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NINE MINUTES, 29 SECONDS A solemn crowd of about 50 gathered in Burlington on Tuesday to honor the memory of George Floyd, the Black man whose murder by a white police officer in Minneapolis last year ignited a reckoning on race and policing.

The event marked the one-year anniversary of Floyd’s death and drew elected officials, community leaders and others to City Hall Park, where attendees held a silent vigil lasting nine minutes and 29 seconds — the amount of time that former officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck, killing him.

C D Mattison, who organized the vigil, briefly addressed the crowd to reflect on Floyd’s final moments, which were captured on video by a 17-year-old bystander and quickly seared into the national consciousness.

“George Floyd should be alive today. We know that,” Mattison said. “And what pained me so much for his family — and most certainly for George Floyd, as he cried out for his mother — was the gathering of people who were there in witness, and how excruciating it was for them that they felt they could not intervene on his behalf and save him, because their very own lives were at risk, as well.”

Similar vigils were held around the country on Tuesday as Americans reflected on the year since the 46-year-old man’s death — and the movement it inspired.

In Burlington, a light breeze rippled through the trees during the period of silence. Some bowed their heads and

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Attendees at a vigil for George Floyd on Tuesday

closed their eyes, while others stared into the distance.

Several shed tears.

Zoraya Hightower, a Burlington city councilor and executive director of the Peace & Justice Center, a Burlington-based nonprofit, spent the time considering what has and has not changed over the last year. How, on one hand, Floyd’s death heightened awareness of issues surrounding racial justice. And how on the other, “We still live in a country where we use systems to justify treating human beings who don’t look like the majority very badly — whether that’s slavery, whether that’s Jim Crow, whether that’s police violence.”

“We’re very quick to justify, and that is still true,” she said.

Gov. Phil Scott proclaimed Tuesday to be George Floyd Remembrance Day in Vermont. Scott said he hoped people would use the day to “remember why we must continue to acknowledge systemic racism and inequality in order to fulfill the promise of American freedom and justice for every citizen.”

Mattison asked vigil attendees to think about “the truth of who we are as a nation.”

“Being still for nine minutes and 29 seconds will be hard.

Being still even without the weight of three men on our bodies, and a knee on our necks, will be hard,” she said. “We are done. We are done dying. And we demand accountability, justice, and the respect and celebration of our humanity.”

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Several hundred University of Vermont employees have voted to unionize. The decision comes amid massive cost-cutting in higher education.

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A forest fire that burned up to 40 acres in Killington over several days is finally out, officials said. A preview of things to come this summer?

1. “Scott’s Bargain: No More COVID-19 Restrictions Once Vermont Hits 80 Percent Vaccination Rate” by Anne Wallace Allen. The governor says he’ll lift restrictions when the target is reached.

2. “Bartender Mike Dunn Takes the Helm of Burlington’s T. Rugg’s Tavern” by Sally Pollak. Dunn says he wants the Old North End establishment to be clean, safe, affordable and fun.

3. “Longtime Area Restaurateurs Make Charlotte Pop-Up Permanent With Backyard Bistro” by Melissa Pasanen. Jill and Adam Spell plan to open at Charlotte Crossings in June.

4. “A Rival Developer Is Challenging the CityPlace Burlington Project in Court” by Courtney Lamdin. Redstone, which owns an adjacent building, is now challenging the project’s permit.

5. “Norwich Dairy Farmers Sue Vermont State Colleges System for $500,000” by Chelsea Edgar. A curdled cheesemaking relationship has led to litigation.

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For several years, Burlington-based nonprofit Healing Winds Vermont has taken people with cancer, along with their family and friends, for free sailing expeditions on Lake Champlain.

The pandemic changed some things for the org. Last July, the group invited “health care heroes” aboard its 40-foot sailboat.

“We took out this nurse, and she brought her mom and two sons,” said Sylvia Oblak, Healing Winds’ executive director. “We dropped the anchor, and they were doing cannonballs off the sailboat, and [the boys] told us it was the first time that they could see their mommy having fun that summer.”

Such outings inspire the nonprofit and the many volunteers who help make it run, from ship

captains to crew members and even paid staff who took reduced salaries to keep the organization afloat during the pandemic.

Based at the Community Boathouse in Burlington, Healing Winds is preparing to launch on Memorial Day weekend with free rides of up to three hours for cancer patients, people in remission and caregivers. Those in the health care industry are again invited aboard, and the org will hold sessions for kids with cancer who want to learn the basics of sailing. Healing Winds has taken out more than 2,000 guests over the years and offers the trips to anyone in town for cancer treatment.

For many, it’s a highlight during a very turbulent time. Oblak recalled one guest who went sailing late last summer at a time when she wasn’t leaving the house at all for fear of contracting COVID-19.

“You gave me my whole summer in one sail,” she told the captain. The woman died just a few weeks later.

“Sometimes, it’s one of the last memories these families have of their loved one, and they’re all together, having a blast,” Oblak said.

“They’ve left cancer behind on shore for an afternoon and are just focused on each other.

And it’s just a peaceful experience, and it’s a respite.”

The expeditions can also be “a big component in the healing process,” Oblak said.

“They tell us that it’s strength building, and they feel empowered to fight on, and it’s just put wind in their sails,” Oblak said. “It’s profoundly deep, the experience on our sailboat.”

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Thank you, Alison Novak, for the excellent reporting in [“Chemical Reaction,” May 12], which, to me, clearly pointed out the real root causes of Burlington’s PCB problem: the State of Vermont’s screening level of 15 nanograms per cubic meter, the ongoing misuse by the school administration of the term “an unsafe building,” and the years of underfunding maintenance and cost-avoidance projects resulting in the $70 million renovation project in the first place. To even consider tearing down Burlington High School when it’s only lived half its life expectancy and filling

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in the future, given regulatory capture and the growing power of international corporations.

To be realistic, Vermont isn’t big enough to make a difference, but it is definitely time to stop trusting authorities to protect us from harm.

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[Re “Chemical Reaction,” May 12]: Has anyone considered the Burton facility for the Burlington High School? Burton isn’t using the whole plant and might welcome selling it. There is plenty of parking.

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NO LIFE PRESERVERS? a landfill with it is insanity— even more so when the State of Vermont has made it illegal to throw a banana peel in the landfill.

Unfortunately, we can’t go back in time and reverse the decisions that created this train wreck, starting with just saying “no”: no to the initial closing of the school, no to moving forward with the renovation until the state completes its airborne PCB testing, no to spending millions of dollars renovating Macy’s. And yes to taking the

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state to court if it tried forcing the city to close the school.

One can only hope that a “Save BHS” movement will come forward, because if there were ever a justifiable reason for the citizens of Burlington to take someone to court to slow down this train wreck, this would be the case!

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[Re “Chemical Reaction,” May 12]: I think that waiting until many years have passed and millions of people have been poisoned is the wrong approach to preventing chemical damage.

How about the precautionary principal? Your chemical crap permitted by a sloppy and corrupt regulatory system is not welcome in Vermont in the first place.

It took over 50 years to get lead out of paint and gasoline, after it poisoned millions of children. Triclosan, a pesticide, was added to hand soap. Turned out it’s one of many chemicals that screw up the human microbiome. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration finally decided it was bad, but it will take years to get it out of products. Pesticides are destroying honeybees, which will result in massive starvation.

The process of getting rid of these pesticides is dragging along. After all, can’t hurt profits...

Thousands of super-nasty chemicals are being spread around the world, with more being added every year. It is now considered “normal” for children to be chronically ill.

As this excellent article points out, it is incredibly expensive to deal with the resulting mess down the line. Trusting the manufacturers and the federal government to protect us has rarely worked in the past and is even less likely to work

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Classy paper. But not the May 12 issue.

There, in an advertisement for Basin Harbor, is a beautiful color photo with three young children in a boat on the water. Look closely and be nervous. Only one of the three little ones is wearing a life preserver.

I wonder where the parents were. And I’m sorry Seven Days let that photo get by.

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Admittedly, dairy farms have contributed to the phosphorus buildup in Lake Champlain. However, in the 1950s and ’60s, adding phosphorus to fields was a “best management practice” recommended by the Vermont Department of Agriculture and the University of Vermont’s cooperative extension service.

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START HERE GO PLACES

Vermont’s remaining World War II survivors bear witness

ALIVE TO TELL THE TALE

Enjoy a Career Bursting With Opportunities

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Vermont takes vaccines to church, the streets and even the beach

Bugging the Bartender: Ali Nagle on tending bar during a pandemic

Book review: Red Kite, Blue Sky, Madeleine May Kunin

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‘Right Way’ or the Highway Burlington activists want to divert Champlain Parkway traffic from diverse neighborhood

‘COVID Good’

Happy Daze

Dining on a Dime at Mallett’s Bay’s newest food truck

‘My Life Was Totally Destroyed’

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Musical Foundations Thanks to spring, live music is back in outdoor settings.

Independent concert presenter Keepsake House hosts Roots Less Traveled, an open-air show featuring local acts Sabrina Comellas, Marcie Hernandez, Mikahely and Frank Song Jr. During this sunset event in Burlington’s Battery Park, performers share their musical roots, as well as what it means to them to stay grounded.

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Camp Meade in Middlesex is abuzz with fireflies, ladybugs and bumblebees during an outdoor performance of Ballet Vermont’s Bees & Friends. Dancers in this seasonal spectacular move to The Four Seasons by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi while portraying various insects. Doors open early for a screen-printing activity and a mini dance lesson in a festive atmosphere. See Ballet Vermont’s website for additional spring dates.

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Waste Not According to a 2013 story in Smithsonian Magazine, preindustrial humans found myriad uses for urine, such as softening leather, washing clothes and whitening teeth. As participants in the Rich Earth Institute’s weekly webinar Urine My Garden find out, pee also promotes healthy gardens and watersheds.

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Breaking Free Vermont-based cult awareness educator Gerette Buglion spent 18 years entangled with a teacher who, as she writes on her blog, “slowly eroded my mind while I poured money into his pocket.” Buglion recounts her experiences and shares insight into techniques common to cults in her new memoir, An Everyday Cult. Hardwick’s Galaxy Bookshop hosts an online launch party with Buglion and mental health counselor Steve Hassan.

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Chef’s Kiss Home cooks find ample inspiration among fresh, local offerings from the Craftsbury Farmers Market. Eggs, herbs, meats and maple syrup are just a few of the items listed among this year’s products, along with artwork, CBD goods and even dog treats. Family-friendly entertainment rounds out this weekly emporium open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays through October 2.

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ONGOING

To Be Seen

A silk-screen by Jennifer Mack-Watkins

A century ago, W.E.B. Dubois cofounded The Brownies’ Book, which he called “a monthly magazine for children of the sun.” Its pages featured stories, games and art celebrating African American identity.

Artist Jennifer Mack-Watkins draws inspiration from the magazine, as well as accounts of Vermont storyteller Daisy Turner, for her solo exhibition “Children of the Sun.” Mack-Watkins’ screen prints depicting Black baby dolls are on view at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center through June 13.

LEARN MORE AT BRATTLEBOROMUSEUM.ORG.

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Outdoor Dining “We recognize the need for our community to get outside in a safe manner this spring,” reads the South Burlington municipal website. To that end, South Burlington Recreation & Parks hosts Thursday Night Take-Out, a weekly food truck gathering at Veterans Memorial Park from 5 p.m. until sunset. The mouthwatering lineup rotates each week through June 24.

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I’ll never forget my mom, and she made sure of it by dying last year on Memorial Day. Just a few hours after she took her last breath, a police officer murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis. Now May 25, 2020, is one of those dismal dates that “will live in infamy,” as president Franklin D. Roosevelt put it in a speech the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Angie Catanese was 15 then, living with her family in New Brunswick, N.J. — one of countless Americans who gathered around their radios to hear the president announce that the U.S. was entering World War II. Like the subjects of this week’s cover story, my mom’s older brother enlisted; he spent most of the conflict on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. Her Sicilianborn mother went to work making bandages at Johnson & Johnson. People of all stripes made sacrifices to help this country, which, in the case of my Italian grandparents, was an adopted one.

Such memories came flooding back in the final weeks of Angie’s life. The pain meds might have loosened her lips, but I’d heard most of the stories before, albeit with fewer details. She reminded me that my grandfather worked — very unhappily — as a coal miner in Pennsylvania before remaking himself as a barber in central Jersey.

With emotion, she told me how her immigrant parents nearly went bankrupt seeking medical care for her younger brother, who died of an illness for which a cure soon emerged. She was never allowed to learn to swim for fear of contracting polio, like Roosevelt.

One tale was new to me: In her teens, my mother missed a ride home one night and so returned later than expected. Her father was furious, convinced she had been with a boy.

Nothing could change his mind. I watched my 93-year-old mom, wide-eyed and on the verge of tears, relive the injustice she felt as a well-behaved young woman whose stern, traditional father Left: Angie, Joe and thought less of her.

Pauline Catanese Right: Frank Catanese These things stay with us. Safeguarding my mother’s memories, good and bad, makes me feel closer to her. Ditto the inherited turquoise sweatshirt I’m wearing — it’s now my go-to spring wrap.

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FAIR GAME

OPEN SEASON ON VERMONT POLITICS BY DAVE GRAM

Goodbye Already

I

was fired from my previous job as a radio talk show host at WDEV because management thought I was too opinionated. That happened after I cited some stunning facts — not opinions — on the air: that by November 2019, people involved in then-president Donald Trump’s campaign or subsequent administration had been convicted on no fewer than 27 criminal charges.

Another striking fact: As of Trump’s third year in office, his administration far outpaced all previous ones, including that of RICHARD NIXON, in criminal convictions. The first time I cited this information, I got a scolding from my boss. I brought it up again on November 6, three days after the 2020 election. I was fired later that day.

This was four months shy of my 65th birthday, but I didn’t want to retire and go out with my tail between my legs. So I began to look for someplace else to apply some of the skills and knowledge I had acquired during more than 30 years as an Associated Press reporter based in Montpelier from 1985 to 2016.

I remembered how much fun it had been to read the late PETER FREYNE’s political columns in Seven Days back in the 1990s and early 2000s — and how much he seemed to enjoy writing them. It had occurred to me from time to time that it would be a blast to do that job.

So, almost on a lark, I emailed Seven Days publisher and coeditor PAULA ROUTLY, urging her to revive the dormant Fair Game column and hire me to write it. Lo and behold, that’s what Paula and her fellow Seven Days editors did.

From the get-go, I knew my version of Fair Game would be at least somewhat more staid and serious than the wild and crazy stuff Freyne used to write. And I wasn’t much good at coming up with nicknames, something for which he was famous.

The first two pieces I submitted to Seven Days were rejected. One read like a cross between a philosophical treatise and a Sunday sermon. Too serious. Another was full of dick jokes. Too juvenile. Having established the boundaries by trying to step outside them, I figured anything inside those extremes would work. It’s been a fun ride since then.

But now it has to conclude, much sooner than I wanted. A chronic, though likely nonlethal, health problem that seemed dormant when I started this

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I am passing the Fair Game baton in order to focus on my health

POLITICS

FROM THE GET-GO, I KNEW MY VERSION OF FAIR GAME WOULD BE AT LEAST SOMEWHAT MORE STAID AND SERIOUS THAN

THE WILD AND CRAZY STUFF FREYNE USED TO WRITE. gig has reemerged since late March in a mostly new and quite painful way. It’s made the work a struggle. Family and friends have been urging me to retire and focus on my health; I’ve decided to take that advice.

Here’s the good news, though, and something that reemphasizes for me how sought-after this job is, and how lucky and honored I should and do feel to have held it for a while: A couple days after I told Seven Days editors of my decision, they found an excellent replacement for me.

MARK JOHNSON, a widely respected journalist and broadcaster whose most recent post was a five-year stint at VTDigger.org, is slated to begin writing these columns in June. Johnson has served as a Burlington Free Press reporter, co-owner of WKDR Radio and, for 25 years, talk show host on WDEV. So, what do I make of the state of the news after four decades in the media?

Many newspapers are dying. Commercial radio has mostly given up on news and

public affairs and merely dishes up ear candy. Television has bifurcated or trifurcated into competing ideological megaphones. The internet is a cross between a swamp and a jungle. Too many media organizations have responded by dumbing down, emphasizing clickbait over serious content.

But believe it or not, I see signs of hope. Seven Days continues to produce excellent journalism week in and week out; it actually has stepped up its game as older papers, such as the Burlington Free Press, sink toward irrelevance and perhaps oblivion. VTDigger has come on like gangbusters since ANNE GALLOWAY launched it a decade ago. Vermont Public Radio and its parent, NPR, have expanded their often-excellent offerings even as other media have contracted.

More fundamentally, human beings want and need our stories to be told.

We’ve known this at least since SOCRATES said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” I saw this urge fully embodied

when, for a column, I talked two weeks ago with students in the University of Vermont reporting and documentary storytelling program. They were passionate about the work they have been doing as journalists for a number of Vermont’s small-town newspapers. So, I have hope that this urge — to examine life and tell our stories — will continue to draw young people to journalism.

I’m overwhelmed with gratitude, for CHRIS GRAFF and JON KELLOGG of the AP, who took a chance on a young guy from Massachusetts in 1985 and gave me a reason to move to this beautiful state; for all the Vermonters who have shared their thoughts, their homes, and sometimes a hot document or spreadsheet that showed where the money went; for a host of smart and thoughtful colleagues and competitors who’ve kept me on my toes; for the folks at WDEV, who gave me a crack at talk radio, something else I’d always wanted to try; for my colleagues here at Seven Days, particularly my editors, CANDY PAGE and MATTHEW ROY, who made my copy way better every week; and for readers and listeners who gave me lots of feedback and, by just being there, a reason to keep doing the work.

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Burlington Council Approves Electric Rate Increase, Appoints Pine as CEDO Director B Y C O U R T N EY L A M D I N courtney@sevendaysvt.com

Pop-up vaccination clinic at Burlington’s North Beach

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Vermont takes vaccines to church, the streets and even the beach S TO RY & PHOT OS BY COLIN FL ANDE RS • colin@sevendaysvt.com

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ristin Galipeau arrived at North Beach in Burlington last Thursday afternoon wearing a bathing suit and a rainbow face mask. She and her friends had only planned on a relaxing day at the lake.

“Then we were like, ‘Oh, shit, we can get vaccinated here,’” she said.

Galipeau had stumbled upon a pop-up vaccination clinic, where Walgreens workers were administering doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to anyone over the age of 18 — no appointment necessary. Pharmacy employees helped people fill out paperwork before shepherding them to a picnic table, where they were jabbed, Band-Aided and sent off to sit in a makeshift monitoring area.

As Galipeau made her way through, glimpses of post-pandemic life were all around. Unmasked beachgoers threw Frisbees and played beer pong at a plastic table in the shallows on the summery, 90-degree afternoon. A man sat in a beach chair in the shade and read from a Bill O’Reilly book.

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Another slugged a beer and told a story loudly, his skin turning pink under the sun.

Jay-Z crackled from a speaker, while Jet Skis whined in the distance.

Beyond the occasional glance, no one paid much attention to the clinic, as if it were ordinary to find people getting vaccinated at

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the beach. Perhaps that was because, after the last year, “ordinary” has lost all meaning.

Galipeau, 31, received her shot about 10 minutes before the clinic closed on Thursday. Afterward, she recalled how some of her friends were initially hesitant about getting vaccinated. She decided to get jabbed for one simple reason.

“I just want to go back to normal,” Galipeau said.

Interviews with a dozen people at the two-day North Beach clinic last Thursday

and Friday revealed a mix of motivations for getting vaccinated. Some wanted to protect themselves, while others cited pressure from family, friends or society. Some were excited; others, indifferent. But they shared the belief that their decision would help put the pandemic behind them.

“I’ve never really been worried too much about the virus,” said Patrick Allard, 48, of Milton, after receiving his shot.

“I’m a little bit more concerned about the vaccine. But it just seems like it’s going to be easier moving forward.”

Kevin McClory, 31, of Montpelier, had a similar take. “I was never really that scared of COVID, but my friends and family were hoping that I [got vaccinated] because they care about my well-being,” he said. Getting the shot just felt like “the right thing to do.”

Similar scenes are playing out across Vermont as the state with the nation’s leading vaccination effort enters a critical phase.

Last Friday, Gov. Phil Scott announced that he would lift all COVID-19 restrictions once 80 percent of eligible Vermonters SHOT STRATEGY

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The Burlington City Council on Monday approved a 7.5 percent rate increase for Burlington Electric Department customers, the first rate hike since 2009.

Also Monday, councilors approved new water rates, appointed former Ward 3 councilor Brian Pine as the director of the city’s Community Economic Development Office, and passed a resolution encouraging young Burlingtonians to serve on city boards and commissions.

Burlington Electric general manager Darren Springer said the rate increase — which the state’s Public Utility Commission also must approve — will make up for revenue lost during the coronavirus pandemic. The department brought in $2.1 million less in sales than was budgeted for during the current fiscal year and is owed more than $1.3 million in unpaid customer bills.

Expenses next year are expected to be 8.5 percent higher than the current year, according to Springer.

The average residential customer’s bill will go up $4.92 per month, while low- to moderate-income customers are expected to pay $4.27 a month more.

Customers will see the new charges on their August bills, even if the commission hasn’t approved the increase by then.

“We understand the challenge of the moment for the community, and we definitely view a rate increase as a last resort,” Springer said.

Councilor Ali Dieng (I-Ward 7) cast the lone “no” vote on the proposal.

Even with the increase, Burlington’s proposed residential rates are 11.5 percent lower than the average Vermont rate, according to the department.

Commercial rates, however, are slightly higher than the Vermont average. Most business customers will pay about $6.60 more a month.

Kelly Devine, the executive director of the Burlington Business Association, urged the council to postpone the rate increases as businesses continue to recover from losses suffered during the pandemic. The hike may be justified, but “it really could not be coming at a worse time for our community,” she said.

“We have a lot of small businesses in Burlington. They have had the most challenging year imaginable,” Devine said.

“We already expect businesses to barely make it through this summer, because they don’t have any money in the bank.”

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‘Right Way’ or the Highway Burlington activists want to divert Champlain Parkway traffic from diverse neighborhood

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ark Hughes delivered a clear a grassroots group that has sued over the message to city planners at a parkway design, approve of that detour meeting last July about the Cham- and have incorporated it into their own plain Parkway, a 2.8-mile roadway planned plan, the “Champlain RIGHTway.” Their to ease traffic between Burlington’s South concept would build 0.75 fewer miles of new roadway, use roundabouts instead of End and its downtown.

Hughes, coordinator of the Vermont traffic lights, and install separate bike and Racial Justice Alliance, was concerned pedestrian paths instead of the proposed that because the parkshared-use paths on the way would end at Main parkway. Fortieth BurlStreet, it would dump ington, the corporate more traffic into the name for the Innovation nearby King and Maple streets neighbor- Center on Lakeside Avenue, has joined the hood — the most racially diverse area along activists in the fight. the project route. Data showed that the new The rail yard project was first proposed roadway would generate 37 percent more in 2012, but the city has taken steps in traffic in the King/Maple area recent months to accelerbut would generate 73 percent ate its progress. On Monday less in the more affluent, night, the Burlington City whiter neighborhood to the Council approved an agreesouth near Home Avenue. ment with the Vermont “I stand in total opposiAgency of Transportation tion to this project,” Hughes to begin engineering work. told the planners. “If it has to Chapin Spencer, director of happen like this, I say, ‘Kill it.’”

Burlington’s Department of The proposed parkway Public Works, expects that would begin at the unfinished construction could begin in Interstate 189 interchange four to six years. on Shelburne Road, snake Meantime, the city is north from Home to Lakeside eyeing a 2022 start for the avenues and jog east onto Pine parkway, barring any addiStreet, which would become tional appeals. And while STEVE GOODKIND the parkway route all the way Spencer says the city supports to Main. the concept of building the rail Hughes’ thinking has shifted slightly yard connector “as soon as possible,” that since last summer. Instead of trying to stop doesn’t necessarily mean before the longthe parkway, which has been planned since stalled parkway. the 1960s, Hughes and other community “It could be that one goes before the organizers are urging the city to build other; it could be that they’re constructed another project first that would divert some simultaneously; it could be any number of traffic from the King/Maple neighborhood. trajectories,” Spencer said, “but the imporThe Railyard Enterprise Project would tant thing is both projects, together, really create a connector that departs Pine Street strengthen Burlington for the long term.” near Kilburn Street and reaches Battery That isn’t good enough for the activists, Street by cutting through property owned who worry that the King/Maple neighborby Vermont Rail Systems. The route would hood would bear the impact until the rail give motorists more direct access to the yard project was built. waterfront and other points farther north.

“What they’re saying is, ‘We have to Depending on its final design, the proj- make the patients sick before we come ect could reduce traffic in the King/Maple back and cure them,’” Pine Street Coaliarea by as much as 59 percent, according to tion member Tony Redington said of the a study last August by the consulting firm city’s approach. Building the parkway first Resource Systems Group.

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TRANSPORTATION LET’S DO THE PROJECT WE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO AND MAKE IT BETTER FROM THE GET-GO.

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Norwich Dairy Farmers Sue Vermont State Colleges System for $500,000 B Y CHEL SEA ED G AR chelsea@sevendaysvt.com A family of Norwich dairy farmers has sued the Vermont State Colleges System for $500,000 following a failed cheesemaking partnership.

The suit, filed last Friday in Washington County Superior Court, alleges that Vermont Technical College, which operates within the state college apparatus, lured Chris Gray and his wife, Laura Brown, into the partnership under false pretenses, then entered into a secret contract with the Upper Valley Land Trust that nearly forced the family off the property.

In the summer of 2015, Gray and Brown moved from West Pawlet to the 358-acre Norwich Farm Creamery to teach cheesemaking classes to Vermont Tech students. The educational component of the operation had allowed Vermont Tech to secure the 358-acre farm, then valued at some $2.5 million, as a donation from the previous owner.

Gray and Brown signed a five-year lease with Vermont Tech, and the two parties developed a business plan, with the eventual goal of producing a line of European-style cave-aged cheeses to be sold for profit, a portion of which would go to Vermont Tech.

The suit asserts that Vermont Tech repeatedly assured Gray and Brown they were committed to the 10- to 15-year timeline Gray had told them was necessary to make high-end cheeses. But unbeknownst to Gray and Brown, the suit says, the college signed a contract in July 2015 that granted the Upper Valley Land Trust the right to acquire the property, “free and clear of any tenants,” in the event that the farm ceased its educational activities. Meanwhile, according to the suit, Gray and Brown invested some $500,000 of their own money to launch the cheesemaking operation.

In the fall of 2016, the suit alleges, Vermont Tech stopped promoting the program and offered minimal institutional support to the students who enrolled in it. The following year, college president Patricia Moulton notified the Upper Valley Land Trust that the farm was no longer being used for educational purposes.

The family was ultimately allowed to stay on the property. But Vermont Tech has since divided the land into two parcels and listed them for sale at $1.2 million and $485,000, respectively.

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Shot Strategy « P.16 had received at least one dose — which, at the time, placed the state about 28,000 first shots away from a full reopening.

More than 10,000 people have been added to the tally since then, and the state will likely eclipse the threshold soon.

Vermont has had little trouble convincing people to get vaccinated so far. The state’s number of shots administered held steady this month even as the rate dropped nearly 50 percent nationwide, following an April peak. But progress will inevitably slow in Vermont, too, as the number of unvaccinated people continues to shrink.

The state has shifted its strategy with this in mind. Rather than offer a few mass vaccination sites, it has started to make shots available in more convenient locations where foot traffic’s aplenty. A walkup clinic was held on Burlington’s Church Street on Saturday evening, for example, while dozens more are being offered throughout Vermont in the coming weeks at schools, state parks and work sites.

There’s even one planned for the Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre.

Estimates about the number of Americans who need to get vaccinated to achieve herd immunity have varied widely throughout the pandemic. Experts now say it would require at least 80 percent of the country’s entire population — not just of those who are eligible, as Scott has set for Vermont’s reopening threshold.

Many experts now believe that the United States is unlikely to achieve herd immunity anytime soon — and perhaps never will. Instead, they say, the virus will linger as a manageable threat, still resulting in some hospitalizations and deaths.

Vermont officials have avoided emphasizing herd immunity given the uncertainty, encouraging people to instead focus on how the vaccine is improving things in the state. Daily infections, hospitalizations and deaths have plummeted after a prolonged winter surge.

Dr. Tim Lahey, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Vermont Medical Center, said the state will need to reach out to two main groups: those who have opted not to be vaccinated and those who have lacked the opportunity.

The former undoubtedly includes many who are vehemently opposed to the idea, because they either distrust vaccines or believe that the pandemic has been overblown. But Lahey was optimistic that most people can be won over.

Vermont has dabbled with incentives, announcing that the first 10,000 people who attended certain walk-in clinics last weekend would receive coupons for a free creemee. But officials are banking on trust,

not ice cream, to convince the hesitant to get a shot. They have encouraged Vermonters to reach out to their loved ones and have suggested ways to combat disinformation.

Dr. Toby Sadkin, a physician at St. Albans Primary Care, said one of the first questions people are now asked at her office is whether they’ve received a shot. Those who haven’t often cite safety concerns, prompting her to explain why she believes the vaccine is both safe and effective. “Most of those conversations go well,” she said. “Most people either will think about it or will sign up for it.”

Several have asked whether they can get the vaccine at the office that very day.

They’ll soon be able to: The state plans to begin sending doses of the Pfizer and

providing transportation or translation services. Calderin himself greets people as they show up while “culturally relevant” music plays inside the church: salsa and hip-hop, for example — “not WIZN,” he said, referring to the radio station whose tagline warns of “Classic Rock That Really Rocks.”

“It has made people feel at ease about getting the shot because they trust us,” Calderin said. “We know them. They are our family. They are our neighbors. We grew up together.” More than 3,000 doses have been given so far. Calderin expects the clinics to continue through mid-July.

Walk-in events such as the one at North Beach, meanwhile, represent efforts to target people for whom work schedules or Holly Botala after she received a vaccine at the North Beach pop-up clinic

Moderna vaccines to some primary care offices, including Sadkin’s, recognizing that some people will be more open to receiving the shot from someone they know.

That thinking inspired a series of clinics for Black, Indigenous and people of color through a partnership between the state, the City of Burlington and the Vermont Health Equity Initiative, an organization seeking to address racial health disparities. Held at Burlington’s Cathedral Church of St. Paul each of the last 10 Saturdays, the clinics have provided a welcoming atmosphere far different from the sterilized environment of most medical settings, according to Luis Calderin, one of the initiative’s organizers, who has led its marketing and outreach efforts.

Calderin, who is also a board member of the Vermont Professionals of Color Network, said he and his colleagues use their personal contacts to identify people who still need to be vaccinated and guide them through the process,

lack of transportation have been problems.

Most who spoke to Seven Days at North Beach said they were there because of its convenience.

Andrew Nadeau, 59, of St. Albans, waited until the “rush was over” and chose to attend a walk-up clinic because he didn’t want to deal with the online registration process. “I heard about this a couple days ago,” he said with a shrug, “and here I am.”

Holly Botala, 36, said she must be fully protected before she starts a new job as a dental assistant next month.

The beachside clinic fit her time frame while offering a fun distraction for her 6-year-old son.

State officials say the walk-in clinics should solve most access issues. But not everyone is so sure. Steven Daggett, a 58-year-old disabled vet, said he and his brother had wanted to get vaccinated ever since moving to Island Pond in February.

They were holding out for the Johnson &

Johnson shot — “we don’t like needles,” Daggett explained — and had been unable to find a place nearby offering the oneand-done shot.

While the North Beach clinic worked for them, a five-hour round trip isn’t an option for many others, Daggett noted.

He hoped the state would better distribute the J&J vaccine to less populated areas, such as the Northeast Kingdom.

“Up there, unless you wanted a double shot, you didn’t get nothing,” he said.

Questions of equity have also weighed heavily on Anne Sosin, a policy fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College who has been particularly focused on people ages 18 to 29. The North Beach clinic might seem tailor-made for this group, whose vaccination rates are lagging behind the broader population. But Sosin said national data show that many unvaccinated young people are in the workforce and lack the flexibility to attend a clinic on a Thursday or Friday afternoon.

