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PCB TESTING QUESTIONS STILL UNANSWERED

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CHIEF’S CHOPS

Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad was listed as a production consultant for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Is he an expert in web-slinging?

JET BACK

A plane that took o from BTV on Monday had to turn around and make an emergency landing because of engine trouble. Thankfully, no one was hurt.

$46.4 million

That’s how much Vermont will receive over 15 years as part of a new opioid crisis-related settlement with two drug makers and two pharmacies.

FIVE

1. “Vermont’s Initial Round of Motel Evictions Previews What’s in Store for 2,000 More People” by Kevin McCallum & Derek Brouwer. Some headed to shelters or to friends’ homes; others picked up camping gear from groups that were handing it out.

2. “Burlington Asks to Turn State Office Building Into a Homeless Shelter” by Kevin McCallum. e city is considering an emergency makeover of the Vermont Department of Health offices on Cherry Street.

State health and education officials headed to Green Mountain High School in Chester last week to publicly discuss tests of the building for airborne PCBs. e upshot: 34 of 45 rooms showed results that need to be addressed. And eight of the nine rooms on the third floor had higher levels requiring immediate action — meaning they can’t be used until the issue is resolved.

Because only 10 days of school remained, state officials said it would be OK to use rooms not on the third floor to complete the year. One attendee asked who was going to pay for the extensive, costly work the school district now faces to address the root problem.

“ e answer to that is in flux right now,” said Patricia Coppolino, senior environmental program manager for the Department of Environmental Conservation.

Her noncommittal response underscored the murkiness that surrounds the state’s ambitious initiative to test roughly 300 older schools. After more than a year of testing and countless hours of legislative testimony, officials don’t seem to know the scope of the PCB problem in Vermont schools — or how much it will cost to fix.

Only about a quarter of the 321 public and independent schools eligible have been tested so far, Coppolino and state toxicologist Sarah Owen said. Of those, around 30 percent had PCB levels that must be addressed.

A proposed state budget contains $13.5 million to pay

for PCB abatement at schools, as well as $16 million for cleaning up the former Burlington High School campus, which was contaminated with the chemicals. e budget language specifies that the state will reimburse schools for their costs. But last month, Gov. Phil Scott vetoed the budget, leaving its fate in question.

PCB remediation is expensive. At Cabot School, where elevated levels of airborne PCBs were discovered in the gymnasium last fall, Caledonia Central Supervisory Union superintendent Mark Tucker said it may cost $250,000 just to remove PCB-containing paint from the gym ceiling. It could be cheaper to replace the entire roof. And that’s just one school.

House Education Committee chair Peter Conlon (D-Cornwall) pushed unsuccessfully to pause the testing while officials investigated the costs of remediation and come up with a plan to pay for it. Since the state is pushing for testing, he said, the state should resolve the funding.

Sen. Dick McCormack (D-Windsor), who attended the Green Mountain Union High School forum, urged community members to be patient with the bureaucratic process.

“I’m going to have to ask people to bear with the discomfort of uncertainty,” McCormack said. “I can say we’re not going to drop the issue — I can say that with certainty.”

Read Alison Novak’s full story at sevendaysvt.com.

SEE YA, SPONGY

For the past two summers, spongy moth caterpillars wreaked havoc in pockets of Vermont — stripping oak and maple trees, swinging from silken threads, and leaving behind a mess of excrement and chewed-up leaves.

In 2021, the hairy, spotted creatures defoliated 50,000 acres of forest. And in 2022, they ate their way through 40,000 acres. But this year, the insidious insects — formerly known as gypsy moths — haven’t been spotted yet. Are we finally in the clear?

It’s too early in the season to say for sure, but Josh Halman, forest health program manager for the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, is cautiously optimistic.

REPPIN’ VERMONT

U.S. Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) was named to the House Judiciary Committee. She’ll go toe to toe with some of the chamber’s hard-right members.

POPULATION GROWTH

Data collected in January show that the number of homeless people in Vermont grew by 19 percent this year. And that doesn’t include people in the motel program…

3. “Randolph Student and Her Father Settle Locker Room Lawsuit” by Alison Novak. e girl and father, a coach, sued the school district after being punished for complaining that a transgender student had used the girls’ locker room.

4. “Burlington’s South End Get Down and the Pinery Are the Work of Young Entrepreneurs With Deep Vermont Roots” by Jordan Barry. Who started these gatherings? Seven Days explains.

5. “Concerns About Building Height Reemerge With Zoning Proposal for Burlington’s South End” by Courtney Lamdin. e city is again considering whether to allow housing construction in the neighborhood.

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A week into June, Halman said his department hadn’t received any citizen reports of spongy moth activity. In 2021 and 2022, it started getting calls about the caterpillars in mid-May, he said.

Halman attributed the decline to several factors. When the spongy moth outbreak started two years ago, Vermont was in the middle of a deep drought. e water-loving fungus that typically kills the caterpillar larvae couldn’t proliferate. But in the past year, there’s been ample moisture.

Further, Halman said, caterpillar outbreaks typically follow a bell curve — with the situation reaching a peak of awfulness, then crashing. Right now, we’re likely at the tail end of that curve.

Last fall, Halman and his fellow foresters

surveyed nine plots around the state looking for spongy moth egg masses — something the forest department has been doing for the past 30 years — and found significantly fewer than they had in 2020 and 2021.

Later this month, the foresters will take to the air in a Cessna four-seater piloted by the Vermont wing of the Civil Air Patrol to quantify what kind of impact, if any, the caterpillars are having. ey’ll also be able to assess whether the caterpillars did any permanent damage to Vermont’s trees in 2021 and 2022.

Historically, spongy moth outbreaks occur every 15 years or so, Halman noted. If that pattern holds, Vermonters can breathe a sigh of relief — until 2036, at least.

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MISSING MONUMENT

[“How Now?” The Dairy Issue, May 31]: How and why would one write so much about the dairy industry in Vermont and not even mention Monument Farms? Its products are widely available around Vermont and have been around since the 1930s. It processes and bottles all of its products one-quarter mile from the farm and is overall very transparent about how it treats the herds and runs the business. All of this information is easily available on its website, and it truly deserved to be highlighted in the Dairy Issue.

Nora Bodner BURLINGTON

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ORGANIC IS THE ANSWER

Seven

[Re “‘Get Big or Get Out,’” May 31]: Fabulous that you are taking on the plight of cow farming, but why no cost analysis? How much does it cost (land, animals, vets, feed) against potential earnings (selling to processors, selfprocessing, farmstand, grocers, animal sales)? While acknowledging differences in mortgages and philosophy, ultimately we want to justify why milk and butter are so expensive while being told the price is depressed. I was also glad to see that two valid solutions for waste were presented: biodigestion and regenerative farming. These should just be policy in the state.

Ultimately, James Maroney has the best idea of them all: Long live the Organic Republic of Vermont!

Zach Leinen COLCHESTER

FARMING IN CONNECTICUT

[Re “‘Get Big or Get Out,’” May 31]: I am a longtime dairy farmer who left milking in 2022 after 50 years of milking my own herd of Holsteins. I made the switch to rotational grazing in 1995. We still have about 30 heifers that are rotationally grazed. I believe we were one of about six dairy farmers to do this and the only one for years that moved fence twice a day — until some smaller herds that process

CORRECTIONS

Last week’s cover story about Jeff Sharlet, “Seeing Is Believing,” miscalculated the number of states that have adopted anti-trans legislation: So far in 2023, 45 states have introduced or successfully passed such laws. Also, the publication date of Sharlet’s breakout book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, was wrong: it came out in 2009.

A photo in last week’s story “Gimme Shelter,” about the “Elements of Sculpture” exhibit at the Vermont Arts Council sculpture garden in Montpelier, misidentified Johno Landsman. The same photo was miscredited: it was shot by Sally Pollak.

The Center for the Agricultural Economy program that will be moving to the Yellow Barn project in Hardwick was wrongly identified in the May 31 story “Cheese, Please.” The program is the center’s Farm Connex, which provides trucking for farms and food businesses.

their own milk joined me in the past 10 years or so. The past five years have been a dairy disaster, especially since COVID19 and the quota system enforced upon us. I probably will have enough heifers calving later this year, but with my age and the milk price forecast, I’d be crazy to continue.

The secret to farming in Connecticut has always been a wife with a good job or if your land has a bank on it named “gravel bank.” We chose agritourism 24 years ago with a corn maze. It quite literally saved the farm.

I liked your article, as it spoke volumes about what is wrong with the dairy farm industry across the U.S. Too much “get big or get out.” As far as organic milk is concerned, the science and caring about animals in me would never allow me to not use antibiotics. I just couldn’t sit by and try quack homeopathic remedies instead of drugs that really work. Hopefully you’ll continue to update this story as there are fewer but larger of us to write about.

Jerry Grabarek PRESTON, CT

OFFENSIVE HEADLINE

In Alison Novak’s attempt to be cute with the title of her article [“Physical Education,” May 24], she did a disservice to physical education professionals across the state — teachers who day after day do their best to accommodate for students’ differences and teach for inclusion and acceptance. I notice it was not called “Special Education,” mostly likely because it would have caused a backlash. The title Novak used is no less offensive.

May this letter serve as a teachable moment.

Marie Froeschl ESSEX

Editor’s note: Reporters don’t typically write the headlines for their stories; editors do. Novak did not write this one.

SEE ME

The article [“Queer and There: Vermont Towns Swell With Pride Events in June,” May 31] seems to do a good job of illustrating a fundamental shift in Pride month that your non-LGBTQ audiences may not be aware of. Lately, it feels to me that Pride is not really for gay or lesbian people anymore. True, there is nothing that explicitly states this exclusion, but it’s pretty obvious when you’re actually a gay or lesbian person. To use your article as an example, the word “gay” is used six times throughout the entire three-page article. The word “lesbian” fairs even worse, with only one mention. However, the words “trans” (15) and “queer” (18) were used a total of 33 times.

Let me be clear: I believe trans and queer folks have as much of a right to Pride as any other letter in the LGBTQ acronym. And shouldn’t we be including all the letters equally? Gay marriage might be legal, but gays and lesbians still need our community support, too! In general, it’s hard to feel included in the LGBTQ scene in Vermont when there are no fulltime gay bars here (the last one in the Burlington area was canceled in 2017), the Pride Center of Vermont rarely offers gay or lesbian programming, and what few pockets of underground gay spaces may have existed before the pandemic are pretty much gone.

So please excuse me if I, as a lesbian Vermonter, don’t feel very “proud” in Vermont this month. It doesn’t seem like there is much left for me to be proud of.

Anna C. Vann ESSEX JUNCTION

A CASE FOR ‘IT’

[Re Feedback: “Language Evolves,” May 31; “Grammar Advice,” May 17]: Moving from “he/she/they” to “they” laudably advances gender equality but unfortunately sacrifices numerical precision. This will lead to a mix of mistakes and contorted language in much of what we do and transact. Think of a legal procedure: Was the bank robbed by Willie Sutton or the Beagle Boys? There is a better, win-win solution here: Use “it” for singular and “they” for plural. “It”

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Bad Healings

Book review: If It Sounds Like a Quack... A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine

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Exeunt Strategy

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Dinner Service

Volunteers keep up the 30-year tradition of community meals in Burlington’s Old North End

Actor Treat Williams Dies in Vermont Motorcycle Crash

Private Probe

Key testimony in the impeachment of a Franklin County official is being held in secret

Road to Entrepreneurship

A new lending initiative helps Vermonters of color launch and build businesses

Lawson’s Finest Liquids

Names Adeline Druart as CEO

FEATURES 30

Model Citizens

Meet “Electra’s engineers,” who keep Shelburne Museum’s toy trains on track

A play inspired by Vermont’s end-of-life law celebrates a twilight friendship

Now You See It

In a new film, Vanish, local photographer Jim Westphalen traces a fading American countryside

The Right Thingies

Hyunsuk Erickson’s “ ingumabob Society” is a gleeful installation with a hopeful mission

FOOD +DRINK 40

Hometown

Honey Champlain Apiary delivers a delicious educational experience

No Beef Empress Levi prepares vegan soul food for Juneteenth Batter Up Dosa Kitchen brings South Indian flavors home

MAGNIFICENT

FRIDAY 16

Divine Comedy

Standup fans don’t pay a dime at Tina Friml and Friends Night of Comedy. Following her latest Comedy Central special, the New York City-based comedian shares a hometown set as part of Town Hall eater’s All-Access Series, offering free arts performances in Middlebury throughout the summer courtesy of an anonymous donation.

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SATURDAY 17 & SUNDAY 18

Origin Stories

Everyone learns from the Native American community at Abenaki Heritage Weekend at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes. Attendees observe or participate in drumming, storytelling, bead-making and other Indigenous wisdom with citizens of the Elnu Abenaki Tribe, the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, the Koasek Traditional Band of the Koas Abenaki Nation and the Missisquoi Abenaki Tribe.

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SUNDAY 18

Merry Berry

SATURDAY 17

SUN AND DANCE

Avant Vermont Dance debuts

SEASONS: Summer four nature-themed evenings of dance and community art making. e family-friendly gathering at Comtu Cascade Park in Springfield highlights ballet and modern dance by local choreographer Ashley HenselBrowning while a local artist creates a sapling sculpture with attendees and Black River Coffee Bar serves up summery

, the first of beverages.

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Music Without Borders

Harpist Larry Bellorín and banjo and fiddle player Joe Troop blend their respective Venezuelan and North Carolinian influences in a folk fusion they call “latingrass.” e accomplished pair combines music with storytelling about social movements to mark Make Music Day — a worldwide celebration of free concerts — at Randolph’s Chandler Center for the Arts.

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In its 48th year, Middletown Springs Historical Society’s annual Strawberry Festival rivals Memorial Day as the official marker of summer’s start. Locals and those in the know enjoy shortcake with fresh berries, homemade biscuits and ice cream while perusing local crafts. A special children’s program marks the opening of the society’s new exhibit of vintage childhood toys, books and ephemera and is BYOTB — bring your own teddy bear.

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ONGOING Cold Hard Facts

Carbon dioxide released by thawing permafrost presents a major environmental challenge, with significant consequences for the climate around the world. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich tackles the subject head-on in “Under the Arctic: Digging Into Permafrost,” a touring exhibit featuring a walk-in replica of Alaska’s permafrost research tunnel. Visitors learn the implications — and where we go from here — through solid science and interactive experiments.

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ONGOING On the Clock

“TICK-Tock,” a new exhibit at Vermont Studio Center’s Red Mill Gallery in Johnson, gives new meaning to “quality time.” Artist Trevor Corp combined elements of woodworking, metalsmithing and printmaking — among other disciplines — to make whimsical but functional sculptures centered on clocks. e results are well worth your time.

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Crowded House

I had 600 people over on Saturday. My home on Lakeview Terrace was one of six on the annual self-guided tour and fundraiser organized by Preservation Burlington, a local nonprofit whose motto is “Keeping history relevant.”

When tour chair Matt Viens first popped the question, back in March, he conceded that my place was not a great example of historic architecture or preservation; there’s nothing special about the furnishings, either. But thanks to the previous owners, it represents a dramatic renovation in a changing neighborhood with a great backstory. I wrote an essay for Seven Days about the house — a love letter, really — soon after I bought it in 2009. Its greatest selling point is a 180-degree view of Lake Champlain that includes the landmark Moran Plant. For the 35 years the facility was operational, producing power on the industrial Burlington waterfront, the south wind reliably blew dust from coal, and then wood, over this street on a blu at the western edge of the city. The mostly working-class residents of Lakeview Terrace lived in modest homes that were packed in tight, their lake-facing yards crowded with sheds and other practical outbuildings. They hung out on front, not back, porches, to avoid the pollution.

The neighborhood started to attract a di erent demographic after the Moran Plant shut down in 1986. As old-timers have left or died, their properties have been snatched up by more a uent home buyers, many of whom made significant improvements. The backyard sheds have been replaced by lush gardens, Adirondack chairs and quite a few Airbnbs. Apartment buildings have sprouted on either end of the street, but, as real estate values have climbed steadily, long-term renters know they’ll probably never be able to buy here.

I said yes to Matt in part because others on the lake side of the street said no. Participating would help Preservation Burlington. And, at the time, June 10 seemed a long way o .

But as the day approached, I started to get nervous. Not about having to clean the house or the prospect of it being overrun by strangers — though the sight of people streaming up the stairs, into the bedroom I share with my partner, Tim Ashe, is one I won’t soon forget.

It’s that I’ve developed a weird social anxiety over the years: Exacerbated by the pandemic, it’s a fear that I won’t recognize or remember people I’ve already met. I know of others who’ve had similar reactions since coming out from behind their KN95s. People look di erent when all you can see are their eyes.

My panic must have showed — or this mostly unmasked group was uncannily perceptive. Many people introduced themselves again, including one I met just a few weeks ago for co ee at Muddy Waters. Everyone was kind and understanding and grateful to have the run of the place. And they left no trace; it was the largest, cleanest party we’ve ever hosted. Of course, Tim and I could have abandoned ship for the duration of the four-hour tour, gone somewhere else for the afternoon. Many homeowners choose that option, apparently. But we decided to stay and are glad we did. We showed visitors detailed photos, provided by a former owner, of the late 1980s renovation. We pointed out cherished artwork we’ve collected over the years by Vermont artists Gail Salzman, Sara Katz, Sabra Field, Harry Bliss, Ed Koren, Alison Bechdel, Katharine Montstream, Beth Pearson, Abby Manock, Matt Thorsen, Gillian Klein and others. And I saw — and greeted — plenty of Super Readers who are supporting Seven Days financially.

