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Vermont employers desperately seeking workers are often just as desperate to find them housing. A lack of options is causing some candidates to turn down job offers, Anne Wallace Allen reports in this week’s cover story, part of Seven Days’ yearlong “Locked Out” series about Vermont’s housing crisis. I’m glad I never had to make that choice. After graduating from college in 1997, I relocated to Burlington to run a campaign office for the Sierra Club. I had just a few days to prepare for the move and didn’t know anyone in town. No matter. On day two, I saw a flyer advertising a room at the now defunct Green Mountain Student Co-op. Green Mountain Student Co-op circa August 1998 Within a week, I had my own bedroom. I shared the living room, kitchen and bathrooms with 13 housemates — and a guy living out of a VW bus in the backyard. The rent: $200 a month. It was the perfect setup for a 22-year-old newcomer. I ended up making lifelong friends through the co-op, including my wife, Ann-Elise. Today’s new arrivals are “lucky” to pay upwards of $1,300 a month for studios that are just a little bigger than my first room in Burlington. That’s forcing employers to get into the house-hunting business. Allen chronicles their methods: pumping employees and business contacts for leads; designating staff “house-finders” for new recruits; working with real estate agents to secure apartments before they hit the market; and buying or building accommodations themselves. Seven Days has felt the same pinch. About 10 years ago, Ann-Elise and I started renting a room in our Winooski home to various staffers. For $350 a month, they got a ground-floor bedroom — furnished with a futon — with its own bathroom, as well as use of our kitchen, living room, washer and dryer. My family of four slept on the second floor. Former Seven Days staff writer Paul Heintz, now managing editor of VTDigger.org, was our first tenant. Heintz was living in California and needed an affordable place in the Burlington area ASAP. He stayed with us for a few months. Ann-Elise and I loved hosting him; it was a throwback to our co-op days. We’d sometimes eat meals together, have late-night conversations in the kitchen or play games with the kids. After Paul left, we took in several other staffers. Some needed a temporary place to live; others commuted from remote parts of the state and wanted a Burlington-area crash pad a couple of nights a week. As our kids got older, Ann-Elise and I took over the spare room for ourselves, but lately we’ve been talking about building a small apartment in our yard. It could house the kids when If you like what we do and can afford to help they’re older, our parents or more Seven pay for it, become a Seven Days Super Reader! Dayzers. Look for the “Give Now” buttons at the top of As a next-generation owner of the sevendaysvt.com. Or send a check with your company, I recognize that we need to keep the address and contact info to: talent pipeline flowing, free of obstructions. SEVEN DAYS, C/O SUPER READERS P.O. BOX 1164 Fingers crossed that we can find some BURLINGTON, VT 05402-1164 systemic solutions to the housing shortage. For more information on making a financial I’ve only got so much room on my lot.

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B Y D ER EK B R O U WER derek@sevendaysvt.com Someone shattered the front door of the Pride Center of Vermont with a rock early on Tuesday, the latest act of anti-LGBTQ violence. Other tenants in the Burlington office building that houses the Pride Center noticed the vandalism and alerted center staff and police, executive director Mike Bensel said. Building surveillance video captured a person who walked up to the South Champlain Street office just after midnight, threw two objects at the door and strode off. Staff recovered a chunk of concrete in the entryway. Nothing inside appeared to have been stolen or damaged, Bensel said. MATTHEW ROY

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urlington City Attorney Dan Richardson expected that the bill he requested would pass the legislature without issue. H.551 was intended to ban language in some old property deeds that barred people from buying houses based on their skin color or religion. These so-called “restrictive covenants” have been legally unenforceable for decades, but they remain a painful reminder of the past. Under Richardson’s proposal, homeowners would be able to disavow the language by attaching a form to their municipal property records. “This is simply an evil device that we, as a society, do not wish to have in any way, shape or form continue,” he told members of a House committee in early March. Lawmakers were sold: The bill passed the chamber overwhelmingly last month. But over in the Senate, the bill is facing an unexpected challenge. Mark Hughes, executive director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, recently told the Senate Judiciary Committee the bill doesn’t go far enough. He wants the covenants — which are written into obscure documents kept

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in land record vaults — to be recorded in a central database so that Vermont can better understand its history of discrimination. Lawmakers who were supportive of the measure now say they’re unsure of the best path forward. They’ve twice delayed a vote on the bill and were expected to take up a version on Wednesday, April 27,

FINDING A LEGISLATIVE REMEDY HAS GAINED MORE URGENCY

IN THE GEORGE FLOYD ERA OF RACIAL RECKONING. that would simply nullify the covenants without documenting them or allowing homeowners to “release” them from their deeds. All involved agree the covenants should be addressed, but, with the legislature scheduled to adjourn in a few weeks, the question of how best to do that is far from resolved. Rep. Hal Colston (D-Winooski), a sponsor of the bill and one of the few legislators of color, lamented that the

back-and-forth between advocates and lawmakers has held up what was meant to be a simple resolution to a long-standing wrong. “This bill should be passed this session. It’s long overdue,” he said. “We should just continue to follow our conscience and do the right thing.” Restrictive covenants were used for decades. Most sought to ban Black people from living in certain neighborhoods, but the covenants also targeted Asian Americans, Jews and anyone who wasn’t white. Along with redlining — a practice that began during the New Deal era of denying Black people access to federally backed home loans — restrictive covenants are evidence of the systemic racism that kept many Black people from accumulating generational wealth. The 1948 Supreme Court decision Shelley v. Kraemer rendered the covenants unenforceable, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited housing discrimination in all 50 states. But the covenants are not expressly outlawed by Vermont statute. The offensive restrictions can be upsetting when they’re unearthed and often RACIST IN DEED

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The vandalism comes two weeks after Fern Feather, a trans woman, was fatally stabbed. Seth Brunell, who has been charged with murder, claimed to police that she’d made an unwanted sexual advance. Feather was well known, and her death prompted an outpouring of grief. The vandalism occurred as LGBTQ education and activism in Vermont and Burlington, in particular, draws national scrutiny. Earlier this month, a news segment by Fox News host Laura Ingraham broadcast video clips from a Burlington School District gender identity workshop, which inspired dozens of right-wing culture warriors to send vitriolic messages to district personnel. The Pride Center has received an uptick in hate mail since Ingraham’s segment aired, Bensel said. In one screed that arrived on Monday, the letter writer declared “we are straight-forward” before proceeding to describe LGBTQ people as unwell. “It’s a really tough time for LGBTQ folks, especially trans folks, in Vermont,” Bensel said. m

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news Racist in Deed « P.14 leave homeowners questioning what they can do to get rid of them. In 2006, residents of South Burlington’s Mayfair Park development voted to file an updated set of covenants after discovering that the original deeds, dated 1940, said “no persons of any race other than the white race shall use or occupy any building or any lot.” An exception was made for domestic servants. The original set of covenants is still physically on the books — memorialized in a giant maroon-and-gold ledger at the city clerk’s office — but the new set, filed in 2007, leaves out the offensive passages. Finding a legislative remedy has gained more urgency in the George Floyd era of racial reckoning. Richardson, the Burlington city attorney, broached the topic with lawmakers last fall, about a year after the city created a Reparations Task Force to research the prevalence of restrictive covenants in the Queen City. Members of the task force will receive 1.75 million pages of the city’s newly digitized property records this week and will soon discuss how to begin their work. In its original form, H.551’s goals were threefold. Beyond voiding the effect of any historical covenants, the bill aimed to “prohibit racially and religiously restrictive covenants from ever being used in Vermont again” and outlined a way to symbolically “remove” the language from old deeds while keeping the historical record intact. The latter would be accomplished by having homeowners file a certificate of release, essentially a cover letter stating that they relinquish the covenant. The language would remain in the deed, but the letter would nullify it. Unlike other property transactions, the process could be done without a lawyer or government fees. Similar bills have been passed in Washington, Nevada and Virginia. Delaware, on the other hand, allows homeowners to request that restrictive covenants be redacted from the publicly available copy of their property deeds; the untouched original can only be revealed through a subpoena or court order. Maryland uses a similar approach. Richardson said Vermonters can disavow covenants with a court order or by filing other legal documents, but he intended H.551 to provide a “very simple, very cheap” option. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee seemed ready to pass the bill until Hughes, the racial justice advocate, began raising concerns. Hughes, who is Black, noted that no other person of color had testified on the bill, and he called on legislators to delay a vote until more testimony could be taken. He also proposed 16

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that when restrictive covenants are found in a deed, town clerks should be required to send a copy to the Secretary of State’s Office to record in a historical archive. Otherwise, Hughes said, there’s no way to document how widespread the covenants were in Vermont. “Shouldn’t that be the most important thing that we’re looking at with this work?” he asked. “[The legislators’] conversation is about property. My conversation is about equity.” Hughes also suggested that the bill allow one resident of a condominium development to file paperwork renouncing objectionable covenants on behalf of an entire condo association. And he wants

Some senators had said they were concerned that the bill could pose problems for public figures. Because Vermont law only requires title searches to go back 40 years, a buyer may not discover a restrictive covenant, since many predate that time. Lawmakers feared that political opponents would dig up their property deeds and smear them for not “releasing” racist language they didn’t know was there. “While it might be a nice idea to have people file those releases, I’m afraid that many people won’t pay for a title search going back 200 years,” Sen. Jeanette White (D-Windham) told her colleagues last week. “My house is 180 years old. I

If debate continues, H.551 is unlikely to pass, since the legislature is expected to adjourn by mid-May. If the measure is endorsed by the Judiciary Committee and the full Senate, it would still need to be reconciled with the House version before going to the governor’s desk. Carl Lisman, a Burlington attorney who has practiced real estate law for 40 years, has asked lawmakers to hold off on H.551 until they can review another version being vetted by the Uniform Law Commission, a national organization that drafts statutes for adoption in all 50 states. Lisman, the commission’s immediate past president, said the group formed a

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a way to levy a civil penalty against anyone attempting to enforce an illegal covenant — a provision in other states’ laws, such as Minnesota’s. But instead of adding to the bill, lawmakers may water it down. This week, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are expected to vote out a version that declares the covenants null and void but strikes any reference to the certificates of release championed by both Richardson and Hughes.

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“You’ve convinced, I think, all of us that [this issue is] more complicated in certain ways than we had imagined,” Sen. Phil Baruth (D/P-Chittenden) told Hughes during a committee meeting last week. In a follow-up interview with Seven Days, committee chair Sen. Dick Sears (D-Bennington) said he found Hughes’ recommendation for a central database compelling and that the idea could be revisited in the future. Sears said his aim in recasting the bill was to make clear that the covenants are null and void. But he also acknowledged there was a political dimension to the lawmakers’ discussion.

can’t pay for someone to go back and do that title search. I don’t want it to be used against me.” There’s precedent in Vermont for the senator’s fears. In 1986, Americans learned that Supreme Court justice William Rehnquist’s summer home in Greensboro had a covenant barring residency by “a member of the Hebrew race.” Rehnquist bought the property in 1974, but he and the public didn’t learn about the clause until his confirmation hearing for chief justice 12 years later. He ended up selling the property, then buying it back two days later, so he could record a new deed without the offensive language. Sen. Joe Benning (R-Caledonia) called such a scenario his “personal nightmare.” “It’s the kind of thing that sets all of us up for a potential problem,” he said in a committee meeting last week. In a follow-up interview, Benning said he also worries that the bill could cause division between homeowners who opt to perform a complete title search and those who don’t. Releasing the covenants using a form is a nice gesture but “not a necessary thing to have in state law,” Benning said. “What we’re trying to do is declare as a society, ‘We know that these things exist; we are officially declaring them as no longer state policy,’ and that’s really all that you needed to do,” he said. “You didn’t need to further complicate it by putting people against each other as to whether they should have something additional in their deed chain or not.”

restrictive covenant committee in 2019 and has proposed a consistent method to deal with the racist relics. The group is poised to adopt the language at its annual meeting in July. Like Richardson’s proposal, the uniform law would nullify the covenants and allow homeowners to file a document similar to a certificate of release. But it’s more detailed and covers restrictive covenants targeting all protected classes, including sex and national origin. It also includes a how-to on releasing covenants from homeowner associations, much as Hughes has advocated. “Frankly, it’s better written, it’s more internally consistent and, at the end of the day, they accomplish the same result,” Lisman said. R i c h a rd s o n i s n ’t n e c e s s a r i l y convinced. He thinks the uniform bill is more detailed and complicated than his proposal. And he said there’s no guarantee the commission would approve its draft this summer. Not that there’s any rush. Hughes raised some important issues about the bill, Richardson said, and he’s happy to take the time to wade through them in the next legislative session, if necessary. He hopes whatever bill ends up passing has unanimous support. “It’s a really terrible legacy of our history,” he said. “I would want any solution to be reflective of a common understanding that we’re trying to change these things for the better.” m

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athleen O’Brien’s life revolves around her son Christopher, a 23-year-old with a rare genetic disorder known as Angelman syndrome that causes severe developmental delays. Unable to talk, feed himself or use the bathroom on his own, Christopher is completely dependent on his mother and requires around-the-clock care. O’Brien has some help: The state pays for the caregivers she hires to come into their South Burlington home 13 hours a day. But such workers are hard to find and routinely quit with little notice. O’Brien inevitably steps in to fill the void. The caregiving duty “consumes my life,” she said. O’Brien usually can’t be paid for taking care of Christopher, even when the money in his government-funded care budget goes unspent, because state regulations forbid compensation to family caregivers of people with developmental disabilities. The pandemic changed that. To keep families safe during the public health crisis, the state loosened the rule on an emergency basis. Hundreds of families converted unspent care budgets into 18

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payments over the last two years, up to $5,000 per quarter. For O’Brien, the arrangement validated her caregiving as legitimate work and brought in an extra $15,000. For other families, the payments were an economic lifeline, helping offset lost wages when a breadwinner stayed home with their loved one. Initially viewed as a stopgap measure, paying family members has emerged as a potential solution to the chronic shortage of professional caregivers in Vermont. But while many parents, including O’Brien, support the idea, advocates say the state should spend its money elsewhere: raising wages to attract more professional workers, for instance, or creating more group homes where people with developmental disabilities could live apart from their families. Skeptics say codifying family payments would enable the state to continue shortchanging an already underfunded corner of its health care system at the expense of its most vulnerable, many of whom don’t want to live at home forever. “It’s really solving the problem in the short term and setting up a system where we further exploit parents,” said Kirsten

Murphy, executive director of the Vermont Developmental Disabilities Council. The Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living is weighing these arguments as it works to renew a multiyear plan that spells out how disability services are delivered in Vermont. Jennifer Garabedian, director of the department’s Developmental Disabilities Services Division, said she and her colleagues have much to consider before they decide whether to seek federal approval to pay parents permanently. “But, certainly, we have seen how it could work,” she said. Nearly half of DAIL’s $537 million budget this fiscal year will go toward developmental disability services. Vermont’s Medicaid program, which receives 55 percent of its funding from the federal government, will pick up almost the entire tab. While some states already pay family caregivers, Vermont had long resisted the practice, largely on philosophical grounds. People with developmental disabilities should live as independently as possible, the thinking goes. If families get paid to care for them, they may not be encouraged to go out on their own.

Children with disabilities generally live at home, and continuing payments to their parents has broad support. However, service providers say autonomy is important for adults with disabilities, even when some individuals can’t easily express what they want. “I know my parents had hopes and dreams for me and envisioned what was going to be best for my life,” said Delaina Norton, director of long-term supports and services at Burlington’s Howard Center. “However, what I chose to do as I entered adulthood may have been very different than what my parents had envisioned. We have to realize that it is no different for people with developmental disabilities.” Yet the distance between what is ideal and what is realistic has widened in recent years, and the pandemic has only further broadened the gap. Some local agencies had more vacant frontline jobs than filled ones last year, while parents said it has become harder and harder to find people willing to perform the mentally and physically taxing work. Few alternatives exist for disabled adults who want to live outside of their family home. Beyond several dozen small group homes or staffed residential centers, the only option for most is what’s known as “shared living,” in which the state pays someone an annual salary to live with and support a person with developmental disabilities. About 1,370 adults who received developmental services last year had such arrangements, costing the state about $39,000 per person on average. About 1,150 disabled adults lived with family. Some parents resent the idea of sending a grown child to live in a stranger’s house and refer to shared living as “adult foster care.” A group of about 80 parents is now pushing the state to pursue more residential programs. But such efforts would take years to implement. Meanwhile, shared-living providers are burning out faster than they can be replaced, and local agencies are struggling to find places for adults with disabilities to live. Beth Sightler, executive director at Champlain Community Services, said her organization currently has eight people living in “precarious” situations either because their parents are aging or their shared-living providers are on the verge of quitting. The agency is housing one of those people in a hotel while paying for 24-hour staffing. “The residential crisis means all of us are looking for any option that is going to stabilize a home,” Sightler said. People with developmental disabilities often have complicated medical needs, and many families were hesitant to bring

Do you sell or serve food in Vermont? outsiders into their homes during the early days of the pandemic. Some parents had to choose between possibly exposing a child to COVID-19 or cutting back on work to provide the care themselves. Under the emergency rule, families could convert unspent government funds into direct payments each quarter of up to $5,000, or one-fourth of their annual care budget, whichever was less. The program was optional, and many families chose instead to continue receiving their full slate of services. Others paid themselves for the lost support hours. The state does not know how many families received payments, nor how much money was spent. The funds flowed through local agencies that were told to track only the total number of payments made, and the dollar figures they reported

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included checks sent to shared-living providers, too. Still, it’s estimated that at least a couple hundred families took advantage of the payments. O’Brien, the South Burlington mother, prefers using caregivers but said she wants the flexibility to be paid herself when needed. “You are so dependent on … caregivers showing up,” she said. Two quit within the last few weeks, including one who notified O’Brien in a text message, then blocked her number. She has a somewhat easier time finding replacements than her friends in rural parts of the state, but even then, her next hires will likely last only a year, if that. The constant turnover puts her on edge, and she worries even more about the impact on Christopher. While she’s unsure whether he notices the constant change, she suspects he does. “Paying parents needs to be an option,” she said. “It’s the only thing that makes sense.” The option would save Vermont money. It costs about $105,000 a year to support one person in a group home and nearly $140,000 in a staffed residential setting — far more than the $20,000 maximum that parents could make under the direct payment program. The potential for savings is exactly what concerns advocates. Murphy, the director of the disabilities council, said Vermont already relies on

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BY C O UR TNE Y L AMD IN courtney@sevendaysvt.com The Burlington City Council approved a $45 million contract to build the first phase of the Champlain Parkway, a landmark moment in the decades-long effort to get the roadway built. The project’s sole, $41 million bid — from S.D. Ireland Brothers and Kubricky Construction — came in nearly $14.5 million higher than initial estimates, likely due to inflation and the war in Ukraine, which has driven up energy costs. The contract also includes an additional $4 million for contingencies. Rendering of Pine Street at Kilburn Street

The 2.8-mile parkway will begin at the Interstate 189 interchange on Shelburne Road, run north from Home to Lakeside avenues, then jog east to Pine Street, where it would continue up to Main. Work on the first phase, between Home Avenue and Kilburn Street, is scheduled to begin this July and end in October 2024. The entire project could be complete in 2027. Councilor Gene Bergman (P-Ward 2) said he’s concerned about data that show the parkway would increase traffic in the King/Maple neighborhood, the most racially diverse area on the route. He encouraged the city to keep pushing to build the Railyard Enterprise Project, which would divert traffic from the neighborhood via a connector road between Pine and Battery streets. Mayor Miro Weinberger hailed the vote as a major milestone after lengthy permitting and legal battles. “After 35 years in limbo, to have what feels like it’s going to be a strong council vote here is a very hopeful moment for this project and for our ability to get big things done as a community, even if it takes longer than it should sometimes,” he said. m

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parents for a lot of cheap labor. If parents got the same lousy pay that professional caregivers earn, the state would never actually bear the true cost of supporting its disabled community, she said: “It would just exacerbate the already difficult problem that we don’t deliver the services we promise people.” A better idea, she said, is to fund struggling local agencies enough that they can raise salaries and hire more workers. A case in point is Champlain Community Services, one of 15 agencies the state contracts with to provide developmental disability services. Sixty percent of frontline jobs were vacant at the Colchester organization last fall. Sightler, the director, said many longtime staff members quit because they could no longer afford to live on the agency’s $15-an-hour starting wage. “I really didn’t know that we could keep people safe anymore,” she said. The situation was so dire that the agency’s board voted to raise the starting wage to $18 an hour. The move came at great financial risk to the agency, since it has no guarantee that the state will raise its funding in response. But it proved to be “life saving,” Sightler said. “Immediately, people stopped leaving. Many résumés started coming in. Staff who left came back,” Sightler said. Five months later, the agency’s vacancy rate had been cut in half. Drastically raising wages for frontline staff would require a significant state investment, since more than half of the money comes from fixed federal funds. “And it doesn’t change the fact that some people want this option,” Garabedian said of parent payments. The state wouldn’t declare mission accomplished if the policy were adopted, the DAIL official added. The payments would simply be another alternative, which is “what our system has been predicated on: giving people choices and options.” “I would like to think that it doesn’t get us off the hook for anything,” Garabedian said. The state has much to figure out if it decides to make the practice permanent. How much would parents be paid, and where would the money come from? Who would they work for: the state or local agencies? How would the state monitor families to make sure they’re providing the right amount of support? “If it isn’t the right decision, then I think we just need to be sure that we’ve been really thorough and deliberate in getting to that point,” Garabedian said. “And if it is the right decision to move forward, that we do so in an equally thorough and deliberate way.” m

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news to get their respective aircraft certified and manufactured at scale. Beta currently ranks third out of 25 companies listed in the firm’s so-called “Reality Index,” buoyed by its full-scale flying prototypes, its progress toward FAA certification and shovel-ready plans for manufacturing facilities. Alia’s relatively large size, which makes it suitable for small cargo, means Beta’s fortunes aren’t pinned to the speculative “air taxi” market that many others are pursuing. Some eVTOL startups are clients of Cecutta’s firm, though he claims the rankings are independent. He wouldn’t say whether Beta was one of them, citing nondisclosure agreements with all clients. Cecutta has visited Beta headquarters and left impressed with the company’s approach. “It’s a good story coming from Vermont instead of Silicon Valley,” he said. Alia’s progress has not come without some flak. Last May, North Carolina aerospace firm Blue Force Technologies sued Beta in federal court for breach of contract. In its complaint, which has not been previously reported, Blue Force accused Beta of relying on its expertise to design and produce the Alia prototypes, then violating the terms of its contract before terminating the agreement in May of 2021. Blue Force is seeking at least $259 million in damages. Beta has denied the claims and countersued. The case is pending. As Beta grows, company leaders have said they’ve seen benefits to expanding within Vermont. In a presentation to the Senate Transportation Committee in February, COO Newton claimed Beta had been tempted with “very rich incentive packages” to build its manufacturing facilities in Texas, North Carolina, New York, Québec and elsewhere. Newton explained that the chief advantage to growing locally is speed. It’s more efficient for engineers to work near the production line, Newton said. Plus, he continued, the company has connections here, including direct access to lawmakers and the governor’s office. “The level of support we’ve gotten to reduce friction on permitting and building things out and getting leases signed, because of the community and the size of the state and the ability to pick up the phone and call you folks, call the governor … has allowed us to move incredibly rapidly,” Newton said during the committee meeting. Local and state governments have supported Beta financially, as well. Burlington International Airport has long provided Beta rent-free space for its headquarters. More recently, the 20

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company received job creation grants from the Vermont Employment Growth Incentive program that total up to $3.3 million, depending on how many jobs Beta creates. The latest VEGI grant, which the Vermont Economic Progress Council approved in March, is tied to a battery production facility at the former Energizer plant in St. Albans, Vermont Public Radio reported. But Beta has yet to commit to the site.

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“We are exploring locations that would allow us to continue expanding our business and growing new jobs in the state,” company spokesperson Jake Goldman said. The most direct competition is from across Lake Champlain, where Beta already leases three buildings at Plattsburgh International Airport in New York for its flight-testing program. The company uses about 90,000 square feet of space, airport director Chris Kreig said, up from 2,500 square feet during its earlier test phases. Newton told Vermont lawmakers that Plattsburgh has encouraged the company

to set up its battery plant at the airport, though Kreig would not confirm it. The Energizer site is already outfitted for battery production in ways that would be costly for a company to build from scratch, according to Tim Smith, executive director of the Franklin County Industrial Development Corporation. Smith said he’s optimistic that Beta will choose St. Albans, where he anticipates many locals would be happy to work for the company. Nonetheless, the Town of Plattsburgh isn’t shy about its desire to see Beta expand there. In an interview, Town Supervisor Michael Cashman touted the area’s workforce and aerospace record and said its experience with other large industrial companies would make permitting new Beta facilities smooth and quick. “A company like Beta would not see a lot of trouble going through the system,” Cashman said. Permitting for Beta’s 344,000-squarefoot manufacturing facility at BTV hasn’t been a breeze — at least, not as breezy as the startup would have preferred. Beta’s site plan, which it first presented in draft form to South Burlington officials in spring 2021, ran afoul of city land-use regulations that prohibit new parking lots next to main roads. Beta’s plan called for construction of a commercial building along Williston Road that would block the view of its parking lot, but that structure is slated for a later phase of development. Building the structure now would divert millions of dollars, Beta officials contended, and would delay the overall project.

Last month, after the South Burlington Development Review Board ruled that Beta’s alternative plans didn’t conform with zoning rules, politicians leaped to Beta’s defense. Gov. Phil Scott and some local leaders said they worried that any regulatory delays could prompt the company to migrate to Plattsburgh. And the South Burlington City Council voted unanimously to change the city’s zoning regulations to exempt airport-abutting projects from the parking requirement. A month later, the project is back on track. The Burlington airport offered to set aside more than 200 of its existing parking spaces for Beta employees, which the company will access by using a shuttle. The deal allowed Beta to avoid the parking lot quandary by delaying its construction until later. During a hearing on Monday night to reconsider the board’s March decision, members of the Development Review Board lauded Beta’s proposed solution. “There’s nothing like exigency to produce innovation,” board member Frank Kochman told Beta’s representatives. “I congratulate you.” Representatives for Beta, which says it has more than 200 contractors ready to break ground, implored the board to approve the company’s revised plan quickly. “Time is of the essence,” Beta’s Art Klugo said. “It is the most important thing for this project.” By Tuesday morning, Beta had its zoning permit in hand. m

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The standoff in [“Land of Milk v. Honey,” April 13] between dairy farmers, who claim neonicotinoid-treated seeds are essential to their business, and beekeepers, who claim neonicotinoids are ruinous to theirs, can be resolved by the Global Warming Solutions Act, the legislative purpose of which is to sharply reduce greenhouse gases. Burning fossil fuels generates GHG, which sends huge quantities of carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere, where they trap heat and cause the Earth’s temperature to rise. We have done little or nothing over the past 40 years to effectively curtail their use, so the atmospheric temperature has risen to a near-calamitous level and is still rising. The GWSA requires Vermont to reduce fossil fuel use in transportation, heat generation and “agriculture.” The law mandates reductions, and the pace is both scheduled and swift. Beekeeping is a vitally important component of food production, and it contributes virtually nothing to lake and atmospheric pollution. Dairy products, by contrast, are not in any way essential to human survival, and dairy farming is the leading contributor to lake pollution and the third-largest contributor to GHG emissions. Neonicotinoids have their roots in a mid-20th-century mindset that permitted the application of poison to agricultural land without regard to downstream effects. Conventional dairy farming maintains the same mindset. So the choice isn’t whether or not to permit the use of neonicotinoids: It is between permitting conventional dairy or meeting the GHG emission targets mandated by the GWSA. The choice is simple, really. FILE: CALEB KENNA

Photo: Selling baskets at Highgate Springs, Vermont, circa 1905, photo courtesy of Annette Nolett, Odanak

It’s been a decade since Vermont’s government recognized four groups of Vermonters as Native American tribes. Largely excluded from that political process of 2010-2012 were the Abenaki of the Odanak First Nation. Displaced across the U.S.-Canada border in the era of the American Revolution, the ancestors of the Odanak Abenaki once occupied much of northern New England. Yet Odanak held no representation on Vermont’s Commission on Native American Affairs when recognition was granted, nor was Odanak’s elected leadership permitted to testify before the Vermont Legislature during that process. Initially supportive of the Missisquoi group in the 1970s, Odanak’s leadership came to oppose Vermont recognition by 2003, and does not recognize any of Vermont’s four tribes as Abenaki.

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OBITUARIES Christine Barnes 1943-2022 NORTHFIELD, VT.

