATIONAL OUTDOOR RECREATION CONFERENCE: See MON.23.

activism

cannabis

EDIBLE WELLNESS: A Q&A demystifies the benefits of consuming cannabidiol. Attendees treat themselves to sweet CBD delights. Nutty Steph’s Granola & Chocolate Factory, Middlesex, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090.

GREENER DRINKS: See WED.18.

community

BURLINGTON DEATH CAFÉ: Locals meet for a thought-provoking and respectful conversation about death and dying. All Saints Episcopal Church, South Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free.

Info, dominic776@gmail.com.

WATERBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETING: A roast-beef dinner, a business meeting and a commemoration program are on the agenda at this spring gathering. American Legion Post 59, Waterbury, 5:30 p.m. Free; $15 for dinner; preregister. Info, 244-8089.

GENSLER FAMILY SYMPOSIUM: See MON.23.

crafts

FIBER RIOT!: See WED.18.

dance

CONTACT IMPROV: See WED.18.

DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: See WED.18.

HIP-HOP DANCE: See WED.18.

environment

MOVIE: An award-winning documentary explores the changes in national attitudes toward dams and rivers. Call for title. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

etc.

DEATH CAFÉ: Folks meet for a thought-provoking and respectful conversation about death, aimed at accessing a fuller life. Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center, Rutland, 7-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 353-6991.

HAVE YOU HAD A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE?: Members of Vermont Eckankar host an open discussion for those interested in sharing moments of strong

intuitions, déjà vu and more.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 800-772-9390.

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.

STUDENT SYMPOSIUM: From poetry and musical performances to projects on climate change and agriculture, student presentations showcase creative and scholarly work completed this academic year. Johnson State College, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408.

fairs & festivals

VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF LABOR YOUTH & ADULT JOB FAIR: Career, internship and apprenticeship seekers prepare for interviews with helpful workshops, then meet area employers. O.N.E. Community Center, Burlington, workshops, 10:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.; fair, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 863-7676.

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‘THE BEST OF YOUTH’: Film buffs watch the third and final segment of a 2003 Italian drama that follows two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

‘INTO THE WILD’: Emile Hirsch stars in the true story of a university graduate who gives up his material possessions in favor of life in the wilderness.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘IT’S CRIMINAL’: A hard-hitting 2017 documentary looks at who is in prison and why. A discussion follows. Burke Mountain Room, Lyndon State College, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-225-1998.

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COMMUNITY SUPPER: See WED.18.

COOK THE BOOK: Foodies bring a dish from Moosewood Restaurant New Classics: 350 Recipes for Homestyle Favorites and Everyday Feasts to a palatepleasing potluck. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: See WED.18.

VERMONT RESTAURANT WEEK: See FRI.20.

VERMONT RESTAURANT WEEK: GET CULTURED!: Seven Days food writer Hannah Palmer Egan brings her knowledge to a tasting of Vermont Creamery’s award-winning cheeses. City Market, Onion River Co-op, Burlington South End, 5:30-7 p.m. $15. Info, 864-5684.

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MAH JONGG: See MON.23, Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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health & fitness

ALL-LEVELS HATHA YOGA: See WED.18.

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.18.

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BUTI YOGA: See WED.18.

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GENTLE YOGA IN WATERBURY: See WED.18.

GINGER’S EXTREME BOOT CAMP: See WED.18.

NIA WITH LINDA: See WED.18.

PILATES: See WED.18.

PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.18.

RESTORATIVE YOGA: See WED.18.

TOMGIRL WALKING CLUB: See WED.18.

WEDNESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: See WED.18.

language

BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: See WED.18.

INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: See WED.18.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.18.

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‘THE ANGEL AND THE SPARROW’: See WED.18, 1 & 8 p.m.

BLUE METROPOLIS INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL: See FRI.20.

music

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CANTRIP: A trio of Scottish traditional musicians take audience members on a cultural journey via Celtic and other European styles. The 77 Gallery, Rutland, 7 p.m. $15. Info, the77gallery@gmail.com.

CHROMATICATS & JAZZ VOCAL ENSEMBLE: Local composers Will Patton and Colin McCaffrey shine in a concert directed

by Tom Cleary and Amber deLaurentis Cleary. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

INON BARNATAN: An inventive program springs to life in the hands of the Israel-born pianist.

Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-40. Info, 603-646-2422.

PIANO MASTER CLASS: Members of the public observe as internationally renowned concert pianist Inon Barnatan coaches student musicians.

Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

seminars

WHAT ARE YOU REALLY PRACTICING?: Psychologist Robert Kest lends his expertise to an exploration of mindfulness and its wide range of outcomes.

Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, info@hungermountain. coop.

sports

WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: See WED.18.

talks

BRYAN PFIEFFER: Avian enthusiasts expand their horizons with “Butterflies for Birders.”

Richmond Free Library, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 434-3036.

JENNY BOWER: The speaker strikes a chord with “The Mineralogy of Pipe Organs: Science, Sound Art and Aging Instruments.” Generator, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0761.

LAURA BEEBE: An LSC Department of Natural Sciences weekly seminar series continues with “A Berried Geography: Ethnobotany of the Circumpolar North.” Room S-102, Thaddeus Fairbanks Science Wing, Lyndon State College, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 626-6413.

STAN SLOAN: The Middlebury College visiting scholar examines threads to Western values and interests in “Transatlantic Traumas: Endangering the West.” Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

tech

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.18.

theater

‘NOISES OFF’: See WED.18.

‘TIGERS BE STILL’: See WED.18.

words

PLATTSBURGH BIG READ: See WED.18.

POEMCITY: ANYTHING GOES! POETRY SLAM: Writers and performers bring works up to five minutes long to an all-ages event led by Vermont poet Geof Hewitt. Montpelier City Hall Arts Center, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

POEMTOWN NOONTIME READINGS IN THE GALLERY: See WED.18.

POETRY RIOT: Rajnii Eddins hosts an open mic for seasoned and budding wordsmiths.

ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3.

Info, 540-0406.

REEVE LINDBERGH: In her latest page-turner, Two Lives, the daughter of aviator Charles reflects her role as the public face of her family and her desire to lead a quiet existence in rural Vermont. Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 649-1114.

RICHARD NEVELL: The author of A Time to Dance: American Country Dancing From Hornpipes to Hot Hash leads a discussion on the evolution and social experience of dance.

Phoenix Books Essex, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 872-7111.

WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP: Lit lovers analyze works in progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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art WATERCOLOR: MOODS & FACETS OF WATER: Instructor: Robert O’Brien. Students will learn techniques from rendering a simple reflective puddle to a swift-moving mountain stream.

Sat., May 5, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Cost: $110/person; $85/members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday. com, helenday.com.

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PHOTOGRAPHING POTTERY & CERAMIC ART: Learn how to take professional-quality digital images of your ceramic work in this hands-on workshop in our lighting studio. Whether you’re applying to art school, submitting work for an exhibition or putting together a website, you’ll leave this workshop with techniques that will improve your images and enhance your presentations.

Bring a selection of pieces. Wed., Apr. 18, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $45/person; $40.50/members. Location: Burlington City Arts, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166.

burlington city arts youth school break workshops

Choose from 1 to 5 days of art workshops for your child during Spring School Break. All basic supplies are included.

Students must bring their bag lunch, and snacks will be provided.

CRAZY CREATURES: Create awe-inspiring creatures out of the pages of your favorite book, from your favorite movie or your imagination. Will your creature have two or four heads? Will it be an animal or vegetable?

You get to decide in this fun one-day camp that lets you get creative, through drawing, painting and craft. Ages 6-8.

Wed., Apr. 25, 8-3 p.m. Cost: $70/ person; $63/members. Location: Burlington City Arts, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166.

PAINTING: This one-day camp is designed for the young painter who wants to go beyond the typical tempera. Join us at BCA’s painting studio to experiment with watercolors and acrylic on paper or canvas, large or small.

Have fun while learning new techniques that will help you make even better paintings.

Ages 6-11. Tue., Apr. 24, 8-3 p.m.

Cost: $70/person; $63/members.

Location: Burlington City Arts, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Explore photography in our black-andwhite darkroom and digital lab!

Campers will go on guided photo shoots and will create prints in this fun, hands-on day. Ages 9-11.

Wed., Apr. 25, 8-3 p.m. Cost: $70/ person; $63/members. Location: Burlington City Arts, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166.

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ADULT: ALTERNATIVE FIRING: Instructor: Rik Rolla. Explore clay on the wheel in a creative, mixed-level, supportive environment. Examine properties of form, function, color and glazes.

Fire finished pieces in the primitive pit, the Raku Kiln with the option to explore other firing techniques. Gas reduction kiln and electric kilns are also available. Mon., 6-8 p.m., Jun. 4-Jul. 9. Cost: $265/person for six classes; member discount avail.

Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

ADULT: BEGINNER CLAY: Instructor: Rik Rolla. Learn how to throw clay on the wheel.

Explore centering, throwing, trimming and glazing. Gain confidence with hands-on demonstrations and one-on-one time with the instructor. Leave with several finished pieces. Gas reduction kiln and electric oxidation kiln are available for firing.

Fri., 10 a.m.-noon, Jun. 8-Jul. 20; no class July 6. Cost: $265/ person for six classes; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

ADULT: EN PLEIN AIR: Instructor: Neil Berger. Learn the basics of open-air landscape painting from how and where to set up your easel, to selecting your palate, to how to capture changing light. All levels are welcome. The atmosphere is supportive and respectful and ideal for those who like to be outdoors. Thu., 10 a.m.-noon, Jun. 14-Aug. 9; no class Jul. 5. Cost: $248/person for eight classes. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

ADULT: INTRO TO WATERCOLOR: Instructor: Frances Cannon.

Learn how to translate threedimensional objects into two-dimensional surfaces in watercolor through basic drawing techniques, how to set up a color palette, and how to apply basic color theory. We will also explore various approaches to texture and composition using seasonal inspiration and still life set ups. Thu., 6-8 p.m., Jun. 28-Aug. 23; no class Jul. 5. Cost:

$248/person for eight classes.

Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

ADULT: MIXED LEVEL WHEEL: Instructor: Sarah Wilson.

Develop the fundamentals of wheel-throwing. Explore techniques through demonstrations and hands-on assistance. You set the pace and gain experience through guided individualized practice. Gas reduction kiln and electric oxidation kiln are available for firing, including an option to explore other firing methods. Tue., 6-8 p.m.; Jun. 5-Jul. 10 Cost: $265/person for six weeks; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

ADULT: MIXED-LEVEL WHEEL: Instructor: Rik Rolla. Further develop the fundamentals of wheel-throwing. Explore techniques through demonstrations and hands-on assistance. You set the pace and gain experience through guided individualized practice. Gas reduction kiln and electric oxidation kiln are available for firing, including an option to explore other firing methods. Wed., 6-8 p.m., Jun. 6- Jul. 18; no class July 4. Cost: $265/person for six classes; member discount avail.

Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

ADULT: MIXED-LEVEL WHEEL: Instructor: Rik Rolla. Develop the fundamentals of wheel-throwing. Explore techniques through demonstrations and hands-on assistance. You set the pace and gain experience through guided, individualized practice.

Gas reduction kiln and electric oxidation kiln are available for firing, including an option to explore other firing methods.

Tue., 10 a.m.-noon, Jun. 5-Jul. 10. Cost: $265/person for six classes; member discount avail.

Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

Info: 985-3648, info@theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

ADULT: PAINTING PRACTICE: Instructor: Neil Berger. Together we will explore painting as performance: a series of gestures more like a dance than a marathon. We will look at pictures as holistic arrangements of shapes and colors instead of “subject matter” and learn to trust the intimate, awkward and natural encounter with paint. Tue., 6-8 p.m., Jun. 12-Jul. 31. Cost: $248/ person for eight classes; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

ADULT: SHAKER HALL TABLE: Instructor: Ryan Cocina. Learn a comprehensive introduction

to woodworking. This course explores basic principles of lumber selection, hand-tool and machinery usage, milling, joinery, and finishing. You will build a Shakerstyle hall table, taking the project from blueprint through completion, while gaining familiarity with the woodshop environment. Mon., 6-9 p.m., Jun. 25-Aug. 27. Cost: $565/person for 10 classes; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

ADULT: DRAWING: Instructor: Kristen Maniscalco. Learn the fundamental skills of observational drawing. Explore the technical and conceptual foundation of drawing using a variety of drawing materials such as graphite, charcoal, pen and ink. Develop personal goals while examining creative concepts through demonstrations.

Materials not included. Mon., 6-8 p.m., Jun. 11-Jul. 30. Cost: $248/ person for 8 weeks; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

EXPLORATION IN WATERCOLORS: Instructor: Joel Popadics. Join a lively group of plein air watercolorists. Learn from demonstrations and time devoted to applying them to your own practice. Students can expect to make two paintings each day. Topics for the demonstrations will vary, including painting cows, handling the summer greens and composing the lake’s reflections. Sep. 17-20, Mon.-Thu., 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $650/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

WORKSHOP: BRANCH TO SPOON: Instructor: Rob Palmer.

At Rokeby Museum, learn to carve spoons from locally sourced green wood using hand tools you keep and traditional Swedish carving methods. Learn to identify appropriate species of wood for carving spoons and other utensils. Learn about the anatomy of a spoon and carving

safety and techniques. Sat., June 2, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $175/ workshop; includes materials and a set of carving tools to take home. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wed., 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsa lina.com.

DSANTOS VT DANCE CLASSES: New classes, new location! Come join the fun. Weekly classes in salsa, bachata, kizomba, kuduro.

No partner or experience needed. Beginner drop-in classes.

Salsa, Mon., 7-8 p.m.; Kizomba, Wed., 8-9 p.m.; Bachata, Thu., 6-7 p.m. Cost: $15/1-hour class.

Location: Dsantos VT Dance Studio, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Unit 112A, Burlington. Info: Jon Bacon, 227-2572, dsantosvt.com.

design/build TINY HOUSE ‘GARDENEER’: In class: tool type and use, materials, parts of a house, lumber list, cut list. In field: We will frame a floor, deck it, get a rafter pattern and put up two walls, framed for window and door. Forestry walk: cruising timber, dropping, limbing, chunking, splitting, stacking cord wood. Garden tour: tools, layout and utilities. Creating a “destination CSA” for progressive share cropping. vermonttinyhouses.com. Apr. 21 & 22. Cost: $250/weekend; on-site camping avail.; pre-registration required.