Tim and I wore name tags. I just wish everyone else did, too — everywhere, all the time.

Paula Routly

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Dinner Service

Volunteers keep up the 30-year tradition of community meals in Burlington’s Old North End

STORY & PHOTOS BY COURTNEY LAMDIN • courtney@sevendaysvt.com

Just after 3 p.m. last Thursday, Jess Hyman called together her team of cooks at the Old North End Community Center and handed out marching orders for that evening’s food service.

The all-volunteer crew, none of them trained chefs, had signed up to make dinner for dozens of their neighbors in Burlington’s Old North End. Their to-do list was long: make 200 vegetable spring rolls, a vat of sticky rice and chickpeas, and a salad with cucumbers and mint, all in about two hours. Mercifully, other folks were handling dessert.

Hyman quickly set her charges to work.

“We want to be ready to be rolling those spring rolls in 20 minutes, so get those veggies prepped,” she said, then raced to set up the food processor.

The organized chaos is routine for the ONE Community Dinner, a free meal that’s planned, cooked and served by a rotating cast of volunteers every month on the evening of the Wards 2 & 3 Neighborhood

Actor Treat Williams Dies in Vermont Motorcycle Crash

BY KATIE FUTTERMAN kfutterman@sevendaysvt.com

Planning Assembly meeting. The 30-year tradition is the envy of other NPAs, some of which only recently started serving food in the hope that residents, lured by the promise of pizza, will linger for the neighborhood discussions to follow.

The formula has worked well in the Old North End, where the dinner has been known to draw more than 150 people. But the pandemic paused the gatherings, and

Actor Treat Williams, who was best known for starring in the 1979 film Hair during a career that spanned nearly 50 years, died on Monday after a motorcycle crash in Dorset, according to Vermont State Police. He was 71.

Williams was riding his 1986 Honda motorcycle north on Route 30 when he collided with a southbound SUV making a turn in front of him. Williams, who was wearing a helmet, was unable to stop in time and was thrown from his motorcycle. He was flown by helicopter to Albany Medical Center, where he later died, according to police.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Vermont State Police said there was no indication that the driver of the other vehicle, a 35-year-old man from Pownal, was impaired. e crash remains under investigation.

Williams’ first credited role was for the 1975 film Deadly Hero. He later appeared in Steven Spielberg’s 1941 and played the starring role as George Berger in the rock musical Hair, which was based on a Broadway show of the same name. For his performance, Williams earned a Golden Globe nomination for new star of the year. He earned another nomination for his role in Prince of the City in 1981 and played roles in several television programs, including Dr. Andrew Brown in “Everwood.”

Just a few hours before the crash, Williams tweeted a photo of a tractor with the caption, “Mowing today. Wish I could bottle the scent.”

Vermont actor Allan Nicholls also starred as George Berger, but as a member of the original cast of the Broadway musical Hair. In an email to Seven Days, Nicholls said he met Williams just once, on the set of the film version.

“He is one of the gracious few that have the ability to perform a great role as well as being a good person to be around,” Nicholls wrote. “To say that he will be missed by his peers is an understatement for sure.” ➆

Servers Varney Glassman and Maris Linder

Dinner at the Old North End Community Center

Treat Williams

Private Probe

Key testimony in the impeachment of a Franklin County official is being held in secret

STORY & PHOTOS BY KEVIN MCCALLUM • kevin@sevendaysvt.com

The moment of truth came last week for the women who work in the Franklin County State’s Attorney’s office, as state lawmakers began hearing testimony about the harassment and discrimination they say they endured for years from State’s Attorney John Lavoie.

Their testimony could prove crucial to helping a seven-member House Special Committee on Impeachment Inquiry decide whether the veteran prosecutor committed offenses serious enough to warrant his removal from office, something that hasn’t happened in Vermont in more than 200 years.

Yet when the moment came — at 9 a.m. last Thursday — lawmakers on the committee voted, over the objections of Vermont journalists, to hear the testimony in secret. The reason they cited: risk of retaliation against employees.

Lawmakers, their staffs and attorneys promptly packed up their things and left a large Statehouse meeting room for a smaller one upstairs from which the public and the media were barred.

There, last Thursday and Friday, and again Monday, lawmakers heard teleconference testimony from witnesses. All the “fact witnesses” — those discussing Lavoie’s alleged conduct — are likely to testify this way, said Rep. Martin LaLonde (D-South Burlington), chair of the committee.

The parallel investigation into Franklin County Sheriff John Grismore, who was fired from the department for kicking a shackled suspect in the groin but still

won the office in the November election, hasn’t reached the witness testimony stage yet. How that process will be handled has not yet been determined, LaLonde said.

The secrecy in Lavoie’s case is necessary to preserve the integrity of the investigation, protect vulnerable people from having to testify publicly about traumatic incidents and encourage more people with useful information to come forward, LaLonde said.

“Preliminary investigations are kept confidential to protect the rights and privacy of witnesses, as well as the accused,” LaLonde, an attorney who formerly worked for the U.S. Justice Department, told Seven Days

The committee is “on solid ground” to keep details of its investigation private at this point, LaLonde said. He noted that impeachment processes in other states operated similarly, including that of Connecticut governor John Rowland, who resigned in 2004, and former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who was impeached in 2009.

Details of the recorded testimony would likely become public should the House recommend impeachment for either man to the Senate, which would then decide whether and how to hold something resembling a trial, LaLonde said.

But at this stage, it’s important for the committee to be able to hear from people

John Lavoie

attendance has dropped off since. Then in March, the dinner’s beloved coordinator, Janet Carscadden, died from brain cancer. Those taking her place are determined to carry on her legacy.

Hyman, the new coordinator, knew last week’s menu was ambitious. Her Vietnamese-inspired spring rolls, for instance, called for nearly 20 ingredients between the fillings and dipping sauces. To save time on this day, Hyman

had prepared a colorful mise en place of carrots, radishes and violets, the latter plucked from her Intervale garden plot, the previous night. She’d left early from her day job as associate director of statewide housing advocacy programs at the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity to organize the volunteers’ workstations.

Kristine Harbour had already put in a long day at her restaurant, Nunyuns Bakery & Café, but she had signed up for a dinner shift after Hyman posted a call for

help on the neighborhood Facebook page. It was her first time volunteering there.

“I don’t want to get into doing dishes because I do enough of that at work,” she said with a laugh, while tearing stems off bunches of cilantro. “But I actually enjoy doing food stuff.”

The small space was abuzz. Exhaust fans whirred and sprays of hot water hit stainless steel pans. The industrial-grade food processor, rescued from a dumpster, rumbled to life and spit out neat slices of cucumber.

Most of the produce, donated by the Intervale Community Farm and Diggers’ Mirth Collective Farm, was grown within a mile of the kitchen. The cost is covered by donations from diners, gift cards from City Market, Onion River Co-op and a portion of the NPA budget. The volunteers shared a tight space. Mulu Tewelde, who prepares Eritrean and Ethiopian takeout meals at the center under the banner

Mulu’s Kitchen and Catering, staked out a corner of the stockroom to peel red potatoes. KeruBo came downstairs from AALV, a nonprofit that helps African people settle in Vermont, to make chai for a women’s group that she leads, tiptoeing around the cooks to carry a large pot of water to the stove.

Nearby, dinner volunteer Anne Crowley cut kale into ribbons as she reminisced about Carscadden, who acted as chef-in-chief for eight years. A “benevolent general” who commanded the kitchen with both humor and grace, Carscadden “was unbelievable,” Crowley said. “It was a work of art to watch her. I’ve never been able to have that many plates spinning.”

Even though the community dinner had been served for nearly 25 years before Carscadden took over, most people today credit her with its success. A physical therapist by day, Carscadden poured creativity into what she and her partner, Patrick Johnson, called “stealth vegan” dinners: meals so substantial that no one missed the meat or dairy. Carscadden’s obituary noted her approach to the work. “Strengthening the community bonds through good food was truly her gift to us,” it reads.

Carscadden’s cooking provided the fuel for debates on important city issues over the years — conversations that Johnson facilitated as a member of the NPA steering committee. As one of the lower-income and more diverse areas in Burlington, the Old North End is a hotbed of activism and Progressive politics. A shared meal helps keep the discourse collegial, Johnson said before last week’s dinner.

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WHAT YOU’RE SEEING KEPT THE COMMUNITY DINNER GOING: FLEXIBILITY AND PERSISTENCE.

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“The quality of conversations always went up,” he said. “The meetings became less of a diatribe … and more of an interaction.”

Johnson has stepped back from running the show since his partner’s death, and last week, Hyman wasn’t sure if he’d come at all. Carscadden’s memorial service was planned for that weekend, and relatives from her native Toronto were due to arrive in town. But then Hyman saw Johnson’s name on the volunteer list. He was on his way but running late.

With 40 minutes to go, Harbour, Crowley and another volunteer, Ella Xu, assembled the rolls as quickly as the finicky rice paper allowed. Handled clumsily, the wrappers would stick together like Saran Wrap. Piled too high with fillings, the rolls would split open like overstuffed burritos.

“You need a little bit more water,” Harbour suggested, when Crowley’s wrappers kept sticking to the table.

“Ohh!” Crowley said and thanked her for the tip.

Johnson and Janet Hicks, one of the dinner’s founders, walked in shortly after. Hyman was initially relieved that reinforcements had arrived, but then she heard the longtime friends quibbling over seasoning for the sticky rice.

“The big debate is whether the flavors of the chickpeas [will go with the rice],” Hyman said, as she whipped up a batch of peanut sauce. “My concern is whether the rice is going to be cooked!”

The banter continued as Hicks playfully snatched a jar of chile oil from Johnson when he couldn’t unscrew the lid. But the jar slipped from her hands and shattered, scattering glass shards and bright red sauce

all over the floor. Any tension in the room broke, too, as they cleaned up the mess.

“What you’re seeing kept the community dinner going,” Hicks said, turning to a Seven Days reporter. “Flexibility and persistence.”

Added Crowley: “We’ve been flying by the seat of our pants for all of these years.”

Somehow, the meal was prepared by 5:30 p.m.; a line had already formed. A new group of volunteers served 85 eager diners, who marveled at the intricate rolls and array of condiments and slipped donations into a tin box. They sat at the long tables set up for the meeting, or at the kids’ activity table in the back. A group of Progressive lawmakers clustered together, but others mixed it up and met neighbors they didn’t know.

One woman was telling her dining companions about her new food truck and her husband’s enviable job as a flavor developer for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. The group’s conversation flowed smoothly between bites of food. One diner paused to proclaim: “This is so good.”

As the meeting got under way, the clean-up shift was just beginning. The muted clanging of dishes sounded through the closed kitchen door. ➆

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A new lending initiative helps Vermonters of color launch and build businesses

BY ALISON NOVAK • alison@sevendaysvt.com

Hannington Kasagga was an Uber driver in Burlington when he came up with an idea for a new business: a trolley tour company like the ones he’d encountered in Savannah, Ga., where he lived after emigrating from Uganda in 2018.

He pitched the concept to his friend Catherine Turyamureeba, a fellow Ugandan whom he’d met on the job, driving her to work at the Burlington Hilton, where she is the front desk manager. Turyamureeba was sold — and even convinced her sister, Barbara Asiimwe, who has a background in banking, to go in on the business.

In 2022, the three approached a Burlington bank in hopes of securing a loan but were denied. Instead, they were directed to the Vermont Community Loan Fund, a Montpelier-based alternative lender that had recently launched a pilot program aimed at providing zero- or low-interest loans of up to $40,000 to new Americans and people of color. Through that program, called the Justice Forward Fund, Kasagga and his partners were able to secure a loan large enough for a down payment on a trolley — which cost more than $200,000 — that will anchor their fledgling business, Burlington Trolley Tours.

That’s just the kind of initiative the loan fund was looking to support when it started

the experimental lending program in late 2021, said Jake Ide, the fund’s director of investment and philanthropy. Since the Community Loan Fund was launched in 1987, it has lent more than $125 million to local businesses, nonprofits, childcare providers and developers of affordable housing. Most of the capital comes from Vermonters who put their money into fixed-maturity accounts, similar to certificates of deposit, that currently

have a fixed-interest rate between 2 and 2.5 percent. At the moment, the loan fund manages a portfolio of $33 million, from approximately 460 investors.

The seeds for the Justice Forward Fund were planted in 2018, when the Community Loan Fund’s staff and board were coming up with a strategic plan and identified new Americans as a group they might better serve, Ide said.

The loan fund soon began reaching out

to organizations, including the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity and the Association of Africans Living in Vermont, to pinpoint gaps in access to financial services for people of color. Client surveys provided some insight.

“We found some pretty stark realities that weren’t necessarily surprising but certainly were laid out very clearly for us,” Ide said.

Among the findings: Five out of six Vermont entrepreneurs of color reported experiencing racism, discrimination or bias when they sought financial services. Half of the respondents said they feared being denied financial services; half said they had difficulty communicating with banking officials or loan officers about their business plans.

The loan fund also wanted to find what type of financing would be most helpful to people of color and discovered that most sought a more streamlined application process and loans in smaller dollar amounts, with no fees and low interest rates. Recognizing the wealth gap and disparities in U.S. homeownership between white people and those of color, the fund decided to waive the collateral requirement customary for most business loans.

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Hannington Kasagga and Catherine Turyamureeba

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“It was important to make this capital the cheapest, most accessible capital that the loan fund offers,” Ide said.

The fund capped the Justice Forward lending program at $1 million. Interest rates would range from 0 to 3 percent, depending on the borrower’s net worth. The fund secured $350,000 in philanthropic donations from two Vermont families to offset the low rates.

By April, the Justice Forward Fund had lent out the full $1 million, spread among 34 loans for businesses expected to create jobs for 62 Vermonters of color, according to Ide. Borrowers included a pet care company in Monkton, an Afghan

the continuing education program at Keene State College in New Hampshire to earn his credentials to teach driver’s ed.

Haji learned to drive after graduating from Burlington High School, and only then by asking mentors and family members to take him out to practice. He hopes to make driver’s education more equitable by tapping into the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation’s Advancement Grant program, which helps Vermonters pay for training and certificate programs outside traditional college classes. He has also reached out to AALV and the Vermont Afghan Alliance about forming partnerships.

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natural market in Essex Junction and an online fashion business geared to people with disabilities in Orange. The fund’s staff members are now assessing the pilot program’s successes and shortcomings and plan to relaunch it this fall in permanent form.

Former Burlington School Board commissioner Aden Haji, a Somali refugee who came to Vermont as a child in 2003, used a Justice Forward Fund loan to purchase a 2023 Volkswagen Jetta to start his new business, Haji Driving Academy.

Haji, a University of Vermont graduate, said his experience working with community youth organizations revealed a big need for driving lessons in immigrant communities. During the pandemic, he took online classes through

He plans to launch a driving class for teens in Burlington’s Old North End this summer.

Meantime, the promoters of the new trolley operation are eager to get it rolling. Last week, the shiny, dark red 33-seater — built in Wisconsin and customized to handle Vermont’s wide-ranging weather conditions — arrived at the Burlington waterfront. The trolley, with a tour guide aboard, will take locals and tourists on narrated, 45-minute sightseeing trips in and around the Queen City, starting on Thursday, June 15.

Turyamureeba and Kasagga said the support they’ve received since unveiling their idea for the business validates their decisions to make a home in Vermont.

“It’s easy to connect with people,” Kasagga said. “People are willing to help.” ➆

Learn more about Burlington Trolley Tours at burlingtontrolley.com

Learn more about Haji Driving Academy at hajidriving.com.

Learn more about the Vermont Community Loan Fund at investinvermont.org.

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Lawson’s Finest Liquids Names Adeline Druart as Its CEO

BY ANNE WALLACE ALLEN anne@sevendaysvt.com

in private, he said, likening it to a grand jury.

The Vermont Press Association, Vermont Association of Broadcasters and WCAX-TV all protested the decision. Impeaching an elected official is of such consequence that “every step of the process should be open and transparent,” wrote Matthew Byrne, an attorney for the Vermont Press Association, in a letter submitted to the committee. (Byrne has represented Seven Days in other matters.)

Waitsfield brewery Lawson’s Finest Liquids has hired Adeline Druart, the recent president of Vermont Creamery, as its new CEO.

Brewery cofounders Sean and Karen Lawson said on Tuesday that they plan to take a small step back from day-today operations at their business, which employs 85 people.

Druart, who worked at the artisanal cheesemaker in Websterville for 19 years and oversaw its acquisition by Land O’Lakes, has a track record of success, said Sean, who is stepping down as CEO. Druart rose through the ranks of Vermont Creamery under the leadership of founders Allison Hooper and Bob Reese, and stayed on after Land O’Lakes acquired it in 2017.

“Adeline is someone that knows their way around a founder-led enterprise and has been on that journey before,” Sean said.

Lawson’s Finest is a central Vermont success story that started in 2008 as a brewery and wholesale distributor. The two-person business started winning awards in 2010, hired its first employee in 2016, and opened a new brewery and a taproom in 2018. It distributes beer in nine northeastern states.