“It’s more than just having a clinic in a community,” she said. “Can you take time away from work? Can you take time afterwards if you’re sick? Those types of things are all part of access.”

The state recently began targeting tourism and hospitality workers with sector-specific clinics at restaurants, ski resorts and lodging facilities. It’s also encouraging large companies to offer clinics for employees. More than two dozen businesses are partnering with the state on such efforts, including National Life, GlobalFoundries and the Edge.

There are, of course, people choosing not to get vaccinated yet. Scott has voiced frustration about this at recent press conferences, framing the decision to get a shot as an act of public service — one that pales in comparison to the sacrifices previous generations made during times of war. “I don’t think it’s too much to ask,” he said last month.

But Sosin believes the state bears some blame. Young people were told for months that they face less serious complications from COVID-19 and could therefore afford to wait their turn, she said, while the state started lifting some restrictions before they could be fully vaccinated. “Saying, ‘You’re going to get a creemee’ or ‘You’re going to get a beer’ may just not be particularly motivating now,” she said of offering incentives for getting a shot.

Lahey, the UVM epidemiologist, said much of it boils down to altruism.

“How do community leaders help people understand that part of being a good neighbor is getting a shot?” he said.

“That’s much harder messaging than, ‘This thing could protect you from death.’

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Bill to Establish a Vermont Rental Property Registry Falls Short B Y ANN E WAL L AC E AL L E N anne@sevendaysvt.com A bill that would have required the owners of short-term rentals to register their properties with the state fell short of the final approval needed to become law. Advocates are hopeful they can breathe life into the measure when legislators return to the Statehouse in January.

The bill is part of a larger measure aimed at improving the quality of long-term rental housing and setting up a professional health and safety inspection system to replace the one that is now largely staffed by volunteer town health officers.

“We’ve been trying to get something like this across for essentially 12 years,” said Rep. Tom Stevens (D-Waterbury), a longtime housing advocate who is chair of the General, Housing and Military Affairs Committee. He said the bill was rejected by many Republicans who saw the registry as government overreach.

The proposed registry for shortand long-term rental units would have cost property owners $35 per unit; the money would have helped pay for five inspectors.

The bill itself is the work of the state’s Rental Housing Advisory Board, a panel that includes affordable housing advocates, a landlord group, municipal representatives and others.

The board was set up in 2018 and issued a report a year later that was used as a basis for the rental housing health and safety bill, S.79.

The measure calls for a $5 million grant program that would provide a $30,000 forgivable loan to property owners to renovate their rentals if they make them available to lower-income Vermonters. It would also provide a no-interest $50,000 loan to first-time home buyers who earn up to 120 percent of the area’s median income.

And it would change the state’s eviction moratorium to enable some evictions on an emergency basis — for example, when a property owner is trying to move into the home.

Not included on the Rental Housing Advisory Board is the Vermont Short-Term Rental Alliance, a Richmond-based group that formed in recent months. But the alliance also supported S.79, said director Julie Marks.

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The coalition brought racial justice concerns to the fore in June 2019, when it sued the city, state and Federal Highway Administration. The lawsuit demanded additional review, contending that the parkway plans relied on outdated demographic data and traffic models. The federal agency subsequently agreed to investigate whether the road would increase traffic in the King/ Maple neighborhood. That October, federal highway officials rescinded the project permit, known as a “record of decision,” and pledged to reach out to low-income and minority communities bordering the planned parkway.

a proposal that included building a connector road from Pine to Battery via the rail yard, removing traffic from the King/Maple neighborhood. But the feds, who had the ultimate say, chose a different final project design. They said the city’s preferred option would have demolished a portion of the former Burlington Street Department building and relocated a rail spur, both of which are historic structures.

There was also the issue of cost: $37 million for the city’s version compared to $20 million for the fed’s proposal, according to a 2009 report known as an environmental impact statement. Since then, the parkway cost has more than doubled to $45 million. The feds will pay 95 percent of the price, and the state will chip in 3 percent.

The city’s 2 percent share — plus the added expense of disposing of contaminated soil,

“All these investments in critical infrastructure require careful planning,” Spencer said. “We’re looking at each project and how best to place it in a timeline that’s going to work best for our community.”

At the same time, Spencer said the city has successfully pressured the state to advance the rail yard project. In 2019, state highway officials told the city it would not allow even preliminary engineering to begin until after the parkway was built — and that the city would be on the hook for 20 percent of the rail yard project’s costs. Since then, Spencer and Mayor Miro Weinberger have convinced state and federal officials that the rail yard connector is vital and timely. The state is now allowing engineering to begin, and the city will pay just 10 percent of the $20 million construction cost.

policy. When the federal highway system was designed in the 1950s, roads were built directly through Black and brown communities, sometimes deliberately. Forcing the Champlain Parkway through King and Maple streets — without first diverting some of that traffic — would uphold these systems of oppression, Hughes says.

“Folks are putting money over people,” he said. “When you look at how systemic racism plays out, it is for the economic advantage of white people and to the economic detriment of Black people.”

Hughes is determined to make the “RIGHTway” happen. He’s penned an open letter to Gov. Phil Scott and contacted Vermont’s congressional delegation, though none has signed on in support of the plan. To Hughes, a Black Burlington resident, it’s not acceptable for the city to knowingly burden

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Released last July, the study found that the parkway would increase traffic but that various safety improvements — such as traffic signals at intersections and extended curbs to reduce pedestrians’ crossing distance — would mitigate these “adverse effects.”

Activists, however, argue that a new connector between Pine and Battery streets could head off these traffic issues from the start. And they point out that the idea of building a road through the rail yard is not a new one — it was once the city’s preferred design for the parkway itself.

Once proposed as a four-lane highway, the parkway route originally ran parallel to Pine Street over the Barge Canal. In the 1980s, the city rerouted the road from the canal, which was designated as a Superfund site when officials discovered toxic chemicals in the soil.

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burying utility lines and making other improvements — will be about $3.5 million.

Steve Goodkind was the city engineer in 2009 and has since joined the Pine Street Coalition. He argues that there’s “no technical reason and no legal reason” not to build the rail yard project first.

“Let’s do the project we always wanted to do and make it better from the get-go,” he said. “That’s the right thing to do, and that’s what environmental justice, we believe, requires us to do.”

Spencer, the public works director, says it’s not that simple. For one, the city has a number of construction projects already in the pipeline. Work is scheduled to begin next month to reconstruct the roundabout intersection on Shelburne Street, the South End’s only other major north-south roadway. And the city will soon begin work along the waterfront to prep for the return of passenger trains in 2022. Several paving projects are also scheduled.

“This administration has a pragmatic, problem-solving approach,” Spencer said, adding, “The city has a strong record of trying to do what the Pine Street Coalition is now asking for.”

The city expects a new record of decision on the parkway this fall, which would green-light construction. Once construction begins, the city has just 10 years to finish the parkway, according to Michele Boomhower, director of the Policy, Planning and Intermodal Development Division at VTrans. Boomhower doubts the feds would fund the rail yard connector if the city didn’t make progress on the parkway once that clock starts ticking.

The city has “already spent tens of millions of public dollars to get the parkway ready to go,” she said. “They need to continue to show good faith in actually advancing that project.”

Hughes, of the racial justice alliance, said Black communities have suffered for too long as a result of U.S. transportation

a racially diverse neighborhood with traffic even if it pledges to reroute the cars later.

“That could easily, automatically mean that a 5-year-old in that neighborhood will be well into adulthood before this problem is addressed,” he said. “People are gonna have to step up, and they’re gonna have to look past what they think it might cost.”

Hughes has at least one city leader in his corner. When City Council President Max Tracy (P-Ward 2) ran for mayor this past March, he pledged to make racial justice paramount in city planning, including by building the rail yard project before or at the same time as the parkway. Tracy lost the election but urges the Weinberger administration to consider the plan.

“In this country, we have such a long history of transportation planning decisions having incredibly detrimental impacts on communities of color,” Tracy said. “I just hope that we’re able to learn from those mistakes here in Burlington and take a different approach.” m

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Contractors — who, unlike electricians and plumbers, are not licensed — will now have to register with the state if they perform jobs costing more than $2,500. Sen. Chris Pearson (P/D-Chittenden) said he fully expects to get “endlessly ribbed for my nanny-state instincts” by his contractor friends but said it would protect consumers from bad actors.

PENSIONS: State workers blasted a pensionreform proposal that would have made them contribute more for less generous retirement benefits, so lawmakers broke

meant to attract new and remote workers to Vermont into a single incentive program paying their relocation expenses. Workers would be reimbursed up to $5,000 to move to most parts of the state, or $7,500 to move to economically disadvantaged areas. Due to the influx of remote workers during the pandemic, grants to them will be paused until February 2022.

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SCHOOL TOXINS: Schools will be required to test for radon and PCBs under provisions passed by lawmakers in the wake of high-profile instances of toxins in schools. Following the discovery of PCBs at Burlington High School, lawmakers allocated $4.5 million to test for them in all schools built before 1980. That’s about 450 schools — two-thirds of those in Vermont.

They opted to require all schools that have not done a radon test in the past five years to complete one by June 1, 2023.

RACISM 911: The legislature declared racism a public health emergency, finding that COVID-19 had highlighted systemic inequities and health disparities.

Lawmakers noted that COVID-19 infection rates were nearly 13 percent among people of color compared to 6 percent for white residents, and that two outbreaks occurred in part because of people’s housing situations. “The fact that housing and working conditions increased the risk of COVID exposure for these individuals points to the intersectional impact of race and social determinants on health,” Sen. Ruth Hardy (D-Addison) said.

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“We demonstrated so clearly that we still have a healthy democracy here in the Green Mountain State, and soon we will all be back in the People’s House together,” Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint (D-Windham) said before adjourning last Friday afternoon.

While much got done, much got deferred, too, including pension reform and a decision on Burlington’s proposed carbon tax charter change.

Lawmakers may still have a busy off-season. They could be called back to try to override any vetoes Gov. Phil Scott may issue or direct spending of a new federal infrastructure package. Many will also work on unfinished business such as pension reform or setting fees for next year’s retail cannabis market.

New guidance on federal relief complicated the last-minute crunch of bills.

After scrambling, lawmakers plowed $150 million into expanding broadband to underserved areas and $190 million toward affordable housing, including $41 million to help transition homeless people from motels to stable housing.

Clean water programs, including upgrades to wastewater systems and projects to reduce agricultural runoff, got a $120 million boost, while climate initiatives will receive $54 million. Higher education will receive an $89 million infusion, while $66 million will go toward technology upgrades for a state whose systems buckled under the weight of new demands.

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‘My Life Was Totally Destroyed’ A new law could empower more St. Joseph’s Orphanage survivors to sue, but hurdles remain B Y CH E L SEA ED GAR • chelsea@sevendaysvt.com LUKE AWTRY

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ormer residents of St. Joseph’s Orphanage in Burlington achieved a historic victory earlier this month: the passage of S.99, a bill that lifts the statute of limitations on lawsuits arising from childhood physical abuse. The Vermont legislation, the first of its kind in the country, allows survivors to file claims years, even decades, after the alleged abuse occurred. But for many of those former St. Joseph’s residents, the reparations they seek from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, which owned the red brick orphanage on North Avenue that housed some 13,000 children from 1854 to 1974, could still be out of reach.

In the 1990s, nearly 200 St. Joseph’s survivors accepted $5,000 settlements from the diocese, which could impact their ability to pursue further legal action.

Those who do manage to sue may only see a fraction of the payout they hope for; the diocese claims that past and pending childhood sexual abuse lawsuits, unrelated to St. Joseph’s, have pushed it to the edge of possible bankruptcy.

But members of the St. Joseph’s Orphanage Restorative Inquiry group, which helped initiate the legislation, say that the passage of S.99 has been a cathartic, if bittersweet, triumph. “I’m very grateful that I’m alive to see this happen,” said Maura Labelle, a former orphanage resident who testified before the Vermont Senate while the bill was under consideration. “But at this point, a lawsuit can’t fix me. This is about the future and protecting the children who can’t speak up for themselves now.”

The restorative inquiry group first convened in late 2019 after Attorney General T.J. Donovan launched a twoyear investigation, prompted by a 2018 BuzzFeed article, into allegations of physical, sexual and emotional abuse of children at the orphanage. Among numerous other accounts of brutal corporal punishment, several former residents told BuzzFeed they had seen nuns kill children by pushing them out of windows.

Donovan’s 286-page report, published at the end of last year, found credible evidence of widespread abuse at St. Joseph’s but not of murder, the only charge that, given the time that had elapsed, could still be prosecuted under the state’s criminal statutes.

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The orphanage was staffed by the Sisters of Providence, an order of nuns based in Montréal. Lawyers for the Sisters of Providence refused to concede any wrongdoing in a string of lawsuits by former orphanage residents in the 1990s, nor did they cooperate with the attorney general’s inquiry.

After the report’s release, the Sisters of Providence issued a statement deflecting blame. The investigation, according to their spokesperson, “seeks to impose a present-day legal framework, resources and disciplinary practices upon a very different era.” The bishops and priests of the diocese, the Sisters asserted, bore the primary responsibility for the operation of the orphanage.

The Catholic church, for its part, has issued carefully worded acknowledgements of the role it played in causing the suffering of some former orphanage residents. “The diocese continues to accept its full share of the blame for any sins of the

past,” read the church’s statement in the wake of the attorney general’s report. “We apologize for all hurt caused and for the personal shortcomings of human beings that came before us.”

For all practical purposes, the diocese is the only institution that can now be held accountable for the past.

“The state can’t be sued. The Sisters of Providence can’t be sued,” Bishop Christopher Coyne told Seven Days. “So I guess we just have to bear the brunt of the lawsuits.”

But former orphanage residents who wish to sue the diocese face a complicated legal road, according to Jerry O’Neill, a Burlington attorney who has represented dozens of plaintiffs in sexual abuse cases against the Catholic church in Vermont.

Because the diocese kept internal records of priests who were known to have sexually abused children, he said, his clients’ claims have been easier to support.

In contrast, O’Neill explained, former St. Joseph’s residents would first need to

demonstrate that the diocese had a duty to oversee the Sisters of Providence and ensure the safety of the children in their care, then prove that the diocese knowingly failed to fulfill that duty. But Vermont Catholic Charities, the arm of the church responsible for placing children in the orphanage, kept limited records on the nuns who worked there, and many of them are now deceased.

“Is this a surmountable burden? Maybe,” said O’Neill. “But I think it will be hard for any of the former orphanage residents to now sue.”

Over the past two decades, the diocese has paid roughly $32 million in settlements to childhood sexual abuse plaintiffs, many of whom have been represented by O’Neill.

According to Coyne, the 10 pending sexual abuse cases, if settled in full, would exceed the diocese’s financial resources before St. Joseph’s survivors could file their claims.

“At the end of the day, like other dioceses and archdioceses across the

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country, we may face bankruptcy,” said Coyne. Asked for the current sum of the diocese’s assets, Coyne wouldn’t provide a figure. “The number doesn’t matter at this point, as far as I’m concerned,” he said.

O’Neill, who represents eight of the plaintiffs in the diocese’s pending sexual abuse cases, disagrees that the Vermont Catholic church is on the cusp of insolvency. Financial records from 2019 show that the diocese holds nearly $11 million in assets through Vermont Catholic Charities, not including properties and other investments. “There might be a battle over whether or not they can use all those funds, but they have money, just not the volume they once had,” said O’Neill.

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Labelle was one of the 200 former residents who accepted payouts from the diocese in the ’90s. Those settlements included a nondisclosure agreement, which Coyne rescinded to allow survivors to participate in the attorney general’s investigation and come forward publicly with their stories. But the diocese, he said, won’t relitigate those cases going forward.

“We’re not going to turn around for anything that we’ve already settled, whether it’s for St. Joseph’s residents or sexual abuse survivors,” he said. “Once a case is settled, it’s settled.” O’Neill concurred: “It would be really challenging for any of the folks who have signed releases to now make a claim against the diocese.”

But Labelle feels that the $5,000 settlement represents a paltry sliver of the justice to which she and others should be entitled. “My life was totally destroyed before it even started,” she said. “Do you really think $5,000 is gonna be enough to fix that?”

Labelle lived at St. Joseph’s for six months in 1961, when she was 3 years old. She said that her life has since been haunted by a memory of a little boy, whom Labelle watched climb onto a statue over the railing of a balcony in the orphanage’s chapel. All of a sudden, she said she remembers, the boy vanished, and

the nun who was with them was shaking her, yelling in broken English, “Look what did! Look what did!” Not long after that, Labelle said, she woke up one night and found herself in a canoe in the middle of Lake Champlain, where she watched as a nun tossed a small bundle overboard.

“The nun looked at me and went, ‘This could happen to you,’” Labelle recalled.

She said she never again saw the boy who had climbed onto the statue. (During the attorney general’s inquiry, Labelle told authorities about the boy and the bundle thrown into the lake. But investigators could not confirm her story, nor did they uncover evidence of murder at the orphanage.)

Gene Clark, who lived at St. Joseph’s from 1964 to 1965, said he intends to sue the diocese in spite of the fact that he, too, received a settlement in the ’90s. At that point, he said, he was fully in the grip of the psychological and physical trauma he suffered as an adolescent at St. Joseph’s.

“I was drinking heavily, and I was on the verge of losing my apartment,” said Clark. “I felt like I had no choice but to take that money. I accepted under duress, really.” After Vermont repealed its civil statute of limitations on childhood sexual abuse, Clark met with a lawyer, but she refused to take on his case, he said, because of the settlement.

At the orphanage, Clark said, he was molested repeatedly by a priest, who would force Clark to let him hold his penis while he urinated — because, as the priest would tell him, “Little boys have bad aim.”

Every Friday, according to Clark, the nuns forced him to eat blood sausage for dinner, which disgusted him so much that he often threw it up; the nuns, he said, would then make him eat his own vomit.

“I would sit there while the nuns watched me, saying over and over again in my head, I don’t want to do this, I don’t want to do this,” Clark said.

Now, at 68, Clark said he still experiences that same visceral dread before almost any obligation, even when it’s something he actually wants to do. He estimated that he’s spent thousands of dollars on therapy over the past few decades. “I don’t think it’s fair that I’ve had to pay for all of that,” he said. “The church owes us atonement.”

To make sense of his experiences, Clark, a musician who once ran a karaoke club in Essex Junction, has written three songs about his life at the orphanage, one of which he titled “I Don’t Want to Do This.” In a more just world, he said, the diocese would buy the rights to all three of his songs, to the tune of $1 million each. m

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Kevin McCallum’s article also neglected to mention that the price farmers receive for their milk is set by the federal government, often at or below the cost of production. When federal and state governments require expensive environmental upgrades — sometimes in direct conflict with programs already in place or changing the rules enacted only a few years previously — the cost for farmers is unattainable without grants and tax breaks. Administering and overseeing these dairy farm grants employs a large number of Vermont state employees who receive the generous salaries, paid vacations and state-funded pensions that farmers do not.

Vermont dairy farms are challenged on many fronts: weather, misinformation from media and animal rights extremists, low milk prices, high feed and labor costs, etc.

Vermont dairy farmers would prefer to be paid a fair price for their product and not need to rely on grants and tax breaks. Let’s not put all the blame on the dairy farmers for this unbalanced economic situation.

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[Re Off Message: “Vermont Senate Declares Racism a Public Health Emergency,” May 20]: Who wants a star-spangled, absolute definition of hypocrisy?

Look no further than the Vermont Senate, pretending to be bastions in the fight against racism, reserving a day to honor George Floyd and declaring an all-out war on Asian hate — all the while remaining staunchly mute on the Vermont Human Rights Commission’s report and subsequent settlement that branded Bennington leadership as abjectly racist in the way they protect, or rather opt not to protect, their citizens of color. Well done, Vermont Senate. Now anytime anyone wants to know all about hypocrisy, they need travel no further than your chamber.

Here’s a novel idea, Vermont Senate, House and all state leadership: Get your own house in racial order before you crusade against systemic racism elsewhere in America — because right now, you just look downright foolish.

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[Re Off Message: “Vermont Senate Declares Racism a Public Health Emergency,” May 20]: Amid the flurry of concluding business last week, the Vermont Senate passed three resolutions that are small but important steps to acknowledge and address racism in the state.

The first, J.R.H.6, a joint resolution of the House and Senate, declares that racism is a public health emergency.

The second, S.R.10, designates May 2021 as Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in Vermont. The resolution also condemns anti-Asian and anti-Pacific Islander hate in the United States.

S.R.11 was the third resolution, passed by the Senate with a unanimous vote. The measure honors the memory of George Floyd, the Black man murdered by a Minneapolis police office a year ago this week. S.R.11 designates May 25, 2021, as a day of remembrance and action.

The three legislative enactments are important. The General Assembly — our elected representatives — stepped up. Of most importance, they call upon us, the citizens of Vermont, to act. Racism exists here. All of us must work to recognize how

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[Re Off Message: “Renters Can Apply for New $100 Million Assistance Program,” May 12]: I think that the vast majority of people would agree that housing is essential and everyone having a home is good for a society. However, asking one slice of society to be responsible for providing a social good is unjust.

It is easy to say that actors are paid too much, as are musicians, lawyers and politicians. How about farmers, doctors, plumbers and nurses? It is easy to say that everybody but you is overpaid. All the aforementioned would disagree about being overpaid.

Allowing the majority to set rents, or control prices, has been tried. The shortrun benefits redound to the many (especially the politicians who propose the legislation). History is littered with wellintentioned legislation yielding undesirable but foreseeable consequences.

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Sharron D. DeRosia, 62, passed away on Saturday, May 15, 2021, at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington.

She was born in France on December 28, 1958, to Chester DeVarney and the late Nettie (Carver) DeVarney.

Sharon was a passionate person and always lived her life to the fullest. Always putting in 100 percent effort, Sharron proudly ran a daycare for many years, earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education, and worked as a teacher and principal for many years. Her career in education started at Sheldon Elementary School, and then led to Colchester High School and the Baird School of the Howard Center. In 2011, she decided to take on a new challenge in business: She joined her husband, James DeRosia, in operating J & A Auto Repair in Bakersfield.

She loved working side by side with the love of her life.

Aside from her professional life, Sharron loved the finer things: going on long car rides, which were usually under the guise of “a shortcut,” spending summer days on her porch, admiring her flowers, watching the birds, and sitting by the bonfire on a summer night surrounded by her family and friends.

Sharron and Jim did everything together. They enjoyed traveling, most recently to France to visit her birthplace and to Germany; playing golf; visiting family and friends; and getting in the van with no particular destination — letting the road be their guide. Her sense of humor and kindness drew people to her. She was loved by many and will be deeply missed.

Sharron is survived by her husband, James DeRosia, of Bakersfield; her children, Danielle Waite and her husband, Jared, of Georgia,

Georgette Louise Thabault, 68, of Essex, Vt., died peacefully on Sunday, May 23, 2021, at the McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester after a courageous battle with cancer.

Georgette was born on February 18, 1953, the fourth of nine children to Dr. Wilfred and Mrs. Doris Thabault, in Japan, where the family was living while Dr. Thabault served there in the United States Air Force. The family moved back to Vermont in 1955.

Georgie was a woman of many talents and lived a life of adventure. She was colorful, artistic and energetic.

Georgette graduated from Rice Memorial High School in 1971 and Johnson State College in 1975, majoring in modern dance. She later attended Johnson and Wales College of Culinary Arts in Providence, R.I., and embarked on a culinary career. For many years she was a chef, including at the Christian Brothers Winery in Napa Valley, Calif., and on blue water yachts that sailed throughout the Bahamas and the Carribean. She opened an Italian restaurant in Sarasota, Fla., and was head of catering for a New Orleansbased restaurant group in Hattiesburg, Miss.

Earlier, Georgie lived in Connecticut, where she invested in an industrial sewing machine and used her sewing talents in entrepreneurial endeavors, including making

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Heather Gonyeau and her husband, Chris, of Georgia, Sean Senesac and his wife, Andrea, of Georgia, and Kyle Senesac and his wife, Melissa, of Johnson; and her stepchildren, Dominic DeRosia and his wife, Linnea, of Berkshire, BJ DeRosia and his fiancé, Maria Gleason, of Bakersfield, and Chris DeRosia and his significant other, Hannah Thompson, of Johnson; 15 grandchildren: Nora, Cael, Clare, Kendra, Kelsey, Calla, Simon, Maris, Maisie, Isabel, Madeline, Olivia, Madison, Sydney and Levi; and her father, Chester DeVarney. She is also survived by her siblings, Kathy Ferland and her husband, Roy; Nancy DeVarney; Diane Tuttle and her husband, Steve; and Chet DeVarney and his wife, Sky; and by several nieces and nephews.

Sharron was predeceased by her mother, Nettie DeVarney.

Friends and family were invited to Sharron’s life celebration on Sunday, May 23, 2021, at 2 p.m. at the Bakersfield Country Club, 7595 Boston Post Rd., Bakersfield, VT. Interment was followed in Maple Grove Cemetery in Bakersfield.

For those who wish, contributions in Sharron’s memory may be made to Bakersfield Historical Society, P.O. Box 70, Bakersfield, VT 05441.

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jackets for a local police department and repairing sails. Georgie, a skilled sailor, assisted in many trips sailing boats for owners in the Northeast to Florida and the Bahamas. Her sewing talents came in handy combined with her sailing expertise when she noticed sailors had difficulty finding a place to get their sails repaired while en route. She started bringing along her sewing machine and did a brisk business repairing sails at various ports along the way.

During her travels in the New Orleans area, she met and fell in love with Rob Blount, from Hattiesburg, Miss. They married in 1998 in Hattiesburg, where they lived for a number of years before eventually moving back to Vermont in 2006.

Throughout her life, Georgette enjoyed the outdoors and nature, particularly Vermont’s mountains and Lake Champlain. She took many hikes with friends and her beloved dog, JoJo, and had a garden that overflowed with abundance. She enjoyed many sports, including bowling, sailing, and snow and

water skiing. Georgie enjoyed the Ladies’ Tuesday Night Bowling League and was a member of a bowling team that traveled to tournaments, including taking trips to the Women’s National Bowling Championships in Las Vegas, Detroit and other venues. She was an avid skier and loved Thursday skiing with her niece Ella at Smugglers’ Notch.

Georgette loved being back in Vermont and continued to grow her talents in new ways.

She took up rug hooking and became an active member of the Fiber Bees, a rug hooking group in the Champlain Islands. The Fiber Bees became a strong and important support for Georgette. One of Georgette’s rugs, “Journey,” was recently exhibited at the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild 2020 Exhibition. She also enjoyed painting and drawing.

Georgette had a deep sense of the body-spirit connection, which led her to study Reiki. She achieved her Reiki certification, was a member of the Vermont Reiki Association and loved sharing the benefits of Reiki with others.

In recent years, Georgette worked at Home Depot in Williston in customer service and the gardening department, where she shared her knowledge of flowers, plants and gardening.

Georgette was predeceased by her parents. She is survived by Rob Blount and her eight siblings: Suzanne and husband Victor Pisanelli (Rutland), Isabelle (Washington, D.C.), Bernard (Pompano Beach, Fla.), Paulette and husband Dr. Peter Gunther

(South Burlington), Denise (West Rotunda, Fla.), Noelle (Williston), Bridget (Burlington), and Patrice and partner Jessica Humphrey (Burlington). She also leaves her nieces and nephews: Kristina, Matthew and Andrew Pisanelli; Stephanie Lyons; Sarah Thabault; Erik and Luke Johnson; Kaitlin Kessler; Jaime and Sasha Gunther; Andrew and Betsy Coco; and Wilfred, Brima and Ella St. Francis. Georgette also leaves many aunts and uncles, cousins, and great friends.

The family thanks Dr. Peter Gunther, her primary care physician, for his loving care.

Deep appreciation is extended to Dr. Farra Khan, Georgie’s oncologist, who provided outstanding medical care and also gave Georgie support and encouragement that was profoundly helpful to Georgette during her battle with cancer. The family is thankful to all the nurses and staff at the McClure Miller Respite House who provided compassionate care and support during Georgette’s final days. The family expresses their deep appreciation to the Fiber Bees and Jane Sutton for their support and love of Georgette.

Arrangements are in the care of LaVigne Funeral Home. There will be no funeral services and, per Georgette’s wishes, there will be a celebration of life later in the summer.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent in memory of Georgette Thabault to the Champlain Adaptive Mounted Program (CHAMP, vtchamp.org) or to the Vermont Reiki Association (vermontreikiassociation.org).

IN MEMORIAM Zander Ponzo A “Remembering Zander” ceremony for Zander Ponzo will be held at the bocce courts at Oakledge Park in Burlington on Sunday, June 20, at 10 a.m. Bring your own chair, if needed or wanted. In case of rain, it will be held in the pavilion directly across the way from the bocce courts.

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OBITUARIES Charles Allen

OCTOBER 7, 1970MAY 13, 2021 GREENFIELD, MASS. Charles David Allen, 50, of Greenfield, Mass., passed away of a heart attack at home on May 13, 2021. He was born on October 7, 1970, in Greenfield to the late William Blake “Bill” Allen II and the now Joanne (Purcell) (Allen) Flynn.

Called Chad in his childhood, in his later years he was known by David. He was a lifelong resident of Greenfield and was well known and befriended by many in the wider Greenfield area. As a young adult, David was diagnosed with schizophrenia. While his illness undoubtedly impacted and shaped his life, he did not let it isolate him, and he was a connected, loving and very much loved part of his family and his community.

He lived a simple life, and one of his greatest pleasures was driving to visit family in Vermont, Maine, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

David was preceded in death by his father, William Blake “Bill” Allen II. He is survived by his mother and

stepfather, Joanne and Bob Flynn, of Essex Junction, Vt.; his sister Heather and her husband, Kevin Grogan, of Kennebunk, Maine; his brother William Blake Allen III and his wife, Kelley Fox, of Denver, Colo.; his sister Courtney Elizabeth Allen and her husband, David Clelland, of Auckland, New Zealand; nieces and nephews Connor, Daly and Adia Grogan; Parker, Chase and Campbell Allen; and Emily Clelland; and a great-niece, Charlotte Ellen Grogan. David is also survived by his aunt Elizabeth (Purcell) Lambert and her husband, Brian Bayliss, of Wayne, Maine; his uncle David Purcell and his wife, Frances Calantoc, of Hilo,

IN MEMORIAM

Janet Bonneau

1954-2020, RICHMOND, VT. Janet Cressy Stensrud Bonneau of Richmond, Vt,. passed away unexpectedly on December 3, 2020. Born in Beverly, Mass., to Gordon and Elizabeth Stensrud, Janet attended Richmond schools and graduated from Mount Mansfield Union High School in 1972. She traveled throughout Europe after graduation and returned to be with the love of her life, Richard Bonneau. She attended Vermont Technical College and the University of Vermont, studying agriculture. She joined Rick in proudly running the family business, Winooski Press, side by side for almost 50 years.

Janet grew up on the Stensrud family farm and kept a herd of colorful horses well fed in the bountiful meadow she adored. You could hear Janet’s laugh long before you saw her on her favorite horse, Dakota, as she shared trail riding with friends.

Her love of her horses, cats and the Richmond community made her big smile a

Hawaii; his aunt Barbara (Allen) Raymond of Preston, Conn.; and many cousins.

David will be remembered for his quiet nature, his sense of humor (including a penchant for terrible puns), his intrepid resilience in the face of adversity, and his love of lemon squares, something that was always present when he visited his cousin David Raymond in Colrain, Mass. He also liked to play classic rock from the 1980s on his electric guitar, and he followed his favorite sports on TV. David was a big presence in his extended family and will be greatly missed.

There was a graveside service at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 22, 2021, at the Green River Cemetery in Greenfield, Mass.

In lieu of flowers, to commemorate Chad and to support the work of eliminating stigma around mental illness, the family gratefully requests donations to Green River House, 37 Franklin St., Greenfield, MA 01301, attention Kim Thibault-Britt.