Location: Bakersfield, Vermont.

Info: 933-6103, vermont tinyhouses.com.

drumming TAIKO AND DJEMBE CLASSES IN BURLINGTON!: New drumming sessions begin weeks of Mar. 3 and May 1. Taiko for Adults: Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m.; Wed., 6:30-8:20 p.m. Djembe for Adults: Wed., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Taiko for Kids and Parents: Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m.

Djembe for Kids and Parents: Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Drums provided. Conga classes, too!

Online schedule, registration.

Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

empowerment PARALLEL NARRATIVES: In this six-week creative workshop, we will use metaphor to transform our life stories. Through guided exercises, performing artist Trish Denton will introduce the group to the tradition of oral storytelling by drawing

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from folktales, fairytales, pop culture and mythology to craft empowering Parallel Narratives.

Tue., May 1-Jun. 5, 6-8 p.m.

Cost: $150/series of six classes.

Location: Railyard Apothecary, 270 Battery St., Burlington. Info: In Tandem Arts, 540-0595, info@ intandemarts.com, railyardapothecary.com/store/p200/ Parallel_Narratives%3A_SelfDirection_through_Storytelling. html.

to Apr. 15. Enroll at vcgn.org.

Fee includes use of individual plots and shared garden areas, seeds, seedlings, tools, and materials. Mon. & Thu., May 7-Oct. 4, 6-8 p.m. $470/half plot, $520/full plot. Location: Ethan Allen Homestead, 1 Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington. Info: VT Community Network, 861-4769.

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farm classes CURED MEATS EVENT: During this event, you will taste cured meats made in Vermont, you will learn about the history and variety of cured meats across the world and across the U.S., and you will learn the basic rules and principles behind making cured meats. In addition, we will offer light appetizers. Sun., Apr. 22, 4-7 p.m. Cost: $60/person. Location: Agricola Farm, 2674 Jersey St., Panton. Info: alerellini@gmail. com, agricolavermont.com.

PASTA CLASSES: Learn the art of making your own pasta. We will start with the basics of making egg dough and semolina dough for pasta. Learn basic egg-based pasta such as tagliatelle and move to hand-shaped semolina pasta, such as strascinati, orecchiette, strozzapreti, etc. Finally, we will dive into stuffed pasta.

Feb. 3, Mar. 3 & Apr. 28; take one, two or all three classes. Cost: $40/class; $90 for 3 classes.

Location: Agricola Farm, 2674 Jersey St., Panton. Info: 000000-0000, alerellini@gmail.com, agricolavermont.com/ farm-classes.html.

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healing arts EXPRESSIVE ARTS TRAINING FOR CARING PROFESSIONALS: Intended for clinicians, social workers, nurses, caregivers, teachers, body workers.

Incorporate new skills and resources into your practice. Use for career development, physical/emotional healing, stress reduction and self understanding. Explorations in multimodal processes, movement, art-making, spoken/written word, stress-reduction and self understanding. No previous experience required. Six approved

LEARN SPANISH OR ENGLISH AT SWC: We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers lesson package. Small classes or private lessons. Our online English classes are live, engaging, face-to-face interactions, not computer exercises. In our 12th year. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. In person or online.

Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@ gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

martial arts MARTIAL WAY: Colchester and Milton locations. Classes in selfdefense, karate, kung fu, jiu jitsu and tai chi. We have 14 different age and experience levels, so the training is always age- and skillappropriate. Beginner or experienced, fit or not yet, young or not anymore, we have a class for you!

Days and evenings; see website for schedule and fees. Location: Martial Way Self Defense Center, 73 Prim Rd., Colchester, Colchester. Info: David Quinlan, 893-8893, info@martialwayvt. com, martialwayvt.com.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: 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

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 fiveelement theory. Additionally, 100 hours of Western anatomy and physiology are taught. VSAC non-degree grants are available.

NCBTMB-assigned school. elementsofhealing.net. Starts Sep. 2018. Cost: $5,000/600-hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, Suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: Scott Moylan, 288-8160, scott@elementsofhealing.net, elementsofhealing. net.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself.

The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Café (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Sunday of each month, noon-2 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshamb halactr.org.

tai chi ACTIVATE INNER PEACE: Change your life with Tai Chi, Qigong, and Taoist meditation and philosophy.

Join our group with other friendly adults to learn quickly and well in a lighthearted, encouraging environment. We teach ancient arts in a modern manner. Our teachers are traditionally trained and authentically qualified to teach. Fri., 6-7 p.m. & 7-8 p.m.;

NEW BEGINNER TAI CHI CLASS: At Long River Tai Chi Circle, we practice Cheng Man-ch’ing’s “simplified” 37-posture Yangstyle form. The three pillars of our study are Form, Sensing Hands and Sword. Patrick is a senior instructor at Long River in Vermont and New Hampshire and will be teaching the classes in Burlington. Starts May 2, 9-10 a.m. Open registration through May 30. Cost: $65/month.

Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: Long River Tai Chi Circle, Patrick Cavanaugh, 490-6405, patrick@longrivertaichi.org, longrivertaichi.org.

SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill.

Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org.

well-being INTUITIVE AWARENESS, ENERGY WORK, E.F.T. & EXPRESSIVE ARTS: Open to joy!

Tune into your body, mind and spirit. Learn tools to clear and reset your energy; develop clarity, awareness and compassion; and live from a place of wellbeing, truth and joy. Taught by Naomi Mitsuda, Intuitive Coach and Energy Healer. Offered at Spirit Dancer, Sacred Mountain Studio, Great Tree Therapy and in the South End of Burlington.

Location: Various locations around, Burlington. Info: Naomi Mitsuda, 658-5815, naomi mitsuda@gmail.com.

yoga EVOLUTION YOGA: Practice yoga in a down-to-earth atmosphere with some of the most experienced teachers and therapeutic

HONEST YOGA: Honest yoga offers heated yoga for all levels. We hold yoga teacher trainings at the 200- and 500hour levels, as well as children and dance teacher courses. (YTT includes FREE unlimited membership) Yoga and dance classes ages 2 and up in our two beautiful practice spaces. Your children can practice in one room while you practice in the other. No need for childcare! Brand-new beginners’ course: this includes two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily heated and alignment classes, as well as kids’ classes in yoga and dance. Check out our website for dance classes and yoga Summer Camps. Daily classes & workshops. $50/new student (1 month unlimited); $18/class; $145/10-class card; or $110/10-class punch student/ senior/military card; $135/mo. adult memberships; $99/mo. kid memberships. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Eco Bean, South Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com.

SANGHA STUDIO | NONPROFIT, DONATION-BASED YOGA: Sangha Studio builds an empowered community through the shared practice of yoga. Free yoga service initiatives and outreach programs are offered at 17 local organizations working with all ages. Join Sangha in both downtown Burlington and the Old North End for one of their roughly 60 weekly classes and workshops. Become a Sustaining Member for $60/month and practice as often as you like! Daily.

Location: Sangha Studio, 120 Pine St. and 237 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 448-4262, Info@ sanghastudio.org.

START A HOME YIN YOGA PRACTICE: In this six-week series, you will learn the specific benefits of each yoga pose and how to put together a sequence for home, or anywhere! You will also learn challenging poses not presented in a regular drop-in class. All students will receive three home practice sequences to keep. Thu., May 10-Jun. 14, 4-5 p.m. Cost: $96/six one-hour classes. Location: Yoga Roots, 120 Graham Way, Suite 140, Shelburne. Info: Yoga Grace, Jen Peterson, 881-9121, jen@yoga gracevt.com, yogagracevt.com.

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BEGINNERS GARDENING COURSE: The Community Teaching Garden is a hands-on organic gardening course for adults. Participants learn how to plant, cultivate, harvest and preserve fresh vegetables.

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VR 3D PRINTING: Virtual Reality makes it possible to create something from literally nothing! Using Virtual Reality (HTC vive) you will create your own 3D sculptures and bring them to life.

Learn more about classes at generatorvt.com/classes. Thu., May 31, 6-9 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761.

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professionals in Burlington. Daily drop-in classes, including $5 community classes, Yoga Wall and Yoga Therapeutics classes led by physical therapists. Join our Yoga for Life Program to dive deeper into your practice, or register for our Yoga Teacher Training for Health and Wellness Professionals. We offer specialty workshops, series and trainings, rooted in the art and science of yoga as a healing practice for body, mind and spirit. $5-$15/ class; $140/10-class card; $510/community class. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com.

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MAPLE & CHERRY BOX: Learn how to build a maple and cherry hardwood box in one of three styles (slip-cap-top, hinged or slide top) using all wood joinery.

This class qualifies as WoodShop 1 & 2 Training for members.

Learn more about classes at generatorvt.com/classes. Wed., May 16-Jun. 6, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761.

WISDOM OF THE HERBS 2018: Learn to identify herbaceous plants, trees and shrubs in fields, edges and woodlands, as well as weeds of the garden.

Prepare wild edibles and herbal home remedies with intention and gratitude. Join a nurturing circle of fellow plant-lovers in a relaxed, grounded atmosphere.

On-site camping available. All ages, all genders, all skill-levels are welcome! Apr. 21-22, May 19-20, Jun. 16-17, Jul. 14-15, Aug. 11-12, Sep. 8-9, Oct. 6-7, Nov. 3-4, 2018, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $2,750/96 hours. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, 1005 County Rd., Woodbury. Info: Annie McCleary, 456-8122, annie. mccleary@gmail.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com.

Sat., 11 a.m.-noon & noon-1 p.m.; Tue., 6-7:30 p.m. Cost: $12/1-hour class; $40/mo. (incl. all classes offered); first class free. Location: 303 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Wu Xing Chinese Martial Arts, 3551301, info@wxcma.com, wxcma. com.

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MIX-MASTERING WITH DJ MITCHELL: For adults and teens 16+. This class is offered free to teenagers and 50% off to college students. Taught by DJ cRAIG mITCHELL. Tue. & Thu., Apr. 24-May 10, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $130/person. Location: Flynn Center, 153 Main St., Burlington.

Info: 652-4543, flynnarts@fly nncenter.org, flynncenter.org.

BLOCK PRINTING WITH THE LASER CUTTER: You no longer have to carve wood by hand to create printing blocks. The laser cutter can etch away the recesses from students’ handdrawn or digital designs. After the blocks have been cut, the class will create the final prints on high-quality cardstock. Learn more about classes at generatorvt.com/classes. Mon., May 14 & 21, 6-9 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761.

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bully-proofing and self-defense life skills to avoid them becoming victims and help them feel safe and secure. Our sole purpose is to help empower people by giving them realistic martial arts training practices they can carry with them throughout life.

IBJJF & CBJJ certified black belt sixth-degree Instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr.: teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. 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.

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ACRO-YOGA FOR FAMILIES: Instructed by Lori Flower & Jeff Mandell. May 13, 2-3 p.m.

Cost: $25/family per session.

Location: Flynn Center, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts@flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org.

BLACKSMITHING: MAKING A KNIFE: Your knife will be forged from 1084 high-carbon steel and have a handle made from local Vermont hardwood from currier forest products or maroon linen micarta. If time allows, we will make a sheath for the finished knife. Learn more about classes at generatorvt.com/classes.

Wed., May 16-Jun. 6, 6-9 p.m.

Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761.

CEU from NASW-VT. Sat., May 12, 9 am-4:30 p.m. Cost: $200 with 6 CEU, $180 without CEU; all materials incl Location: Expressive Arts Burlington, 200 Main St, #9, Burlington. Info: Michelle Turbide LICSW and Expressive Arts Burlington, Topaz Weis, 343-8172, topazweis@gmx.net, expressiveartsburlington.com/ workshops.

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SD: And what did you find?

ARG: It was overwhelming. There were hundreds of names I’d never heard of, hundreds of ballads I’d never heard before. It’s just a lot to sift through. But as a musician, the research becomes intuitive: I’m looking for songs that are interesting, or singers who are beautiful, or stories I find moving. When you know that you’re looking for songs that you’re going to turn into art for other people, it becomes very broad. But it was awesome. The archivists were so rad.

Northern Exposure Anna Roberts-Gevalt talks New England traditional music

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region? That’s something I’d seen so many of my southern friends do. So I moved home for a month and went to the archive every day.

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n their latest album, The Invisible Comes to Us, Anna & Elizabeth went in a new direction — north, specifically.

For the past five or so years, the Virginiabased duo has enjoyed a growing reputation in folk music circles, primarily for their pristine and inventive take on American traditional music. Like the majority of Americana acolytes, they have largely derived inspiration from the South — guitarist Elizabeth LaPrelle is a southerner. But the other half of the duo is a Yankee: Vermonter Anna Roberts-Gevalt.

The 30-year-old fiddler and vocalist was raised in Hinesburg. (Her father, Geoff Gevalt, is the founder and executive director of the Young Writers Project.) She attended Champlain Valley Union High School and was a member of the Vermont Youth Orchestra; she played viola and the fiddle’s staid twin, violin.

After years of immersing herself in southern music, Roberts-Gevalt yearned to explore the traditions of her home. That curiosity led her to the Margaret MacArthur Collection of the Vermont Folklife Center, as well

as the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College. The two libraries house a treasure trove of archaic folk music and field recordings from all over Vermont and New England.

“I felt really inspired by the idea of exploring the music of where I’m from,” says Roberts-Gevalt.

Deusner wrote, the album is “audacious, subtly pushing at what folk music sounds like and what it can do.”

Anna & Elizabeth perform a benefit concert for the Folklife Center this Saturday, April 21, at the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society in Middlebury. Seven Days recently spoke with Roberts-Gevalt by phone.

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SEVEN DAYS: What led you to the Middlebury College archives?

ANNA ROBERTS-GEVALT: I had been aware of the archives for a long time, but it was very peripheral, like, “Oh, there’s some folk songs from Vermont.” I knew Pete Sutherland growing up, and he was connected to the Flanders family and Vermont music. So I had little whispers of Vermont music when I was getting into folk music. But I didn’t really pursue it. I got into southern music, moved to Kentucky and Virginia, and delved pretty deeply into the fiddle and banjo tradition.