The couple, who own 100 percent of the business, are committed to giving away a share of the brewery’s profits. They said they’ve donated more than $1.9 million to community organizations and causes since 2018.

Druart is on the board of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility and has worked with the nonprofit Let’s Grow Kids to make childcare more accessible to Vermont families. She said Lawson’s social mission was one thing that attracted her to the job.

Druart, who moved to the U.S. from her native France to work in cheesemaking, acknowledged that brewing is a male-dominated industry.

“I got chosen because of my credentials,” she said. “But I look forward to being part of the conversation to listen, learn and see how I can impact the diversity efforts in this industry.” ➆

The committee’s justifications “do not hold up to scrutiny,” he wrote. Crime victims, including children, testify in open court all the time, he noted. People also have the right to confront their accusers. And cross-examining testimony is an important way to assure its truthfulness, Byrne told Seven Days

Furthermore, Byrne said, the public has a right to know and assess how the impeachment process plays out in real time in the House, not just the details that may come to light later, if the case moves to trial in the Senate.

Lisa Loomis, president of the Vermont Press Association and editor of the Valley Reporter in Waitsfield, also cited the weight of the proceedings in arguing for openness.

“The possible removal of two highlevel elected county officials is an important public issue, especially when voters have put the two targets into office,” she wrote. “The Vermont Legislature has a longstanding tradition of conducting its business in the open and we hope it will continue.”

It did not. LaLonde and Rep. Mike McCarthy (D-St. Albans), vice chair of the committee, replied by outlining all the reasons they felt the secrecy was justified. In a letter and in remarks to the committee, McCarthy stressed that the impeachment process calls for the House to investigate and the Senate to make the decision whether to remove someone from office.

“In order to find out the facts, we need to be able to offer people the opportunity to testify and present evidence in confidence and behind closed doors,” he wrote.

LaLonde, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, acknowledged that there have been times when legislative committees have taken public testimony on sensitive information in ways that shield a witness’ identity. But in this case, he said, secrecy is also needed to keep details of the investigation under wraps, such as tips about who else the committee should interview.

The committee, saying it needed to review the unredacted version of an investigatory report into Lavoie’s conduct, went

into its first closed-door executive session on June 1.

The explosive 10-page report was commissioned earlier this year by the Department of State’s Attorneys and Sheriffs after employees in Lavoie’s office complained that he had long acted inappropriately in the workplace. Lavoie has been a prosecutor for 37 years, 18 of them in Franklin County, and was elected state’s attorney in November after Jim Hughes, who endorsed him, retired.

the complete report. So after the attorneys who wrote it, Kristina Brines and Kerin Stackpole, answered a few questions about their investigation in public session on June 1, they went behind closed doors.

Not all of the committee’s work is being done in secret. It has heard publicly from attorneys on the impeachment process and its history in Vermont.

It has also added some legal firepower while in public session. The committee hired South Burlington attorney Rich Cassidy under a $10,000 contract to advise them on labor law. It also hired Burlington firm Downs Rachlin Martin for $75,000.

The report, written by two attorneys at Burlington law firm Paul Frank + Collins, says Lavoie used phrases such as “whore” and “fucking slutbag” and “the c word.” He also once mentioned that someone had “magnificent boobs.”

The report outlines incidents in which Lavoie grabbed an employee’s ID and stuffed it into the top of her dress, pinched an employee to suggest she was overweight, and made inappropriate remarks about people’s sexual orientation, national origins and disabilities. Some employees cried over Lavoie’s comments. One spoke to a counselor, the report says.

Lavoie acknowledged publicly that his “sense of humor is often inappropriate” and said he apologized to the people he offended but has defied calls to resign.

All of the names and identifying information in the report were redacted in the version released to the public in late April, but the impeachment panel wanted to see

That firm will investigate Sheriff Grismore’s use of force. Last Friday, Rep. Matt Birong (D-Vergennes) revealed during the committee’s open session that the probe of Grismore is expanding. Downs Rachlin Martin will also try to determine whether the sheriff “is misusing the Office for an improper purpose or personal gain” or is “engaged in any other activity that violates the public trust,” its contract states. The Vermont State Police are also investigating “questionable” records uncovered during an audit of the department, according to the agency.

Neither Lavoie nor Grismore returned calls for comment.

Lavoie has hired Burlington attorney Ian Carleton, who had made inquiries to the panel’s attorneys about the process, LaLonde said. Carleton did not respond to a request to discuss the case with Seven Days

Neither Lavoie nor Carleton has been allowed into the closed sessions with other witnesses, but Lavoie will likely be given the opportunity to testify — privately — to protect any witnesses he might identify, LaLonde said.

While witnesses may not face crossexamination as they would in a courtroom, LaLonde said lawmakers have diverse points of view and take their responsibility very seriously.

“We will try to be as objective as we can,” he said. “I will ask tough questions of witnesses, whatever side they are on.”

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From left: Sens. Randy Brock (R-Franklin) and Robert Norris (R-Franklin) listening to John Lavoie at the Statehouse last month

IN ORDER TO FIND OUT THE FACTS, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO OFFER PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY AND PRESENT EVIDENCE IN CONFIDENCE AND BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

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Ann Kandiss Thermansen

DECEMBER 1, 1948JUNE 2, 2023

SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT.

Ann “Kandi” Kandiss ermansen, 74, of North Jefferson Road in South Burlington, died on Friday, June 2, 2023, at the University of Vermont Medical Center, following a long series of illnesses.

Kandi was born on December 1, 1948, in Neenah, Wis., the daughter of Richard and Ann (Post) Kelly. She was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, class of 1971. On May 5, 1973, she was married in St. Margaret Mary Church in Neenah, Wis., to Mark Christopher ermansen.

Kandi lived all over the United States, as her husband’s career with IBM included many transfers and opportunities. Here

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in Vermont, Kandi worked as chief admin officer/director of human services, where she was instrumental in building Champlain Housing Trust (CHT). She was admired and beloved by her coworkers and built many lasting friendships at CHT and elsewhere. She was the prime mover and world traveler for the entire family. She lived a life full to the brim, every day, every moment.

Kandi is survived by her

husband, Mark; daughter Jennifer O’Brien, and her husband, Kevin; daughterin-law Kate Thermansen; three grandchildren, Graham O’Brien and Finnegan and Angus Thermansen; sister Pam Eveline and her husband, Greg; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents and two sons, Christopher (1974) and Joshua (2019).

Memorial services will be held on Saturday, August 5, at the Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Lake Lobby, located at 60 Lake Street in Burlington, from 2-5 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Kandi’s name may be made to Champlain Housing Trust.

Arrangements are in care of the Cremation Society of Chittenden County. To send online condolences to her family please visit cremation societycc.com.

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Dona Daudelin Line

NOVEMBER 8, 1958JUNE 8, 2023 COLCHESTER, VT.

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Dona Line. Dona was born on November 8, 1958, in Burlington, Vt., to Donald and Marylin Daudelin. She was the only daughter in a family with five brothers: Denis, Gary (and wife Eileen), Gill (and wife Sheryl), Dan or “DJ”, and Gregg (and wife Tracy). She graduated from Burlington High School in 1976 and continued her studies at Fanny Allen Nursing School and SUNY School of Nursing to become a registered nurse. Dona worked at the University of Vermont Medical Center for 36 years. e last 15 years were in urology and the Continence Center, where she was a clinical nurse specialist. She retired in 2016.

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APRIL 27, 1946FEBRUARY 6, 2023 WASHINGTON, D.C.

In 1980, Dona gave birth to her beloved only son, Jason Daignault. Dona was a single parent for many years, and she and Jason always shared a special bond.

Dona married her soulmate, David Line, in 1996, and together they traveled to many countries of the world, enjoying the sights and cultures. With her marriage to David, Dona gained three stepchildren, Tony (and wife Angie), Matt (and wife Nikki), and Beth (and

husband Jeff). Dona and David were snowbirds who lived in Vermont during the summers but also had a home in Ocala, Fla. Dona had many hobbies, including sewing, camping, traveling and cooking. As the only daughter, Dona was the “glue” holding the family together. She hosted many holiday gatherings and family functions. Dona was an adventurous and excellent cook, and everyone looked forward to dinner at Dona’s house.

She was predeceased by her parents, Donald and Marylin Daudelin, as well as her son, Jason Daignault. ere will be a wake at LaVigne Funeral Home in Winooski, Vt., on Wednesday, June 14, 3-5 p.m. A mass of Christian burial will be held at St. Mark’s Church in Burlington, Vt., on ursday, June 15, 11 a.m. A reception will be held following the mass for family and friends to celebrate Dona’s life.

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Robert “Hoff” Hoffman, 76, passed away on February 6, 2023.

Born on April 27, 1946, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Herbie and Anni Hoffman, Hoff lived in New York City until the age of 25. He graduated from New York Law School and began his career as a public defender. He completed his 25-year career as a vice president of AARP in Washington, D.C., and continued his work for AARP as a volunteer for seven more years.

In Washington, D.C., he lived in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood and was involved with many volunteer activities in the community. He enjoyed sports of all

kinds — particularly soccer, as a coach, player and fan. He was a great dog lover and created many memories with his dogs Morgan and Chance. He belonged to Jewish Renewal group Minyan Oneg Shabbat in Washington, D.C., and Temple Rodef Shalom in Arlington, Va. He was a square dance caller and a docent at Congressional Cemetery, led historic

tours of D.C., and created workshops about end-of-life planning. He collected harmonica cases and loved displaying his collection around Washington, D.C., and at the Burlington Farmers Market in Vermont.

Hoff is survived by his wife, Dianne Modell; sister Caren (Tudy); sons Elias (Amanda) and Josh (Anna); grandchildren Ethan, Remy and Judah; and stepchildren Dmitri, Sol, Nessa, Zev and Abe. He will be forever remembered as a vibrant and loving father, husband and grandfather and for his quick wit, his love of magic and his commitment to community. His vibrant spirit lives on and can be seen on full display at hoffharmonica.com/end of life.

A celebration of life will be held at City Hall Park in Burlington on Sunday, July 23, 1 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

Ann Kendrick Horan

MAY 22, 1967-JUNE 3, 2023 MONTPELIER, VT.

Ann Kendrick Horan, 56, died peacefully on June 3, 2023, at the McClure Respite House in Colchester, Vt., from complications of colon cancer. She was born on May 22, 1967, in Cambridge, Mass., to Gail (Tidd) Kendrick and David Kendrick and lived most of her life in Austin, Texas, where her father was a professor of economics at the University of Texas, Austin, and her mother was a child psychologist. She graduated from Kirby Hall in Austin in 1985 and attended Wellesley College before graduating from the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas in Austin in 1990, with a bachelor of arts degree in English.

After graduation, she moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked at CNN and as a staff member of the Congressional Commission on Children. She met her husband, John Horan, MD, in Washington, D.C., when he was completing his residency in urology at Georgetown University Medical Center. They moved to Austin, Texas, in 1991, where John joined the urology practice and where they were married in 1992 at All Saints Episcopal Church.

Ann was admitted to the counseling psychology program in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas in Austin in the fall of 1992,

Abraham Brown

APRIL 30, 1918-JUNE 9, 2023

BURLINGTON, VT.

Abraham Brown passed away peacefully at home at age 105, surrounded by his family.

He was born in Enosburg Falls, Vt., on April 30, 1918.

Abe’s priority in life was his family. In addition, he was a pillar in his community of Enosburg Falls, a successful businessman, an avid sportsman, a Life Master bridge player and a gardener.

Abe was a World War II veteran and served four years in the 3211th Signal Service Battalion in North

Departments at Central Vermont Medical Center.

She is survived by her husband, John Horan, MD; her daughters, Callan Horan and Amelia Horan; her father, David Kendrick; her brother, Colin Kendrick, and his wife, Allison (Oberle) Kendrick, and their children, Max and Syd Kendrick. She was predeceased by her mother, Gail Tidd Kendrick.

before she eventually transferred to the graduate program in architecture and historic preservation at the University of Texas in Austin in 1994. With her friend and business partner, Catherine (Holder) Prather, she spent the next several years happily buying, renovating and selling older residential properties in central Austin.

Ann and John bought the Covert House in the Hyde Park neighborhood in Austin, and, after she directed the renovation and restoration, it became their private home. In recognition of her work in preserving the Covert House, she won the Austin Heritage Society Award in 2001. In 2015, her husband joined the urology practice affiliated with the University of Vermont of Vermont Medical Group, and she spent the rest of her time between Montréal and Montpelier, Vt. She was diagnosed with colon cancer one year ago and was treated by the Medical and Radiation Oncology

Ann loved studying buildings, design and architecture and was skilled in creating beautiful living spaces for her family. She also enjoyed traveling with her family throughout the U.S. and Europe, with trips to London, Paris and Biarritz being among her favorites. She grew attached to Colorado and particularly enjoyed spending time there in the summer months. She had a very generous spirit and passed that attribute to her daughters. Although she spent the majority of her life in Texas and missed the wide-open skies of that state, she grew to love the green, quiet spaces Vermont offered.

The family would like to thank Jesse Moore, MD, at the University of Vermont Medical Center for his surgical expertise, as well as the gracious, kind and compassionate nurses and staff at Central Vermont Medical Center. Additional thanks to the Department of Palliative Care at Central Vermont Medical Center.

Memorial contributions may be made to the McClure Miller Respite House, 3113 Roosevelt Hwy., Colchester, VT 05446.

Africa, France, Italy and Germany.

Abe was predeceased by Jean, the love of his life for almost 75 years, and his children Iris, Daniel and Karen.

He is survived by his children Paul of California, Roslyn of South Burlington, Vt., Lewis of Jerusalem, Israel, and David of New York City; grandchildren Hannah Levitz, Juan Pablo Jose-Ramos, Max Hågård Brown, Yasmine Szendro Brown, Solomon Hågård Brown, Eli Szendro Brown, Topaz Szendro Brown and Andrea Brown; and great-grandchildren Sadie Levitz and Tanner Levitz. For Abraham’s full life story go to readyfuneral. com.

In lieu of flowers and gifts, donations can be made in Abraham’s name to the Ohavi Zedek Synagogue in Burlington, Vt.

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Josiah Klingler

APRIL 6, 1984MARCH 31, 2023

CABOT/WILLIAMSTOWN, VT.

Josiah “Jesse” Klingler, beloved son of Diana and Ken Klingler of Cabot, died suddenly on March 31, 2023, from an undetected brain aneurysm. He was one week shy of his 39th birthday.

Jesse arrived on April 6, 1984, to brighten our lives and be loved by his sister, Rebekah. It wasn’t too many years before we realized he was always about a half step ahead of us. He was engaging, curious and quick-witted, which kept everyone on their toes.

As a teenager, Jesse’s interests were multifaceted. He pursued an interest in music and learned the piano and guitar. A focus on history led him to reenacting with local Revolutionary War groups. He learned to sail, kayak and water ski on Rangeley Lake in Maine, in between the time he spent learning to fix lawn mower engines with his Grampa. Skiing, and later snowboarding, at Burke Mountain with friends and family was a winter passion. Fishing with his dad was a springtime ritual. As a student at Cabot School, he found intrigue and accomplishment in mathematics. is set him on the path to become an engineer in his adult life.

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the earth. He supported multiple charities whose missions required purposeful thought about how our lives impact the planet. In keeping with his desire to leave as small a carbon footprint as possible, Jesse purchased hybrid cars and was converting his home to be solar-powered.

Sheila Ward Cane

JULY 10, 1941-MAY 28, 2023 SHELBURNE, VT.

Jesse earned a Green and Gold Scholarship from the University of Vermont upon graduating from Cabot School. He entered the engineering school and proceeded to graduate with honors from the electrical engineering department four years later. After several jobs of differing complexities, he signed on with Northern Power Systems of Barre, where he focused on wind turbine coding and storage battery development. He valued his professional growth with them and continued his education of replacement technologies for fossil fuel dependence. Recently, he had been hired by NRG Systems in Hinesburg as a senior firmware engineer.

Jesse constantly challenged mainstream assumptions about the responsibilities we have as stewards of

ere are many people devastated by the loss of this remarkable man: his parents; his sister Rebekah; brotherin-law Michael Henderson; niece Ariya; nephew Elijah; his many aunts, uncles and cousins; and friends and colleagues. Jesse’s memorable laughter will be missed by all who knew him.

We would like to thank all medical personnel who assisted in Jesse’s care: the ambulance crews, Central Vermont Medical Center medical staff, the University of Vermont Medical Center trauma unit staff and the organ donation staff. eir support and comfort during this unthinkable experience was greatly appreciated.

ere will be no public service. In memory of Jesse, please consider a donation to an environmentally responsible charity. Please honor Jesse in a way that comforts you. A private family celebration, serenaded by Grateful Dead albums, will happen later this summer.

Connie Marshall

1948-2019

Sheila Ward Cane, 81, died peacefully at the Arbors in Shelburne on the evening of May 28, 2023. She was born in Phillipsburg, N.J., on July 10, 1941, to Dr. John and Elizabeth (Maher) Cane. She was educated at Saints Philip and James Parochial School in Phillipsburg; Mount Saint Mary’s Academy in Plainfield, N.J.; and St. Elizabeth’s Academy in Morristown, N.J. She spent 10 summers at her beloved Camp Tegawitha in Tobyhanna, Pa., where she was first a camper, then a counselor-in-training and finally a counselor.