Christine Barnes, of Northfield, Vt., died peacefully at home on March 27, 2022, with her husband, Gordon Perkinson, at her side. She was born in 1943 in New London, Conn., and grew up in Glencoe, Md., in a country house with birds, wildlife and gardens. She was the daughter of Arthur Dayton Barnes, an administrator and engineer at Johns Hopkins Hospital who was also a graduate of the Naval Academy in Annapolis and a submarine commander in World War II. Her mother was Mildred Clara Hicks, a Realtor, largely in Greenwich, Conn. Christine attended Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Md., and then returned in 1956 to Greenwich, where her father joined the staff of Memorial Sloan Kettering. She graduated from Greenwich Academy, active in sports and chorus, and went on to earn a degree in sociology at Syracuse University in New York. In 1965, she married Robert Lorenz, and in 1969 she moved to South Burlington, Vt. Christine worked at the Baird Center for Emotionally Disturbed Children, where she rose to director of education. She and Robert divorced, and in 1974 Christine married Henry “Hank” Kite. She received a master’s degree in special education from the University of Vermont, worked in the Consulting Teacher Project, and also earned a master’s in education and a certificate of advanced studies in administration and planning. In 1974, Christine moved to the public school system, becoming the federal programs coordinator in Essex Junction and then the special education coordinator, followed by director of curriculum and teacher

evaluation at U-32 High School. For many years, she was principal of Jericho Elementary School and, later, principal of Twinfield Union School. She retired from Twinfield in 2006 but went back for a year as interim principal in 2012. In 2006, Christine moved to Northfield and married Gordon Perkinson, who is active in dog therapy work, principally at the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction and the Veterans Place in Northfield. Like his wife, he is also a master gardener. In Northfield, Christine served on both the Conservation Commission and the Energy Committee. She became an active master gardener, taking the course in 2009 and volunteering countless hours at plant shows and creating and caring for many gardens — some at the University of Vermont, but most in Northfield. Along with other master gardeners and volunteers in Northfield, she spearheaded work at 17 public and private gardens around Northfield. For 15 years, she served as a guardian ad litem in central Vermont, working on behalf of as many as 15 children at a time — exceeding over 100 youth, ages 7 to 15. Besides being a family advocate, because of her education expertise, she also served as an education surrogate in the school setting. Her focus was constantly on the welfare of the children and their needs and desires, both personally and

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educationally, so they could meet their full potential. In addition, she and Gordon, for approximately a decade, volunteered at National Wildlife Refuges in Texas and Florida — sometimes for months at a time. They participated in bird counts, led bird tours, and gave school talks about the environment and climate change. In Florida, Gordon also served as a lighthouse keeper during some of those visits. She was an avid sports person her entire life — most lately hiking, birding, skiing and snowshoeing. She was one of the architects of Northfield’s Town Forest Stewardship Plan. While she was married to Hank Kite, the two lobbied in the Vermont state legislature for Death With Dignity legislation. It was not law at the time Mr. Kite needed it in 1998, but now Christine was able to choose this option after a long battle with cancer. Christine is survived by her husband, Gordon Perkinson; stepchildren Kim (Kiley) Kite, Kenric (Colleen) Kite, Kirsten (Alan) Kite, Mary Kathryn Perkinson, Steven Page (Karen) Perkinson, and Ruth (Heather) Perkinson; step-grandchildren Adrian, Tristan and Alison DonlanKite, Ethan and Isaiah Donegan-Kite, Taliesin and Tanwen Stokes, and Chad and Kyle Perkinson; and many friends. The family thanks Green Mountain Family Practice, especially Dr. Meehan, and Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice. Arrangements were made by Kingston Funeral Home in Northfield. A celebration of life will be held on Saturday, May 14, 1 p.m., at the United Church of Northfield and remotely via Zoom for those who can’t attend in person. For information on the Zoom option, send a request to celebrating.teena@gmail. com. Remembrances can be shared in the Facebook group Celebrating Christine Barnes.

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never looked back, and he died feeling his mission was accomplished to the best of his ability, though he wished he could have accomplished more. Bill was made a Richard Upjohn fellow of the AIA in 1992 for his contribution to the profession through service on the institute’s board of directors, and he was elevated to the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows by his

peers in 2001. Bill retired from TruexCullins and Partners in March of 2007. Recently, he had been serving as cochair of the Lake Champlain Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society’s Steering Committee, assigned with the responsibility of setting up and implementing the hosting of an international annual meeting and boat show for the ACBS, to be held in Burlington in September of 2022. A memorial gathering celebrating Bill’s life will be held on the Lake Champlain waterfront in Burlington this summer, with a location and date to be determined by the family. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Lake Champlain Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society, Inc., c/o Susan Haigh, 105 Whipple Rd., South Hero, VT 05486.

administrative positions as department chair and associate dean of the Department of Education and Social Services, and as associate dean of the Graduate College. She taught courses in collaborative consultation and was principal investigator of multiple grants that supported the development of model specialeducation programs. Martha was active in the women’s movement at UVM as a founding member of the Women’s Advisory Committee and as a mentor for many students. For many years, she volunteered as a guardian ad litem for the family court.

Martha loved her family, traveling, cats, reading, writing, walking all over Burlington, her women’s groups and spending time with her many friends. Her home was a gathering place for family and friends. Her niece Susan Ames recently said, “Your mom had so many special talents, but her most special talent was sharing her love and giving her time to others.” She was a lifelong member of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, where a summer memorial service will be held. Martha is predeceased by her son Ted in 2009; her husband, Ed Knight, in 2010; and her dear friend Errol Beach in 2021. She is survived by her daughter Paula Marden and her husband, Jim; her son Morris Knight and Christine; her son Eric Knight and his wife, Susie; and her daughter Yolanda Knight. Her beloved grandchildren are Erica Marden, Alex Marden, Maoz Knight, Danielle Knight, Margie Knight, Abigail Knight, Tom Knight and Magnus Ames.

MARCH 21, 1937APRIL 10, 2022 BURLINGTON, VT.

Bill Truex died peacefully on April 10, 2022, with his devoted wife, Jill Williams, at his side. Bill was predeceased by his son Eric T. Truex in December of 1978. He is survived by his family: his wife, Jill C. Williams; and his son Scott A. Truex, his daughter in-law Lisa D’Arrigo, and, proudly, his two granddaughters, Siena Truex and Sophia Truex, of Crested Butte, Colo. Bill moved to Burlington in 1966. He sought a place where he could help raise his family, commit to his community, and practice his profession, architecture, in a meaningful and successful fashion. He

Martha (Knight) Fitzgerald JUNE 23, 1936APRIL 16, 2022 BURLINGTON, VT.

Martha grew up north of Boston, the seventh of eight children. She attended Tufts University and Forsyth Dental Institute. At 19, she married Ed Knight. They soon settled in Ed’s native Vermont, where they raised five children. Martha continued her education at the University of Vermont, earning an undergraduate degree in elementary education and master’s degrees in special education and counseling. She later earned a doctorate of education at Boston University. Martha worked as an instructor of dental hygiene at UVM, as a sixth-grade teacher in Burlington schools and as a professor of education at UVM. She joined with others to develop the consulting teacher model of special education in Vermont, which later became a model for the country. At UVM, Martha held

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IN MEMORIAM Peggy Luhrs I met Peggy Luhrs in the early 1970s. Except for her son Justin and her former husband, I knew her the longest amount of time of her Vermont friends. With all the controversies in which she roiled with us, Peggy was a huge voice in Burlington, in Vermont and, at the end of her life, in the world. I first met Peggy when we were young mothers. We were married to decent and supportive husbands, and all of us were watching with astonishment as the civil rights and anti-war movements shook our consciousness and conscience and, along with the musician Marvin Gaye, made us ask “What’s Going On?” Peggy was then, and remained throughout her life, willing to ask the tough questions and look for real answers, no matter how uncomfortable they turned out to be. I remember her as a rebel intellectual — the tough girl who was, in the language of the day, a “beatnik.” She was a poet like the Beats were, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and she read books. She read the newspapers, too, even the then-right-wing Burlington Free Press. As the world exploded in rebellions and protests, Peggy and many of the women and men of that era sought to understand our history, our consciousness, our bodies, ourselves, our purpose. In the early ’70s, Peggy and some of us formed a group of women seeking to develop, from our own experiences as girls and women, a political understanding of what was going on for females and why male-supremacist

institutions — the church, the family, the state — had, from the dawn of history to the present, oppressed and controlled the lives of girls and women everywhere. Feminism and the women’s liberation movement burst into history. That consciousness-raising group changed us. And Peggy was a key consciousness raiser. Together we read journals like Notes From the First, Second and Third Year; No More Fun and Games; The Woman-Identified Woman; and Ms. Magazine. We read Our Bodies, Ourselves, and we attended women’s conferences and dances; we also read and discussed Karl Marx, Thomas Paine, Emma Goldman, Simone de Beauvoir, and Greek lesbian poets like Sappho. We explored the condition of women and girls of all races in the world, not just in the West but in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We learned about sexual pleasure, soul music, jazz, literature and poetry. We learned how to think critically, and we came to feminist understandings. We learned how to argue and engaged in fierce debates: Should a feminist sleep with men in a woman-centered world? We had fun together

and gave riotous parties. For, as Emma Goldman asserted, “What was a revolution if you could not dance?” Peggy contributed to the creation of feminist institutions: the Vermont Women’s Health Center, Women Against Rape, Women Helping Battered Women, the Burlington Women’s Council, Gay Pride Day. In those years, Peggy came out as a lesbian and devoted herself to the love of women — a love from which she never wavered. To the end of her life, Peggy fought in Vermont for the key feminist truth: to create and maintain a world of peace, equality, truth and beauty. Women — our mothers, sisters, grandmothers, colleagues and friends — must be respected and trusted to take their rightful places as equals to men in the shaping of a brave new world. That message is as powerful and true today as it was when Peggy was with us. —Sandy Baird

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s HR manager at Stone Environmental, Joanne Perry has become adept at helping new hires find their way around Vermont ’s tight housing market. When the Montpelierbased company offered GIS specialist Paige Gebhardt a job in December, Perry advised her to start searching right away. With her April start date approaching, Gebhardt, who had been living in Texas, was still looking. So Perry connected Gebhardt with a Stone Environmental employee who had talked about getting a housemate. Now Gebhardt, 27, and her cat, Louie, are bunking in her new coworker’s spare bedroom in an East Montpelier farmhouse. After 18 years at the 50-person environmental consulting company, Perry jokes that she is the office mom, and she manages an array of tasks. “Now I’m also a house-finder,” she said. She’s not alone. The astronomical prices of Vermont real estate have thrust employers into the often awkward role of arranging housing for prospective workers who can’t find or afford a place to live. The price of housing, a longtime challenge for seasonal businesses such as ski areas and farms, now bedevils businesses and nonprofit agencies across Vermont’s economy. That threatens companies’ expansion plans as well as wider efforts to reinvigorate local economies in communities around the state. Employers — many of whom were already having trouble finding workers — are getting creative. The University of Vermont Medical Center and Middlebury College plan to build new apartment buildings; Bolton Valley Resort is studying the idea. Some businesses are working closely with real estate agents to snatch up apartments — before they are even listed. 26

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housing for seven of them in an unoccupied dorm at nearby Lyndon Institute. His wife, who is on the board of the private high school, gave him the idea. “If you ever asked me if I’d be this involved in workforce housing when I became the CEO of the hospital, I would never have imagined it, but here we are,” Tester said. “You do what you have to do.”

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An Upper Valley group is raising money from private companies to build new homes. Farms are getting involved in a pilot state program to replace aging mobile homes with high-quality modular housing. Ski areas are converting rooms usually reserved for guests into workers’ quarters and buying up nearby motels for them, too. Vermont’s housing shortage has been decades in the making. But the pandemic sharply increased demand when out-ofstaters fled cities for the Green Mountains. The buying spree caused intense competition for housing, coupled with a historic run-up in rents and home prices. “Last year, we approached a tippingpoint moment, where we were starting to see newly graduated nurses accept our

offers of employment, and then they wouldn’t be able to secure housing and they would withdraw their acceptance,” said Carolyn Isabelle, the director of workforce development at Dartmouth Health in Lebanon, N.H. A quarter of the medical center’s 10,000 workers live in Vermont. In January, two people who had accepted job offers from Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury changed their minds due to the difficulty of finding places to live, said hospital CEO Shawn Tester. Like many hospitals, his faces a worker shortage. To fill gaps, the hospital is using temporary traveling nurses, but they, too, need places to stay. Tester recently found

What Vermont has to do is create housing that workers can afford — or the economic consequences will be deeply felt. That’s the assessment of Gov. Phil Scott and officials in his administration who are trying to direct federal COVID-19 relief money toward housing initiatives not only for low-income Vermonters but for what policy makers call the “missing middle”: those who earn too much to qualify for subsidized housing yet can’t afford a home in the overheated market. Without working-age residents, Scott said in an interview, communities can’t grow and thrive. In fact, they can wither. “We have to pay attention to the affordability of the state,” said Scott, noting that housing isn’t the only factor hindering economic growth in Vermont, but it is one of the most important. “We have to pay attention to the business community so you don’t lose the Betas,” he said, referring to electric aviation company Beta Technologies, based in South Burlington. “They want to be in Vermont. But there will come a point where they say, ‘It’s just not worth it. You don’t have what we need,

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Seven Days is examining Vermont’s housing crisis — and what can be done about it — in our “Locked Out” series this year. Send tips to lockedout@sevendaysvt.com. These stories are supported by a grant from the nonprofit Journalism Funding Partners, which leverages philanthropy and fundraising to boost local reporting. For more information, contact Corey Barrows at corey@sevendaysvt.com or visit jfp-local.org.

Paige Gebhardt at Stone Environmental in Montpelier

THERE ARE A TON OF PEOPLE OUT THERE … LOOKING AT HOUSES, TAKING A RISK ON WHICH ONES TO PUT AN OFFER ON,

WAIVING CONTINGENCIES AND STILL COMING OUT THE OTHER END WITHOUT A HOUSE. DARIA BISHOP

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Roland Groeneveld (left) and Dave Anderson at OnLogic in South Burlington

and you’re making it much too difficult to set up shop.’” The threat of gentrification looms over Vermont. In Chittenden County, working families have increasingly been priced out, and even new hires who landed attractive white-collar positions can struggle to compete in the housing market. Last year, Dave Anderson took a job as CFO for South Burlington-based OnLogic. The company, which has 200 employees, manufactures rugged personal computers engineered for harsh environments, such as the outdoors. Anderson and his wife, who have a baby, started planning their move to Vermont from Tewksbury, Mass., in advance of his February 1 start date. Anderson hoped to buy a home within a half-hour commute of his new office. The couple looked at about two dozen houses and made several offers. They wanted three or more bedrooms and a bit of land. “We learned pretty quickly that what we wanted was in high demand,” Anderson said. Knowing the real estate market was red-hot, they always bid more than the asking price — initially, 10 percent over, and later, 20 percent. But other buyers consistently outbid them. The couple had to rent a home in Ferrisburgh, where they still live, though they closed on a three-bedroom home in Westford last Friday.

The house is a 36-minute drive from Anderson’s office. Like many home buyers nowadays, he and his wife bought without getting a home inspection. Financing that made things easy for the seller also helped seal the deal. “I am extremely grateful,” he said. “I know there are a ton of people out there still going through this challenge every weekend, looking at houses, taking a risk on which ones to put an offer on, waiving contingencies and still coming out the other end without a house.” The situation frustrates OnLogic cofounder Roland Groeneveld, who would like his employees to be able to live close to company headquarters. Groeneveld blames the housing shortfall partly on local zoning regulations, which the South Burlington City Council recently made more restrictive in the town’s southeast quadrant. OnLogic is scheduled to break ground in early summer on a $50 million industrial building in South Burlington. Groeneveld said he wants the company to stay in Vermont. Despite the expansion, OnLogic has been shifting its focus lately to an office the company opened in October in Cary, N.C., where it’s been easier to find workers. Vermont’s housing situation is so tough, Groeneveld said, that OnLogic will probably divert future growth to North Carolina. Communities there do a better job of building homes, he said. “There are these big neighborhoods being developed, and it looks really nice, not cookie-cutter,” Groeneveld said. “They’re doing a lot of landscaping. Over COTTAGES INDUSTRY SEVEN DAYS APRIL 27-MAY 4, 2022

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here, it feels like there are not a lot of opportunities being created or allowed.” Twincraft Skincare, a company that employs 340 people at three plants in Winooski and Essex Junction, also indicated that Vermont’s housing shortage has impeded hiring. “What is limiting our growth is the number of employees we can hire,” said Michele Asch, the company’s VP of leadership and organizational development. “We’ve made a decision not to sell the company and to keep it here in Vermont,” Asch said. “But in order to expand, our growth will likely have to take place outside the state.” The housing crisis and its economic ripples are felt outside Chittenden County. The Mad River Valley Housing Coalition reported last year that housing problems were the No. 1 reason for the worker shortage in the valley, which is home to the Sugarbush Resort and Mad River Glen ski areas. Even before the pandemic, half of the valley employers who responded to a 2016 survey said the housing shortage was hurting business. The housing crisis doesn’t just deter hiring; it helps keep Vermont’s population gray as lower-earning young people are frozen out. Fewer babies are being born in the state, which could lead to fewer people entering the workforce. An aging population pressures state revenues, since seniors tend to pay lower taxes. A lack of workers equals a lack of economic vitality. For now, many employers who don’t have comprehensive housing solutions seek smaller ones — one hire at a time. Randi Lowe, superintendent of the Bennington Rutland Supervisory Union, issued a plea for housing on Facebook in March after a teacher from Iowa turned down a job because she couldn’t find an affordable rental. The Bennington Banner wrote a story about it, and property owners started calling. The Iowa teacher found a rental in Sunderland and took the job after all. “I went into this from a place of desperation and creativity,” Lowe said. Jax Willey, a recruiter for Orion Global Talent in Derby who finds candidates for Vermont manufacturers, saw a prospective hire from North Dakota reconsidering the move to Vermont as his housing search lengthened. Willey called her aunt, who had recently inherited a home in the Northeast Kingdom town of Holland and only used the place on weekends. “She ended up renting it out for $1,200 a month,” Willey said. 28

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Shawn Tester on the land that Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital owns in St. Johnsbury

Housing Crisis Mode

While companies such as Facebook and Apple have pledged to invest billions in affordable housing for workers, similar efforts starting up in the Green Mountain State are on its typically smaller scale. Middlebury College announced on April 8 that it will buy land and work with a developer on 100 units of housing for the public near campus. Northern Stage, a theater company in White River Junction, plans to build 15 apartments for employees on land it purchased in March. Cabot Creamery has discussed plans to use land that it owns in Cabot to build housing. UVM Medical Center plans to spend $2.8 million to build 61 apartments that would be reserved for its staff for at least 10 years. And Vail Resorts, which owns the Stowe, Okemo and Mount Snow ski areas, announced on April 11 that it’s going to buy a property in Ludlow to house 30 Okemo employees. Company housing presents inherent conflicts, said Nancy Owens, copresident of Evernorth, a nonprofit housing organization that works in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. “What happens when the person is no longer employed? What if they are a terrific employee but a lousy tenant?” Owens asked. And it’s difficult to anticipate what type of home a worker wants, noted Tester, the St. Johnsbury hospital CEO.

“Is it condos, single-family homes, townhomes? There’s no single profile,” Tester said. He’d like hospital employees — whether a mid-career physician with three kids seeking a hobby farm or a young lab technician who is single — to be able to find what they want. Tester is studying a proposal to work with a developer who would use 80 acres owned by the hospital for a mix of private housing that would be available to all. Details such as potential ownership haven’t been worked out, Tester said. Most companies that have entered into construction or leasing arrangements have some experience in housing, noted Megan Sullivan, vice president of government affairs for the Vermont Chamber of Commerce. “More and more hospitals are doing this,” Sullivan said. “We see these as businesses that have experience with beds. And ski resorts have always had that sort of hotel function, so they have experience in building housing.” Evernorth, the nonprofit housing developer, is working to create a fund with investments by local businesses. The pooled resources would provide longterm, low-interest loans to help finance housing projects. Owens likened it to a social impact investment fund in which investors accept lower returns because the project aligns with a social mission. “The return is partially financial, but

it’s primarily the economics of increasing the housing supply in the community,” she said. Owens declined to say which businesses are involved, though she said she plans to make an announcement in May. Owens would like the fund to build homes that would be considered affordable for people earning just 50 to 80 percent of the area’s median income, which translates to roughly $15 to $25 an hour. The goal is for those apartments to remain permanently affordable, Owens said. “There are a couple of things we’ve done in Vermont that are so spot-on and so right and transformative, and one of them is permanent affordability,” Owens said. Under a 1987 law, housing subsidized by Vermont must be permanently affordable to lower-income Vermonters — a goal that is usually enforced by a covenant or deed restriction. Many employers would be happy to leave the housing planning to groups such as Evernorth, because they’re not interested in construction or real estate. Beta Technologies, which raised more than $743 million for its expansion within the last year, has been hiring at a rapid clip. Beta’s chief operating officer, Blain Newton, said the company does feel the impact of the housing shortage; some workers have long commutes or had difficulty securing a place to live. But he doesn’t think it has deterred anyone from taking a job there.

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The company owns seven cottages that it purchased from the Burlington International Airport, which acquired them as part of its federally funded noise mitigation program. Beta now uses them as short-term housing for newly arrived employees. But Newton does not expect Beta to venture into the residential construction business. “We know how to build airplanes,” Newton said. “Developing houses is not our core competency.”

Funding Injection

Legislators are trying to alleviate the crisis by building more homes. A $37 million housing bond that passed in 2017 resulted in the construction and improvement of 850 new apartments and homes, including accessibility improvements for 60. As unprecedented federal aid poured into the state during the pandemic, lawmakers boosted investments in 2020 and 2021, devoting around $250 million to housing. The Vermont Housing & Conservation Board has used much of it to help build hundreds of homes and is taking proposals now to build more units, rehabilitate existing ones and improve buildings at manufactured home parks. The money is aimed at mixed-income housing, most of it for low-income renters or purchasers. Gov. Scott has pushed hard in the legislature this year for proposals that assist not only homeless and lowincome Vermonters but the so-called missing middle. Members of the House and Senate are discussing a budget proposal this week that contains money for housing construction, but not the $70 million that Scott initially requested. The plan includes matching grants of up to $50,000 to employers that provide housing for their workers. Scott

has threatened to veto the budget, although not specifically over housing funding. Putting more money toward middleincome housing would help the state’s economy, said Betsy Bishop, president of the Vermont Chamber. “If you get out beyond Chittenden County, we have lots of manufacturing businesses in very rural areas that employ people at good wages, but people need to live nearby in order to work there,” Bishop said. “That’s why you are starting to see employers put their brains behind, ‘How do we fix the housing problem for our workers?’ They need workers. They’re being forced to address that because we’re not doing it as a policy for middle-income workers.” There’s only so much the state can do. Housing construction is still a business, one that is subject to market forces, land-use regulations and neighborhood resistance. Some local governments are finding ways to step up. In March, the Woodstock Selectboard approved a plan to pay property owners who convert their short-term rentals into long-term housing. The incentive program that Woodstock is developing is loosely modeled on a new program called Rent Local in the ski town of Big Sky, Mont. Big Sky is also offering to pay residents if they’ll accept a permanent deed restriction on their property that would require one resident of the home — owner or tenant — to work at least 30 hours per week in town. Short-term rentals would be prohibited. Jill Davies, a housing activist in Woodstock, said she hasn’t heard of any other Vermont town that is offering such incentives.

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afford and wanted to be in,” Todd said. “It’s very hard here in the valley.” Farms, too, have long boarded workers. About 2,000 Vermont farmworkers live in employer-provided housing such as mobile homes, according to a Vermont Housing & Conservation Board study. “Some of them are sinking into the ground, have roof structures that are compromised, mold and mildew issues, poor if not any ventilation, and continuous maintenance burdens,” said Peter Schneider, a consultant with the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation. He’s working on a pilot program that would replace aging mobile homes with energy-efficient modular homes.

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tory-style rooms, studios, and one- and two-bedroom apartments. Last year, the resort bought the 15-room Black Bear Inn, which is within walking distance of the ski area’s base village, to provide rooms for some of its workers. But that’s “a small drop in the bucket of what we think we need, especially in the winter and as we continue to grow in the summer,” DesLauriers said. Bolton’s summer workforce of about 120 employees balloons to more than 300 in the winter. Environmental and engineering studies on the project are under way; DesLauriers said she’d love to have the new apartment building in place by the summer of 2023. “That’s my goal, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a year after, or the year after that,” she said. “You never know with this process.” Service workers aren’t the only resort staffers having trouble finding places to live. Annemarie Todd, Sugarbush Resort’s vice president of human resources, said that a vice president of mountain operations who was hired during the pandemic spent nearly a year searching for suitable housing for his family. “They were living in employee housing, and they actually had their first baby in employee housing,” Todd told Sullivan in a Vermont Chamber podcast. “Every house they looked at and put a bid on, there were bidding wars. “It was through a lot of networking that they finally found a home they could

This year the state launched a program that offers farmers no-interest loans of up to $30,000 to update their existing housing; the loans will be forgiven if the housing is maintained and is used as worker housing for a decade. VHCB, which released a report on farmworker housing last year, said some lacked functional appliances, space for food storage and septic facilities. One of the biggest problems was overcrowding that makes it difficult to sleep or find privacy. “This is especially a concern for dairy workers,” the report says, “where the need for round the clock operations results in some workers having to sleep while others are working or eating throughout the day or night.”

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A century ago, it was not unusual for companies to build housing to rent to workers. Railroad sleeping car magnate George Pullman built a 4,000-acre community in Chicago around 1880 that included churches, theaters and other amenities. A moralist, Pullman banned liquor, smoking and dance halls — and instituted a curfew. Resident-employees went on strike over the strictures. More than 2 million people lived in company towns by 1930, according to Margaret Crawford, author of Building the Workingman’s Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns.

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The practice took root in Vermont. Burlington’s Lakeside neighborhood was built in the early 1900s as housing for the Queen City Cotton Mill. Burlington Woolen Company in Winooski constructed worker housing, some of which survives today, having outlived the mill’s operations. When the Wells-Lamson granite company expanded its workforce in Barre around 1850, it built 15 small houses for immigrant laborers in a community that came to be known as Stove Pipe City. It grew to include a theater for silent movies, a Catholic church, a one-room schoolhouse and a barbershop. Arrivals from France and Italy planted grapes for wine, wrote Arthur Dupre, who was born in the community around 1900 and wrote a fond history of the area in 1982. Farms put up workers in tenant houses, noted Devin Colman, state architectural historian. Teachers often boarded with families. One of Colman’s favorite examples of historic worker housing is a block built by the Ohio-based National Acme Manufacturing Company in Windsor between 1915 and 1930. NAMCO’s four-story brick apartment block looks like it belongs on Boston’s Beacon Hill, Colman said.

“It’s gorgeous; a very 1920s urban New England design,” Colman said. “And it shows up in Windsor, of all places.” Workers drifted away from companyowned housing as their earnings grew in the 1920s, enabling them to afford their own homes and transportation that expanded their options.