But, after our first two records, I thought it was time to do some work in this archive. I’m not from the South; I’m from this place. So, what’s the music from where I’m from? What does it mean to research the music from my

SONGS AS PORTALS. AN NA R O BE R TS - GE VALT

The resulting album, released on Smithsonian Folkways, is a combination of music hailing from the duo’s native states, Vermont and Virginia. But it’s hardly rote recitation of dusty old folk tunes. Not unlike the deconstructionist folk works of another Vermont-bred artist, Sam Amidon, Anna & Elizabeth take profound creative liberties with their source material, coloring ancient melodies with a palette of modern avant-garde techniques such as synths, drones and loops. As Pitchfork’s Stephen

SD: I’m guessing that’s the first time archivists have been called “rad.”

ARG: [Laughs] They are!

SD: Your research extended beyond just the archives, correct?

ARG: I got to do some side trips, which I’d love to do more of. I took a trip to northern New Hampshire to interview the family of one of the singers. So I got to learn more about who these people were. I formed a friendship with the great-granddaughter of this singer, who took me to the house where the recording had been made in the 1940s.

It’s abandoned, but it was amazing.

That kind of work was an important part of the research, because otherwise it can be very dry — you’re in a library listening to recordings that have a ton of white noise. But you know that the recordings don’t come from dry places.

They’re from houses; they’re from beautiful places in the countryside throughout New England. So I wanted to have some part of that experience be part of my experience with the music. Seeing the landscapes, meeting the people who have a connection to the songs feels like an important part of the process. It’s part of the fun of making these songs come alive again from the depths of a library — how to reanimate them.

SD: The album has an atmospheric quality, a true sense of place. Is that something you and Elizabeth consciously tried to keep intact?

ARG: Very much so. There was a sense early on of wanting to expand the instrumentation beyond just us playing our instruments live. We see these NORTHERN EXPOSURE

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When an artist achieves success in a small city like Burlington, they’re sometimes saddled with the “big fish in a small pond” narrative. Underneath the colloquialism’s folksiness, it’s a low-key way to diminish someone’s accomplishments.

The phrase — and its inverse — often comes up when a hometown hero moves on to pursue their creative goals in a larger market. “Get ready to be a small fish in a big pond,” I’ve heard people crassly say as folks forge on to the great unknown. Way to be supportive, ya jerks!

The concept of big fish versus little fish — and how it relates to an exciting announcement — came up during a recent phone call with Vermont Comedy Club owners NATHAN HARTSWICK and NATALIE MILLER. Here’s the gist: Burlington’s comedy scene is growing.

While Burlington itself is still small in terms of population, the comedic arts are thriving here.

“The standup scene [and the VCC] have great reputations, nationally,” said Miller.

Now, I didn’t have time to call Cobb’s Comedy Club in San Francisco, New York City’s Comedy Cellar and every chuckle factory in between to unequivocally verify that claim. But if you look at the VCC’s lineup on any given weekend, you’ll see big, relevant names in contemporary comedy without fail,

which is pretty telling of the club’s place in the greater comedy landscape.

In 2016, after recording his comedy album Live in Burlington at the VCC, joke slinger MIKE FINOIA told Seven Days some pretty complimentary things.

“It’s sad how many cities you go to where club owners don’t respect and nurture the local talent,” said Finoia.

“But Nathan and Natalie understand how important that is. And the comedy community [in NYC], you’ll talk to people at the Comedy Cellar and you’ll hear all these atrocious stories from the road. But then sometimes you’ll hear, ‘Dude, I just did the Vermont Comedy Club. What a club.’ And I think to myself, Way to go, Nathan and Natalie.”

OK, wait — weren’t we talking about fish and ponds? Stay with me, now. It relates to the name of a brand-new fest the VCC is putting together this summer.

Dubbed the Big Pond Improv Festival, the three-day throw-down will revive the spirit of the bygone Green Mountain Comedy Festival, which jump-started the state’s comedy scene and ran annually from 2009 through 2016. Hartswick and Miller coproduced that laugh marathon with founder KATHLEEN KANZ. As Miller noted, the GMCF “was a great way to showcase talent all around the state and bring attention to the fact that there’s a standup scene in Vermont.”

But Hartswick added, “It feels like that mission has been fulfilled.”

The GMCF certainly helped raise the profile of comedy in Vermont —

for proof, one need only look at the popularity of local standup shows, at VCC and elsewhere. However, with regard to the local improv scene’s reputation within and beyond our fair state, Miller noted that “word hasn’t gotten out yet.” The time has come to do something about that, and the new festival’s founders hope to generate some cachet for local improvisers, bringing them into the “big pond” alongside their standup compatriots.

(Another reason they named it Big Pond Improv Festival is because there are already plenty of events titled “Green Mountain Such-And-Such” or “Champlain Yada Yada.”)

Hartswick and Miller mentioned the success of their recent March Madness Two-Prov Tournament, a bracket-style improv contest that pitted two-person teams against each other.

“We saw so much creativity and excitement, and the audience had so much fun with it,” says Hartswick.

Though the lineup hasn’t been released yet, we can expect about 30 improv teams from all over to descend upon the VCC Thursday through Saturday, July 19 to 21. Roughly three teams will perform per hour, each taking an approximately 20-minute slot. For families or adults that are faint of heart, at least one block will be marked as “clean” and won’t have any jokes about dicks, sex acts or shitting your pants.

Since we don’t yet know which groups will take the stage, we also have no idea what to expect from performances. And, yes, I realize the irony of that statement: Not knowing what to expect is kind of the whole damn point of improv.

More generally, we can expect both long- and short-form improv. If you don’t know the difference, short-form improv is the kind of high-concept antics RYAN STILES and company got up to for nearly a decade on ABC’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” New prompts and frequent suggestions from the audience constantly refresh and restart the hilarity.

Long-form improvisers riff continuously for an extended period of time based on a single cue. It’s what the VCC’s house team, the UNMENTIONABLES, does every Thursday with the Daily Grind show at VCC.

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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Bob Gagnon (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

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CLUB METRONOME: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 10 p.m., $5.

CLUB METRONOME: Aveda Catwalks for Water 2018 (fashion show), 5:30 p.m., $10/15.

HALF LOUNGE: Danny LeFrancois (folk), 7 p.m., free.

Crusty Cuts (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE DAILY PLANET: Seth Yacovone (blues), 8 p.m., free.

FOAM BREWERS: Comedy Night (standup), 7 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Dr. Sammy Love (soul, pop), 9 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: The Smallest Town Ensemble (indie rock), 7:30 p.m., free. Ian Fitzgerald & Something Else (Americana), 9:30 p.m., free. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.

JUNIPER: The Ray Vega Latin Jazz Sextet, 8:30 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Blackwolf (roots, blues), 9:30 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

Ska Party 420 Edition with the Melting Nomads, the Cedar Project, 9 p.m., $5.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Gnomedad, Full Walrus (psych-fusion), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

RADIO BEAN: Amber Belle (folk), 7 p.m., free. Katie Lyon (Americana), 8:30 p.m., free.

Colly (indie-pop), 10:30 p.m., free. Saxsyndrum (electronic, jazz), 11:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Hotel Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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the past. But rather than creating a simple retro pastiche, the Montréal duo boldly takes on the golden era of pop with tweaked-out synths and gobs of reverb. For their psychedelic self-titled debut EP in 2016, the She-Devils cobbled together instrumental parts exclusively from vinyl samples. But for their inaugural 2017 full-length, also self-titled, they stepped up their studio chops with an arsenal of wholly original loops. Catch She-Devils on Saturday, April 21, at

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Standup Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

Class Act (sketch comedy), 8:30 p.m., $3.

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the Monkey House in Winooski. Locals ASPERO SAICOS, FAMOUS LETTER WRITER and DJ DISCO PHANTOM add support.

ZENBARN: Zach Nugent’s Acoustic Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 7 p.m., free.

DRINK: RuPaul’s Drag Race Viewing Party with Nikki Champagne, Emoji Nightmare and Marjorie Mayhem, 7:30 p.m., free.

FINNIGAN’S PUB: DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 10 p.m., free.

Grind: Janet Stambolian (improv), 9 p.m., $5.

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BACKSTAGE PUB & RESTAURANT: Trivia, 9:30 p.m., free.

CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Interactive Video Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: The Mountain Goats, Dead Rider (indie rock), 8 p.m., $23.

FOAM BREWERS: The Flat Five (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. Open Mic Night, 9 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Twiddle (Sold Out) (jam), 9 p.m., $25/30.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Frenship, Yoke Lore (indie), 7:30 p.m., $15/17.

HALF LOUNGE: Jack Schroeder (folk), 8 p.m., free. SVPPLY & Bankz (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Blackfoot Gypsies (rock), 8 p.m., $10/12.

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JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Irish Session, 7 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Ever Been to a Bar Trivia Night on Weeeeed? (cannabis trivia), 6 p.m., $10.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Bluegrass Jam Session, 7:30 p.m., free.

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CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: All Request Video, 9 p.m., free.

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SWEET MELISSA’S: D. Davis (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., donation.

John Lackard Blues Jam, 8 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

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IDLETYME BREWING COMPANY: The Idletyme Band (blues, rock), 8 p.m., free.

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Hell Bent Mining the sounds of ’60s vocal pop and surf-adjacent garage rock,

MOOGS PLACE: Django Soulo (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

outside vermont MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Video Game Night, 7 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Paper Castles (Album Release), Amerykanka, DJ Disco Phantom (indie rock), 8:30 p.m., $10.

CLUB METRONOME: Downtown Bass featuring Abstractivve, Jawz, D Fuego, FRSQR, DJ Bay 6, DJ Alpha (EDM), 9 p.m., free/$5.

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THE DAILY PLANET: Paul Asbell and Clyde Stats (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., $5-10. WiRED (jazz fusion, funk), 10:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. Waiting on Mongo, Amoramora (jam), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

RADIO BEAN: David Karl Roberts (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

Fertile Soil (jam), 9 p.m., free.

Seven Leaves (rock, reggae), 10:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Strange Purple Jelly (jam), 7 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (mashup, hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Anthill presents 3rd Thursdays with Monday of the Minds, DJ Kanganade, Idiolect, ILLu (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Jenni and the Jazz Junketeers, 7 p.m., free.

ONE RADISH EATERY: Art Herttua and Ray Carroll (jazz), 6 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: King Arthur Junior (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., free.

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RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Italian Session (traditional), 6 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Erin Cassels-Brown and Eastern Mountain Time, James Forest (indie folk, country), 9 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Dave Langevin (piano), 6 p.m., free.

Jaguar Stereo (avant-garde), 8 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Stealing From Work (sketch comedy), 7 p.m., $10. The Daily

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MOOGS PLACE: Open Mic with Allen Church, 8:30 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury LOCALFOLK SMOKEHOUSE: Open Mic with Alex Budney, 8:30 p.m., free.

ZENBARN: Steve Hartmann (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Mike Brinkman (rock), 8:30 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: DJ Da.Root (hits), 10 p.m., free.

champlain islands/northwest

TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Comedy Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom HIGHLAND LODGE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Can-Am Jazz Band, 7:30 p.m., free.

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OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Jon Berry & DJ Coco, 9 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Jukebox: A Warehouse Chamber Music Project, 7:30 p.m., $5-125.

RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free. Partridge in the Pines (Americana), 7 p.m., free. Birch Hill (folk, rock), 8:30 p.m., free.

The Dead Shakers (experimental), 10 p.m., $5. Brian Devane (hip-hop fusion), 11:30 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE: Wild Parsnips (bluegrass), 4 p.m., free. Junco (rock), 7 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 10 p.m., $5.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ Supersounds (hits), 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Doctor Rick, Adventure Dog (jam), 9 p.m., free.

SOCIAL CLUB & LOUNGE: 420 Cannabus Culture Film Festival, 4 p.m., $15-32.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Gilbert Gottfried (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $25/32.

chittenden county BACKSTAGE PUB & RESTAURANT: Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: They Might Be Giants (Sold Out) (rock), 9 p.m., $25/28.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Cut Chemist (hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $20/23.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: The Hubcats (rock), 6 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Dark Star Project (Grateful Dead tribute), 5 p.m., free. DJ Disco Phantom and Friends (eclectic dance), 9:30 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: King Me (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Strange Purple Jelly (jam), 9 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Jeff Przech (Americana), 7:30 p.m., free.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: DJ Fattie B (hits, hip-hop), 9 p.m., free.

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Beyond that, we’ll probably see a lot of themed sets. According to Hartswick and Miller, the possibilities are endless.

I’m spitballing here, but I’d love to see a Mad Max-themed set, an homage to ALFRED HITCHCOCK, something about My Little Ponies and their fiercest acolytes, the Bronies, and anything that takes place in a submarine.

Most of the action will happen on the VCC’s main stage, but some “small, weird shit” will go down in the club’s newly utilized Comedy Lab, according to the comedy couple.

To tide you over until Big Pond, definitely visit vermontcomedyclub. com to find out about its monthly improv events and weekly classes.

Another hot tip: Miller mentioned she’s reading Sam Wasson’s book Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art, which traces the spontaneous art form’s roots from the mid-20th century through today. JASON ZINOMAN’s review in the New York Times makes it sound like an informative and enlightening read for anyone who wants to learn more about the key players who shaped the practice.

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there are in southern music. But I just kept thinking about how much I didn’t know about New England music. There are these vast repertoires that I’d never heard of. In the South, a lot of these legacies are carried on and their names are still spoken.

So, to me, it drove home one of the ideas that I had going in, which was that, pre-radio, there was folk music everywhere. And every place had its own folk music. So one of the themes was to bring more visibility to the individual people, but also this idea that traditional music is present everywhere. And that feels cool.

I’m proud to have a record that has a bunch of New England music, because that is where I’m from, and I think a lot of people still don’t associate New England with traditional music.

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SD: Can you give me an example of a song you found particularly evocative?

ARG: “Irish Patriot.” To me, that’s really connected to the image of a forest and someone coming out of the forest. I think using a broader musical scope, kind of inspired by what film music does — being illustrators with sound — and suggesting these bigger, immersive landscapes was something we did more heavily on this record than we’ve done before. That was the main goal of taking more risks and experimenting with the sounds we put on the record.

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about complex issues such as gender-based pay discrimination, the collapse of the instrumental sundries such as accordion and pedal steel, the Nashville songwriter’s music shares the old-school Americana twang of Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson, two of her biggest heroes. In fact, Nelson makes a guest appearance on her surging ballad “Learning to Lose.” Price performs on Sunday, April 22, at the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington. AARON LEE TASJAN opens.

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BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Dave Loughran (acoustic), 6 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Marc Delgado (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

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EL TORO: Christine Malcolm (folk), 7 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Clever Girls, Kate Lorenz & the Constellations (indie rock), 9 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Chris Lyon (solo acoustic), 6 p.m., free. Not Quite Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free.