Arrangements are under the direction of Walker Funeral Home, 14 High St., Greenfield.

welcome sight. Instrumental in starting the Richmond Holiday Market, Janet also sat as a trustee for the Richmond Free Library, where she was a key player in helping the library expand into the upstairs. Whether with Meals on Wheels, the Lion’s Club, pies for the church supper or 4-H, you could always count on Janet to readily volunteer!

Janet is survived by her beloved husband, Richard Bonneau, with whom she shared almost 50 years of her life. She was greatly loved by her siblings Anne and Richard Steadman of Marblehead, Mass.; Susan Stensrud and Ricardo Bessin of Lexington, Ky.; and Matthew and Cyndi Stensrud of Viera, Fla.; as well as by her brotherin-law Robert and Cheryl Bonneau of Conshohocken, Pa.; her cousin and best friends Sarah Killam and Gary Thomas of Beverly, Mass.; and many nieces, nephews, and grandnieces and nephews. She will be deeply missed by all her many friends and business associates A memorial service for the celebration of Janet’s life will be held on June 5, 2021, at 11 a.m. in the lower meadow of the Stensrud Family Farm at the corner of Hillview Road and Williams Hill Road. All are invited to attend.

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ow can we improve treatment for lung cancer? Dr. Matt Kinsey and a collaborative, multidisciplinary team at the University of Vermont Cancer Center are working on it.

Lung cancer is the deadliest time of diagnosis,” he predicts. “We’re form of cancer in the U.S.; it’s not as going to be able to detect it and treat common as skin, breast or prostate it, teach the body to kill it. That’s the cancer, but it kills more people. dream.”

It accounts for approximately 25 percent of cancer deaths around the ‘THE WAY OF THE FUTURE’ country, according to the Centers for Currently, when people receive a Disease Control and Prevention. lung cancer diagnosis, they set up an And lung cancer doesn’t only appointment with an oncology team affect smokers — Kinsey, who himself that will help determine the course survived cancer as a child, points of treatment. That process can take a out that it’s more common while. than pancreatic cancer in It’s awful to sit with the nonsmokers. knowledge that you may Now a doctor and have a deadly form of Director of Intervencancer and can’t start tional Pulmonary fighting it for weeks. at the University of “The not-knowing Vermont Medical is the hardest time,” Center, Kinsey is Kinsey says. “The currently leading a more we can shorten clinical trial testing that, the better.” a new technique: It’s particularly delivering treatment challenging for directly to the tumor patients in outlying using a state-of-therural areas who have art robotic device. to drive two or three He’s also working to hours to an appointment at UVM Medical make the process Center. Just arranging more efficient, so that that transportation clinicians can begin can take up valutreating patients right able time. In theory, away rather than doctors could use waiting for a follow-up the approach Kinsey appointment weeks DR. MATT KINSEY is testing to initiate after a diagnosis. treatment immediThis is research he ately upon diagnosis. wouldn’t have thought possible just Treatment for lung cancer often five years ago, Kinsey says. There involves chemotherapy. Patients who have been major advances in his field undergo it receive powerful drugs over the last few years, particularly intravenously that spread throughout around immunotherapy, which the body — drugs that can cause harnesses the body’s immune system serious side effects. to fight cancer.

Kinsey and his team are studying “I think we are going to be able to whether injecting drugs directly into immediately treat lung cancer at the

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the tumor makes a difference, both in shrinking the cancer and diminishing the drug’s side effects. They’re using a robotic device to insert the needle into tumors that may be just over a centimeter in size. The machine is the only one of its kind in the Northeast outside of Boston, Kinsey notes. An intraoperative CT scanner is used to verify that the drugs are going directly into the tumor.

The approach “has a lot of intuitive appeal,” Kinsey says. Patients may not

be familiar with the phrase “intratumoral therapy,” but they understand the concept and are eager to get the treatment. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration approved the trial; medical device and pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson is backing it.

“The Lung Cancer Initiative within Johnson & Johnson is funding the study because they believe delivering drugs directly into the tumors is the way of the future,” Kinsey explains.

The drug company doesn’t have a

financial interest in the drug currently being used, but it’s hoping to use information gleaned from the study to develop drugs that can help patients in the years to come. “I think it’s a great example of an academicindustry partnership, with the goal of moving an entire field forward,” says Kinsey.

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‘SO WILLING TO COLLABORATE’ Kinsey’s trial is modest in size — just 10 to 20 patients. But it’s exactly the kind of research that the Cancer Center is ideally suited to perform, he says.

The UVM Cancer Center is highly collaborative. In addition to Kinsey’s staff from Interventional Pulmonary — Sarah Wagner, Brittany Hughes, Sara Ardren, Stephanie Burns, and a dedicated operating room nursing and respiratory therapy staff — the team behind these clinical trials also includes colleagues in Pathology (Drs. Kelly Butnor, Scott Anderson, and Pamela Gibson), Oncology (Drs. Farrah Khan and Peter Kaufman), Cardiothoracic Surgery (Dr. Mitch Norotsky), and Biostatistics (Dr. Chip Cole).

Kinsey’s research group includes Dr. Emily DuComb, a pulmonary fellow who assists in running the clinical trial; Axel Masquelin, a graduate student performing quantitative image analytics; and Dr. Vitor Mori, who recently was awarded a highly competitive fellowship from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation to study intratumoral therapy for lung cancer.

Kinsey’s mentor and collaborator, Dr. Jason Bates, works closely with Mori to evaluate distribution and kinetics of intratumoral drugs using computational models. Kinsey says he also feels very fortunate to work with Dr. Ralph Budd, whose lab — staffed

by Cheryl Collins and Dolly Cupak — performs analyses of the immune cells within a tumor; and Dr. Jos van der Velden, who heads up UVM’s Tumor Organoid Laboratory. Van der Velden grows cancer cells outside of patients to better understand how they respond to various interventions.

That’s actually really difficult to do, Kinsey points out. Cancer is a problem because we can’t stop it from growing in a human body. But researchers such as van der Velden

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have recently found a way to grow cancer cells in a lab.

It’s quite a team. “We have so many people who are so skilled and so willing to collaborate,” Kinsey says. “It’s going to take all of these people to move the needle for patients.”

‘IMPRESSED’ BY THE RESEARCH Kinsey’s own bout with cancer played a role in determining his future. Diagnosed at age 8, he underwent almost two years of chemotherapy and had parts of both lungs resected. “The joke in high school was that I must have started smoking when I was a baby,” he quips.

“There’s a lot that goes into how you choose your career, and my experience is not something that gets written into residency or fellowship applications,” he says, “but it is a big part of the reason I ended up doing what I do” Kinsey grew up in Idaho and studied chemistry at the University of Idaho; he completed his medical doctorate — with distinction in research — at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx.

After completing a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship in the Harvard Combined Program, he pursued an additional year of training in Interventional Pulmonary at Massachusetts

General Hospital/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He later earned a Master’s in Public Health, with a focus in biostatistics, from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Kinsey had interviewed for fellowship training at the UVM Medical Center. “I was impressed by how much research was being done here,” he says. He joined the Cancer Center, and the faculty of UVM’s Larner College of Medicine, in 2013. His first impression proved correct. He’s now one of more than 210 members of the Cancer Center, representing five UVM colleges, as well as the UVM Medical Center and Health Network.

Kinsey loves working with talented colleagues on cuttingedge research that could have a real, measurable effect on the lives of lung cancer patients. It’s a unique opportunity the UVM Cancer Center offers, “and I’m honored to be part of it,” he says. “For someone like me, it’s fantastic.” COMMISSIONED AND PAID FOR BY:

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From left: John Cleary, G. Jean Brgant and Alexander Bergeron

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As COVID-19 drove Vermonters outdoors, Cleary Stone started rocking . Jean Brgant, owner of Cleary Stone in Richmond, likened her company’s pandemic year to the Cirque du Soleil show KÀ. Unlike traditional theatrical productions, the acrobatic performance has no fixed stage but unfolds on perpetually moving platforms that are meant to simulate ocean waves.

“I don’t feel like we’ve had solid ground under us,” said Brgant, whose husband, company CEO John Cleary, founded the business in the early 1990s. “Everything has been very fluid.”

Brgant’s choice of metaphors was unexpected, given that the business is about as rock solid as they come — both the products it sells and current demand. Cleary Stone sells bricks, pavers, cobbles and natural stones that are used to make patios, walls, garden paths and other landscaping. Some are purchased from suppliers throughout the Northeast and eastern Canada; others are dug from the company’s 14-acre Emerald Mist quarry, a one-mile-deep vein of basalt schist in Waitsfield.

A Chinese Lingbi scholar stone — a rare, hand-chiseled volcanic boulder — decorates the company’s front walk on Richmond’s Governor Peck Highway. But aside from a few stone pagodas, Cleary Stone doesn’t carry materials from China, which in recent years has been undercutting North American producers.

Brgant and Cleary spoke with Seven Days on a rare weekday when both had time to sit down. Since April 2020, Cleary Stone’s phones have been ringing nonstop with calls from contractors and homeowners looking for materials that have become difficult to source during the pandemic.

“Lots and lots of people started putting in patios in their backyards,” Brgant said, “because it quickly became apparent that all our socialization had to happen outside.”

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Cleary, who’s 80, is a self-taught mason who started selling stones as a consequence of criminal activity — not his, someone else’s. After a thief broke into Powderhorn Sports, the Williston gun shop he founded, Cleary decided to “build a bulletproof building that they couldn’t rob.” So he went to work constructing one out of stone. (Cleary’s son Bill now owns the store.)

During construction, Cleary set aside the stones he didn’t like, then discovered that there was a market for reselling them. As he remembered thinking at the time, “If someone’s willing to buy junky old stones, what are they willing to pay for good ones?”

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He and Brgant launched Cleary Stone with nothing more than a quarter-ton Toyota pickup. The company soon earned a reputation for reliability and delivering on its promises. When the previous owner of the Waitsfield quarry was retiring and ready to sell it, two other potential buyers were also interested. But because Cleary and Brgant had always paid him on time, he sold it to them.

Today, the company is still a small family operation, with an excavator, a tri-axle truck and several forklifts, one of which their grandson, Alexander Bergeron, 30, deftly maneuvered around the yard during his grandparents’ interview.

Bergeron has been a fixture at the business since he was 3, Cleary noted. He would sit on his grandfather’s lap while

Cleary operated a skid steer, which the toddler called “the kid stealer.” His mispronunciation proved prophetic.

“Every couple years I’d buy him something bigger — an excavator, a front loader,” Cleary recalled about his grandson and sole employee, who will eventually take over the business when his grandparents retire. “It just kept sucking him in.”

In March 2020, Cleary and Brgant were still in their Florida home, where they winter while Bergeron runs the business during its slow season. But as cases of COVID-19 began spreading across in the U.S., Brgant recognized that Floridians weren’t taking the pandemic seriously, so “we got back into the borders of Vermont, where we knew we were going to be safe.”

Like most business owners, Cleary and Brgant had no idea how the pandemic might affect their industry. In April 2020, the company secured a Paycheck Protection Program loan of $15,000, which it paid back within two months because, as Brgant put it, “all hell broke loose.” Because people were stuck at home and not spending money on travel and other discretionary purchases, demand skyrocketed for businesses in the home-improvement industry.

Several friends asked Brgant why she paid back the company’s PPP loan when it appeared the federal government would forgive most of that debt.

“My sense of integrity says that’s what I’m supposed to do, because I didn’t need it,” she explained.

“Besides, other people might,” Cleary added.

But the boom in demand also created supply chain problems for Cleary Stone. In normal times, Brgant explained, when she calls a supplier in Pennsylvania or Montréal to buy, say, manufactured pavers, the order will arrive within three days. Today, she said, it can take three days just to get confirmation of an order — and then another three to six months before supplies are delivered.

Another unexpected complication has been transportation. As Brgant explained, their business relies on so-called “back hauls.” When they need a delivery from a supplier in Westford, Mass., they don’t pay for a truck to drive there empty and pick it up. Instead, they find a Vermont-based trucker who’s making a delivery near Westford who can then pick up their order and drive it back.

However, with many other industries idled, Brgant said, back hauls have been harder to secure.

“In our business, transportation is a big deal because what we do is heavy,” she said. “We don’t sell toilet paper in this yard.”

Still, when asked how Cleary Stone fared last year, the couple seemed almost ashamed to say.

“Should we admit this?” Brgant asked her husband, who nodded. “We had the best year we ever had.”

“By a lot,” Cleary said.

“And this year might be even better,” she added.

In fact, Brgant doesn’t expect demand to decline even as the pandemic wanes. For many Vermonters, COVID-19 was a “game changer,” reminding them of simple pleasures: barbecues on the patio and sitting around a firepit with friends.

“People now understand that there’s a different way of living,” she said, “and there’s something to be said about enjoying life.” m

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Seven Days reader recently asked about what she called the “mini-barn-on-stilts structure” that’s adjacent to the Vermont Public Radio studios at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester. Located behind a chainlink fence and alongside a pond and some woods, the structure resembles a red monitor barn with a green metallic roof.

It sits atop four telephone poles but has no doors, windows or holes on its sides — at least, none that is visible from nearby Troy Avenue.

Speculations about the mysterious cordoned-off sky barn are understandable, given its surroundings. Located near the fence line of the Vermont National Guard’s Camp Johnson, the structure is also close to a Vermont State Police training facility and fleet lot; the latter contains police cruisers, hazmat rigs and a mobile crime scene command post. Signs nearby reading “All activities monitored by video camera” only add to the intrigue.

Is it a sniper tower? An environmental sensor for detecting chemical, biological and radioactive weapons? A prototype of a dairy-themed All Terrain Armored Transport à la Star Wars?

Alas, it’s nothing quite that cinematic.

According to the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, the mini barn on stilts is a bat condominium, or oversize bat house. It was designed and built by Milton bat enthusiasts Joe Gardner and Barry Genzlinger, the latter of whom is a licensed bat rehabilitator and cofounder of the Vermont Bat Center. On July 28, 2017, Vermont Fish & Wildlife staff and Green Mountain Power line crews used a crane to hoist and mount the bat house 16 feet in the air.

The structure is 12 feet long by six feet wide by eight feet tall but contains no floor, only rafters designed to accommodate roosting bats. Vermont Fish & Wildlife reports that it’s the largest bat house in the state, capable of housing hundreds, if not thousands, of little brown bats. (Gardner built a similar one that’s erected at Kingsland Bay State Park in Ferrisburgh.) But despite its roomy accommodations and presumably insect-rich feeding environment beside the pond, the bat condo has yet to attract any full-time residents. Why? The likeliest explanation is that Vermont has far fewer bats today than a decade ago. The culprit: white-nose syndrome, a deadly fungus that infects hibernating bats and makes them behave erratically, such as fly during daylight

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Underside of the bat condo

hours, which exhausts their fat reserves crucial to surviving the winter.

First identified in caves near Albany, N.Y., in 2007, white-nose syndrome has spread across North America, killing millions of bats. The disease first appeared in Vermont in the winter of 2008-09, according to Alyssa Bennett, small mammals biologist with Vermont Fish & Wildlife. Since then, the fungal infection has decimated Vermont’s population of little brown bats, reducing their numbers by 90 percent.

White-nose syndrome infects some of Vermont’s eight other bat species, including tricolored bats and northern long-eared bats. But the bat condo was

built specifically for little browns, which the state added to its endangered list in 2011. According to Bennett, “It appears the disease is here to stay.”

Researchers are exploring various treatment options, including ultraviolet lights to kill the fungus, and naturally occurring bacteria or other fungi that might outcompete it. Thus far, a whitenose silver bullet remains elusive.

Has Vermont’s loss of bats caused an uptick in insects, especially the stinging varieties that are vectors for human and livestock diseases?

“You would think that a 90 percent change in the bat population would be noticeable and measurable,” Bennett said.

“But so far, I have not been able to tease that answer out from anyone who is an expert in the insect world.”

In addition to consuming mosquitoes and other insects that bug farmers and backyard barbecue enthusiasts, bats help humans in another valuable way: They’re harbingers of new invasive species.

Researchers can analyze the DNA found in bat guano to determine what the bats are eating, revealing new insect species long before they’re caught in human traps.

Though the prospects for Vermont’s bats seem bleak, Bennett said there’s still cause for optimism. As she explained, the 10 percent of little brown bats that have survived thus far may have natural immunities that they will pass on to their offspring. In addition, they may be genetically predisposed to different roosting behaviors that protect them from infection. Whatever the explanation, she said, there appears to be “something special” about the bats that aren’t dying, and her long-term hope is that the species will eventually recover.

In the meantime, bat experts ask that the public never kill bats stuck in homes, garages or other structures. Bats don’t attack humans, pets or livestock, so people needn’t freak out or swat them with tennis rackets.

Instead, the Vermont Bat Center recommends capturing a lost bat using a small container, such as a shoebox or a bucket, and a piece of cardboard. Wait for the bat to land, cover it with the container, then gently slide the cardboard between the container and the surface where the bat landed. Release it outdoors, or contact Vermont Fish & Wildlife or the Vermont Bat Center for relocation advice.

It’s unknown whether bats will take up residence in the Colchester bat condo; none was observed when volunteers last surveyed it in 2019. But Bennett pointed out that several years can elapse before bats occupy a new roost — often only after they’ve been evicted from their previous one.

And, unlike humans, bats haven’t enjoyed an eviction moratorium during their pandemic. So whenever a dead tree is cut down or an old barn collapses, its former bat occupants will need new housing, and the mini barn on stilts might just do the trick. m

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ALIVE TO TELL THE TALE Vermont’s remaining World War II survivors bear witness

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emorial Day was conceived to honor the fallen. During World War II, 1,233 Vermonters gave their lives in service to their country. Can we understand their sacrifice without turning to living witnesses, a dwindling cohort that retains primal memories?

Some 16.1 million Americans served in the armed forces as war raged nearly 80 years ago; 406,000 died. Despite Vermont’s modest population, its participation was outsized. More than 50,000 Vermonters enlisted or were drafted into military service. Almost every family had somebody in the armed forces, and many had several.

Lifting the curtain to see behind these stark numbers reveals memorable acts of valor. Left behind in the Philippines when the Japanese invaded, Pittsfield-born Earl Cook of the U.S. Army Air Forces waged guerrilla warfare against the enemy for a year until the United States regained control. Army Capt. Kimball Richmond of Windsor received the Distinguished Service Cross for taking charge of an ad hoc unit at Omaha Beach on D-Day after his own landing craft was sunk, forcing him to swim to shore. Maj. Gen. Leonard “Red” Wing of Rutland served in both world wars and became one of only three National Guard officers to command a combat division.

Not everyone saw combat. Fewer than half of American service personnel were involved in fighting, according to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Soldiers trained and ready were not deployed; others were destined for the Pacific theater when the atomic bomb was dropped and abruptly ended the war.

Fewer than 200,000 American veterans of World War II survive: They were dying at a rate of nearly 300 a day before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. In Vermont, the number of surviving vets dropped to below 800 last year.

They’ve become known as the Greatest Generation, a grand superlative for sure — but what does it mean? How do you memorialize 18-year-olds wrenched from their Vermont farms and thrown into the maw of battle — boys too young to have a beer but old enough to wield deadly force? They won the war, but at home — for many — their own peace was elusive, even as they went back to school or entered the civilian workforce.

Every soldier has a story, and Seven Days sought them out. Here you will meet the oldest living veteran in Vermont, who is also one of the oldest in the nation; a fighter pilot returning from a night mission seeking safety on an aircraft carrier deck in an immense, roiling sea; an infantryman at the Battle of the Bulge, where the arctic temperatures were as deadly as the enemy gunners; and a Navy man in Tokyo Bay with a front row seat for the ceremony marking the Japanese surrender.

These are our fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers — ordinary folks thrust into an extraordinary situation. They are heroes, though none would claim that word. They are living chronicles of a cataclysm. m

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My feet got such bad frostbite it still bothers me.

JAMES DONALD CARR / THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE If the screaming meemies didn’t get you, there was always the cold. The meemies were the German mortar shells, Nebelwerfer, that exploded in the frigid air over the Hürtgen Forest in the winter of 1944-45. Hear a meemie, stand next to a tree, veterans told replacement troops; hug it if you have to.

But the cold — the deep, unrelenting cold — was a more constant enemy, young Private First Class Jim Carr of Bellows Falls learned during his first hours in the forest on the Belgian-German border. It was so damn cold. Sleeping bags froze to the ground. The small bottles of beer his sergeant distributed after one patrol were frozen solid.

It seemed only yesterday that Carr had turned 18 and his draft notice had arrived.

It was early 1944, and the Normandy invasion was imminent, so the Army pushed him quickly through basic training, assigned him to the 112th Infantry and shipped him to France. There, his platoon leader handed him a 24-pound weapon, anointing him the unit’s Browning Automatic rifleman. The M1918 BAR was a light machine gun capable of firing 650 rounds per minute.

“The BAR man had been killed the day before,” said Carr.

He was still two months shy of his 19th birthday when he marched into the Hürtgen Forest, five miles east of the German-Belgian border.

He remembers vividly the day Sgt. Francis Liburdi rounded up a patrol to count the German troops massed nearby to record their movements. Carr and the others were crouched in some bushes near the tree line, where the snow was thinnest. But the recon was cut short; a new second lieutenant came along, tripped a mine and fell, injured. “Let’s get the hell out of here!” Liburdi yelled.

“We started to run … [but] the Germans had the trail marked out and started to drop mortar shells on us,” Carr recalled.

The Battle of Hürtgen Forest was bad; what followed seamlessly was worse. This was the Battle of the Bulge, a last desperate lunge by Adolf Hitler’s forces to stave off defeat. For six weeks, beginning in midDecember 1944, 30 German divisions with nearly 250,000 men pushed into the Allied line in the hilly Ardennes Forest on the border between Belgium and Luxembourg.

The American wall bent but did not break — thus the “bulge” — but the human cost was fearful: 100,000 U.S. casualties. As many as 15,000 suffered severe frostbite and other injuries from snowy terrain and temperatures that plunged as low as 30 below.

The 112th was ordered to a position in Belgium.

Jim Carr

Messenger pouch Carr took from a dead German soldier

“We did not have good winter gear, such as warm footwear, spare socks or underwear,” Carr recalled this month at the home in Bellows Falls where, at 95, he still lives independently with Gloria, his wife of 70 years. “My feet got such bad frostbite it still bothers me.”

“They finally gave us sleeping bags — I still have mine. Boliver Hyland, an older veteran, showed me how to fix the bag so it

was very warm. I sewed a blanket onto the liner. This bag did not leave my person,” he said.

“Most of the time— and I’m not ashamed to admit it — I was scared,” he said. “A lot of times we were exceptionally lucky. A couple of my friends were 18 years old; we had some elderly guys that took care of us.

They showed us how to be men, you know.”

There were other battles for the 112th,

but none rivaled the Bulge. When the war ended, Carr was set to be discharged but had a painful boil on his left wrist. “I was worried they might keep me,” he said. “So I got some hot water in my helmet and soaked it until I got it down.”

It took Carr some time to locate his family upon returning to Bellows Falls; his mother’s house had been destroyed by a fire on Christmas Day 1945. “The State of Vermont gave us $20 a week for a year, and I took the money and a year off,” he said. “I finally had to go back to work at St. Johnsbury Trucking, as I had run out of money.” Later, he worked as a dispatcher for Holmes Transportation and then as plant manager at Rockingham Memorial Hospital.

At home, like so many other veterans, Carr avoided talking about the war. His family respected his boundaries and never pressed him for stories.

“I think what he saw was just too disturbing — and he was really young,” said his daughter, Jeanine Carr. “You know, he saw a lot, and he experienced a lot of physical discomfort from the severe frostbite. And the emotional pain made it just hard for him to talk about.”

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It’s not going to happen to me — it’s going to hurt the other guy.

I totally embraced that mentality.

RICHARD AUSTIN / NAVY BOMBER PILOT Night bombing runs off aircraft carriers were still new — they’d only begun in January 1944 — and U.S. Navy pilot Richard “Dick” Austin would never get used to them.

His Avenger torpedo bomber was designed for floating airfields like the USS Yorktown, but any night run was a crapshoot.

Daylight allowed him to visually check his altitude, speed and direction, providing precious time for adjustments. But it was night for this particular landing, and from the cockpit, Austin was looking at a dark mass undulating in a black sea under a starless night sky.

“Depth perception is useless above the water, so you’re worried that you may be too low,” he recalled 77 years later, in the comfort of his room at the Wake Robin retirement community in Shelburne.

“You need to be lined up straight with the carrier, 15 feet above the deck. Too far right, and you obliterate the island where the bridge and air control are stacked; too far left, and you flip into the churning sea ... So you try to adjust on approach … but there’s no time.”

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Austin was terrified. He landed safely that evening and dozens of other times. It was never routine.

“I was very frightened by the demands of adjusting in the last seconds before I saw the deck. The landing signal officer with his lighted paddles helped — but not nearly enough to kill your anxiety,” Austin said. “And, really, you don’t have time to indulge that anxiety, because if you don’t make adjustments, your life is threatened.”

To think, Austin had never flown a plane — never even built a model airplane

— until a few years before. He was attending St. Lawrence College in New York State when a civilian pilot training program was introduced for credit. It was love at first flight; Austin was the first in his class to solo, first to get a pilot’s license. In the spring of 1942, he was working on Wall Street when the Navy called. Austin quickly progressed through advanced flight to torpedo training.

And now he was flying off the Yorktown.

Pilots practiced on airstrips with markings approximating a carrier’s safe landing zone,

but they couldn’t simulate the real thing.

Fear forced a mindset of displacement.

“It’s not going to happen to me — it’s going to hurt the other guy. I totally embraced that mentality,” Austin said of the self-delusion that got him through the war. “How an infantryman could climb out of a trench and attack a machine gun nest — [it] would only be possible if he had that attitude.”

For Austin, the “other guy” was his friend Frank Frazier, who was shot down off the coast of Formosa, now called Taiwan, captured by the Japanese and imprisoned late in the war. “He was beheaded the day before the armistice was signed,” Austin said.

“What a waste.”

Austin nearly ran out of gas on a run over Formosa in 1945, but nothing equaled a close call he had in the Philippines the year before. The fact that the risk resulted in a fool’s errand is something Austin laughs about now.

“One bad-weather day we were attacking shipping in Manila harbor, and we had been told there was a Japanese carrier in there a couple of days before. Six of us attacked this long, low profile in the harbor, thinking it was a carrier. Five of the six torpedoes hit this thing, and it sank … As I was approaching that drop, there was a Japanese antiaircraft battery on the coast … tracking me, and you see the anti-aircraft fire coming up behind you. Our training said in that situation you want to change direction, speed and altitude, and it will throw off their accuracy.

I was changing my speed, but I was pretty scared that time. You knew those bastards were trying to kill you!”

Austin, who turned 99 in March, leaned back in his chair. After film of the bombing was developed, he confided, the target turned out to be an American floating dry dock that the Japanese had captured years before.

“So we all claimed that we were the one torpedo that missed — who wanted to tell our girlfriends that we sank the USS Dewey?”

Austin married his girlfriend, went to medical school and practiced as a surgeon for three decades in the Boston area while he and his wife, Marcia, raised two girls.

An avid skier, he made many trips to Vermont and moved to the Green Mountains in 1994.

The love of flying that steered Austin’s military career persisted into his years as a surgeon and into retirement. Marcia, who has since died, almost put an end to that hobby. When Austin was living in Boston, he used to go to a small airfield and rent a plane for solo flights. “I came home and told my wife, ‘I had a nice time flying today.’ And she said, ‘Goddammit, if you can waste $75, so can I,’ and she’d go out and buy a new dress. So it was costing me $150 each time to keep it up!”

Thank goodness I didn’t have to take another person’s life.

HERBERT JOHNSON / SEABEE STALWART Herb Johnson was working the skidder, pulling big mahogany logs to the sawmill so they’d have planks for the barracks.

Everything was mahogany, even the outhouses. The ground in Milne Bay, New Guinea, was sodden from torrential rains, so it was taking twice as long as it should have. The sergeant — Earl, his name was, from the South — switched Johnson to guard duty one day.

“You know what you’re going to do, son?” Earl asked.

“Yeah,” Johnson replied. “I’m going to watch the trees, and if I see a puff of smoke, I’m going to shoot at it.”

“Son,” Earl drawled. “If you see a puff of smoke, you’re dead! Or dying.”

Thinking back from the distance of nearly eight decades, Johnson realized he was naïve about the danger.

“I was still a teenager, and everyone really didn’t have a sense of what could happen,” he said. “I don’t remember feeling scared then — but there was time for that ahead.”

Johnson, who will be 96 on June 3, vividly recalled arriving in New Guinea in May 1944. The jungle seemed impossibly exotic. Two years earlier, Milne Bay had been the site of the Allies’ first ground victory over Japanese forces, and the sheltered bay on the eastern tip of the island still had strategic as well as symbolic importance.

Johnson was a Seabee — a member of the Navy’s construction battalions, or CBs — the construction arm tasked with building roads, runways and almost anything aboveground. Johnson had worked construction in high school; it was something familiar in a disorienting experience.

His trip through the Panama Canal with Naval Construction Battalion 118 was his first time on a ship.

It was almost a relief when his battalion got orders in March 1945 to leave the stink, heat and tropical downpours of Milne Bay and sail to the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. Johnson was among 100 Seabees deployed to the City of Zamboanga to construct a base headquarters. Not long after arriving, they learned that they were to be among the first to deploy in the widely anticipated invasion of mainland Japan.

“We just knew we’d be cannon fodder,” Johnson said. Months passed, leaving everyone edgy. On August 6 and 9, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and

Herb Johnson

Herb Johnson (right) in New Guinea, 1943

Nagasaki. On the 10th, NCB 118 was ordered to move to Subic Bay, which improved their position for an invasion.

The battalion remained there until the Japanese surrendered. “I used to go out at night with some of the older guys, who

taught me how to run the heavy equipment,” Johnson said. In a short while, Johnson mastered the bulldozer and what he called a “scraper.”

Once peace arrived, he found work at home relatively easily running heavy equipment. While digging out a swimming pool, Johnson attracted an admirer — the homeowner’s daughter. “I asked if she wanted a ride, and she climbed up on the toolbox,” Johnson recalled. “And that was it.”

The Caterpillar courtship culminated in the marriage of Herb Johnson and Betty Bedrosian. They lived in Somers, N.Y., and Florida before retiring to Pillsbury Manor, now Allen Harbor, in South Burlington in 2014. Betty passed away three years ago.

Johnson is a quiet man. He hesitated before reflecting on his wartime service.

“I personally learned a trade — I guess that’s kind of greedy,” he said. “On the other hand, I was trained and carried a weapon, and I was prepared to use it.

“Thank goodness,” he added, “I didn’t have to take another person’s life.”

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LEONARD A. ROBERGE / SERVING STATESIDE The back room of the Boston Post Office was packed with guys like Lenny Roberge: Navy enlistees waiting to learn their fate.

But when a yeoman emerged from an office shouting, “Can anyone here type?” only one hand shot up —Roberge’s — which he later confessed had not come into contact with a typewriter key for quite a while.

It was October 1942, and the native Rutlander soon found himself logging mail in the captain’s office at the Casco Bay station in Portland, Maine. Yeoman 3rd Class Roberge quickly extended his activities to taking over the station’s newspaper deliveries, which earned him extra cash to court his girl back home.

On June 12, Roberge will celebrate his 107th birthday, surrounded by family and

friends and some fellow veterans of World War II. Roberge is Vermont’s oldest surviving veteran and likely one of the oldest dozen American vets. Old enough to have lived through two worldwide pandemics a century apart. Wise enough to have no regrets that his service in the war kept him stateside.

He married his girlfriend Agnes in 1943, and then spent 18 hours on weekends riding trains to and from Rutland so that he could spend eight hours with his new bride.

Lenny’s unit was transferred to a naval station in Connecticut for additional training in 1944, and three months later he was ordered to report to a base in San Francisco — the last stop before deployment to the war in the Pacific.

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“I realized how different this assignment could be, how my life could change,” he recalled. “But the atom bomb changed everything.”