Sheila earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology at Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y., and her master’s degree in social work at Fordham University in New York City.

in Bridgeport, Conn., She also had a private practice that contracted with the Connecticut Department of Transportation to do mandatory drug screening for commercial truck drivers and heavy equipment operators.

is survived by her brother, John J. Cane, and his wife, Vicki A. Knoepfel, of Burlington, Vt.; her nieces, Charlotte Cane of Brighton, Mass., and Catherine Cane of Burlington; her nephew, Andrew Cane of Quincy, Mass.; her paternal Cane cousins of Rosemont, N.J., and Moyer cousins in West Chester, Pa., the New Jersey Shore and Massachusetts; and her maternal Cannon, Secord and Welch cousins in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont.

A celebration of life for John Andrews, Lt. Col. U.S. Army (retired), who passed on November 3, 2022, will be held on June 24, 2023, 11 a.m., at the United Church of Underhill with inurnment to follow in the family lot in Underhill Flats Cemetery, where full military honors will be accorded this Vietnam veteran. Visit awrfh. com to read John’s full obituary.

Dear Connie, Little did we ever expect that you would be gone so quickly. I didn’t appreciate you as I should have, but now I certainly feel the immense loss. We all do! A day never goes by that I don’t think of you, remember the rides, lunches and annual Ogunquit trips that we shared. I will always cherish those times and pray that I will see you again.

– Much love, your sister Mary (Rachel), your loving family, and Lucy

Sheila lived in several neighborhoods in New York City during her working career. Her first job was with “Ma Bell,” but she soon moved on to a long career in social services. Her niche was employee assistance programming. Sheila was in the vanguard of employee assistance for the employees of the City of New York. She became the program director and supervised caseworkers who helped many city workers. She moved to Rowayton, Conn., and became a Metro North commuter to her work in Manhattan. Rules changed, and she was required to maintain a residence in New York, so she and her parents bought an efficiency apartment on Gramercy Park. Sheila lived there during the week, and her father and mother would stay in the apartment to enjoy weekends in New York. It was a win-win for everyone!

In 1991, Sheila moved full time to Rowayton and worked in employee assistance programming at Family Services Woodfield

Sheila retired in 2001 and moved seasonally to Vero Beach, Fla., in the winter and South Burlington, Vt., in the summer. e first 15 years of retirement were her “golden years.” She made many friends in Vero Beach and led a very active life playing duplicate bridge, bocce with the Bocce Babes team, and hosting gatherings in her home and at her club. Living in Vero Beach was also about giving back. Sheila was an active participant in the community outreach programs at the Grand Harbor Club and Holy Cross parish. She enjoyed summers in Vermont with her family and longtime friends. Vermont was a launching pad as she visited friends throughout the Northeast each summer. Her family teased that her South Burlington condo was simply a place to store her mother’s antiques. Every summer for more than 40 years, she spent time on Block Island, R.I. Block Island, with its beauty and serenity, was probably Sheila’s favorite place.

Sheila was a singular presence and larger than life. She made that impression on people from an early age. She will be missed.

Sheila was predeceased by her parents, Dr. John and Elizabeth Cane. She

Sheila’s family thanks all the staff at the Arbors in Shelburne for their wonderful care and concern during her eight-month stay; the staff on the cardiology unit on Miller 4 at the University of Vermont Medical Center for their care during her recent stay; the University of Vermont Medical Center’s outpatient practices in cardiology and dermatology, who warmly welcomed Sheila as a new patient; and her caregiver and longtime friend Janee Morchesky, whose loving care enabled Sheila to live in her Vero Beach home in recent years. Sheila’s forever friends Ann Charron and Peggy Zeman were with her and her family during her last hours at the Arbors. Bunny Barry, another forever friend, was with her in spirit from her home in Florida.

A funeral mass will be celebrated for Sheila on Saturday, July 1, 11 a.m., at St. Catherine of Siena Church, 72 Church St., Shelburne, VT, followed by a reception in the parish hall. e mass will be streamed at youtube.com/@ stcatherinevt/streams.

Contributions in Sheila’s memory may be made to the Grand Harbor Community Outreach Program, PO Box 644017, Vero Beach, FL 32964, or to the Block Island Medical Center, PO Box 919, Block Island, RI 02807.

Arrangements are in care of the Cremation Society of Chittenden County in Burlington, Vt. To send online condolences to her family, please visit cremationsocietycc.com.

Elizabeth “Lisa” Carlson

FEBRUARY 18, 1938JUNE 4, 2023 HINESBURG, VT.

Elizabeth “Lisa” Carlson died on June 4, 2023, at age 86. After a colorful, productive life, she chose to remain comfortable in her Hinesburg home, with loving care provided by family, friends and the amazing caregivers from the University of Vermont Home Health & Hospice.

Lisa was born in 1938 in Melrose, Mass. She is widely known for her pioneering work as a consumer advocate and as executive director of the national nonprofit Funeral Consumers Alliance and, later, the Funeral Ethics Organization. She wrote the books Caring for the Dead and, with coauthor Joshua Slocum, Final Rights. In 1995, she assisted Jessica Mitford in updating the best-selling The American Way of Death Other pursuits over the

years included teaching school in Massachusetts and Vermont and serving as principal of the school at the old state hospital in Waterbury. Skilled in the building trades, she and her husband built their Hinesburg home and remodeled several others. She provided foster care for numerous, wonderful young Vermonters. Back in the 1960s, she ran a restaurant in Plainfield, the Hungry Pig and I. She created websites before most other people even heard about the web and provided

user help for business software. Other ventures included beetle taxidermy, fishingworm sales and installing built-in vacuums.

Survivors include her husband, Steve Carlson; son Stuart Mercer and daughter-in-law Mary Kelly Mercer; daughter Joie Brackett-Reeves; son Shawn Brackett; stepson Joshua Carlson; stepdaughter Rosalie Carlson; brothers Edward Shippen and Eugene Shippen; sister-in-law Laura Brackett; and grandchildren, Matthew, Liam and Ellie Mercer, Ellisa and Kadia Cox-Brackett, and Kolbey Brackett.

Lisa’s body was donated to the University of Vermont Anatomical Gift Program and was transported by Stephen C. Gregory & Son. The family will plan a memorial gathering during the coming months. If you wish to send condolences and/or be notified about the gathering, please contact Steve Carlson at steve@upperaccess.com.

James M. Lawrence

NOVEMBER 11, 1946MAY 7, 2023 SHELBURNE, VT.

James Merton Lawrence of Shelburne, Vt., passed away peacefully on May 7, 2023, with family at his side. James was born on November 11, 1946, in Binghamton N.Y., the son of the late Merton Grover Lawrence and Anne (Sperniak) Lawrence.

The first in his family to attend college, James enrolled at Cornell University, intending to pursue a veterinary career. After taking an elective class in communication arts, he fell in love with the field of journalism. Upon graduating in 1969, he joined the Peace Corps and worked in Putumayo, Colombia, for two years.

Returning home, James enrolled in a magazine journalism program at Syracuse University and graduated with a master’s degree in 1974. With family ties in Canada, he landed a job as a reporter for the Kingston Whig Standard, moving from police reporting to editing the op-ed page and doing investigative journalism.

The start of James’ incredible entrepreneurial career was in 1976 with the kitchen-table launch of a back-to-the-landstyle magazine titled Harrowsmith, named after a nearby Ontario town. The first issue had the eye-catching cover of a large green tomato imprinted with a lipstick kiss and the cover line “Kissing Supermarkets Goodbye.” This was followed in 1981 with the launch of Equinox, the Magazine of Canadian Discovery. Both titles earned prestigious Canadian national magazine awards.

James had big ideas and the determination to

bring them to life through a combination of hard work and the unerring ability to find and convert talented people to his cause.

Two affiliated book publishing companies, Camden House Books (Canada and U.S.), produced titles in the fields of natural history, gardening, food, country skills, astronomy and ecology.

With an eye toward a larger audience and to establish a U.S. base of operations, James and his family moved to Charlotte, Vt., in 1985, where he launched Harrowsmith Country Life. In 1990, EatingWell magazine was launched, riding the growing interest in healthful eating and reliably delicious recipes. After an acquisition, the new parent company shuttered the magazine in 1999.

James went on to open a new book-publishing venture and a beautiful destination bookstore in Shelburne, Vt., both called Chapters. Chapters Publishing was the winner of various awards, including a James Beard Award and the Julia Child Award for Excellence in Cookbook Publishing.

The ups and downs of publishing led to the next adventure, Microcosm Books, specializing in publications about the natural world, notably ocean life and aquariumkeeping, both longtime personal interests. During this period, the opportunity came to reacquire the EatingWell brand, and the

magazine was successfully relaunched in 2002. In this second life of EatingWell, James personally won a James Beard Award for food journalism. Separating from EatingWell in 2006, he then established Reef to Rainforest Media and launched the highly respected Amazonas and CORAL magazines. His most recent project was editing the memoirs of the late Dr. J.E. (Jack) Randall, a worldrenowned ichthyologist, to be published in partnership with the Bishop Museum in Hawaii.

He is survived by his partner, Judy Billard; his daughters, Bayley Freeman (Nicholas), Kerry Healey (Michael), Jessica Lawrence (Shawn), and their mother and his former wife, Alice Z. Lawrence; his grandchildren, Zoe, Owen, Maya and Fiona; and also by Judy’s sons, Craig Bunten (Callie), Alex Bunten (Britta) and Will Bunten (Kathy), and her grandchildren, Eliza, Phoebe, Edie and Warren.

James’ many interests included cooking, barbecuing, gardening, travel, ecology, ocean life, warm sandy beaches (especially on Antigua), snorkeling, aquarium-keeping, train sets and music.

A complex, intelligent man with intense interests and the optimism of an entrepreneur and inventor, James had a profound and lasting effect on the people with whom he worked and lived. He will be greatly missed and lovingly remembered.

In James’ memory, please consider donating to World Central Kitchen or the Vermont Food Bank. Private services will be held to celebrate his life at a later date.

Arrangements are in the care of the Cremation Society of Chittenden County. To send online condolences to the family, please visit cremationsocietycc.com.

REVIEW ‘RENEWABLE’

Thank you for continuing to publish information about Vermont’s sources of energy [“Electric Avenues,” April 12]. It’s really time for everyone to start becoming increasingly aware of the details of the bind we’re in. Have you considered a weekly column dealing with Vermont’s energy situation?

One thing that became obvious to me as I read the article is the overuse of the word “renewable” — 36 times. Everyone uses it. It really is time to put the old terminology aside. The discussion has moved on, and using this term is confusing and inexact. The discussion going forward should be entirely about the rate of greenhouse gas emissions. There are plenty of renewables that produce copious greenhouse gas emissions. The source of the emissions doesn’t really matter to the atmosphere, renewable or not. What matters is that we reduce the rate of emissions.

We see it in legislation and rulemaking; we see it in the energy industry: renewables, renewables — without taking into consideration that the issue is not renewability but rate of emission. For instance, biomass for electricity is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions but technically renewable. Renewability has nothing to do with global warming. Rate of emission is all that matters now.

Phillip Merrick BURLINGTON

‘LIVING NEAR SOLAR’

[Re “Electric Avenues,” April 12]: It is frustrating but not surprising to see opponents of the proposed Shaftsbury solar project raising the same old misleading complaints about renewable development — that it threatens Vermont farmers, forests or habitat. These complaints are raised almost any time a project is proposed, regardless of whether it is a 20 MW proposal or a much smaller 500 kW proposal that would cover only a few acres. Are these legitimate concerns or just convenient excuses for people who would rather get their electricity from somewhere else so that they don’t have to see how the sausage is made?

Vermont has close to a million acres of primary agricultural land and 4.6 million acres of forest. Inevitably, renewable energy projects will impact some of this land. But the force that is really putting this land at risk is sprawling residential development. The University of Vermont estimates

that residential sprawl consumes 1,500 acres of forest annually. The Farmland Information Center estimates that we are losing another 1,700 acres of agricultural land for this purpose annually. When it comes to preserving farmland and forests, building 6,000-square-foot homes on 17-acre lots is a much bigger threat than something like the Shaftsbury solar project will ever be.

Refusing to build renewable projects in Vermont means that massive natural gas power plants in disadvantaged communities throughout New England keep spewing pollutants into the air those communities breathe. Some people may not like living near solar, but living near those plants can literally take years o your life.

Jonathan Dowds BURLINGTON

Dowds is the deputy director of Renewable Energy Vermont.

STATUS QUO IS COSTLY

I appreciated your in-depth coverage of the obstacles to solar development in Vermont [“Electric Avenues,” April 12], but I’d like to challenge you to look deeper into an aspect of it that the story dismissed with a single sentence: “Those who claim solar should just stick to already developed properties, such as rooftops or parking lots, need to realize that those projects often don’t pencil out.”

If we value our forests and our farms (not to mention our future), surely it’s worth our while to make it worthwhile to host solar panels elsewhere. Might these projects actually pencil out if we consider the costs of letting the climate crisis escalate? Are the pencilers factoring in the economic boost of keeping our energy dollars in state or the health benefits of cooling down paved areas with solar canopies as summers grow ever hotter? Are they considering scenarios in which public transit solutions could reduce parking needs so

we can straight-up convert that space to solar arrays? What if we combine these projects with worker training programs?

At this stage of climate crisis, we don’t have the luxury of choosing not to have more solar panels; we need to put them somewhere. Letting financial profit be the single determiner of viability is one of the reasons we’re in this climate mess to begin with. In my experience, people who say that a solution is too expensive don’t realize how costly the status quo is. It’s time to start penciling outside the box.

Marisa Keller MONTPELIER

THE 600,000-TON QUESTION

Apropos of Kevin McCallum’s excellent overview of Vermont’s energy future [“Electric Avenues,” April 12], recent recommendations to the Vermont Climate Council and Gov. Phil Scott call for the profitable transformation of Vermont’s wood-chip power plants, McNeil and Ryegate, into negativeemission power and storage stations. These plants emit more than 600,000 tons of CO2 per year, based on estimates by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. They can be profitably renovated with federal support to reduce emissions by 600,000 tons and remove 600,000 more tons per year from the sky at same time. A similar plan for Vermont Yankee is financially attractive and will create more jobs, profits and climate benefits than a nuke plant there — something industry advocates still seek even while the nuclear waste crisis is getting worse.

Vermont gets two-thirds of its power from Hydro-Québec and Seabrook Station, both of which are environmentally problematic. We can source it at home instead by using solar power and hemp. Hemp removes CO2 from air faster than trees via photosynthesis. Single-pole tracking photovoltaic systems can be aligned to make farming easy without sacrificing agricultural land to fixed solar arrays. Farmers can harvest sunlight, hemp and food simultaneously. CO2 from burning hemp fuels in plants or engines can be captured and reused for vital products and to keep CO2 out of the air, thereby enabling proven negative carbon emissions. Carbon o sets will apply.

Jim Hurt WOODSTOCK

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maintains number sense and is perfectly gender-neutral. It is even neutral for humans/animals, earth/other worlds and matter/antimatter. True widespectrum neutrality.

Robert Herendeen BURLINGTON

‘THE OLD WAY’

[Re “Forced Out: Vermont’s Initial Round of Motel Evictions Previews What’s in Store for 2,000 More People,” June 7; “State Announces 28-Day Extension for Some in Motel Housing Program,” May 26, online; “No Vacancy: Burlington Braces for More Encampments as Motel Program for Homeless People Winds Down,” May 24]: Seven Days ’ excellent series of articles on Vermont’s stupefying homelessness situation prompted me to a bit of nostalgia.

As a young adult in Vermont in the early 1960s, I was unaware of any “homelessness problem.” The canny Republican farmers who ran the state back then had long placed the issue directly into the hands of local taxpayers. However, at that time, Vermont was in the throes of transferring responsibility for caring for the state’s destitute individuals from each town’s “overseer of the poor” to a new, statewide professional welfare system. Advocates for the old system argued that the new welfare establishment would become a bloated, depersonalized and expensive bureaucracy, which has happened, and that huge, unforeseen problems would arise.

Under the old system, each town would help support a “poor farm” or poorhouse where those able would grow their own food or do other productive work. The overseer would, ideally, know everyone in town and would thus provide for the truly destitute.

But under a new crop of Democrats in power — president John F. Kennedy and Vermont governor Phil Hoff — the old system was deemed unfair and stingy, and hence we are where we are today. Yes, there are many smart and compassionate people working on behalf of the homeless, but homeless camps, street beggars and an aggressive pro-housing development lobby are features of the new Vermont. Could we ever, at least in part, return to the old way? Just an idle thought from a superannuated dreamer.

Andy Leader NORTH MIDDLESEX

A Path to Healing

A New Public Memorial Will Honor Residents of St. Joseph’s Orphanage

the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington and the Sisters of Providence.

She became interested in the untold stories of child abuse in orphanages a decade ago. “I spoke to Native Americans in Washington State in Montana; I spoke to French Canadian people up and down the East Coast and others as well,” she said in a recent Zoom interview. “I ended up focusing on St. Joseph because of the 1990s litigation, primarily.”