GUSTO’S: Duroc (’80s covers), 9 p.m., $5.

TRES AMIGOS & RUSTY NAIL STAGE: Pappy and the Pards, The Welterweights (rock), 8:30 p.m., $8/10.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., free. Lightcrusher, Obtusum (metal), 9 p.m., $5.

mad river valley/ waterbury

ZENBARN: Steady Betty (reggae, rocksteady), 9 p.m., $10.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Supernatural (rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

HATCH 31: Magic City Magic Hour with Michael Chorney and Friends (folk, blues), 6:30 p.m., free.

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rutland/killington PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Hayley Jane and the Primates (rock, soul), 8 p.m., $10-20.

champlain islands/ northwest TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Jesse Taylor (folk), 7 p.m., free.

upper valley

THE ENGINE ROOM: BorderStone Band (rock, country), 8 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Finkle & Einhorn (jam), 10 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

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burlington

ARTSRIOT: smalltalker, Aubrey Haddard Trio, Nina’s Brew (soul, jazz), 8 p.m., $8/10.

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Andrew Moroz (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Green Mountain Cabaret presents Stars and Garters (burlesque), 8 p.m., $15-30.

FOAM BREWERS: The Saturators (world), 8 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: Parks, Gunn, D-Lav, Matt Mus (house), 10 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Vestal Oak (folk), 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Troy Millette and Dylan Gombas (folk-rock), 7 p.m., free. Lespecial, Cycles (funk, live electronica), 9 p.m., $7/10.

RED SQUARE: Left Eye Jump (blues), 4 p.m., free. Grupo Sabor (Caribbean, Latin), 7 p.m., $5.

Luis Calderin (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ Dodg3r (EDM, hits), 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Dan Folk Band, 7 p.m., free. SVPPLY (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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When last we left Christopher StottRigsbee, he was captaining the intergalactic curiosity that is Plattsburgh’s Our Holy Orgasmic Cosmic Rays. That Lake City sorta-supergroup specializes in a distinctly off brand of no-fi indie rock that is often juvenile, sometimes funny and almost always dangerous. If OHOCR were a sandbox, it would be filled with rusty razors, syringes and broken glass and populated by the Garbage Pail Kids.

With the Rays, StottRigsbee has been just shy of prolific, releasing four records since 2014, including a trilogy — Phase One, Phase Two and Phase Three — that foretells the world’s coming doom in a cataclysm of fire, alien stalkers and dick jokes. So very many dick jokes. Ragged, jagged and simmering with mania, the Rays’ cacophonous sound isn’t for everyone. But it might actually be

more conventionally palatable than has been Stott-Rigsbee’s other band, Adrian Aardvark.

Presumably tied up — maybe literally? — with OHOCR, Stott-Rigsbee hasn’t released an Adrian Aardvark record since 2014. That alone makes the impending release of AA’s Dying Optimistically notable. Even more interesting is the record’s relative refinement.

AA’s earliest recordings were inscrutable. The sprawling collective’s 2012 album, Hidden Magic Revival, was a pitch-black expression of Stott-Rigsbee’s personal trauma reflected through a shattered prism of grimy noise. 2014’s American Aardvark was lighter and leaner, though no less sonically obtuse and thematically oppressive.

Dying Optimistically bears shades of those albums while embracing the implicit contradiction in its title.

Perhaps buoyed by his time with the Rays, Stott-Rigsbee now largely writes within identifiable pop constructs. Songs such as “Just Us,” “Peace in a Loving Way” and “Get Gotten” hang, albeit loosely, to skeletons

of garage and indie rock, fleshed out with scabs of distorted guitar, bruised drums and intermittent freckles of strings — the last courtesy of Stott-Rigsbee’s wife, Shannon.

Stott-Rigsbee still sings with a yawning delivery that’s something like Magnetic Field’s Stephin Merritt on anxiety meds that may or may not be working.

And he’s still got a penchant for puerile yuks — witness the feverishly pervy “Horny Wildebeest.” But Stott-Rigsbee’s off-kilter musings now come swaddled in wellconsidered yet unpredictable arrangements.

These alternately add urgency to his addled rants (“Oo Ra Ra / The Sun”) and humanize his more introspective moments (“Young Pharoahs and Horses”).

To be clear: Though nominally more conventionally palatable than previous Adrian Aardvark records, Dying Optimistically is not for the faint of heart — or ears. It is still a bewildering musical exodus that will likely lose more than a few sojourners along the way. But those who see it through might find some common ground with a songwriter who remains a true enigma.

Dying Optimistically is available on Friday, April 20, at adrianaardvark.bandcamp.com.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Big Night (Cajun, Western swing), 8 p.m., free.

The boys of “bummer rock” quintet J Bengoy seem thick as thieves. As they state in the liner notes to their full-length debut, Dogwood Winter, they’re a family, and they love each other. If you’ve ever seen the young Burlington quintet live — or even caught a glimpse of them in the audience of a local indierock show — you’ve probably noticed how adorably stoked they are on each other.

With songs largely about the pain of prolonged adolescence, bummer rock aptly expresses the band’s outlook.

After all, a bummer is something that stings in the moment but usually fades away rather quickly. Isn’t that what life in your twenties is all about?

Fit with the trappings of balmy ’70s soft-rock — wiry guitar licks, groovy organ sounds and glowing choruses of oohs and

of elated satisfaction as Hill sings, “So good / I could die right now / Living any longer would take away from it.”

“Armchair” is a soulful, bluesy stomper that feels like a breakup song (“Cut me loose / Cut it clean now”). The jangly cut erupts into a resplendent climax before its abrupt conclusion.

“Bleached” is a gently strummed snapshot of fleeting, butterfly-inducing romantic tension on a summer’s eve. You can practically see a simmering, pastel sunset illuminating his face as Barton sings, “The thought that we might have made eyes / Was more than I could have concealed.”

Without getting lost in self-seriousness, J Bengoy distill familiar scenarios, mixed emotions and relatable crises down to their very essence. Their lyrics are just nuanced enough to feel distinguished yet never stray into pompousness. And musically, they’ve gelled into one of the strongest young rock acts in Vermont.

Dogwood Winter is available at jbengoy. bandcamp.com. J Bengoy celebrate the release on Saturday, April 21, at an offthe-grid location in Burlington. Visit hopealliswell.net for more info.

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ahs — J Bengoy’s songs burn bright with nostalgia and consistently feel like they’re working at maximum capacity. Pumpedup, refreshing chord progressions keep things feeling novel, and drummer/engineer Patrick Freeman’s production aesthetic is simply stellar. Sonically speaking, the band rivals acclaimed acts such as Tobias Jesso Jr., Twin Peaks and Whitney.

Keyboardist Justin Barton, one of the group’s two front men, sings with the grandiose, befuddled charm of Jonathan Richman or David Byrne. On “Simpsons,” the album’s vaguely country sleeper hit, he sings, “Can we go back to your house and get butt naked?” But rather than a hookup, it’s a literal Netflix-and-chill situation as he clarifies he just wants to watch “The Simpsons.” Intimacy supersedes lust.

Guitarist and co-front man Charlie Hill leads the sweetly sad beach-pop song “So Good (I Could Die).” A peppy organ line strings together gleaming, syncopated guitar chords. Metacognition clashes with a feeling

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RADIO BEAN: Mike Paternoster (lounge), noon, free. Stephanie Tonneson (indie pop), 7 p.m., free. Ryan Ober (singersongwriter), 8:30 p.m., free.

Calvin Coolidge (alt-pop), 10 p.m., $5. Sabouyouma (West African fusion), 11:30 p.m., $5.

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LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Daisy the Great (indie pop), 7:30 p.m., free. Hannah Daman and the Martelle Sisters (indie folk), 9 p.m., free. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.

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SMITTY’S PUB: Ryan Sweezey (rock, country), 8 p.m., free.

SOCIAL CLUB & LOUNGE: Spring Fling Dancehall Bash with Pelpa and DJ Wat P (reggae), 10 p.m., $5.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Improvised Weapons, 6 p.m., free. Gilbert Gottfried (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $25/32. Bawdy By Nature (raunch comedy), 11:30 p.m., $5.

chittenden county

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Purple: A Tribute to Prince featuring Craig Mitchell, 9 p.m., $12/15.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Quinn Sullivan (rock), 8:30 p.m., $15/17.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Roy and the Wrecks (rock), 6 p.m., free.

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GUSTO’S: Robin Sunquiet (electronic), 9:30 p.m., $3.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Bruce Jones (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free.

Pariah Beat (folk-rock), 9 p.m., $5.

WHAMMY BAR: Birch Hill Trio (folk, rock), 7 p.m., free.

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EL TORO: Stefani Capizzi (folk), 7 p.m., free.

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MOOGS PLACE: Cookie’s Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 9 p.m., free.

TRES AMIGOS & RUSTY NAIL STAGE: Dirty Looks (rock covers), 8:30 p.m., $5/8.

mad river valley/ waterbury

CORK WINE BAR & MARKET (WATERBURY): The Zookeepers (folk-punk), 6 p.m., free.

ZENBARN: Japhy Ryder (funk, jazz), 10 p.m., $5-10.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: DJ Earl (open format), 9:30 p.m., free.

rutland/killington PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: The 30th and FINAL Mini Skirt Party featuring Fighting Friday (rock), 8 p.m., $16.

RED SQUARE: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

SUN.22 burlington

SIDEBAR: Sinai Vessel, Sleeping In (rock, emo), 8 p.m., $5-10.

Hotel Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

FOAM BREWERS: Lowell Thompson (alt-country), noon, free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Standup Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

THE GRYPHON: Linda Oats, Shane Hardiman, Steve Wienert (jazz), 6:30 p.m., Free.

chittenden county CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Interactive Video Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7:30 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: Junglist Lounge (drum and bass), 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Game Night, 8 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: JC Sutton & Sons (bluegrass), 1 p.m., free. Pub Sing (sing-along), 3:30 p.m., free. Old Sky and Friends (Americana), 6 p.m., free. Luke Domozick (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., free. Vin Matt Duo (blues), 9 p.m., free.

Sink or Swim, Broseph Stalin, Mr. Doubtfire (punk), 10:30 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Scott Graves and Chris Martin (rock), 6 p.m., free. FlipSide (rock), 9 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE: Lush Honey (funk, rock), 10 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Balladeer and the Bluesman (rock), 5 p.m., free. Shane Murley Band (Americana), 9 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. Nathan Byrne (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Marie Hamilton and Rebecca Mack (eclectic, experimental), 7 p.m., free. Brad Schneider (folk), 8:30 p.m., free.

Kyle & the Pity Party (rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

outside vermont

NECTAR’S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9:30 p.m., $3.

barre/montpelier

NECTAR’S: Ian Greenman and Friends (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Gnomedad, Upright Man (psych-fusion), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: AmerikanaBlue (folk, Americana), 7 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: She-Devils, Aspero Saicos, Famous Letter Writer (indie pop), 9 p.m., $7/12.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: The Dimmer Twins: Mr. Charlie and Gary Wade (covers), 7:30 p.m., free.

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SIDEBAR: CRWD CNTRL (house), 9 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch, noon, free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Girl Crush Comedy (standup), 7 p.m., free. Gross & Fancy (improv), 8:30 p.m., free.

chittenden county HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Margo Price, Aaron Lee Tasjan (country), 8 p.m., $20-119.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Southern Old Time Music Jam (traditional), 10 a.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m., donation.

middlebury area ROUGH CUT: Kelly Ravin (country), 5 p.m., free.

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HALF LOUNGE: Four-D (house, hip-hop), 9 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 8 p.m., free. Sea Level (electronic, experimental), 9:30 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Fertile Soil, Dr. No (jam), 7 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

RADIO BEAN: Billy Whearty (folk), 7 p.m., free. Frank Viele (Americana), 8:30 p.m., free. Dry Reef (indie surf), 10:30 p.m., free.

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incorporates a technological armory of effects pedals, synthesizers,

samplers and other gear, including an augmented telephone receiver turned microphone.

Imposing hip-hop beats coalesce with intricate electro- and lounge-pop sensibilities

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime, Bumpin’ Uglies, 7:30 p.m., $20/23.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: John Craigle, Cole Davidson (Americana), 8 p.m., $12/15.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Bluegrass Session, 7 p.m., free.

within complex arrangements. Topped with triple-decker harmonies and pitch-bent

MONKEY HOUSE: Lume, REZN, Belly Up, Hellascope (metal), 7:30 p.m., free.

vocals, every earworm-y layer of sonic manipulation takes the listener deeper into a sonic

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m., free.

abyss. Check out Sea Level on Monday, April 23, at Light Club Lamp Shop in Burlington.

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Red Clay with George Voland (jazz), 6 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 9:30 p.m., $5. 18+.

MOOGS PLACE: Abby Sherman (Americana), 7:30 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: All Request Video, 9 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Open Mic with Eric George, 7 p.m., free. Honky Tonk Tuesday with Ponyhustle, 10 p.m., $5.

middlebury area

SWEET MELISSA’S: D. Davis (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., donation.

Umlaut (krautrock), 8 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Comedy & Crêpes (standup), 8 p.m., free.

chittenden county

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Matt and Kim, Tokyo Police Club (indie), 8:30 p.m., $30/35.

MONKEY HOUSE: Erin CasselsBrown (indie folk), 6 p.m., free.

Motown Mondays (Motown DJs), 8 p.m., free.

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MOOGS PLACE: Seth Yacovone (blues), 7 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Michael Nau & the Mighty Thread (Cotton Jones) (indie folk), 8:30 p.m., $10/12.

FOAM BREWERS: Local Dork (eclectic vinyl), 6 p.m., free.

THE GRYPHON: P’tit Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: DJ Taka (eclectic), 10 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: George Petit (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Stephen Callahan Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LINCOLNS: Laugh Shack (standup), 8:30 p.m., $5.

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SIDEBAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

Family Night (open jam), 9 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Gyasi Garcia (singer-songwriter), 9:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: DJ A-RA$ (open format), 8 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Ron Stoppable (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Ukulele Kids with Joe Beaird (sing-along), 9:30 a.m., free.

chittenden county

EL TORO: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

HATCH 31: Erin Cassels-Brown (indie folk), 6 p.m., free. Kelly Ravin and Lowell Thompson (country), 7 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Karaoke with DJ Chauncey, 9 p.m., free.

outside vermont

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: The Cactus Blossoms, Frankie Lee (country), 8 p.m., $12/15.