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The days of company towns like Pullman’s are over. Policy analysts in and outside Vermont agree that the best solutions should be scaled to fit individual communities. With no quick fix in sight, companies, schools and organizations that rely on workers are muddling through, often on their own. Willey, the recruiter, said many of the employers she works with are starting to take a second look at local candidates they might have passed over before. They would rather train someone who doesn’t have the requisite experience than hire a qualified employee from elsewhere who would have to find a place to live, Willey said. “Relocation is really a last resort,” she said. Housing only compounds the challenges that Vermont employers face; childcare, too,

is equally or more pressing for some families. When Darn Tough, a Northfield-based sock company, makes a major investment to improve workers’ lives, HR director John LeBourveau said, it will be aimed at fixing childcare cost and supply. “For young families in Vermont, daycare is overwhelming,” he said. Childcare itself has been struck by the worker shortage, as facilities face the same hiring obstacles as other employers. With costs to parents already prohibitively high, childcare directors say they can’t pay the wages needed to draw candidates. Andrehyu Rosas-Allen has a stake in both issues. He lives in Illinois and would like to join Vermont’s childcare workforce. He’s been offered a job at a center in South Burlington and says the pay is competitive. But Rosas-Allen, 21, is having a hard time finding a place to live. He’s virtually toured apartments as far as 40 minutes from town but can’t find a place that he can afford that will also take his dog. Because he’s already graduated from college, he doesn’t relish the idea of sharing a home with students. But he’s determined to start his new job in mid-May. “No matter what, I’m not going to turn it down,” Rosas-Allen said. “I’m a paralegal

right now, but it’s just my day job. I bartend at nights. But what I study, my passion, is childcare.” Rosas-Allen’s new employer has told him about Vermont’s relocation assistance grants of up to $7,500, but that’s not much help to Rosas-Allen, who doesn’t expect his move to cost much. What he really needs, he said, are connections that will lead him to a rental he can afford. As an out-of-stater, he lacks that. And if he can’t find an apartment? “I’ll live in my car, I guess,” Rosas-Allen said. “It wouldn’t be the first time.” m

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teve Page devoted three years to building the Lois McClure but spent very little time sailing on it. As one of four shipwrights hired in 2001 by Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes to construct the 1862 replica canal schooner, Page can recall just two trips he ever made on the vessel. Only one took place on the water. On his first trip, Page stood on the boat’s deck during its three-day overland journey from its construction site in the Burlington Shipyard to the boat ramp at the U.S. Coast Guard station a mile away. His job was to ensure that the 88-foot wooden schooner didn’t snag any trees or power lines as it crept through the streets of downtown Burlington on a massive house-moving trailer. Page was also aboard the Lois McClure for its maiden voyage on July 3, 2004. The Williston resident, now 75, still remembers what the maritime museum’s thenexecutive director, Art Cohn, said to him and his fellow shipwrights on the day the boat launched: “If it leaks, you take care of it.” It didn’t. For nearly two decades, the Lois McClure sailed thousands of miles, from New York City to Québec to Buffalo, N.Y. More than 300,000 visitors boarded the vessel at its numerous ports of call along Lake Champlain, the Hudson River, the Richelieu River and the Erie Canal. Now, after nearly 20 years of service, the Lois McClure is slated to be decommissioned in November 2023. For the more than 200 volunteers and crew who helped build the boat or sailed on its many educational excursions, the news was greeted with a mixture of pride, sadness and even bitterness. While the boat’s ultimate fate has yet to be decided, it will likely be dismantled, analyzed and featured in a new maritime museum exhibit that explores the life cycle of 19th-century canalboats. “This is a really hard transition, but … our goal was to create a responsible plan for the boat, which we didn’t have before,” said Susan Evans McClure, executive director of Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. (Evans McClure is unrelated to the late Lois McClure or the McClure family that funded much of the $1.2 million project.) “Wooden boats rot, and that’s what

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would happen, and it would be really sad,” she added. “That is not the end we want for it.” The museum launched the Lois McClure replica project in 2001 to highlight the history of 19th-century canal schooners. Canalboats were essentially the tractor trailers of their day, Evans McClure explained. They plied the waters of New York and New England in the mid-1800s, when Burlington was the third-largest timber port in the country and most freight traveled by water. In addition to lumber, canalboats hauled coal, hay, grain, stone and livestock. The holds of the Lois McClure were built to carry 120 tons, including slabs of marble quarried in central Vermont that are still used as ballast. The design of the replica schooner was based on 1842 drawings and two well-researched shipwrecks in Burlington Harbor: the General Butler and the O.J. Walker. All the shipwrights hired to build it were trained in scuba diving so they could see for themselves the wrecks just outside the breakwater. They rest not

far from Lake Champlain Transportation’s Burlington Shipyard, where the Lois McClure was constructed. Mary Ellen Manock of Burlington was a volunteer on the project who sewed curtains for the ship’s cabin; she later worked as an onboard docent for several excursions to New York. Her husband, Jerry, also volunteered on woodworking and rigging. “I always thought it was funny that they designed it on boats at the bottom of the lake,” Mary Ellen Manock said. But Mike LaVecchia, project coordinator for the Lois McClure’s construction, pointed out that having the shipwrecks nearby was helpful during the building process. “A lot of replicas are built based on photos or drawings or maybe a boat in a museum somewhere,” said LaVecchia, who now builds wooden surfboards in York, Maine. “Having an intact actual wreck from the 1800s basically 200 yards from where you’re building the boat, that they could go and dive on, made it pretty unique, for sure.”

Page built and repaired boats for 40 years, but none, he said, was on the scale of the Lois McClure. He remembers working with wooden planks 60 feet long and three inches thick that were steam-heated to bend into the shape of the hull. While most of the wood used in the construction, including white oak, white spruce and pine, was logged in northern New England or New York, he said, the ship also has mahogany that was donated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA had once used the tropical wood to make molds for space shuttle parts. “It was a really nice gig, a once-in-alifetime opportunity,” Page said. “I was very lucky.” Though Page and the Manocks were saddened to learn that the Lois McClure was being decommissioned, all three said they understood the decision. “The thing that would be worse would be to let it deteriorate and possibly have a major failure,” Jerry Manock said. Page agreed. “Traditional wooden boats are very, very expensive to take care of,” he

said. “I’m sure it was a decision that was pondered extensively.” Indeed, the $100,000 annual cost of repairing and maintaining the Lois McClure was one of several reasons why the museum decided to mothball it, Evans McClure said. The replica was built to be as historically accurate as possible and thus was never compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act, she explained. In addition, because the ship was based on a 19th-century design, it lacks the rigorous life-safety standards applied to 21st-century sailing vessels. For

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this reason, she said, the Coast Guard wouldn’t license it to take the public sailing, which further limited access and revenue. Finally, Evans McClure said, the Lois McClure has already had a longer life than most 19th-century canal schooners. Assuming one didn’t sink or meet some other untimely demise, a typical canalboat lasted only about 15 years, after which its owners stripped it for parts, then scuttled it and built a new one. “They were meant to be used, and they got beat up,” she said. “That’s why there are a lot of shipwrecks of them out there.” But some of the past participants on the project wish the museum were pursuing other options. “It seems premature to me,” LaVecchia said about the decommissioning. “My hope is, they’ll take a little more time to think it through, because once you make that decision, there’s no going back.” Paul Rollins agrees. As the lead boat builder on the Lois McClure, he, too, was surprised that a sturdy wooden vessel built just two decades ago was already being retired. “The person in charge now is probably not a boater and is not enthusiastic about that type of stuff and doesn’t appreciate what normal maintenance is,” said Rollins, who still builds and repairs boats in York, Maine. “I think there’s a different

culture of boating up there [in Vermont] than here on the coast, where boats are not just recreational.” But Lake Champlain Maritime Museum hasn’t finalized its plans yet, Evans McClure pointed out, and it remains open to partnering with another organization that could take over the operations and maintenance of the Lois McClure. Thus far, however, none has come forward. “We’ve done a lot of asking and a lot of looking around,” she said, “but that’s a lot for another organization to take on.” Assuming that doesn’t happen, the Lois McClure could become part of a new exhibit that traces how canalboats were built, used and eventually retired. Nineteenth-century canalboats didn’t winter on Lake Champlain because they would have been crushed in the ice, Evans McClure explained. Instead, the boats’ owners sailed them south in the fall to protected ports along the canals or the Hudson River, then rafted them together in groups of 10 to 20 boats. Canalboat families lived in seasonal communities and sent their children to school together while their boats were moored, then resumed their work in the spring. Even though the Lois McClure isn’t underwater, Evans McClure said, the museum’s archaeologists want to examine it and compare it to assessments of the General Butler and other canalboat shipwrecks: What did the replica builders get right or wrong? Where’s the wear and tear on the ship compared to actual 19th-century vessels? And what can the Lois McClure teach us about how boats of that era eventually fell apart? Regardless of the Lois McClure’s final path, the maritime museum plans to create an archive of oral histories and testimonials about the vessel, including its construction, travels and eventual decommissioning. “It is coming off the water, but that is not the end [of the Lois McClure],” Evans McClure added. “We will continue telling her story.” m

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hen Mickey West moved her iconic Red Onion Café from Church Street in Burlington to the former site of a wildflower farm in Charlotte, she wasn’t sure how it would go. The differences between the two locations are drastic: urban versus rural; pedestrian traffic versus fast-moving car traffic. But after 18 months at the new location — the Charlotte Crossings building on Route 7 near Ferry Road — the café is as busy as ever. The menu is the same, and the customers are just as happy. A common denominator is the Red Onion Sandwich ($12). It’s a classic, a greatest hit, the “Born to Run” of sandwiches: thick, dense, homemade honeyoat bread; turkey; bacon; apples; smoked cheese; and, of course, red onions. Toasted. It’s still the most popular item on West’s menu. The Red Onion Café was an institution on the Church Street Marketplace for more than 30 years. Over time, West built

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a devoted following of college students, downtown workers and tourists. Moving south was difficult, she said, but she had no choice. The rent was already creating a financial challenge when the coronavirus pandemic hit. In addition, West said, issues with the homeless population in the downtown area became too difficult to handle. “I liked most of these guys. They were nice to me. I was nice to them,” West said. Nice didn’t make up for other problems, though. “It was becoming a little too violent there for me as a 70-year-old woman,” she explained. “I wasn’t geared up to handle that anymore.” When she opened in Charlotte, some of the silver linings were immediately apparent. It’s five minutes from her house; she feels safe heading into work in the morning; and her star employee and son, Mac West-Poss, still works by her side. From the start, West said, things got wild fast. “The first six to seven months just about broke our back,” she recalled. “I

was like, Oh, my God, I can’t do this. I can’t keep up with this. We’d go home at night and bake bread.” But locals were excited to have the Red Onion nearby. On a recent dreary, drizzly Saturday, there was a line out the door at 1:30 p.m. The café was supposed to close at 2. West said that she’s sometimes still going at 3, if a crowd shows up. The smell of baking bread signals to people in line that the wait will be worth it. Charlotte resident Dorothy van Gerbig stopped by to get lunch and pick up some extras: tomato orzo soup, beet salad, focaccia, green salad and a chocolate mousse cake decorated with Easter egg candies. She’s thrilled that the café moved from Burlington and eats there almost every weekend. “It’s such a blessing for us,” van Gerbig said. “I like to come see what she’s got in the hopper.” The soups, she added, are amazing. West makes the soups and salads herself — and usually without a recipe or

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croissants, the café sells cookies ($3.50) — and they’re ginormous. The peanut butter cookie has just the right amount of crisp and salt; the chocolate chip cookie is proportionately perfect with buttery dough and chocolate sweetness; and the Aloha cookie flawlessly balances coconut, chocolate chips, cinnamon and pecans. Most of the baked goods are made in-house, but West outsources cakes and other pastries to Charlotte pastry chef Alana Oren, who trained in England. On this particular Saturday, Oren had delivered some Easterthemed items, including the chocolate mousse layer cake, coconut cupcakes and pretty pastel bunny-shaped sugar cookies. Her “beautiful little cakes” sold out quickly, West said. Though she doesn’t use her own oven for cakes, West is passionate about baking the sandwich bread. Along with createyour-own options, she offers a consistent list of specialties alongside the regular Red Onion Sandwich. Even the most devoted carnivore should take a crack at the Spinach Melt Sandwich ($12). There are several bread options to choose from (West recommended the honey-oat, for good reason), and it’s toasted with spinach, mushrooms, red onions, Cabot cheddar cheese and garlic mayo. Like most of the sandwiches, this one is so big that half could be saved for dinner. But it’s hard not to take a bite out of that second half, because it’s just so good. Charlotte resident Ginny Paton chatted with van Gerbig while they waited for their sandwiches. They had met previously at the Charlotte café and talked about van Gerbig’s Leonberger

dogs. (That’s another thing West said she misses about downtown Burlington: the on-foot customers who bring in their dogs.) Paton always gets the Red Onion Sandwich when she comes in, she said. Because of COVID-19, and being thoughtful with money in her retirement, she doesn’t get out much but heads to the Red Onion when she does. “This is a treat,” Paton said. Though the café’s relocation was easier than West had anticipated, there have been some challenges. Mike Dunbar, owner of the Charlotte Crossings building, has battled with the town over parking, seating and other zoning issues. There’s no seating inside the Red Onion, but Charlotte Crossings has several tables out front that patrons can use. West said the café’s vibe isn’t quite right yet, but it’s not easy to replicate a decades-long interior mood in only 18 months. The café is warm and inviting, even though plexiglass divides customers from staff. Masks are still required in the café and will be until the pandemic is really over. “If one of us gets COVID, we have to close, because we don’t have any bodies,” West said. Vermont’s employee shortage, particularly in the service industry, has affected the Red Onion significantly. It’s difficult to find and retain good people to work full time making sandwiches and baking, she said. West has one regular employee other than her son. West-Poss is her loyal right hand, but he probably won’t want to take over the business when she retires, West said — though she doesn’t see that happening anytime soon. He does the rolling and kneading when she can’t — her knuckles are arthritic and swollen after many years

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The biscuit harkens back to Smiley’s 2018 “Friday Mornings at Tandem” collaboration with Brooke Wilcox. “She had an awesome recipe,” Smiley said. “That was the inspiration.” At first, the Minifactory team used the recipe from chef Kelly Fields’ The Good Book of Southern Baking. Now pastry chef Rachel Cemprola gets the credit. Her biscuits are huge, and four to six turns during the lamination process give them lift. The result is both hefty and light — crunchy on the outside, fluffy inside. Minifactory is already selling 400 biscuits a week, offered with a choice of V Smiley Preserves ($6.75); with jam and soft cheese ($8.75); or as a sandwich ($12) with peach-pepper-tomato jam, egg, ham, briny vegetables and pimento cheese. “They’re pillowy and absorbent,” Smiley said. “Bread is wonderful, but it can be a little hard on the mouth. I like the pleasant textures you can achieve with a biscuit — it’s a soft crunch and crisp.” I opted for a simple smear of Cornwall plum jam. The rectangular biscuit came sliced in half, each side slathered, with one half jauntily stacked on top of the other. I could have cut into it, as the biscuit was brought to my table with silverware and a cloth napkin. But something about the stack made me pluck the top half right off and dive in, ignoring the jam that coated my hands. m “One Dish” is an occasional series that samples a single menu item — new, classic or fleeting — at a Vermont restaurant or other food venue. Know of a great plate we should feature? Drop us a line!

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Each time I’ve stepped into Minifactory in Bristol, I’ve discovered a new delight. On the café’s bustling opening day on March 20, it was a hot-pink bundle of rhubarb, tied with a delicate string. On Easter, I stopped by for coffee and flaky pastries — both savory and sweet — and impulse-bought a container of marinated Chioggia beets. On my third visit, it was the buttermilk biscuit. The new home of V Smiley Preserves in the former Bristol Cliffs Café at 16 Main Street packs a lot of produce into its all-day menu; into “big, bomb salads,” as owner V Smiley called them; and into vegan soups and fruit-topped waffles. The menu changes every couple of days, based on staffing and how things sell in Minifactory’s retail grocery section. The multilayer business model allows a lot of flexibility. If there are tomatoes left over from the tomato toast or in the retail section, “I have the ability to move them into jam, which is kind of a superpower,” Smiley said. Jars of that award-winning jam line the far wall of the café, which has been meticulously renovated into a bright, white space. Pops of yellow come from the lemon-colored chairs and the sun beaming through massive windows. Smiley’s honey-sweetened preserves — in flavors such as Seville orange, cherry-rosehip-hibiscus and classic raspberry — play a starring role on Minifactory’s menu, but the best supporting actor is the biscuit. “Biscuits and jam, can’t go wrong,” Smiley said with a laugh. “We needed to have some sort of jam vehicle, and something comforting, since this is such a community space. The biscuits do that job.”

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What do Bolivia’s national spirit, a Hollywood director and a famous bartender have in common? On Sunday, May 1, they all could be at the Archives in Winooski — at least on Zoom. Singani63 chief operating officer Jonathan Brathwaite, who lives in Hinesburg, is throwing a “relaunch event” for the brand, which was founded by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh in 2014. Brathwaite hinted that Soderbergh might make an appearance via videoconference, joining native Vermonter Ivy Mix — an award-winning booze industry pro and author — who is flying up from Brooklyn for the Ivy Mix event. Mix and the Archives’ own Sean McKenzie will whip up Singani63-based cocktails for the event, including two featured in Mix’s book, Spirits of Latin America, which she’ll be signing. Singani is a floral, smooth, un-aged brandy distilled from the aromatic muscat of Alexandria grapes at an elevation of at least 5,200 feet in Bolivia’s Andes Mountains. The spirit is similar to pisco, a better-known drink from neighboring Chile and Peru, but falls in its own distinct category. Bolivia is landlocked and relatively isolated; singani had been produced for 500 years but had never been exported. Soderbergh partnered with the Granier family in Tarija, Bolivia, to create Singani63 and bring it to the U.S. The brand caught on in New York City, landing at top bars such as Please Don’t Tell and Milk & Honey. By 2017, the spirit was listed by the Vermont Division of Liquor Control, meaning it could be distributed through state-contracted liquor stores.

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Brathwaite had moved to Hinesburg and said he made it his “backyard hobby” to build the brand at local bars and restaurants, including Hen of the Wood, Prohibition Pig, Pizzeria Verità, Monarch & the Milkweed, Guild Tavern, Mandarin and the 126. “The way you build any craft spirit brand is in bars and restaurants,” Brathwaite said. “Then the pandemic decimated that part of our industry.” During lockdown, Singani63 was still selling in 802 Spirits retail outlets but not at the level it had been in restaurants and bars — and not at the level necessary to remain listed by the Division of Liquor Control. In 2021, with assistance from newly appointed liquor control commissioner Wendy Knight, Brathwaite got Singani63 re-listed and back in the state’s warehouse. The upcoming event is a reintroduction of sorts, for both hospitality pros and the public. “Although the event is called the Return of Singani, it’s also celebrating the return of our industry,” Brathwaite said. “We’re going to come together and rejoice.” It’s good timing for another reason, too: The U.S. government is on the verge of formally recognizing singani as a distinct subcategory of brandy — something Brathwaite and Soderbergh have spent the past eight years fighting for. “I had to facilitate a bilateral trade agreement between Bolivia and the United States,” Brathwaite said with a laugh. “This is bigger than Singani63 and even singani. It’s the recognition of an entire country on the global stage.” The free event starts on May 1 at noon. Learn more at singani63.com. m

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atteo Lane often starts his sets by flexing his impressive sixoctave vocal range. A trained opera singer, the mustachioed, New York City-based comedian usually follows up by making it crystal clear to his audiences that he’s gay, should they have any lingering doubt. A visual artist who’s well-known for his thirst-trap Instagram account, Lane frequently skewers celebrities and celebrity culture, vents about dating apps, and tells stories about his huge Italian Mexican American extended family. (He has 34 first cousins, and he sang “Ave Maria” at 12 of their weddings.) Aside from his busy standup schedule, Lane cohosts the podcast “Inside the Closet” with his comedian friend Emma Willmann. On a 2019 episode of Yahoo!’s streaming talk show “BUILD,” Lane and Willmann called the series a refuge of sorts where they could be their true, gay selves without any outside industry pressure. They talk about “what two people talk about when no one else is around — but now we want everyone else to be around,” Willmann said. Recent episodes covered everything from huge pop-culture moments 40

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every letter of the alphabet. A whole list of stuff came up for each letter. ML: I was gonna say the first one was probably “Matteo Lane naked, Matteo Lane naked, Matteo Lane naked, Matteo Lane naked.”

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SD: Yeah, that did come up, but just from my own personal searches from … before. So, you’re a Twitcher? Is that what we call a person who uses Twitch? ML: Your guess is as good as mine. I think “streamer,” actually. Which is something I played with when I was little.

SD: These are all search terms that autofilled when I was researching you, and you can react, riff or tell me why those terms appeared. “Matteo Lane without mustache.” ML: [Laughing] Honestly, I haven’t seen myself without a mustache since I was 7. So, I also need to google “Matteo Lane without a mustache.” SD: “Matteo Lane Call of Duty.” ML: Yes, I play lots of Call of Duty. And Fortnite. I’m shocked Fortnite isn’t before Call of Duty, because I Twitch on Fortnite. SD: I pulled up a Google search box, typed in Matteo Lane and then typed

SD: Here’s one more: “Matteo Lane volleyball.” ML: Yeah, I used to be on a gay volleyball team in Chicago with my friends. Our name was Ursula’s Bitches, and we never won a game. SD: You have some jokes about “gay voice.” At any point in your life, did you feel the need to de-gay your voice? ML: I mean, you know, it’s like, are you — how do you identify? SD: Gay as the day is long.

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ML: Right. So, you know what it was like. It was, like, until yesterday that I would pick up the phone and you would think I was my mother. I don’t know. We just have “gay voice.” But, you know, I’m 35. When I was 17 or 20 years old, there was a different landscape. And, of course, I have lots of internalized homophobia and was ashamed of femininity, because that’s what I was told. And now I’m 35 and self-realized and happy with my life. And I don’t care how gay I sound at all. SD: You also talk about Grindr a fair amount. What’s something about Grindr that non-Grindr users probably wouldn’t know or expect? ML: I don’t know. It looks like a Renaissance painting of hell. SD: I think I know what you mean. Talk a little bit about your opera background. ML: I’m a trained opera singer who never got to sing opera. In other words, I studied with a voice teacher named Nick Falco in Chicago privately for probably seven years. It’s embellishments and breathing exercises

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and diaphragm exercises and singing little operettas. A lot of opera isn’t just doing an opera; it’s the preparation for opera. It’s like, football players train more than they play. Because it requires such a huge amount of physical exhaustion and physical work to be able to sing opera that, you know, I basically was, like, preparing myself for war — war being the opera. And then, by the time I was in college, I was like, “Eh, screw it. I’m just going to do art.”

SD: So you don’t usually eat pasta in the U.S.? ML: I mean, I cook my own pasta. But I eat at two restaurants in New York City. They’re from Italy, and they know how to properly make pasta. That’s where I would get my pasta. I’m not saying where because I don’t want people to go there.

SD: What’s the hardest thing about getting back into touring after the pandemic shutdown? ML: Travel. I spend all my money on first class and nicer hotels, because that’s where I live. I don’t have a car. I don’t have children. I don’t have a big house. I spend my money where I work, to ease the pain of travel — because I’m on a plane four times a week. I just came back from Vancouver. Everything about Vancouver was great. Getting back and forth from Vancouver felt like I was one of the Wise Men following the North Star in the Middle East to give a shitty present to baby Jesus. I was like, “Why is this so hard? It’s 2022.”

SD: Shit! I missed that earlier. That was one of my Google searches I had written down. “Matteo Lane husband.” ML: Oh, people think I have a husband? That’s interesting.

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SD: I think people just want to know if you have one. ML: It’s so hard to date. I feel like, the more I progress in my career, the more difficult it gets to date. Like, I’m flirting with a bunch of guys on Instagram, but one’s in Brazil, one’s in Australia. Like, what am I doing? They kicked me off Grindr because they thought I was catfishing as Matteo Lane. Then I got kicked off Tinder because Tinder thought I was catfishing as Matteo Lane. So now I’m just down to Hinge, and I hate it.

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SD: Was this before or after the airlines dropped the mask mandate? SD: You and some other ML: This was two weeks celebrities who’ve been ago. I haven’t been on a kicked off of dating apps MAT TEO L AN E plane since the dropping should start your own. of the mask mandate. I’m ML: One, I’m not a celebrity. flying out to Austin, so that’ll be my first But there is a quote-unquote celebrity time. But I’m gonna wear a mask on planes dating app, which you have to get approved anyway, because it’s like, it’s kind of a to get into. I finally had a friend refer me to brilliant idea. It’s not a political statement get me into it, and now I use it. They show so much as, like, I travel so much. I have to you five people a day. And then those five use my voice. Why not? I don’t want to get people — which you can all find on Grindr — are all, like, across the world. It’s like, a cold. this person’s in London; this person’s in Amsterdam. I’m not looking for a pen pal. SD: What’s something you could never live without? I’m looking for somebody to date in New ML: Pasta. That’s why I love going back to York City. And then you match with people Italy every year. I can’t believe an entire and then you never talk. Everyone’s ego is country 1) eats pasta every day, 2) knows swelled in this app. They’re all influencers. how to properly eat pasta and 3) makes the Who gives a shit? They have no talent. best pasta in the world. It’s like heaven to me. It’s like Disney World. SD: Well, I hope you find someone to date in New York. SD: What’s the wrong way to make ML: Yeah, I mean, you would think. I can pasta? look out my window and see 1,000 gays. But, ML: I mean, where do I begin? Overcooking you know, it’s harder than that. m it. Not using enough water. Not seasoning it. People putting olive oil in their water. This conversation was edited and People not cooking the pasta with the pasta condensed for clarity and length. sauce. Not cooking all day, and not using the pasta water to cook with the pasta. INFO Not knowing how to swirl their pasta. Matteo Lane performs Friday and Saturday, Using a spoon. Cutting their pasta. Using April 29 and 30, 7 and 9:30 p.m., at the boxed Parmesan cheese. Using cream in Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington. carbonara. The list goes on. vermontcomedyclub.com

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Book review: Diamonds, Camille Guthrie BY BE NJAMIN AL E S H IR E

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FROM ‘DATING PROFILE’ IN DIAMONDS Who I am: Hieronymous Bosch What’s happening in my life right now: I’m looking for the perfect match to share the so-called earthly delights. What I know how to do: I’m good at flying by winged trout, navigating only with a cherry—sporting armor and merman tail. I’m known to take an afternoon dip with my head buried in sand, while I balance a mushy raspberry—impaled by a blue branch and sat upon by two birds mulling lunch—between my thighs, and covering my privates, of course. I’m not bad at dangling nude from a giant marriage ring, the one slung around the spear piercing the Double-Testicle Tower apartments, while crystalline pneumatic tubes spit forth flocks of blackbirds.

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he title of Camille Guthrie’s fourth collection, Diamonds, couldn’t be more apropos. Glittering with erudition and sensuous humor, these poems feel forged through many years of intense pressure, resulting in a critical edge sharp enough to scratch whatever it touches. Or, in the words of author Cathy Park Hong, who blurbed the book, it’s “a glorious, feminist, mid-life scream.” That scream issues from a visiting faculty member at Bennington College who’s saddled with debt and struggling to raise two children by herself. In the opening poem, “Virgil, Hey,” she riffs on Dante Alighieri’s epic medieval poem, The Divine Comedy, writing, “Ah me! I find myself middle-aged divorced lost / In the forest dark of my failures mortgage & slack breasts.” With a relentless momentum that refuses to bow to either punctuation or trite depictions of motherhood, Guthrie laments her situation. “Take a look at my firstborn son,” she tells us in “Virgil, Hey,” “Who put me on three months’ bed rest / For whom I bled on the emergency room floor / Who declaims his device sucks / Stabs holes in the bedroom wall / Complains his ATV’s too slow / Who plots to run away to join terrorists / He’d rather die than do math.” If Diamonds remained in this personal mode throughout, it would still be a hypnotically good read, but the book has more facets. Guthrie has a masterful talent for remixing classic texts with contemporary language. In doing so, she shows how the everyday struggles and desires of a single mother reflect the larger absurdities of society in general. Diamonds, we learn in the title poem, are what her young daughter works to accrue in a video game; diamonds are also what the author would need to get out of debt, “conflict-free ones for a conflict-free life.” “During the Middle Ages” is another standout poem. The author wrestles with the cognitive dissonance of feeling simultaneously enraged by middle-aged existence and grateful not to live in the actual Middle Ages. “Some local doctor would have to drill a hole in my head / To let the demons out because I’d be full / Of black bile plus heresy as I am today.” Many of the poem’s lines are laugh-out-loud funny: “Everything’s just so bad and you have buboes // Hopefully I’d get shoved into a nunnery.” Diamonds is Guthrie’s fourth collection of poetry and her first with BOA Editions. She currently directs Bennington’s Undergraduate Writing Initiatives and holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Vassar College and a master of fine arts from

Brown University. The recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo, she has published widely in magazines and was anthologized in Best American Poetry in 2019 and 2020. Ekphrasis, a literary commentary on or description of visual art, is another of the book’s facets. “Family Collection” describes a visit to an art museum, where the speaker troops her children past lurid, Orientalist paintings of slave markets. In the placard next to one painting, a historian has provided context for the image to

make sure viewers realize they’re looking at a 19th-century European rape fantasy. “I don’t want my children to stand / Naked before a cruel man to be offered / To travelers for their pleasure / Or to rich people to be their servants or worse.” The challenge of ekphrasis is to make the poem about much more than simply the painting it depicts. Guthrie delivers by adding a contemporary global lens to her parental protective instinct. “Family Connection” continues, “Like the thousands of Syrian children / Gone missing in

What people often say about me: I ride goldfinches with a gleaming tear on my head for a helmet. They say I nap facedown in public parks purely to entice deer to sniff my freckled bare back. Both true. It’s said that I dated a lugubrious lady and together we floated in a gutted peach with our pets (her heron and my butterfly) showing off our houseplants until my leg protruded rudely from one side and sank us—also correct. People also say I frequent the ape cave deep in a diseased blackberry for s’mores, but it’s a lie.