Those lawsuits — and articles written about them at the time — created a written record she could follow. “That litigation, in the end, was incredibly devastating for a lot of people, for numerous reasons,” she said. “But because they were so brave, because they told their story, because they ran that gauntlet after the incredible trauma of being in the orphanage, they created this immense record.”

Kenneally went through it and reinterviewed former residents for a 2018 piece published by BuzzFeed News titled “We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage.”

The article sent shock waves through Vermont and prompted then-attorney general T.J. Donovan to launch an investigation. The St. Joseph’s Orphanage Task Force included the AG’s office, the Vermont State Police, the Chittenden County State’s Attorney, the Burlington mayor’s office and the Burlington Police Department.

If you visited it today, you might never know about the site’s tragic past: From 1854 until 1974, it was home to St. Joseph’s Orphanage, which housed 13,000 children during that time. Countless former residents have come forward since to describe physical and sexual abuse they endured at the hands of the nuns and other staff who ran the facility.

Brenda DePalma Hannon is one of them: She was just 6 years old when she was brought to the orphanage in 1959; she didn’t leave until 1968.

“You were dropped off there and forgotten,” she said in a recent interview. “It was like you were just thrown away.”

Hannon is now part of a group of former residents and volunteers working to ensure that the

community remembers what happened at St. Joseph’s — and keeps it from ever happening again. This summer, they’re launching a fundraising campaign to build a permanent memorial pathway and healing garden in the area below the former orphanage.

It will offer residents and community members a chance to acknowledge what happened there while also reclaiming the space, preserving it for children and families of the future.

A HISTORY OF ABUSE

The story of what happened at St. Joseph’s has trickled out over the past three decades. Former residents began coming forward in the 1990s, when a number of them sued the organizations that ran the orphanage,

The former residents faced intense public scrutiny and resistance from the church. Eventually, nuns and priests admitted some wrongdoing, and the church settled some of the suits. Over time, the issue disappeared from local headlines.

Abuse scandals were making news elsewhere, though. In 2002, the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team documented how priests abused hundreds of children in the Boston archdiocese; in 2015, the story of that investigation was made into the Oscar-winning film Spotlight. The film concludes with a lengthy list of cities around the world where other abuse scandals have been uncovered — including Burlington, Vt.

The details about St. Joseph’s might have disappeared from public view entirely if it hadn’t been for Australian writer Christine Kenneally.

When Hannon heard about the probe, she called the Burlington Police Department and sat down with officers to tell them what she experienced at the orphanage; she was one of more than 50 former residents who came forward to offer testimony.

“It was the very first time I spoke about it to anyone,” she said of her two-hour interview. “My husband didn’t even know about it.”

Hannon had watched what happened to the former residents who came forward in the 1990s, the way they had been treated by the church. “They were all revictimized by the Catholic Diocese again,” she said. “I thought, I’m not putting myself through that.”

What changed for her?

With the new investigation, “It finally registered for me: People are believing us,” Hannon said. “It was coming out; we were being believed. We were not looked at as liars or making things up.”

The waterfront property that’s home to Burlington’s growing Cambrian Rise neighborhood is a lovely spot, with stunning views of sunsets over Lake Champlain.

Former residents of the orphanage and members of the Voices of St. Joseph’s Orphanage group

COURTESY OF THE CHILDREN OF ST. JOSEPH’S ORPHANAGE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

DOCUMENTING THE TRAUMA

The final, 150-page report assembled by the state task force includes Hannon’s testimony. The task force concluded that it could not bring any criminal charges — the statute of limitations had expired for both sexual and physical abuse, and it could not find evidence of murder. However, the report states unequivocally: “It is clear that trauma occurred.”

Its summary details repeated reports of abuse and neglect. “One of the most common allegations, reported by a large majority of the survivors interviewed, was physical abuse in the form of beatings,” it revealed. “Survivors described a variety of situations in which the nuns would beat the children, including but not limited to children wetting the bed, not making the bed correctly, speaking out of turn or rudely, trying to console another child, trying to recoil from being hit, speaking to or seeking out siblings residing in a different part of the Orphanage, refusing to eat, getting out of bed during the night, looking out the window, moving during a lineup for prospective parents, soiling their pants, or trying to write left-handed.”

Many of these accusations were also present in the court documents in the 1990s.

Kenneally remembers finding some of them early on in her research. “There are these shocking moments that I still sort of think about a lot. When Sally Dale saw a boy thrown from a fourth story window, that was very powerful to first read about that. The description of a man called Joseph Eskra, who talked about coming across a boy tied to a tree who was frozen, a boy who had been missing from the dinner table.”

In fact, the stories were so powerful that she wrote a book about them — Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice, published in March. It centers on St. Joseph’s, but Kenneally broadened it to include research she’s done on similar scandals in other parts of the U.S. and abroad.

“It’s the same everywhere,” she said. “It’s extraordinary, the ways in which some of the stories are exactly the same. Kids having wet sheets draped around them in the mornings after they wet the bed, being

DONATE TO THE MEMORIAL

Tax-deductible contributions can be made to the Parks Foundation of Burlington, a 501(c)(3) organization and fiscal sponsor of the project. Donate online at stjosephsrjinquiry.com/memorialfund. Writing a check? Please make it out to the Parks Foundation of Burlington and indicate “Children of St. Joseph’s Orphanage Memorial” in the check memo line. Mail contributions to:

amends for allowing abuse to happen, unchallenged, for years. The project would connect North Avenue and the Burlington Greenway — the bike path along the waterfront — and would wind through Kieslich Park along the waterfront edge of Cambrian Rise.

The design for the path includes a sculptural arbor woven of natural elements, stone benches with a sight line to the orphanage building, wildflower plantings in flowing serpentine shapes and glacial boulders etched with the words of former residents.

The price tag: $160,000. The City of Burlington and the State of Vermont will both contribute funds, alongside donors from the community. The Pomerleau Family Foundation has kicked off the campaign with $25,000 to be used as a matching grant.

The fundraising campaign is overseen by Children of St. Joseph’s Orphanage Development Committee, which includes representatives from the Vermont Folklife Center, the Burlington Community Justice Center, and Burlington Parks, Recreation & Waterfront, as well as former state legislator Marybeth Redmond and former lieutenant governor Molly Gray. As assistant attorney general, Gray helped lead the state’s 2018 investigation. “I feel a deep sense of personal responsibility to do everything that I can do to help make this memorial and healing space a reality,” she said. “This feels like a small way to give back.”

humiliated by the nuns and the other kids … Kids were pushed down the stairs all over the world, and some of them didn’t get up again.”

MAKING AMENDS

Though the state’s 2018 investigation didn’t result in a path for justice in the courts, it did create the St. Joseph’s Orphanage Restorative Inquiry, led by the Burlington Community Justice Center.

The inquiry brought members of the last surviving generation of former orphanage residents together — they formed a group called Voices of St. Joseph’s Orphanage. Through their restorative process, members have recorded oral histories that have been preserved through the Vermont

Folklife Center. Their testimonies and images have also traveled the state as part of an exhibit that’s been on display at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier and at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. The Voices group pushed for policy changes, too. Its members lobbied the Vermont Legislature to eliminate the three-year statute of limitations for civil actions based on childhood physical abuse. As a result, in 2021, Vermont became one of a handful of states to make that change.

Working in collaboration with Burlington Parks, Recreation and Waterfront, the group has also designed the public memorial and healing garden. It’s part of the process by which the community makes

The contributions, to be made to the Parks Foundation of Burlington, are tax-deductible.

Hannon explained that the memorial is about more than just honoring the 13,000 children who went through the orphanage. “It also honors those children around the world who went through these situations,” she said.

It will also, hopefully, serve as a reminder: “It will bring awareness to the public to always remember and protect the children and help them to grow strong and healthy,” she said. “They are all of our legacies. And they’re going to be all of our future.” 

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Vermont’s Relapse

Efforts to address opioid addiction were starting to work. Then potent new street drugs arrived.

BY COLIN FLANDERS • colin@sevendaysvt.com

Amanda Bean’s longtime opioid addiction took a turn last summer.

The drugs she bought on the street were noticeably stronger but wore off faster — so she shot up more often each day. She also started to use methamphetamine, which had become cheaper and more readily available than the cocaine she preferred. She would sometimes go days without sleep, she said during a recent interview from jail, drifting further and further away from reality.

Then the overdoses began. Dozens throughout the fall and winter, until it felt as if each time she used, she was awakened by someone standing over her with Narcan, the OD-reversal medicine. In April,

on Easter weekend, she overdosed at her mother’s apartment. Each day the following week, she landed in the ER for overdoses, prompting a concerned doctor to finally ask her what the hell was going on.

“I don’t know,” she recalled telling him.

By last month, Bean had racked up more than 40 pending criminal charges, most for stealing to support her addiction. On May 4, she appeared for a hearing at the Burlington courthouse.

Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George, who had gotten to know Bean over the years through the legal

system, sat in on the hearing. George had noticed the woman’s descent seemed to be gaining speed, and yet, she later recalled, she couldn’t believe how much worse Bean looked that day.

Scabs covered Bean’s gaunt face, and her clothes hung loosely from her frame. She was clearly under the influence: Her arms and legs moved uncontrollably, and her head lolled back and forth, as if she would nod off at any moment. The judge, noting Bean’s condition, ultimately postponed the hearing.

George said she later wondered to herself: How is she still alive?

It has been nearly a decade since thengovernor Peter Shumlin dedicated his entire State of the State address to what he described then as Vermont’s “full-blown heroin crisis.” That led to the build-out of what has become a renowned “hub-andspoke” drug treatment system; just a few years ago, it appeared the state was making tangible progress.

But today, the scourge of drugs is worse. More people died from fatal opioid overdoses between 2020 and 2022 — 614 — than in the previous six years combined. And some people like Bean who have long struggled with addiction seem sicker than ever. Many frontline workers now have a mental list of people they expect to die in the coming year.

The deepening crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, is the result of a deadlier drug supply. Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic narcotic, has replaced heroin as the main opioid available on the streets, driving up overdoses and complicating treatment efforts. Methamphetamine has arrived, ensnaring people in a tough-totreat addiction that can ravage both body and mind. Xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, is increasingly present in street drugs; its side effects include wounds that can lead to amputations.

“Being addicted to an intravenous drug has become a game of Russian roulette, multiple times a day,” said Erin O’Keefe, who manages an addiction treatment program at the Howard Center’s Safe Recovery.

Vermont’s treatment system was designed to treat a different drug, heroin, which is difficult to find these days. The housing crisis, meanwhile, has made it harder for people in the throes of addiction to regain stability. Helping people get sober has never been more complicated or difficult.

In Burlington, the epidemic’s toll has been particularly high. Overdoses are up nearly 250 percent in 2023 compared to

recent years, and siren-blaring emergency vehicles race to OD scenes at least once a day. Public drug use is increasingly visible downtown and in city parks; needles and their orange caps are common sights on the ground and in green spaces. Fatal

— helping people use drugs more safely. The logic is simple: Dead people can’t recover.

But the step that many advocates believe would make the biggest impact — creating supervised “safe injection sites” — remains a nonstarter for state leaders. Until that changes, people on the ground fear, the death toll will continue to grow.

Bean, 39, who began using drugs as a teenager, has somehow survived. She spent the night in jail after her postponed arraignment. The following day, she appeared before judge Gregory Rainville via video for another hearing.

Prosecutor Sally Adams asked the judge to keep Bean in jail until she could be transferred to a residential treatment facility. Bean had overdosed “multiple times in the last week,” Adams said.

“In the last week ?” Rainville asked incredulously.

overdoses continue to climb: In Chittenden County, 29 people died from suspected overdoses through May this year, compared to 21 during the same time period in 2022.

Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger has been vocal about the worsening drug problem and says state leaders must do more to help cities and towns respond.

“We need to once again start treating this like our No. 1 public health crisis,” he said.

The shifting landscape leads many to favor what is called harm reduction

The judge went on to acknowledge the increasing hazards of addiction. The court system, he said, was losing people “left and right” to overdoses, including two mothers who had died in the past two weeks. “That’s a little hard to stomach after a while,” he said.

“I just do not expect that this woman is going to survive unless she gets treatment,” Rainville said of Bean. When Bean started to argue, the judge interrupted her.

“Ms. Bean,” he said, “if your life is preserved, I’ll take the risk.”

Xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, is increasingly present in street drugs; its side effects include wounds that can lead to amputations.

Amanda Bean

JAMES BUCK

SOURCES: BURLINGTON POLICE DEPARTMENT/VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Vermont’s Relapse

REBOUND EFFECT

There was a time when Bean represented hope for people with opioid-use disorder. In early 2014, three weeks after Shumlin’s speech, Bean was invited to the Statehouse to testify about her experience with addiction.

She’d already come a long way. As a child, Bean felt uncomfortable in her own skin — “like damaged goods,” she would say years later — and the things that brought others happiness rang hollow to her. “The only time I ever felt at peace or joy was when I’m fucked up,” she said.

By 30, she had been homeless or in prison for much of her adult life and experienced some of the biggest problems plaguing Vermont’s treatment system: long waits at methadone clinics, a lack of access to medication for addiction in prison. But with the help of Lund, a nonprofit that works with mothers to overcome addiction, Bean had gotten clean. She was sober, housed and taking parenting classes. As she testified to lawmakers, someone held her youngest child, just 3 months old.

For the briefest moment, Bean was a voice for change.

Over the next five years, Vermont leaders joined forces to fix some of the major problems she had encountered. The health care system, law enforcement and courts slowly started to treat addiction as a disease instead of a moral failure. Treatment rapidly expanded, including into prisons.

Fatal opioid overdoses, which had risen from 63 in 2014 to 130 in 2018, finally dropped in 2019. It seemed as if Vermont had turned a corner.

But the ground was already shifting. Mexican cartels started pumping cheap fentanyl and methamphetamine into western states, and those drugs gained footholds across the Northeast, including in Vermont.

Fentanyl was showing up in more fatal overdose toxicology reports, and people who had been using cocaine for years started trying meth. Some were hooked instantly.

“I got the biggest rush I’d ever had in my entire life,” said Chris, 38, of her first hit, about five years ago. “I can’t even tell you how big it was. It was so much more addicting [than coke].”

Meth — or Tina, as it’s known on the streets — lasted longer than cocaine, too. Chris, who asked that her last name be withheld because she still uses drugs, knew immediately she would never go back to cocaine.

“Crack is whack, but Tina pays you back,” she said.

The pandemic brought new challenges. People in recovery had less contact with the support systems set up to help them stop using, and many lost jobs during the shutdowns. The social isolation led more people to use alone, which is riskier.

Fatal overdoses soared almost overnight: 158 in 2020, then 217 in 2021 — nearly doubling the figure from just two years earlier. Fentanyl and meth were increasingly found in the systems of people who’d died. Vermont’s hard-earned progress slipped away.

Then xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, began popping up in the local drug supply. Users who had no idea their drugs had been cut with it began noticing unexplained wounds in places they had never shot up: their shins, faces, hands. Some reported waking up from hours-long blackouts to find they had been robbed or sexually assaulted. Narcan doesn’t work on xylazine, so it became harder to bring people back from near death.

Officer John Meierdiercks joined the Burlington Police Department in fall 2021

after two years working for the Howard Center’s Street Outreach Team. The rate of overdoses in Burlington seemed to take off last summer, he said. In just a few months, he responded to City Hall Park five or six times to find a man he’d gotten to know during his outreach work on the ground, not breathing. Last August, a man died of an overdose in a city hall bathroom.

The police department’s data reflect the surge. Starting around June 2022, the number of overdose calls jumped, and that trend has continued. Officers responded to 49 in April alone, including 11 within one 72-hour period. And those stats don’t reflect the true number. Additional ODs are being reversed by fellow drug users who carry Narcan, incidents that don’t show up in the data.

The worsening drug crisis has coincided with an increase in property crime. Rates of shoplifting, car thefts and burglaries rose sharply in 2021 and 2022, driven by people who are addicted to drugs, Police Chief Jon Murad said at a public meeting last month. Vermont prison officials reported that 60 percent of people incarcerated in fiscal year 2022 were receiving medication-assisted treatment.

Bean, who relapsed not long after her appearance at the Statehouse, had become a prolific shoplifter in the years before COVID-19, but the pandemic brought her to a “whole different level.” Social distancing meant store employees were less likely to confront shoplifters, and cops weren’t around as much. Even

It used to feel like we could beat this thing. It doesn’t feel like that anymore.

ERIN O’KEEFE

Erin O’Keefe

Drug test strips at Howard Center Safe Recovery

people who might have had side hustles to support their addictions realized theft was a quick way to make a buck, Bean said.

Some recent violent incidents in the city have also been linked to drugs. Last summer’s execution-style murder in City Hall Park, for instance, appears to have been the result of a dealer turf war, according to George, the state’s attorney. Others have been tied to meth users — “people with otherwise no real violent history at all that are now dealing with some paranoia,” she said.

Tyler Nolan, 32, left Burlington last summer to help care for his ailing mother. He returned this spring to a city that felt completely different.

Nolan struggled with addiction as a teenager before an arrest at 22 for selling heroin set him straight. He’s been sober for a decade but has kept tabs on the drug scene, including while working at the Turning Point Center of Chittenden County in Burlington.

Downtown, Nolan ran into people he had known for years but who were hard to recognize. They appeared malnourished and had scabs on their arms and faces; some had amputated limbs.