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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free.

FOAM BREWERS: Familiar Faces (jam), 6:30 p.m., free.

burlington

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: Open Decks, 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Spanish Conversation Group Dance Party (Latin), 7 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Karaoke with DJ Vociferous, 9:30 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Blue Fox’s Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Whitesell Brothers Quartet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Mike Martin (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Wes Swing, yessirov (chamber pop, electronic), 9:30 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

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n journalism, the “vox pop” interview — short for vox populi, or voice of the people — places the reporter on the street, asking passersby their thoughts on a particular subject. The method is meant to suggest authenticity, an unscientific but real barometer of what “the people” know or believe, or how they are faring.

So, how are the people faring? The exhibition “Vox Populi,” which opened last weekend at Burlington’s BCA Center, asks six Vermont artists to answer that question through works of portraiture or other human likeness. The elephant in the room, mentioned nowhere by name, is President Donald Trump. But exhibition text amply addresses the volatile U.S. political climate before and after his election.

The group selected by BCA curator Heather Ferrell is a provocative roster

of emerging and mid-career artists: Catherine Hall, Misoo Filan, Harlan Mack, Nathaniel Moody, Ross Sheehan and Susan Wilson (with North Carolina ceramicist Anna Koloseike). “‘Vox Populi,’” claims the curator’s statement, “aims to capture the character and inner psyche of people through contemporary portraiture.” The viewer is left to work out how, “despite sharing divergent perspectives and voices,” the artists “find commonality through our shared image.” In this pointed appeal to humanity’s lowest common denominator — human features — the show recalls MoMA’s groundbreaking and overtly moralistic “The Family of Man” photography exhibition in 1955.

Questions quickly arise. Both Johnson-based Mack and Putneybased Wilson present sculptural works

featuring anonymous faces and figures.

Does artwork that merely includes a face, a head or heads, constitute portraiture? How are we supposed to reckon with “facelessness”?

With the powerful “Egress Access,” Mack joins a lineage of artists using the symbol of the spade to denote slave labor and its ongoing legacy of racism and race-based violence.

Unlike Alison Saar’s “Spade’s a Spade” or David Hammons’ “Spade in Chains,” however, Mack’s 52 spades — each forged into evocative, sometimes agonized faces — reject outright bleakness. Instead, he has arranged his spadepeople into a mandala-like circle over a tight assemblage of colorful wood, suggesting that visual coherence, color and symmetry — as shorthand for beauty — can coexist with traumatic histories.

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One of four works from Misoo Filan’s “Giant Asian Girls” series

Wilson similarly uses anonymity to gesture toward deep history and archetypal (or confoundingly vague) embodiments. Earthy, unglazed and unspecific, her works grasp at timelessness through a lack of defining features. The four terra-cotta torsos of her “Guardian” series appear expectant, if not a little lost. In the stoneware “Seekers,” made in collaboration with Koloseike, disembodied hands reach toward a massive head in a gesture of ambiguous longing.

Viewers are also asked to consider how self-portraiture differs from rendering an external other. This is ultimately an exhibition about human pain, so, to put it another way: How does depicting one’s own pain differ from depicting the pain of others?

The most literal expressions of pain come in large-scale watercolors

by Moody. Four portraits from the Brattleboro painter’s “Fighter” series show bruised and bloody faces and intimate scenes of anguish. Moody’s subjects have names, and exhibition text cites “the effects of global colonialism, cultural heritage and relationships within communities” as predominant factors in their injuries. Even with brutal themes, the soothing wash of the medium gives these works a certain degree of pleasantness.

Hall’s “Icon” series features nearly 30 small-scale encaustic portraits of invented people of different ages, races and religions. The Burlington artist’s “community” might be read as a plea for inclusiveness. But aesthetic engagement in the watery textures and smeared visages seems more rewarding than searching for deeper meaning or political import.

Rather than looking outward, South Burlington artist Filan and Burlington/Vergennes’ Sheehan mine their own experiences for extremely divergent self-portraits. Four works from Filan’s “Giant Asian Girls” series place the artist as a pseudo-monstrous presence in a realm of storybook-like collage. The images, text explains, emerge from Filan’s rejection of stereotypes of Asian femininity, as well as from the empowering force of the #MeToo movement.

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While Filan’s works are pretty, precise and easily digestible, Sheehan opts for scale and brashness. In-your-face and angry, his self-portraits are all about flaws: A scarred fingerprint, a damaged tooth and colorblind eyes emerge as signifiers for self. Overall, the works offer an emotive outburst that counters the more measured pieces on view.

“Vox Populi” takes on further dimensions when compared with the gallery’s second-floor exhibition, “From Across the Distance: Select Video Works from the Barjeel Art Foundation.” The three videos on view are political in selfexplanatory ways, ranging from the ethnographic to the speculative, each employing built environments to construct critical narratives.

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‘MOMENTA IV’ JURIED PRINT EXHIBITION: Printmakers are invited to submit to this May exhibition, to be juried by James Stroud. For details and to submit, visit tworiversprintmaking.org/events-news. Deadline: April 23.

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T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier. Info, 262-6035.

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‘PASSAGES’: Artists of all mediums are invited to contribute works to this community-sourced exhibition with an open-ended theme relating to passage and passages. Wall-ready works may be dropped off on Monday, April 23, from 3 to 6 p.m., or Tuesday, April 24, from 5 to 8 p.m., or by appointment. For details, visit chandler-arts.org.

Chandler Gallery, Randolph. $10. Info, 728-9878.

S.P.A.C.E. GALLERY MEMBER EXHIBITION: Become a member of the gallery in April to feature your work in May’s members-only show.

Members will be featured online, may apply for solo exhibitions, visit the gallery for critiques and advice throughout the year, and qualify for discounts on group shows with entry fees such as the South End Art Hop. For details and to apply, visit spacegalleryvt.com. Deadline: April 30. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington. Info, christyjmitchell@gmail.com.

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‘MORRISVILLE — FAVORITE PLACES’: Photographers are invited to submit images of the town for a two-part exhibition opening in September. For details and to submit, visit riverartsvt.org. Deadline: July 20. River Arts, Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

‘THE SKY’S THE LIMIT’: The gallery invites submissions of works in all media that predominantly feature the sky. For more info, visit bryangallery.org. Deadline: May 11. Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100.

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JERICHO PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL: Artists and community members are invited to register for the eighth annual festival, taking place on Saturday, July 21. For details and to register, email Barbara at blgreene@myfairpoint.net. Deadline: May 19.

Emile A. Gruppe Gallery, Jericho. Info, blgreene@ myfairpoint.net.

‘SCORCHED’: This 2018 group show involves work in which the effects of heat and fire can be easily seen and experienced, including encaustic media, singed paper and other ephemeral materials, charred wood, pit-fired vessels, and hammered metal and blown-glass objects. Deadline: May 18. For more info and submission guidelines, see studioplacearts. com/calls-to-artists. Studio Place Arts, Barre.

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PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury. Up to five photos for $35; $6 for each additional. Info, 388-4500.

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‘PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE’: Seeking photo submissions that define the photographer’s unique vision or point of view for an upcoming exhibition to be juried by Saul Robbins. For details and to submit, visit darkroomgallery. com. Deadline: April 25. Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction. $29 for 5 images; $6 each additional.

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CALL TO ARTISTS ‘ABUNDANCE: CELEBRATING CREATIVITY IN MENTAL HEALTH, WELLNESS AND RECOVERY’: The Clara Martin Center invites artists and friends of mental health to submit poetry and artworks to be considered for a fall exhibition. Applicants must be Vermont residents, and preference will be given to artists/writers in the White River and Upper valleys. Works must be ready to hang. For details and to submit, visit claramartin.org. Deadline: July 31. Chandler Gallery, Randolph. Info, dlittlepage@ claramartin.org.

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f NEIL BERGER: Oil landscapes made with quick, intuitive brushwork. Reception: Thursday, April 19, 4-6 p.m. April 18-May 30. Info, 985-3648. Shelburne Craft School.

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‘MATERIAL FLOWS: RHYTHM IN COLLAGE AND SCULPTURE’: Collage works by Rob Hitzig, Louise LaPlante and Brian Walters. April 20-June 7.

Info, 322-1604. Goddard Art Gallery, Pratt Center, Goddard College in Plainfield.

location, presents a selection of Cheney’s recent works that build upon her 2015 residency at Da Wang Culture Highland in

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Shenzhen, China. Citing as influences Angel Otero, Mark Bradford and John Walker,

f ANNE SARGENT WALKER: Paintings that respond to the effects of climate change. Reception: Thursday, May 31, 5-7 p.m. Info, 617-997-7911. RESA BLATMAN: “Trouble in Paradise,” paintings that explore the effects of climate change. April 22-June 8. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.

among others, Cheney writes, “I want my paintings to brim with energy and tension, muscularity, fragility and heart.” Through May 4. Pictured: “Undertow.”

f ROBERT MANNING: “12 x 12,” a series of 35 drawings from the Danville artist’s life and memory.

Reception: Friday, April 27, 4-6 p.m. April 20-June 2.

Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

ART EVENTS BIG & MESSY ART SPACE: A weekly child-led, process-based open art space featuring mural painting, light and shadow play, and more. River Arts, Morrisville, Sunday, April 22, 10 a.m.-noon. $5 suggested donation. Info, 888-1261.

BIG ARTY SPA HAPPENING (BASH): Annual benefit celebration featuring art, music and food to raise funds for the community art gallery and studios.

Studio Place Arts, Barre, Friday, April 20, 7-9 p.m. $15 advance; $25 day of. Info, 479-7069.

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‘THE ART SHOW V’: A monthly community-sourced exhibition featuring works in a variety of mediums.

Guests at the opening are invited to vote on a favorite work to determine the People’s Choice Mini-Grant. Through April 27. Info, publicartschool@ gmail.com. RL Photo in Burlington.

DANIEL RAINVILLE: “Leave Your Print,” works by the Vermont artist and activist. Through April 30. Info, maria.shelukha@uvm.edu. Allen House Multicultural Art Gallery in Burlington.

DROP-IN PRINTMAKING: An open studio for aspiring and working printmakers, with some materials provided. River Arts, Morrisville, Sunday, April 22, 1-3 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, info@ riverartsvt.org.

FAMILY ART SATURDAY: Families are invited to drop in and enjoy an art activity inspired by current exhibitions. Burlington City Arts, Saturday, April 21, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Info, 865-7166.

‘FLOURISH’: Thirty-one works by Vermont artists with disabilities, featuring painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, textiles and mixed-media sculpture and assemblage. Through June 30. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington.

FILM: ‘FIVE SEASONS: THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF’: Burlington City Arts screens this 2016 documentary, which immerses viewers in the life and work of the innovative landscape designer.

Burlington City Hall Auditorium, Wednesday, April 18, 6:30 p.m. Info, 865-7166.

FRANK DEANGELIS: “Paint Mayhem Under the Influence of Loud Fast Music,” new paint experiments produced with spray paint, acrylics, oils and other substances by the Burlington artist. Through April 30. Info, 859-9222. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

PAINTED WORD POETRY SERIES: EKPHRASTIC POETRY READING: Students and community members share original verse written in response to visual art. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, Wednesday, April 18, 6 p.m.

Regular admission, $3-10; free for faculty, staff, students, members and kids 6 and under. Info, 656-0750.

‘FRESH PERSPECTIVES’: Second annual exhibition of works by emerging Vermont artists and artisans under 35. Through April 30. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.

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‘ENCOUNTER EMPTY’: Installations by Kevin Donegan, Samantha Eckert and Lydia Kern reflecting on the physical, psychic and spiritual architecture that holds emptiness. Through April 24. Info, joseph@newcitygalerie.org. New City Galerie in Burlington.

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COMMUNITY ARTS OPEN STUDIO: A weekly workshop in which children with caregivers are invited to make their own self-directed art projects using a diverse assortment of art supplies. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon N.H., Saturday, April 21, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Info, 603-448-3117.

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PHOTO CO-OP: Lens lovers gather to share their experience and knowledge of the craft. Gallery at River Arts, Morrisville, Thursday, April 19, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, 888-1261.

PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB: Get together with lens-minded folks to improve and share skills and explore both basic and advanced techniques.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, Thursday, April 19, 5:30-7 p.m. Info, 878-4918.

‘FROM ACROSS THE DISTANCE: SELECT VIDEO WORKS FROM THE BARJEEL ART FOUNDATION’: Video works by London-based Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour, Iraqi-Finnish artist Adel Abidin and Jordanian-born artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan.

Each shares a portrait of urban capitals imagined during a past, present or future moment of political and social instability. ‘VOX POPULI’: Portraiture that aims to capture the character and inner

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psyche of people, who, despite sharing divergent perspectives and voices, find commonality through our shared image. The exhibition features recent painting and sculpture by Vermont-based artists Catherine Hall, Misoo Filan, Harlan Mack, Nathaniel Moody, Ross Sheehan and Susan Wilson. ​Through June 10. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

THE GOLD BROTHERS: Works in multiple media by siblings Robert, Steve and Dennis Gold. Through May 31. Info, 651-9692. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

GORDON GLOVER: “Composite/Synthesis,” mixed-media works by the Champlain College professor of creative media. Through April 30.

Info, blowthewhistle@me.com. New Moon Café in Burlington.

‘HOME WORKS’: Paintings made with and/or of residents of local affordable housing including Wharf Lane, Decker Towers and South Burlington Community Housing. Through April 28. Info, christyjmitchell@gmail.com. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

‘SELF-CONFESSED! THE INAPPROPRIATELY INTIMATE COMICS OF ALISON BECHDEL’: Works by the renowned Bolton cartoonist and graphic memoirist that span her decades-long career.

HONORÉ DAUMIER’S ‘BLUESTOCKINGS’: ‘Les Bas Bleus,’ a series of 40 lithographs by the French caricaturist, satirizing groups of upper-class women who sought intellectual stimulation in defiance of their narrowly proscribed roles in society. Through May 20. Info, 656-0750. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont in Burlington.

JACKSON TUPPER: “Moods,” new large-scale paintings by the Burlington artist and graphic designer.

Through May 12. Info, hello@jacksontupper.com.

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JAMES BENOIT: “21st-Century Burlington in Black & White,” photographs of Queen City architecture and landmarks. Through April 30. Info, 863-3403.