Europe / So says the Guardian online this morning.” Poetry’s duty is to take context this crucial step further, the step that institutions like museums often don’t allow: to identify an image not simply as a historical artifact of a long-resolved injustice but a horror that is still part of our world. The second section opens with “My Net Worth.” The speaker lists her resources,

which range from the material (“Seven single earrings”) to the lyrical (“A battered unrealistically hopeful heart”) and the professional (“Twenty-two years of teaching”). The list culminates with the status of her bank account: in the low triple digits. The effect is devastating and speaks to the brokenness of a system that promises people the American dream and then saddles them with unshakable debt, even when armed with an Ivy League advanced degree. But the book is by no means a dour read; Diamonds also brims with passion and is riotously entertaining. In “My Boyfriend, John Keats,” for example, she fantasizes about wandering the Met with the tubercular Romantic poet. “Fanny doesn’t have what you need / Fanny doesn’t have antibiotics,” she tells him. Guthrie’s earnestness and wit allow for an unabashed sensuality. Even though it’s more explicit, the poem avoids the cringey objectification that authors such as Billy Collins, in his controversial poem “Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes,” have indulged in; Guthrie’s fantasy is of two people saving one another.

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The final section of Diamonds pivots to a more directly speculative mode, referencing the lives of various authors and historical figures. In “Dating Profile,” for example, she imagines an online profile written by 1500s Dutch painter Hieronymous Bosch to hilarious effect. “What I like: I like flanged mermaids who flirt with anonymous knights, visors down, both terminating piscinely.” This, too, is a form of ekphrasis but taken in an inventive new direction, wherein Guthrie’s Bosch describes all of the freaky characters in his surreal “Garden of Earthly Delights.” Guthrie’s laser wit propels these speculative imaginings; the only downside is that, in embodying historical characters, she deprives readers of the fierce sincerity and yearning of her more personal work. The earliest poems in the book radiate a refreshingly uncensored urgency and passion, a voice that seizes your attention and won’t let go. m

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founded, the Youth Opera Company of Vermont. This weekend, the YOC shows off its accomplishments with an abridged act from Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, which the company is calling “Orlofsky’s Ball.” The showcase act features arias, or solo songs, by all nine company singers, as well as plenty of Viennese waltz-inspired

choral singing. Performances — sung in English with repeat verses in German — are at the Charlotte and Waterbury Congregational churches this Saturday and Sunday, April 30 and May 1, respectively. At a rehearsal last Wednesday evening at Rice Memorial High School in Burlington, eight of the nine students, fully masked, did a walk- and sing-through of the show to

Evan Allen’s piano accompaniment. (Mary Jane Austin is the accompanist at performances.) Their casual attire, including torn jeans and vintage finds, contrasted with their mature-sounding voices. Cullins paused to coach the group on 19th-century acting. “I want you to practice ridiculous bows,” she told Rice sophomores Connor Trombly (singing Eisenstein disguised as a marquis) and Gabe Thompson (Frank, a prison governor passing as a chevalier). Cullins then directed Count Orlofsky, sung by Montpelier’s U-32 High School senior George Lane, to look over his guests with a host’s eye. Lane, who is nonbinary, is singing a “trouser role” — a male role performed by a singer with a traditionally feminine voice. Strauss wrote it for a mezzo voice. Lane, who has also sung the trouser role of Cherubino in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro with YOC, later said by phone, “I’ve never really been super-inspired by leadinglady ingénue roles. There are a lot of really interesting opportunities to explore how gender fits into the opera world, which has made me feel incredibly welcome in these spaces.” “Die Fledermaus is particularly suited to the gender fluidity of our day. That’s one of the reasons I chose it,” Cullins said in a phone call before rehearsal. Cullins made Dr. Falke, a jokester and Eisenstein’s best

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friend, into a trouser role, too; Ambrose don’t really know that much opera, but Cusick, a Burlington High School trans- I’m pulled to it. Sarah had us go to the gender sophomore, sings the traditionally Middlebury Town Hall Theater for the baritone part transposed up an octave screening of Candide,” a video producfor his soprano voice. Mezzo-soprano tion by the Opera Company of MiddleMemphis Phillips, a nonbinary student bury. “That’s literally the only opera I’ve who graduated from Essex High School seen.” in 2021, sings Faustine. “In general, if there is no Sarah, it’s Cullins founded what she originally left up to the music teacher, and if they called the Youth Opera Workshop of have no experience with opera, it doesn’t Vermont in 2019 as a satellite program happen,” commented Kevin Ginter, the of the Middlebury Community Music head of Rice’s music department and Center. Organized around a semester YOC’s board vice president. Four of his of study culminating in a group perfor- Rice music students — three of whom mance, the first workshop resulted in a study voice with him privately — are performance of selected scenes from performing in “Orlofsky’s Ball”: Trombly, operas by Mozart, Claudio Monteverdi Thompson, Ramsey Stephenson and Lili and Henry Purcell. Diemer. Collaborations with Barn Opera in Ginter, a tenor from Huntington, Brandon and Saint Michael’s College attended Mount Mansfield Union Chorale in Colchester followed. When the High School. He sang in musicals and pandemic put an end to indoor singing, choruses, he said, but didn’t start taking Cullins organized virtual study and the voice lessons until he was a sophomore summertime Project Serenade, in which at Castleton State College (now Castleton YOC singers stood outside eldercare University), where he earned a bachelor’s facilities around Chittenden County and in music education. Inspired, Ginter went sang to the residents. Last summer, the on to earn a master’s in vocal performance company relaunched from the Conservatory live performances with of Music of Brooklyn Gilbert and Sullivan’s College. The Pirates of Penzance. “My voice teacher Despite existing [at Castleton] was an primarily during the opera singer,” he said, pandemic so far, the referring to Suzanne YOC has turned out Kantorski. “That was two singers who’ve my first exposure to gone on to focus on opera.” The YOC, vocal performance at Ginter noted, is “really college. One is Sam giving these kids a step Thompson (Gabe’s ahead of a lot of people.” older brother), a voice Cullins’ own break GEORGE L ANE major at the Catholic came the summer University of America before her senior year in Washington, D.C. In fact, Cullins got at Burlington High School: She was the idea for “Orlofsky’s Ball” from Sam, invited to sing in a Gilbert and Sullivan who sang in CUA’s performance of the act production of the (now-defunct) Vermont last year. Mozart Festival. After her training, she Wanda Sullivan, a senior at Harwood launched a 10-year teaching and perforUnion High School in Waitsfield, plans mance career in Bogotá, Colombia, before to study voice performance but has not returning to Burlington in 2013. yet chosen a college. (She was accepted “I don’t think any student in Vermont at all the schools to which she applied.) thinks of opera as something they can sing During high school, Sullivan starred in or are interested to sing; they really don’t her school’s musicals and sang in honors have a context,” Cullins declared. “So they choir while studying voice with a private need someone they trust to say, ‘I think teacher. you have the voice to do this.’” When she became Cullins’ student last The YOC, she added, is “the opportuyear, Sullivan said, she learned to produce nity I would have wished for.” m “efficient, consistent sound — not forced, but using breath support and your full INFO [body’s] muscles to sing rather than just Youth Opera Company of Vermont performs your throat. “Orlofsky’s Ball” on Saturday, April 30, “I love her. I’m absorbing everything I 7:30 p.m., at Charlotte Congregational can,” Sullivan said of Cullins and the YOC. Church, and on Sunday, May 1, 1 p.m., at “Plus,” the soprano added, “it’s opera, Waterbury Congregational Church. Free; which, I mean, I never did before last donations appreciated. Face masks required. summer,” when she sang in Pirates. “I charlotteucc.org, waterburyucc.com

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A turkey calling contest in Castleton draws talented youth cluckers and yelpers

he 16th annual Bart Jacob Memorial Youth Turkey Calling Contest was held at Edward F. Kehoe Green Mountain Conservation Camp in Castleton on April 16. Eighteen youths between the ages of 2 and 17 competed, using devices to yelp, cluck and purr like a female turkey. The event was sponsored by the Oxbow Mountain 4-H Shooting Sports Club and the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. The organizers hope it will help pass hunting traditions on to younger people. The event is a precursor to the spring hunting season and the Youth Turkey Weekend, which took place on Saturday and Sunday. For her latest episode of “Stuck in Vermont,” Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger met some of the competitors and got a lesson in turkey calls from National 4-H Shooting Sports teen ambassador Colby Butler, who has been hunting since he was 6 or 7.

Unstuck: Episode Extras With Eva SEVEN DAYS: What brought you to Castleton? EVA SOLLBERGER: Vermont Fish & Wildlife sent out a press release about the event, and Seven Days’ staff suggested that video would be the best way to capture it. It is certainly easier to see and hear turkey calls than describe them with words. It seemed like a classic quirky “Stuck” story, so I was down to capture it.

shoot any deer that day, but I did see some carcasses, which you see in the video.

SD: What is your experience with hunting? ES: I don’t come from a hunting family, but I do eat meat, and I respect people who humanely kill animals for food. I got a real education in hunting back in 2013, when I went out deer hunting with Tom Rogers of Vermont Fish & Wildlife in Stowe Hollow. Of course, I was making a “Stuck in Vermont” video about the experience, and we also stopped by the Fly Rod Shop in Stowe and the now-closed Jericho General Store to meet some hunters. I was very impressed with the traditions that are carried on through hunting families and the importance of involving youth in the sport. I was secretly glad that we didn’t

SD: How was the trip to Castleton? ES: Getting there in my little Prius was an adventure. My friend Howard Fisher was nice enough to drive me, but Google Maps wasn’t able to get us to Kehoe Conservation Camp. Luckily, we found the rutted dirt road and made it up there. Needless to say, my tiny car was surrounded by a sea of large trucks in the parking lot. The camp has majestic views of Lake Bomoseen and is surrounded by lots of green forest. The lodge entryway is filled with taxidermy animals, which you see briefly in the video. I haven’t done many indoor shoots since the pandemic, and I was nervous to be the only mask wearer in attendance. People were very welcoming, even though I was obviously an

Youths Compete in a Turkey Calling Contest in Castleton [Episode 663]

outsider from Burlington who was sticking a camera in their faces. SD: What was it like meeting the young hunters at the contest? ES: The highlight of the day was meeting the kids and hearing their turkey calls. It was obvious what a big deal this was for them and their families. You can see in the end of the video how proud they are as the little kids all receive trophies and first-place awards. I was also glad to see that out of the 18 competitors, two were young women. Eleven-year-old first-place winner Brooke Flewelling, whose dad, Joel, was also the MC, has been competing since she was 4 years old. This was her first time doing the purr in competition, and her yelp was phenomenal. Brooke and her dad also walked me through some of the calls, so I’d have a better understanding of the contest. SD: What surprised you about this event? ES: From reading the press release and talking to organizer Tom Wilson on the phone, I thought all the calls would be made with contestants’ mouths. That is not the case at all. Most of the calls are done with devices such as the box call and the slate call. I also expected more gobbles, but, because the contestants are trying to attract the male turkeys, they make hen sounds instead. I think my favorite was the locator call, which mimics an owl or a crow and tries to get the turkey to gobble back in response. Sometimes the judges gobbled back from behind their privacy screen (the contest was judged anonymously), which was always hilarious. I wish I had interviewed some of the judges and more of the kids. SD: Colby Butler did some amazing turkey calls. ES: I loved meeting Colby, who placed first in the older-age division. He has participated in this competition for 10 years and also competes on the national stage. Colby is passionate about turkey calling and hunting. He does the more advanced mouth calls with a plastic device and can do a wide variety of yelps, clucks and purrs. Listening to Colby talk about the joys of hunting and communicating with these birds reminds me of why I love my job so much. Encountering these passionate people and sharing them with a bigger audience is the stuff that dreams are made of.

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he narrative is familiar by now: Museum shuts down in the pandemic, takes stock of itself while closed, reopens with a fresh MO. And that hasn’t meant simply cleaning out the storeroom or painting the walls. Museums worldwide have engaged in a wholesale selfexamination with regard to diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as how they host exhibitions and events both physically and virtually. The Middlebury College Museum of Art closed to all but essential staff in March 2020. A year later, it opened its doors to faculty and students — after all, its primary mission as a college museum is to serve its academic programs. Earlier this month, the museum finally reopened to the public with modest fanfare: a press release and advertisements in local media. That likely explained the trickle of noncampus visitors to the museum on a recent weekday. They did not see, on the surface, a radical transformation of the venue. But some changes in presentation are significant. “The gallery invites you to consider choices artists make as they express ideas through visual language,” reads a very tall sign at the entrance of the first room. Then, a revelatory sentence: “Other interpretive frameworks — particularly considerations of how gender, race and class influence the production as well as the reception of art — have informed how works of art are displayed throughout the museum.” This sign is titled “Creation and Interpretation.” Other such panels stand like looming docents in each of the gallery spaces: “In the Eye of the Beholder,” “People and the Planet,” “Interconnected Worlds.” The texts not only offer thoughtful commentary, they signal that a viewer will be asked to think as well as look. Without the explanatory panels, the curatorial approach might seem

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incoherent. Absent are the standard exhibition parameters that help our brains categorize things — specific time periods, genres or places of origin. Among the offerings in one room, for example, are a graphic, black-and-white Andy Warhol painting; a vivid abstraction by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui; and delicately painted pottery from ancient Greece. In a n o t h e r, t w o p a i n tings — one by Norman Rockwell, the other by Kehinde Wiley (who would go on to paint “Kiddie Kar” by William Zorach president Barack

Obama’s official portrait) — hang side by side, seemingly with little in common. Each of these paintings, sculptures, shards and relics — and each of these artists — has a history. A story. The museum is basically encouraging viewers to make their own connections. Museum director Richard Saunders, who offered a tour of the galleries last week, explained that staff had used the pandemic downtime to reconfigure their presentation. “It had been the same for a long time,” he said. “We thought a lot about our choices.” As a group they came up with a number of themes — alternative ways to conceptualize and display objects in the permanent collection. Like other museum staffs, they took a hard look

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at representation — that is, of work by Black, Indigenous, female or LGBTQ artists — not just in exhibitions but in acquisitions. Saunders pointed out two ways in which the museum has taken the viewpoints of visitors into account, as well. Each gallery offers a “Label Talk” dialogue about a specific work of art, in which visitors can use a QR code to leave their own comments. The other consideration is for physical point of view: “We hung the works a little lower for people in wheelchairs,” Saunders said, “and we increased the font size” of wall text. He acknowledged that all of these efforts are “a work in progress.” A substantial pandemic-era achievement for Middlebury’s museum is a handsome volume titled simply Handbook of the Collection. Though it was in planning before 2020, Saunders said, the museum’s closure allowed staff the time and focus to finish the project. The Handbook’s striking cover is a close-up detail of a Damascus tile, in rich blues and green, from the late 16th or early 17th century. Inside are photographs and brief explanations of selected works from the 6,000-plus items in the museum’s holdings. Several copies of the book are available for viewers to browse in a second-floor sitting area adjacent to the exhibition “Contemporary to Classical: Highlights From the New Collections Handbook.” As the title indicates, it features works that are described in the book. As Saunders noted, the Handbook has a somewhat unusual organization: reverse chronology. That is, more recently acquired items precede older ones. The first object pictured is a slender bronze sculpture, titled “Sentinel IV,” by American artist Simone Leigh. Though minimal in design, its elegant contours convey the “Black female-identifying subjectivity and African and Africandiasporic traditions” that the artist explores, according to the description. At 20 inches tall, it’s a mini version of Leigh’s 10-foot sculpture of the same name. (Last weekend, Leigh was one of two winners of the Golden Lion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, the first Black women to receive the event’s highest award.) This work and others represent the BACK TO ART SCHOOL SEVEN DAYS APRIL 27-MAY 4, 2022

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f FAIR HOUSING EXHIBITION: A group show featuring works by artists who responded to the prompt, “What makes a thriving, inclusive community?” Presented by Arts So Wonderful and CVOEO’s Fair Housing Project. Reception: Friday, April 29, 5-7 p.m. April 29-June 30. Arts So Wonderful Gallery in South Burlington. f ‘TUCKED IN: RESILIENCE IN SMALL MOMENTS’: Artwork created during the pandemic lockdown by Leslie Roth, Dianne Shullenberger and Elizabeth Fram. Reception: Sunday, May 15, 1-3 p.m. May 1-June 19. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

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f ‘IN THE LIGHT OF SPRING’: Artworks in a variety of mediums by 32 members of the Art Resource Association, a Montpelier organization that supports visual artists through exhibition opportunities and workshops. Reception: Friday, April 29, 4-7 p.m. April 29-June 27, 4-7 p.m. Info, 229-6206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.

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f NICK PILIERO: “Flying Colors,” lively paintings by the local artist. Meet the artist: Saturday, May 7, 1-3 p.m. April 27-June 4. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

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f SAMANTHA M. ECKERT, CECELIA KANE & TARA WRAY: Solo exhibitions in different disciplines by the Vermont artists, each informed by interests in ancestry, family lore, identity, mapping time and memory. Reception: Friday, April 29, 5-7 p.m. April 29-June 4. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

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for $200 or less. Details and preregistration at axelsgallery.com. Artwork drop-off: Saturday, April 30, 10 a.m. -4 p.m. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery in Waterbury. May 4-7. Info, 244-7801.

f CITYWIDE ARTS FESTIVAL: Stores, banks, restaurants, the library and other businesses display works by local artists. Art walk: Thursday, May 26, 6:15 p.m., followed by silent and live auction, 7 p.m., at Vergennes Opera House. Various Vergennes locations. Through May 6. Info, 388-7951. ‘CURATING AS PRAXIS: SHATTERING THE MYTH OF NEUTRALITY’: The Henry Sheldon Museum presents a Zoom lecture, the eighth and final event in the series “Elephant in the Room: Exploring the Future of Museums.” La Tanya Autry, a cultural organizer and independent curator, discusses dismantling oppressive forces through applying knowledge to real-world conditions in museums. Register at henrysheldonmuseum.org. Online, Wednesday, May 4, 7 p.m. Info, 388-2117. OPEN STUDIO FRIDAYS: Wind down from your week with a self-initiated project or activity — from art to writing to reading — in the companionable company of others online. Details at poartry.org. Online, Friday, April 29, 6-8 p.m. Free, donations appreciated. Info, poartryproject@gmail. com. ‘PANDEMIC PASSAGES’: A monthly online workshop presented by the Passing Project using art to open the unexpected gifts that the pandemic life has given us. Participants can explore their experiences through writing, drawing, dancing or other means. Details at passingproject.org.

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Sunday, May 1, 4-5:30 p.m. Sliding-scale donations, $10-25. Info, infopassingproject@gmail.com. ‘PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE ARTIST BEHIND THE CURTAIN’: Artist Anne Spalter and programmer Todd Dailey present a virtual tour of their NFT art exhibit, “The Wonder of It All,” at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. They explain how the NFTs were made and how you also can create this new type of art. Register at brattleboromuseum. org. Online, Monday, May 2, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 257-0124. ‘SPACESHIPS AND ART: A MATCH MADE IN THE IMAGINATION’: Author Ron Miller discusses the history of spaceships depicted in art, in conjunction with a current exhibition. Register for the Zoom presentation at brattleboromuseum.org. Online, Thursday, April 28, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 257-0124.

Hannah Bureau Her paintings are the visual equivalent of a deep sigh,

a calming breath, a meditation. Hannah Bureau’s exhibition at the Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls offers viewers vistas in a soft, tranquil palette. The artist, who lives in Lincoln, Mass., suggests her works are “at the intersection of landscape and abstraction.” That’s true, but those words imply sharp edges. Rather, Bureau’s landscapes seem to melt into a companionable relationship with, and to benefit from, ambiguity. She does not eschew form altogether; her acrylic canvases present discernible horizon lines, clouds, and approximate shapes of trees, water and even structures. With the current body of work, Bureau notes in an artist statement, “I wanted to emphasize the sky … The paintings in this show have a lower horizon, allowing for more sky, light and air to create a

VISITING ARTIST TALK: MICHELLE SEGRE: Vermont Studio Center presents a Zoom presentation by the Brooklyn-based artist about her mixed-media sculptures. Register at vermontstudio center.org. Online, Wednesday, April 27, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2727.

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ARTWORKS AT UVMMC: Oil paintings and watercolors by Susan Bull Riley (Main Street Connector, ACC 3); acrylic and ink paintings by Mike Strauss (Main Street Connector, BCC and Patient Garden); acrylic paintings by Brecca Loh (McClure 4); and acrylic paintings by Michelle Turbide (Pathology hallway, ACC 2). Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through May 31. Info, 865-7296. University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington. CAITLIN LA DOLCE: “Overgrowth,” drawings and paintings that explore the complex relationship between science and the natural world and examine bizarre, plantlike creatures. Through April 30. Info, 324-0014. Soapbox Arts in Burlington. ‘COURAGE TO REMEMBER: THE HOLOCAUST 19331945’: An exhibit from the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County composed of 40 panels on the Nazi Holocaust. Through May 1. Info, 863-3403. Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.

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Bureau was born in Paris, France, and moved to the U.S. at age 8. As the Edgewater website explains, she is the third generation of female painters in her family and grew up surrounded by art. She earned degrees at the Rhode Island School of Design and well as illustration for an educational publisher. Among her mentors, Bureau includes Vermont-based painter Eric Aho, who currently has an exhibition of abstracted landscapes at Burlington’s BCA Center. Indeed, what the two artists share is the gift of transcendent expression with paint. “Open Air” is on view through May 22. CVOEO FAIR HOUSING: Informational panels about inclusive housing and the importance of home, illustrated by Corrine Yonce. Through April 29. Info, 865-7296. Burlington City Hall. ‘DARK GODDESS: AN EXPLORATION OF THE SACRED FEMININE’: An exhibition of photographs by Brattleboro-based Shanta Lee Gander that employ ethnography and cultural anthropology to consider the meaning of the male gaze and the ways society confines females. Through December 9. ‘UNPACKED: REFUGEE BAGGAGE’: A multimedia installation by Syrian-born, Connecticut-based artist and architect Mohamad Hafez and Iraqi-born writer and speaker

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Ahmed Badr. The miniature sculptures of homes, buildings and landscapes ravaged by war are embedded with the voices and stories of real people. Through May 6. Info, 656-0750. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, in Burlington. ‘DEEP THAW’: Works by students including games, videos on a variety of subjects, a set of outfits and more. Through May 1. Info, 865-8980. Champlain College Art Gallery in Burlington. DOUGLAS BIKLEN: Abstract fine-art photographs by the Vermont-based artist and author. Lorraine B. Good Room. Through June 15. ERIC AHO:

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“Headwater,” monumental paintings that capture the Vermont artist’s sensory experience of nature reconstructed through memory and invention. Through June 5. SARAH TRAD: “What Still Remains,” an exploration of personal and cultural identity using single- and multichannel video and textile installations by the Philadelphia-based Lebanese American artist. Through June 5. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

viewed online. ‘MILL TO MALL: HISTORIC SPACE REIMAGINED’: An exhibition that tells the story of the public-private partnership that enabled the preservation and rebirth of a formerly derelict industrial building into a shopping center. Visitors are encouraged to add personal memories of the space to the community recollections. Through July 29. Free. Info, legacy@winooskivt.gov, 355-9937. Heritage Winooski Mill Museum.

‘FOOL ME ONCE’: A group show featuring works that utilize different mediums than the artists are used to, are made with the nondominant hand, show off mind-altering content or were entered under a false name. Through May 21. Info, spacegalleryvt@gmail. com. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

BARBARA LANE AND BRENDA MYRICK: A motherand-daughter exhibition of paintings in acrylic and watercolor. Through May 31. Info, 458-1415. Charlotte Senior Center.

‘GREEN DOOR STUDIO TAKES OVER ARTSRIOT’: Paintings by Nicole Christman, Steve Sharon, Scottie “SK” Raymond and Will Clingenpeel, members of the 20-year-old South End art space. Through April 30. Info, 540-0406. ArtsRiot in Burlington.

CELEBRATING WOMEN LUTHIERS: An international exhibition of instruments, including violin, viola, cello and string bass, as well as bows handcrafted by women. All items are for sale. Through May 7. Info, 862-0349. Vermont Violins in South Burlington.

MALTEX ARTISTS: New works by James Vogler, Myles Moran, Kathleen Grant, Nancy Tomczak, Kristina Pentek and Bear Cieri, in the hallways. Through August 31. Info, 865-7296. The Maltex Building in Burlington.

f ‘FERAL STITCHING: FOUR ARTISTS GO WILD’: Sarah Ashe, Janet Fredericks, Kari Hansen and Lily Hinrichsen, painters who began a weekly exploration of textiles a year ago, show the results of their individual and collaborative creations. Reception: Friday, April 29, 5-7 p.m. Through May 7. Info, 9853848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

MELANIE BROTZ: “Water = Life,” paintings by the Burlington artist that express appreciation for water and honor our connection with the bodies of water around us. Through April 30. Info, 540-6400. City Market, Onion River Co-op (Burlington South End).

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

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HOWARD CENTER ARTS COLLECTIVE: Sixteen members of the collective address the theme “Arrival and Departure” in a variety of mediums. Skyway. SAM MACY: Shadow box wood constructions. Gates 1-8. Through June 1. Info, 865-7296. Burlington International Airport in South Burlington.

‘100+ FACES OF WINOOSKI’: Daniel Schechner of Wishbone Collective photographed more than 150 residents in conjunction with the Winooski Centennial Celebration. The collection can also be

‘IN PLAIN SIGHT: REDISCOVERING CHARLES SUMNER BUNN’S DECOYS’: An online exhibition of shorebird decoys carved by the member of the Shinnecock-Montauk Tribes, based on extensive research and resolving historic controversy. Through October 5. ‘OUR COLLECTION: ELECTRA HAVEMEYER WEBB, EDITH HALPERT AND FOLK ART’: A virtual exhibition that celebrates the friendship between the museum founder and her longtime art dealer, featuring archival photographs and ephemera, a voice recording from Halpert, and quotations pulled from the women’s extensive correspondences. Through February 9, 2023. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum. LISA BALFOUR & KELLY O’NEAL: Acrylic paintings (Merrill Community Room) and photographs exploring place (Pierson Room), respectively. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through June 15. Info, 865-7296. Pierson Library in Shelburne. SARAH GAVIN: “80% Unexplored,” painting, drawing and mixed-media collage by the SMC art and design student. Through May 1. Info, bcollier@smcvt.edu. McCarthy Art Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester.

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APRIL & MAY EXHIBITS: Works in a variety of mediums including watercolor, oils, charcoal and colored pencil by Carolyn Zuaro, Heather Snyder and Lynn Spencer. Through May 29. Info, 279-5048. ART, etc. in Northfield. BRAD LUTZ: Colorful illustrations that explore multiple dimensions and patterns. Through April 30. Info, 225-6232. Filling Station in Middlesex. ‘THE CATAMOUNT IN VERMONT’: An exhibition that explores the feline symbol of Vermont through the

lenses of art, science and culture. Through May 31. ‘VOICES OF ST. JOSEPH’S ORPHANAGE’: An exhibition documenting the abuse of children who lived at the former Catholic Diocese-run orphanage in Burlington, and the stories of former orphans that led to changes in child-protection laws. Through July 30. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. ‘DRIP’: A group exhibit of installations and 2D artwork exploring water issues. Main Floor Gallery. CHARLES LYSOGORSKI: “City Scenes,” drawings by the Vermont artist. Third Floor Gallery. DEBORAH BARNWELL: “Of Fire and Rust,” mixed-media artworks. Second Floor Gallery. Masks required. Through April 30. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre. JAN GHIRINGHELLI: Paintings, prints and note cards by the central Vermont artist. Through May 11. Info, 479-0896. Espresso Bueno in Barre. ‘THE MATTER OF LOSS: HOLDING SPACES’: An exhibition that explores resilience and loss: collages that pay homage to victims of COVID-19 by Daryl Burtnett, and house forms in a variety of mediums by Axel Stohlberg. Through May 8. Info, 224-6827. The Susan Calza Gallery in Montpelier. PRIA CAMBIO: “Warmth for You, Right Now,” paintings, drawings and collage. Sales benefit Studio Place Arts programs. Through April 30. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre. SHOW 48: Artworks by Sam Thurston, James Secor, Kathy Stark, Ned Richardson, Elizabeth Nelson, Richard Moore, Michelle Lesnak, Hasso Ewing, Marjorie Kramer, Melora Kennedy, Chris Jeffrey, Glen Coburn Hutcheson, Alice Dodge, Monica DiGiovanni, BARRE/MONTPELIER SHOWS

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PJ Desrochers, Cheryl Betz, Daryl Burtnett and more. Through May 1. Info, info@thefrontvt.com. The Front in Montpelier. STEPHANIE KOSSMANN: “Living Space: Portraits Through Appreciative Inquiry,” paintings of trauma survivors. Nuquist Gallery. VERMONT WATERCOLOR SOCIETY: Central Vermont and Northeast Kingdom members of the association exhibit their paintings. Contemporary Hall. Through May 12. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. ‘THE WORLD THROUGH THEIR EYES’: Watercolors and drawings by 19th-century Norwich alumni William Brenton Boggs and Truman Seymour depicting scenes in North and South America, Asia, Europe and Africa. Through December 16. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield.