Roberge reflected for a moment when asked whether he understood why that horrific act is controversial today. He uses a walker to get around the Allenwood nursing facility in South Burlington, where he now lives, but everything else about him belies his age: his memory, his wit, his daily calisthenics.

“No one knows if they hadn’t dropped the bomb how many more people would have died,” he said. Nor did he feel cheated by avoiding combat. “Agnes knew she no longer had to worry about my safety day and night.”

Because he was married, Lenny was in the first wave of enlisted men eligible for discharge. The Navy transferred him to South Station in Boston, and he and Agnes took a room in Cambridge until his tour ended in December 1945. The couple settled in Brattleboro, where Lenny began working for Central Vermont Public Service, a utility company; he later sold home appliances. In 1950, he bought

an 80-year-old house in Brattleboro and soon developed a sideline in home renovations. Lenny and Agnes raised three children in Brattleboro before moving in 1991 to Allenwood, where Agnes died in 2017.

Lenny was born in 1914, the year the first stone was laid for the Lincoln Memorial and a promising player named George Herman Ruth made his major league debut. Yet for a visitor in early spring 2021, he cracked jokes, sang two songs and displayed a prodigious memory for events of 80 years ago.

Lenny’s own prescription for longevity seemed quite simple: “We only have one birthday a year — and that’s a good thing!” he said.

Among Allenwood staff, he inspires awe and affection in equal measure.

Lenny gripped his walker and shuffled out the door, only to return a few minutes later with a slice of apple pie for his visitor.

“You have to stay busy,” he declared. “When I say my prayers at night, I ask the Lord, ‘Please give me another day.’”

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Dick Boera faced his greatest danger once World War II was over.

Hostilities had ceased, but Navy Lt. Boera — “single and carefree,” in his words — remained with the light cruiser USS Portsmouth for what was conceived as a postwar goodwill tour. As it turned out, this benevolent mission involved a treacherous run through unmapped minefields off the coasts of western South America and northwest Africa.

Even training aboard minesweepers before the 1945 voyage was little help.

“That was scary,” said Boera. “It felt like you’re holding your breath, hoping you wouldn’t accidentally run across one of these loose cannons. And there was a real danger, mainly because not only were they unmapped as far as the German mines were concerned, but it turned out that the U.S. mines had not been well mapped at all.”

The Portsmouth sailed blindly through dangerous seas for five days on the monthslong 20,000-mile trip. No electronic detection devices to assist — “just good eyesight on the part of anybody up in the stacks. Even so, most of the mines were down below the waterline. It was dumb luck.” As an engineering officer, Boera was stationed belowdecks, which spared him most of the minute-by-minute tension on deck.

Boera had tried to enlist before he turned 18 and was rejected, so his commission came late enough in the war that he did not see combat. He wondered about the sanity of anyone who might feel cheated by avoiding combat. “I was prepared [to fight], but fortunately for me things worked out differently … I was a little ashamed of the fact that I hadn’t seen real action, but how many of us never saw battle? And the Navy took a beating: Anytime a ship was sunk, they lost probably 90 percent of the crew.”

Boera’s first name, Alvaro, is courtesy of a Spanish grandfather. He grew up in New York City and enrolled at New Jersey’s Princeton University in 1942. After enlisting in the Navy, Boera transferred to the Stevens Institute of

Dick Boera’s map of world travels during and after World War II

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He stayed in the Navy Reserves until 1965. After working as a business manager at Staten Island Community College, he accepted a similar post at Lyndon State College in 1970. Boera’s wife of 68 years, Julie, passed away in December while they were living at Allen Harbor in South Burlington.

Asked about his memories of the war, Boera, 95, recounted a meeting he had just before he got his Navy commission.

He’d driven to Princeton to reconnect with old friends and was strolling along Mercer Street when he passed an address that struck a chord. Never shy, he knocked on the door and was greeted by a housekeeper who allowed him inside.

“I was led into a study and introduced to professor Einstein,” Boera recalled.

“He looked exactly like his photos: graywhite unkempt hair, a Teddy Roosevelt mustache, wrinkled sweatshirt, sad but twinkling eyes.” The renowned formulator of E=mc2 invited him for tea and sat down to chat. “It was,” said Boera, “like having a conversation with my beloved German grandfather.”

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We [knew] that it was finished and they weren’t going to get us.

LENEY BARCLAY / WITNESS TO JAPAN’S SURRENDER Nearly 300 ships of the Allied powers appeared as stepping-stones across Tokyo Bay, leading to the hulking, 45,000-ton battleship USS Missouri. On the veranda deck, Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur waited to receive the formal surrender of the Japanese Imperial Army, marking the end of World War II. Just a few hundred yards away aboard the Fletcher-class destroyer USS Knapp, 21-year-old Petty Officer Leney Barclay emerged from belowdecks, where he’d been firing the boilers. He could see the Missouri off the starboard bow. Wearing dungarees, a T-shirt and a blue cap — regular kit for destroyer crewmen — Barclay headed toward the bridge, where his pal Charley Thompson was watching the smokestacks for any sign of engine malfunction. Virtually all of the crew were on the main deck, staring across the sea at history. It was shortly after 8 a.m.

The bridge afforded the best view, Barclay knew, and besides, Thompson had a pair of powerful binoculars that could spot enemy aircraft from 10 miles away. “We kept exchanging them with each other as we watched the Japanese come,” Barclay recalled by phone from the Vermont Veterans’ Home in Bennington.

More than three-quarters of a century had passed, yet Barclay could picture it all, even the officer who came up to the bridge to record the date as September 3, 1945. That put the ship’s log at odds with Western history books, which cite the surrender date as September 2 — because in Europe and America, it still was September 2.

Though he’s 97 now, Barclay tells the story as though it happened yesterday: “The first thing we noticed was a small boat pulled up against the side of the Missouri. They had a big long stairway going up from the water up to the first deck. This Japanese delegation had a couple of guys with canes, and they were struggling … to climb up this stairway, and it took quite a while.” (The delegation leader, Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, had an artificial leg.)

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all got to the top there, and it seems that the whole crew of the Missouri was piled around that part of the deck. Because we were aligned with the tide facing in the same direction, I could see the ships were just jam-packed with sailors. We passed the binoculars back and forth and described what we were seeing. They made all their speeches, and then they got to the point. “…When MacArthur signed [the surrender document] … he passed a pen to a little skinny guy. It was Gen. [Jonathan M.] Wainwright, who was with him in the Philippines and had spent three years in the prison camp in Manchuria. I said, ‘Oh, my goodness, that was a great gesture.’

That was a great thing. He could have easily put the pen in his pocket … It was a beautiful picture, like a Broadway show going on right here on the deck.

“Thompson and I, you know, we had tears in our eyes. We [said], ‘My God, Tommy, it’s over with. We’ve made it.

We’ve made it!’ I’m telling you, we weren’t ashamed to burst out into tears. A lot of us guys were crying. Because we [knew] that it was finished and they weren’t going to get us.”

Barclay paused, and then added, “We knew we were getting ready to invade in November. And we knew that it was gonna be a slaughterhouse ... They had hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of suicide planes ready to attack guys. And we were, we were so very, very fortunate that we had escaped.”

Five months later, Barclay returned to his native New Jersey and, thanks to his experience as a water tender, got a job as a plumber. Eventually he married the boss’ daughter, Mary, and took over the business. In 1954, they moved to Vermont and spent the next 17 years in Londonderry, raising four children. The entire Barclay clan joined the Peace Corps in 1971 and spent years in Southeast Asia and Africa.

Mary died in 2009.

“We have a destroyer crew reunion set up every two or three years, and we meet someplace around the country. We had to invite some crews from the Korean War,” he added quietly. “I’m the only one left from the Knapp.”

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as well as serving drinks to an antsy public, belongs to Ali Nagle. She’s general manager of the Monkey House and its affiliated catering business, Fluid Bar Service; she’s also co-owner of Waking Windows Music & Arts Festival.

“It’s very confusing,” Nagle said of the evolving regulations. “We’re sticking with the previous rules at least until June, just to get everybody back comfortable again.”

(She was referring to the state’s relatively new “universal” guidelines.)

Nagle, 35, is a graduate of Saint Michael’s College, where she majored in sociology and anthropology. After graduation, she worked in social services and hung out at the Monkey House, where her boyfriend — now husband, Brian — worked. Nagle became friends with the crew at the club and started working there part time, checking IDs and collecting money for the band.

Soon, Nagle was learning to be a bartender, working the Saturday and Sunday day shifts. That’s when the spillover crowd from Sneakers, a neighboring business, waited for their brunch tables at the Monkey House.

“People want coffee, Bloody Marys, Diet Coke and water,” Nagle said. “That’s one person [ordering]. So, you learn to multitask.”

In 2011, she was the offered a management position at the Monkey House and decided to make a career change.

But Nagle notes that she regularly puts her sociology degree to use in this work.

“Even managing a bar, most of my job is managing people and personalities and schedules,” Nagle said. “You have so many different types of personalities that either work for you or come into the bar. It’s just wild.”

Before the Monkey House opened on a recent afternoon, Nagle talked to Seven Days about work life, tequila and running a bar during a pandemic.

“I think there are a lot of people who don’t feel comfortable going out, but then there are people who felt judged for going out,” she noted. “There’s a lot of weird COVID shaming. You have to learn to be respectful of people’s comfort levels.”

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chalkboard that hangs above a high-top table at the Monkey House in Winooski bears a message in faded white printing: “Fuck U Covid & Trump.”

Those words have remained in place since a customer wrote them last summer. Nearly everything else at the bar has been in a swirl of change and disruption.

Since the pandemic arrived in Vermont, the Monkey

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House has been open, closed, open, closed and open again, in accordance with state regulations. Customers can get a cocktail to-go, but they can’t sit at the bar. They can eat a slice of pepperoni pizza, made in-house, but they’re not allowed to walk around the room. Live music is on hiatus, and last call is by 10 p.m.

The job of implementing and managing these changes,

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SEVEN DAYS: How did you keep up your chitchat skills during the months when bars in Vermont were closed?

ALI NAGLE: I didn’t, really. I did a lot less talking, which was actually kind of nice. There was a lot of alone time, which I enjoyed, and I was a little nervous to come back.

A lot of the same conservations were happening during COVID: “How are you doing? What’re you doing?” It’s a long day when you’re having the same conversation with people, [yet] we all need that interaction. It’s hard to keep up a conversation when not much is going on in people’s lives. Then you’d see a friend and you don’t want the conversation to end. You were so excited to be with them.

SD: Sports and the weather are timeless barroom topics. Have you found the conversation has shifted during pandemic drinking?

AN: Vaccinations are a big one, which we kind of joke about, because you ask people and talk about it, and then laugh at yourself for continuing to do that. “Oh, which one did you get?” It’s so silly, but you still ask.

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Locavore Leaders Retire PIONEERING MARY’S RESTAURANT IN BRISTOL TO BECOME THE TILLERMAN

After 38 years in Bristol, LINDA HARMON and DOUG MACK are selling the historic property where they made MARY’S RESTAURANT and the INN AT BALDWIN CREEK into a farm-to-table dining and event destination.

On June 11, the couple will finalize the sale to KATE BARON and JASON KIRMSE, who moved to Vermont earlier this year from California’s Bay Area with their two young sons.

“They look like us [about] 40 years ago,” Harmon said, adding that she and her husband had been eyeing retirement and put the property on the market right before the pandemic.

Harmon and Mack decided against selling the restaurant brand they built along with the space. The weekend of May 22 to 23 was the last for Mary’s Restaurant.

“We didn’t sell the name Mary’s,” Harmon said, noting that it can be a challenge to take over an establishment so closely tied to its founders. “We didn’t think that would be to anyone’s benefit.”

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Baron and Kirmse, New York and Florida natives, respectively, have both worked in the restaurant industry for more than a decade. Kirmse cofounded Fat Angel Food & Libation, a well-known San Francisco restaurant that closed in December 2019. Baron attended the University of Vermont, which contributed to the couple’s interest in the state, Kirmse said.

Their restaurant and inn will be called the TILLERMAN, a nod to a favorite Cat Stevens song, Kirmse said. After some light renovations, they hope to open by late August or early September.

The wood-fired menu will feature pizzas, soups and salads. “It will be approachable, simple food, locally sourced — carrying on in the vein of Linda and Doug,” Kirmse said.

Harmon and Mack’s journey began in 1983 when they bought a restaurant called Mary’s on Bristol’s Main Street.

“Our only concept was, we wanted our own place where we could do whatever we wanted,” Harmon said. “There were all these farmers around us, and we just started buying from them.”

In 1994, they expanded

their restaurant and added a five-room inn at the current Route 116 location north of Bristol’s town center. Mack became the first president of the VERMONT FRESH NETWORK, which was established in 1996 to promote local food and drink and connect chefs with farmers and other producers. He and Harmon have also been active in the Vermont chapter of the Italian-born Slow Food movement. The couple, along with their two daughters and scores of volunteers, hosted an annual free Christmas dinner for up to 300 guests.

In retirement, Harmon and Mack will revise their Mary’s at Baldwin Creek Cook Book, published in 2000, and continue to lead culinary tours of Italy. “And Doug will continue making garlic soup,” his wife added.

Mack’s fabled creamof-garlic soup has legions of fans. The recipe is so closely guarded that, he once divulged, even his wife doesn’t know it.

The couple is in negotiations with their daughter, LAURA MACK, who owns LU•LU ICE CREAM in Vergennes, to make and sell the soup there.

Laura has a proviso, she said: Her dad will have to promise to clean up after himself. “He always makes a big mess, and I don’t want that mess in my kitchen,” she joked.

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Happy Daze Dining on a Dime at Malletts Bay’s newest food truck B Y J ORDAN BAR RY • jbarry@sevendaysvt.com

Fry Daze of Vermont opened on May 10 at 181 East Lakeshore Drive in Colchester, taking over the bright pink truck that was the home of Bri’s Fries for nearly 12 years.

(Bri’s Fries opened a brick-and-mortar restaurant in Milton in January.)

The truck’s lakeside view and classic burger-and-fries menu are a quintessential summer combo. As I pulled into the parking lot on one of the first beautiful 70-degree days, it was clear I wasn’t the only one who was ready to dive into snack shack season. The place was packed.

Despite the crowd, my dining companion and I didn’t wait long to order. The chalkboard menu lists Michigan dogs, Switchback Brewing bratwurst, mozzarella sticks and other fried favorites — all priced at less than $10, cash only. With our Dining on a Dime budget of $12 per person in mind, we ordered a cheeseburger ($7), clam strips ($8) and the maple fries ($9).

If I hadn’t already planned to order the fries, the smell of maple wafting through

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might have pleasant, reservable outdoor space to host a small wedding.

Hence my surprise when I answered my phone recently and the caller didn’t ask for a recommendation but offered one.

“You’ve got to check out Fry Daze,” the person said. “They’ve got maple fries.”

Sold.

It must have been the power of the maple fries that led me to pick up in the first place, because I ignore many unknown numbers for fear of hearing how out-of-date my car warranty is. But later that day — sitting at a picnic table overlooking Malletts Bay, fries in hand — I vowed to stop screening my calls.

the truck’s window would have changed my mind.

A quick wait later, our number was called. The glistening fries looked as tempting as they smelled, and I snagged one from the cardboard box before I made it off the covered deck attached to the truck.

Back at the picnic table, with my fingers already sticky from the first fry, I committed to a fry-first approach. The pint of fries — made from hand-cut potatoes, tossed in a maple-bourbon seasoning and drenched not once but twice in Vermont maple syrup — was entwined in a way that encouraged embracing chaos. They were messy, and that was part of the fun.

Sticky and crispy, these specimens had the salty, crunchy golden-brown exterior and soft interior I hope for in a hand-cut fry. But the sweetness from their multiplemaple treatment — and the artfully balanced combination of sweet and savory — put me in a daze. I completely forgot that I had other food to eat.

When I did turn my attention to it,

food+drink that other food was satisfying, filling and exactly what I wanted to eat by the lake. The clam strips were perfectly fried: crunchy, not greasy. They came with two sides of tartar sauce, which was the right amount to make it through the whole basket.

The cheeseburger was humongous by traditional snack shack standards; the menu lists it as a five-ounce all-beef patty.

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THEIR MULTIPLE-MAPLE TREATMENT PUT ME IN A DAZE. a double for an additional $3, but even a single dwarfed the paltry burgers some places serve.

Jessica Dickinson, who was taking orders and running the pass the day I stopped by, later told me that burger size has been a real selling point for the new business so far.

“We had one person say, ‘I order a cheeseburger and French fries everywhere I go, and I always leave hungry.

But I was full after eating yours,’” Dickinson recounted. “And that’s what we want. We want people to leave here fat and happy.”

Dickinson is a longtime friend of Fry Daze owner Steve Harrington. Harrington also owns E&S Transport, a towing business based in Waterbury; Dickinson is helping get the business up and running

while she waits for her regular job as a manager at the Majestic 10 cinemas to start up again.

“We live in the campground across the street, and we knew the truck was for sale,” Dickinson said. “Steve has always wanted to have a diner-type thing, and it’s such a beautiful location here that he pulled the trigger.”

They hired chef Dan Gutches, who brought the menu — and Dickinson’s idea of maple fries — to life.

“I love maple syrup, on anything,” Dickinson explained. “The moment we hired him, I told Dan, ‘The one thing I want on the menu, and have never seen anywhere in this maple syrup state, is maple French fries.’ He made it happen within, like, 10 hours, and boom, there they are.”

And thank goodness they are. My travels don’t often take me to Malletts Bay, but I’ll make it a summer destination now that I know these fries exist.

Fry Daze is currently open Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. As summer gets into full swing, Dickinson and Harrington plan to be open daily, with extended hours on Friday and Saturday.

They’re playing the season by ear, Dickinson said, but hope to extend it all the way through September.

A couple of weeks into the food truck’s first season, I’m predicting Fry Daze’s maple fries will join the ranks of greater Burlington’s absolute must-have summer treats. m

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SD: Bartending has always had an enforcer aspect to it. How has COVID19 changed what you’re on the lookout for? Does the general tenor of a barroom feel different?

AN: It does. People, thankfully, kept it more calm. They would only have one or two drinks, rather than four or five. I think it was [because] they were not used to being out, and [they were thinking], I’m going out, but I don’t know if I should be going out.

The curfew being early [10 p.m.] has been nice. Once it starts getting rowdy, it’s time to go. The other day we had a couple of birthday parties in here. It was loud and exciting and fun, but it felt kind of weird.

Thankfully, I haven’t really had to cut people off during COVID. I think we’ll get there. I think people are ready to party this summer.

SD: Winooski has become a dining and drinking destination over the past 10 or so years. Have industry people left town in the past year? If so, what will bring them back?

AN: I have noticed some folks have wanted to change career paths or do something new. I’ve had one employee who took a different direction [due to] the pandemic.

Most of the people I know are staying in the industry.

People in the service industry hustle so much. They work long hours and are on their feet. I learned during the pandemic [that] I don’t have to be busy 24-7 and have better values [and recognition] for what you want your lifestyle to be. And I think a lot of people in the industry felt the same.

You don’t have to drink every night. You don’t have to eat out every night. Those things are great, but it’s maybe not the best for your lifestyle. I think a lot of people in the industry have changed their priorities.

SD: How and when do you start your day after a latenight shift at the bar?

AN: Pre-COVID, the bar would be open until 2 [a.m.], and you would get home between 3 and 4 in the morning and

SD: When do you expect live music to return to the Monkey House?

AN: Our goal is July-ish. We don’t want to host music while there’s rules attached to it. It’s too hard. If somebody wanted to get up and dance, we have to tell people they couldn’t.

I know people are missing it a lot. I don’t think people realize how much work on the back end goes into having music in the pandemic. But we’ll do it again.

wind down and go to bed at 5, because you’re watching TV and having a snack.

I would try to not sleep in too late on those days, to still have a full day; but you kind of feel out of it, not having a full sleep. I’m really loving the 10 p.m. curfew.

This time of year, I like to make breakfast and coffee and set up on the porch and catch up on email and ease into the day.

SD: Do you think the drinking age should be lowered to 18?

AN: I don’t think so. I think it does its job at 21. It’s not like you’re not drinking at 18, but I don’t think we need 18- to 21-year-olds coming into the bar. That’s what house parties are for, at least when I was that age. And who wants to miss the house-party time?

SD: What mixed drink and Vermont beer are popular these days? What do you think more people should try?

AN: Speaking for here only, the most popular drinks are a blueberry-lavender spritzer and, for beer, I’d say Fiddlehead. And margaritas are back in the swing; we’re selling a ton of margaritas.

I think people should start giving tequila more of a chance, if they hadn’t before. It’s such a nice spirit that

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

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SD: How did you approach running a bar during a pandemic, when bars were considered risky places?

AN: It was really hard. Every day something changed. Every day, you are concerned: Am I going to have to close today because someone gets COVID? It was really a blessing in disguise having the governor shut down bars over the winter. At first it was, Oh man, we were just starting to get busy. But just having your staff live with other people, and those other people work[ing] at restaurants, [creates] the chance to get COVID. And then having to close, and closing and opening, was so stressful.

I wanted to stay relevant. I learned so many new skills and trained people [on] how they should be acting [during] COVID. The customer is not necessarily right anymore, which is nice. But we’re still thankful for them coming out and being out, and we [want to] make them comfortable.

It’s just a stressful balancing act. I feel thankful we didn’t have anything too crazy happen to us or the staff.

And I do feel thankful with how much I’ve grown and learned, but it’s been a challenge. My brain doesn’t really work anymore. My brain is done for a while. m Ali Nagle

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Currently in his 30th year as a professional chef, Werneke moved to Vermont in 2009 and had various jobs that included being executive chef at Prohibition Pig (now called simply PRO PIG) in Waterbury until December 2018, when he left to cook in Hawaii.

The owners of Alfie’s Wild Ride, BETH and CHRIS OLEKS, also own the STOWE PUBLIC HOUSE & BOTTLE SHOP, which they bought in November 2019. When they started discussing the culinary aspect of their latest project with Werneke and inquired what he’d like to do, Beth recounted, “He said, ‘I want to run a taco stand.’”

“I’ve wanted to do one for 20 years,” Werneke said.

Werneke said he cultivated his appreciation for tacos during a six-year stint cooking in San Diego when he traveled frequently to Baja California.

“I’d spend more time in kitchens than on the beach,” he said. “I don’t do well in the sun.”

The chef wants to honor the family-run taco stands he loved in Mexico.

“I’m trying to replicate as carefully and respectfully as possible my experience in Baja and in the Yucatán,” Werneke said.

The counter-service taco menu will stick to classics such as carne al pastor sliced off a vertical rotisserie, and Baja-style battered fish cooked in lard, with simple toppings such as slivered cabbage and avocado crema. “I just want to do really, really good tacos,” Werneke said.

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In “Blue Sky,” the prologue-poem that opens the book, Kunin declares, “I have time — a bushel full.” She continues: “Long ago before Coronavirus, / I looked at the sky for weather, / or at night, for stars. / The blue sky gave me answers, / by the hour.”

If you’re worried that reading a book about the pandemic by a relative newcomer to poetry might not be the best way to process the trauma of the past year, don’t.

In brisk free verse, the poems in Red Kite, Blue Sky cover a wide range of subjects: love and loss, aging and mortality, police brutality, suicide, and, yes, politics.

One of the most moving pieces, “Voyage,” is about the author’s escape from the Holocaust with her parents. A family of German Jews, they moved first to Zurich, where Kunin was born, then to America.

She describes all the pretty boxes of chocolate that relatives gave her mother as they boarded the train; these were entrusted to then 6-year-old Madeleine, who proceeded to forget them as the family disembarked.

The author interrogates these memories: “Did my brother make it up? / Or did this happen: that Nazi / soldiers walked through the train / questioning everyone?” she wonders. This blurred composite of memory and reality, recounted more than 80 years later, will have the reader hanging on every word. “My mother did not unclothe her fear to us,” Kunin writes, and even that choice of verb, “unclothe,” feels imbued with terror, a subtle allusion to strip searches.

Kunin is a poet who chooses her words carefully. Poems with more mundane subjects, such as brushing one’s teeth, often exhibit a delightful sharpness of expression. In “Teeth,” she writes, “I spit them out like olive pits, / tainted yellow and hard…”

In the prose poem “Isolation,” the poet describes sleeping in bed with her cat. At the end, the poem turns the situation into something much larger: “Because, and this sounds so silly. She is saving my life.”

Even the titles have a blunt attitude that manages to come off as simultaneously charismatic, like a friend you rely on for their honesty and refusal to mince words. “Wise Old Women Dying” is one such title; “I Loved You When You Did the Dishes,” another.

In “Selinunte,” Kunin describes a visit to ancient ruins in Sicily. What could have been just another touristy travel poem glamorizing decay instead takes a refreshingly honest

turn when Kunin depicts the ruins as “Built by a slave we cannot pity, / tumbled by an enemy we do not fear.”

Besides being the first (and, so far, only) female governor of Vermont, from 1985 to 1991, Kunin was the first female Jewish governor of any U.S. state. “Zoom Seder” is another standout poem, weaving together several fascinating strands. Kunin evokes the challenge of maintaining traditions through history, depicting the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic as just one adversity of many over the past few millennia. She expresses amazement at the technology that helps us overcome that isolation, albeit awkwardly: “It was a miracle. / The thread of tradition, frayed in places, / was rewoven by long stretched wires. / The Egyptians would have been dumbstruck / the Jews have survived.”

Kunin’s poems are just as tenacious as their author, and filled with humor and tenderness that make them a gift to read.

The poet demonstrates that it’s never too late to do what you love — and that there just might be a poet inside all of us. m

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olitics and poetry may seem at first to be strange bedfellows.

Yet governance and versification have a long tradition of being intimately linked. Queen Elizabeth I wrote poetry and translated ancient texts from Latin and Greek. One of few women in England at the time to receive a complete education in the classics, she dared to address the scholars at Oxford and Cambridge universities in Latin, the preeminent language of male authority.

There are countless other examples of poets going into politics and politicians taking up the pen: Richard the Lionheart,

Muhammad Iqbal, Pablo Neruda, Vaclav Havel, Mao Zedong, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, to name a few. Joining their ranks is former governor of Vermont and U.S. ambassador to Switzerland Madeleine May Kunin, author of four prose books about politics, feminism and family. Red Kite, Blue Sky is her debut collection of poetry, written since her retirement from politics and compiled during the pandemic.

For Kunin, poetry and politics are linked, but not as fields in which she feels a simultaneous urge to participate. “I couldn’t write poetry when I was caught up in the tempo of politics,” she states in

“WELTSCHMERZ” Weltschmerz is the right word for the weight that presses down on me and rounds my shoulders in this time of pandemic.

Weltschmerz is a German word, the first language I spoke with a Swiss dialect.

It is hard to translate.

I break it in half and get two words: “world” and “pain.”

They cleave together in a noxious fog that stings my eyes and brings on tears.

Such a worldly pain is different from other pain that I can trace back to myself.

Weltschmerz is an encircling sorrow felt for the suffering of the world.

It is opaque. It is heavy, too heavy, by far, to lift alone.

INFO Red Kite, Blue Sky by Madeleine May Kunin, Green Writers Press, 116 pages. $15.95.

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York Times best sellers, and all are on the “creepy side,” McMahon said, with subjects ranging from missing girls to cultish groups to ghosts and strange beasts running rampant in Vermont woods.

Her most recent, The Drowning Kind, came out in April. It features a Vermont house with a pitch-black backyard pool fed by a cold spring and two sisters who are drawn to the pool’s mysteries. McMahon alternates that modern-day narrative with the perspective of a woman who visited the spring and a then-adjacent hotel in 1929. She builds dread throughout the tale, as the reader wonders whether there’s actually something in the water or it’s all in the narrators’ heads.

McMahon spoke with Seven Days in April about her writing process and what draws her to the horror genre.

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he first story Jennifer McMahon wrote was about a haunted meatball. She was in third grade in Connecticut. Her teacher liked it, so McMahon wrote another story about a mud monster. Then one about a kid who found a body in the wall of his house. Despite being a person who was and is easily scared, she kept returning to spooky stories.

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“I’ve always been drawn to the creepy side,” McMahon said. “I took my mother’s copy of The Amityville Horror when I was far too young to read it, and I was reading under the covers with a flashlight and terrifying my friends at sleepovers by reading passages out loud.”

McMahon, now 52, came to Vermont to study poetry at Goddard College in the late ’80s. As she kept writing, she found her

poems getting “longer and more complicated,” she said.

“I was working on a prose poem that was more like a story, and it kept getting longer and longer. I thought, Oh, I’m writing a short story. I don’t know anything about this,” she said. “And then I realized, Oh, my God, I’m writing a novel.”

To date, the Montpelier-based author has published 10 novels; some are New

SEVEN DAYS: This is your 10th novel.

What have you learned about book writing in that time?

JENNIFER MCMAHON: You would think that I would be more secure about my knowledge by now and that it would be easier in some way. But it’s not. Every book has its own challenges, and every book is its own journey.

I go into every book without a plot, a plan or an outline. I start with a single image or character and see where it takes me. I definitely write myself into little corners and do little U-turns and realize, Oh, this isn’t going the way that I wanted it to. Often I don’t know how the book is going to end. If you see me the day I finish my rough draft, you can ask me what my book is about, and sometimes I’m not sure how to explain it, because it’s such a mess.

Then I print it, and I lay it out on the floor of my house, chapter by chapter. I spend time walking around and looking over it and picking up chapters and putting in little placeholders where I realize, Oh, something else needs to happen here. Once I’ve got the bird’s-eye view and I start messing around with it for a few days, then I start to really understand the shape of the story.

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SD: This strikes me as a scary way to work, because you’re within a genre that requires some sort of resolution. Writers play with that, of course, but you’re expected to go somewhere in the end.

JM: Maybe each book is a leap of faith and just trusting that the story and the characters will show me where they want to go.

I think ideas come when they’re ready to come. If I have a big problem, I feel like the thing that works best for me is to try not thinking about it. I’m a big walk taker. I get into the Zen of walking and being in the woods with my dog, and then the solution will come to me.

SD: Do you think Vermont and New England are particularly spooky, or could you set your novels anywhere?

JM: All my books are set in Vermont. I often try to set them somewhere else, but I feel like it’s such a part of who I am.

I see the setting as a character of its own. It’s influencing the other characters in ways they might not even realize. I do a character study for the setting every time I sit down to work on a book. I’ll spend a J EN N IFER lot of time getting to know my characters and interviewing them and asking them questions, and I do that for setting, too.

With this book, I did it for the pool. I spent a lot of time with the pool, asking it, “What’s your deal, pool?” Some of the questions I ask all my characters, including my setting, are “What do you want most? What are you most afraid of? And what’s the one thing you’ve never told anyone?”

what scares you.” That’s where the juicy writing is. That’s when the writing is best, when I’m writing from fear and exploring something. And it’s cheaper than therapy.

I think horror, as a genre, is cathartic. You can get lost in a scary story, and it’s like you’re being taken on a journey.

You face the thing that scares you. You conquer it on the page, right? It’s a rush, and you survive.

SD: Do you have any personal ghost stories, things that you can’t explain or rationalize?

JM: When I was growing up as a kid in my grandmother’s house, I was pretty convinced that there was a ghost named Virgil living in the attic. I believed that he came down the attic steps and would sit on the edge of my bed and talk to me. I would wake up in the morning and draw pictures of Virgil.

Do I really think it was a ghost now?

Probably not. I was an imaginative, quirky kid. But who knows? Maybe.

I went to “Emily’s Bridge” in Stowe last Halloween with my daughter. I’ve been there many times before. We were on our way out, and the car was stopped in the middle of the bridge.

[My daughter] was MCM AHON leaning out, taking pictures. And from behind us, we heard what sounded distinctly like a girl laughing. Did I get out to investigate? No. I was too scared. I drove away very quickly.

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SD: You admit to being a “scaredycat,” but you’re also drawn to these stories. How does that play out in your head?

JM: When you go to school for writing, you hear over and over, “Write what you know.” But my own motto is “Write

SD: Are you content with those things being unexplained?