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JOHN ROVNAK: “Speedy Delivery,” street photography taken by the Burlington artist and USPS postman. Through May 31. Info, johnrovnak. wordpress.com. Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington.

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f ‘LE CADAVRE EXQUIS BOIRA VIN NOUVEAU: DRAWINGS IN SITU’: In the surrealist tradition, William Ramage and nine other artists draw directly onto the gallery wall: Jessica Adams, John Brodowski, Renee Bouchard, Jason Clegg, Jason Drain, James Harmon, Dasha Kalisz, Robert Johnson and Whitney Ramage. Closing reception: Friday, April 27, 6-9 p.m. Through April 27. Info, asm. exhibitions@gmail.com. Flynndog in Burlington.

MICHAEL SMITH: Drawings made on black paper with correction fluid and other white-mark-making implements by the self-taught Underhill artist.

Through June 30. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington.

‘MY SKY’: An exhibition inviting children and adults to explore the sun, moon and stars together in an immersive, family-friendly environment. Through May 6. Info, 864-1848. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Burlington.

RUSSELL STONE: “Cuba After Fidel,” 20 portraits from the photographer’s newly released book.

Through April 30. Info, 865-6223. Cavendish Gallery & Collective in Burlington.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH ART SHOW: The Survivor’s Council at HOPE Works presents artworks made by survivors of sexual violence. Through April 18. Info, 864-0555. The Hive Collective in Burlington.

TERESA CELEMIN: Drawings by the Burlington artist and illustrator. Through May 31. Info, 658-6016.

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WILLIAM WYLIE: Photographs by the artist and director of the University of Virginia’s studio art program. Through April 20. Info, 656-3131.

Francis Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont in Burlington.

YWCA VERMONT STAND AGAINST RACISM CAMPAIGN: A group exhibition of works by artists and community members who reject racism.

Through April 30. Info, 859-9222. Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington.

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CAROL DULA: “Avoid the Crowd,” landscape photographs. Through May 31. Info, avoidthecrowd@ gmail.com. Charlotte Congregational Church.

DONNA BOURNE: Plein air landscape paintings.

Through June 30. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard.

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ELIZABETH FRAM: “Drawing Threads: Conversation Between Line and Stitch,” fiber works and drawings by the Waterbury Center artist. Through May 6.

Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

‘SHOW 24’: The latest works of the gallery’s Vermont-based member-artists, with guest artist Athena Petra Tasiopoulos. Through April 28. Info, 552-0877. The Front in Montpelier.

LINDA S. FINKELSTEIN: “Eco-Images and Transformations,” works on paper using rust, indigo and eucalyptus, as well as photographic images transformed with drawing and collage. Through April 30. Info, 425-6345. Charlotte Senior Center.

TOM MERWIN: “The Effects of Bird Song on Shifting Strata,” abstract oil paintings. Through June 28.

Info, 828-0749. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

‘OUT OF THE FILL’: An eco-art show featuring works by Abigail Wild Rieser, Elizabeth Bunson, Felicia Bonanno, Gerald Stoner, Katherine Bentley, Kim Rabideau, Lindsey Waelde, Noel Bailey and Patrick Johnson. Through May 13. Info, 503-8980.

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PHILIP HAGOPIAN: “Anecdotes,” rural landscapes by the Lamoille County artist. Through May 29.

Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

‘PUPPETS: WORLD ON A STRING’: An introductory survey of the art of puppets, presenting a range of historical to contemporary works in a variety of mediums and forms, from 19th-century marionettes to digital installations. Through June 3.

Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.

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‘ARTISTS TO WATCH, PART I’: The Vermont Arts Council, Ric Kasini Kadour and six guest curators showcase Vermont artists worth watching.

Through April 29. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

CAROLYN EGELI: “For the Love of Vermont,” oil paintings by the Braintree artist. Through June 28.

Info, 828-0749. Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier.

‘EXPLORERS OF NORWICH’: An exhibition exploring the lives of Norwich University alumni who shaped and changed the U.S. during the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. Through June 30. Info, 4852183. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University in Northfield.

‘HISTORIC PAINTED THEATER CURTAINS OF VERMONT’: Theater curtains from the Grange in Tunbridge, installed by Curtains Without Borders, as well as photographs of others throughout Vermont, conserved by Christine Hadsel and her team. Through April 27. Info, 828-0749. Vermont Statehouse Cafeteria in Montpelier.

KUMARI PATRICIA: Self-reflective, narrative acrylic paintings. Through May 31. Info, 595-4866. The Hive in Middlesex.

‘NOURISHMENT’ JURIED SHOW: Works by Vermont artists including Josh Axelrod, Stella Ehrlich, Linda Di Sante, Carole Naquin, Roger Weingarten and Frank Woods. Through April 27. Info, 262-6035.

VERMONT ABENAKI ARTISTS ASSOCIATION EXHIBIT: Works inspired by Abenaki culture in a variety of mediums. Through April 27. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

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‘A REVERENT EYE’: Two Vermont-based artists, plein air painter Charlie Hunter and landscape and architectural photographer Jim Westphalen, capture the vanishing icons of Vermont’s rich industrial and agricultural past. ‘DEEP INTO NATURE’: Paintings by watercolorist Susan Wahlrab and works by fiber artist Dianne Shullenberger, which together explore often-overlooked flora and fauna. Through May 20.

Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

DIANNE SHULLENBERGER: “After the Frost: Moments in Nature,” mixed-media and fabric collage. MARCIA HILL: “The Spirited Landscapes,” scenic works in pastel. Through April 29. Info, info@ riverartsvt.org. River Arts in Morrisville.

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GALEN CHENEY: “Look Up,” new abstract mixedmedia works by the Massachusetts artist. Through May 4. Info, 760-6785. Edgewater Gallery in Stowe.

JAMES PETERSON: “Dreamcatcher,” an immersive installation by the artist-in-residence from Los Angeles. Through September 30. Info, 253-8358.

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MATILDE ALESSANDRA: “FLOW,” ink drawings and light sculpture by the New York artist. Through April 27. Info, sophie@571projects.com. 571 Projects in Stowe.

‘VERMONT LANDSCAPES’: An exhibition featuring 38 landscape paintings by 19 Vermont artists.

Through June 30. Info, 644-5100. Lamoille County Courthouse in Hyde Park.

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SANDE FRENCH-STOCKWELL: Sculpture and works on paper. Through May 19. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.

‘SPRING MIX’: An annual exhibition of works by members of the community arts organization, featuring painting, ceramics, fiber, wood, jewelry, quilts and other crafts. Through April 28. Info, 496-6682. Valley Arts VT in Waitsfield.

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‘10 YEARS: THE CAMERON PRINT PROJECT’: Works created by Cameron Visiting Artists, in collaboration with students of Hedya Klein’s silk-screen and intaglio classes, including Mark Dion, Derrick Adams, Tomas Vu, Kati Heck and Rona Yefman. Through April 29. Info, 443-5258. Middlebury College Museum of Art. HANNAH SECORD WADE: “Everything All Together,” a solo exhibition of new large-scale oil paintings by the Maine-based artist. Through April 29. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

‘OUR TOWN: LOVE, JOY, SADNESS AND BASEBALL’: Thirty-six historic photographs from the museum’s archives, curated by retired National Geographic photographer James P. Blair and Sheldon archivist Eva Garcelon-Hart. Through July 8. Info, 388-2117.

JOHN CROSS: “American Wood Sculptor John Cross: A Contemporary Figurative Folk Artist,” whimsical wood carvings by the Middlebury College alum.

Through July 8. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

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‘ON THE BRINK: ARTISTS TAKE ACTION’: Works by 10 artists depicting endangered or threatened species, with sales benefiting wildlife conservation.

Through May 31. Info, 223-5507. Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.

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MICHELLE WALLACE: Photographs of ephemeral, kaleidoscopic mandalas made from natural materials such as flowers, seeds and leaves. Through April 30. Info, mwallace.vt@gmail.com. Hunger Mountain Co-op in Montpelier.

‘CURIOUS & COOL’: Unusual and seldom-seen artifacts of ski culture from the museum’s archives.

Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

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JANE ENGLISH: A retrospective featuring photographs and books, including images from a best-selling translation of the Tao Te Ching.

Through May 3. Info, 426-3581. Jaquith Public Library in Marshfield.

f ASHLEY FOGG & HUNTER MALLETTE: Photography and paintings by the graduating NVU seniors. Reception and artists’ talk: Thursday, April 19, 3-5 p.m. Through April 27. Info, 626-6459.

Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University in Johnson.

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f ‘PLEASED TO MEET YOU!’: A group show featuring 20 local artists brings to life fantastical, imaginative creatures and beings of the nonhuman variety. Reception: Friday, April 20, 7-9 p.m. f HANNAH MORRIS: “The Feast of Fools,” painted collage and soft sculpture installations that explore the intersection of the sublime, absurd and mundane in recognizable moments and places.

Reception: Friday, April 20, 7-9 p.m. Through May 12. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

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KAY FLIERL & JILL MATTHEWS: Paintings that make up half of “Springtime — the Season of Spring,” also on view at the gallery’s Edgewater on the Green location. Through April 30. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls.

‘PASTEL, PASTEL, PASTEL: THREE ARTISTS AND THEIR PASTEL JOURNEY’: Works in pastel by Judy Albright, Cristine Kossow and Norma Jean Rollet.

Through May 11. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater in Middlebury.

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‘POWER & PIETY: SPANISH COLONIAL ART’: Drawn from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, this exhibition reveals the great wealth of the region from the late 17th century until the 1820s.

Through April 22. Info, 443-5258. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College.

f RICHARD BROWN: More than 30 black-andwhite photographic prints of the Vermont artist’s images of Vermont farmers, recently published in The Last of the Hill Farms: Echoes of Vermont’s Past. Reception: Friday, May 18, 5-7 p.m. Through June 23. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

HELEN SHULMAN & KAREN O’NEIL: Paintings that make up half of “Springtime — the Season of Spring,” also on view at Edgewater’s Falls location.

Through April 30. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

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‘BARN ART’: A collection of works from 31 artists in celebration of the functional architectural gems.

Through June 16. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

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‘FROM FARM AND FIELD’: Sculpture by Joe Lupiani and paintings by Hannah Sessions. Through April 21. Info, oliver.schemm@castleton.edu. Castleton University Bank Gallery in Rutland.

KATE LONGMAID: “Hear Our Voice,” portraits featuring political slogans, quotations and the artist’s own words. Through May 5. Info, 603-7328606. The Alley Gallery in Rutland.

WENDY COPP: “They Went Whistling,” costumes, figures and structures made from natural materials gathered from the land by the Vermont artist.

Through May 12. Info, galleries@castleton.edu.

Christine Price Gallery, Castleton University.

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DAVID OHLERKING: Impressionistic oil paintings of buildings and nature. Through April 25. Info, scavenger.gallery@gmail.com. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

LAURA DI PIAZZA: “Vox Somnium,” mixed-media works exploring irregular spaces, complicated positions and meditative interactions. Through May 23. Info, 296-7000. Barrette Center for the Arts in White River Junction.

‘THE LIGHT AROUND US’: An interactive, educational exhibition exploring the physics of light and how we see it. Through May 2. Info, 649-2200.

Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

‘MUD (SEASON)’: Work by area artists that reflect on Vermont’s most cautiously optimistic season.

Through May 5. Info, 457-3500. ArtisTree Gallery in South Pomfret.

PATTY CASTELLINI: Colorful abstract monotype prints by the Enfield, N.H., artist. Through April 30.

Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

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ALICE KITCHEL: “Four Seasons,” paintings by the Danville artist. Through April 20. Info, 748-2600.

Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.

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Welcome to “Nation Estate,” London-based Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour’s darkly inventive solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. In this nine-minute sci-fi video, she places the entire Palestinian population in a sanitized, corporatized dystopian high rise.

The video is one of three now looping in the second-floor gallery of Burlington’s BCA Center, courtesy of the independent Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah, UAE. “The All Hearing,” by Jordanian-born artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan, is an ethnographic-style glimpse of noise pollution in Cairo, Egypt, as a political and spiritual issue. Rounding TO BENEFIT

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‘BELLS & WHISTLES’: An exhibition exploring the myriad forms and associations connected to these ordinary objects. Through May 1. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

ELISE ANDREA: Paintings in watercolor, mixed media and acrylics. Through May 9. Info, 472-9933. 3rd Floor Gallery in Hardwick.

G.R.A.C.E. OUTSIDER PAINTINGS: Paintings by the self-taught artists of the Hardwick-based Grass Roots Art and Community Effort program. Through May 1. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

‘MUSE’: Vermont artists Jess Polanshek, Kristin Richland and Amanda Weisenfeld reflect on spirit guides, journeying, introspection and winter’s quiet. Through May 28. Info, 533-2000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

RICHARD W. BROWN: Black-and-white photographs of nostalgic Vermont landscapes and people.

Through December 31. Info, 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium in St. Johnsbury.

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ALFRED LESLIE: “100 Views Along the Road,” black-and-white watercolors of Americana made between 1981 and 1983. Through June 17. GLORIA GARFINKEL: Interactive sculpture that invites viewers to explore the relationships between colors. Through June 17. GOWRI SAVOOR: “We Walk in Their Shadows,” sculptures and drawings depicting a journey across boundaries. Through June 17. RICHARD KLEIN: “Bottle in the River,” sculpture made from found and salvaged glass.

Through June 17. STEVE GERBERICH: “Best of ‘Springs, Sprockets & Pulleys,’” kinetic sculptures by the artist, inventor and pack rat. Through October 8. SUSAN VON GLAHN CALABRIA: “Hereandafter,” still life paintings by the former BMAC education curator. Through June 17. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

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f BETSEY GARAND: “Petroglyphs, Flora and

Frenzied Encounters,” hand-pulled prints that combine a variety of techniques to represent the continuous balance and growth of physical and psychological life. Reception and artist talk: Saturday, May 5, 4-6 p.m. Through June 14. Info, 498-8438. White River Gallery @ BALE in South Royalton.

TONI GILDONE: “Depth of Expression,” photographs of children. Through April 28. Info, 685-2188. Chelsea Public Library.

BFA EXHIBIT: Students works including paintings, ceramics, sculptures and more. Through May 13. Info, 518-564-2474. Myers Fine Arts Building, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y. ‘MNEMOSYNE’: An exhibition pairing ancient and modern European works with contemporary art

by Canadian artists. Through May 20. Info, 514285-2000. NADIA MYRE: “Scattered Remains,” the first survey exhibition of the indigenous Québec artist. Through May 27. Info, 514-285-1600.