Last month, at Calahan Park in the city’s South End, where he helps coach his child’s Little League baseball team, Nolan spotted two dozen used needles discarded by a dugout. He carefully gathered and disposed of them and didn’t mention it when his child’s teammates started arriving for their game that evening.

A week later, he returned to find posters on the dugouts instructing kids on what to do if they find a needle in the grass.

‘MY VEINS WERE TRASHED’

Kelly was swimming in Lake Champlain last summer when her purse was stolen — and with it, the prescribed medication she needed to quell her opioid cravings. Kelly knew how bad things could get when she used street drugs. The last time she had relapsed, a few years before, she lost her job, then her house, and was eventually sleeping under a bridge, stealing to survive. Traumatic events had always been her trigger, and this time was no different.

“Fuck it,” she said, before walking up to City Hall Park, where, within minutes, she had a bag of dope.

Kelly, who asked that her last name not be used, overdosed that day, then nine more times in a month — the start of a terrifying free fall. She was soon living on the streets, using dozens of times a day. She lost weight and stopped menstruating; her hair started falling out in clumps.

Her withdrawals became so bad that she could barely walk at times, she said, and her boyfriend would shoot her up right there in the park. “The only place he could hit me was in my neck, because my veins were so trashed,” she said.

Fentanyl wears off quicker than heroin, meaning people inject it more frequently each day, at greater cost. Kelly, who lost a restaurant job once her drug use became impossible to hide, started stealing from stores to support her expensive habit, racking up a slew of charges that eventually landed her in prison over the winter.

The higher potency of fentanyl leaves less room for error, meaning users are accidentally overdosing more — and witnessing more, too. Kelly said she reversed eight overdoses with Narcan in a single month last summer.

Another unknown: the potential presence of xylazine. When the animal tranquilizer first started appearing last year, people getting tested at treatment programs were shocked to discover it was in their systems. Test strips, too, indicate the presence of the sedative. Bottom line: Xylazine has become so prevalent that it’s nearly impossible to avoid.

Tyler, 32, who asked that his last name be withheld, had been sober for more than two years before relapsing three months ago. Within weeks, he had sores consistent with xylazine use. Then his chest began to hurt. Thinking he had an infection, he went to the hospital, where, he said, he was told he was fine. But his condition worsened over the next few weeks, until he could barely stand. Reluctantly, he went back to the hospital a second time but left, he said, after staff treated him rudely.

“I was just another one of their drug cases,” Tyler said.

He returned for a third time only after Jess Kirby, his case manager at the Burlington nonprofit Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform, agreed to accompany him to the emergency room. He learned hours later that he had developed endocarditis, an infection of the heart that can strike intravenous drug users. Left untreated, it is deadly.

In years past, before xylazine arrived, Kirby rarely had clients come down with the infection. Tyler was her fifth to receive the diagnosis this spring.

BROKEN SPOKES

The “hub-and-spoke” drug treatment model was designed to integrate addiction treatment into the normal medical system. Patients in need of more intensive care would go to clinics, or “hubs,” to receive medication and counseling services. More stable patients could receive their medication through primary care practices — or “spokes.” This shift was only possible thanks to the addiction-treatment medication buprenorphine, which was less regulated than methadone and could be prescribed in more settings.

Over time, as doctors bought in, the model grew, and the wait lists for care that had plagued the treatment system disappeared. By 2019, more than 8,000 people — 1.2 percent of the state’s residents — were in treatment for opioid addiction, giving Vermont one of the highest per capita rates in the world.

But the model, built during the heroin wave of the opioid crisis, has become less effective with today’s drugs. Fentanyl is making it harder for people to transition from active use to treatment, and the state has been slow to adopt the few methods proven to help people quit meth.

Meanwhile, Vermont lacks places where people can go to detox.

“Even on a good day, the tools we have to offer people sometimes feel so powerless,” said O’Keefe, of Safe Recovery. “It used to feel like we could beat this thing. It doesn’t feel like that anymore.”

O’Keefe joined the Vermont Department of Health a few months before Shumlin’s speech and spent the next five years helping to build out the hub-andspoke system.

She realized that many people in need of help weren’t getting treatment, despite the increased access. So in 2019, she took over a new program at Safe Recovery that prescribes bupe to patients who walk in off the street. The so-called “low-barrier” approach aims to bring hard-to-reach people, often homeless, into the system. And briefly, it seemed to be working.

Now, with so much fentanyl around, her program is in jeopardy; it has become too hard to transition people off the street onto bupe, O’Keefe said.

That’s because of how buprenorphine works. To curb opioid cravings, bupe attaches itself to the brain’s opioid receptors, dislodging whatever else is there without producing the same intoxicating effects. That can usher fentanyl users into immediate, severe withdrawal, causing anxiety, insomnia, cramps, muscle aches and diarrhea.

This phenomenon, known as “precipitated withdrawal,” was less common for heroin users. As fentanyl became more prevalent and people experienced precipitated withdrawal, word spread.

Methadone, the other approved addiction treatment medication, works differently than bupe and has become more sought-after. But it comes with different challenges. While buprenorphine has a “ceiling” at which taking more won’t increase the effect, methadone does not. Significant doses can produce a high and even cause people to overdose.

It’s more heavily regulated as a result, and the only place that offers it in Chittenden County — the Chittenden Clinic in South Burlington — requires people to show up for daily doses, at least during the early stages of their recovery.

In February, the University of Vermont Medical Center began offering methadone to people in severe withdrawal or following an overdose. But a third of the 32 people who have started the medication at the hospital since then have failed to follow up with the Chittenden Clinic the next day, a rate that Dr. Daniel Wolfson described as “not great.”

There are other troubling signs. More users are taking multiple substances,

Poster at Calahan Park

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including meth, and there are no medications to curb cravings of the stimulant. The few treatment programs that have shown promise — such as ones that offer incentives for sobriety — are only just starting to hit the Burlington area.

As treatment has become more difficult, the demand for places people can go to detox and regain stability has grown. But it can take weeks to get into the only two places that take Medicaid in Vermont: Valley Vista in Bradford and Serenity House in Wallingford. By the time a bed opens up, people are often back on the streets — or dead.

The lack of resources has taken a toll on both users and the people trying to help them, said Heidi Melbostad, director of the Chittenden Clinic.

“You talk to somebody and say to them, ‘I hear you’re unsafe. I hear you have no housing. I hear you were assaulted and raped last night. But I don’t have anywhere for you to go,’” she said.

Kelly, the woman who relapsed last summer after losing her opioid medication, had a plan after her release from prison last month. But a housing opportunity fell through, so she linked back up with her boyfriend, who was camping out and still actively using.

Laying in a hammock later that night, Kelly used again. She woke up hours later to find a needle still in her arm. Her tolerance had fallen; she could have easily died.

Recalling the incident the next day, tears welled in her eyes. “I want my dignity back,” she said.

SHELTER-SKELTER

During a record-breaking deep freeze in February, the City of Burlington set up a three-day warming shelter. Sarah Russell, who was hired by the city to help end homelessness, said staff intended to prohibit substances and people under the influence. Within 30 minutes of opening, however, Russell realized that would be impossible.

“People presented deeply under the influence, and those who were not upon arrival quickly were,” she testified to Vermont lawmakers in February. Within 24 hours, two people overdosed. The first was found unconscious in a bathroom; staff administered four doses of Narcan and performed CPR until emergency personnel arrived. When the man came to, he refused to leave, saying he wanted to just lie on his cot for a while.

A couple of hours later, a man was found on the shower floor. Staff managed to rouse him, then spent 40 minutes coaxing him off the floor and into dry clothes.

Russell sat next to his cot for an hour while he “vomited and cried, begging for money, drugs, methadone or death,” she told lawmakers.

The experience shook her to her core. “We set out to operate a shelter to keep people safe from cold weather, but what we actually ended up doing, inadvertently, was running an overdose prevention center for three nights,” she said.

The city, with the help of the Champlain Housing Trust, has since opened a community of shelter “pods” for formerly homeless people on Elmwood Avenue, where substances are tolerated so long as people don’t deal drugs.

The Committee on Temporary Shelter has a different policy: Only substance-free people are welcome at its various locations, including the Daystation, a drop-in center that offers one of Burlington’s only shower facilities for homeless people. Staff at the North Avenue center reported a significant increase in drug-related incidents over the winter. More people were nodding off, and more needles appeared on-site — one of which stuck a staff member.

This spring, for the first time in its more than 30-year history, the Daystation began locking its bathroom and shower room doors. Guests must now ask a staff member for access, which has helped, said Jonathan Farrell, who took over as CEO last year.

“We never wanted to get to that level,” he said. “But it got so challenging — you go in, there’s messes in the bathroom, there’s blood spatter … It got to the point where it was just completely disruptive.”

“The best we can do is push it away,” he said.

WHAT’S THE ANTIDOTE?

A few times a week, people head to the rectory of an old Victorian church in downtown Brattleboro and slide some drugs to Dakota Roberts. Roberts works for the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont, a nonprofit that recently launched a service to help drug users find out just what is in the drugs they buy.

“I’ve come to find that people generally want to be safe, and people generally want to know what they’re taking,” said Roberts, 30.

Drug-checking services have become more common as states seek to lower the risk of overdoses and infections. Brandeis University in Massachusetts provided the machine in Brattleboro as part of a research project to give Northeast communities insight into local drug supplies.

As overdoses increased this winter and wounds became more common, people started to show interest. The service has sampled about 65 substances to date, and Roberts expects it to catch on.

“It’s amazing how interested people get in it, especially after the first time you test something for them,” he said. “They have all these questions, wanting to know how it all works.”

The machine shoots a beam of infrared light onto the substance and produces a signature that’s mapped onto a computer program. Roberts matches the peaks of the graph to determine what substances are likely present. “This is aspirin. This is sucrose. This is heroin,” he said, clicking various tabs.

Roberts needs only a tiny amount of the drugs to test either raw substances or

“cooker” containers that people use to dissolve their drugs in before injecting. The process takes about an hour, and most people leave an email or a phone number so Roberts can share the results. When he does, he’ll usually ask some harm reductionthemed questions, such as: Now that you know what’s in there, are you going to use it in the same way?

The work has helped Roberts understand how much the drug supply has changed. Fentanyl used to be mixed into heroin, he said. Now, almost every sample contains just fentanyl, mixed with a basic cut — usually mannitol, a cheap diuretic.

He’s also started to notice that the weirder colored the dope, the more likely there’s xylazine present. “Traditionally you were looking at, like, white, off-white powder, maybe brown when heroin was still big,” he said. “Now you’re seeing yellow, green, blue, purple.”

A new law in Vermont will provide legal protection to anyone running drugchecking services, which could pave the way for more. It’s one of a handful of measures included in a bill that Gov. Phil Scott signed late last month aimed at lowering drug overdose deaths.

That bill, H.222, also includes the first wave of spending from Vermont’s share of funds from national legal settlements with opioid manufacturers: $2 million to fund 26 new outreach and case manager positions; $2 million to distribute Narcan, including through public kiosks or vending machines; $2 million to create four new satellite methadone clinics; and nearly $1 million to expand promising treatment programs that use financial rewards to encourage sobriety.

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Dakota Roberts demonstrating the drug-checking machine in Brattleboro

One thing the bill does not touch on: overdose prevention sites, which have been proven to reduce OD deaths in places where they’ve opened. Two now operate in New York City, and many view the strategy as the best way to curb the fatality rate in Vermont. That includes Weinberger, who noted that 75 percent of all people dying from fatal overdoses in Vermont have never been treated for addiction.

“That’s a staggering figure, and, to me, says that we are absolutely missing a large majority of the people that are most at risk,” Weinberger said in an interview.

But Gov. Scott has long opposed overdose prevention sites, going as far as to veto a bill in 2022 that would have simply created a study of them. And Health Commissioner Mark Levine has expressed doubt that the facilities would work in Vermont due to its rural landscape.

At a legislative hearing in April, Levine raised concerns over geographic

“We’ve changed our language, but in here,” he said, pointing to his heart, “in here, we still don’t care if they die.”

Weinberger shares Baker’s frustration and said he fears that the state is no longer treating the problem as an urgent matter. Back in the mid-2010s, then-governor Shumlin practically begged local leaders to help fight opioids. Now, Weinberger said, he and his counterparts are pleading for help from the state.

“If we want to really address this crisis,” he said, “we need state government to again be a true partner.”

‘YOU’RE ALIVE’

Amanda Bean was angry the first time she was revived from an overdose — not because she wanted to die, but because she had found a momentary peace in the thought that her disease might finally stop hurting those around her.

She has come to realize the flaw in her logic. Even now, at her lowest point, she still has people in her life who believe she can be rehabilitated: her father, for one, who has stepped in to take care of her children. He has found ways to forgive her time and again.

“‘At least I know where you are and that you’re alive,’” she said he told her last month when she called from jail, a conversation the two have had many times over the years.

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equity, noting that some of the highest overdose rates occur in rural areas where it could be difficult to staff such a site. He also questioned the pragmatism of the facilities in the age of fentanyl, when people have to use more often. Someone would have to “live” at a site to stay safe, he said, adding that he wants to see more research.

Levine’s testimony incensed harmreduction advocates such as Ed Baker, a 76-year-old former injection-drug user in Burlington who has become one of the most vocal supporters of safe injection sites.

While it’s true that most overdose deaths occur outside of Burlington, that’s not a good reason to stand in the city’s way of starting one when both local officials and community organizations support the idea, Baker said. And even if someone uses the site only once a day, that’s one less time they’re at risk of dying, he said. Isn’t that worth it?

Baker thought that Vermont officials had begun to finally treat addiction like the disease that it is. But the refusal to reconsider stances on safe injection sites signals otherwise, he said.

Per judge Rainville’s order, Bean remained in jail as this story went to press; the state was looking for a treatment bed.

She said her attorney was trying to secure a plea deal that would allow her to resolve many pending charges in exchange for a one- to four-year prison sentence that would be deferred, as long as she participated in treatment court. From there, Bean hoped to get into Jenna’s Promise, a center in Johnson launched by the parents of Jenna Tatro, who died of an opioid overdose in 2019 at age 26.

The nonprofit runs a residential treatment program for women and allows people to stay for up to a year, much longer than the typical 14 days at Vermont’s other rehab centers. According to Bean, her father told her, “I think it could change your life.”

The center only has space for 17 women at a time, however, and the spots are in high demand. Bean has been in touch with the center’s staff and said she believes she’ll get in. She has to, she said, because the alternative — landing back on the streets — can only end one way.

“I’ll be dead.” ➆

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Model Citizens

Meet “Electra’s engineers,” who keep the Shelburne Museum’s toy trains on track

BY KEN PICARD • ken@sevendaysvt.com

Morning light streamed through the antique windows of the Shelburne Museum toy shop, casting an almost sepia glow on the trainmen who arrived at 9 a.m. for their weekly maintenance visit. The five men had plenty of work to do on the decades-old model train set before the museum opened at 10. Many of the visitors that day would be children eager to push the exhibit’s buttons, expecting the train to move, the whistle to sound, and the plastic Holstein cow to walk on and off the tracks.

Every Monday morning, these volunteers, all retirees in their seventies, assemble at the small outbuilding on the northern edge of the museum grounds to work on the railroad. For them, tinkering with model trains is a labor of love that took hold when they were kids and survived well into adulthood. Of the scores of volunteers who donate their time in the museum’s art collection, gardens and development office, this group has a name and identity all its own: Electra’s engineers.

The Shelburne Museum’s 6-by-8-foot train layout, with its mountain tunnels, trestle bridge, train station, water tower and railroad crossing, is small by the standards of serious model train enthusiasts. That includes most of these guys, who have more elaborate sets in their own homes.

“Half my basement is full of Lionel trains,” said Sherward Farnsworth, 75, a retired civil engineer who used to work for the Vermont Agency of Transportation. Speaking on behalf of himself and his fellow volunteers, he added, “There’s always a spouse who comes in who says, ‘That’s as big as it’s gonna get. No bigger!’”

Despite this layout’s modest size, its trains get more wear and tear than most. Larry Maier, a retired rocket scientist with the group, calculated that the museum’s model train traveled more than 75 miles last year in its numerous loops around the track. And, as anyone who’s owned model trains can attest, it takes technical knowhow and vigilant attention to detail to keep the cars on the tracks and all the accessories operational, especially when no one is around all day to fiddle with them.

“It’s not running right, and I’m not sure if it’s the engine or the circuit,” volunteer Ed Bianchi said, crouching down to examine the tracks at eye level. “Let’s try a different engine.”

Fortunately, fellow volunteer Chris Monje had brought along a spare from his own collection: a green-and-yellow locomotive modeled after the Rutland Railroad’s mid-20th-century diesel engines.

Bianchi positioned the engine on the rails, and the train instantly sprung to life. Monje, 70, has a fondness for these particular trains. Like the ones in his basement in Ferrisburgh, it’s an S-gauge

CRAFT

set manufactured by American Flyer. A smaller gauge, or track width, than the far more popular O-gauge Lionel trains, which are 1/48th actual size, the S-gauge American Flyers are 1/64th actual size and have two rails compared to Lionel’s traditional three. Monje, who grew up in New York City in the 1950s, remembers seeing model trains just like these in the department store windows of Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s every winter holiday season.