JM: I am, because I don’t think I can offer an explanation. I’m content to explore the possibility of what they might be, in my own mind and through my writing. m This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

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or the archivist and fabulist alike, historical records are seedbeds of wonder and fascination, and Vermont is absolutely fecund with weird history. In the Green Mountain State, human settlements have neighbored alongside the region’s primeval forests for nearly three centuries, but the two have often made strange bedfellows, and their proximity has begotten strange occurrences — some perhaps imaginary, many extraordinary.

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to learn more about the particularly confounding cocktail of history and lore that makes Vermont what it is, so she began to immerse herself in its stories.

She described what she found as “a treasure trove of legends and myths and folklore that has been passed down through the state’s history, and I immediately just wanted to know more.”

As a journalist, McIntyre naturally wants to share her discoveries with others.

In January, she launched “The Vermont Ver-Mystery Hour,” which airs Sundays at 7 p.m. on WVEW 107.7 FM and is also

available as a podcast. The show is a mélange of the odd and the obscure.

Bolstered by meticulous archival research, expert interviews and even dramatizations, McIntyre shines a light into the darker recesses of the Green Mountain State. She tackles everything from ghost stories and folklore to bizarre histories and unsolved mysteries.

“The Vermont Ver-Mystery Hour” is a great way to familiarize yourself with the state’s unique stories — whether true or speculative. One episode spotlights the state’s favorite homegrown lake monster,

PODCASTS Champ, who over the years has taken on a charming, family-friendly persona. Another installment surveys the murders associated with the Connecticut River Valley Killer.

The broadcast runs the gamut from the fanciful to the harrowing, often finding balance in a single story, as in the case of the so-called “Bennington Triangle,” which has become a kind of paranormal shorthand to link missing-person investigations near Glastenbury Mountain.

In an email to Seven Days, McIntyre explained her show’s big tent: “[I]n addition to highlighting the things that intrigue us or ignite our sense of wonder, [the show] is also about the things that scare us. I often think about the concept of ‘the sublime’ in Romantic and Gothic literature (particularly Shelley’s Frankenstein), the idea that wildness and mystery can simultaneously evoke terror, thrill and awe, and that fear and wonder can go hand in hand.

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“I’m certainly not saying that I think the Connecticut River Valley killings were aweinspiring,” she continued, “but … it can be freeing, in a way, to sort of unmask the thing that frightens us and take some of its power away in the process.”

For McIntyre, the most fitting way to share such topics is through an audio format. “These stories have always been passed down from person to person through our voices, and that’s the thing that I like about it being a podcast or radio show,” she said. “It’s sort of sticking to that oral storytelling tradition.”

McIntyre’s background is in print and online journalism, so the move to radio was a leap of faith.

“I was at a kind of transition in my career where I was moving from a staff reporter to being freelance, and that just opened up so many possibilities of being able to do whatever I wanted to do,” she said. “The pandemic did play a role in that it sort of created the opportunity to actually think about doing it and having the freedom and the time to dive into a project like this.

“I think all of us are thinking more about what’s important to us and not waiting for someone else’s permission to do those things, realizing we have only so much time,” McIntyre added.

The show is a passion project and, with the first season under her belt, she’s excited to keep going. New episodes drop

this summer, kicking off on May 30 with an investigation into the mythic reputation of the catamount.

Her coverage of the history and lore surrounding this elusive creature — the last of which was sighted and killed in Vermont in 1881 — will coincide with a special exhibit opening at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

For fans of the occult, next season McIntyre will also delve into Vermont’s sole recorded witch trial, held in Pownal during the late 18th century, and she’ll interview the man who originally unearthed the account, Vermont’s own “Bard of the Bizarre,” Joseph A. Citro.

McIntyre concludes every episode of “The Vermont Ver-Mystery Hour” by recommending a book, film or television show for anyone drawn to the mysterious and the macabre. Pressed for just one title to suggest to her Vermont listeners, she said it had to be Citro’s Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls & Unsolved Mysteries.

“For anyone who is interested in this aspect of Vermont history, you have to go with Joseph Citro,” McIntyre said. “He’s the authority in the state.” m

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Review: “Deep Blue,” Hall Art Foundation

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he color blue has proved visually compelling at least since the Chinese began making blueon-white-patterned ceramics during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) using cobalt ores from Persia. “Deep Blue,” the main exhibition at the Hall Art Foundation this year, is a testament to the color’s continued fascination for artists — in particular, painter Katherine Bradford, who guest-curated the show.

Bradford chose the exhibition’s 70-plus works from a true treasure trove.

The Hall Art Foundation, despite its location in the tiny village of Reading, is home to what is surely the largest, deepest collection of postwar and contemporary art in the state.

British-born collectors Andrew and Christine Hall established the foundation in 2007 to bring their collection of more than 5,000 works of art to the public.

The foundation’s Vermont site opened as an exhibition space in 2012. It hosts artist-curated shows from May through November in five beautifully rehabilitated dairy-farm structures distributed along a picturesque stream. (The Halls also own a castle in Derneburg, Germany, and lease an industrial shed at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., to show their collection.)

The Reading location has a welcome addition this year: a café, where Brownsville Butcher & Pantry serves up lunch fare using locally sourced ingredients. The new dining area is a coolly toned modern scene: white furniture, garage windows and poured-concrete floor. The single red accent — a lighted neon sign reading “Exhibition” — was created by Glasgowbased artist David Shrigley.

“Deep Blue” is displayed in the farmhouse, cow barn and pole barn. Bradford’s interest in blue is also evident in her own work, a selection of which is exhibited in the horse barn and collectively titled “Philosophers’ Clambake.”

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time between New York City and Maine, Bradford is a self-taught painter who went on to teach at the Yale School of Art, among other institutions, and win a Joan Mitchell Foundation award in 2012.

Her color-dense paintings often explore surfers, swimmers and other figures in water.

“Holiday After Dark” (2018), an Henri Matisse-like composition of roughly

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rendered figures who seem to be diving into or treading water, depicts them in an ambiguous dark-blue, dot-speckled depth that could also be stellar: a view into deep space.

In trawling both the foundation’s and the Halls’ personal collections, Bradford found work that reflects her fascination with blue and depth. Due to the pandemic, she performed this task virtually. She

also “installed” the exhibition remotely with the help of Maryse Brand, the Halls’ daughter-in-law, who created a SketchUp of the galleries for the purpose.

Brand directs the foundation and opened the buildings to this reporter for a self-led tour. New this year is the lack of docents; visitors go from gallery to gallery on their own.

Three sculptural works in a corner of the cow barn form a geometric trio. The largest is John McCracken’s freestanding “Untitled (Blue Wedge)” (1968), a 96-by-48-inch right triangle in fiberglass over wood. The artist laboriously applied by hand its faultless Caribbean-blue finish of lacquer and polyester resin.

On the wall hangs Olivier Mosset’s “Untitled” (1993-2014), a vertically aligned, rectangular canvas whose color — a depthless midnight blue in polyurethane and acrylic — somehow defies the flatness of its form. From the adjacent wall protrudes Anish Kapoor’s “Untitled” (1992), a slicedoff sphere — resembling a giant Amazon Echo Spot — in a deep violet blue. Its viewer-facing flat surface is inscrutable.

“What are we seeing when we look into a blue, vast void?” Bradford asks in an audio-clip commentary on the three works. (Visitors can access all labels and the curator’s occasional commentaries via a QR code posted in each gallery.) “Do these objects turn into a feeling of air?” she continues. Though she leaves those questions hanging, blue in the three sculptures is a confrontation with existence and its meaning that eliminates reassuring points of reference.

Most of the artists Bradford chose use blue simply because they love or loved the color. Yves Klein famously invented his own deep-purply blue, which he patented as International Klein Blue in 1960. One of his “Vénus Bleue” sculptures, a plaster copy of a Louvre torso saturated in the color, is in the pole barn.

In a beautiful pairing of works on paper in the farmhouse, Joan Mitchell’s

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with arms raised could just as easily be about to attack each other as to cooperate; the neutral light-blue background offers no clue.

The risk of remote curation is evident in the pole barn, where Bradford’s audio clip describes the “gorgeously blue” shade of Chris Martin’s “Samuel Palmer” (2007).

The virtual image of the painting is indeed a dark blue, but in reality the painting is gray. Beside it, the flat periwinkle of "Vénus Bleue" by Yves Klein Andy Warhol’s “Flowers” (1978) correctly matches its digital image. $100 million bonus in 2009, from a CitiFar from focusing on big names, group company bailed out by taxpayers, Andrew Hall continues to search for sparked public outrage. Nevertheless, it’s little-known artists he deems underval- laudable that the couple decided to share ued — finding them mostly on Instagram their art collection with the public — not these days, according to Brand. Then he a given at their level. And their decision collects them in depth, a canny investment to locate the foundation near their Readstrategy that must also be loads of fun. ing home, rather than their Connecticut, Hall’s finds include East Burke painter London or New York abodes, is an asset Terry Ekasala. One of her works first to Vermont. m appeared in the Hall’s 2018 “Made in Vermont” exhibition; now she has a solo INFO show in the visitors’ center.

“Deep Blue,” “Philosophers’ Clambake” and Much has been written about the “Terry Ekasala,” on view through November Halls’ source of funding: Andrew is an 28 at the Hall Art Foundation in Reading. oil-commodities trader whose promised hallartfoundation.org OUNDATIO

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(110 by 157 inches) but in the realism of its apocalyptic scene.

The work depicts young men with idealized bodies — a potent symbol in Communist East Germany, where Bisky grew up — variously bored through with a telephone pole, crucified, having desperate sex or pulling each other from a sinking house. The painting’s blues morph from night sky to black hole to towering tsunami to almost gel-like floodwaters; blue facilitates the instability and destruction of the scene.

Daniel Richter’s “Hero No. 1” (2011) references Baselitz’s hero paintings of 1965-66, as well as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In it, a skull-headed soldier runs toward the viewer, its figure entirely formed of what look like live wires, orange and pulsing. Oddly, the mountain range behind the figure is suggested with the same wire-like outlines but in a cool blue, as if the environment remains unaffected by war.

The third painting, Jörg Immendorff’s “Neue Mehrheit” (“New Majority”) (1983), features a menacing group of eagles — symbolizing West Germany — joined by a swastika. Immendorff studied with Beuys; the two shared an interest in the sociopolitical power of art.

A.R. Penck, Immendorff’s friend and fellow East German, painted the fourth work, the Keith Haring-like “Kooperation” (2002). The painting’s two black stick figures

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“Untitled, Diptych” (date unknown) and Richard Diebenkorn’s “Untitled” (1981) hang side by side. Both American artists fell in love with the blues of their surroundings — Mitchell with the wild blue cornflowers of France, where she lived much of her life; Diebenkorn with the clear blues of the California sky and ocean. Mitchell’s uninhibited, thickly applied scribbles of blue pastel crayon, which densely fill the paper, emanate joyous energy.

“These two are masters of blue,” Bradford comments in an audio clip, “and if there was a Matisse next to them, you would have the complete hall of fame of artists who … loved the color blue.”

More complicated in their use of the hue are four monumental paintings facing each other in the center of the cow barn. Their makers are all German, three of them born in the former East Germany. The Halls have extensive collections of German postwar art, and not just the large-scale Anselm Kiefers that fill the shed at MASS MoCA. They’re acquiring one of every multiple that Joseph Beuys created and own many of Georg Baselitz’s works — not to mention the Derneburg castle where Baselitz lived and painted for 30 years.

Of the four central paintings, “Aquageddon” (2007), by Baselitz student Norbert Bisky, is the most nightmarish. The painting is overwhelming not just in its size

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The apprehension I feel about summer has me all knotted up, and there’s only one cure. To quote Liz Lemon: “I need to dance this out.” Obviously, “this” refers to the pandemic-era tension and the uncertainty that still looms large over the live music and events sectors.

Luckily, anyone who needs to shake it until they break it will finally get the chance to do some dirty dancing this weekend at a new pop-up party in Burlington’s South End. Announced on Tuesday, Backside 405 is a new weekly, summerlong event series from Higher Ground and Burlington City Arts. Kicking off this Friday and Saturday, May 29 and 30, the 500-capacity ragers are set to take over the parking lot behind BCA Studios at 405 Pine Street. DJ DISCO PHANTOM takes the decks for the inaugural show on Friday, with surf-rockers BARBACOA and psych-rock trio QUILTRO the following night. (Read the review of Barbacoa’s new record on page 58.)

“Since most indoor venues (including HG) aren’t reopening in earnest until the end of the summer, we wanted to provide a summer stage to artists who are hungry to perform again,” Higher Ground coowner ALEX CROTHERS wrote in an email.

Each Backside 405 event will feature one or two artists, probably locals, who’ll jam as much musical madness as possible into the brief window of 8 to 10 p.m.

(That’s a hard curfew, by the way.) Gates open at 7 p.m. so revelers have time to hit up on-site food trucks and a full bar before things get going. Tickets prices will land in the $10 to $15 range. Season passes are also available for $99.

The events are rain or shine and feature a covered stage. Since the artists and their equipment will be protected from the elements, I doubt a little rain is going to prevent fun-seekers from having a good time. In fact, a sudden downpour on a hot summer’s eve could ratchet up the debauchery. Maybe plan ahead and pack your valuables in plastic if the forecast predicts showers.

As the premier concert venue/ presenter in Vermont, Higher Ground has led the way in adapting live music during the pandemic. Last summer, its drive-in series at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction offered a fun escape from quarantine, albeit one that came

with a few caveats. Safety precautions meant that folks were expected to stay in their pods. And tickets were sold by the carload, with a price tag often reaching close to $100 a pop.

“Combining an easy-to-access downtown location (with plenty of free car and bike parking) with reasonable ticket prices, our goal is to create opportunities for artists and audiences to reconnect with live music,” Crothers continued.

The new series will be the closest to pre-pandemic entertainment we’ve seen in more than a year, in terms of capacity and normalcy. A Backside 405 press release notes that all Vermont Department of Health safety guidelines will be followed. Masks will be encouraged but not required, according to the release. After all, the event is outdoors, and Gov. PHIL SCOTT recently declared that fully vaxxed Vermonters can go maskless in most situations.

Those wondering about masking in Burlington might be confused by this.

The city council recently decided to push ahead a vote to lift the citywide mask mandate until June 7. But the mandate applies only to retail establishments and city buildings. Other spaces that are open to the public, indoors and out, fall under the state’s guidance. Currently, the state requires only unvaccinated people to wear masks.

Also included in the state’s guidance is a note about verifying whether someone is vaccinated and how that relates to an event’s capacity. It reads, “If an event has no way of determining if an individual is vaccinated, assume all are unvaccinated for capacity limit.” That guidance sets an outdoor event’s capacity at 900, almost double what Backside 405 intends.

Scott also said during last Friday’s press conference that once 80 percent of eligible residents age 12 and up receive at least one dose of vaccine, he’s going to drop all pandemic restrictions. He was already planning to do so by July 4, if not earlier. With 74.9 percent already vaxxed by last Friday, it seems likely that we’ll hit 80 percent before Independence Day.

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A new live music venue is opening in Stowe. A bar, nightclub and all-around hangout space called Alfie’s Wild

Well, they’re starting up again, and we’re here to help. Find live music, DJs, comedy and more at sevendaysvt.com/music.

If you’re a talent booker or artist planning live entertainment at a bar, nightclub, café, restaurant, brewery or coffee shop, send event details to jordan@sevendaysvt.com or submit the info using our form at sevendaysvt.com/postevent.

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The “Twin Peaks”-inspired stage at Alfie’s Wild Ride

is the 450-square-foot stage, which Chris said they constructed to resemble metaphysical nether zone the Black Find, fix and feather with Lodge from cult TV show “Twin Peaks.”

Nest Notes — an e-newsletter Its herringbone pattern was hand-painted filled with home design, and will soon be adorned with the iconic Vermont real estate tips red velvet curtains seen on the show. and DIY decorating Former Rusty Nail comanager DAVE inspirations.

O’CONNOR is working with the Oleks on the new venue. Alfie’s is partnering with Sign up today at Nectar’s for its music offerings, as did sevendaysvt.com/enews. the Rusty Nail when O’Connor managed it in the mid-2010s.

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DENGUE FEVER • ZIKA Beyond music and entertainment, Chris said Alfie’s is “meant to be a creative space for artists,” noting he plans to use the space as a gallery.

One last thing: If you’re wondering about the new hot spot’s unusual name, there’s a story behind it. According to Chris, Alfie was a guy “who crashed his Jeep down a 200-foot hill into our backyard” when he and Beth were living in Topanga, Calif.

“He had forgot to put the parking brake on, and he jumped in to hit the brake as he was heading down the hill [from a nearby property] and went over the cliff,” Chris said. “We had always referred to it as ‘Alfie’s wild ride.’”

Remarkably, Alfie survived the drop.

But the couple continued to find the contents of his car — tools and such — in their backyard for years afterward.

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Ride is taking over the former site of Madadashcar, an auto repair shop at 942 Mountain Road. Owners CHRIS and BETH OLEKS began proceedings with Stowe’s Development Review Board in February to rezone the space. Beth also owns and operates the Stowe Public House & Bottle Shop, and Chris was briefly principal of Stowe High School. The couple is aiming for a late June or early July opening date.

“When we came in here on March 1, it was a full-on auto body shop, with three two-post lifts, a four-post lift [and] a paint booth,” Chris said by phone. “We had a ton of cleaning and sandblasting and all sorts of stuff to do to get the space even cleaned out and prepped.”

Alfie’s will have a 50-foot bar and a Mexican street food kitchen (see MELISSA PASANEN’s food news on page 43). During the summer, the shop’s garage doors will

stay open, “keeping the garage feel to it,” Chris said. In addition to libations, food and live events, Alfie’s will feature stateof-the-art golf simulators, other video games and a 25-foot-long shuffleboard table.

“We had thought about doing an event space/really fun bar ... with the idea being, in the wintertime when there’s not a ton to do at night, having a ton of games and hangout spaces and music and all sorts of stuff for people to do,” Chris said.

Because things are changing so quickly regarding indoor and outdoor capacities, Chris didn’t want to speculate on exactly how many heads the venue would hold. But it’s safe to assume the 8,200-square-foot space will accommodate a good number of people, both indoors and on its patio.

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grip to release a disc from its case and hearing the electronic whir of a CD player as it reaches playback speed.

Bonfire, with its sturdy assemblage of Colin McCaffrey-produced pop-folk songs, is bound to evoke all manner of nostalgic memories. After a year of being starved for human contact and social normalcy, I found that the album’s

opening title track hit home. “I’m happy you joined me on this autumn night,” McFeeters sings, her face presumably awash in an orange glow. It’s a simple campfire song, a warm invitation.

McFeeters’ first album in 12 years is sparkling and refined. During her respite from recording, she helmed the Aphasia Choir of Vermont, which brought together in song people who have verbal challenges as a result of strokes or other brain injuries. If McFeeters had to dust off any cobwebs when returning to the studio, she did it without anyone being the wiser.

McFeeters projects strength and wisdom through crisp, clear vocals. Her writing zeroes in on the fact that being with other people isn’t always easy. But the empathetic way she approaches conflict implies that it’s better to be with others than to be alone.

“The Elephant” confronts unspoken problems many families face. The track’s gentle mood, primarily carved out of

soft acoustic guitar and featherlight percussion, underscores the sensitivity needed to handle delicate issues.

McCaffrey plays almost every instrument heard on the album. But McFeeters tickles the ivories on the low-key piano ballad “I’m Not Wonder Woman,” in which she plainly states that power is derived from within, not without.

Country waltz “History” employs McCaffrey’s wistfully elegant violin.

McFeeters rectifies past mistakes when she sings, “We are beginning to feel / the present is real / the rest is history.”

Bonfire’s liner notes are dotted with intimate personal photos, reinforcing the communal vibes that McFeeters instills in her work. Whether amid changing seasons or, hopefully, the end of the pandemic, the album arrives at the perfect time.

Bonfire is available at karenmcfeeters.com.

most respected players, Mullins has been slinging his ax from club to club in Burlington since the 1980s, popping up in bands such as Blowtorch and the Chrome Cowboys, as well as putting out indie-rock-leaning solo work. With Barbacoa, however, Mullins dives deep into his Dick Dale cosplay and goes full-on instrumental surf rock, making records that sound like endless summer.

Barbacoa are viciously tight live.

Mullins is the spoke around which the band’s roster wheel spins — the lineup

currently includes Swale drummer Jeremy Fredericks, guitarist Jeff Baron (a Seven Days employee) and longtime bassist Kirk Flanagan. On record though, Barbacoa are essentially a Mullins solo project. He plays everything on Pharaoh’s Camaro, just as he did on two previous releases under the moniker.

Mullins’ evocative, crystalline guitar work is the record’s centerpiece. It’s easy enough to plug a Stratocaster into a Fender Princeton Reverb amplifier, go nuts on the tremolo bar and make some generic surfy sounds. What Mullins does, both as a composer and a player, is a world away from simple genre worship.

His songs are full of dynamic musical shifts that convey moods as well as any lyric.

On “Fistful of Fender” — a nod to spaghetti Western composer Ennio Morricone — he builds an ominoussounding bedrock of acoustic guitar, then peppers riffs across the song like stars in a clear sky. Those riffs serve as themes and motifs, wordless character development for whatever film (or morphine dream) the music calls forth in the listener’s head.

Mullins’ guitar tone is a thing of wonder. To properly play surf guitar, one must twang. But, too often, guitarists think this means jacking up the treble knob or, worse yet, pushing the gain.

Mullins has a depth to his tone that comes more from his hands than any pedal, and the way he injects tonal character in his playing makes it easy to ignore the lack of a human voice on the record. The melodies he lays down on “Shadowcaster” and “Bikini Island” could be lost themes from some previously undiscovered spy show from the ’70s.

Pharaoh’s Camaro continues an unbroken run of excellent releases from Mullins. It can be too easy to take for granted a musician of his skill and consistency. But this LP serves as a reminder of how lucky we are to have an auteur like Mullins plying his trade in Burlington.

Give Pharaoh’s Camaro a listen at barbacoa.bandcamp.com.

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There’s something to be said for doing things the old-fashioned way. Though it’s more common in 2021 for local artists to send along their work digitally, Seven Days still gets a fair number of physical CD submissions. And sometimes these are accompanied by a handwritten greeting card with an adorable art print on the front, such as the one Karen McFeeters sent along with her latest album, Bonfire.

Though Milton singer-songwriter also sent her album digitally, I nevertheless found myself peeling open the shrinkwrapped jewel case and popping the disc into my portable CD player like it was 1997. It was a tactile experience I hadn’t thought much about in years. But there’s nothing quite like the act of pressing down on the spring-loaded center-hole

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Last summer, thanks to an amateur assassin/really bad driver, I discovered the joy that is a morphine dream. For a few days of recovery following an accident, my circadian rhythms took me on some very strange trips. One dream stands out: I was driving my first car — a Peugeot station wagon, baby — with an ex-girlfriend and a random cat named Corporal Peepers. A massive Technicolor wave was cresting behind us as we sped away. I can still see with vivid clarity the foam and pulsing colors of the water getting closer.

Within minutes of hitting “play” on Barbacoa’s latest LP, Pharaoh’s Camaro, I was right back in the dream. The washed-out sounds of postapocalyptic surfing hit me, and it was as if someone had pulled an Inception on me, laying down a killer soundtrack to my dream while they were at it.

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ur streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through.

The pandemic turned the film world topsy-turvy. When a star-studded movie that was scheduled for a major 2020 release ends up being dumped on a streaming platform with little fanfare, is that hard luck? Or poetic justice? I investigated the case of The Woman in the Window, directed

by Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice, Atonement) and based on the best-selling novel

by A.J. Finn. You can stream it on Netflix.

The deal

Anna Fox (Amy Adams) is a child psychologist confined to her home by agoraphobia. Luckily for her, that home is an enormous, ravishing Manhattan brownstone that she can somehow afford despite spending her days drinking, watching old movies and having awkward phone conversations with her estranged husband and daughter.

Another of Anna’s pastimes is spying on her new neighbors, the Russells, who just bought a $5.5 million home but apparently never thought to invest in curtains. Teenage son Ethan (Fred Hechinger) comes to say hello, and Anna finds herself warming up to him and his brittle, intense mom, Jane (Julianne Moore).

Next thing she knows, she’s watching through her window as Jane is stabbed by an unseen assailant. But when Anna tries to report the crime, she gets bemused stares. Jane Russell, it seems, is alive and well, only now she’s Jennifer Jason Leigh.

WINDOW PAIN Adams plays a shut-in tormented by the inability to convince anyone she saw a murder next door.

Is a conspiracy afoot, or has isolation made Anna come unhinged?

Will you like it?

Story-wise, The Woman in the Window is the most cynical of commercial concoctions — basically The Girl on the Train with a Rear Window twist. If the novel had any psychological complexity or plausibility, few traces are discernible in this adaptation, which dials everything up to 11. Anna makes unaccountable decisions throughout, while the three main male characters — Ethan, his dad (Gary Oldman) and Anna’s basement tenant (Wyatt Russell) — act so cagey and sinister all the time that they might as well have “Suspect Me” tattooed on their foreheads.

The dialogue, by playwright Tracy Letts (who also plays Anna’s own shrink), is weirdly arch. The only scene in which any of these characters calm down and act like human beings is the single one that Adams and Moore share. Lit like Kim Novak in Vertigo, Moore gives it all she’s got, but it’s over too soon. Add to this a painfully formulaic ending and some dropped threads — perhaps due to reshoots — and it’s easy to see why the movie is getting panned.

And yet, and yet — nobody could ever mistake The Woman in the Window for a Lifetime thriller. Armed with the cinematography of Bruno Delbonnel (a Coen brothers collaborator) and the music of Danny Elfman, Wright has not shied away from the material’s obviously Hitchcockian elements or tried to make the concept his “own.” He’s

REVIEW made a full-on pastiche that crosses the line from homage into high camp.

Dutch angles. Overwrought musical cues. Strategic use of light and shadow and patches of saturated color. Frequently seen with a blanket or bathrobe clutched around her and a noir film playing over her shoulder, Anna seems to float on a tide

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of liquor and unease. If this film were set in 2020, she’d fit right in. When circumstances force her to leave her home, she grabs an umbrella to shield herself from the outside world; it opens with the snick of a knife being unsheathed.

With effects like that, Wright puts the viewer inside Anna’s unsettled mind. For

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Instead we bring you... her part, Adams does her damnedest to make the character operatically compelling: One second she’s cringing; the next, raging. She’s not afraid to be messy and unglamorous and even dislikable, and it all might work if only there were more to Anna. But the dark secret behind her current condition is so obvious that viewers could script the reveal long before it arrives.

Would a movie like this seem more impressive on the big screen, where we could better savor its delirious visuals and stylized performances? Maybe. On Netflix, which churns out psychological thrillers by the truckload, it’s easier for something like The Woman in the Window to get lost in the shuffle. It’s worth a look for its aesthetics, but this Window has nothing new to reveal.

If you like this, try...

• Rear Window (1954; Kanopy, Shudder,

rentable): If you haven’t seen Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly in this classic, what are you waiting for? You may be able to watch it free with your public library card.

• Body Double (1984; rentable): Hitchcock pastiche isn’t exactly new — back in the ’80s, Brian De Palma built a career on it. In this movie, the director mashed up Vertigo with Rear Window in a memorably sleazy setting: the LA porn industry.

• “Bates Motel” (2013-17; Peacock, rentable): Adams makes a nice diva for a Hitchcock pastiche, but I’d rather watch Vera Farmiga go way over the top playing Norman Bates’ mom in this A&E series. If you can get past the concept of a Psycho prequel with teens, it’s actually pretty good!

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Stoney Hill Business Park Infrastructure Project will be received by The Town of Bristol at: 1 South Street, Bristol, VT 05443 (Town Offices) until 11:00 am (prevailing local time) on Thursday, June 24, 2021, and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud.

Each BID must be accompanied by a certified check payable to the OWNER for five percent (5%) of the total amount of the BID. A BID bond may be used in lieu of a certified check.

The CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be examined at the following locations: Green Mountain Engineering, Inc., 1438 South Brownell Road, Williston, VT 05495 Town of Bristol, Town Offices, 1 South Street, Bristol, VT 05443 Works in Progress, 20 Farrell Street, Suite 103, South Burlington, VT 05403 Copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be obtained at the office of Green Mountain Engineering, Inc., located at 1438 South Brownell Road, Williston, VT 05495 upon a non-refundable payment of $120.00 for each set.

A Performance BOND and a Payment BOND each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price, will be required.

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A pre-bid conference for prospective bidders will be held at the Fire Station Building, located at: 79 West Street (Firehouse Drive) in Bristol, at 9:00 a.m. on June 11, 2021.

Representatives of Green Mountain Engineering and the Town of Bristol will be present to answer questions from bidders and discuss participation requirements.

BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 2021, 5:00 PM PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE REMOTE MEETING Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85976499785 ?pwd=WVpxRlZLclpWMWQwTVZLM01DU3gxUT09 Password: 494251 Telephone: +1 312 626 6799 or +1 929 205 6099 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 253 215 8782 1. 21-0909CA; 81 Dunder Road (RL-W, Ward 5S) Jonathan Heller Creation of accessory dwelling unit to be used as a bed and breakfast use - amending ZP18-0682CU. 2. 21-0785CA/CU; 57 South Williams Street (RH, Ward 1E) Chabad of Vermont Change of use from dormitory rooms to an elementary school.

3. 21-0922LL; 68-70 Conger Ave (RL-W, Ward 5S) Michele Bushey Appeal of lot line adjustment with 78-80 Harrison Ave.

5. 21-0409CA/MA; 362 Riverside Ave (NAC-RC, Ward 1E) Douglas G. Boyden 64-unit Senior Housing development and related site work. Lot line merger included.

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requirements apply to this Contract. Potential Bidders shall reach out to the DBE firms via email and to keep a written record of the outreach and any responses received from the DBE firms. Once bids are opened, the lowest responsive bidder shall provide proof of their good faith effort in contacting the DBEs within five (5) days of bid opening.

4. 21-0923LL; 78-80 Harrison Ave (RL-W, Ward 5S) Michele Bushey Appeal of lot line adjustment with 68-70 Conger Ave.

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North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Audio equipment: speakers, mics, soundboards, stands. AV equipment: lights (cans & LEDs), boards, screens, poles, stands. Many rolling mirrors & other mirrors for dance studios.

Computers, pizza oven, office furniture, files, bins, rolling stacks, chairs, tables, platforms, 32’ x 24’ modular stage, kitchen stuff & more. Cash or card via Paypal. Email david@vpal-us.org, or call 802-863-6713 for more information.

WILLISTON YARD SALE Top-of-the-line freezer & storage containers.

Canning jars, quilt books, cookbooks & misc. items. 3068 Oak Hill Rd., Williston. May 29-30, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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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.

BURLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE: HOME STUDY AND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL PARENTS/GUARDIANS The Burlington School District is inviting all parents/guardians of homeschooled students with special education needs to a virtual meeting on June 2nd at 1:00pm to discuss Proportionate Share Funds. These funds are awarded to those homeschooled students who qualify for special education services. At this meeting we will discuss: Child Find (evaluation of children to determine special education eligibility), determination of proportionate share funds, consultation process, provision of special education and related-services,

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Appendix C Rules andUntitled-25 Regulations 1 of the Traffic Commission

It is hereby Ordained by the Public Works Commission of the City of Burlington as follows:

If you are interested in attending this meeting, please contact Diana Langston at dlangsto@bsdvt. org for the meeting link.

Section 2 Traffic-control light locations

That Chapter 6, Bicycles, Article I. General Bicycle Regulation, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington is hereby amended as follows:

It is hereby Ordained by the Public Works Commission of the City of Burlington as follows: That Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, Section 2 Traffic-control light locations, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington is hereby amended as follows:

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and provision of a written explanation by the district regarding services.

CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY ONE A REGULATION IN RELATION TO APPENDIX C RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE TRAFFIC COMMISSION SECTION 2 TRAFFIC-CONTROLS LIGHT LOCATIONS Sponsor(s): Department of Public Works Action: _Approved Date: _2/17/2021 Attestation of Adoption: Phillip Peterson EI Associate Engineer, Technical Services Published: 05/26/21 Effective: 06/16/21

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(a) As written. (b) The traffic posts known as silent policemen located at the following intersections shall be continued in use and operation as now placed:

Chapter 6 BICYCLES

(1) South Willard Street and Shelburne Road.

6-1. General Bicycle Regulation. Definitions

CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY ONE: A REGULATION IN RELATION TO BURLINGTON CODE OF ORDINANCES - CHAPTER 6, BICYCLES - ARTICLE 1, IN GENERAL - UPDATING DEFINITIONS AND OPERATION RE MOTOR-ASSISTED BICYCLES Sponsor(s): Department of Public Works Action: Approved Date: 2/17/2021 Attestation of Adoption: Philip Peterson EI Associate Engineer, Technical Services Published: 05/26/2021 Effective: 06/16/21

Article I. IN GENERAL

(a) Bicycle defined. A bicycle shall be defined for the purposes of this section as any non-motorized wheeled vehicle that is propelled manually by pedals. Bicycle: Any pedal-driven device propelled entirely by human power and having two or more wheels.

Motor-assisted bicycle: Any bicycle with fully operable pedals and equipped with a motor that in itself is capable of producing a speed of no more than 30 miles per hour on a paved level surface.

A motor-assisted bicycle is not a motor vehicle or micromobility device and shall obey all traffic regulations applicable to bicycles, except as otherwise provided by law or other ordinances.

Motor-assisted micromobility device: Any

motor-assisted device for personal transportation.

6/6/16 4:30 PM This includes any device with no more than three (3) wheels and a motor that in itself is capable of producing a speed of no more than 25 miles per hour on a paved level surface. Motor-assisted micromobility devices are not motor vehicles and shall obey all traffic regulations applicable to motor-assisted bicycles, except as otherwise provided by law or other ordinances. (b) Obedience to traffic regulations. Every person riding a bicycle upon the streets, alleys and highways within the city shall observe and comply with all signals, signs and ordinances regulating the operation of traffic not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.

Cross reference—Motor Vehicles and Traffic, § 20-1.

6-2. Parental Responsibility. As written.

6-3. Riding on sidewalks, bicycle and pedestrian pathways and in parks. (a)—(e) As written. (f) No person shall operate a motor-assisted bicycle, motor-assisted micromobility device, pedi-cab or pedi-bus upon any sidewalk.

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Legal Notices (g) Persons riding a motor-assisted bicycle, motor-assisted micromobility device, pedi-cab or pedi-bus on a bicycle and pedestrian pathway shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian.

6-4—6-24. As written. * Material stricken out deleted. ** Material underlined added.

CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY ONE: A REGULATION IN RELATION TO BURLINTON CODE OF ORDINANCES— CHAPTER 20, MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC— ARTICLES I, IV— SECTION 201, UPDATING DEFINITIONS— SECTION 20-121, UPDATING TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNALS — ADDITION OF SECTION 20-125, BICYCLE-SPECIFIC TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNALS— ADDITION OF SECTION 20-126, BICYCLE USE OF PEDESTRIAN SIGNALS Sponsor(s): Department of Public Works Action: Approved Date: 2/17/2021 Attestation of Adoption: Phillip Peterson EI Associate Engineer, Technical Services Published: 05/26/21 Effective: 06/16/21 It is hereby Ordained by the Public Works Commission of the City of Burlington as: That Chapter 20, Motor Vehicles and Traffic, Article I. In General, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington is hereby amended as follows: Chapter 20. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC Article I. In General 20-1. Definitions.

Whenever in this chapter the following terms are used, they shall have the following meanings respectively given to them: Assistive Device: A human-powered and motorized wheelchair, personal mobility scooter, or other similar device designed to produce a speed of no more than 20 miles per hour to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capability of an individual with a disability. A user of assistive devices shall be considered a pedestrian and not a vehicle.

Authorized emergency vehicles: Vehicles of the fire and police departments, ambulances, emergency vehicles of federal, state and municipal departments, and public service corporations, when the latter are responding to an emergency in relation to the police or fire department.

Bicycle: Any pedal-driven device propelled entirely by human power and having two or more wheels.

Crosswalk: That portion of the roadway ordinarily included within the prolongation of curb and property lines at street intersections, or that portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines marked on the surface.

Intersection: The area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral boundary lines of two (2) or more streets which join one another at an angle, whether or not one such street crosses the other.

Micromobility device: Human-powered devices for personal transportation, including, but not necessarily limited to, human-powered skateboards and human-powered scooters. A user of a non-motorassisted micromobility device shall be considered a pedestrian and not a vehicle.

Motor-assisted bicycle: Any bicycle with fully operable pedals and equipped with a motor that in itself is capable of producing a speed of no more than 30 miles per hour on a paved level surface.

Motor-assisted micromobility device: Any motor-assisted device for personal transportation.

This includes any device with no more than three (3) wheels and a motor that in itself is capable of producing a speed of no more than 25 miles per hour on a paved level surface. Motor-assisted micromobility devices are not motor vehicles

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and shall obey all traffic regulations applicable to motor-assisted bicycles, except as otherwise provided by law or other ordinances.

lawfully within the intersection, shall not enter or be crossing the intersection when the red or “Stop” signal is exhibited.

Motor vehicle: Every vehicle as herein defined which is self-propelled and requires vehicle registration.

(c) Steady red alone or “Stop”: Vehicular traffic facing the signal, unless entering the intersection to make another movement permitted by another signal indication, shall stop at a clearly marked stop line; but if there is no stop line, traffic shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then before entering the intersection and shall remain standing until green or “Go” is shown alone.

Official traffic signs: All signs, signals and markings placed or erected by authority of the city council, traffic commission or the chief of police for the purpose of regulating or directing traffic or parking of vehicles.

Operator or driver: Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.

Parking: The stopping or standing of a vehicle on a roadway, whether occupied or unoccupied, attended or unattended, other than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers or goods, or in obedience to a police officer or traffic regulations, signs or signals, or while making emergency repairs, or if disabled, while arrangements are being made to move such vehicle.

Pedestrian: Any person on foot, using a personal assistive mobility device, or using a micromobility device.

Roadway: That portion of a street between regularly established curblines, or that part devoted to vehicular traffic.

Sidewalk: That portion of a street between curblines and adjacent property lines.

Street: The entire width between property lines of every way used for vehicular and pedestrian travel which has become public by authority of the law, and such ways in public places other than highways as the public is permitted to use for vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

Vehicle: Any contrivance on wheels or runners used in the roadways of public streets for carrying persons or things.

Cross reference—Bicycles, Definitions, § 6-1.

20-2—20-22. As written.

Articles II—III. As written.

Article IV. Traffic-Control Devices 20-120 Obedience required. As written.

20-121 Traffic-Control Signals Generally.

Whenever traffic is controlled by a traffic-control signal exhibiting the words “Go,” “Caution” or “Stop” or exhibiting different colored lights successively one at a time, or with arrows, the following colors only shall be used and the terms and light shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles, except when otherwise directed by a police officer, and subject to the right-of-way of emergency vehicles, as follows: (a) Green alone or “Go”: Vehicular traffic facing the signal may proceed straight through or turn right or left unless a lane-use-sign, turn prohibition sign, lane marking, roadway design, separate turn signal indications, or other traffic control device at that place prohibits such movement(either turn). But vehicular traffic, including vehicles turning right or left, shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within an associated crosswalk and to other vehicles lawfully within the intersection when the signal is exhibited. In addition, vehicular traffic turning left shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles approaching from the opposite direction so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time when such turning vehicle is moving across or within the intersection. (b) Steady yellow alone: Vehicular traffic facing the signal is thereby warned that the related green movement or the related flashing arrow movement is being terminated or that a steady red or “Stop” signal will be exhibited immediately thereafter and the vehicular traffic, except such vehicles

(d) Steady red with green arrow: Vehicular traffic facing the signal may cautiously enter the intersection only to make the movement indicated by the arrow and shall yield to other traffic lawfully using the intersection.

(Rev. Ords. 1962, § 5201) (e) Turn on red after stop: Except when a traffic control device is in place prohibiting a turn on red or a steady red arrow signal indication is displayed, When a sign is in place permitting a turn vehicular traffic facing a steady red signal may cautiously enter the intersection to make the turn indicated by such sign after stopping as required by subsection (c). Such vehicular traffic shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within the adjacent crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the intersection. The right to proceed with the turn shall be subject to the rules applicable after making a stop at a STOP sign.

20-122—20-124. As written.

20-125—20-134 Reserved.

20-125. Bicycle-Specific Traffic-Control Signals.

For the purposes of this Article, the term “Bicycle” shall refer to and include bicycles, motor-assisted bicycles, and motor-assisted micromobility devices. (a) Notwithstanding Section 20-121, wherever there exists a bicycle traffic-control signal, persons riding a bicycle shall obey the instructions of any official bicycle traffic-control device, instead of traffic-control device for vehicles. (b) Bicycle-Specific Traffic-Control Signals Legend. Whenever bicycle traffic is controlled by bicycle traffic control signals exhibiting different colored bicycle symbols successively, or with arrows, the following colors and signals shall be used and shall indicate and apply to persons riding bicycles, except when otherwise directed by a police officer, and subject to the right-of-way of emergency vehicles, as follows: (1) Green bicycle signal: Persons riding bicycles facing this signal may proceed straight through or turn right or left unless a sign at that place prohibits either turn, provided that the bicyclists are not in conflict with any simultaneous motor vehicle movements at the signalized location, and further provided that the bicycle movement is not modified by lane-use signs, turn prohibition signs, pavement markings, separate turn signal indications, or other traffic control devices. But persons riding bicycles, including persons riding bicycles turning right or left, shall yield the right-of-way to other persons riding bicycles and pedestrians lawfully within the intersection when the signal is exhibited.

(2) Yellow bicycle signal: A steady yellow bicycle signal indication shall be displayed following a green bicycle signal indication or a green arrow in the same signal face. Persons riding bicycles facing this signal are thereby warned that the red signal will be exhibited immediately thereafter and bicycle traffic and shall not enter or be crossing the intersection when the red or “Stop” signal is exhibited, unless stopping before entering the intersection may not be made in safety. The yellow bicycle indication shall be followed by a red bicycle signal indication.

(3) Red bicycle signal: Persons riding bicycles facing the signal shall come to a complete stop

before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then before entering the intersection and shall remain standing until green bike signal is shown.

(4) Right turn after stopping for red bicycle signal: Persons riding bicycles facing a steady red bike signal, unless otherwise indicated by official signage, may, after coming to a complete stop as required by subsection (b)(3), cautiously enter the intersection to make an indicated right turn. Such persons riding bicycles shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within the adjacent crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the intersection. Turning after stopping is permitted as stated, except that bicyclists positioned to the left of adjacent motor vehicle traffic on the same approach shall be prohibited from turning right on red, and bicyclists positioned to the right of adjacent motor vehicle traffic on the same approach shall be prohibited from turning left on red.

20-126. Bicycle Use of Pedestrian-Control Signals.

Notwithstanding Section 20-121, and where there are no bicycle traffic-control signals, persons riding a bicycle may utilize pedestrian-control signals instead of vehicular traffic control signals as follows: (a) Persons riding a bicycle facing a “steady red alone” or “Stop” signal shall come to a complete stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then before entering the intersection, and shall remain stopped until either a “Walk” pedestrian-control signal or a “green alone,” “green arrow,” or “Go” traffic signal. (b) Persons riding a bicycle proceeding through an intersection as described in subsection (a) shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian lawfully within the adjacent crosswalk. (c) This Section 20-126 shall apply to all intersections unless otherwise enumerated in Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, Section 31, Intersections Restricting Bicycle Use of Pedestrian-Control Signals.

20-127—20-134 Reserved.

Articles V—VI. As written. * Material stricken out deleted. ** Material underlined added.

CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE: AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO CHAPTER 18 HOUSING - CHANGE RE ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND WEATHERIZATION IN RENTAL HOUSING ORDINANCE 5.07 Sponsor: Ordinance Committee, Department of Permitting and Inspections Public Hearing Dates: First reading: 03/08/21 Referred to: Ordinance Committee Rules suspended and placed in all stages of passage: Second reading: 5/10/21 Action: adopted Date: 05/10/21 Signed by Mayor: 05/20/21 Published: 05/26/21 Effective: 06/16/21 It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows: That Chapter 18, Housing, Article I, In General, Article III, Minimum Standards, and Article VII. Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards Ordinance, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended to read as follows: Chapter 18. Housing ARTICLE I. IN GENERAL 18-1. As Written.

18-2. Definitions.

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*** Heated space shall mean any living space within the exterior boundaries defining the building into which heat is intentionally introduced during the heating season. *** Program administrator shall mean the Director of Permitting and Inspection or their designee. *** Roof shall mean the surface on the top of a building which separates the building from the outdoors. *** 18-3–18-14.

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ARTICLE II. ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT 18-15–18-69.

As Written.

ARTICLE III. MINIMUM STANDARDS1 18-70 As Written.

18-71 Foundation, exterior walls and roofs. (a) – (c) As Written. (d) – Cross reference Section 18-131.

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18-73 Windows and exterior doors. (a) – (e) As Written. (f) – Cross reference Section 18-131.

18-74 – 18-85

As Written.

18-86 Heating. (a) – (c) As Written. (d) – Cross reference Section 18-131.

18-87 – 18-120

As Written.

18-121–18-199 Reserved.

18-121 – 18-129 Reserved.

DIVISION 6. MINIMUM ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS 18-130 Applicability of minimum energy efficiency standards. (a) Applicability. This Division shall apply to residential rental properties that on an annual basis use 90,000 British thermal units (BTUs) or more per conditioned square foot for space heating purposes, according to the following schedule: (1) Applicable to residential rental properties that on an annual basis use 90,000 BTUs or more per conditioned square foot for space heating purposes as of January 1, 2022. (b) Exceptions. This Division shall apply to rental properties described in Section 18-130(a), but excluding: (1) Rental properties that on an annual basis use less than 90,000 British thermal units (BTUs) per conditioned square foot for space heating purposes; (2) In mixed commercial/residential rental buildings this article shall apply only to the residential rental portion of the building;

(3) Seasonal rental properties not rented between November 1 and March 31 of each year; (4) Rental properties that have previously and successfully participated in any weatherization incentive programs provided by local utility, state, or federal entities, as approved by the program administrator within the last ten (10) years; and (5) Rental properties which have the necessary valid permits to be demolished or converted to a nonresidential use. (c) Temporary Waivers. The program administrator may grant a temporary waiver for requirements under this Division for up to one (1) year if: 1) the owner of a rental property cannot obtain financing for energy improvements required under this article and can document that good faith efforts to obtain financing from three different financial institutions have been unsuccessful; 2) the owner of a rental property cannot obtain a Professional Building Weatherization Contractor to perform the work required under this article and can document good faith attempts to procure such Contractor; or 3) if the owner of a rental property can document that the owner is registered to receive financial support for weatherization through a utility incentive program or low income weatherization program.

administrator shall maintain a record of the Consumer Price Indices used and shall provide public notice of this adjustment prior to the first day of December previous to the applicable January 1 and by posting a written notice of the adjusted cap in a prominent place in the office of the Burlington Electric Department, a prominent place in City Hall, and a prominent place in the office of the Department of Permitting and Inspections. (d) Extensions. If the initial work meets the Cost Cap in Section 18-131(b) and the rental property still does not meet the minimum energy efficiency standards described in Section 18-132 or the rental property does not use less than 50,000 British thermal units (BTUs) per conditioned square foot for space heating purposes annually, the owner of a rental property may be granted an extension by the program administrator for up to three (3) years to meet the energy efficiency standards required in Section 18-132 if the owner of a rental property demonstrates that compliance under this Division creates an undue burden on the owner or current tenant. However, the property must be in compliance with standards by the expiration of the extension, regardless of the cost to achieve those standards.

18-132 Minimum energy efficiency standards.

18-131 Work related to meeting minimum energy efficiency standards.

Residential rental properties subject to Section 18-130, shall meet the following minimum energy efficiency standards:

(a) Professional Building Weatherization Contractor Required. Work required to comply with this Division shall be conducted by a professional building weatherization contractor–that is, a contractor that normally provides air sealing and insulation services.

(a) Insulation of exterior walls. All exterior walls enclosing an empty cavity that could be insulated, shall be filled with insulation per current Burlington Energy Efficiency Utility (EEU) and Vermont’s Weatherization Assistance Program recommended technical upgrade specifications.

(b) Cost Cap. The total costs for initial work related to meeting minimum energy efficiency standards described in Section 18-132 are not required to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per rental unit (a “Cost Cap”). The total costs shall exclude amounts of any weatherization program incentives provided by local utility, state, or federal entities and approved by the program administrator and must be incurred by the rental property owner.

(b) Insulation of open attics/ceilings/roofs:

This two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) Cost Cap shall be annually adjusted by the program administrator equivalent to 100% of the annual change in the Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the Northeast Region, to go into effect January 1 of every ensuing year. In no event shall the Cost Cap be less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500). The program

1. Insulation of open attics (an attic which is unfloored), insulation shall be added per current Burlington Energy Efficiency Utility (EEU) and Vermont’s Weatherization Assistance Program recommended technical upgrade specifications.

2. The empty space under the flooring of an unheated floored attic shall be filled with insulation per current Burlington Energy Efficiency Utility (EEU) and Vermont’s Weatherization Assistance Program recommended technical upgrade specifications.

3. Horizontal attic access panels shall be insulated per current Burlington Energy Efficiency Utility (EEU) and Vermont’s Weatherization

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4. Vertical attic access panels shall be insulated per current Burlington Energy Efficiency Utility (EEU) and Vermont’s Weatherization Assistance Program recommended technical upgrade specifications.

5. “Sloped roof cavities” (including “cathedral” ceilings) and knee walls shall be treated as exterior walls (see subsection (1) above). (c) Insulation of other areas: 1. Box sills shall be insulated on either the inside or the outside of the band joist per current Burlington Energy Efficiency Utility (EEU) and Vermont’s Weatherization Assistance Program recommended technical upgrade specifications.

2. Floors over basements, crawl spaces, outdoor spaces or spaces typically approximating outdoor temperatures during the heating season, shall be insulated per current Burlington Energy Efficiency Utility (EEU) and Vermont’s Weatherization Assistance Program recommended technical upgrade specifications.

3. Electric water heaters shall be insulated per current Burlington Energy Efficiency Utility (EEU) and Vermont’s Weatherization Assistance Program recommended technical upgrade specifications. (d) Heating/cooling ducts and piping and domestic hot water piping: 1. All accessible space heating/cooling ducts in basements or crawl spaces with insulated ceilings, or in attics, shall be air sealed and insulated per current Burlington Energy Efficiency Utility (EEU) and Vermont’s Weatherization Assistance Program recommended technical upgrade specifications.

2. All accessible space heating/cooling piping in basements or crawl spaces with insulated ceilings, or in attics, shall be insulated per current Burlington Energy Efficiency Utility (EEU) and Vermont’s Weatherization Assistance Program recommended technical upgrade specifications.

3. All accessible domestic hot water piping which is part of a pumped circulating loop in basements or crawl spaces with insulated ceilings, or in attics, shall be insulated per current Burlington Energy Efficiency Utility (EEU) and Vermont’s Weatherization Assistance Program recommended technical upgrade specifications.

4. All accessible domestic water piping (both hot and cold) within close distance from the tank shall be insulated per current Burlington Energy Efficiency Utility (EEU) and Vermont’s Weatherization Assistance Program recommended technical upgrade specifications.

5. Operation of the heating or cooling air distribution system shall not induce a pressure differential between the conditioned space and the outdoors, as measured after any other energy improvements are completed per current Burlington Energy Efficiency Utility (EEU) and Vermont’s Weatherization Assistance Program recommended technical upgrade specifications (e) Windows and doors: 1. All windows in exterior walls shall be doubleglazed or provided with storm windows during the heating season.

2. All operable windows in exterior walls shall have functioning latches which close windows tightly.

3. All doors and access hatches opening to the outdoors, or to spaces which typically approximate outdoor temperatures during the heating season, shall have functioning weatherstripping and latches which close doors tightly. (f) Air leakage reduction: 1. Air leakage rate reduction work shall follow the current Burlington Energy Efficiency Utility (EEU)

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2. In general, rental properties shall have an air leakage rate no greater than one thousand five hundred (1,500) cubic feet per minute at a pressure differential of fifty (50) pascals as tested with calibrated pressurization (or depressurization) air flow measurement equipment; or

NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE LIEN SALE BURLINGTON SELF STORAGE, LLC 1825 SHELBURNE ROAD SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT 05403 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid.

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Said sales will take place on 06/04/21, beginning at 11:00am at Burlington Self Storage (BSS), 1825 Shelburne Road, South Burlington, VT 05403.

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1. All fuel burning heating systems shall be biennially inspected and serviced by a certified technician certifying that the system is functioning and operating in a safe manner in compliance with the standards of this section, with proof of inspection stated on a tag issued by the Department of Permitting and Inspections and placed in a conspicuous place as defined by the Department of Permitting and Inspections.

Units will be opened for viewing immediately prior to auction. Sale shall be by sealed bid to the highest bidder. Contents of entire storage unit will be sold as one lot. The winning bid must remove all contents from the facility at no cost to BSS, on the day of auction. BSS, reserves the right to reject any bid lower that the amount owed by the occupant or that is not commercially reasonable as defined by statute.

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3. A projected natural air leakage rate which is no greater than six-tenths (.6) average annual air changes per hour as calculated by accepted professional practice approved by the program administrator.

2. All components of a heating system including any pumps, motors, and controls shall be in good operating condition.

3. The heating system shall be adequate to heat all living spaces as required and defined by the City of Burlington’s minimum housing code.

18-134 – 18-199 Reserved.

ARTICLE IV. HOUSING DISCRIMINATION 18-200 – 18-104

As Written.

ARTICLE V. REGULATION OF CONVERSION OF RENTAL HOUSING TO CONDOMINIUMS OR COOPERATIVES 18-300 – 18-399

As Written.

ARTICLE VI. HOUSING TRUST FUND 18-400 – 18-499 As Written.

ARTICLE VII. MINIMUM ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS ORDINANCE 18-500 – 18-511. As written.

18-512

Repeal of Article VII.

Article VII is repealed as of December 31, 2021. * Material stricken out deleted. ** Material underlined added.

LAMOILLE NORTH SUPERVISORY UNION The Board of School Directors of the Lamoille North Modified Unified Union School District invites sealed requests for proposals for the service of providing Contacted Transportation Services for the towns of Belvidere, Cambridge, Eden, Hyde Park, Johnson, and Waterville. This proposal will be for a three-year contract with the District.

For more information and to receive a full copy of the proposal request, please email sjourdan@lnsd. org, or call (802) 851-1160.

Lamoille North Supervisory Union is an Equal Opportunity Employer

NOTICE OF LEGAL SALE View Date: 06/03/2021 Sale Date: 06/04/2021 Darlene Girouard Unit #009 Easy Self Storage 46 Swift St South Burlington VT 05403 802-863-8300

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STATE OF VERMONT PROBATE UNIT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DISTRICT OF CHITTENDEN DOCKET # 21-PR-02693 IN RE THE ESTATE OF: Laura Jean Smith LATE OF _Milton, VT ORDER AND NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION To: Ann Fielder, niece of Laura Jean Smith, late of 149 Pecor Ave, Milton, VT: WHEREAS a Petition to Open Testate Estate has been filed in the Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Probate Unit, alleging that Laura Jean Smith, late of Milton, VT, left an Instrument bearing the date of September 27, 2016 purporting to be her Last Will and Testament, which names Dale Terrier, as Executor and further alleging that the Decedent Icft personal and real estate to be administered.

WHEREAS, the Chittenden Probate Unit Court has assigned the 20th day of July 2021 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m., to hear and decide upon the Petition, and has ordered that Notice be given to you by publishing this notice in Seven Days, a newspaper circulating in the Burlington, VT, area.

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o whether a participant is incarcerated o whether the hearing will involve documents and cross examination o whether all parties agree concerning your objection o whether the remote hearing will unreasonably harm your case.

If you have been granted permission to attend Court in person, you must: • Arrive early to pass a health screening before entering the courthouse; • Wear a mask that covers your mouth and nose at all times, (if you do not have a mask, one will be provided); • Stay at least six feet away from other people; and • Follow any other health and safety rules of the court.

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Filing of exhibits or evidence (or other): You must send or bring a copy to the court and send a copy to all the other parties in the case, any proposed exhibits or evidence at least 5 business days before the date of your hearing or case manager conference. All non-document exhibits, or evidence must be hand delivered.

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• You should be on time and be respectful just as if you were in the courtroom • Have a clear connection and be in a quiet location • You must not interrupt others speaking unless you cannot hear or have legal objection. If you simply disagree with what is being said, make a note to bring up your disagreement when it is your turn.

• You must call back immediately if you are disconnected, if you do not call back the Court may dismiss your motion or issue an order without you • You must call in on a separate line from any other participant and you must not use a speaker phone

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 21-PR-00182 In re ESTATE of Hilda L. Howard

Service by publication to be complete at least 21 days prior to the date set for hearing.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THEREFORE, you are hereby notified to appear before said Court, located at 175 Main Street in Burlington, Vermont, at the time and place assigned, to make objections, if you have cause. If you do not appear or do not file your objections, the Court will allow the Petition, allow the Last Will and Testament, and appoint Dale Terrier, as Executor.

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To the creditors of: Hilda L. Howard late of Westford.

This is the first action in this proceeding. If you wish to receive notice of future events in this matter, you must formally enter your appearance with the Court. Per VRRP 80.3(b), an interested party must file an objection within 14 days of publication, otherwise, the will offered for admission shall be approved by the court without further notice or hearing.

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Dated May 19, 2021.

Electronically signed pursuant to V.R.E.F. 9(d) 05/19/2021 10:27:14 AM Chittenden Probate Unit Judge Name of Newspaper: Seven Days Publication date: Instructions for Remote WebEx Hearing or Case Manager Conference Your upcoming hearing or case manager conference is being held remotely using the WebEx program. No one will be permitted to participate in person except with specific permission of the Court. (See details below)

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Any parties or lawyers who object to the remote hearing or are unable to participate: At least (3) business days before the date of the hearing or case manager conference, you must send or bring a written motion or request to the court that includes a brief explanation for your request.

You must send a copy to other parties as soon as possible and you may email the Court’s copy to: JUD.ChittendenUnit@vermont.gov .The court will consider your request and decide how to proceed.

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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.

Dated: May 19, 2021 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Peter B. Schubart, Esq. Executor/Adminstrator: Peter B. Schubart, Esq. 333 Dorset Street South Burlington, VT 05403 802-859-0059 peter@schubartlaw.com Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 05/26/21 Name of Probate Court: Chittenden Probate Court Address of Probate Court: P.O. Box 511., Burlington, VT 05402 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION WASHINGTON UNIT DOCKET NO. 21-PR-01730 In re ESTATE of: DONALD W. JOSLYN

Late of WAITSFIELD, VERMONT ORDER AND NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION TO RICHMOND KELLY BURBANK, as Interested Person: WHEREAS, the following petition has been made to the Superior Court, Probate Division, Washington Unit: Petition to Open Decedent’s Estate in re: Estate of Donald W. Joslyn, late of Waitsfield, Vermont, under a Last Will and Testament dated December 3, 2018, which petition requests that the Will be allowed and that Charley L. Burbank, Jr. by appointed as executor as named in the Will; and WHEREAS, the Court has assigned the 18th day of June, 2021, at the Superior Court, Probate Division, Washington Unit, 65 State Street, in Montpelier, Vermont, at 10:00 o’clock AM, to hear and decide upon said petition, and ordered that notice thereof be given by publishing this notice in SEVEN DAYS , a newspaper circulating in Chittenden County.

Service by publication to be complete at least 14 days prior to the day assigned for hearing; THEREFORE, you are hereby notified to appear before said Court, at the time and place assigned, to make objections, if you have cause. This is the first action in this proceeding. If you wish to receive notice of future events in this matter you must formally enter your appearance with the court.

Dated this day of 14th day of May 2021. /s/ Jeffrey Kilgore Judge Publication Date: 5/26/21 To obtain copies of the Petition and Will please contact the attorney for the executor, Jennifer Faillace, Esq. of Getzinger & Faillace, PLLC at (802) 496-6763 or faillace@gmavt.net.

VILLAGE OF ESSEX JUNCTION PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC MEETING JUNE 3, 2021 6:00 P.M. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this meeting will be held remotely.

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Work Session for updates to the Village of Essex Junction Land Development Code.

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WESTFORD SELECTBOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Westford Selectboard hereby provides notice of a public hearing being held pursuant to Title 24, Section 4441 of the Vermont State Statues for the purpose of hearing public comments concerning: Proposed amendments to the Westford Land Use & Development Regulations.

The public hearing has been scheduled for: Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. and will be held via Zoom.

To join the Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84946602409?pwd=Y k15c0hIcnRhWUIxTGMrK0RyQ0NuUT09 Or dial: +1 646 558 8656 Meeting ID: 849 4660 2409 Passcode: 429430 Purpose: The Selectboard is proposing to amend

the Westford Land Use & Development Regulations for the following purposes: 1. To correct and clarify certain spelling, grammatical, punctuation and reference errors that appeared in the regulations; 2. To revise and refine the regulations based on feedback from the Development Review Board, Administrative Officer, Town Attorney and members of the public.

Geographic Area Affected: Entire Town.

Table of Contents & Summary of Changes to the Westford Land Use & Development Regulations: Part 1. General; Chapter 100. Legal Framework; Section 101. Enactment and Authority – Corrects reference; Section 102. Purpose; Section 103.

Applicability; Section 104. Effective Date; Section 105. Amendment; Section 106. Severability; Chapter 110. Exemptions & Limitations; Section 111. General Exemptions – Corrects use references ; Section112. Agriculture & Silviculture; Section 113. Utility, Energy and Telecommunications Infrastructure; Section 114. Public Facilities; Section 115. Group Home; Chapter 120. Vested Rights & Existing Conditions; Section 121.

Prior Permits or Approvals; Section 122.

Filed Applications; Section 123. Pre-Existing Uses; Section 124. Existing Lots; Section 125.

Nonconformities – Allows for limited expansion of non-conforming uses; Section 126. Abandonment and Discontinuance of Non-Residential Use; Section 127. Incomplete Development; Section 128.

Damaged or Destroyed Structures; Section 129.

Demolition; Part 2. Zoning Districts & Standards; Chapter 200. General Provisions; Section 201.

Establishment of Zoning Districts; Section 202.

Description of District Boundaries – Amends wetland buffer in Town Center Area; Section 203.

Interpretation of District Boundaries; Section 204. Principal Uses or Structures on a Lot – Omits use & adds shared drive requirement; Section 205. Lots in More than One District; Chapter 210. Common (C) District; Section 211.

Purpose; Section 212. Dimensional Standards; Section 213. Use Standards – Omits unit & adds accessory structure; Section 214. Planning and Design Standards; Chapter 220. Village (V) District; Section 221. Purpose; Section 222. Dimensional Standards; Section 223. Use Standards – Omits unit & adds accessory structure; Section 224.

Planning and Design Standards; Chapter 230.

Rural 3 (R3) District; Section 231. Purpose; Section 232. Dimensional Standards; Section 233. Use Standards– Omits unit & adds accessory structure; Section 234. Planning and Design Standards; Chapter 240. Rural 5 (R5) District; Section 241.

Purpose; Section 242. Dimensional Standards; Section 243. Use Standards – Omits unit & adds accessory structure & campground; Section 244.

Planning and Design Standards – Amends point system; Chapter 250. Rural 10 (R10) District; Section 251. Purpose; Section 252. Dimensional Standards; Section 253. Use Standards; Section 254. Planning and Design Standards - Section 243. Use Standards – Omits unit & adds accessory structure & campground; Chapter 260. Form-Based Code (FBC) Overlay District; Section 261. Purpose; Section 262.