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2022 LEGACY COLLECTION: An exhibit of works by 16 distinguished New England landscape artists plus a selection of works by Alden Bryan and Mary Bryan. Through December 24. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. AMBER FOLLANSBEE, TREY HANCOCK & FRANK TAMASI: Drawings, paintings and mixed-media installation art by the fine art students. Through May 15. Info, phillip.robertson@northernvermont.edu. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University, in Johnson. ‘THE ART OF THE GRAPHIC’: Eight displays of snowboards that let viewers see the design process from initial conception to final product; featuring artists Scott Lenhardt, Mark Gonzalez, Mikey Welsh, Mishel Schwartz and more. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

f FINNEGAN WATSON & FINN WATSULA: Installation art and painting, respectively, by the fine arts students. Reception and artist talk: Wednesday, May 4, 3 p.m. Through May 15. Info, phillip. robertson@northernvermont.edu. Susan Calza Black Box Gallery, Visual Arts Center, in Johnson. KATHERINE CLARKE LANGLANDS: “Visual Rhythms,” a solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures made from driftwood and recycled vinyl records. Through May 7. Info, kyle.minemagallery@gmail.com. Minema Gallery in Johnson.

mad river valley/waterbury

‘TRANSITIONS’: A group exhibition featuring textile-inspired works by members of the Surface Design Association. Through April 30. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery in Waterbury.

f ‘VISIONS IN OIL’: Paintings by 22 artists working

in the oil medium in various styles and techniques. Reception: Saturday, May 14, 1-5 p.m. Through May 14. Info, 496-6682. The Gallery at Mad River Valley Arts in Waitsfield.

middlebury area

ALICE ECKLES: “Come What May,” floral, abstract and landscape paintings and wearable art. Through April 30. Info, 310-9364. Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury. HANNAH BUREAU: “Open Air,” new abstracted landscape paintings. Through June 1. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls. HANNAH SESSIONS: Landscapes and barnyard scenes by the Vermont farmer and painter. Through April 30. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes. ‘ITTY BITTY: TINY TEXTS IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS’: Books from the 17th to 21st centuries that measure between 1.8 and 10 centimeters, from religious manuscripts to cookbooks, children’s books to Shakespeare. Visitors are not currently allowed in the library but may view the works online at go.middlebury.edu/tinybooks. Through May 31. Davis Family Library, Middlebury College.

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CALL TO ARTISTS 2022 PHOTOGRAPHY SHOOT-OUT: The theme for this year’s competition is “Reflections.” First-place winner gets a solo show at Axel’s in 2023. Two entries per photographer. Rules and details at axelsgallery. com/news. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery, Waterbury. Through October 8. $20. Info, 244-7801. ‘ABLUTIONS’: The museum is seeking items for its 2022 exhibition featuring the act of bathing or washing the body and the implements and tools associated with it. All manner of contributions will be considered, from vessels and bathing implements to narratives about purification rituals. Contact Clare Dolan about donations or volunteer installation workdays in May through museumofevery daylife.org. The Museum of Everyday Life, Glover. Through May 10. AIAVT SEEKS APPLICATIONS FOR COMMUNITY OUTREACH GRANT: The Carol Miklos Community Outreach Grant was created to support initiatives and special funding requests which have the potential to foster engagement with architecture and design in Vermont’s communities. The grant, named in honor of AIAVT’s executive director 2008-2018, is awarded once per year, with the amount up to $1,500. Details at aiavt.org. Deadline: May 31. Online. Free. Info, 448-2169. ‘AS WE TILT TOWARDS THE SUN’: Artists are invited to submit work in themes related to Solstice, time, process, change or new beginnings. Juried by Janie Cohen, director of the Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont. Details and application at avagallery.org. Deadline: May 9. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, N.H., Info, 603-448-3117. CHELSEA ARTS ON THE GREEN FESTIVAL: Artists, artisans and food vendors are welcome to apply to this Labor Day weekend event. Deadline: August 1. Details at chelseavt-arts.com. Online. Info, chelseaarts collective@gmail.com. LADYBROAD LEDGER: Vermont’s free femme alt comics newspaper seeks submissions from Vermont-based lady-identifying, ladypresenting or lady-adjacent cartoonists for the September issue. All subjects welcome, including fiction, nonfiction and autobio. Find submission info at ladybroadledger.com. Deadline: June 1. Online. ‘PARKS & RECREATION’: Submissions are open for Bryan Gallery’s and Bennington Museum’s joint summer exhibition, which will highlight historical and contemporary interpretations of Vermont’s 55 state parks, and

rutland/killington

ALEYNA FEINBERG: “Gesture of something like home,” artwork in the windows that communicates a relationship to landscape that is about memory, otherness and feelings of belonging and not belonging. Through June 4. Info, bmiller@77art.org. 77ART in Rutland. ‘IMAGES OF OUR WORLD’: A photography exhibit and amateur photo contest featuring local artists. Through May 27. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. ‘WE’RE ALL AT A PARTY CALLED LIFE ON EARTH!’: An installation by Frobertan (partners Fran Bull and Robert Black) of painted figurative sculptures, architectural structures and works on paper that are inspired by commedia dell’arte and celebrate human diversity. Through June 11. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

explore the diverse beauty of these protected wildscapes in all seasons. All 2D and 3D works in any medium will be considered. Details at bryangallery.org. Deadline: May 8. Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100. QUALIFICATIONS FOR OUTDOOR PERMANENT ART IN SOUTH BURLINGTON: The South Burlington Public Art Committee seeks qualifications from artists interested in creating outdoor public art valued at $2,000 to $10,000 to be commissioned over the next several years. This call will create a pipeline for original, permanent, and specific art to establish a distinct sense of place, welcome community and create identity for the city. Artists must have a strong connection to Vermont. Details at southburlingtonvt.gov. Deadline: May 30, 10 a.m. Online. Info, iblanchard@southburlingtonvt.gov. RELIEF PRINTING: Sparrow Art Supply in Middlebury is looking for submissions from artists age 16 and up that incorporate any form of relief printing: linocut, woodcut, letterpress, rubber stamping or mixed media that utilizes block printing. Open to any subject matter or surface. Details at sparrowartsupply.com. Deadline: May 3. Online. Free to enter; $10 if accepted. Info, 989-7225. SPRING 2022 JURY APPLICATION: The gallery and nonprofit organization is accepting applications for new exhibitors, reviewed by a professional jury. Details at froghollow.org. Deadline: May 15. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery, Burlington. Free. Info, froghollowdaniel@gmail.com. ‘THE STORY’: Photographers are invited to submit images that tell a story or visual narrative evoking an emotional or visceral response from the viewer. May be digital or analog and can integrate documentary, fantastical or surreal, forced perspective, time lapse, candid, photojournalistic or long exposure. Open to artists 18 and older within the U.S and Canada. Juried exhibit will be August 5 to September 11. Details at stonevalleyarts.org. Deadline: June 15. Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill, Poultney, Fridays. $25 for up to 3 entries. Info, erikaschmidt.sva@gmail.com. TRANSGENDERLAND CALL TO NFT ARTISTS: Artists are invited to donate trans-friendly or gender-expansive works; NFTs, photos and other mediums are accepted. Vermont-based Transgenderland’s collection uses art to celebrate gender-expansive ideas, visibility and community building. Most art is shared through NFTs because they are nearly free to create and are accessible. Online, Through May 18. Free. Info, micdrophealth@ gmail.com.

‘MATHEMATICIANS MADE VISIBLE’: A series of block-print portraits of contemporary mathematicians, promoting a more diverse population in the field of math. Learn more about the educational mission at kitchentableprinter.com. Through June 1. Info, 295-4567. Long River Gallery in White River Junction. MIYA TURNBULL: “Face to Face,” self-portrait masks by the Nova Scotia-based artist. Through May 1. Info, 347-264-4808. Kishka Gallery & Library in White River Junction.

northeast kingdom

f ANN YOUNG: “Now, You Tell the Story,” oil paintings of people by the Vermont artist. Reception: Sunday, May 15, 4-6 p.m. Through June 5. Info, 5332000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

champlain islands/northwest

ISA OEHRY: “Through the Window,” whimsical portraits of farm animals looking out of their barn windows. Through May 20. Info, 525-3366. The Parker Pie Company in West Glover.

upper valley

‘A LIFE IN LISTS AND NOTES’: An exhibition that celebrates the poetic, mnemonic, narrative and enumerative qualities of lists and notes. The objects on display span myriad creative, professional, bureaucratic, domestic and personal uses of lists through the ages. Through May 31. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

‘FORM AND FUNCTION: WE ARE THE VESSEL’: Three collections with stories to tell: tea bowls by Jeanne Claire Bisson, weavings by Diane Elliott Gayer and 1940s clay pots from the Southwest. Through May 22. Info, 355-2150. GreenTARA Space in North Hero.

JES RAYMOND: “What I Owe to Wonder,” block prints. Through April 30. Info, 360-918-2202. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. KATHY FISKE: “Potpourri,” paintings, drawings and prints by the local artist. Through April 30. Info, 4572295. Norman Williams Public Library in Woodstock. MARGARET LAMPE KANNENSTINE: Paintings focused on the Ottauquechee River by the Vermont artist. Through June 30. Info, 359-3194. Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee.

‘MATERIAL DRAWING REDUX: DRAWN TO TOUCH’: Works by Audrey Goldstein, Michelle Samour, Julia Shepley and Debra Weisberg, who have been in conversation with each other for more than 15 years about their individual drawing practices. Through June 11. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. SOPHIA BETTMANN-KERSON: “Being pushed by angels,” watercolor pencil drawings. Through April 30. Info, 522-5280. Hardwick Inn.

SPRING STUDENT ART SHOW: Artworks from students in the seven schools of Kingdom East District. Through April 30. Info, 229-8317. The Satellite Gallery in Lyndonville.

brattleboro/okemo valley

ANNE SPALTER: “The Wonder of It All,” the museum’s first-ever exhibition of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), featuring themes of travel, exploration, outer space and the unconscious mind by the pioneering digital artist. Through June 12. DELITA MARTIN: “Between Worlds,” a yearlong installation in the museum’s front windows that reimagines the identities and roles of Black women in the context of Black culture and African history. Through May 31. LOUISA CHASE: “Fantasy Worlds,” a survey of the late artist’s work, including sculpture, drawing, painting and prints from her 40-year career. Curated by Elissa Watters. Through June 12. M. CARMEN LANE: “(í:se) Be Our Guest/Stolen,” new experimental silkscreen prints based on the personal histories of displacement and dispossession in the African American and Native artist’s family. Curated by Mildred Beltré Martinez. Through June 12. MILDRED BELTRÉ MARTINEZ: “Between Starshine and Clay,” a diverse selection of work including drawing, textile and installation that speaks to the complexity of a Black, ethnic, gendered experience. Curated by Mara Williams. Through June 12. ROBERT VISANI: “Form/Reform,” digitally modeled DIY cardboard slave kits that reexamine art historical imagery depicting the institution of American chattel slavery. Curated by David Rios Ferreira. Through June 12. SACHIKO AKIYAMA: “Through Lines,” wall reliefs and mixed-media figurative sculptures invoking a variety of cultural traditions. Curated by Mara Williams. Through June 12. YVETTE MOLINA: “Big Bang Votive,” egg tempera paintings of objects that have brought people delight, such as cake, a bicycle, a tent, based on listening to their stories. Curated by Sarah Freeman. Through June 12. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

ART SHOWS

JULIA ZANES: “Household Objects,” new paintings inspired by the first publication of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Through May 9. Info, 387-0102. Next Stage Arts Project in Putney. LYDIA KERN: “Passages,” a multimedia exhibition including wall pieces, video and sculptural installations in doorways. Through June 25. Info, jamie. mohr78@gmail.com. Epsilon Spires in Brattleboro. SPAULDING DUNBAR: A photo-poetry exhibition featuring original prints taken on Anjali Farm, along the New England coastline, and while visiting family in India, sharing tales of cycles, rhythms, connections and common realities. Through May 7. Info, 508-237-4046. Canal Street Art Gallery in Bellows Falls.

manchester/bennington

ART FROM THE SCHOOLS 2022: Drawings, paintings and sculptures created by preK-12 students from more than 20 area schools and homeschools. Through May 1. SPRING MEMBER EXHIBITION: SVAC artists and members of the Vermont Watercolor Society exhibit works in a range of mediums including painting, photography, textile, wood, glass and more. Through May 22. Info, 362-1405. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. ‘PARKS AND RECREATION’: An exhibition of paintings past and present that explores the history and artistic depictions of Vermont’s state parks and other formally designated natural areas. Contemporary works on loan from the Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Through November 6. MARION HUSE: “Picturing Pownal,” paintings and silk-screen prints by the artist (18961967) whose successful career spanned 40 years and who maintained a studio in Pownal. Through June 22. THE STUDENT ART SHOW: Artwork in a variety of mediums by students at Mt. Anthony Union High School, Southwest Tech, Grace Christian School, the Vermont School for Girls, Hoosac School and Hoosick Falls Central High School. Through June 5. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

randolph/royalton

‘BE THE CHANGE’: An annual student art exhibit featuring works that depict the artists’ visions for the future. Through April 30. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph. JULIA PAVONE: “Abstractions,” a solo exhibition of nonrepresentational paintings in oil, acrylic and encaustic. Through June 18. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.

Back to Art School « P.49 museum’s latest focus in acquisitions: global contemporary art. In his introduction to the Handbook, Saunders concedes it’s “a vast category that is open to interpretation.” To be sure, it is also a rich vein to tap; the category’s considerations are designed to achieve broad geographic range, gender equity and socioeconomic diversity among artists represented. The museum’s mechanisms of acquisition, though invisible to viewers, are complex. In addition to the facility’s own purchases, the Friends of the Art Museum group selects new works each year, and the Committee on Art in Public Places oversees the purchase of outdoor sculptures. Alumni who are active in the art world populate the

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ADAM PENDLETON: “These Things We’ve Done Together,” the first solo show in Canada of the New York-based artist, whose work explores the relationships between Blackness, abstraction and the avant-garde. Through July 10. NICOLAS PARTY: “L’heure mauve” (“Mauve Twilight”), a dreamlike exhibition of paintings, sculptures and installation in the Swiss-born artist’s signature saturated colors. Online reservations required. Through October 16. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. ‘IN THE MOMENT: RECENT WORK BY LOUISE HAMLIN’: Paintings and works on paper by the former Dartmouth College studio art professor and printmaker. Through September 3. ‘PHOTOGRAPHS FROM HOLLYWOOD’S GOLDEN ERA’: Recently acquired from the John Kobal Foundation, the images include studio portraiture, publicity shots and film stills from the 1920s to ’50s. Through May 21. ‘THIS LAND: AMERICAN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE NATURAL WORLD’: Drawn from the permanent collection, the museum’s first major installation of traditional and contemporary Native American art set alongside early-to-contemporary art by African American, Asian American, Euro American and Latin American artists, representing a broader perspective on “American” art. Through July 23. ‘UNBROKEN: NATIVE AMERICAN CERAMICS, SCULPTURE, AND DESIGN’: Items drawn from the museum’s permanent collections to create dialogue between historical and contemporary works by Indigenous North American artists. Through April 30. Info, 603-646-2808. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. JOHN DOUGLAS: Twenty-eight framed photographs of unconventional street scenes, portraits and landscapes, in the library’s Ledyard Gallery. Through June 1. Info, flyingsquirrelgraphics@gmail. com. Howe Library in Hanover, N.H. SENIOR BFA EXHIBIT: Artworks by the 2022 graduating class in fine arts. Through May 21. Info, 518-564-2474. Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y.

f ‘THE THING WITH FEATHERS’: Works by 19 visual artists and poets who responded to the question, “What brings you light and lifts you up?” for an exhibition in collaboration with West Central Behavioral Health and inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope.” Community poetry reading: Saturday, May 14, 3-5 p.m. Through May 21. Info, 603-4483117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. m

Middlebury Museum and Visual Arts Council, which both advises and helps with funding. (The latter group underwrote the Handbook, Saunders notes in his introduction.) In total, the museum benefits from 11 funding entities, never mind individual donors. As with all of its acquisitions, the director adds, the first consideration is “Who will use this object in their teaching?” For the public visitors to the museum — some 15,000 annually prepandemic — the museum is nothing short of a continuing education classroom. m

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I never took a music class in school or played in the jazz band. I counted myself too cool for such things when, in reality, I was just too socially awkward. I was fortunate, though, to have a guitar teacher named Sherrod. Though he hated having to show me metal riffs, he made sure I practiced my scales, trimmed my fingernails and cleaned my strings after playing. I’m not going to lie: Sherrod might be shocked to see how lazy I’ve gotten about practicing. But I hope he would be proud to know that everything he taught me inspired me to maintain a lifelong relationship with my guitar and music in general. As a child of the ’90s, I had music classes available to me even in the wasteland that was North Carolina’s public school system. When I think about the current state of music education, however, I lose some sleep. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, arts education in schools has steadily declined since 1997. While budget cuts tend to be the immediate reason, the trend suggests that music isn’t seen as an educational priority. The COVID-19 pandemic has only worsened the situation — Zoom isn’t an ideal venue for an orchestra rehearsal.

Standing in firm opposition to this trend is YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT, whose annual festival returns to Burlington this week. Founded in 2010 by MARK SUSTIC, the nonprofit fosters young people’s involvement in traditional forms of music and dance. Its student touring group travels to places such as Japan, Scotland and Cape Breton for cultural and musical exchanges. On hold since 2020, the Young Tradition Festival is back and bigger than ever from May 2 to 8 at Burlington City Hall Auditorium and various

outdoor areas downtown. It celebrates multigenerational relationships, particularly those between mentors and their students — and, this year, it also celebrates Young Tradition Vermont joining forces with the VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER. “Traditional music and dance have been around for thousands and thousands of years,” Sustic said by phone. “Behind every student is a mentor, and that chain continues for generations. [Young Tradition Vermont] is part of that continuum. We feel responsible to make sure there’s an environment where those traditions can continue and even thrive.” Growing up, Sustic recalled, he rejected a lot of the traditional music his family listened to, being obsessed with the BEATLES and the dawn of rock and roll. He began to see the importance of connecting to musical traditions as a student at the University of Michigan,

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where exposure to more forms of music broadened his horizons. Sustic eventually moved east to Vermont, where he founded the Champlain Valley Folk Festival in 1983; it ran for 29 years. “I’m an educator and have been for my entire life, so that’s a big part of this for me,” he said. “We’re not here to substitute for musical education in schools but rather [to] be a supplement. We always try to work with school programs and colleges, because we want these connections embedded in our community.” To that end, the Young Tradition Festival offers many events designed to bring in would-be musicians. On Saturday, May 7, a showcase concert will feature a variety of young musicians and dancers speaking and performing with their mentors, all demonstrating how important that relationship is to sustaining healthy music education. “Each pair will get about 10 minutes,” Sustic explained. “It’s not so much a forum for [the students] to show what they’ve learned … as it is a way to tell us the story of how they and their mentor connected with the music.” For multiple days during the festival, Church Street will host an “instrument petting zoo” — a collection of musical instruments that kids can look at, touch and even play. For those who become intrigued and want to try lessons, Young Tradition has an instrument loan program: Folks ages 25 and under can bring home an instrument free of charge for a year. Young Tradition will also spotlight the VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER’s traditional arts apprenticeship program, in which New Americans reconnect with their musical roots. As of July 1, Sustic revealed, Young Tradition Vermont will become part of the Vermont Folklife Center. “It’s not easy to merge nonprofit organizations,” Sustic admitted. “But we truly feel we can achieve what both organizations want better by teaming up.” In addition to its educational aspect, the festival will offer performances by top-tier traditional musicians from Québec. Irish Québécois trio GROSSE ISLE will play at Burlington City Hall Auditorium on Monday evening, followed by Montréal’s É.T.É. on Tuesday, Québec City family band ZIGUE on Wednesday evening and folk duo BABINEAU/CHARTRAND on Thursday. Sustic specifically wanted to feature Québécois artists in this year’s fest because Vermont has such a rich Canadian heritage. “We’ve been trying to go to Québec

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All Night Boogie Band (blues) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free. Back on Land (rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Bluegrass & BBQ (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free. Clutch with the Sword and Nate Bergman (rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $35/$39. Danny & the Parts (Americana) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5. Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free. Jazz Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz open mic) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free. Sean Kehoe (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free. Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $5.

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Brett Hughes with Lowell Thompson (Americana) at Filling Station, Middlesex, 6 p.m. Free.

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False Gods, Sachem, Old North End, Versus and Lungbuster (metal, hardcore) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $7. Freeway Clyde (jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10. Indigo De Souza with Horse Jumper of Love, Friendship (indie rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $16-$20. Irish Sessions (Celtic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Mike Mosca (jazz, pop) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Roots Night featuring Sara Grace (singer-songwriter) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 8 p.m. Free. Ryan Osswald Trio (jazz) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Smokepurpp with Richie Wess, Yung Dred (hip-hop) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $35/$39. Socializing for Introverts featuring Grace Palmer (indie rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

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The Bulkheads and Mister Burns (funk) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8:30 p.m. $7. Cane Corso with the Apollos (rock) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free. Chris & Erica (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free. Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. The Dog Catchers (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free. Eric George (folk) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Foam Anniversary with Eustis and Japhy Ryder (indie/jazz) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, noon. Free.

Forged From Ashes (alternative) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

The Wormholes with Father Figuer (psych rock) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5.

Jake Klar + Locator with Blue Ranger (Americana) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10.

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lespecial with Swimmer (indie, jam) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $15/$20. Neko Case with Kara Jackson (indie) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $40/$45. Patty & Kevin (singer-songwriter) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Raised by Hippies (blues) at Monkey House, Winooski, 5 p.m. Free. Rigometrics (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Belizbeha featuring GrippoSommerville-Kirsch on Horns and Purple: A Tribute to Prince (jazz, funk) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $28/$32. Brit Kane & Company (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free. The Bulkheads (funk) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free. Cappadonna with Beau Sasser & the Sensi All-Stars (hip-hop) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 9 p.m. $35/$40.

Shira Elisa (funk, jam) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 10 p.m. $15.

Carsie Blanton plus the Knotty G’s (singer-songwriter) at Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7:30 p.m. $22/ $25.

Steve Yardley, Mike Brewster, Laces, Louisa Stancioff (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10.

Dan Blakeslee (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10. Dave Keller Band (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Deer Scout with Swale and Silt (indie rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $5. Evanoff with Double You (electronic, rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $15/$18. Foam Anniversary with DJ TwoSev, Two Stroke Motors and the Nth Power (DJ, folk, funk) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, noon. Free. George Petit (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Goth Night (goth) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Left Eye Jump (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

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DJ Baron (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free. DJ CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free. Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJ Big Dog (reggae and dancehall) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

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ATAK (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free. Diehard Speakeasy with DJ Chia (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Madaila Presents: The Daly Monthly with Lake Waves (indie pop) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

DJ Craig Mitchell (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

The Medallions (funk, disco) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $12.

Memery (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Neon Avenue (Grateful Dead tribute) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free. Robin Gottfried Band (rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free. Ryan Leddick (folk rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

SUN.1

Son Lux with Emily Wells (postrock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $22/$25. Sunday Brunch Tunes (various) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.

TUE.3

Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10. Honky Tonk Tuesday featuring Wild Leek River (country) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

DJ Taka (DJ) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10.

SAT.30

DJ A-Ra$ (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free. DJ Raul (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. DJ Taka (DJ) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10. Mole (DJ) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $10. Old School, New School with BriiDJ (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5. Reign One (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

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Open Mic (open mic) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

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Musical Theater Monday (cabaret open mic) at Happy Place Café, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Bluegrass & BBQ (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free. Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free. Jazz Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz open mic) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free. Matt Andersen with Terra Lightfoot (singer-songwriter) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $18/$20. May the 4th Be with Mickey Western & Friends (Americana) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5. Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $5.

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Improv Jam (improv comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Mothra! A Storytelling/ Improv Comedy Show (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $10.

FRI.29

Matteo Lane (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $30.

SAT.30

Comedian Medium Maureen Hancock (comedy) at the Depot, St. Albans, 4 p.m. $30 GA/$45 VIP (21+). Matteo Lane (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $30.

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SUN.1

Hatchford Hotel (musical) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 5:45 p.m. $5.

TUE.3

Comedy Open Mic (comedy) at the 126, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.4

Improv Class Performance (improv comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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Poetry Riot (poetry open mic) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

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Lit Club (poetry open mic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Open Mic with D Davis (open mic) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C1186-4 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111 On April 7, 2022, University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, 31 Spear Street, Marsh Hall, Suite 10, Burlington, VT 05405 and Huskies Kapital, LLC, 1 King Street, Burlington, VT 05401 filed application number 4C1186-4 for a project generally described as the construction of a 96.5 foot by 18 foot concrete slab with seasonal awning to accommodate seating and the construction of a 96.5 foot by 6 foot stormwater infiltration trench covered by pervious pavers. The project is located at the UVM Centennial Field at 110 University Road in Burlington, Vermont.

This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ ANR/Act250/Details.aspx?Num=4C0907-4B). No hearing will be held and a permit will be issued unless, on or before May 11, 2022, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status

hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb. vermont.gov/documents/party-status-petitionform, and email it to the District 4 Office at: NRB. Act250Essex@vermont.gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ ANR/Act250/Details.aspx?Num=4C1186-4). No hearing will be held and a permit will be issued unless, on or before May 11, 2022, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a

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BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2022, 5:00 PM PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Remote Meeting Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/ register/WN_Z6G3P2ykQDqGB4n1cQTdkA Passcode: 331136 Webinar ID: 865 8579 4606 Telephone: US +1 312 626 6799 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 929 205 6099 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 301 715 8592 1. ZP-22-171; 23 North Champlain Street (RH, Ward 3C) Henry Stark Establish a bed and breakfast (short-term rental) within existing duplex; one bedroom in each unit totaling 2 bedrooms (one unit owner occupied). (Project Manager, Mary O’Neil) 2. ZP-22-168; 69 Monroe Street (RH, Ward 3C) Matthew Volin & Fiona Lee Establish a bed and breakfast (short-term rental)

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STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CALEDONIA UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 284-12-19 CACV U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 22-PR-02262 In re ESTATE of Janet Bessmer

Establish a bed & breakfast (short-term rental) use within one unit of the existing 8-unit apartment building. Applicant also requests a parking waiver. (Project Manager, Ryan Morrison)

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MICHAEL S. PATOINE, SHELLY A. PATOINE AND VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY

To the creditors of: Janet Bessmer, late of Williston, Vermont.

4. ZP-22-199; 51 Elmwood Avenue (RH, Ward 3C) City DPW / Samantha Dunn

OCCUPANTS OF: 301 Depot Street, Burke VT

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Establish temporary emergency shelter including 30 shelter pods, community resource center, and bathhouse. (Project Manager, Scott Gustin) 5. ZP-22-200; 38 South Winooski Avenue (FD5, Ward 8E) First Congregational Church / Doug Viehmann Two-lot subdivision. No new development included. (Project Manager, Ryan Morrison) Plans may be viewed upon request by contacting the Department of Permitting & Inspections between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Participation in the DRB proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal. Please note that ANYTHING submitted to the Zoning office is considered public and cannot be kept confidential. This may not be the final order in which items will be heard. Please view final Agenda, at www.burlingtonvt.gov/dpi/drb/agendas or the office notice board, one week before the hearing for the order in which items will be heard.

NORTHSTAR SELF STORAGE WILL BE HAVING A PUBLIC AND ONLINE SALE/AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING STORAGE UNITS ON MAY 11, 2022 AT 9:00 AM Northstar Self Storage will be having a public and online sale/auction on May 11, 2022 at 681 RT 7, Danby, VT 05739 (Unit D-29), at 130 Taconic Business Park Rd., Manchester Center, VT 05255 (Unit M-109), and at 1124 Charlestown Road, Springfield, VT 05156 (Units S-80 & S-86) and online at www.storagetreasures.com at 9:00 am in accordance with VT Title 9 Commerce and Trade Chapter 098: Storage Units 3905. Enforcement of Lien Unit # - Name - Contents D-29 - Jennifer Pascal - Household Goods M-109 - Kelly Whitman - Household Goods S-80 - Tracy Snide - Household Goods S-86 - Justin Menard - Household Goods

MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq. In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered January 27, 2022 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Michael S. Patoine and Shelly A. Patoine to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Northeast Home Loan, LLC, dated June 21, 2018 and recorded in Book 149 Page 210 of the land records of the Town of Burke, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Northeast Home Loan, LLC to U.S. Bank National Association dated July 16, 2019 and recorded in Book 155 Page 441 of the land records of the Town of Burke] for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 301 Depot Street, Burke, Vermont on May 13, 2022 at 12:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being a parcel of land together with a dwelling house and any other improvements thereon, known and numbered as 301 Depot Street; and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Michael S. Patoine and Shelly A. Patoine by Warranty Deed of Bryant Leonard and Ashley Leonard, of near or even date herewith and to be recorded simultaneously with this Mortgage in the Burke Land Records. Being further described as all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Ashley Leonard and Bryant Leonard by Warranty Deed of Kenneth J. O’Rourke and Heather L. O’Rourke, dated November 2, 2012, recorded in Book 130 at Page 359 of the Burke Land Records. Reference is hereby made to the aforesaid deeds and their records and to all prior deeds in the chain of title and the records thereof for a further and more particular description of the lands and premises hereby conveyed.