The Shelburne Museum’s American Flyer display wasn’t an arbitrary acquisition. Museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960) was a good friend and hunting partner of Alfred Carlton “A.C.” Gilbert (1884-1961), inventor of the Erector Set and owner of American Flyer from 1938 until his death.

In 1954, Webb, whose husband, James Watson Webb, was a great-grandson of railroad and shipping magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, asked Gilbert to build the museum a model train exhibit. Gilbert’s original 8-by-20-foot layout stood just 2.5 feet off the ground, which allowed

The Shelburne Museum’s model train set can be operated by museum visitors at the push of a button, without staff present.

From left: Ed Bianchi, Sherward Farnsworth, Larry Maier, Chris Monje and Nick Hardin

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children to view it at eye level and operate it themselves.

According to Bianchi, when the layout first arrived from the American Flyer factory in New Haven, Conn., Webb was irate because it was completely flat and thus didn’t resemble Vermont’s mountainous landscape. In an effort to make it look more realistic, the museum staff painted a mural behind it. That mural is believed to have been painted on the walls of a room adja cent to the current one, which now houses the dining room set and wallpaper from the Webbs’ Long Island summer home.

“We suspect that behind that wallpa per is that original mural,” Bianchi said. “But we can’t prove it because no one will let us remove it.”

WHEN YOU WATCH THE JOY OF A CHILD PUSHING THE BUTTONS AND STARTING

TRAINS, IT’S KIND OF A PROFOUND MOMENT.

1950s-era American Flyer model train exhibit

Model Citizens

The 71-year-old Bianchi, a train enthusiast since childhood — he still has his father’s set from 1924 — had no idea that the museum had ever housed model trains.

So, in 2004, Bianchi and eight other model train enthusiasts, including Raab and fellow volunteer Nick Hardin, approached the museum with a plan to rebuild a smaller version of Webb’s original layout. The museum accepted their proposal and funded it with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The volunteers began constructing the new layout on a ping-pong table in Hardin’s basement. Containing locomotives, rolling stock and accessories from the original layout, as well as newer S-gauge re-creations, the exhibit opened to the public in 2005 on the 50th anniversary of the original one.

How closely the current layout resembles the 1950s version is uncertain because no photos of the original are known to exist.

“I’ve looked for years,” Bianchi said with dismay. He said he always asks model train buffs who are old enough to have seen the original one if they have any pictures of it. Thus far, he’s found none.

However, if any still exist, they could turn up later this month when the New England Division of the Train Collectors Association hosts its 69th annual national convention in Burlington. The weeklong event, whose exhibits and vendor displays open to the public on June 30 and July 1, will include a tour of the Shelburne Museum.

Fittingly, the logo for this year’s TCA convention features a green-and-yellow Rutland Railroad locomotive, like the one Monje provided, as well as the steamship Ticonderoga, a centerpiece of the museum grounds and one of its most popular exhibits. (See sidebar.)

Why feature a steamship in the logo of a model train convention? In winter 1955, the decommissioned vessel was hauled overland from the lake on parallel sets of railroad tracks, which had to be moved forward in sections as the ship inched its way to the museum grounds. Said Bianchi, “It was like moving the blocks for the pyramids.”

Just as the Ticonderoga crossed the Rutland Railroad tracks, an approaching freight train had to stop and allow the steamship to pass before it could continue on. It was a rare instance when a freight train had to wait for another vehicle to move out of its way.

Today, of the more than 100 volunteers who donate their time and

THE ART OF CRAFTS

Jerry DeGraff served four years in the U.S. Navy in the late 1960s and early ’70s stationed in Scotland and Guam, then lived out much of his life in a house on Hinesburg’s Lake Iroquois. But it wasn’t until December 1994 — when DeGraff’s wife, Davey, gave him a how-to book for Christmas — that he became serious about boats.

Model boats, that is.

A native of Essex Junction, DeGraff worked for many years in the building trades, constructing houses, doing carpentry, and installing tile floors, cabinetry and other finish work. In his free time, he used the book his wife gave him to teach himself how to build model boats from scratch.

He derived years of pleasure from it — until September 2022 when DeGraff died of lung cancer at age 72. Though few people other than family and close friends ever had an opportunity to see DeGraff’s creations while he was alive, an upcoming exhibit, created by his wife and stepdaughter, will soon share his work with a wider audience.

Even DeGraff’s first effort at model boatbuilding, a simple rowboat, reveals the artistry and meticulous attention to detail that would become his trademark. Soon, DeGraff was trying his hand at much more sophisticated vessels: tugboats, steamboats, Boston whalers, lobster boats, Mansfield canoes. Of the more than 40 model boats he built from scratch, virtually all were crafted without plans or designs. He carved, assembled and painted them all by hand, sometimes making them look weathered by the sea. Each took him weeks, if not months, to finish.

“It was time-consuming, but he loved every minute of doing it,” Davey said.

Once, after seeing the Lois McClure docked in Burlington, DeGraff took photos of the 19th-century canal schooner and used them to build a model of it, which he later donated to Vergennes’ Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.

Among DeGraff’s most impressive creations is a scale model of the Ticonderoga, which he carved using blueprints of the 1906 steamship that he acquired from the Shelburne Museum. The model, which is about three feet long, includes the dolly and parallel set of railroad tracks that were used in 1955 to move the steamship from Lake Champlain to its current location at the Shelburne Museum. DeGraff re-created the 220-foot vessel with such accuracy that for a short time the museum had it on display. It was one of the only times that DeGraff’s model boats were on public view.

That will soon change. On June 24 and 25, Bread & Butter Farm in Shelburne will host a free, pop-up exhibition of DeGraff’s scratch-built model boats.

“Our fantasy is that somebody will want to put it up somewhere else and have his collection there permanently,” said Tessa Holmes, DeGraff’s stepdaughter. “I don’t think anybody knew this collection was here. But it’s incredible and should be seen.” ➆

INFO

The pop-up exhibition of Jerry DeGraff’s work will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday, June 24 and 25, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Bread & Butter Farm in Shelburne. Free. 482-2720.

Jerry DeGraff with his wooden Ticonderoga model

The numbers on the bow of Jerry DeGraff’s models indicate the month and year he finished it.

DeGraff carved and handprinted all details by hand, usually from nothing more than a photo.

expertise to the Shelburne Museum, Electra’s engineers continue to perform a unique and vital function, museum director Thomas Denenberg said. Typically, kids see the model trains at the end

of their museum visit, after hours of just looking at historic objects and being told what is important. Unlike much of the museum’s exhibits, the model trains are interactive.

“I’ve been in the toy shop hundreds of times,” Denenberg said. “When you watch the joy of a child pushing the buttons and starting the trains, it’s kind of a profound moment.”

Once Electra’s engineers wrapped up their weekly maintenance visit, the railroad tracks and wheels had been cleaned, the locomotive ran smoothly, the lights on the crossing gate lit up, and the sound effects for the train station had been rerecorded. As volunteer Roger Brassard, 78, explained, the original 1950s station contained a miniature record player inside, complete with a small ceramic disc for playing a prerecorded announcement that said, “All aboard! American Flyer, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and all points west!”

When Bianchi pushed the exhibit button to play the announcement — he’d found a recording of the original audio on YouTube — the rest of the volunteers looked on approvingly and smiled.

INFO

The 69th annual Train Collectors Association convention will open its exhibits to the public on Friday, June 30, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, July 1, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the DoubleTree by Hilton in South Burlington. tcatrains.org

Learn more about the Shelburne Museum at shelburnemuseum.org.

The Shelburne Museum’s current model train layout is a smaller re-creation of the original layout built by A.C. Gilbert in the 1950s.

Hometown Honey

Champlain Apiary delivers a delicious educational experience

STORY & PHOTOS BY RACHEL MULLIS

Amid the stately halls of Champlain College and the rambling centenarian houses of Burlington’s South End lies a secret garden: a hushed acre of greenscape hidden behind dusty parking lots and the deep corners of urban backyards.

At first glance, the green has the look of a forgotten quad, dutifully mowed by groundskeepers and disregarded by everyone else. But visitors who enter it walking west descend into a hollow brimming with native perennials such as milkweed, bergamot, lobelia, hyssop, butterfly weed, coneflower, beardtongue, goldenrod, aster and phlox. The hollow is known as the Perry Pollinator Garden, and it sustains an even greater treasure: the honeybees of Champlain Apiary. Their trove? Wildflower honey.

Seven Days joined the apiary founder, Champlain College associate professor Kristin Wolf, to meet this summer’s crew of winged workers, sample the product and learn more about how the presence of bees benefits the larger community.

Champlain Apiary has its modest headquarters in a few wooden boxes known as Langstroth hives, stashed in a side yard beside the pollinator garden. The yard is protected by a fence with a large picture window that gives visitors a glimpse of the hives through the safety of the glass.

Wolf estimates that the average annual bee count peaks between 40,000 and 50,000 western honeybees — chosen because they make honey, unlike Vermont’s native bees. She also keeps several plant species in the garden to benefi t native pollinators and deter competition from the hive dwellers.

Nationally, western honeybees play

a critical role in pollinating commercial fruit and vegetable crops. In Vermont, native pollinators are plentiful enough to pollinate most crops, according to Laura Johnson, pollinator support specialist at the University of Vermont Extension.

But honeybees provide plenty of farmers with a new revenue stream. They do the same for Champlain College, funding the apiary and the learning

experiences it o ers to students and the community.

Visitors who enter the apiary yard with Wolf can don a full bee suit and even gloves. After 20 years’ experience keeping bees, Wolf is bolder: On our visit, she wore a regular long-sleeved shirt and pants, along with high rubber boots and a bee veil for head protection.

Wolf stu ed a bee smoker with dried white pine needles foraged from the road where she lives in Waterbury, and the air filled with a sweet, acrid, vanilla-tinged

scent. The smoke interferes with the bees’ ability to communicate and makes them hungry, she explained, sending them into the hive to gorge on honey. The result is calm, sluggish bees.

Wolf sent a few pu s of smoke into the nearest hive as dozens of bees darted in and out. She held up a dead male, or drone, which she identified by its larger size and massive, wraparound eyes. Up close, the dense, blond coat on its thorax revealed itself to be composed of thousands of fine hairs.

Kristin Wolf with second graders from Burlington’s Integrated Arts Academy

Champlain Apiary honey

A female, or worker bee, landed nearby. She was smaller but mighty, her back legs weighed down by pollen that she was carrying back to the hive to serve as a highly nutritious food source for her family.

Slowly, Wolf pried off the top cover of the hive box with a hive tool, revealing hundreds more honeybees as their buzzing grew louder. She pointed out the crayonyellow “bee bread” visible in some of the combs, which is pollen mixed with a bit of nectar that ferments into a nutritious, fat- and protein-rich food source. She also pointed out the combs filled with nectar that, when cured and capped by the bees

in a thin layer of new wax, would become honey.

“Oh! This is very hard to see, but if you look right in the middle of this frame, there are almost like little grains of rice in the empty combs,” Wolf said. “Those are eggs.” When you see them, she added, “you know the queen has just been there and that she’s laying, because those eggs only last for three days.”

She gently pressed the hive tool into one of the wax combs to reveal the near-microscopic egg that would soon become a larva. Continuing to pull out vertical frames, one at a time, she called attention to the propolis the bees use

Wally’s Place Finds New Owner in South Hero

Earlier this spring, KRISTEN and MATT BARTLE announced that they were seeking new owners for WALLY’S PLACE , the South Hero bagel shop, café and bakery they’ve operated for 15 years. Just before their planned closing on June 11, they found one. Milton native MARILEE SILVA is returning to Vermont after 40 years to take over Wally’s Place, which she will continue to operate under that name.

Silva said she plans no big changes for the popular café at 54 Community Lane, other than adding a couple of simple vegan options. Wally’s will be closed this week for the transition and reopen on Saturday, June 17.

“Wally’s is beloved in the community,” Silva told Seven Days . “I don’t want

to insulate the hive, the royal jelly that provides nutrition to larvae and the queen, and several combs containing drone and worker pupae. She excavated an alabaster drone pupa that would have emerged within the week; the drones must be culled regularly, she said, to minimize the spread of varroa mites that carry diseases that can devastate the hive.

Wolf’s work is methodical, hypnotic and astonishingly rich in sensory input. Hundreds of bees enveloped her in a slowmotion cyclone of activity, buzzing more

From left: Kristen and Matt Bartle with Marilee Silva

Kristin Wolf at Champlain Apiary

No Beef

Empress Levi prepares vegan soul food for Juneteenth

STORY & PHOTOS BY CAROLYN SHAPIRO

Empress Levi went vegan 19 years ago, but she never abandoned the Caribbean and southern flavors she loved while growing up. Her father came from Panama, her mother from North Carolina, and her grandmother and aunt from Jamaica.

Levi, 59, whose given name is Tishaun Williams, learned to make dishes such as oxtail, fried chicken, and macaroni and cheese at a young age and later adapted them to a vegan diet. She sells an array of those classics through her catering business, Empress Levi Soul Food, and serves them at pop-up dinners at Tiny Community Kitchen in Burlington.

On Saturday, June 17, she’ll cook for Juneteeth BTV as one of the vendors for the city’s celebration of Black culture. As of last week, she was still finalizing the menu at her home in Essex, but it’s likely to include some variation on her standard vegan

recipes: jerk tofu and tofu ribs, macaroni and potato salads, and rice and peas. Other selections might be Rasta Pasta, with a mixture of faux cheese and seasonings; collard greens; candied yams; and “peanut punch.”

“I just want people to know that vegan food can taste good,” Levi said. e “soul” of her business, she explained, has less to do with a specific cuisine than with a general vibe: “I make this food from my heart and my soul.”

In 2004, Levi adopted a vegan diet as part of a Rastafarian lifestyle, based on the Jamaican spiritual and political movement that encourages natural, “of the earth” eating, generally free of meat.

Online videos taught her about basic vegan substitutions for animal products, such as soaked, ground flax seeds or chia seeds for

eggs and applesauce for butter. She refined her recipes via trial and error with her own seasonings until they tasted like the foods she remembered eating as a kid.

“I season just from my ancestry,” she said. “Everything that I’ve eaten, I’ve veganized it.” e result is a smattering of tofu-based faux meats, including fried “chicken” and “ribs,” and a variety of sides. At Levi’s Tiny Community Kitchen pop-up earlier this month, the pile of “rib meat” came in a thick, dark sauce and had the smoky sweetness of the real deal, if not the exact texture of pork. It balanced well with Levi’s rice and peas — actually red beans — blended with light Jamaican spices.

Levi’s faux fried chicken bore a remarkable resemblance to a classic chicken nugget, with tofu inside the ideal crunchy coating. Her vegan version supported the notion that fried chicken relies less on the chicken than on the batter.

Among the side dishes, Levi’s cabbage was a standout, steamed to softness and sautéed into a warm slaw with diced carrots, sweet peppers, onions, thyme and other herbs. e potato salad had a lovely creaminess that lacked the tang of mayonnaise but complemented the subtlety of the potato mixture.

Levi doesn’t cook and tell; she keeps the secrets of her sauces, seasonings and substitutions to herself. But she encourages those who partake in her pop-ups to share their insights.

“I love the interaction with the customers that come in for the food,” she said. “I want the people to get love from my food, and I need to get feedback from them.”

INFO

Juneteenth BTV, Saturday, June 17, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., at various locations in Burlington, btvreib.com/juneteenth. Free; price of food and drink. Find Empress Levi Soul Food on Facebook and Instagram.

loudly in response to the occasional pu of sweet smoke.

“You come in here, and there is no sense of time,” Wolf said. “I’m always late for everything, because you start to go through [the hives] and it’s such an endless source of fascination.”

The fruit of this careful stewardship will be about 200 pounds of honey from this year’s two to three hives — “which is wonderful,” Wolf said. “The average on a hive in Vermont is about 60 pounds.” The yard can host up to five hives, though Wolf said that tends to be a lot for the space.

Inside the building next to the yard, Wolf produced a painter’s palette of honey for us to sample, from white-gold to dark amber. Honey tastes and aromas are as varied as those of wine, beer and co ee, ranging from fruity to spicy to medicinal. The color and flavor depend on the bees’ nectar source.

Some honey is polyfloral, like Champlain College’s wildflower honey, while other products are monofloral, which means their nectar is derived primarily from one type of flower. Clover honey is the most common example, but honey connoisseurs are increasingly seeking a broader range of flavor profiles, from manuka to buckwheat to apple blossom.

Champlain College’s product is a light amber color with a sweet, mellow taste that consumers have described as floral, Wolf said, with notes of fresh fruit and mint.

“And a lot of people said citrus on the end, but I’ve never really gotten citrus,” she said.

The honey and other bee-based products are sold about 200 yards away at the campus store, as well as online. A six-ounce jar of honey is $7, while lip balm and ski balm made from the beeswax go for $4 and $5, respectively.

The profit from Champlain Apiary’s products goes back into support for the bees’ ongoing care, educational programming, and student-led production and marketing of the honey and beeswax balms. Wolf also employs the bees to provide experiential learning opportunities in courses as varied as environmental ethics, science and society, and global studies. Over the past 10 years, she has led students on beekeeping excursions in the Peruvian Amazon through a college partnership with the Fundación Honey Bee Impact, an organization founded by her beekeeping mentor, Germán Perilla.