Applicability; Section 263. Planning and Design Standards – Clarifications, corrections, adds waivers for restoration, renovation or replication of historic structures, amends T4 front setback; Chapter 270. Water Resources (WRO) Overlay District; Section 271. Purpose; Section 272.

Application; Section 273. Permitted Uses; Section 274. Conditional Uses; Section 275. Planning and Design Standards – Amends underground power standards; Chapter 280. Flood Hazard (FHO) Overlay District; Section 281. Purpose; Section 282.

Compliance with State and Federal Law; Section 283. Exempt Uses; Section 284. Prohibited Uses; Section 285. General Permit - Correction; Section 286. Permitted Uses; Section 287. Conditional Uses; Section 288. Planning and Development Standards; Section 289. Administrative Procedures; Section 2810. Definitions; Part 3.

Development Standards; Chapter 300. Standards for Specific Uses; Section 301. Home Occupation; Section 302. Accessory Dwelling Units - Amends

accessory dwelling calculation; Section 303.

Adaptive Re-Use of Historic Barns - Allows restaurants & taverns in R10; Section 304. Agricultural Enterprises; Section 305. Auto-Oriented Uses; Section 306. Movement of Earthen Material; Section 307. Wireless Telecommunications Facilities; Chapter 310. Subdivision & PUD Standards; Section 311. Basic Subdivision Design; Section 312. Common and Village Subdivision Design; Section 313. Rural Subdivision Design; Section 314. Planned Unit Development (PUD); Section 315. Fire Suppression Water Supply Correction; Section 316. Legal Requirements; Chapter 320. Site Design & Engineering Standards; Section 321. Driveway & Private Road Standards- Clarification, correction & omitted predevelopment inspection requirements; Section 322. Parking and Service Areas- Correction; Section 323. Landscaping and Screening; Section 324. Outdoor Lighting; Section 325. Outdoor Display and Storage; Section 326. Signs; Section 327. Erosion Control and Stormwater Management; Section 328. Water and Wastewater Systems; Section 329. Source Protection Areas; Section 3210. Natural Resource Protection; Chapter 330.

Performance Standards; Section 331. Applicability; Section 332. Sound; Section 333. Vibration; Section 334. Airborne Particulates and Odors; Section 335. Hazards and Hazardous Waste; Part 4. Administrative Procedures; Chapter 400. Authorization; Section 401. Administrative Officer; Section 402. Development Review Board; Section 403. Town Planner – Amend to refer to Town Planner; Section 404. Planning Commission; Section 405. Fees; Section 406. Site Visits and Inspections; Section 407. Surety; Section 408.

As-Built Drawings and Designer Certifications; Section 409. Other Approvals, Permits or Certifications; Chapter 410. Zoning Permit Procedures; Section 411. Zoning Permit Required; Section 412. Applying for a Zoning Permit; Section 413.Reviewing a Zoning Permit Application Correction; Section 414. Acting on a Zoning Permit Application; Section 415. Zoning Permit Effect, Expiration and Extension; Section 416. Inspection During Construction; Section 417. Zoning Permit Revocation; Section 418. Certificate of Occupancy; Section 419. Administrative Amendments; Chapter 420. Development Review Board Procedures; Section 421. Site Plan Review – Correction & adds accessory structures & campgrounds; Section 422.

Conditional Use Review- Correction - Correction; Section 423. Appealing an Action or Decision by the Administrative Officer; Section 424. Waivers and Variances; Section 425. Combined Review; Section 426. Modification of Approved Plans; Chapter 430. Subdivision and PUD Procedures; Section 431. Applicability; Section 432. Boundary Line Adjustment and Lot Merger; Section 433.

Deferred Approval; Section 434. Sketch Plan Review; Section 435. Master Plan Review; Section 436. Preliminary Plan Review - Correction; Section 437. Final Plan Review - Correction; Section 438.

Filing Requirements; Chapter 440. Notice, Hearing & Decision Procedures; Section 441. Warning a Hearing; Section 442. Conducting a Hearing; Section 443. Recessing a Hearing; Section 444.

Development Review Board Decisions; Section 445. Appeal of Development Review Board Decisions; Chapter 450. Enforcement Procedures; Section 451. Type of Ordinance; Section 452. Fines; Section 453. Applicability; Section 454. Action – Clarification & Correction; Part 5. Definitions; Chapter 500. Use of Terms; Section 501.

Interpretation; Chapter 510. Defined Terms - Adds campground & camp site; Part 6. Appendix With Maps – Amends Map 5.

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Location Where Full Text May be examined: Copies of the full text of the proposed amendments to the Westford Land Use & Development Regulations are available at the Westford Town Office, 1713 VT Route 128, Westford, Vermont or may be viewed on the Town of Westford website at https:// westfordvt.us/documents/planning-zoning/ Dated at Westford, Vermont this 26 th, day of May, 2021.

William Cleary, Westford Selectboard Chair

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Planning & Zoning Administrator The Town of Waitsfield is looking for an organized, collaborative, and diplomatic candidate to serve as its Planning and Zoning Administrator. The 40-hour per week position offers competitive pay and benefits, a flexible schedule, and a chance to work in one of Vermont’s most vibrant and beautiful communities.

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AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY TEACHING ASSISTANT The Patricia A. Hannaford Regional Technical School District is looking for a student-centered, collaborative automotive program teaching assistant to fill a full-time position for the 2021-2022 school year. The successful candidate will have experience and proven success working with young people in addition to a minimum of two years of experience in general automotive repair. ASE certification (or equivalent) is preferred, but not required.

There are possibilities for training and professional development to advance into a teaching position in the future.

Interested applicants should submit a letter of interest, résumé, three letters of reference, transcripts, and industry certificates via SchoolSpring Job ID #: 3540322,OR email to palexander@pahcc.org.

Or mail to: Hannaford Career Center. Attn: Patrice Alexander 51 Charles Avenue, Middlebury, VT 05753

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www.cvabe.org

Seeking full-time Teacher/Community Coordinators in Waterbury, Bradford and Barre. Candidates must have:  High levels of independence, spirit, drive and capacity for student recruitment, outreach and organizing community involvement to support student success;  Strong familiarity with the service area;  Proven capacity for teaching and guiding basic skills instruction for adults and teens in:  Reading, writing, math, computer and financial literacy;  English Language Learning and U.S. Citizenship prep;  High school diploma and GED credentialing;  Career and college readiness.  Experience with developing personalized education and graduation education plans;  Experience with recruiting and managing volunteers.

Starting salary: $43,000–$45,000 annually based on experience. CVABE pays 100% of individual health, dental and short-term disability insurance, as well as employer 403(b) contributions and six weeks of paid vacation annually.

Please submit cover letter, resume and three references to: Executive Director Central Vermont Adult Basic Education, Inc. 46 Washington Street, Suite 100 Barre, Vermont 05641 info@cvabe.org Positions open until filled.

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CITY ASSESSOR

The Town of Waitsfield is looking for an organized and motivated candidate to serve as its Town Treasurer. The 34-hour per week position offers competitive pay and benefits, a flexible schedule, and a chance to work in one of Vermont’s most vibrant and beautiful communities.

The Town Treasurer is responsible for: keeping all of the Town’s funds, including receipt, investment, and disbursement of funds; keeping a record of taxes voted, billed, and collected; collecting other funds receivable by the Town, and paying orders drawn on Town accounts. The Treasurer additionally serves as the Water Clerk for the Town’s water system.

Looking for positive and progressive team members.

Production lead or assistant & Warehouse manager or assistant Starting at $15/hour and up (based on experience and prior training)

Contact us: A bachelor’s degree in accounting, public administration, or HIRING@ADROPOFJOY.COM similarly applicable discipline is preferred, as well as at least three years’ experience in the area of accounting (in the public or private sector) including experience management payroll, employee benefits, and accounts payable and receivable.

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For a full job description, visit the Town of Waitsfield’s website: waitsfieldvt.us. Questions can be directed to Town Administrator, Annie Decker-Dell’Isola at townadmin@gmavt.net or (802) 496-2218 ext. 5. To apply please submit a cover letter and resume including three professional references via email to townadmin@gmavt.net or mailed to the Town Administrator at 4144 Main Street, Waitsfield, VT 05673.

Applications are due by Friday, June 11th at 5:00pm (ET).

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

For more information and a detailed job description go to our website – barrecity.org/hr.The City of Barre is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).Women, Minorities and Veterans are encouraged to apply. Please submit a City of Barre Application, cover letter and resume to Mrs. Janet Shatney, Director of Planning, City Hall, 6 North Main St, Suite 7, Barre,VT 05641.

Electronic submittals can be sent to ppadirector@barrecity.org.

Hiring for multiple positions

Town Treasurer

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General Job Description: The City Assessor is responsible for the daily operations performed by an Assessor.

The City of Barre’s grand list is very complex, in that we have a TIF (Tax Increment Financing) District; we have few current use valuations, and allow for Tax Stabilization Agreements.

The responsibilities include the valuation of land, residential, commercial, and industrial real estate within the City, as well as maintaining all other components of the grand list including current use valuations and homestead declarations.

This individual will work closely with the Clerk/Bookkeeper who assists in the daily administrative duties who maintains the property record files, name and address changes, and property transfers among other things. The Assessor will complete site inspections, valuations, grievance hearings, and establish the annual grand list. The Assessor will be a part of the team that is overseeing the City-wide Reappraisal that is to be conducted by an outside firm. Other duties as necessary or required by Statute.

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Williston, VT Craft food & beverage producer

5/18/21

Organization Living Well Group is a nonprofit organization operating residential care homes in Burlington and Montpelier, Vermont.

We provide our residents with opportunities to grow, learn, share, and thrive in a safe and respectful environment. We believe in endless possibilities, potential and vitality for our residents. At Living Well Group, we do not see aging as an illness defined by limitations, but instead by potential that can be achieved through love and encouragement. We are currently seeking a Director of Development to join our Executive Team.

This position is based in Vermont, however our executive team is currently working remotely.

Position The Director of Development is a critical member of the Executive Team, reporting to the CEO. This is the person who possesses the talent to describe and illustrate the significance of Living Well Group’s (LWG) vision, mission, programs and outcomes—motivating and inspiring the financial support that allows LWG to exist as an organization, achieve its programmatic goals and ensure its financial sustainability.

The Director of Development creates and implements a comprehensive strategic approach that grows a diverse pipeline of donors. Please see online application link for more details.

Compensation range: 60k-70k, based on prior experience.

Apply online: recruiting.myapps.paychex.com/appone/ MainInfoReq.asp?R_ID=3639701

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Communications Manager Ski Vermont/Vermont Ski Areas Association is seeking a motivated, engaging and organized individual with 2:47 PMexcellent written and verbal communication skills to promote the Ski Vermont brand in collaboration with member areas and our partners.

Responsibilities include creating and executing an annual communications plan to maximize earned media, media/influencer relations, web content and newsletter development, managing DEI initiative and directing social media engagement. Degree in communications and/or related work experience is required.

Experience or familiarization with ski industry, hospitality, travel and journalism preferred.

Video editing, Photoshop and InDesign experience is a plus.

This position is based in Montpelier with some remote work possible; requires some travel and weekend/evening schedule flexibility and minimum of advanced intermediate skiing or snowboarding ability.

Interested candidates can email a letter of interest and resume to info@skivermont.com.

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Senior Administrative Assistant We’re looking for an excellent communicator with a welcoming demeanor, strong organizational skills, and an ability to work collaboratively in a self-managed team. The fast-paced duties handled in this position require flexibility, strong computer skills, solid decision-making abilities, a positive attitude, and a willingness to adapt and change. Experience: Associate’s degree and two years of experience preferred; knowledge of Vermont’s early childhood systems & some social media and/or communications experience a plus.

Records Specialist III The Record Specialist III performs key administrative and operational functions and provides exceptional customer service for Northern Lights at CCV. This position is responsible for processing documentation, including preparing, reviewing, and updating documents and evaluating and entering data. Experience: Associate degree and four to six years of relevant clerical/administrative/technical experience preferred.

Apply online: ccv.edu/learn-about-ccv/employment/

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PART-TIME ATHLETIC TRAINER Provides quality emergency care, treatment & rehabilitation plans for injured athletes to minimize and prevent further injuries. Instructs, guides and trains others in sports-health related topics.

Bachelor’s Degree in athletic training, sports medicine, or related field with NATABOC Certification is required.

Master’s Degree and at least 3 years of experience is preferred. Accredited training in Professional Rescuer CPR and First Aid is essential.

Experience in the design and 1:06 PM delivery of athletic training programs is preferred.

Interested and qualified candidates may apply online through Schoolspring.com, Job# 3534529 or forward a resume to: SBSD Human Resources, 500 Dorset Street South Burlington, VT 05403.

COME GROW WITH US!

E-learning Course Coordinator Online education program seeks an E-learning Course Coordinator to update and maintain current courses and help develop new courses.

This employee should be an independent, detail-oriented multi-tasker who must be comfortable interacting with students and faculty.

RESPONSIBILITIES: • • • •

Maintain and update currently existing online courses; Work on development of new courses; Liaise with subject matter experts on course development; Assess projects and determine the appropriate use of technology; and other duties as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS: • Prefer Bachelor’s degree + 1-2 yrs. of professional experience, • Excellent customer service and communications skills.

• Must know Word, Excel, PowerPoint and be comfortable learning new software.

• Experience with education/online learning environment is a big plus.

• Experience with Canvas, Webex, Storyline, VoiceThread and/or comparable programs highly desirable Our office atmosphere is relaxed and cooperative. We offer an excellent hourly rate, full benefits (health insurance plus retirement contribution), and generous vacation time.

Email resume and cover letter to info@iccie.org.

EOE. No calls, please.

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ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI AND CONSTITUENT ENGAGEMENT

Develop and implement programs that connect alumni, students, and donors – with each other and the University.

Must be creative and strategic with excellent communication, program and volunteer management skills. Experience using data to drive decisions. Dynamic team environment.

MAJOR GIFT PROGRAM COORDINATOR, ACADEMIC HEALTH SCIENCES

Provide administrative and strategic support to a team of fundraisers committed to fueling access and growth through philanthropy. Be solutions oriented, technically fluent, a collaborative member of the team and focused on getting the job done.

These are great opportunities for creative, motivated, and ambitious professionals that will help drive our programs towards success.

Application review will begin immediately and will be accepted until the position is filled. For a detailed description of these opportunities, please visit our website:

UVMFoundation.org/Careers

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The Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association, a leading not-for-profit organization and equal opportunity employer, is seeking an experienced finance professional as its full time Business Manager in Burlington.

Experience with QuickBooks and nonprofit accounting required.

Responsibilities include recording cash receipts, account reconciliations, investment accounting, financial reporting, employee benefits maintenance, basic HR duties and support in processing payroll. Competitive pay, benefits, flexible schedule and hybrid remote/in person office hours available. Located in Burlington.

The full job description and applicant requirements can be found at vso.org/about-us/ careers. Please submit resume in confidence to hire@vso.org; open until filled.

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SHIPPING & WAREHOUSE TEAM MEMBER Concept2, a market-leading manufacturer of stationary fitness ergometers and composite racing oars, seeks a talented and motivated individual to join our Shipping & Warehouse team on a full-time, ongoing basis. The position is based in our Morrisville, VT headquarters.

Must have strong teamwork skills, excellent attention to detail, the ability to work on your feet for extended periods of time, be able to lift 75 pounds using proper safety methods, and be committed to doing high-quality work.

Successful Concept2 employees combine selfsufficiency and personal accountability with strong teamwork skills. Concept2 has an informal setting, flexible work schedule and excellent compensation and benefits, including fully paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their families.

To apply, submit resume and cover letter online at: concept2.bamboohr.com/jobs

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THE CITY OF BURLINGTON IS RECRUITING FOR A LEAD PROGRAM SPECIALIST!

READY TO HIRE FULL-TIME HELP FOR YOUNG MAN Positions available to work as a team with a young adult autistic man in the community and at his home. The successful candidate will be a responsible person who enjoys helping others, has good athletic skills, and has a musical repertoire.

Highly skilled training will accompany this job. A college degree is required. This is a 8:30 am - 4:00 pm Monday - Friday schedule with great summer hours. However, the job is year-round. Pay is very competitive, starting at $25/hr. This is a full-time position and one that will allow you to grow professionally.

Please send your resume, cover letter and 3 references with their contact information to the nbgteamvt@gmail.com.

Resumes submitted without cover letters or reference contacts will not be considered. It will be necessary that you are fully COVID-19 vaccinated at the time of employment.

Thank you for your interest, NBG Team

WE HAVE OPPORTUNITIES IN OUR KITCHEN & BAKERY

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ARCHITECT / ARCHITECTURAL INTERN Architecture studio of nine seeks an architect or architectural intern with excellent 3D rendering skills, experience in construction documents, detailing, and familiarity with building and energy codes. We have many large and small projects underway and want to add another hardworking, motivated, and conscientious person to our team.

Let us know about your skills, experience, expectations and hopes for the future.

Plus references. bren@sasarchitects.com.

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SOUS CHEF

We are hiring for a Sous Chef to work closely under our veteran Chef to assist with the construction and execution of our new vision. We are looking for someone with a passion for food and for whom this is a career choice. You would work alongside our Chef, making great food and running a joyful, tight kitchen.

Send resumes and inquiries to cassy@redhenbaking.com.

LINE COOKS

We're also hiring for great line cooks that are focused and detail-oriented as well as being great communicators. One year of professional kitchen experience is preferred, but we are willing to teach anyone. Most importantly, we are looking for a good work ethic and an excitement for learning. Send resumes and inquiries to cassy@redhenbaking.com.

PART-TIME PASTRY BAKER

If pastry baking is your passion, we’re hiring for a part-time pastry baker. Our pastries include a variety of laminated products, pies, scones, cookies and many things in between. We opened in 1999 and remain dedicated to the integrity of the baking processes and creating an environment for our bakers to thrive.

Professional baking or cooking experience is required. You must enjoy working independently and with a team. Schedule includes early mornings and weekends. Send resumes and

inquiries to jeremy@redhenbaking.com.

We are hiring for full-time and part-time positions washing dishes and doing general cleaning around our bakery and cafe.

Weekend days are included. Come work with a great bunch of people in our bustling business! Send resumes and inquiries to randy@redhenbaking.com or call (802) 223-5200 x12.

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If you care about food and you take pride in your work, we want to talk to you! Red Hen has a long history of valuing everyone’s talents and input and we take pride in keeping our staff motivated and challenged. We strive to create positions that make you proud of what you do. Red Hen offers competitive pay and benefits, including health coverage, paid vacation and more. We have a new Executive Chef, are creating a new menu and have two new opportunities in our kitchen:

DISHWASHING/JANITORIAL

The Lead Program Enrollment Specialist is responsible for supporting enrollment activities of the Lead Program (LP), providing direct education and assistance to households undergoing lead hazard reduction activities through the LP, and promoting services of the Lead Program.

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DRIVE FOR

Help Vermonters pursue their education goals!

MANAGER OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS You’re all about mission. Like us. VSAC is totally focused on helping young people and adults succeed in life beyond high school. Help us fulfill our mission of providing all Vermont students with information and financial resources to reach their educational goals. You’ll work in a relaxed yet challenging environment. We offer many top-notch benefits.

FULL TIME OR WEEKENDS Online shipping boom has created steady well paid jobs for our drivers. Join the team. Bonuses paid for Sat/Sun shifts.

VSAC is seeking an experienced Manager of Public Affairs to serve as the primary contact and spokesperson with all types Trucks and vans provided. of media, to manage the corporation’s external communication Must be 21. Email Rick at strategy and objectives, to oversee VSAC’s social media efforts and to implement a broad range of public relations activities that retravers@gmail.com for communicate the mission and support the strategic goals of the information & application. corporation. Collaborates with internal and external partners to develop and execute strategies to enhance VSAC’s brand and to increase public awareness of and support for VSAC’s programs 2v-FedEx051921.indd 1 5/17/21 PIANIST/ and services. Monitors all media activity and analyzes media trends and coverage related to the organization and acts to ORGANIST ensure that appropriate messages are being relayed.

Hedding United Methodist Church in The successful candidate will have strong tactical skills with demonstrated experience in all aspects of media relations, proven ability in writing and editing, knowledge of advertising, marketing and social media, with established contacts within the Vermont press corps. In addition, must be able to meet deadlines, perform under pressure, and have a demonstrated ability to work with a team to solve complex problems. Bachelor’s degree in related field and minimum of 3 to 5 years’ public relations and/or media experience required, Master’s degree preferred.

VSAC offers a dynamic, professional environment with competitive compensation and generous benefits package. Apply at vsac.org (Jobs at VSAC link in site footer).

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Barre seeks a versatile musician for worship services, including Sunday mornings and special services planned throughout the year. Able to accompany choir and congregation on piano.

We are a fun and loving congregation with a heart for our community.

We’re hoping to find a musician who would enjoy being a part of our ministry!

Potential for expansion of position dependent upon applicants’ skills.

For a job description, please email heddingchurchinbarre@gmail.com or call 802-476-8156.

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CHARLOTTE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

The Painter is seeking individuals to join our growing team!

Athens Diner, Colchester VT is now hiring.

PLANNER

Host/Wait Staff

Place Place is seeking is anseeking account an account manager. manager.

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.

We are looking for PT or FT The Central Vermont Regional wait staff, M-T-W and/or Planning Commission Charlotte Congregational Church Sat-Sun 8am-3pm E m b raced by t h e h ealing love seeks an adaptable, selfo f Jes us C h ris t and ins pired by H is t each ing s, motivated Assistant Planner, R T-ul,TcoI M Es io nat e and we co m m it PA t o prayerf m pas Seeking the following: co urag eo us act io n in t h e wo rld.

Planner, or Senior Planner.

B O O K K E E P E R Laborers, Apprentices, Apply to join our team if you Craftsmen and Foremen The Charlotte Congregational enjoy leveraging the power of Painters.

We are looking for www.CharlotteCongregationalChurch.org Church is looking for a partpeople working together to 802-425-3176 charlotteucc@gmavt.net www.placevt.com experienced dishwasher(s) Top Pay, Bonuses and time bookkeeper. 15-20 hours/ create vibrant communities! and line prep cook(s), willing Incentives offered for all resumes and links to: This position requires broad www.placevt.com week. Pay is negotiable and to train the right candidate. workers. Work wear provided. knowledge of municipal commensurate with experijobs@placevt.com resumes and links to: and regional comprehensive Email references to: Apply: athensdinerHR@ ence. For more information, planning, planning law, and plan thepaintervt@gmail.com. dairbhre.com jobs@placevt.com go to www.CharlotteUCC.org implementation techniques. It fosters the development and implementation of long1 5/24/212v-PlaceCreative052621.indd 5:43 PM 1 5/24/212v-thePainter041019.indd 9:53 AM 2v-AthensDiner052621.indd 1 5/24/212v-CharlotteCongoChurch052621.indd 1:02 PM 1 4/9/19 10:10 AM term plans.

Dishwasher/Line Prep Cook

The successful candidate will have a degree in planning or related field and a minimum of 1 year (Assistant Planner), 3 years (Planner) or 7 years (Senior Planner) experience in regional or local planning. Excellent oral and written communication skills and experience using Microsoft products required. Experience writing and administering zoning regulations preferred. Economic or community development experience a plus. Attendance at evening meetings required.

Planners who enjoy working regionally and with volunteers, and those with skills to discern and adapt to emerging needs encouraged to apply.

This is a full time, permanent position with a salary range of $38,000-45,000 (Assistant), $40,000-58,000 (Planner), and $50,000-70,000 (Senior).

Salary is commensurate with demonstrated ability.

Excellent benefit package and collaborative work environment. Submit a cover letter, resume, three references (name, phone number), and salary expectations to Waninger@cvregion.com.

Position open until filled; application review begins June 1, 2021. Job description and additional information available at centralvtplanning.org.

CVRPC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and maintains a drug-free workplace.

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Providing Innovative Mental Health and Educational Services to Vermont’s Children & Families.

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR Burlington Partnership for a Healthy Community Do you get excited about supporting healthy community development? Is it important to you to work for an organization that you know is having a positive impact? We are looking for an organized, collaborative individual to develop and coordinate interactive marketing campaigns focused on reducing substance misuse and increasing health and wellness in Burlington.

This position is responsible for designing materials and coordinating the marketing plan for educational and behavior change campaigns for targeted audiences in Burlington. We are looking for individuals with experience in graphic design, PR, social media promotion, and campaign management and design. The job requires creativity, attention to detail, and demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and partners.

We need someone who can work autonomously and take initiative.

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Are you skilled with technology and social media? We need someone who easily adapts to changes in software and technology and can communicate effectively regardless of the platform. Minimum of one year experience working on a marketing campaign. Prior experience working in the health promotion and prevention field is beneficial.

This is a full-time position with a flexible schedule and a comprehensive benefits package, including health and dental insurance, tuition reimbursement, excellent training, a generous time off plan, and a supportive work environment. A full job description is available on our website at burlingtonpartnership.org. If interested please apply online, including a cover letter and resume, at nfivermont.org/careers.

Burlington Partnership for a Healthy Community is a coalition of people and partners that recognize that the misuse of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco affect us all and who work together to create a healthier environment in Burlington. Learn more at: burlingtonpartnership.org.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and celebrate the diversity of our clients and staff.

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Work at Summer Camp!!

Assistant Chief Operator WWTF

June-August, 2021

Camp Kiniya is a beautiful summer camp for girls located on Lake Champlain in Colchester, VT. We are seeking staff members who enjoy working with youth 9-14 yr olds, are team oriented, and like being in a community dedicated to fun, service and leadership development.

Athletics Staff Join a team of athletics staff helping with a variety of sporting activities (reffing, instructing, coaching). Inspire good sportsmanship and fun and you can’t go wrong!

Join an experienced team providing advanced wastewater treatment to protect Vermont’s beautiful river resources. The City of Barre operates a 4.3 MGD Activated Sludge (oxidation canal) plant with phosphorus removal and de-chlorination. The Assistant Chief will help in supervising WWTF staff, operating the facility, participate in upcoming facilities planning and management reviews. Position requires a Grade 5 VT Operator certification or eligibility to obtain one within one year.

Developmental Disability Services Director

Vermont Care Partners is recruiting for the Director of Developmental Disability Services to provide statewide Outdoors Staff leadership to designated and The outdoors team shares responsibility to facilitate a low and For more information and a detailed job description go to specialized service agencies on high challenge course, as well as skill-development in rock our website: barrecity.org/hr. The City of Barre is an equal developmental disability services climbing, gardening and cooking, and camp-crafting activities. and public policy including opportunity employer (EOE).

Women, Minorities and Veterans Model trying new things and bring your enthusiasm for all service delivery and payment things outdoors! are encouraged to apply Please submit a City of Barre Application, reform. Duties include advocacy, Starting salary $2,500. Room-and-Board included. cover letter and resume to Mr. Rikk Taft, Human Resources development of trainings, Administrator, City Hall, 6 North Main St, Suite 2, Barre, VT 05641. research, technical assistance Interested? Please Contact: Electronic submittals can be sent to rtaft@barrecity.org. and analysis of best practices, Mollie Farnham-Stratton | Mollie@Campdudley.org program trends, regulation, policy, law and legislation.

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CENTERS FOR WELLBEING

OPEN HOUSE JOB FAIR

June 12th — 9am–4pm 150 Pilgrim Park Road, Waterbury, VT

WORKSITE WELLNESS AND CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS MANAGER

CURRENT OPENINGS

As we explore creative ways to make the most impact, the right candidate will be able to: • Maintain and grow our • Work with our multiclient relationships with disciplinary team on many employers across Vermont; deliverables and deadlines;

Waterbury Weekday Shifts: 9-hour shifts, Monday – Thursday: 1st Shift 6AM-3PM , 2nd Shift 2PM-11PM 3rd Shift 10PM-7AM

• Implement innovative employee wellness and engagement programs;

Waterbury Weekend Shifts: 12-hour shifts, Friday – Sunday: Weekend Days 6AM-6PM Weekend Nights 6PM-6AM

• Assist our leadership team in the day-to-day-operations of the program.

Come ready with your own ideas for how your skills will best benefit our members!

PREVENTION PROGRAMS MANAGER • Develop two distinct peer support networks for Vermont’s first responders and farmers;

Employee Benefits: ✓Family-friendly schedules ❏ ✓Paid Maternity/Paternity leave ❏ ✓Excellent wages/medical benefits ❏ ✓401(k) with Employer Matching and more ❏ See more opportunities at darntough.com/careers or call (802) 221-4246

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• Work with state partners to implement a behavioral screening and intervention program for Vermonters who have been injured or developed illness at work.

PRINT DEADLINE: Noon on Mondays (including holidays) FOR RATES & INFO: Michelle Brown, 802-865-1020 x21

Experience working with first responders or farmers, license in mental health counseling, and grant experience are all a plus.

If you thrive in working cooperatively with people at all levels with respect, then we want to talk with you. Please submit cover letter and resume, specifying your interested position, to Marc Adams at marca@investeap.org by June 10, 2021.

We are an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

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This experienced, energetic individual will manage the implementation of several innovative occupational wellbeing programs, including:

Northfield: 8-hour shifts Monday – Friday: 1st Shift 7AM-3PM, 2nd Shift 3PM-11PM 3rd Shift 11PM-7AM

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LIBRARY DIRECTOR

Chelsea Public Library seeks a library director.

Approximately 32 hours per week.

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Responsible for oversight of stormwater capital improvement projects from development through construction. Assists with management of the stormwater utility. Conducts data collection, data management, and reporting as necessary to facilitate stormwater utility operations. Completes tasks necessary to maintain the City’s compliance with MS4 and other permit requirements.

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EVENT & PROGRAM ASSISTANT This is a full time, hourly position (37.5 hours/week) that provides administrative and project support to the organization including coordinating logistics for meetings, events and conferences. Competitive pay and benefits, ability to work remotely.

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She is developmentally delayed. She takes full care of herself, just needs a little companionship and company. Must have driver’s license and car.

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There is no better time to join NSB’s team!

Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We strive to serve our employees as well as our communities. We are seeking professionals to join our team as Community Bankers at several of our locations.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES & REQUIREMENTS

• The Community Banker will be responsible for receiving and processing customers’ financial transactions, matching customers’ needs with appropriate products and services, protecting customer information and maintaining customer confidentiality.

• We are looking for someone who will consistently provide outstanding customer service, has excellent communication skills, and will build rapport and develop relationships with our valued customers.

Join the team at Gardener’s Supply Company! We are a 100% employee-owned company and an award winning and nationally recognized socially responsible business. We work hard AND offer a fun place to work including BBQs, staff parties, employee garden plots and much more! We also offer strong cultural values, competitive wages and outstanding benefits!

• A high school diploma, general education degree (GED) or equivalent is required.

OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH

• NSB encourages career development and has a variety of training platforms available.

• Average Years of Service at Northfield Savings Bank is above 9! If you’re looking for a career in the Banking industry, this is a great place to start!

WHAT NSB CAN OFFER YOU

• NSB offers a competitive compensation based on experience.

Retail Assistant Buyer: This person is responsible for driving sales and profit by helping ensure appropriate inventory levels to meet customer demand. Our ideal candidate will have 2 yrs buying experience in the garden center industry; advanced nursery horticultural knowledge preferred; and buying experience in green goods. Knowledge in POS, back office inventory management systems and intermediate Excel, Word, Outlook knowledge required.

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• Benefits package including medical, dental, vision, combined time off, 10 paid holidays, a wellness program and more!

• Profit sharing opportunity and an outstanding employer-matching 401(K) retirement program.

• NSB offers professional development opportunities, and a positive work environment supported by a team culture.

• Hours of operation are Monday – Friday, generally 8:00am to 5:00pm.

We understand the importance of having evenings and weekends with our friends, families, and our community.

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Grippin Donlan Pinkham, located in South Burlington, is one of the largest CPA firms in Vermont offering a full service of accounting and consulting services. We are looking for a reliable, well organized office manager to oversee the administrative operations.

The ideal candidate will have prior bookkeeping, HR, and office management experience. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and benefits package in a professional working environment.