REQUESTS FOR QUALIFICATIONS & PROPOSALS FOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT SERVICES The County of Chittenden is requesting qualifications and proposals from qualified urban planners and/or landscape architects to provide landscape architect services to assist in the preparation of plans for exterior patio and handicap access for Chittenden Country Courthouse historic site located at 175 Main Street, Burlington, Vermont.

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

Submissions must be received by 12:00 p.m. May 18, 2022. For further information and a copy of the “Requests For Qualifications & Proposals For Landscape Architect Services,” contact:

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a bank wire, certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date the Confirmation Order is entered by the Court. All checks should be made payable to “Bendett & McHugh, PC, as Trustee”.

Anne Williams, Country Clerk County of Chittenden 175 Main Street P.O. Box 187 Burlington, VT 05402 (802)951-5106 chittendencountryclerk@gmail.com NOTICE OF LEGAL SALE View Date 05/05/2022 Sale Date 05/06/2022 Kaitlyn Beers Unit# 328 Michelle Rogers Unit# 171 Easy Self Storage 46 Swift St South Burlington Vt 05403 802-863-8300

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale. DATED: March 30, 2022 By:/s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq.,Bar#5570 Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

Dated: April 19, 2022 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Cynthia J. Bessmer Executor/Administrator: Cynthia J. Bessmer, 14 Sweet William Way, Orr’s Island, Maine 04066 Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: April 27, 2022 and May 4, 2022 Name of Probate Court: Chittenden District Probate Court Address of Probate Court: PO Box 511, Burlington, Vermont 05402 STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 1988-13 ANCV JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION v. ROBIN COX OCCUPANTS OF: 370 Lovers Lane, Bristol 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 March 30, 2022, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Daniel Edward Cox, Jr. to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for ArkLa-Tex Financial Services, LLC DBA Benchmark Mortgage, dated October 13, 2009 and recorded in Book 131 Page 371 of the land records of the Town of Bristol, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Ark-La-Tex Financial Services, LLC DBA Benchmark Mortgage to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association dated January 30, 2012 and recorded in Book 138 Page 146; (2) Assignment of Mortgage from JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee of Quercus Mortgage Investment Trust dated November 20, 2019 and recorded in Book 160 page 634; and (3) Corrective Assignment of Mortgage from JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee of Quercus Mortgage Investment Trust dated November 20, 2019 and recorded in Book 162 Page 399, all of the land records of the Town of Bristol, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 370 Lovers Lane, Bristol, Vermont on May 20, 2022 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Daniel Edward Cox, Jr. by Warranty Deed of Ralph C. White and Patricia A. White dated Oct. 13, 2009 and to be recorded in the Land Records of the Town of Bristol. Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Ralph C. White and Patricia A. White by Warranty Deed of Joseph T. Horay and Virginia L. Horay, dated October 5, 1976 and recorded in

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Legal Notices [CONTINUED] Volume 46, Page 56 of the Town of Bristol Land Records and being more particularly described as follows: Parcel 1: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to the herein Grantors by Warranty Deed of Neil T. Frink and Ruth M. Frink, dated June 20, 1969, and recorded in Volume 40 at Page 166 of the Bristol Land Records, and therein described as follows: Being a portion of the lands described in a deed from Hazel N. Thomas to Neil T. Frink et al. recorded in Volume 34, Page 264, of the Bristol Land Records, as subsequently amended, the portion conveyed being described as follows:

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Two (2) acres of land, more or less, with house thereon, situate on the southerly side of the highway leading westerly from Sumner Bridge, so-called, to the foot of Stony Hill, said highway sometimes known as Lovers Lane, beginning at the northwesterly corner of land owned by Gerald and Elita Scribner at a point on the southerly line of the above highway known as Lovers Lane marked by a driven iron pipe; thence South 8 ½ degrees East 35.6 ft. to a point where and iron pipe is driven; thence South 58 ¼ degrees East 281.2 ft. along the line of said Scribner land to a point at an intersection of a fence where an iron pipe is driven; thence South 3 degrees West 44 ft. along a fence and stone wall, which is the westerly line of the Hazel N. Thomas East Orchard, to a point where an iron pipe is set in a mound of stones; thence West on a line parallel with Lovers Lane to an iron pipe 31 ft. from the Johnson Line; thence North 231 ft., running parallel with the Johnson Line, to an iron post on Lovers Lane 31 ft. from Johnson’s line; thence along Lovers Lane 256 ft. to the point of beginning. Parcel 2: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to the herein Grantors by Warranty Deed of Neil T. Frink and Ruth M. Frink, dated June 20, 1969, and recorded in Volume 40 of the Bristol Land Records, and therein described as follows:

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Commencing at the southeast corner of a 2 acre parcel, with house thereon this day given by these grantors to these grantees; thence in a continuation of the 3rd bound therein, 88 feet to an iron pipe; thence westerly, parallel with the fourth bound therein, to a point in a southerly extension of the 5th bound; thence northerly in such extension of the 5th bound, to the southwest corner of lands described in said deed; thence easterly on the southerly line of lands described in said deed to the point begun at. Containing One Acre, more or less

TOWN OF BOLTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD PUBLIC HEARING: MAY 12, 2022 The Town of Bolton’s Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on May 12, 2022, at 6:30pm. Place: Virtual or Municipal Conference Room, 3045 Theodore Roosevelt Highway, Bolton, VT, 05676. Zoom link: https://bit.ly/3jqNTet Call (audio only): +1 646 558 8656| Meeting ID: 879 9393 7080 The following applications will be reviewed: 2022-11-DRB; Applicant & Property Owner: Catherine Antley and Gideon Bavly. Seeking final subdivision approval for a boundary line adjustment on 739 Mill Brook Rd. The property is in the Forest, Conservation, and Rural II Districts. (Tax Map #2-0060509). 2022-17-DRB; Applicant: Lenore Hayes. Property Owner: Burlington Community Land Trust & Champlain Housing Trust. Appealing Zoning Administrator’s notice of violation for a pool and associated deck located in a stream setback on 3244 Duxbury Rd. The property is located in the Rural I District. (Tax Map #15-0013244). 2022-23-DRB; Applicant: Lindsay DesLauriers. Property Owner: BVR LLC. Seeking conditional use review and steep slopes review for a nordic ski facility hut located on 4302 Bolton Valley Access Rd. The project is located in the Conservation District. (Tax Map #7-3004250). Additional information can be obtained through email by calling 802-434-5075, or by email at zoningbolton@gmavt.net. Pursuant to 24 VSA § 4464 and § 4471, participation in this local proceeding, by written or oral comment, is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal.

TOWN OF ESSEX PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA May 12, 2022-6:30 P.M. VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM OR MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE ROOM, 81 MAIN ST., ESSEX JCT., VT Anyone may attend this meeting in person at the above address or remotely through the following options:

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Zoom link: https://www.essexvt.org/1043/ Join-Zoom-Meeting-Essex-PC

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

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Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described. TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale. DATED: April 8, 2022 By: _/s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren_ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq.

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Public wifi is available at the Essex municipal offices, libraries, and hotspots listed here: https:// publicservice.vermont.gov/content/ public-wifi-hotspots-vermont 1. Public Comments 2. SITE PLAN-PUBLIC HEARING: Franklin South, LLC c/o Gabriel Handy: Proposal to construct a 6,580SF warehouse building located at 181 Colchester Road in the Industrial (I1) Zone. Tax Map 55, Parcel 7. 3. Minutes: April 28, 2022 4. Other Business Visit our website at www.essexvt.org.

The Town of Essex Selectboard will hold a public meeting to discuss proposed changes in water and sewer rates and capital plan. The meeting will be held at the Town Offices, 81 Main Street, with an option to join remotely via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/98785691140?pwd=WENqeFhIT GVDS0Q5blROdkhuS3RkZz09 Or (toll free audio only): (888) 788-0099

Zoom Meeting ID: 987 8569 1140; Passcode: 032060 Water rates are proposed to increase by 2.1%, from $5.78 per 1,000 gallons to $5.90 per 1,000 gallons. The yearly minimum public water charge is proposed to increase $10 to $190 per year. Water initiation fees for new customers are proposed to increase from $5.78 per 1,000 gallons to $5.90 per 1,000 gallons. Sewer rates are proposed to increase 3.4%, from $9.93 per 1,000 gallons to $10.27 per 1,000 gallons. Sewer initiation fees for new customers are proposed to increase 3% from $10.30/gpd to $10.60/gpd. Interim or final billing requests shall continue to be charged a fee of $35 for the service. The proposed water and sewer budget and rate methodology is available at www.essexvt.org. Please direct questions to Public Works Director Dennis Lutz or Town Engineer Aaron Martin at 802-878-1344 or dlutz@essex.org and amartin@ essex.org. Andy Watts, Chair Essex Selectboard

TOWN OF RICHMOND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD PRELIMINARY AGENDA MAY 11, 2022 AT 7:00 PM Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 81115438175?pwd=K1JOVjhRNWJlNkVOSTBMWnZ WbitxZz09 Meeting ID: 811 15438175 Passcode: 376237 Call-in: +19292056099 US (New York) Application materials may be view at http://www. richmondvt.gov/boards-minutes/developmentreview-board/ one week before the meeting. Please call Tyler Machia, Zoning Administrator, at 802-434-2420 or email tmachia@richmondvt.gov with any questions. Public Hearing PRE-SUB2022-02 Eric & Jenny Risi Parcel ID #OF0317 A proposed project involving the subdivision of a previously subdivided parcel known as Lot 4 created as part of the Richmond Estates Subdivision located on Old Farm Road. The existing Lot 4 is 11.88 acres and currently has a 3-bedroom home with offsite wastewater system and drilled well. The proposed project seeks to further subdivide the existing Lot 4 to Lot 4A with 3.52 acres for the existing home and the remaining acreage to Lot 4B with 8.36 acres for a new home. Proposed subdivision is located inside Agricultural/ Residential Zoning District . Other Business: Approve minutes from April 13, 2022 DRB meeting

TOWN OF ESSEX SELECTBOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING May 2, 2022 6:35 p.m. Town Offices, 81 Main St., Essex Jct., VT 05452 and Zoom

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p.m. at the UU building at the top of Church St. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Daily meetings in various locations. Free. Info, 864-1212. Want to overcome a drinking problem? Take the 1st step of 12 & join a group in your area. ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUPS Support groups meet to provide assistance & info on Alzheimer’s disease & related dementias. They emphasize shared experiences, emotional support & coping techniques in care for a person living w/ Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. Meetings are free & open to the public. Families, caregivers & friends may attend. Please call in advance to confirm date & time. Four options: 1st Mon. of every mo., 2-3 p.m., at the Residence at Shelburne Bay, 185 Pine Haven Shores, Shelburne; 4th Tue. of every mo., 10-11 a.m., at the Residence at Quarry Hill, 465 Quarry Hill Rd., South Burlington; 2nd Tue. of every mo., 5-6:30 p.m., at the Alzheimer’s Association Main Office, 300 Cornerstone Dr., Suite 130, Williston; 2nd Mon. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., at Milton Public Library, 39 Bombardier Rd., Milton. For questions or additional support group listings, call 800-272-3900. ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION TELEPHONE SUPPORT GROUP 2nd Tuesday monthly, 4-5:30 p.m. Preregistration is required (to receive dial-in codes for toll-free call). Please dial the Alzheimer’s Association’s 24/7 Helpline 800-272-3900 for more info. ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS W/ DEBT? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Anonymous. Wed., 6:30-7:30 p.m., Methodist Church in the Rainbow Room at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington. Contact Jennifer, 917-568-6390.

BABY BUMPS SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS & PREGNANT WOMEN Pregnancy can be a wonderful time of your life. But it can also be a time of stress often compounded by hormonal swings. If you are a pregnant woman, or have recently given birth & feel you need some help w/ managing emotional bumps in the road that can come w/ motherhood, please come to this free support group led by an experienced pediatric registered nurse. Held on the 2nd & 4th Tue. of every mo., 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Birthing Center, Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans. Info: Rhonda Desrochers, Franklin County Home Health Agency, 527-7531. BETTER BREATHERS CLUB American Lung Association support group for people w/ breathing issues, their loved ones or caregivers. Meets on the 1st Mon. of every mo., 11 a.m.-noon at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. For more info call 802-776-5508. BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP Vermont Center for Independent Living offers virtual monthly meetings, held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury. It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment. To join, email Linda Meleady at lindam@vcil.org & ask to be put on the TBI mailing list. Info: 800-639-1522. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets on the 3rd Thu. of every mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:30-2:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1:00-2:30 p.m. Colchester evening support group meets on the 1st Wed. of every mo., at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m. White River Jct. meets on

the 2nd Fri. of every mo., at Bugbee Sr. Ctr. from 3-4:30 p.m. Call our helpline at 877-856-1772. CANCER SUPPORT GROUP The Champlain Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group will be held every 2nd Tue. of the mo., 6-7:45 p.m. via conference call. Newly diagnosed? Prostate cancer reoccurrence? General discussion & sharing among survivors & those beginning or rejoining the battle. Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS, ACNS-BC, 274-4990, vmary@aol.com. CELEBRATE RECOVERY Overcome any hurt, habit or hang-up in your life w/ this confidential 12-Step, Christ-centered recovery program. We offer multiple support groups for both men & women, such as chemical dependency, codependency, sexual addiction & pornography, food issues, & overcoming abuse. All 18+ are welcome; sorry, no childcare. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; we begin at 7 p.m. Essex Alliance Church, 37 Old Stage Rd., Essex Junction. Info: recovery@essexalliance. org, 878-8213. CELEBRATE RECOVERY Celebrate Recovery meetings are for anyone struggling w/ hurt, habits & hangups, which include everyone in some way. We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton, which meets every Fri. at 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us & discover how your life can start to change. Info: 893-0530, Julie@ mccartycreations.com. CENTRAL VERMONT CELIAC SUPPORT GROUP Last Thu. of every mo., 7:30 p.m. in Montpelier. Please contact Lisa Mase for location: lisa@ harmonizecookery. com. CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE Cerebral Palsy Guidance is a very comprehensive informational website broadly covering the topic of cerebral palsy & associated medical conditions. Its mission is to provide the best possible info to parents of children living w/ the complex condition

of cerebral palsy. cerebralpalsyguidance. com/cerebral-palsy/ CIRCLE Online on Thu., 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Continues through Jun. 23. Circle is a supportive online experience, led by Sister Ann Duhaime, where people reflect on peace, hope & healing. Participants find renewal & gain strength as they listen to & talk about experiences & insights. Take this special time to feel part of a nurturing community & imagine new possibilities! Free. 802846-7063, hgilbert@ mercyconnections. org, mercyconnections. org/programs/schedule. CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy & fulfilling relationships. By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new joy, acceptance & serenity in our lives. Meets Sun. at noon at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. Tom, 238-3587, coda.org. DECLUTTERERS SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming? Maybe 2 or 3 of us can get together to help each other simplify. 989-3234, 425-3612. DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE! SMART Recovery welcomes anyone, including family & friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction. It is a science-based program that encourages abstinence. Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership. Sun. at 5 p.m. The meeting has moved to Zoom: smartrecovery.zoom. us/j/92925275515. Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 399-8754. You can learn more at smartrecovery.org. We hope to return to face-to-face meetings this summer. DIVORCE CARE SUPPORT GROUP Divorce is a tough road. Feelings of separation, betrayal, confusion, anger & self-doubt are common. But there is life after divorce. Led by people who have already walked down that road, we’d like to share w/ you a safe place & a process that can help make the journey easier. This free 13-wk. group for men & women will be offered on Sun., 5:30-7:30 p.m.,

Sep. 8 through Dec. 1, at the North Avenue Alliance Church, 901 North Ave., Burlington, VT. Register for class at essexalliance. churchcenter.com. For more info, call Sandy 802-425-7053. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT Steps to End Domestic Violence offers a weekly drop-in support group for female-identified survivors of intimate partner violence, including individuals who are experiencing or have been affected by domestic violence. The support group offers a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect w/ others, to heal & to recover. In support group, participants talk through their experiences & hear stories from others who have experienced abuse in their relationships. Support group is also a resource for those who are unsure of their next step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship. Tue., 6:30-8 p.m. Childcare is provided. Info: 658-1996. EMPLOYMENTSEEKERS SUPPORT GROUP Frustrated w/ the job search or w/ your job? You are not alone. Come check out this supportive circle. Wed. at 3 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602. FAMILIES COPING WITH ADDICTIONS (FCA) GROUP (ADDICTION SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES) Families Coping W/ Addiction (FCA) is an open-community peer support group for adults 18+ struggling w/ the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. FCA is not 12-step based but provides a welcoming & stigma-free forum for those living this experience, in which to develop personal coping skills & to draw strength & insight from one another. Group meets weekly on Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m., on Zoom. Check Turning Point Center website (turningpointcentervt. org) for Zoom link, listed under “Family Support” (click on “What We Offer” dropdown). FAMILY & FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends & community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crisis might

include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety & other types of distress. The group is a confidential space where family & friends can discuss shared experiences & receive support in an environment free of judgment & stigma w/ a trained facilitator. Wed., 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586. FAMILY RESTORED: SUPPORT GROUP FOR FRIENDS & FAMILIES OF ADDICTS & ALCOHOLICS Wed., 6:30-8 p.m., Holy Family/St. Lawrence Parish, 4 Prospect St., Essex Junction. For further info, please visit thefamilyrestored. org or contact Lindsay Duford at 781-960-3965 or 12lindsaymarie@gmail. com. FIERCELY FLAT VT A breast cancer support group for those who’ve had mastectomies. We are a casual online meeting group found on Facebook at Fiercely Flat VT. Info: stacy.m.burnett@ gmail.com. FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS (FA) Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? FA is a free 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating or bulimia. Local meetings are held twice a wk.: Mon., 4-5:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Norwich, Vt.; & Wed., 6:30-8 p.m., at Hanover Friends Meeting House, Hanover, N.H. For more info & a list of additional meetings throughout the U.S. & the world, call 603-630-1495 or visit foodaddicts.org. G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction? Find support, peer-led support group. Meets once a mo. on Mon. in Burlington. Please call for date & location. RSVP mkeasler3@ gmail.com or call 310-3301 (message says Optimum Health, but this is a private number). GRIEF & LOSS FOCUS GROUP FOR MEN Fri., 10-11:30 a.m. Continues through Mar. 27. Please join us as we learn more about our own grief & explore the things that can help us to heal. There is great power in sharing our experiences w/ others who know the pain of the loss of a loved one,

& healing is possible through the sharing. BAYADA Hospice’s local bereavement program coordinator will facilitate this weekly, 8-wk. group through discussion & activities. Everyone from the community is welcome; however, space is limited. To register, please contact bereavement program coordinator Kathryn Gilmond at kgilmond@bayada.com or 802-448-1610. Start date to be determined, based on registration. bayada.com. GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS Meet every 2nd Mon., 6-7:30 p.m., & every 3rd Wed. from 10-11:30 a.m., at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to the public & free of charge. More info: Diana Moore, 224-2241. HEARING VOICES SUPPORT GROUP This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice-hearing experiences as real lived experiences that may happen to anyone at anytime. We choose to share experiences, support & empathy. We validate anyone’s experience & stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest & accurate representation of their experience, & as being acceptable exactly as they are. Tue., 2-3 p.m. Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-777-8602, abby@ pathwaysvermont.org. HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107. People living w/ cancer & their caretakers convene for support. HELP & HEALING FOR THOSE WHO ARE GRIEVING Wed., 5:30-7 p.m. Walking W/ Grief: Sharing your sadness, finding your joy. Please join us as we learn more about our own grief & explore the things that can help us to heal. There is great power in sharing our experiences w/ others who know the pain of the loss of a loved one, & healing is possible through the sharing. BAYADA Hospice’s local bereavement support coordinator will facilitate our weekly group through discussion & activities. Everyone from the community is welcome. To register, please contact bereavement program coordinator Kathryn Gilmond at

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Support Groups [CONTINUED] kgilmond@bayada. com or 802-448-1610. Bayada Hospice, 354 Mountain View Dr., Ste 305, Colchester. INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/PAINFUL BLADDER SUPPORT GROUP Interstitial cystitis (IC) & painful bladder syndrome can result in recurring pelvic pain, pressure or discomfort in the bladder/pelvic region & urinary frequency/ urgency. These are often misdiagnosed & mistreated as a chronic bladder infection. If you have been diagnosed or have these symptoms, you are not alone. For Vermont-based support group, email bladderpainvt@gmail. com or call 899-4151 for more info. KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients, as well as caregivers, are provided w/ a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers. For further info, please contact info@vcsn.net. KINSHIP CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP A support group for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. Led by a trained representative & facilitator. Meets on the 2nd Tue. of every mo., 6:30-7:45 p.m. (Jan. 14, Feb. 11, Mar. 10, Apr. 14), at Milton Public Library. Free. For more info, call 802-893-4644 or email library@miltonvt.gov. Facebook.com/events/ 561452568022928 LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE The SafeSpace Anti-Violence Program at Pride Center of Vermont offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship, dating, emotional &/or hate-violence. These groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share

info, & offer & receive support. Support groups also provide survivors an opportunity to gain info on how to better cope w/ feelings & experiences that surface because of the trauma they have experienced. Please call SafeSpace at 863-0003 if you are interested in joining. LGBTQ VETERANS GROUP This veterans group is a safe place for veterans to gather & discuss ways to help the community, have dinners, send packages & help the families of LGBTQ service people. Ideas on being helpful encouraged. Every 2nd & 4th Wed., 6-8:30 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church (the little red door), 64 State St., Montpelier. RSVP, 802-825-2045. LIVING THROUGH LOSS Gifford Medical Center is announcing the restart of its grief support group, Living Through Loss. The program is sponsored by the Gifford Volunteer Chaplaincy Program & will meet weekly on Fri., 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., in Gifford’s Chun Chapel beginning on Aug. 6. Meetings will be facilitated by the Rev. Timothy Eberhardt, spiritual care coordinator, & Emily Pizzale MSW, LICSW, a Gifford social worker. Anyone who has experienced a significant loss over the last year or so is warmly invited to attend & should enter through the hospital’s main entrance wearing a mask on the way to the chapel. Meetings will be based on the belief that, while each of us is on a unique journey in life, we all need a safe place to pause, to tell our stories &, especially as we grieve, to receive the support & strength we need to continue along the way.

Support Group. We provide emotional support, resources about treatment options, coping strategies & a support network by participating in the group experience w/ people who have been through similar situations. 3rd Tue. of every mo., 5-6 p.m., at the New Hope Lodge on East Ave. in Burlington. Info: Kay Cromie, 655-9136, kgcromey@ aol.com. NAMI CONNECTION PEER SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Weekly virtual meetings. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, program@ namivt.org or 800639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living w/ mental health challenges. NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Weekly virtual meetings. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, info@namivt. org or 800-639-6480. Family Support Group meetings are for family & friends of individuals living w/ mental illness.

MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem w/ marijuana? MA is a free 12-step program where addicts help other addicts get & stay clean. Ongoing Wed., 7 p.m., at Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski, Suite 301, Burlington. 861-3150.

NARCONON SUNCOAST DRUG & ALCOHOL REHABILITATION & EDUCATION Narconon reminds families that overdoses due to an elephant tranquilizer known as Carfentanil have been on the rise in nearly every community nationwide. Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid painkiller 100 times more powerful than fentanyl & 1,000 times stronger than heroin. A tiny grain of it is enough to be fatal. To learn more about carfentanil abuse & how to help your loved one, visit narconon-suncoast. org/drug-abuse/ parents-get-help.html. Addiction screenings: Narconon can help you take steps to overcome addiction in your family. Call today for a no-cost screening or referral: 1- 877-841-5509.

MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP Area Myeloma Survivors, Families & Caregivers have come together to form a Multiple Myeloma

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for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516 or cvana.org. Held in Burlington, Barre & St. Johnsbury. NARCANON BURLINGTON GROUP Group meets every Mon. at 7 p.m., at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, in Burlington. The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. Info: Amanda H. 338-8106. NEW (& EXPECTING) MAMAS & PAPAS! EVERY PRIMARY CAREGIVER TO A BABY! The Children’s Room invites you to join our weekly drop-in support group. Come unwind & discuss your experiences & questions around infant care & development, self-care & postpartum healing, & community resources for families w/ babies. Tea & snacks provided. Thu., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Bring your babies! (Newborn through crawling stage). Located w/in Thatcher Brook Primary School, 47 Stowe St., childrensroomonline. org. Contact childrens room@wwsu.org or 244-5605. NORTHWEST VERMONT CANCER PRAYER & SUPPORT NETWORK A meeting of cancer patients, survivors & family members intended to comfort & support those who are currently suffering from the disease. 2nd Thu. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 11 Church St., St. Albans. Info: stpaulum@myfairpoint .net. 2nd Wed. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m. Winooski United Methodist Church, 24 W. Allen St., Winooski. Info: hovermann4@ comcast.net. OPEN EARS, OPEN MINDS A mutual support circle that focuses on connection & self-exploration. Fri. at 1 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) A 12-step program for people who identify as overeaters, compulsive eaters, food addicts, anorexics, bulimics,

etc. No matter what your problem w/ food, we have a solution! All are welcome, meetings are open, & there are no dues or fees. See oavermont. org/meeting-list/ for the current meeting list, meeting format & more; or call 802-8632655 anytime!

virtual atmosphere. You may qualify for a free limited supply of nicotine replacement therapy. Info: call 802-847-7333 or email quittobaccoclass@ uvmhealth.org to get signed up, or visit myhealthyvt.org to learn more about upcoming workshops!

PONDERING GENDER & SEXUALITY Pondering Gender & Sexuality is a twicemonthly facilitated mutual support group for folks of any identity (whether fully formed or a work in progress) who want to engage in meaningful conversations about gender, sexuality & sexual orientation, &/or the coming-out process. Discussions can range from the personal to the philosophical & beyond as we work together to create a compassionate, safe & courageous space to explore our experiences. The group will be held on the 2nd Sun. & 4th Tue., 1-2:30 p.m., of every mo., either virtually or at the Pride Center of Vermont. Email pgs@pridecentervt.org for more info or w/ questions!

RECOVERING FROM RELIGION Meets on the 2nd Tue. of every mo., 6-8 p.m., at Brownell Public Library, 6 Lincoln St., Essex Junction, unless there’s inclement weather or the date falls on a holiday. Attendees can remain anonymous if they so choose & are not required to tell their story if they do not wish to, but everyone will be welcome to do so. The primary focus of a Recovering From Religion support group is to provide ongoing & personal support to individuals as they let go of their religious beliefs. This transitional period is an ongoing process that can result in a range of emotions, as well as a ripple effect of consequences throughout an individual’s life. As such, the support meetings are safe & anonymous places to express these doubts, fears & experiences w/o biased feedback or proselytizing. We are here to help each other through this journey. Free.