Montréal Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal, QC.

TING ZHOU: “Rain Impression,” rainy-day streetscapes by the Chinese artist. Through April 27. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. m

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SIN-YING HO: “Past Forward,” contemporary ceramics and ceramic sculpture with themes of globalism, but rooted in the clay traditions of Jingdezhen, China. Through May 27. Info, sharon.l.reed@dartmouth.edu. Hood Downtown in Hanover, N.H.

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JOHN DUFFY: “Where We Live,” 20 photographs by the South Royalton artist. Through April 23. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library in Tunbridge Village.

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ecently I spent nearly two hours watching Dwayne Johnson pretend to look with concern in the direction of giant creatures that would be created on computers and inserted into his scenes at a later date. Considering that the mutant ape, wolf and alligator he spends most of the movie gaping at weren’t really there, one has to credit the artist formerly known as the Rock with some fairly convincing fake gaping.

(Margot, let’s remember to add Best Fake Gaping to the categories in our year-end wrap-up!) Come to think of it, the skyscrapers the monsters mash into smoky rubble weren’t actually there for Johnson to gape at, either, so the guy had to pretend to look with concern at all the set-piece carnage, too. That’s a lot of fake gaping.

A version of Rampage without any of these havoc-related digital additions — just Johnson running around reacting to things he’s pretending to see, with occasional pauses to deliver some havoc-related wisecrack — might be infinitely more entertaining than the finished product. You know, like Let It Be... Naked. Only with flying wolves.

Because the latest from director Brad Peyton (San Andreas) is a textbook case of

more in need of less. Less stuff exploding.

Less mayhem. Less stupidity. Incredibly, this is a $220 million movie based on an arcade game. Rampage is the name of a Bally Midway button masher introduced in 1986.

Players controlled giant pixelated monsters as they smashed into pixelated buildings. That’s it. Bash, crash, insert quarter. Bash, crash, insert quarter. Calling it a step above Pong is generous. Hollywood has officially run out of ideas.

If anyone anywhere has ever spent anything close to that sum making a bloated tentpole less memorable than this, I can’t recall it. Done properly, big and dumb can be fun, of course, but don’t expect winks or nudges from this generic effects-fest. Its four — count ’em, four — writers don’t have a clue among them.

The narrative vacuum left by the eightbit game has been filled with the tale of Davis Okoye (Johnson), your typical special ops commando-turned-zookeeper, whose best bud is an albino gorilla named George.

George is fluent in sign language but mostly enjoys giving the finger. That’s as clever as things get.

Which isn’t terribly surprising, given that the story is set in motion by a monster space

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rat. Aboard a flaming (and illegal) lab, a scientist attempts to secure genetically altered material as the craft hurtles earthward. As so often happens, though, it blows up, scattering mutant DNA across the USA. In Montana, this produces a monster wolf. In the Everglades, a monster alligator.

In San Diego, it supersizes George. For reasons too stupid to go into, the monsters attack Chicago.

It’s difficult to say which element the filmmakers bungle with the greatest imbecility. There’s the picture’s dialogue (“That’s not good,” our hero observes after a catastrophe). There's its tone, which veers tastelessly between simian bird flipping and first responders helping victims trapped under

fiery rubble reminiscent of 9/11. Then there are the effects, so carelessly crafted they rarely match the palette of the picture’s reallife cast and components. Glance at the image accompanying this review. Are the CGI parts not so washed out they look more like a mural behind Johnson than the world his character inhabits?

More difficult still is fathoming how dreck like this winds up at the top of the box office. The same way, I suppose, that someone like Donald Trump winds up in the nation’s top office. The American people get the monsters they deserve.

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Isle of Dogs ★★★★

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he new stop-motion animation from writer-director Wes Anderson is set in a futuristic Japan where people still use ’70s-style Dymo Label Makers. It contains a 45-second sequence depicting sushi preparation that took six months to create and plays a minimal role in the plot.

Those two details tell you most of what you need to know about Isle of Dogs. It’s a visual marvel, suggestive of a children’s picture book by a canine- and Kurosawa-loving author brought to life using the rough, stylized animation technique of a bygone era.

Every frame invites study, fascination and nostalgia. Story-wise, though, it’s a bit of a shaggy dog.

That’s not to say that cowriters Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Kunichi Nomura haven’t also meticulously constructed their plot, which is rife with framing devices and self-consciously labeled flashbacks. In an elaborate prologue, we learn that the story’s villain, Mayor Kobayashi (voiced by Nomura), is descended from a dynasty of cat-venerating, dog-hating warriors. Having attained an iron grip over the metropolis of Megasaki City, he issues a decree exiling all the city’s dogs to forsaken Trash Island, using outbreaks of “dog flu” and “snout fever” as pretexts.

Among those deprived of their canine companions is the mayor’s own 12-year-old

WOOF OF LIFE Dogs don’t actually eat dogs (mostly) in Anderson’s whimsical animation about canines in quarantine.

nephew (Koyu Rankin). Six months later, he steals a plane and crash-lands on the island, where he enlists the help of a ragtag band of former pets to help him find his beloved Spots.

These scrappy dogs are voiced by Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Balaban, Edward Norton and Bryan Cranston. But hearing the dream cast banter in dog form isn’t as much fun as one might hope, and only Cranston’s character, a surly stray named Chief (“I bite,” he warns), has much of a personality. His, too, is the film’s only real character arc, as he

grudgingly assists the boy and learns the joys of eating dog biscuits and playing fetch.

Anderson has chosen to present the human characters’ dialogue without subtitles, whether they speak English or Japanese, while all the dogs speak colloquial English.

It’s a bold stylistic decision that forces us to focus on the film’s rich visual cues. Yet Anderson undercuts it by giving the pivotal role of the city’s most ardent pro-dog activist to a foreign-exchange student named Tracy (Greta Gerwig), who speaks American English. The effect is to make her, rather than

our own eyes, the story’s interpreter, alienating us from the Japanese characters and rendering the film both more accessible and less interesting.

But story is almost incidental to the selfsufficient world Anderson and his animation team have created, mixing and matching influences as far-flung as 19th-century Edo prints, kabuki theater, midcentury American animated holiday specials and Looney Tunes. The dogs huddle in a shelter made of luminous multicolored sake bottles. A deserted amusement park looms over a vast industrial wasteland. In the aforementioned sushi sequence, living creatures become food-as-art with blinding speed. Dust clouds and waves, rendered with cotton and plastic wrap, look like you could reach out and touch them.

In every way, Isle of Dogs is a celebration of craftsmanship, the antithesis of the sleek, modern style of computer animation. Because it’s an Anderson movie, it also has an alienated character who needs to rediscover a sense of home. But, unlike the auteur’s previous animation, the funny and moving Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs is finally more memorable as art object than as comment on the human (or canine) condition. There’s a lot of bric-a-brac, but not much bite.

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NEW IN THEATERS I FEEL PRETTY: Amy Schumer plays an insecure woman who wakes after a bad fall believing she’s been transformed into a supermodel in this comedy from writer-directors Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein (cowriters of How to Be Single). With Michelle Williams and Emily Ratajkowski. (110 min, PG-13.

Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount, Welden) SUPER TROOPERS 2: The inept Vermont cops of the stoner comedy cult classic return after 17 years, and this time they’re engaged in a border dispute with our northern neighbor. With Jay Chandrasekhar (who also directed), Kevin Heffernan, Brian Cox, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, and celebrity guests Rob Lowe and Lynda Carter. (100 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy)

NOW PLAYING ANNIHILATIONHHHH Jeff VanderMeer’s cerebral sci-fi trilogy comes to the screen, with Natalie Portman playing a biologist who embarks on an expedition into an area that seems to defy natural laws. With Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tessa Thompson. Alex Garland (Ex Machina) cowrote and directed. (120 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 2/28) BEIRUTHHH1/2 In this political thriller set during the Lebanese Civil War, Jon Hamm plays a former U.S. diplomat sent to negotiate for the life of a friend. With Rosamund Pike and Mark Pellegrino.

Brad Anderson (The Machinist) directed a script from Bourne series veteran Tony Gilroy. (109 min, R) BLACK PANTHERHHHH Endowed with superhuman powers, the young king (Chadwick Boseman) of African nation Wakanda grapples with the threat of civil war in this Marvel production, which takes place after Captain America: Civil War. With Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira. Ryan Coogler (Creed) directed. (134 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 2/21) BLOCKERSHHH Three parents are so not down with their daughters’ plans to have sex on Prom Night in this comedy directed by Pitch Perfect screenwriter Kay Cannon, starring Leslie Mann, John Cena, Kathryn Newton and Gina Gershon.

(102 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 4/11)

THE DEATH OF STALINHHH Armando Iannucci, creator of “Veep,” offers a dark comedy about the chaos and conspiracies that followed the Soviet leader’s demise in 1953. Starring Steve Buscemi (as Nikita Krushchev), Michael Palin and Jeffrey Tambor. (107 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 4/4)

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NEITHER WOLF NOR DOG: A white writer learns about Native culture from a Lakota elder in this drama based on the book by Kent Nerburn. Steven Lewis Simpson directed. Dave Bald Eagle and Christopher Sweeney star. (110 min, NR) PETER RABBITHH1/2 Beatrix Potter’s classic kids’ tale of a clever rodent comes to the screen as a family animation, directed by Will Gluck (Annie).

With the voices of James Corden, Domhnall Gleeson, Fayssal Bazzi and Sia. (93 min, PG) A QUIET PLACEHHHHH John Krasinski and Emily Blunt play a couple trying to raise their family in a world where the slightest sound could summon monsters in this horror thriller, which Krasinski also directed. With Noah Jupe and Millicent Simmonds. (90 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 4/11) RAMPAGE 1/2H Dwayne Johnson plays against type as a shy primatologist who must save the world from monstrous animals created by a genetic experiment in this video-game-based adventure from director Brad Peyton (San Andreas). With Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman and Joe Manganiello. (107 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 4/18) READY PLAYER ONEHHH1/2 In this adventure based on Ernest Cline’s best-seller, set in the near future, a young man (Tye Sheridan) competes in a high-stakes virtual reality game that hinges on expertise in 1980s pop culture. With Olivia Cooke and Ben Mendelsohn. Steven Spielberg directed.

(140 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 4/4) SGT. STUBBY: AN AMERICAN HEROHHH Want to teach your kids about World War I? Richard Lanni directed this fact-based family animation about the most decorated dog in American history and his doughboy owner (voiced by Logan Lerman).

Gérard Depardieu and Helena Bonham Carter also contributed voice talents. (85 min, PG) SHERLOCK GNOMESHH The title sleuth (voiced

by Johnny Depp) investigates the mysterious disappearances of lawn ornaments in this sequel to the 2011 family animation Gnomeo and Juliet.

Emily Blunt, James McAvoy, Mary J. Blige and Michael Caine also star. John Stevenson directed.

(100 min, PG) TRUTH OR DAREHH A game among friends becomes deadly when a supernatural entity starts enforcing the rules in this horror flick starring Lucy Hale and Tyler Posey, directed by Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2). (100 min, PG-13) A WRINKLE IN TIMEHH1/2 A young girl (Storm Reid) must travel the space-time continuum to find her missing scientist dad (Chris Pine) in this Disney adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s kids’ classic from director Ava DuVernay (Selma). With Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon. (109 min, PG)

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THE MIRACLE SEASONHH In this inspirational sports drama based on a true story, Helen Hunt plays a coach who must lead a high school volleyball team to victory after the death of its star player. With Tiera Skovbye and Erin Moriarty. Sean McNamara (Soul Surfer) directed. (99 min, PG)

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I CAN ONLY IMAGINEH1/2 This inspirational family drama from directors Andrew and Jon Erwin (Moms’ Night Out) explores the story behind the titular Christian rock hit by MercyMe. J. Michael Finley, Brody Rose and Dennis Quaid star. (110 min, PG)

LOVE, SIMONHHH1/2 In this comedy-drama based on Becky Albertalli’s YA novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, a closeted gay high schooler faces the possibility that he’ll be outed. Nick Robinson, Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Garner star. Greg Berlanti (Life As We Know It) directed. (109 min, PG-13)

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FINDING YOUR FEETHH1/2 A sixtyish snob (Imelda Staunton) learns to cut loose when she moves in with her working-class sister and takes a dance class in this comedy from director Richard Loncraine (Richard III). Celia Imrie, Timothy Spall and Joanna Lumley also star. (111 min, PG-13)

THE LEISURE SEEKERHH1/2 Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland play a couple on a bittersweet RV road trip down the East Coast in this comedydrama from director Paolo Virzi (Like Crazy). With Christian McKay and Janel Maloney. (112 min, R)

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CHAPPAQUIDDICKHHH1/2 Jason Clarke plays Ted Kennedy in this historical thriller about the senator’s involvement in the 1969 death of a young campaign aide (Kate Mara). With Clancy Brown and Olivia Thirlby. John Curran (The Painted Veil) directed. (101 min, PG-13)

ISLE OF DOGSHHHH In this stop-motion animation from writer-director Wes Anderson, set in a futuristic Japan, a boy seeks his lost pet on an island where the nation’s dogs have been quarantined after an epidemic of “Dog Flu.” With the voices of Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban and Bill Murray. (101 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 4/18)

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wednesday 18 — thursday 19 Neither Wolf Nor Dog A Quiet Place Rampage Ready Player One Sherlock Gnomes friday 20 — tuesday 24 *I Feel Pretty Neither Wolf Nor Dog A Quiet Place Rampage

CAPITOL SHOWPLACE 93 State St., Montpelier, 229-0343, fgbtheaters.com

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ESSEX CINEMAS & T-REX THEATER

21 Essex Way, Suite 300, Essex, 8796543, essexcinemas.com

wednesday 18 — thursday 19 Black Panther Blockers Chappaquiddick *I Feel Pretty (Thu only) The Miracle Season A Quiet Place Rampage (2D & 3D) Ready Player One Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero *Super Troopers 2 (Thu only) Truth or Dare A Wrinkle in Time friday 20 — wednesday 25 Black Panther Blockers Chappaquiddick *I Feel Pretty A Quiet Place Rampage (2D & 3D) Ready Player One Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero *Super Troopers 2 Truth or Dare

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ll soon

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The Chesapeake Bay is a fertile estuary that teems with life. It’s 200 miles long and holds 18 trillion gallons of water. More than 150 streams and rivers course into its drainage basin. And yet it’s relatively shallow. If you’re six feet tall, you could wade through over a thousand square miles of its mix of fresh and salt water without getting your hat wet. I see this place as an apt metaphor for your life in the coming weeks: an expanse of flowing fecundity that is vast but not so deep that you’ll get overwhelmed.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Strong softness is one of your specialties. So are empathetic rigor, creative responsiveness and daring acts of nurturing. Now is a perfect time to summon and express all of these qualities with extra flair. If you do, your influence will exceed its normal quotas.