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VHCB is seeking an experienced and collaborative housing professional to join our team, supporting the development of affordable housing in Vermont. Work with the housing staff on 4t-GrippinDonlanPinkham052621.indd 1 5/24/21 policy and program development, new initiatives, and delivering support and funding to VHCB’s housing partners. Coordinate training and technical assistance programs; evaluate affordable housing applications and make recommendations for action; and support the overall effectiveness of VHCB housing programs. Qualifications: demonstrated commitment to affordable housing, prior experience and training in housing development, Community Associates provides a wide array of financial analysis, and project underwriting, strong communication individualized supports to people with developmental skills, and a commitment to collaborative problem solving. Experience disabilities living in Addison County. Come join our working with non-profit organizations, municipalities, housing develcadre of human service professionals committed to opment groups, and state agencies is important. Experience with the values of inclusion, choice and respect! We offer a project management and coordination of housing programs is pregreat team environment and work/home balance. ferred. For the full job description visit: vhcb.org/about-us/jobs.

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Housing Program Assistant We're looking for an experienced administrative professional to provide support for our state and federal housing programs, including the HOME Program, the National Housing Trust Fund, and Housing Opportunities for People With AIDS. Work in collaboration with VHCB housing staff to monitor and ensure regulatory compliance for various housing programs. Duties include tracking and updating project information, compliance monitoring, database entry and reporting, and document management.

Qualifications: Proficiency with Microsoft Office software, good communication skills, strong attention to detail, ability to learn and utilize data and file management systems. Experience with federal housing programs a plus.

For the full job description visit: vhcb.org/about-us/jobs. __________________________________________________ Please reply with letter of interest and résumé to: Laurie Graves, VHCB, 58 E. State Street, Montpelier, Vt. 05602 or by email to jobs@vhcb.org. Position open until filled. Full-time positions with competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. EOE.

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Provide one-on-one mentoring support in community and job settings. As their close allies, help them achieve life goals through skill development and relationship building in accordance with their support plans. M-F daytime hours. A great way to enter this field.

Specialized Residential and Community Support: Help a woman with co-occurring mental health challenges maintain physical and emotional wellbeing and develop emotional regulation skills based at her staffed home. Also provide community support to a very active young man in exercising, building social skills, and working toward his dream job. Experience with behavioral support plans desirable. 30.75 hours per week with no overnight. Approximately 30K. Good driving record, use of personal vehicle, and clean background required.

Comprehensive benefits with ample paid time-off, health/dental/vision insurance and FSA, retirement plan, disability and life insurance, on-site gym membership.

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TEACHER The Bellwether School is looking for a teacher for our 4/5/6th grade multi-age classroom who believes that math and poetry can hold the secret to the universe, describes themselves as an adventurer, and is a lover of the arts.

Working in a multi-age class of diverse learners, the elementary teacher will be responsible for designing and assessing all aspects of curriculum – literacy, math, science, social studies, and social emotional learning.

Demonstrated leadership skills and confidence to take on the challenge of creating broad-based learning opportunities including experience with integrating project and field-based opportunities across core subjects is required.

If you have the passion and experience for developing relationships with and nurturing the inquisitive nature of 9 through 12-year-old students please send a cover letter, CV, an educational philosophy statement, and three letters of reference to hiring@bellwetherschool.org. Please see our website for a full job description and to learn about the school: bellwetherschool.org.

There is no better time to join NSB’s team!

Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We strive to serve our employees as well as our communities. We are seeking a professional to join our Enterprise Banking Department as a Cash Management Representative in one of our Chittenden County locations.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES & REQUIREMENTS • The Cash Management Representative will be responsible for supporting online banking, cash management services (online wires, ACH origination, positive pay, etc.), remote deposit services, Federal Reserve’s ACH-EDI service – all from application to installation to troubleshooting and beyond.

• The successful candidate will be able to foster great relationships with NSB customers as well as work alongside our Commercial Lenders for business development. This role requires efficiency and effectiveness to elevate our customer’s NSB experience.

• A high school diploma or equivalent and three to five years of experience in banking is required.

OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH • NSB encourages career development and has a variety of training platforms available, including tuition reimbursement.

• Average Years of Service at Northfield Savings Bank is above 9! If you’re looking to settle your career in the Banking industry, join our team!

WHAT NSB CAN OFFER YOU • NSB offers a competitive compensation based on experience.

• Benefits package including medical, dental, vision, combined time off, 10 paid holidays, a wellness program and more!

• Profit sharing opportunity and an outstanding employer-matching 401(K) retirement program.

• NSB offers professional development opportunities, and a positive work environment supported by a team culture.

• Hours of operation are Monday – Friday, generally 8:00am to 5:00pm.

BRANCH MANAGER - Williston Office Are you committed to working with the local community? Do you have a strong desire to use your banking knowledge to help individuals & businesses grow and thrive?

If so, we want to hear from you!

Union Bank is seeking a Branch Manager for our Williston office located at 31 Market Street, in the Finney Crossing Business Park. The successful candidate will have an extensive connection with and knowledge of the Chittenden County market to work collaboratively with our commercial, retail and municipal banking teams.

Responsibilities for our Branch Manager include developing new commercial, municipal and personal deposit relationships. This individual will also lead our branch banking staff in providing outstanding service to our customers by taking a long term perspective with our banking relationships. Additional duties include managing the operations and administrative functions of the branch office.

As a Vermont bank in existence since 1891, Union Bank offers challenging and rewarding career opportunities. We are committed to excellence and providing you with the tools and support you need to be successful.

Prior branch banking experience is essential. A Bachelor’s degree in business or finance is desirable but not required. Critical for success is the ability to generate new deposit relationships while delivering outstanding customer service. Required traits include being a self-starter, a team leader, empathetic, a problem solver, proficient and comfortable with technology, a willingness to develop and call on centers of influence and referral sources, an ability to educate, and being detail oriented, organized, and efficient. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are critical for success, as is the ability to interact with any level of the Bank or the public.

Union Bank offers a competitive salary along with a comprehensive benefits program which includes three health plan options, dental, 401(k) with a generous company match, fully paid life and disability insurance and paid leave.

We understand the importance of having evenings and weekends with our friends, families, and our community.

Please send an NSB Application + your resume in confidence to: Careers@nsbvt.com, or mail to:

Human Resources-Union Bank, P.O. Box 667 Morrisville, Vermont 05661 – 0667 careers@unionbankvt.com

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CHILDCARE FLOATER TEACHER Charlotte Children’s Center is looking for a full time Floater/Substitute for ages Birth to 5 for upcoming vacation coverages. This has potential to become a long term floater position if interested.

We are a small non-profit, child-centered, play based program. We are nature and Reggio inspired. Our opening is for a person who may work in any of our six classrooms depending on the daily needs. Candidates would be working in a coteaching position alongside the current lead teacher. In addition to classroom duties, the candidate may cover classroom breaks, planning time, and afternoons off. This person would work approximately 36 hours per week, Monday-Friday.

Ideal candidates will have years of experience working with children, strong communication skills, training in Teaching Strategies Gold, be well versed in Child Care Licensing Regulations,VT Mandated Reporter and Orientation Training and be familiar with V.E.L.S. We offer eye and dental coverage as well as a Simple IRA retirement plan.We offer professional development reimbursement and access to student loan forgiveness programs.

WAREHOUSE DRIVER/ PICKER PACKER The Vermont Wine Merchants Company, a Burlington-based wholesale distributor of fine wine and specialty beer, is looking for full-time (plus OT) warehouse/driver position(s), 4-5 days a week.

INFORMATION SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR NSB’s Team is Growing!

Hourly rate $14.50-15.50 dependent on qualifications and experience.

Employment for drivers pending a driving record check.

Warehouse only positions do not require driving record check. Some benefits included.

Come join our amazing staff!

Email resume to: ccc@gmavt.net

Please send a resume to: info@vtwinemerchants.com

Associate’s degree in ECE or related field preferred.

Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont; we strive to serve our employees as well as our communities. Our IT Team is growing, and we are looking for a professional to join our IT department as an Information Systems Administrator in a hybrid capacity, with a flexible working schedule available. This position will train and periodically work in our Berlin Operations Center as well as have remote capabilities.

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VBSR is a statewide, nonprofit business association with an enduring mission to leverage the power of business for positive social and environmental impact.

Our diverse membership represents all sectors and geographic regions of Vermont – from sole proprietors to the largest employers in the state – all working toward a just, thriving, and transformative economy that works for all people and the planet.

OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH

• NSB has training opportunities to engage employees and assist with personal development within our company.

• Average Years of Service at Northfield Savings Bank is above 9! If you’d like to settle down in your career, join our team!

WHAT NSB CAN OFFER YOU

• NSB offers a competitive compensation based on experience.

• Benefits package including medical, dental, combined time off, 10 paid holidays, a wellness program and more!

• Profit sharing opportunity and an outstanding employer-matching 401(K) retirement program.

• NSB offers professional development opportunities, and a positive work environment supported by a team culture.

• Hours of operation are Monday – Friday, generally 8:00am to 5:00pm.

VBSR’s Public Policy Manager helps give our members a voice on sustainable economic development and social equity issues. The manager develops and implements VBSR policy programs and services in consultation with VBSR’s Executive Director, and works closely with VBSR’s Public Policy Committee, advocating for policy priorities developed by the committee.

The Public Policy Manager will advance VBSR’s policy priorities through legislative lobbying and strategies, research, outreach, and education, in consultation with VBSR’s Public Policy Committee, study committees, and issue groups, as well as VBSR members.

We understand the importance of having evenings and weekends with our friends, families, and our community.

Please send an NSB Application + your resume in confidence to: Careers@nsbvt.com, or mail to:

VBSR is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Those who identify as women and non-binary, people of color, veterans, individuals with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and other individuals from underrepresented populations are strongly encouraged to apply.

Northfield Savings Bank H.R. P.O. Box 7180, Barre, VT 05641-7180 Equal Opportunity Employer

Position: Permanent, Full-Time, Salaried, Exempt; Reports to Executive Director Salary: $50,000-65,000/year; Commensurate with experience Benefits: Health and dental insurance; SIMPLE retirement plan contribution; Flexible schedule and remote work; Reimbursement for remote work expenses; Strong organizational culture supporting work-life balance

• The Information Systems Administrator develops, optimizes, and maintains the bank’s client/server environment.

• We are looking for someone who is a great team player that can also work well independently.

• Effective communication skills and offer a high level of customer service to both internal and external customers.

• An associate degree plus five or more years of service in a technical field is required.

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Personal Care Associate: “Drive fast, take chances and always wear your seatbelt!”

Are you an intelligent, social, fun-seeking individual? Are you excited by the opportunity to travel, meet new people, and learn new things? Are you the type of person that is happiest in a casual, friendly, non-competitive environment?

This full-time position provides home care support for a highly independent adult quadriplegic. Ideal candidates will be intelligent, open to learning new things, excited by and interested in out-of-state travel, (up to five weeks a year, not consecutive), and committed with a fun and outgoing personality. Medical experience is appreciated but not required. ***Please submit resume and cover letter to nschurch@gmail.com***

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FINANCIAL MANAGER I – MONTPELIER

BUILDINGS PROJECT MANAGER II: ENERGY – MONTPELIER

Seeking a highly motivated self-starter to join our Energy Office team. The incumbent will be responsible for all aspects of energy efficiency, energy conservation and renewable energy project management. Strong candidates will have project management experience and working knowledge in the energy industry. This is a great opportunity to become part of an exciting group, dedicated to helping Vermont lead by example by meeting our energy goals. For mor information, contact Daniel Edson at daniel.edson@vermont.gov. Department: Buildings and General Services. Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier. Job ID #15881. Application Deadline: June 3, 2021.

EDUCATION PROGRAMS MAN AGER – MONTPELIER

Passionate about supporting schools and students? The Vermont Agency of Education is seeking an education programs leader to manage federal grants that promote success for all learners, supervising two team members. The right candidate will enjoy collaborating with diverse stakeholders at federal, state, and local levels, will possess strong written and verbal communication skills and will excel at creating user-friendly resources and guidance from complex statute. For more information, contact Jesse Roy at jesse.roy@vermont.gov. Department: Agency of Education. Status; Full Time. Location: Montpelier with some remote work possible. Job ID #16003. Application Deadline: June 6, 2021.

PROJECT & IMPLEMENTATION SPECIALIS T – BURLINGTON

This position combines organizational development and employee engagement with implementation, maintenance and assessment of business processes and systems. Duties include: Develop and implement employee engagement and training strategies for projects and processes; Manage our Records Management Program; Support employees to gain knowledge, skills, and abilities to be active users of SharePoint sites and O365 apps; Administer employee emergency notification system and learning management system. For more information, contact Paul Hochanadel at (802) 585-0209 or paul. hochanadel@vermont.gov. Department: Health. Status: Full Time. Location: Burlington. Job ID# 16021.

Application Deadline: May 31, 2021.

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Seeking an organized, detail-oriented professional to join our Grants Team as a Financial Manager I. The ideal candidate possesses the ability to contribute and effectively communicate in a team, as well as the ability to work independently and accurately to produce high-quality grant applications, reports and data analysis. Duties consist of administering and monitoring federal grants, preparing financial reports/statements for review, and analyzing costs/budgets. For more information, contact Tracy LaFrance at tracy.lafrance@vermont.gov or (802) 498-7074. Department: Environmental Conservation. Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier. Job ID #15847. Application Deadline: June 6, 2021.

S TAFF ATTORNEY INVES TIG ATOR – MONTPELIER

The HRC is seeking highly qualified candidates for a Staff Attorney Investigator. This position primarily develops and executes investigations into allegations of discrimination. Staff attorneys engage in conciliation efforts between parties, draft legally enforceable settlement agreements, and monitor compliance with agreements. Staff attorneys may also develop and deliver training to a variety of agencies, non-profits, and individuals. This position is being recruited at multiple levels.

For more information, contact John McKelvie at human.rights@vermont.gov. Department: Human Rights Commission. Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier. Job ID #16288. Application Deadline: June 18, 2021.

CUSTODIAN I – MONTPELIER

Seeking Custodians for second shift positions, 12pm to 8:30pm, M-F. Responsible for custodial duties within offices such as sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, and dusting. May wash walls, windows and dust or polishes furniture in addition to cleaning restrooms and replenishing supplies. May perform grounds keeping or snow removal. Criminal background check required. For more information, contact Jonathan Rutledge at jonathan.rutledge@vermont.gov. Department: Building & General Services. Status: Full Time.

Location: Montpelier. Job ID #12465. Application Deadline: June 6, 2021.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION DIRECTOR III – MONTPELIER

A unique leadership position available to lead our team of waste management and prevention experts, reporting to the Commissioner. The Director provides oversight of the team and is responsible for managing a budget of $27M and a staff of 55 people. The work is broad and encompassing and includes the oversight of state and federal funding. The Director is responsible for setting the vision of the team and is responsible to implement priorities. For more information, contact Kim Greenwood at kim. greenwood@vermont.gov. Department: Environmental Conservation: Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier.

Job ID #15724. Application Deadline: June 14, 2021.

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When you speak, you could be more beautiful than silence as much as 80 percent of the time.

coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to claim a healthy dose of divine intoxication.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here’s the defini-

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo actor Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) won the most prestigious awards possible for her work in films, TV and theater: Oscars, Emmys and a Tony. She was intelligent, talented and beautiful. Life was a challenge when she was growing up, though. She testified, “I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn’t shut up.” If you have a sleeping lion inside you, Virgo, I expect it to wake up soon. And if your inner lion is already wide awake and you have a decent relationship with it, I suspect it may soon begin to come into its fuller glory.

tion of an emotional support animal: “a companion animal that provides therapeutic benefit to a person with a mental or psychiatric disability.”

I don’t mean to be flippant, but I think every one of us has at least one mental or psychiatric disability that would benefit from the company of an emotional support animal. If you were ever going to acquire such an ally, the coming weeks would be prime time to do so. I encourage you to also seek out other kinds of help and guidance and stimulation that you’d benefit from having. It’s the resource-gathering phase of your cycle. (PS: Cesar Chavez said: “You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.”)

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20):

A blogger named Valentine Cassius reports, “A tiny old woman came into the deli where I work and ordered a ‘wonderful turkey sandwich.’ When asked what she wanted on the sandwich other than turkey, she said ‘all of your most wonderful toppings.’” Here’s my response to that: The tiny old woman’s approach usually isn’t very effective.

It’s almost always preferable to be very specific in knowing what you want and asking for it. But given the current astrological omens, I’ll make an exception for you in the next three weeks. I think you should be like the tiny old woman: Ask life, fate, people, spirits and gods to bring you all of their most wonderful toppings.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Open your mouth

only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence,” declares an Arab proverb.

That’s a high standard to aspire to. Even at our very best, when we’re soaring with articulate vitality, it’s hard to be more beautiful than silence more than, say, 50 percent of the time.

But here’s a nice surprise: You could exceed that benchmark during the next three weeks. You’re primed to be extra expressive and interesting.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held,” testifies Cancerian novelist Erin Morgenstern. “Tired of trying to control what cannot be controlled.”

Here’s good news for her and all Cancerians. You have cosmic permission to surrender — to no longer try to hold things together that can’t be held or try to control what can’t be controlled. Maybe in a few weeks you will have gained so much relaxed new wisdom that you’ll be inspired to make fresh attempts at holding together and controlling.

But that’s not for you to worry and wonder about right now. Your assignment is to nurture your psychological and spiritual health by letting go.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Philosopher Georges Bataille wrote, “The lesson of Wuthering Heights, of Greek tragedy and, ultimately, of all religions is that there is an instinctive tendency towards divine intoxication which the rational world of calculation cannot bear. This tendency is the opposite of Good. Good is based on common interest, which entails consideration of the future.” I’m going to dissent from Bataille’s view.

I agree that we all have an instinctive longing for divine intoxication, but I believe that the rational world needs us to periodically fulfill our longing for divine intoxication. In fact, the rational world grows stale and begins to decay without these interludes. So the truth is that divine intoxication is crucial for the common good.

I’m telling you this, Leo, because I think the

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran author Antonio Tabucchi described the frame of mind I recommend for you in the coming days. I hope you’ll be eager to embrace his far-reaching empathy. Like him, I trust you will expand your capacity to regard the whole world as your home. Here’s Tabucchi’s declaration: “Like a blazing comet, I’ve traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I’ve been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I’ve been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I’ve been the serene Buddha of the East. I’ve been the sun and the moon.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Author James Frey writes, “I used to think I was tough, but then I realized I wasn’t. I was fragile and I wore thick armor. And I hurt people so they couldn’t hurt me. And I thought that was what being tough was, but it isn’t.” I agree with Frey. The behavior he describes has nothing to do with being tough. So what does? That’s important for you to think about, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to be tough in the best senses of the word.

Here are my definitions: Being tough means never letting people disrespect you or abuse you, even as you cultivate empathy for how wounded everyone is. Being tough means loving yourself with such unconditional grace that you never act unkind out of a neurotic need to over-defend yourself. Being tough means being a compassionate truth-teller.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Fragile intensity or intense fragility? Ferocious gentleness or gentle ferocity? Vulnerable strength or strong vulnerability? I suspect these will be some of the paradoxical themes with which you’ll be delicately wrestling in the coming days. Other possibilities: sensitive audacity or audacious sensitivity, fluidic fire or fiery fluidity, crazy wisdom or wise craziness, penetrating softness or soft penetration, shaky poise or poised shakiness. My advice is to regard rich complexities like these as blessings, not confusions or inconveniences.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Birds that live in cities have come up with an ingenious adaptation. They use humans’ abandoned cigarette butts to build their nests. Somehow they discovered that nicotine is an insectide that dispels pests like fleas, lice and mites. Given your current astrological aspects, I’m guessing you could make metaphorically comparable adjustments in your own life. Are there ways you could use scraps and discards to your benefit?

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A blogger named Raven testifies, “My heart is a toddler throwing a tantrum in a store, and my brain is the parent who continues to shop.” I’m pleased to inform you, Aquarius, that your heart will not act like that toddler in the coming weeks. In fact, I believe your heart will be like a sage elder with growing wisdom in the arts of intimacy and tenderness. In my vision of your life, your heart will guide you better than maybe it ever has. Now here’s a message to your brain: Listen to your heart!

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20): The Voyager 1 space probe, launched by NASA in 1977, is now more than 14 billion miles from Earth. In contrast, the farthest humans have ever penetrated into the ground is 7.62 miles. It’s the Kola Superdeep Borehole in northwest Russia.

Metaphorically speaking, these facts provide an evocative metaphor for the following truth: Most humans feel more confident and expansive about exploring the outer world than their inner realms. But I hope that in the coming weeks you will buck that trend as you break all previous records for curious and luxurious exploration into your deepest psychic depths.

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DELIGHTFUL START TO SUMMER Your bright smile and friendly wave as I was leaving the party lightened my heart and danced in my thoughts. Thank you for sparking some beginning of summer happiness. When: Friday, May 21, 2021. Where: Waitsfield backyard party. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915284 TANGLED UP IN YOU What are the chances it’s you? Maybe handwritten words inspired; most likely I’m just a foolish sap. Bob and Jim both wrote about the Jack of Hearts. Is it still a card you’d ever play? Your eyes always had a way of reciting profound poetry. I wonder if I will ever again gaze into that blue abyss. Float within the soulful dreamscape, always wondering, Is this reality? When: Friday, May 1, 2020. Where: photo strip on your fridge.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915283 REI PARKING LOT, MAY 17 You parked next to me, and I had to wait for you before I could leave. Didn’t mind because you were nice to look at. You said you were becoming more like your dad every day. I joked you needed a purse to keep your stuff together. Meet up so we can keep you from turning into your dad too quickly? When: Monday, May 17, 2021. Where: REI parking lot, Williston.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915282 SHORT GIRL AT JOLLEY’S, SHELBURNE ROAD You walked behind me, and I didn’t notice you. You were buying Truly, I think, but wow, you are the most stunning woman I’ve ever seen. Don’t even need a reply, since you got into a gray Tundra and you are most likely taken. Just wanna say you are beautiful. When: Sunday, May 16, 2021. Where: South Burlington Jolley’s. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915281

HEY THERE, DR. ZEUS Did you know that the German word for sweet, süß, sounds like “Zeus”?

I think that’s fitting, because you’re so friggin’ sweet! ;) Let’s hang out sometime. P.S. Out of all the species, you’re my favorite. When: Sunday, May 2, 2021. Where: All Species Day. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915280 TULIP SENDS HER APOLOGIES In her frolicking, I believe she cut you with her nails. I didn’t realize this had happened until we were in the truck.

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You: Woman. Me: Man. #915279 MY ‘MUSE’ AND ‘RENEGADE’ I am so glad we have reunited. Here’s to the Sox, fireball, lakefront sunsets and live music, baby! When: Thursday, May 6, 2021. Where: Williston.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915278 NORTHFIELD NURSE I don’t think you read this paper, but here goes. We have known each other for years and got close for a while, then our paths separated us. I was hoping to reunite, but that hope was lost with one word from you. I wish you the best in the future, from the guy who gives the best hugs. When: Monday, September 12, 2016. Where: my place.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915277 GOODBYE FOR NOW I’ll see you in our next life. When: Saturday, May 8, 2021. Where: Vermont.

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L’AMOROSO PENSIERO She said, “You look like the silent type” / Then she opened a book of poems and handed it to me / Written by an Italian poet from the 13th century / Every one of them words rang true, / glowed like burning coal, pouring off of every page / Like it was written in my soul from me to you / Tangled up in blue. When: Friday, April 24, 2020. Where: on the fridge. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915275

BURLINGTON BAY LIQUOR BOY You played with your hair when I got my creemee. Found an excuse to go inside while “sheltering from the rain.”

I’m older, but you’re 18+. So, if it melted the creemee off your spoon the way it did mine, next time I wander in on a perfectly nice, warm day, don’t blame it on the weather. Melt my creemee. When: Friday, April 30, 2021. Where: Burlington Bay. You: Man. Me: Man. #915269

DITTO Every moment between our meetings feels like a lifetime. A day will come when I never have to say “See you later” ever again. When: Sunday, April 11, 2021. Where: produce.

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BLONDE AT HEALTHY LIVING You: blonde, white top, dark shorts in line across the smoothie bar, where I was. Looked as if you came from a run or workout with friends? Wearing the hell out of those shorts. ;) Wish I had stopped to talk, but wasn’t able to. Maybe we can go for a run together sometime?

Me: tall, dark hair, black jacket.

When: Friday, April 30, 2021. Where: Healthy Living, South Burlington.

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WHOOKNEW I’m not certain if you’re trying to communicate with me or not? You’ve blocked me and then reached out. If the roles were reversed, how would you feel?

When: Thursday, April 29, 2021. Where: here. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915267

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You: Woman. Me: Man. #915272 TABLE AT EL GATO WEDNESDAY To the five absolute legends that I served: You left me (Jamie) a phat tip and a nice handwritten note. I would love to buy you guys a drink to thank you! Will I ever see you five again? Made my night DIALED! You left a Seven Days mag on the table, so crossin’ my fingers and toes you’ll see this. When: Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Where: El Gato Cantina, Church Street. You: Group. Me: Woman. #915270 YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE Missing my sunshine. MSG needs his ray of light. When: Saturday, April 3, 2021. Where: Montpelier.

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Dear Bubble Burster,

Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

Dear Reverend,

I started dating a guy around the end of 2019.

The sex was great, but we didn’t really click in any other way. I was going to break up with him, but then COVID-19 happened. I stayed with him because I didn’t think I’d be able to meet another sexual partner during a pandemic.

I feel like that’s going to change soon since things are opening up. I want to end the relationship, but he’s developed feelings for me and I’m not sure how to get out of it.

Bubble Burster

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Leading this guy on wasn’t a very nice thing to do. If you had told him back in the beginning that you didn’t see a future together but wanted to be “pandemic pound pals,” he might have been fine with the idea. At least he would have had the option to bow out. Since you can’t go back in time, you need to deal with your mistake and try not to make a mess of the situation.

I usually advise telling the truth, but in this case I recommend a little sugarcoating. Breaking up with him will leave him heartbroken for a while. Letting him know that you were toying with his emotions the whole time will make him feel heartbroken and used. And it likely will kill any chance of a

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If you’re single, wanna make me some OJ? Or at least go for a hike. When: Thursday, April 29, 2021. Where: Stowe Shaw’s. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915266 DENTAL DREAMS I was your 9 a.m. dental cleaning. You told me about your shark dreams.

We share the same name. Were you feelin’ the vibe? I’d love hear more about your dreams. :) When: Monday, April 26, 2021. Where: dentist office.

You: Woman. Me: Woman. #915264 PUFFY JACKET SPORTY SPICE Spotted you slinking through the cheese section. You said I smelled divine as I swooned for your Aubrey Plaza eyes. Care for a date? I’ll bring orange tulips if you bring Earthshaking poetry. When: Friday, April 23, 2021. Where: City Market. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #915263

WITCH AT PINGALA First time at the café and was served by an incredibly kind and amazing-looking woman in a witch-inspired getup. I was carrying a giant bamboo walking stick and ordered a coffee while we smalltalked about gothic dresses. Would love to be able to talk about other cool things over a picnic lunch, if the concept isn’t too terrible! When: Saturday, April 24, 2021. Where: Pingala Café. You: Woman. Me: Trans woman. #915262 BEHIND THE COUNTER AT WALGREENS You: behind the counter. Me: not. I think I could see you every day if you let me. You took care of my photos, and I appreciate it more than you know. You’re K—s-al, and I’m not. Thank you for the wonderful customer service. When: Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Where: Walgreens, Milton.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915260 RANDOMDORKY NAME Curious if you are actually interested or not, with our age differences. I am very serious in my post and what I want and am looking for on here. Are you? Not sure where you are located, but distance would never be an issue with me. Give me a clue about what the next move will be. When: Sunday, April 18, 2021. Where: Seven Days.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915258 CO-OP KITCHEN GUY The secret is out and the deli person knows who they are, as I confessed about the ad today. I never intended to cause any trouble for partnered people, and I likely read into it too much — sorry, folks! Awkwardness of the situation aside, you seem like a cool person, and I’d enjoy a friendly hangout if you’re interested. When: Thursday, April 8, 2021. Where: Hunger Mountain Coop.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915255 WHITE ACURA It would be nice to meet up in person one of these days instead of passing by each other on the road. When: Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Where: on the road.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915265 SHAMWOW And maybe when the time is right, we can meet again as strangers who know each other a little far too well. When: Sunday, April 4, 2021. Where: in my dreams. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915253

platonic friendship with this guy, if that’s even something you want.

Be honest about the facts that you don’t feel the same way he does and it’s time for you to move on. You can use the old standby “It’s not you, it’s me.” However you do it, you owe it to him to take his feelings into consideration and let him down easy.

Hopefully you’ll learn from this.

When you do meet someone new, don’t play around with their heart.

Sex is fantastic, but it’s even better when there’s an honest and open relationship at the bottom of it.

Good luck and God bless,

The Reverend

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Friends tell me I’m a clean-cut guy. #L1501

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I’m a SWM top guy seeking steady lover. Passionate gay or bi. Young, old fem. Must be into women’s clothes. Phone, please. #L1505

Traveling companion wanted. I would like to see the U.S. using an RV or motorhome with the possibility of relocating. #L1508

Widower man looking for woman for FWB, possible LTR and more. Send me your name and number; I’ll return your calls. Looking forward to meeting you! Please be over 18.

Race is not an issue. Thank you! #L1503

58-y/o SWF seeks SM 55 to 65. I enjoy outdoor activity in all types of weather, reading, conversation and travel. NEK location. #L1507 Seeking thin guys 18 to 30 y/o. Slender. Talk first. Phone number, please. #L1506

I’m a man seeking new friends for adventure. I hike Mount Philo almost every day and love to cross-country ski. #L1478

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Discreet oral bottom. 54y/o SWM, 5’8, slim, dark hair, blue eyes. Seeking any wellhung guys, 18 to 55 y/o, who are a good top and last a long time for more than one around.

Phone only, but text. Champlain Valley. #L1500 38-y/o SWM seeking male for LTR. Must live near the Plattsburgh, N.Y., area. I am average but cute-looking. I enjoy reading, videos and time with friends. Talking a must.

Your age: 35-plus. Nonsmoker.

Stability required. #L1499 GWM, mid-60s, 5’11, slim build.

Blue eyes, decent looking. Like walking, hiking, swimming.

Enjoy music, movies, gardening.

Mindful and kind. Looking for

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Reply to these messages with real, honest-to-goodness letters. DETAILS BELOW. LTR. 420-friendly. Southwest Vermont. Seeking GM, 55 to 70, tall, intelligent, humorous, energetic with integrity.

Nonsmoker who enjoys nature. #L1498 This week’s ancient as the great Madonna! Hollywood movie extra of the year. Community college art school dropout.

Stop making sense. Where’s my music man? #L1497 I’m a man who’s served our country honorably, looking for a tenderhearted woman, 56 to 67, with grit. I like to travel, go out to eat, go to the movies, play golf and listen to live music.

I own a home in Burlington and a camp in the mountains.

Financially secure. I have a grateful and humble attitude for everything in my life. #L1496 GWM looking for springtime hookups or longer if all goes well. Easygoing, nice guy in Rutland County. I like to play and like everything.

Respond with phone number. #L1493

56-y/o SW. Humbled, thoughtful. Hoping for a safe, kind, honest relationship with a man. Calm in nature, love for nature. Morning coffees, long walks, talks, sunsets, art, music, dance, friends, family, laughs!

Willing to see and resolve suffering. Unconditional love and support find me at home.

Phone number, please. #L1486 64-y/o SWF seeking SM, 50 to 75 y/o, for companionship.

Must be Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox, clean, COVID-free.

Interests: the arts, teaching, cooking, watching shows, Hallmark movies. Love animals, walks, coffee, tea, sunrises, sunsets. Consider a man’s heart more important. Phone number, please. #L1494 I’m a 39-y/o male seeking a female 18 to 45. Looking for a friend and pen pal first. I’m an honest, loyal, loving and determined person. I’m a Pagan (Asatru). I’m also a dork. I look forward to writing you. #L1488

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