POTATO INTOLERANCE SUPPORT GROUP Anyone coping w/ potato intolerance & interested in joining a support group, contact Jerry Fox, 48 Saybrook Rd., Essex Junction, VT 05452. QUEEN CITY MEMORY CAFE The Queen City Memory Cafe offers a social time & place for people w/ memory impairment & their fiends & family to laugh, learn, & share concerns & celebrate feeling understood & connected. Enjoy coffee, tea & baked goods w/ entertainment & conversation. QCMC meets on the 3rd Sat. of every mo., 10 a.m.-12 p.m., at the Thayer Building, 1197 North Ave., Burlington. 316-3839. QUEER CARE GROUP This support group is for adult family members & caregivers of queer &/or questioning youth. It is held on the 2nd Mon. of every mo., 6:30-8 p.m., at Outright Vermont, 241 North Winooski Ave. This group is for adults only. For more info, email info@outrightvt. org. READY TO BE TOBACCO-FREE GROUPS Join a free 4-5-wk. group workshop facilitated by our coaches, who are certified in tobacco treatment. We meet in a friendly, relaxed &

SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND Support group meeting held on the 4th Tue. of every mo., 6:30-8:30 p.m., Williston Police Station. Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732. SEX & LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem w/ sex or relationships? We can help. Shawn, 660-2645. Visit slaafws.org or saa-recovery.org for meetings near you. SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT HOPE Works offers free support groups to women, men & teens who are survivors of sexual violence. Groups are avail. for survivors at any stage of the healing process. Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our office at 864-0555, ext. 19, or email our victim advocate at advocate@ sover.net. STUTTERING SUPPORT GROUPS If you’re a person who stutters, you are not alone! Adults, teens &

school-age kids who stutter, & their families are welcome to join 1 of our 3 free National Stuttering Association (NSA) stuttering support groups at UVM (join by Zoom or in person). Adults: 5:30-6:30 p.m., 1st & 3rd Tue. monthly; teens (ages 13-17): 5:30-6:30 p.m., 2nd Thu. monthly; school-age children (ages 8-12) & parents (meeting separately): 4:15-5:15 p.m., 2nd Thu. monthly. Pomeroy Hall (489 Main St., UVM campus). Info: nsachapters.org/ burlington, burlington stutters@gmail.com, 656-0250. Go, Team Stuttering! SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide. Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 N. Main St., Wallingford, 446-3577. 6:30-8 p.m., on the 3rd Tue. of every. mo. SUICIDE HOTLINES IN VT Brattleboro, 2577989; Montpelier (Washington County Mental Health Emergency Services), 229-0591; Randolph (Clara Martin Center Emergency Service), 800-639-6360. SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Circle (Washington Co. only). Please call 877-5439498 for more info. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE If you have lost someone to suicide & wish to have a safe place to talk, share & spend a little time w/ others who have had a similar experience, join us on the 3rd Thu. Of every mo., 7-9 p.m, at the Faith Lighthouse Church, Route 105, Newport (105 Alderbrook). Please call before attending. Info: Mary Butler, 744-6284. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE: S. BURLINGTON This group is for people experiencing the impact of the loss of a loved one to suicide. 1st Wed. of each mo., 6-7:30 p.m., at the Comfort Inn & Suites, 3 Dorset St., Burlington. Info: Heather Schleupner, 301-5142445, raysoflifeyoga@ gmail.com. THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP The Compassionate Friends international support group for parents, siblings & families grieving the loss of a child meets every 3rd Tue. of the mo., 7-9 p.m., at Kismet Place,

363 Blair Park Rd., Williston. Call/email Jay at 802-373-1263, compassionatefriendsvt@ gmail.com. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) chapter meeting. Hedding United Methodist Church, Washington St., Barre. Wed., 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info, call David at 371-8929. TRANS & GENDERNONCONFORMING SUPPORT GROUP As trans & GNC people in the world, we experience many things that are unique to our identities. For that reason, the Transgender Program hosts a support group for our community on the 1st & 3rd Wed. of every mo., 6:30-8 p.m., either virtually or at Pride Center of Vermont. The Trans & GNC Support group is for Vermonters at all stages of their gender journey to come together to socialize, discuss issues that are coming up in their lives & build community. We welcome anyone whose identity falls under the trans, GNC, intersex & nonbinary umbrellas, & folks questioning their gender identity. Email safespace@pridecentervt.org w/ any questions, comments or accessibility concerns. TRANSGENDER EXTENDED FAMILY SUPPORT We are people w/ adult loved ones who are transgender or gender-nonconforming. We meet to support each other & to learn more about issues & concerns. Our sessions are supportive, informal & confidential. Meetings are held at 5:30 p.m., the 2nd Thu. of each mo., via Zoom. Not sure if you’re ready for a meeting? We also offer 1-on-1 support. For more info, email rex@ pridecentervt.org or call 802-318-4746. VEGGIE SUPPORT GROUP Want to feel supported on your vegetarian/ vegan journey? Want more info on healthy veggie diets? Want to share & socialize at veggie potlucks & more in the greater Burlington area? This is your opportunity to join w/ other like-minded folks. veggy4life@ gmail.com, 658-4991. WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT GROUP FAHC. Led by Deb Clark, RN. Every 1st & 3rd Tue., 5-6:30 p.m. Call Kathy McBeth, 847-5715.

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Howard Center is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. The agency’s culture and service delivery is strengthened by the diversity of its workforce. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. Visit “About Us” on our website at www.howardcenter.org to review Howard Center’s EOE policy.

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Controller/Bookkeeper

Bookkeeper/Grant Manager

Manage all accounting transactions including processing of receipts and disbursements, weekly payroll preparation, calculation of monthly commissions, recording of journal entries, preparation of bank reconciliations and other key account reconciliations, monthly financial statements preparation, and filing and payment of required taxes. Answer inquiries on financial transactions/balances as they arise. Prepare year end accounting package. Manage human resources including maintenance of employee personnel files, tracking of payroll related items (salaries and wages, deductions, and benefits), annual updating and communication of benefits, providing third party providers with required information, and tracking of vacation and CTO time.

NEK Broadband is a Communications Union District (CUD). Our mission is to bring reliable and aﬀordable high-speed internet options to everyone in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. We are seeking a part-time bookkeeper and grant manager experienced in fund accounting and Quickbooks Desktop reporting. A full-time position with beneﬁts is negotiable, and if desired, additional hours could be available. For part-time, the hourly rate is $25-35/hour based on experience. We will consider remote work for the right candidate. Full job description is available at nekbroadband.org. Please send a resume and cover letter to Clerk@nekbroadband.org by May 6, 2022.

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Converse Home is an Assisted Living Community located in downtown Burlington. We provide three home-cooked meals a day to 60 residents of our assisted living community. We are flexible on scheduling for candidates who work well on a team and are excited to meet the dietary needs of residents. We are currently looking for both full and part time candidates to serve as dining room servers, team leaders, kitchen generalists, line cooks and dishwashers. We offer generous paid time off, excellent benefits and competitive pay. Plus a great work culture! Come join a great team and love where you work! Please apply online & learn more about us: conversehome. com/converse-home-career-opportunities/ or send your resume to Kristen@conversehome.com.

The Milton Family Community Center is seeking a new

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR!

Seeking a leader with a can-do attitude, attention to detail and the ability to inspire others! Milton Family Community Center has partnered with families since 1985 to raise healthy children and build community connections. Our new ED will lead us in improving our services, expanding our reach and planning for a sustainable future. The center needs someone who will invest in our staff, connect with area partners, and focus on building systems to ensure the center is running smoothly.

EXPERIENCED DIESEL TECHS WANTED

• PER DIEM NURSE OR LNA CHARGE OF SHIFT • RCA full-time evening shifts in both traditional and memory care communities • 20 hour RCA 4-9:30 • RCA 28 hour day shifts We offer generous paid time off, excellent benefits, and competitive pay. Plus a great work culture! Please apply online & learn more about us: conversehome.com/converse-home-career-opportunities/ or send your resume to Kristen@conversehome.com.

Norwich University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a positive education and work environment that recognizes and respects the dignity of all students, faculty & staff. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring immigration sponsorship, including but not limited to non-immigrant visas such as H1B, STEM, or F1, now or in the future.

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NURSES AND RCA’S NEEDED

• FULL-TIME 32-40 HOUR EVENING SHIFT NURSE 2:30-11pm includes every other weekend

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Candidates must demonstrate an ability to work with and promote collaborations with diverse populations to achieve shared community goals and outcomes. MFCC is an equal opportunity employer. Recognizing that every leader brings special talents to their work, we strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. More information is available at miltonfamilycenter.org.

Converse Home is an Assisted Living Community located in downtown Burlington. We are looking for dedicated & compassionate people to join our team!

DIRECTOR PROVOST COMMUNICATIONS & OPERATIONS

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RATE OF PAY: $23-$33/HR 2+ years of experience as Diesel Tech CDL License a PLUS Diagnosing & repairing heavy duty vehicles Writing up accurate & descriptive work performed details • Verifying vehicle performance by conducting test-drives Competitive hourly wages and benefits including PTO, 401K match and Kenworth sponsored training. Email resume and salary requirements to: resume@newenglandkw.com or call 802.985.2521 and ask for Charlie Sweeney.

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IT SPECIALIST III BUSINESS MANAGER Starting July 2022

The Business Manager will assume responsibility for organizing the school’s finances, building the budget, paying the school’s bills, and keeping the books. Reporting to the director, this leader will also communicate closely with Milton Academy, ensuring proper reporting and financial disclosures. For a job description and information about qualifications and applying, visit mountainschool.org/employment.

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This position located in Montpelier provides support to operations of computer & telecommunication systems. Involves private cloud and disaster recovery design and support; multi-vendor infrastructure support of LAN and WAN technologies, Internet, VLANs, DNS/DHCP, VPNs, NAT (network address translation), IP telephony, and firewalls. Experience installing & troubleshooting Windows, MS SQL server-based applications and Desktop and Server-based applications. BA/BS and 2-6 years related experience. Starting $60K annually with excellent medical, dental, paid leave and retirement benefits.

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Candidates shall submit a complete and up-to-date Judicial Branch Application and a resume found at: vermontjudiciary.exacthire.com/job/90539.

howardcenter.org • 802-488-6946 Howard Center is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. The agency’s culture and service delivery is strengthened by the diversity of its workforce. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. Visit “About Us” on our website at www.howardcenter.org to review Howard Center’s EOE policy.

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Vermont Coffee Company, part of Stonewall Kitchen’s Family of Brands, is now hiring! Come join our fun, friendly team in one of the following roles: COFFEE ROASTER Consistently roast each batch of coffee following the proper roast profiles while maintaining strict control of all quality standards and procedures. COFFEE ROASTER APPRENTICE Learn the necessary aspects of an Apprentice Roaster by following a curriculum designed specifically for coffee roasting through self-directed and supervisor-led training.

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MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR

MANUFACTURING ASSOCIATE Pack the roasted coffee and ensure the final presentation meets the highest quality standards.

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MULTICULTURAL YOUTH PROGRAM YOUNG ADULT NAVIGATOR https://bit.ly/372gPXa

$15/hr Full-time: June 20th- August 12, 2022 (no camps July 11-15)

The Flynn’s Education team is hiring an assistant with childcare, camp, and/or education experience to support primary Teaching Artists during our summer camps. The Assistant will help with check-in/out, after-care, breaktimes, and organization. Must be at least 18, creative, kind, reliable, and upbeat. Detailed job description and more information: flynnvt.org/About-Us/Employment-and-InternshipOpportunities Send resume and cover letter: HResources@flynnvt.org No phone calls, please. E.O.E.

DEVELOPMENT STAFF

SUPPORTED HOUSING RESPITE STAFF

DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR: VSC’s Development Coordinator provides administrative support for the development department and is responsible for direct fundraising and development-related tasks. The individual in this role works in tandem with the development team to build and enhance positive relationships with and secure philanthropic support from VSC’s alumnx, donors and partners. $23$25 per hour.

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EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT COORDINATOR: VSC’s External Engagement Coordinator works in tandem with the development and program teams to raise public awareness of VSC. $21-$23 per hour.

INTAKE COORDINATOR https://bit.ly/3JnrwRE

BUILDING MAINTENANCE & CUSTODIAN https://bit.ly/3JwJTnn

Due to the sensory sensitive nature of this facility, we do not allow any fragrances to be worn by the employees while at work, nor are we able to hire people who smoke. For full descriptions and to apply online: bit.ly/StonewallKitchenVTjobs

SUMMER CAMPS ASSISTANT

These are evolving part-time, year-round positions, for approximately 20 hours a week to start. Please see the full job descriptions for more information: vermontstudiocenter.org/jobs-at-vsc To apply, send a one-page cover letter, resume, and a list of three professional references to jobs@vermontstudiocenter.org with the position title in the e-mail subject line. Applications accepted until positions are filled.

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GRANTS & FUND DEVELOPMENT MANAGER HIRING ALL POSITIONS! Please Apply in Person at Papa Frank’s: 13 West Center St., Winooski (802) 655-2423 1t-PapaFranks072821.indd 1

WEEKEND WARRIORS needed for kitchen prep and customer service. 9-5. Saturday and Sunday (additional days available) Please send email and resume, no drop ins. cf@tomgirl.co

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If you are a community-minded, big-picture thinker and you want to make a difference in VT—we have a job for you on our Grants and Community Impact team! The GCI team is responsible for the deployment and evaluation of resources—grants, mission investing, and program work associated with the Foundation’s lead initiatives—that align with and help to advance solutions to Vermont’s opportunity gap. The Program Officer is responsible for setting strategic stewardship direction for various programs and projects, as well as being involved in setting grantmaking decisions, investing decisions, and fundholder engagement.

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Large multi-line dealer in Vermont has an opening for a General Sales Manager with 3-5 years’ experience managing an automotive sales team. Candidate will be responsible for retaining employees and for the profitability for the new and used vehicle departments including the finance department. ESSENTIAL DUTIES INCLUDE: • Oversees the Sales Department and ensures profitability by leading, training, and measuring the performance of Sales Managers, F&I Managers, Reconditioning, Wholesale, and Internet Sales.

Join our Team to nurture our shared economic prosperity, ecological health, and social connectivity for the benefit and well-being of all who live in VT. Responsible for grants management and major donor relationship development. FT salary between $65-$75k, great benefits, casual but professional hybrid work environment, and an organizational culture where people feel valued, are energized, and can support forward-thinking solutions to our economic, social and climate challenges. VSJF is an E.O.E. committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and a strong sense of belonging in the workplace. See job description at vsjf.org. Send cover letter & resume to jobs@vsjf.org by 5pm 5/23/22.

OFFICE MANAGER & EVENTS COORDINATOR Detail-oriented, multi-taskers with a team-focused, high quality service mindset are encouraged to apply. If you are personally driven to make a difference and looking to grow within an administrative role, this job may be for you. Oversee all office functions and logistical needs, and coordinate our annual events – Farm to Plate Network Gathering, Forest Industry Network Summit, and the DeltaClimeVT reception. FT salary between $47-$52k, great benefits, casual but professional hybrid work environment, and an organizational culture where people feel valued, are energized, and can generate forwardthinking solutions to our economic, social and climate challenges.

Send cover letter & resume to jobs@vsjf.org by 5pm 5/13/22.

• Hires, trains, supervises, and monitors the performance of the new, used, and finance department manager(s) • Works with the General Manager to determine appropriate day’s supply for new and used vehicles and manages inventory accordingly

• Work in a brand new practice specializing in acute walk-in primary care.

• Establishes standards for displaying, merchandising, and maintaining new and used vehicles

• Sign on bonus and loan repayment options available!

• Assists in planning dealership advertising and promotion Fantastic opportunity for someone to grow along with a growing dealer group who offers a great benefits package & who encourages a balanced work & life schedule. Salary commensurate with experience, bonus program based upon meeting monthly store objectives. Please send your letter of interest to: gsm.inquiry.ne@gmail.com. All applicants held in strict confidence. E.O.E.

Do you have a passion and drive to apply your talents to make a difference? Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity is seeking a motivated and hardworking individual to serve as our Volunteer & Family Support Coordinator. Come join us as we help local families build stability, equity, and selfreliance through affordable homeownership! For a full position description: vermonthabitat.org/employment.

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VSJF is an E.O.E. committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and a strong sense of belonging in the workplace. Job description at vsjf.org.

Exciting Opportunities at Northern Express Care – Newport Opening this summer!

• Establishes procedures for quick disposal of aged new and used vehicles

Volunteer & Family Support Coordinator

OPEN POSITIONS FOR: REGISTERED NURSE: Must be comfortable working with patients of all ages. Pediatric & health center experience is preferred. Vermont RN license required.

“Seven Days sales rep Michelle Brown is amazing! She’s extremely responsive, and I always feel so taken care of. I can only imagine how many job connections she has facilitated for local companies in the 20 years she has been doing this.” CAROLYN ZELLER Intervale Center, Burlington

NURSE PRACTITIONER/PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT: Seeking experienced & energetic FNP/PA. Treat a variety of patients & medical needs in the convenience of the patients’ medical home. 2+ years of primary care/urgent care experience preferred. Current Vermont NP/PA license required.

Get a quote when posting online. Contact Michelle Brown at 865-1020, ext. 121, michelle@sevendaysvt.com.

Competitive compensation and benefits package. Learn more and apply online: nchcvt.org/careers.

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NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL has exciting opportunities!

MULTIPLE POSITIONS CarShare Vermont is hiring a couple of member support positions that are essential to keeping our nonprofit running smoothly, including a full-time Member Services Associate and several part-time Weekend On-call Assistants.

STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR Department of Education, CESS Job duties are to provide a welcoming environment for internal and external constituents for the Department of Education (DOE) within College of Education and Social Services (CESS) as both the first point of contact of DOE Chair and the department. Provide high-level administrative support for DOE chair, and other DOE administrators as needed. Perform administrative and academic transactions and provide general office support and oversight of departmental academic records. Contribute to the diversity and excellence of the DOE, College and University.

If you've got stellar interpersonal skills, a knack for problem-solving, and an interest in advancing CarShare Vermont's mission, please visit carsharevt.org/jobs to learn more. CarShare Vermont offers competitive pay, generous benefits, and a fun and flexible work environment.

For information and to apply, please submit a cover letter, resume and contact information for three references at this link: uvmjobs.com/postings/52037. The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution. Applicants are required to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal.

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NVRH is looking for dedicated and compassionate RNs, LPNs and LNAs to join our team and provide high quality care to the communities we serve. NVRH provides a fair and compassionate workplace where all persons are valued by the organization and each other, providing ongoing growth opportunities. FT and PT employees are eligible for excellent benefits including student loan repayment, generous paid time off, health/dental/vision, 401k with company match and much more!

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MOVING TEAM OPERATIONS SUPPORT True North Wilderness Program is seeking a fulltime, year-round Operations Support person. The ideal candidate is an adaptable team player with a positive attitude who is willing to work both indoors and outdoors performing a variety of tasks associated with the logistics of running our program. Tasks including food packing and rationing, gear outfitting, transportation and facilities maintenance. Candidates must be willing to work weekends and occasional evenings. A clean and valid driver’s license is required. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits offered. Benefits include health, dental, vision and accident insurance, an employee assistance program, a Wellness Fund, student loan repayment reimbursement, and a SIMPLE IRA.

Team Leader and Mover Temporary Positions Hours: Full Time 30 hours per week HallKeen Management is seeking a Team Leader and Mover who are energetic, responsible, motivated and reliable for residential property located in Winooski, VT. Will be required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and must regularly lift and move up to 10lbs, frequently lift up to 25lbs & occasionally lift up to 50lbs. Responsibilities & Experience Include: • Packing & Moving Household and Commercial Items • Friendly Customer Service • Furniture assembly & disassembly • Safely lifting and moving heavy objects and packing homes. • Willingness to work as a team member • Positive attitude and attention to detail Apply at: dfinnigan@hallkeen.com

All True North employees must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and provide proof of vaccination status prior to employment. Please apply at: truenorthwilderness.com.

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MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN Keens Crossing – Winooski, VT 05404 Hours: 40 Hours Full Time HallKeen Management is seeking a motivated and experienced Maintenance Technician to enhance current skills, acquire new knowledge and grow with our company. Responsibilities are quite diverse including but not limited to Apartment turnovers, grounds keeping, various janitorial duties, painting, appliance, electrical, heating, plumbing and safety equipment repair and replacement, and providing assistance at other company properties when needed. The qualified candidate must have reliable transportation and have the ability to assist in carrying appliances and climb ladders as needed. Please e-mail resumes to dfinnigan@hallkeen.com.

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Come join our talented team of municipal employees! The Town of Stowe is seeking our first full-time human resource director to oversee all aspects of human resource management and administration. The Town of Stowe has 65 +/- full-time employees as well as a number of part-time employees and volunteers. A bachelor’s degree in human resource management or a closely related field; supplemented by a minimum of five years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. The ideal candidate will also have SHRM certification or equivalent. Starting pay is in the $75,000 +/- range depending on qualifications. This is a full-time position with excellent benefits. Job description & employment application can be obtained at: townofstowevt.org. Send employment application, letter of interest, resume & salary requirements to: Town of Stowe, C/o Charles Safford, PO Box 730, Stowe, VT 05672 or email recruit@stowevt.gov. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Scheduling for interviews is anticipated to begin mid-May. E.O.E.

Telephone Triage Nurse (RN) We are seeking a full time Telephone Triage Nurse (RN) who is responsible for providing telephone advice and coordinating patient care for women of all ages in a fast pace practice. The Telephone Triage Nurse is responsible for knowing and supporting the practice with providing direction of care, clinical phone advice, patient education, making referrals, coordinating care and providing high quality care to the women they serve. The triage team is the primary point of contact for telephone patients with a variety of pregnancy related or gynecological health concerns. The triage nurse will be collecting subjective data related to the presenting problem and medical history, utilizing critical thinking and problem solving skills, assigning acuity, and ensuring timely disposition of all calls. There is also an opportunity to have some direct patient care in the clinic by monitoring blood pressures, giving injections, obtaining urine samples, and performing fetal monitoring in pregnancy. Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume to jobs@maitriobgyn.com.

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CADD Technician: Civil Engineering Associates is looking for a CADD Technician in which primary responsibilities include preparing civil/ structural design and permitting plans with AutoCAD, occasional site information gathering, and post-processing survey data. Refer to our website for complete list of responsibilities. Minimum Qualifications: • Associate of Science or Technical School with 2 years of related experience. • In lieu of education, 4 years related experience. • Proficient in the terminology and symbols used in survey notes, plans, shop drawings, aerial photographs, and maps related to a specific Engineering sub-type. Benefits information: • Two weeks paid vacation with one week paid sick/personal time, Company–observed paid holidays • 100% paid health insurance and partial dental insurance coverage • 401K program with company contribution • Life insurance, short and long-term disability coverage • Cafeteria 125 flexible spending arrangement plan • Flexible work environment • Tuition Reimbursement • Performance Bonuses • Salary Negotiable Please send cover letter and resume to amy@cea-vt.com CEA is an equal Opportunity Employer

OUELLETTE PLUMBING & HEATING CORP. EXPERIENCED PROJECT MANAGER / COMMERCIAL MECHANICAL ESTIMATOR A successful candidate will be dedicated, organized, focused, and able to balance multiple deadlines and priorities. This role requires the ability to collaborate with others with a high level of partnership and accountability. Excellent interpersonal skills and customer service a must as well as the ability to self-motivate and work independently. A successful member of the OPH Corp. is kind, flexible, and a go getter! Qualifications • 3 + years' experience with Commercial Plumbing construction estimating/Project Management • Possess skill and understanding in conceptual estimating • Experience with Trimble estimating/Onscreen takeoff program a plus. • Proven project estimating and/or project management success. • Excellent verbal and written skills. • Advanced knowledge or estimating strategies and techniques. • Knowledge of estimating software programs Microsoft Word/Excel OPH offers a competitive salary, paid time off, health, dental, and vision insurance. Come join a team where you are not just an employee, you are part of the OPH Family.

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CNC Machinist • Machine Operator • Welders Manufacturing Associates • Assemblers Full details on these positions available at: mmg1982.com/jobs A few highlights that our eligible employees enjoy are: Benefits Package: Medical and Dental Insurance (Partially funded by employer), Life Insurance & Short-Term Disability Insurance (Funded 100% by employer), Vision Plan, 401K match, Bonus Incentive Plans. Plus, other optional, voluntary benefits. Time Off: 9 paid holidays, vacation time, and earned days off. Shift Schedule: First shift 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Second shift 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. On-site Training: Fork truck operator and blueprint reading are just some of the training opportunities available. Career Advancement: 20% of current employees hold a position that they have been promoted to since starting with the company. Job Security: Over 50% of employees have been with the company over 5 years and an amazing 33% of these employees 10 plus years.

In this job as screen printer, you’ll be on your feet and using your upper body to press ink through fine mesh screen for most of your day. You’ll also be using machines, water, and chemicals to process screens for use and reuse. This job is paid based on experience, and experience is preferred; however, we are willing to train the right person. It is full-time with paid holidays, personal days, garment discounts, occasional free lunches, and the fun of knowing that you help represent the state of Vermont with your handiwork. To apply, send your resume and a short email about yourself to contactvcc@vermont clothingcompany.com

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True North Wilderness Program is seeking a full-time Property Maintenance team member. Primary job duties include facilities and grounds maintenance, landscaping and hardscaping, chainsaw operation and lawn mowing, light construction and carpentry, and vehicle maintenance. Additional responsibilities include supporting clients directly with enrollment, transportation, crisis response and logistical tasks. Offering competitive salary and comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, accident insurance, retirement savings plan, wellness fund, and education assistance program.

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The ideal candidate is an adaptable team player with a positive attitude who is willing to work both indoors and outdoors and is able to work weekends/occasional evenings. A clean and valid driver’s license as well as being fully vaccinated and boosted against Covid is required. True North is a nationally recognized wilderness therapy program located in the beautiful Green Mountains of Central Vermont. As a small, independently owned program, True North provides personalized therapeutic interventions and transition support for 14-17 year old adolescents and 18-25 year old young adults with an emphasis on assessment and family participation. We are committed to enriching the experience of our students, families, and team by celebrating an inclusive work environment. We seek to recruit a broadly diverse staff who will contribute a variety of viewpoints and experiences to ongoing program development and superior support of our clients. We encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups including professionals of color and diverse gender identities. Please visit our website to apply: truenorthwilderness.com/careers

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Cook/Baker/ Kitchen Manager Run a one-person-show kitchen! You'll do it all: cooking, baking, planning, organizing, cleaning, ordering, and more. If that sounds awesome, keep reading! Join a growing, hard-working team! We are passionate about making people’s lives better through: • Incredible customer service • Homemade food • Amazing coffee This position will be MondayFriday at our South Burlington location, start time 5:30am. Learn more kestrelcoffees.com or on Instagram @kestrelcoffees.

Attending Architect. Full stack web dvlpmt using HTML5, CSS & React. Dsgn & maintain API endpoints that connects d/base & frontend web app. Dsgn schema for SQL/NoSQL d/base. Dsgn graphical & animation related features for projects. Dvlp & maintain infrastructure projects to enhance the workflow for the team using cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure. Support DevOPS for the team w/ automation pipeline using AWS lambda, Firebase Functions. Integrate notification services w/ internal conversation channel to strengthen product monitoring. Configure different internal tools to boost up dvlpmt efficiency. Contribute to team recruitment at career fair, Hackathon event periodically. Participate co. interview & help team to identify potential candidate from both competency & cultural perspectives. Maintain cyber security w/ fundamental knowl about application layer (HTTP & HTTPS), transport layer (TCP & UDP) protocols as well as socket prgmg. Req Bach's in Comp Sci w/ 1 yr exp. Apply to: Equitas Life Sciences, 5 Oliver Wight Dr., Ste B, Essex, Vermont, 05442. Attn: HR.

RECEPTIONIST Full Time Full time receptionist for busy optometry office in Williston. Must be a motivated people person with excellent communications and computer skills.Duties include but are not limited to answering phones, scheduling and greeting clients. If you can multi task, you might be our person. Experience within the field of optometry or medical office settings a must.We will train to specific software and office procedures. Send resume by e-mail. No phone calls . thomashclarkod@gmail.com

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RED SPRUCE GROVE PROGRAM DIRECTOR The Program Director has the responsibility of effectively managing a summer camp program for approximately 16 campers and about 6 staff. This program serves campers and staff who identify as girls and gender nonbinary. Red Spruce Grove is a nature based outdoor living skills camp with a focus on living simply without modern “technology”. During camp the program director is responsible with support from the IB Co-Directors for the good health and happiness of the campers, staff management, camper/parent relations, program management, camp risk management, budget oversight, and adherence to the F&W mission. Apply online: bit.ly/ FandWFredsprucejob

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ZONING ADMINISTRATOR Town of East Montpelier, VT The Zoning Administrator for the Town of East Montpelier is retiring! We are looking for an organized, collaborative, and diplomatic candidate to fill this challenging position. The Zoning Administrator is responsible for compliance with all applicable zoning and subdivision regulations, facilitation of and support for long-range land use planning, supporting the Planning Commission and Development Review Board, and serving as the Town’s E-911 coordinator. We hope to hire a person with a background in planning, public administration, natural resources, engineering, legal studies or similarly applicable discipline. A bachelor’s degree is required; a master’s degree is preferred. Candidates should also have a minimum of three years’ experience in local government planning or administration, or equivalent experience in business or government. For more information, including a job description: eastmontpeliervt.org/em-zoning-administrator-job-opening/

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True North Wilderness Program in Waitsfield seeks a full time Administrative Assistant. The Administrative Assistant is central to the success of our program by providing outstanding customer service to colleagues and to external clients and business partners. This position requires strong written and verbal communication skills, problem solving, and a high level of organization and attention to detail. The successful candidate will be proficient using Microsoft Word and Excel, Google Drive and Gmail, and in data entry. Tasks include answering the phone, managing correspondence, scheduling appointments, drafting insurance writeups and participation in student enrollment and discharge. True North is a nationally recognized wilderness therapy program located in the beautiful Green Mountains of Central Vermont. As a small, independently owned program, True North provides personalized therapeutic interventions and transition support for 14-17 year old adolescents and 18-25 year old young adults with an emphasis on assessment and family participation. We are committed to enriching the experience of our students, families, and team by celebrating an inclusive work environment.