Your ability to heal and inspire your favorite people will be at a peak. So I hereby invite you to explore the frontiers of aggressive receptivity. Wield your courage and power with a fierce vulnerability. Be tenderly sensitive as an antidote to any headstrong lovelessness you encounter.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1973, Pink Floyd

released the album The Dark Side of the Moon. Since then, it has been on various Billboard charts for over 1,700 weeks and has sold more than 45 million copies. Judging from the astrological aspects coming to bear on you, Leo, I suspect you could create or produce a beautiful thing with a similar staying power in the next five months. What vitalizing influence would you like to have in your life for at least the next 30 years?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I beg you to take a break sometime soon. Give yourself permission to indulge in a vacation or recess or sabbatical. Wander away on a leave of absence. Explore the mysteries of a siesta blended with a fiesta. If you don’t grant yourself this favor, I may be forced to bark “Chill out, dammit!” at you until you do.

Please don’t misunderstand my intention here. The rest of us appreciate the way you’ve

been attending to the complicated details that are too exacting for us. But we can also see that if you don’t ease up, there will soon be diminishing returns. It’s time to return to your studies of relaxing freedom.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Singersongwriter Roy Orbison achieved great success in the 1960s, charting 22 songs on the Billboard Top 40. But his career declined after that. Years later, in 1986, filmmaker David Lynch asked him for the right to use his tune “In Dreams” for the movie Blue Velvet. Orbison denied the request, but Lynch incorporated the tune anyway.

Surprise! Blue Velvet was nominated for an Academy Award and played a big role in reviving Orbison’s fame. Later the singer came to appreciate not only the career boost but also Lynch’s unusual aesthetic, testifying that the film gave his song an “otherworldly quality that added a whole new dimension.”

Now let’s meditate on how this story might serve as a parable for your life. Was there an opportunity that you once turned down but will benefit from anyway? Or is there a current opportunity that maybe you shouldn’t turn down, even if it seems odd?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ve been to the Land of No Return and back more than anyone. But soon you’ll be visiting a remote enclave in this realm that you’re not very familiar with. I call it the Mother Lode of Sexy Truth. It’s where tender explorers go when they must transform outworn aspects of their approach to partnership and togetherness. On the eve of your quest, shall we conduct an inventory of your capacity to outgrow your habitual assumptions about relationships? No, let’s not. That sounds too stiff and formal. Instead, I’ll simply ask you to strip away any falseness that interferes with vivacious and catalytic intimacy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1824,

two British explorers climbed a mountain in southwestern Australia. They were hoping to get a sweeping view of Port Phillip Bay, on which the present-day city of Melbourne is located. But when they reached the top, their view was largely obstructed by trees. Out of

perverse spite, they decided to call the peak Mount Disappointment, a name it retains to this day. I suspect you may soon have your own personal version of an adventure that falls short of your expectations. I hope — and also predict — that your experience won’t demoralize you but rather mobilize you to attempt a new experiment that ultimately surpasses your original expectations.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn

rock musician Lemmy Kilmister bragged that he swigged a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey every day from 1975 to 2013. While I admire his dedication to inducing altered states of consciousness, I can’t recommend such a strategy for you. But I will love it if you undertake a more disciplined crusade to escape numbing routines and irrelevant habits in the next four weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will have a special knack for this practical art.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Germany

was one of the big losers of World War I, which ended in 1919. By accepting the terms of the Versailles Treaty, it agreed to pay reparations equivalent to 96,000 tons of gold. Not until 2010, decades after the war, did Germany finally settle its bill and fulfill its obligation.

I’m sure your own big, long-running debt is nowhere near as big or as long-running as that one, Aquarius. But you will nonetheless have reason to be ecstatic when you finally discharge it. And according to my reading of the astrological omens, that could and should happen sometime soon. (P.S. The “debt” could be emotional or spiritual rather than financial.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I would rather have a drop of luck than a barrel of brains,” said the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes.

Fortunately, that’s not a choice you will have to face in the coming weeks, Pisces. According to my reading of the cosmic signs, your brain will be working with even greater efficiency and ingenuity than it usually does. Meanwhile, a stronger-than-expected flow of luck will be swirling around in your vicinity. One of your main tasks will be to harness your enhanced intelligence to take shrewd advantage of the good fortune.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the early history of the automobile, electric engines were more popular and common than gasoline-powered engines. They were less noisy, dirty, smelly and difficult to operate.

It’s too bad that thereafter the technology for gasoline cars developed at a faster rate than the technology for electric cars. By the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, the petroleum-suckers were in ascendance. They have remained so ever since, playing a significant role in our world’s ongoing environmental degradation. Moral of the story: Sometimes the original idea or the early model or the first try is better.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should consider applying this hypothesis to your current state of affairs.

arrive at a pressure-packed turning point.

You’ll stand poised at a pivotal twist of fate where you must trust your intuition to reveal the differences between smart risks and careless gambles. Are you willing to let your half-naked emotions show? Will you have the courage to be brazenly loyal to your deepest values? I won’t wish you luck, because how the story evolves will be fueled solely by your determination, not by accident or happenstance. You will know you’re in a good position to solve the Big Riddles if they feel both scary and fun.

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I LIKE MISERY You are a server at Misery Loves Company, with strong beard game and a ponytail you let down when you’re almost finished. I dined there last weekend, twice, while down from Montreal with a man. We asked you where else to go and you convinced us to come back. I never caught your name.

He’s not my boyfriend. When: Saturday, April 7, 2018. Where: Winooski.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914332 MISSED CONNECTION AT MOBIL STATION Saturday, April 14th, 3pm, North Ave Mobil Station: It was miserably cold and snowy/sleety so I sat in my car while filling up and you smiled at me a lot. I wish one of us said hello! You: handsome bearded man with red pickup Me: petite shy blonde woman with tan car When: Saturday, April 14, 2018.

Where: North Avenue Mobil station.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914331 DARK HAIR AND CONEHEAD I was behind you briefly at the Richmond gas station today and I’ve never been compelled to tell somebody how beautiful they look. I didn’t say anything but I should have.

Hope you have a great day, cute little stranger in a white Subi. When: Friday, April 13, 2018. Where: Richmond.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914329

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TO THE BIKER AT UVM I am sorry for cutting you off while I was driving. I was not being a diligent or sharing the road driver. It was my fault entirely and I apologize. Sending you well wishes. When: Thursday, April 12, 2018. Where: UVM. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914328 BIRTHDAY PARTY APRIL 12 TRUGGS T.Ruggs, April 12th birthday party. You stunned me. I don’t know how else to say it. I saw you looking through the window when I left. I was looking for you, too. Meet me April 19th, 10 PM, same place. Hold your left hand to your left shoulder index finger pointing up, then we will know. When: Thursday, April 12, 2018. Where: TRuggs.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914327 GREEN PEPPERS AT HANNAFORDS Natalia, we shared a laugh after you noticed my careful selection of a green pepper. You bought the three pack.

Smart. You shared a funny story. I asked your name. And then, duh, wanted to catch up again to ask if you’d like to have dinner, but I lost you in the parking lot! Please see this and say yes!

Just for fun. When: Thursday, April 12, 2018. Where: Hannaford, Burlington.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914326 HEALTHY LIVING MORNINGS Nearly every morning I see you inside your black truck. I drive a white Audi.

Maybe one day you’ll want to come in and have a latte with me before work? When: Wednesday, April 11, 2018. Where: every morning. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914325

BEAUTIFUL SMILE AT AUGUST FIRST 4/10 around 2 PM You: Your smile caught my attention and I wish I would have said hello. Me: Sitting by the window with a coworker, smiling back at you. Would love to share a cup of coffee and chat. When: Tuesday, April 10, 2018. Where: August First. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914324 SHELBURNE ROAD DRIVE-BY 4/10/18 As you pulled up to me in your blue VW we smiled, waved, and enjoyed each other for a couple of seconds before you pulled away. I was in my old red sports car with my two sons on board. Can we go for a cruise in that old car once the weather warms?

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You: Woman. Me: Man. #914323 SATURDAY AT SCOUT & CO. You complimented my headband with flowers on it. I told you that I made the headband from an old T-shirt. I left and then came and sat near you. I wish I was brave enough to talk to you again.

You’re beautiful and seem wonderful.

Coffee at Scout soon?! When: Saturday, April 7, 2018. Where: Scout & Co., North Ave. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914321 MAN BUN AT WILLISTON WALMART You were working. I was looking for kitchen tongs. You said hi, and I choked. We kept seeing each other.

Wish I’d smiled more and let on how yummy I thought you were. Never done this before, but can’t get you outta my head. When: Thursday, April 5, 2018. Where: Walmart, Williston.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914320 HANDSOME STRANGER AT COSTCO We almost collided by the batteries around 5 p.m. I was with my mom; you were alone wearing a dark jacket. You were tall and strikingly handsome, dark hair, neatly trimmed beard, killer smile. We exchanged a smile by the produce and the paper product/dog food corner. Would you care to share another over coffee? When: Friday, April 6, 2018. Where: Costco, Colchester.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914319 BEAUTIFUL WAITRESS AT EB STRONG’S You brought me dessert with one flickering birthday candle despite me concealing that it was my birthday.

You wore your hair in two perfect braids and told me that my asparagus and steak would taste “really great.”

These details seem so banal now, but they weigh heavily on my heart. I remember your name. Can you guess what I wished? When: Thursday, April 5, 2018. Where: EB Strong’s.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914318 MOLLY We chatted at Anderson East. I took pics of you and your friends. You were the most beautiful girl in the room.

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PLATE SMASHER AT OLD POST I hope your hangover wasn’t too bad, and you found the golf-club revenge you were seeking! When: Monday, April 2, 2018. Where: Old Post.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914316 BEAUTIFUL SMILE AT BARRIO You: brown wavy hair, sleeveless red winter jacket and jeans. Couldn’t help but notice your amazing smile as we shared glances in the café. Me: guy writing in a journal wearing a blue shirt. Wanted to give you my number but waited too long.

Wish I had said hi. Join me for tea? When: Saturday, March 31, 2018. Where: Barrio Bakery. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914315 WHITE CIS MAN, CARHARTT JACKET Same-name friend, I’m abusing the I-Spys to ask you on a second date.

Want to meditate together? When: Thursday, March 29, 2018. Where: OP. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914314 RUNNING WITH DOG, CHURCH STREET You yelled out from your car about my dog as I was running with a friend yesterday. Couldn’t stop then, but if you want to meet up and go for a walk with him, let me know! When: Thursday, March 22, 2018. Where: Church Street.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914312 HELLO MR. SMITH? We met on St. Patty’s. Me and my friend hung out with you and your two friends after closing. You were sleeping when we left, and I misunderstood when your friends talked about exchanging numbers (thinking they weren’t talking to me). I know it’s a long shot, but I figured if you looked hard enough, you’d find me. The words “flask,” “bathroom” and “murdermart” should help your memory. J. When: Saturday, March 17, 2018. Where: Burlington.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914311 SHELBY Every look still bites the same. / It keeps me when I see you, / when you have me in your eyes. / My entirety in a pith. / Revered, struck. Hopelessly in love with you. When: Thursday, March 22, 2018. Where: everywhere.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914310 SUBARU AT 802 I saw you going into the dealership in the afternoon. You test-drove the Subaru right after I did. I thought your hat was cute but couldn’t say it. Would love to see you again! When: Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Where: 802 Auto.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914309 RE: DECEMBER, PARK PLACE Not sure if it’s me you are looking for, but everyone keeps telling me it is! I sent you a flirt. I’d like to chat, so if it is me you’re looking to have coffee with, let me know! When: Saturday, December 16, 2017. Where: Park Place, Essex.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914308 KB-E AT UVM MED CENTER Hey, it was good running into you the other weekend. Sorry it was at your work and I was a little preoccupied. It’d be nice to get caught up sometime; if you ever feel like grabbing a cup of coffee or something, let me know. When: Sunday, March 4, 2018. Where: UVM Medical Center. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914307 SHOPPING AT SHAW’S We ran across each other a few times in the aisles. Green coat, sweet smile in the spice aisle. Just thought I would say hi since I failed to utter a word to you today.

When: Sunday, March 18, 2018. Where: Shaw’s. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914306

SCARLETTLETTERS Dear Scarlett,

About a year before my girlfriend met me, she had unprotected sex with her boyfriend, although she was still on the pill. This dude was apparently more experienced, and I do worry about the possibility of STIs [sexually transmitted infections] from her ex, although I don’t know the full story. How do I ask her to get tested?

Signed,

Better Safe Than Sorry (Male, 19)

Dear Better Safe,

You are right. When it comes to your health, it is better to be safe than sorry. Talking about STIs can be awkward, but it’s important that you have that talk. Many of the risks and misconceptions about STIs could be avoided if people talked about them more openly. STIs are more common than people think, and they’re not just acquired from “sleeping around.” A lot of STIs do not show symptoms, so the only way to know for sure is to get tested.

Here are a few suggestions for how to have “the talk”: 1. Don’t be judgmental. This is not a conversation about your girlfriend’s choices or morality. It is about both of your medical histories and future. If you present it that way, as a health issue, she may feel less threatened, less like she is being accused or shamed, and more inclined to open up.

2. Offer to get tested together. Try to talk about it in terms of “we” not “you.” Instead of saying, “I think you should get tested,” you might try, “Let’s get tested together.” This is something that concerns the physical and emotional aspects of your relationship. You’re protecting each other, but you’re also building trust.

3. Choose the right time and place. It’s not clear from your letter, but if you have not had sex with her yet, make sure to bring this up before you do.

Choose a place that’s private and a time when you won’t be distracted.

4. Discuss next steps. If she agrees to get tested, talk about how you plan to protect yourselves in the future. Will you be monogamous? What kind of protection will you use? Condoms and other barrier methods can reduce the risk of contracting an STI. And finally, if she gets defensive, be patient. But if she downright refuses, she may have failed the bigger test of whether she’s right for you.

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