To apply, please submit your letter of interest and resume by May 9, 2022 to: manager@eastmontpeliervt.org

We seek to recruit a broadly diverse staff who will contribute a variety of viewpoints and experiences to ongoing program development and superior support of our clients. We encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups including professionals of color and diverse gender identities. All True North employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and have received the booster dose of the vaccine if eligible.

Equal Opportunity Employer.

To apply visit: truenorthwilderness.com/careers

This is a part- to full-time opportunity (24-35 hours per week) with some flexible hours and a competitive wage and benefit package.

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OPERATIONS & EVENTS MANAGER Energy Action Network (EAN) is seeking a skilled Operations & Events Manager to become a core part of our non-profit staff team. EAN’s small staff collaboratively fill a variety of roles. The Operations & Events Manager will be responsible for communications and events management, and additional tasks that fit with their skill set and interests. Located in Montpelier (with some remote work possible).

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Administrative Assistant Needed for construction office staff 16-20 hours weekly (2-3 days), flexible schedule. Bookkeeping experience helpful but not required, attention to detail is required.

JOB OPENINGS The City of South Burlington is currently looking for candidates to fill the positions of:

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Super Thin Saws, of Waterbury, VT manufactures precision circular saw blades and similar tooling, primarily for the woodworking industry. We are seeking highly motivated individuals to work & grow in our manufacturing operation

Deputy Director of Capital Projects Facilities Manager Firefighter/Emergency Medical Technician Mechanic Network and Systems Administrator

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Parks Maintenance Worker – Seasonal (AprilOctober)

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Park Rangers – Seasonal (June-August)

We are currently seeking a manufacturing technician and a Quality Control Technician. Candidates must be mechanically inclined (previous experience with measuring tools, such as micrometers, calipers & dial indicators, is desired). We will also provide training to successful candidates.

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BUSINESS OUTREACH DIRECTOR Do you love meeting new people, making connections, talking issues, valuing differences, and finding solutions? If the answer is yes, we invite you to apply for the Business Outreach Director position, an exciting career opportunity with the statewide Vermont Chamber of Commerce. In this role you will engage directly with businesses and decision makers to learn about their challenges and goals and ask them to support our work. You will also put your community outreach, organization, and problem-solving abilities to work, serving as a liaison between businesses and the Vermont Chamber’s five-person lobbying team. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to direct programs for membership recruitment and retention efforts and manage membership education and benefit programs like the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Task Force Committee. As a valued member of the team, you know that tracking your work in a database key to success and you will learn new ways to innovate the customer relationship management system. In a pandemic world, you know this work requires remote productivity, but you also look forward to the day when you can further build and develop relationships in person. Qualifications: • Able to manage diverse relationships with multiple internal and external constituencies. • Strong project management skills and a keen eye for attention to detail. • Effective communicator in speaking and writing. • Background in prospecting, community relationships, campaigns, sales, and/or fundraising desired. To apply, please send a letter of interest and resume to Chris Carrigan at jobs@vtchamber.com.

For further information please go to our website at southburlingtonvt.gov.

Super Thin Saws provides excellent pay, benefits including medical and flexible hours.

To apply, please send cover letter, resume, and references to Jaimie Held, Human Resource Manager, at jheld@ southburlingtonvt.org.

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Join the American Precision Museum’s Creative Team The American Precision Museum in Windsor, Vermont, is looking for talented people to join our team.

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Located in the 1846 Robbins & Lawrence Armory, a national historic landmark, innovation is at the heart of the museum. Our exhibits tell the story of innovation in manufacturing technology, past, present, and future. Interactive STEM educational programming is designed to inspire the next generation of innovators. • Utilize your creative talents by helping us increase our reach and impact. • Grow professionally. Digital Marketing, HubSpot and Nonprofit Fundraising professional development trainings provided. You will collaborate with our Development Team to attract new friends of the museum, members and donors, and grow our community of social media followers. Excellent communication and organizational skills required. Experience working in a non-profit environment is a plus. This is a full-time position. Partial remote work possible. Salary negotiable. Please send resume to apmtalent88@gmail.com, attention Lisa Martin, Recruiting Manager.

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Professional Part time position ready for the right candidate!

Our Director of Public Works Planning is retiring after 20 successful years leading the Town's ambitious infrastructure investment program ($5M+ in projects in 2021 alone)!

Great job as a Home and Community support for a young engaging singing autistic adult. You must be athletically inclined (shifts will include daily recreational activities) and one who can demonstrate service to others. Singers a plus! Good work ethic with a friendly personality.

The Director of Public Works Planning is responsible for developing and guiding the implementation of the Town's 5-year capital improvement plan through every stage of the process, from budget development to project close-out. Project management experience, superior customer service and public presentation skills are essential for this position.

You will work with a highly mobile engaging young man as part of a team. Excellent training. Day hours are specifically Wednesday and Thursday 8:30am - 3:30pm. Friday is a half day 8:30am - 12:30pm. More hours can also be available. Clean driving record. Must have proof of Covid-19 vaccinations and all eligible boosters. $26/hr Centrally located in Burlington. Send resume, three references and cover letter to nbgteamvt@gmail.com.

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If you are up for a new challenge and think you have the experience, know-how and temperament, please see the detailed job advertisement and description on the Town’s website, www.townofmiddlebury.org. Competitive compensation ($78,000 - $98,000) and generous, comprehensive benefit package, including health and dental insurance and municipal retirement. Please send cover letter, resume and application to: Town of Middlebury, Attn: Crystal Grant, Executive Assistant to the Town Manager, Town Offices, 77 Main Street Middlebury, VT 05753. Or e-mail to ManagersOffice@townofmiddlebury.org for prompt consideration. Candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. The Town of Middlebury is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Assistant Town Clerk & Assistant Town Treasurer

The Town of Bristol is seeking an organized and motivated candidate to serve as its Assistant Town Clerk and Assistant Town Treasurer. The 32-hour per week position offers a competitive salary, benefits, flexible schedule, and opportunity to work in a vibrant community, (pop. approx. 4,000) located in the Champlain Valley in Addison County, Vermont. The Assistant Town Clerk will perform all duties assigned by the Town Clerk in accordance with Vermont Statutes and Bristol Town Policies and Procedures. The Assistant Town Treasurer will perform all duties assigned by the Town Treasurer in the management of all of the Town’s financial activities. A degree in accounting, public administration, or similarly applicable experience is preferred, or at least two years' practical experience in the area of municipal, public, or private accounting including experience managing payroll, employee benefits, accounts payable and receivable. A working knowledge of Word and Excel is required. Experience with NEMRC accounting systems is a plus. A detailed job description is available at www.bristolvt.org. Salary: commensurate with experience. To apply, please e-mail a cover letter, resume, and three references by 4:00 pm, Thursday, May 12, 2022 to clerk@bristolvt.org and treasurer@bristolvt.org with Bristol Assistant Town Clerk/Treasurer in the subject line or send by mail to:

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Bristol Assistant Town Clerk/Treasurer Search P.O. Box 249, Bristol, VT 05443 The position is advertised until filled. The Town of Bristol is an equal opportunity provider and employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, religion, gender, or familial status.

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Director of Property Management Seeking a seasoned and solutions-oriented manager to lead the Property Management team. The Director will ensure high quality property management services across the portfolio, including leading a staff of 17, overseeing property leasing and maintenance, working to ensure financial strength of properties, and seeking to strengthen community collaboration and programs in support of our residents. The Director of Property Management will be a part of Downstreet’s Leadership Team, working to develop strategic focus and strength for the organization. The successful candidate will have proven supervisory experience, be a great communicator, highly organized, with a strong ability to manage priorities and deadlines. Senior-level experience in nonprofits, community development, or property management preferred. For a full job description and application instructions, please visit downstreet.org/careers.

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The Painter LLC is seeking individuals to join our growing team! Experience preferred but not necessary. Willing to train decent human beings who love what they do and take pride in their work. Come be part of the family. Seeking the following: Painters, Labors, and Foremen. Full-time, Part-time, Seasonal & Year-Round! Top Pay, bonuses and incentives offered for all workers! Work uniforms provided. Send resume to: thepaintervt@gmail.com

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EARLY HEAD START HOME VISITOR FRANKLIN/GRAND ISLE COUNTY

Head Start is a federally-funded, national child and family development program which provides comprehensive services for pregnant women, children from birth to age five, and their families. Services for children promote school readiness, and include early education, health, nutrition, mental health, and services for children with special needs. Services for parents promote family engagement, and include parent leadership and social service supports. As an Early Head Start Home Visitor, you will provide services in home-based settings to program participants to support prenatal education and services to promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women, provide or support the care of infants and toddlers so as to enhance their physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development, support parents in the care and nurturing of their infants and toddlers, and help parents move toward self-sufficiency and independent living, as needed. Motivated Home Visitors improve the trajectory of children’s lives, including children’s learning outcomes, living standards, and later academic and professional success. If you want to make a difference in the lives of young children and their families, consider joining the Head Start community.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related education field, social work, human services, family services, or counseling; Home-Based CDA Credential or comparable credential, or equivalent coursework as part of an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree; Demonstrated competency to plan and implement homebased learning experiences that ensure effective implementation of the home visiting curriculum and promote children’s progress and build respectful, culturally responsive, and trusting relationships with families; a commitment to social justice and to working with families with limited financial resources; effective verbal and written communication (bilingual abilities a plus!), documentation, and record-keeping skills; valid driver’s license, clean driving record and access to reliable transportation; physical ability to carry out required tasks. 40 hours/week, 52 weeks/year. Starting

wage upon completion of 60-working day period: $20.28-$24.22/hour, depending on qualifications. Health plan and excellent benefits.

Vermont Afterschool is seeking an Executive Director to spearhead the organization’s work in ways that strengthen programs, build partnerships, empower youth, and transform communities so that all of Vermont’s children and youth have opportunities to be active, engaged, connected, and heard. The Executive Director reports to the Board of Directors, and the successful candidate will lead the organization’s work to the next level of impact, scale, and relevance. This position will be responsible for managing our dynamic team of professional staff, developing strategy, and implementing programs that make youth-serving organizations and communities stronger for Vermont’s children, youth, and families. The Executive Director is also responsible for securing grants and funding opportunities, building ongoing relationships with funders and partners, and leading on our statewide policy efforts. We are seeking an individual with excellent strategic thinking and planning skills, strong operational and management experience, the ability to work in a dynamic and fluid environment, a deep understanding of youth programs and policies, and experience running an effective non-profit organization. QUALIFICATIONS • Minimum BA required; Advanced degree preferred • Must have access to reliable transportation to and from the office. While some flexibility is available, the position will be based primarily out of Vermont Afterschool’s offices in South Burlington, VT HOW TO APPLY

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• We offer a competitive compensation package and the opportunity to play a role in growing the organization. Expected compensation for this position starts at $80,000 and depends on qualifications and experience.

candidates who can contribute to our diversity and excellence. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal.

• To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and three references to jobs@vermontafterschool.org. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis and must be submitted electronically. The position will be posted until filled and is available immediately.

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Warehouse Manager Thriving charity resale operation is looking for someone to manage our warehouse. Duties include working with staff doing pickups and deliveries of large items, accepting donated goods at the door, preparing and pricing items for the store, and more, in partnership with the store manager. Must have supervisory experience, organizational and logistics skills, and excellent communication abilities. Mechanical skills and experience driving a box truck and a forklift would be very helpful. Send resumes to: receptionist@hope-vt.org.

Executive Director

INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT

Onion River Community Access Media (ORCA Media) seeks a dynamic, inspirational, and visionary leader as its next Executive Director.

SOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT The South Burlington School District seeks an outstanding educational leader with a demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion to provide district wide leadership for all instructional programs and school district business for the FY23 school year. We’re looking for someone who can move with facility from budget development and crisis management to engaging with students, families, and the broader community. Candidates for this interim position may also apply for the anticipated permanent Superintendent position which is scheduled to begin with the FY24 school year.

The Executive Director is responsible for the overall administration, management, planning and development of ORCA Media on an annual and day-to-day basis. They are accountable to the Board of Directors for implementing the Board’s policies. Send resumes to: edsearch@orcamedia.net.

Qualifications: • Vermont License as Superintendent required. • Proven leadership in curriculum and instruction for all learners. • Extensive knowledge of special education delivery systems, finance, and law. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. • Classroom experience of 10 years or more preferred. • Minimum of 3 years administrator experience.

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Qualified candidates will have at least 2 years of corporate legal assistant or paralegal experience. Hybrid Full Time: In person, in the Burlington, VT office at least 3 days/wk. We support remote office work & flexible schedules. Benefits offered: Paid time off. Health insurance. 401(k) plan. We offer a competitive salary commensurate with skills. Send resumes to: cmoulton@moultonlg.com Moulton Law Group is an E.O.E.

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Application deadline is May 13, 2022. Position begins July 1, 2022. Candidates should apply by submitting their resume, cover letter, proof of licensure and three current letters of reference to Schoolspring: schoolspring.com reference job posting #3836484.

REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONAL Sheehey Furlong & Behm P.C. - Burlington, VT Sheehey Furlong & Behm, an established, growing law firm located near the Burlington waterfront, is accepting applications for a Title Search/Real Estate Professional. This unique position is for either an attorney or paralegal with demonstrated Vermont real estate experience to provide assistance and support in a busy medium-sized firm with a variety of residential and commercial real estate needs. The position will involve travelling to perform residential and commercial title searches at town clerk’s offices throughout Vermont (mileage reimbursed), preparing reports and opinions on title and drafting property descriptions, working with title insurers and title insurance policies and forms, and researching and analyzing state and municipal permit and compliance issues. The position will also involve drafting conveyance and closing documents, including but not limited to deeds, tax forms, and settlement statements. If the applicant is an attorney, the position may also involve contract negotiation and drafting, conducting closings, and working on other real estate related matters including commercial leasing and permitting. The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years’ experience related to title searches/real estate, at least a Bachelor’s Degree, and be detail-oriented and organized with strong communication and writing skills. Candidates with a law degree but less experience will be considered, provided they have demonstrated skills and experience in conducting title searches. Salary will be commensurate with experience and education, and will include a generous benefits package. Forward cover letter and resume to hiring@sheeheyvt.com, subject “Title Search/Real Estate Professional.”

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HOUSE PAINTER Looking for experienced house painters for high quality residential work on a small crew. Good wage, short days. 8am-2pm Mon-Fri. Must have reliable transportation.

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The Vermont Historical Society seeks a part-time Program Assistant based in Montpelier. The position assists the education team in presenting school programs and with daily operations at the Vermont History Museum. Saturday work required. Bachelor’s degree and experience in education, history, museums, or related field preferred. Full job description and details at vermonthistory.org/ career-opportunities. To apply, send a cover letter & resume to eileen.corcoran@vermonthistory.org.

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CANCER OUTREACH/ EDUCATION COORDINATOR The Cancer Outreach and Education Coordinator is the lead representative for Vermonters Taking Action Against Cancer (VTAAC) and is responsible for the operation and management of Vermont’s statewide cancer coalition. Additionally, this position will provide coordination and management for the University of Vermont Cancer Center’s Education and Training program. This position operates with a high degree of independence and must possess the ability to maintain and grow excellent relationships with multiple constituents across the State of Vermont.

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Minimum Qualifications (Or equivalent combination of education and experience) • Bachelor’s degree and two to four years of related experience in public health, community organizing or a related field. Effective interpersonal and communication skills required. • Time management and organizational skills with attention to detail and follow-up required. • Ability to identify and carry out tasks using judgment in prioritizing workflow and selecting methods. • Ability to problem solve issues and recommend8t-VTHiTEC042022.indd course correction. • Must possess the ability for compassionate, understanding, and respectful interactions while working cooperatively with a team. • Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion required.

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BURLINGTON HOUSING AUTHORITY (BHA) in Burlington, VT is seeking candidates to continue BHA’s success in promoting innovative solutions that address housing instability challenges facing our diverse population of extremely low-income families and individuals. Join us and make a difference in our community! LANDLORD ENGAGEMENT SPECIALIST (LES) to market the Section 8 voucher program to new and existing landlords and managing the voucher holder lease-up process, with a goal of expanding the number of units available to Section 8 voucher holders, increasing the voucher lease-up success rate and reducing the average time for voucher lease-ups. MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN performs general maintenance work in BHA owned and managed properties, including building exteriors, common areas, apartments, building systems, fixtures, and grounds. Our Maintenance Techs are required to participate in the oncall rotation, which covers night and weekend emergencies.

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PROPERTY MANAGER serves as a critical member of our property management team. This position will provide oversight of day-to-day operations to ensure long-term viability of the properties assigned within BHA’s property portfolio. This position requires independent judgment, timely management of deadlines as well as discretion in carrying out responsibilities. SITE BASED SERVICE COORDINATOR supports those who have mental health and substance abuse challenges and/or who have moved from homelessness to Decker Towers, South Square, and Champlain Apartments. This position works closely with the Property Manager and other site-based staff to identify challenging behaviors and respond with appropriate direct service and coordination of community services with a goal of eviction prevention and facilitating a healthy tenancy. CONTROLLER manages the accounting operations of the Authority. The responsibilities for this position include preparing timely and accurate accounting records and financial reports; managing operating budgets; and maintaining a comprehensive and effective system of internal controls, all of which are designed to ensure the accuracy of BHA’s reported results, mitigate risk, and ensure that resulting financial statements comply with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requirements. The Controller also hires, trains, manages and retains skilled accounting staff. *To learn more about BHA & these career opportunities, please visit: burlingtonhousing.org. BHA offers a competitive salary, commensurate with qualifications and experience. Our benefit package includes premium medical insurance with a health reimbursement account, dental, vision, short and long term disability, employer funded retirement plan, 457 retirement plan, accident insurance, life insurance, cancer and critical illness insurance. We also offer a generous time off policy including paid time off, sick, and 13 paid holidays. If interested in these career opportunities, please submit your resume and cover letter to: humanresources@burlingtonhousing.org Burlington Housing Authority is an E.O.E.

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STEWARDSHIP COORDINATOR The Vermont Historical Society seeks a full-time Stewardship Coordinator based in Barre. The Coordinator supports the mission of VHS through the stewardship of members and volunteers and the handling of day-to-day operations of the organization. Associate’s degree in business or other appropriate discipline, plus two years of relevant clerical/administrative/ technological experience required. Bachelor’s degree, strong customer service skills, and knowledge of database management preferred. vermonthistory.org/ career-opportunities

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OFFICE MANAGER Rutland County Solid Waste District is seeking an office manager that performs general office duties including data entry, opening mail, purchasing office supplies, includes bookkeeping tasks such as billing, issue and process the purchase order system, accounts payable, accounts receivable, etc. He/ She is responsible for handling truck traffic and weighing of trucks, then entering data into a computer. Serves as the official weigh master of the district. The individual will also prepare relevant district reports. With certain limitations, will collaborate in reporting with third party entities to generate accurate and timely reports. This position will be for 24 hours to 32+ hours per week. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS - Duties include but are not necessarily limited to: • Energetic professional who doesn't mind wearing multiple hats. Experienced in handling a wide range of administrative and support related tasks and able to work independently with little or no supervision. Well organized, flexible and enjoy the administrative challenges of supporting an office of diverse people.

• Monitor and maintain office supplies inventory. • Handle customer inquiries and complaints. • Create and maintain a job procedures book that illustrates day-to-day activities, each task process, event and timeline schedules, relevant contacts, annual goals with progress statuses, etc.

TITLE ATTORNEY & UNDERWRITER The Title Counsel & Underwriter makes sound risk assessment decisions that facilitate the issuance of title insurance policies. Provide guidance to our attorney agents on all facets of residential and commercial real property matters, lead educational seminars and publish articles internally and externally.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Assist in the financial internal controls by working with the Treasurer to ensure accounts are paid on a timely basis, payroll, etc.

• Participate in defining project and program goals, reporting procedures to monitor, evaluate, and review effectiveness in achieving goals & objectives.

· Solid understanding of Vermont real estate practice and settlement procedures; · Ability to assess underwriting risk and convey that to the company’s title agents; · Ability to act independently and make firm underwriting decisions; · Excellent communication skills, including the ability to listen closely; · Ability to create strong business relationships with the company’s title agents; · Basic understanding of title insurance concepts and a willingness to participate in trade organizations in order to further expertise in this area; · Creative problem-solving abilities. · Service oriented. · Commitment to providing excellent customer service is essential.

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• Train additional staff to do the job. • Collaborate with a range of stakeholders to provide assistance, recommendations, and evaluation of recycling and waste management programs. • Participate in organizational meetings, events, and performing various duties as assigned that support the organization. • Create a positive work environment and image for the district.

Minimum Qualifications: The Office Manager must have at least an Associate’s degree, in business administration, public administration, or similar from an accredited college or university, or five (5) year of similar office experience. A clean driving record, a current driver’s license. Must be a highly organized professional. Requires proficiency in MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-Outlook, Google Doc's, and relevant financial software computer applications. Possess the ability to receive large amounts of data, analyze it, and create meaningful reports accurately and without errors. The position requires the ability to work well with the public, work independently without direct supervision, and complete and maintain electronic and hard-copy reports and records in an organized manner. Please send your cover letter, resume, and job application to: Rutland County Solid Waste District C/O Mark S. Shea, District Manager 2 Greens Hill Lane, Rutland, Vt 05701 Or email it to mshea@rcswd.com We plan to fill this position immediately. Review of applications will begin on April 29, 2022, or until the position is filled. Rutland County Solid Waste District is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

· Graduation from an accredited law school and license to practice law in Vermont. · Have at least 5 years’ experience as an attorney focused on Vermont real estate law. · Experience in bankruptcy, estate settlement & litigation matters.

Apply online: https://bit.ly/CATICtitlejob CATIC Financial, Inc. and its subsidiaries are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and to maintaining a work environment that is free from discrimination without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, we comply with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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“Imagining anything is the first step toward creating it,” wrote author and activist Gloria Steinem. “Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born,” she added. Those are excellent meditations for you to focus on right now, Taurus. The time is ripe for you to envision in detail a specific new situation or adventure you would like to manifest in the future. It’s also a perfect moment to picture a truer, deeper, more robust version of your beautiful self — an expanded version of your identity that you hope to give birth to in the coming months.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): I recommend you adopt a limitation that will enable you to claim more freedom. For example, you could de-emphasize your involvement with a lukewarm dream so as to liberate time and energy for a passionate dream. Or you could minimize your fascination with a certain negative emotion to make more room for invigorating emotions. Any other ideas? You’re in a phase when increased discipline and discernment can be liberating. GEMINI (May 21-Jun. 20): Gemini author William Butler Yeats won a Nobel Prize for Literature, so I conclude he had considerable talent and wisdom. But he cultivated

interests and ideas that were at variance with most other literary figures. For example, he believed fairies were real. He was a student of occult magic. Two of his books were dictated by spirits during séances. In the coming weeks, I invite you to draw inspiration from his versatile repertoire. Welcome knowledge in whatever unusual ways it might materialize. Be eager to accept power and inspiration wherever they are offered. For inspiration, here’s a Yeats’ quote: “I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.”

CANCER (Jun. 21-Jul. 22): You know what’s always good for your well-being? Helping people who are less fortunate and less privileged than you. To enhance your health, you can also fight bigotry, campaign against the abuse of animals and remedy damage to the natural world. If you carry out tasks like these in the coming weeks, you will boost your vigor and vitality even more than usual. You may be amazed at the power of your compassion to generate selfish benefits for yourself. Working on behalf of others will uplift and nurture you. To further motivate you, here are inspirational words from designer Santiago Bautista: “I am in love with all the gifts of the world and especially those destined for others to enjoy.” LEO (Jul. 23-Aug. 22): “There is a moment in each day that Satan cannot find,” wrote author and artist William Blake. Here’s how I interpret his poetic words: On a regular basis, you become relatively immune from the debilitating effects of melancholy, apathy and fear. At those times, you are blessed with the freedom to be exactly who you want to be. You can satisfy your soul completely. In the next six weeks, I suspect there will be more of these interludes for you than usual. How do you plan to use your exalted respite from Satan’s nagging? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): Poet Louis Little Coon Oliver (1904-1991) was a member of the indigenous Mvskoke people. He declared, “I do not waste what is wild.” That might mean

something different for him than what it would mean for you, but it’s an excellent principle for you to work with in the coming weeks. You will have more access than usual to wildness, and you might be tempted to use it casually or recklessly. I hope that instead you harness all that raw mojo with precision and grace. Amazingly, being disciplined in your use of the wildness will ensure that it enriches you to the max and generates potent transformative energy.

LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): I suspect you will have the skills of an acrobat in the coming weeks — at least metaphorically. You will be psychically nimble. Your soul will have an exceptional ability to carry out spry maneuvers that keep you sane and sound. Even more than usual, you will have the power to adjust on the fly and adapt to shifting circumstances. People you know may marvel at your lithe flexibility. They will compliment you for your classiness under pressure. But I suspect the feats you accomplish may feel surprisingly easy and breezy! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A Tumblr blogger named Af-70 gives copious advice. From his wide selection of wise counsel, I have selected six tips that are right for your needs in the coming weeks. Please study the following counsel. 1. “Real feelings don’t change fast.” 2. “Connect deeply or not at all.” 3. “Build a relationship in which you and your ally can be active in each other’s growth.” 4. “Sometimes what you get is better than what you wanted.” 5. “Enjoy the space between where you are and where you are going.” 6. “Keep it real with me even if it makes us tremble and shimmer.” SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Consider

putting a sign on your door or a message on your social media that says something like the following: “I’ve still got some healing to do. While I’m making progress, I’m only partway there. Am open to your suggestions, practical tips and suggestions for cures I don’t know about.” Though the process is as yet incomplete, Sagittarius, I am proud of how diligent and resourceful you have been in seeking corrections and fixes. My only suggestions: 1. Be bold about seeking help and support. 2. Be aggressive about accessing your creativity.

3. Expand your imagination about what might be therapeutic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “To uncover what is hidden in my soul might take me a week or two,” my friend Allie told me. I told her she would be lucky if her brave and challenging exploration required such a short time. In contrast, some people I know have spent years trying to find what is buried and lost in their souls: me, for instance. There was one period of my life when I sought for over a decade to find and identify the missing treasure. According to my astrological analysis, you will soon enjoy multiple discoveries and revelations that will be more like Allie’s timeline than mine: relatively rapid and complete. Get ready! Be alert! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A Thai cook

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PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Pisces-born Casimir Pulaski (1745-1779) was a Polish nobleman and military commander. As a young man, he fought unsuccessfully to free Poland from Russian domination. Driven into exile, he fled to America, arriving during the Revolutionary War with Britain in 1777. General George Washington was impressed with Pulaski’s skills, making the immigrant a brigadier general. He distinguished himself as a leader of American forces, exhibiting brilliance and bravery. For that excellence, he has been honored. But now, over two centuries later, his identity is in flux. DNA analyses of Pulaski’s remains suggest he was an intersex person with both male and female qualities. (Read more at tinyurl.com/ pulaskismithsonian.) I bring this to your attention, Pisces, because the coming months will be a favorable time to question and revise your understanding of your identity. May you be inspired by Pulaski’s evolving distinctiveness.

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Am I the only one who stands in front of a mirror before showering and spreads my butt cheeks to see what’s collected in there? I know it sounds weird, but I’m always curious to see what’s there before I wash it away. You know — lint, hot sauce packet, missing rent check, etc.

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I don’t believe I know anyone who does such a thing, but ass-crack hygiene isn’t something that comes up often in casual conversation, so who can say? I certainly have never done this,, but I don’t have much of a booty. Perhaps the practice behooves those with more cheek depth — similar to how someone with a deep belly button has more cause to check what’s in there. I imagine that the amount of collected derriere detritus depends on a number of other factors, such as whether you wear undies and whether you make it a habit to sit around the house — or the bus — naked. Whatever you may find lurking in your behind, one thing is for sure: A clean bum is a happy bum. When you wash, opt for gentle soap and water and avoid rough toilet paper. A lot of people swear by using wet wipes

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for their bum, but they can cause all sorts of problems, from messing up the levels of good bacteria in the area to causing too much moisture, leading to rashes and irritation. And their impact on the environment is downright stinky. One of the best things you can do for your backside is to invest in a bidet. Your nether region gets a little shower whenever you use it, so you’re squeaky-clean — and using far less toilet paper. Your tush and the trees will thank you. Good luck and God bless,

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