Former Champlain College student Hayden Coy, 25, was so impressed with Wolf’s work that he returned to the apiary with a group of fifth and sixth graders

Tofu ribs platter and jerk tofu platter

Empress Levi with a pan of cabbage

Empress Levi at a Tiny Community Kitchen pop-up

through his employer, the Boys & Girls Club of Burlington.

“I took the kids there because I knew how smart Kristin is. I found myself always captivated by the things she said,” Coy said. “I knew the kids would be, as well. They really listened to every word and kind of just ate it up.”

Coy plans to bring another group of students to the apiary through the Boys & Girls Club this summer — one of several field trips that Wolf hosts for younger learners each year.

On June 5, she hosted a group of second graders from the Integrated

This reporter (and Integrated Arts Academy parent) joined the students’ teacher, Heather McGrath, and other parent volunteers in helping the students into their tiny bee suits. The children made their way into the apiary, where they went from nervous to delighted as Wolf carefully carried over a frame crawling with bees. The biggest surprise

was how unbothered the bees were. As Wolf had promised the students, “if our bodies are calm and our voices are calm, they’re not dangerous.”

“I thought it was really fun and interesting,” Malachi Doherty, 8, said. “I also thought it was kind of scary … because you were walking through these big clouds of bees.” But as the visit went on, his fear receded because he was “not getting touched by anything,” he added.

Dahlia Groves, 8, agreed. “It just felt good to be calm,” she said.

Wolf felt that same sense of “little kid wonder” when she first visited an apiary in her twenties, she said. She credits that

feeling with leading her to where she is today, 20 years later.

“It was such a sensory experience that you are so socialized to be scared of,” Wolf said. “When that myth was debunked for me, I was sold.” ➆

INFO

Learn more at champlain.edu.

HONEY TASTES AND AROMAS ARE AS VARIED AS THOSE OF WINE, BEER AND COFFEE, RANGING FROM FRUITY TO SPICY TO MEDICINAL.

Arts Academy in Burlington.

A painter’s palette of honey for sampling

Kristin Wolf with bees

SMALL PLEASURES

Batter Up

Dosa Kitchen brings South Indian flavors home

BY JORDAN BARRY • jbarry@sevendaysvt.com

Leda Scheintaub and Nash Patel have a lofty goal: to make dosa a household name in the United States. To start, the Brattleboro couple are staying close to home, selling their South Indian rice-and-lentil crêpe batter at stores throughout Vermont for customers to whip up in their own kitchens.

Scheintaub, a cookbook author, and Patel, who grew up in Hyderabad, India, have been in the dosa biz since 2014. They operate the popular Brattleboro food truck Dosa Kitchen and briefly had a brick-and-mortar restaurant. In 2018, they cowrote the first cookbook published in the U.S. dedicated to the stone-ground, fermented dish: Dosa Kitchen: Recipes for India’s Favorite Street Food

A dosa batter business was their original idea, Scheintaub said. But they set it aside for lack of capital.

“We did some numbers and realized, OK, you have to open a factory to do this,” she said. “Instead, we decided to educate people about dosas — which millions of people eat every day in India — and have them eat Nash’s dosas, which I fell in love with.”

In October 2022, the couple won a $20,000 grant in the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation’s business plan competition. They found a production space at the Winston Prouty Center and started scaling up their packaged product line.

The packaged batter is identical to the raw material of the crêpes they’ve served at Dosa Kitchen for years. Now, though, it can be found in stores such as South Burlington’s Healthy Living, Montpelier’s Hunger Mountain Co-op and both Burlington locations of City Market, Onion River Co-op.

Early on, the couple made batches almost every night with a home stone grinder about the size of a double food processor. In their new production space, they have two 20-liter stone grinders that are almost six feet tall. “You have to get on a step stool to pour into them,” Scheintaub said.

But stone grinding keeps things relatively small, she added. “There aren’t stone grinders that take up the whole factory. It’s a scale that makes sure you get similar results every time.”

The fermentation involved in making dosa batter is less predictable, at the whims of temperature and humidity. Patel has a camera set up in the fermentation room, and a quick rise has sometimes sent him running back to the factory late at night. Thankfully, he and Scheintaub live only five minutes away.

Dosa Kitchen’s tangy, ready-to-pour batter ($7.99 per quart) is naturally vegan and sugar- and gluten-free. The most traditional preparation produces crisp, paper-thin, crêpe-like dosas, often served with spiced potatoes, sambar and coconut chutney, Scheintaub said. But they can be tricky to nail at home. I’ve watched all the step-by-step videos on the company’s website, and I still tend to get stuck while attempting to spread the batter in even, concentric circles.

Set dosas — the thickness of a wrap — and the more pancake-like uttapam are easier preparations to start with, because they don’t require careful spreading. Dosa Kitchen also sells classic accompaniments: spicy Mysore chutney and savory sambar, a lentil and vegetable stew.

“Or you can [use the batter to] make American-style waffles with maple syrup and butter,” Scheintaub said with a laugh. “Any dosa’s gonna taste delicious, and just about anything you can make a sandwich out of, you can use a dosa in its place.” ➆

Small Pleasures is an occasional column that features delicious and distinctive Vermont-made food or drinks that pack a punch. Send us your favorite little bites or sips with big payoff at food@sevendaysvt.com.

INFO

Dosa Kitchen Factory + Food Truck, 209 Austine Dr., Brattleboro. Find stores and more information at dosakitchen.com.

PHOTOS: CLARE BARBOZA

Finished dosa with accompaniments

Nontraditional ways to use dosa batter

Dosa and sambar

PHOTOS COURTESY OF CLARE BARBOZA

Leda Scheintaub and Nash Patel making dosas

to take anything away, because people have their favorites, right?”

Silva graduated from Milton High School in 1983 and left eight days later to join the U.S. Army as a clarinet player and vocalist. Since then, she’s held a variety of food industry roles around the country, including co-owning Pelican Pizza in California.

Until a couple of weeks ago, Silva had a full-time job in Connecticut. With family in North Hero, she has always considered returning home. “But I thought, If I moved back to Vermont, what would I do? ” Silva said. When her cousin told her Wally’s was for sale, she jumped on the opportunity.

“They tell you you’re going to do the 40-40 plan: work 40 hours a week for 40 years before you retire,” she said. “I worked 80 hours a week for 40 years, but now I’ve come full circle.” From now on, the extra hours she works will be for herself.

Some of the existing Wally’s staff will stay on, and Silva hopes to hire more. For now, the café will be open Tuesday through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The owners of COOK SISTERS CAFÉ & CATERING , who have offered dinner service at “Wally’s by Night,” will move their operation down the road to TWO HEROES BREWERY ’s new location when it opens in the coming weeks.

Jordan Barry

Winooski’s Commodities Natural Market Has Closed

Commodities Natural Market owners

AUDRA and MICHAEL HUGHES shuttered Winooski’s only downtown grocery on April 16 to concentrate on construction of a larger store to replace their current Commodities in Stowe, according to an announcement on the company’s website.

“We love Winooski and loved serving the community,” Michael Hughes told Seven Days via email.

The new location in Stowe is slated to triple the size of the existing market there, he wrote: “With three young

children and an expanding business, it made the most sense for our family to focus our energy in Stowe.” Commodities filled a food desert in downtown Winooski in December 2017 when it started selling fresh produce, local bread, organic and natural foods, and bulk items in a 3,300-square-foot space on Winooski Falls Way. It followed the Stowe location, which opened in 2015 at 512 Mountain Road as Hughes’ second store. He launched Commodities in the East Village of New York in 1993; that store shuttered in 2018.

Hughes wrote that he expected another market would take the vacant Winooski space but had no information about prospective tenants. Construction began a few weeks ago on the new Commodities, at 1652 Mountain Road in Stowe, and it is slated to open in about a year, he wrote.

CONNECT

Hughes is still finalizing plans for the new, larger Commodities in Stowe and will share details when he has them, he wrote.

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Beyond a Startup

Poppy to a brick-and-mortar storefront in Waterbury — one with space for events.

But how could she transition her online success into an in-person reality? McCue shared the question with the Vermont Womenpreneurs community at a meetup. There she connected with Becca Brown, founder and CEO of marketing agency Uppercase Industries, and made a coffee date. When the two met to brainstorm, Brown suggested that McCue start partnering with more local brands and businesses. Said McCue, it was “the best advice ever.”

Just as important as advice, though, is the support she gets, McCue said. It’s especially important to her as a woman running a business on her own.

“All business owners have their struggles, but there’s a different flavor for women in business,” she said, noting that at Vermont Womenpreneurs meetings, people aren’t afraid to talk about their challenges. “It makes me feel less alone.”

FINDING THE RIGHT COLLABORATOR

Vermont Womenpreneurs

Celebrates Five Years of Connecting Business Owners

Janina McCue had been dreaming about starting her own custom cake business since she was 14 years old. After graduating from Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., with a degree in business administration, she moved to Vermont and started working four jobs to make her dream come true.

In between caring for kids as a nanny and practicing her craft as a baker at the former New Moon Café in Burlington, she began building connections in the community. The Burlington area is home to several different business networking groups, and McCue is involved with a quite a few of them, but she says there is something truly special about Vermont Womenpreneurs.

Founded in 2018 by Mieko Ozeki and Bethany Andrews-Nichols, Vermont Womenpreneurs exists to help entrepreneurs like McCue start and run their businesses. It hosts meetups — both in-person and virtual. Classes, too. It also convenes an annual summit that celebrates entrepreneurs from a variety of industries who gather to share their stories. This year’s event was on June 7 at the Ponds at Bolton Valley; tickets sold out in three days.

What makes Vermont Womenpreneurs

events so popular, McCue said, is that they’re different from what she found at other networking groups. At the Biz Buzz monthly coffee meetups, there are no name tags or awkward handshakes. No rules constraining the conversations. Women can show up in leggings or sweats — and with their kids. No one judges a late arrival or an early goodbye; everybody gets it. And members genuinely care about each other’s success.

McCue attended her first Biz Buzz in November 2018. “I just felt so motivated by the group and kept coming back,” she said. Within six months, she had officially started her business, Red Poppy Cakery, in the space above what used to be New Moon on Cherry Street.

The business owners she met through Vermont Womenpreneurs didn’t just help McCue get started; they’ve encouraged her to get creative and pursue new ideas, too.

When everything shut down during

the early days of the pandemic, McCue launched baking classes over Zoom as a way to connect with people. The sessions attracted students from all over the country. In 2022, she moved Red

Vermont Womenpreneurs has played a similar role in the lives of its cofounders. Ozeki and Andrews-Nichols met six years ago at what’s now Kestrel Coffee Roasters on Maple Street in Burlington, at a meetup for a group called Ladies Get Paid. Ozeki had just left her job as the program & marketing director at Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Waitsfield; Andrews-Nichols, an art director for a local beverage company, had been laid off the day before.

“I was going through a lot, and I just let go and bore it all to her,” Andrews-Nichols said, laughing. “And she told me she was going through the same thing and suggested we do it together.”

The two sat down at a table at the coffee shop and talked about their aspirations — what they both wanted out of being in business for themselves. By the time Ozeki met Andrews-Nichols, she’d had a side hustle as a personal brand consultant for five years with her business, Radiance Studios, and was contemplating making that her full-time gig. She had taken time between jobs to go on a Better Selves Fellowship retreat at Knoll Farm in Fayston to examine her strengths. A few months later, Ozeki took a workshop at the nonprofit Center for Women & Enterprise, where the instructor suggested that the solopreneurs in the workshop could convene to keep one another accountable. It inspired her to start organizing meetups at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington for women-owned small businesses starting in January 2018. She invited Andrews-Nichols to attend.

I just felt so motivated by the group and kept coming back.

JANINA MCCUE, Red Poppy Cakery

“I often joke that I was creating her support group,” Ozeki said. “But it was really this journey between the two of us.”

Six months later, Ozeki proposed spinning the group off into its own organization and invited Andrews-Nichols to be her cofounder. They designed the new entity around six guiding principles: Vermont Womenpreneurs would convene, connect, collaborate, create, celebrate and care. Those principles are embedded in the organization’s DNA.

In their partnership, Ozeki does the content creation and event planning, and Andrews-Nichols articulates their ideas through graphic designs. Ozeki says they both bring different strengths and skills that contribute to participants’ experience of this community and network.

For instance, Andrews-Nichols came up with the idea to hold the gathering that turned into the first Womenpreneurs Showcase. She and Ozeki were talking after a meetup about the awkwardness of networking events and how exhausting it is to pitch yourself over and over to a room in conversations that feel very transactional. “Wouldn’t it be great if there was something like a science fair for small businesses?” Andrews-Nichols asked. Ozeki loved this concept and set out to make it a reality.

That first showcase sold out quickly, with about 90 attendees. Twenty womenpreneurs got a chance to take the stage and tell their business stories.

Andrews-Nichols described the vibe that day: “Once I was at a networking event, and the person I was chatting with immediately ended the conversation once they realized what I did wasn’t relevant to them,” she said. “That feeling was so different compared to being onstage at the first showcase and being surrounded by people who had my back. I started crying when I told my story, and other people were crying, too. It’s a pretty special community.”

Afterward, it was clear that Ozeki and Andrews-Nichols had struck a chord that resonated with their audience. Pre-showcase, the Biz Buzz meetups had about five to 10 people attending; the first one following the gathering drew 40 small business owners.

Marie Teme, who runs the cleaning business Green Vision Cleansing, spoke at the 2022 summit. She explained the Vermont Womenpreneurs’ return on investment.

“Other groups are paid and require you to make a kind of commitment to see the results you want or get referrals. It takes time and money,” Teme said. “But this group is more casual, and it doesn’t take as much to get something out of it. The connections I made at the summit last June will last forever.”

The success of the group has helped its founders, too. Vermont

Womenpreneurs has helped Ozeki find clients for Radiance Studios, her marketing and branding agency. That’s also true for Andrews-Nichols, who runs Beenanza Design. She sourced her Burlington office space at the Soda Plant through the womenpreneur network.

Andrews-Nichols is about to launch a new product called Coverall, which allows users to block print on walls, clothing or any printable surface they desire to create on. Like all Vermont Womenpreneurs members, she’ll get exposure through the group’s word-of-mouth and social media network — Vermont Womenpreneurs has nearly 2,000 Facebook followers and 11,200-plus followers on Instagram.

GROWING THE NETWORK

The next challenge for Ozeki and Andrews-Nichols? Helping Vermonters

outside Chittenden County benefit from these types of connections.

The virtual gatherings have been useful for entrepreneurs like Kaela Coble, who lives in St. Albans. After an injury forced her to quit her day job, Coble started looking for a way to work from home with a flexible schedule. Starting her own business seemed like the best option. After taking a few online courses, she found her niche: bookkeeping.

bookkeeping for small women-owned businesses is that the owners don’t charge enough and don’t pay themselves. She tries to help clients address that.

Coble attends Vermont Womenpreneurs Zoom meetups and has hosted bookkeeping webinars for the group. Even virtually, she said, she feels like she’s developed a sense of community with the other members. More than 50 percent of her clients have come from her Vermont Womenpreneurs connections.

Dani and Becca Titterton of Killington have had a similar experience. The mother-daughter duo runs Your Yuckies!, which produces plant-based hygiene bags for hikers to bring along on the trail. They started the company during the pandemic and attended a Biz Buzz last November. They’ve participated in virtual meetups since, but they’re eager to access a group that’s closer to home.

“I’m a face-to-face person,” Dani said. “Some people we met at that Biz Buzz became our biggest cheerleaders, even if we had nothing to do with each other’s industry. It was very organic and genuine.”

Ozeki said the group is trying to come up with more ways for members of the group across the state to meet and interact.

“We’ve had an ambassador program in the works, and I’m hoping to create chapters,” she said. This year’s summit will also launch a membership program, which will include a group directory and early access to events across the state.

Ozeki is proud of the progress Vermont Womenpreneurs has made at the fiveyear mark and expects more growth to come. She said she can remember a time where no one would know who she was in a room. Now she’s often invited in and assigned a seat at the table in places such as the offices of U.S. Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.). Her success is good for Vermont.

“If we can create a network for women in business where they feel encouraged and supported, more will come and root their businesses in our communities,” Ozeki said. “That’s more effective than any incentive to attract big companies to the state.” 

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Connecting with Vermont Womenpreneurs helped her zero in on her mission. “After speaking with them, I figured out I was passionate about working with women-owned small businesses, so I narrowed my focus,” she explained. She started KPC Bookkeeping in 2022. “It’s been so motivating to work with businesses I’m passionate about helping.”

Coble says working with clients that are women makes her feel like she’s making a difference, too. One of the biggest problems she sees when

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Book review: If It Sounds Like a Quack… A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

BY MARGOT HARRISON • margot@sevendaysvt.com

Do you remember when the president of the United States went on national TV and suggested that bleach injections might be a viable safeguard against COVID-19? Vershire journalist Matthew HongoltzHetling does. And in his new book, If It Sounds Like a Quack… A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine, the Pulitzer Prize finalist is here to show us that that unprecedented moment in American history should have come as no surprise.

Far from being a spontaneous product of Donald Trump’s imagination, Hongoltz-Hetling argues, the bleach cure represented the victory of an “increasingly sophisticated network of quacks” who have built a “shadow health empire” on Americans’ distrust of conventional medicine.

The author shows how advocates of “medical freedom” have used the internet to get rich offering the public “One True Cures” that they claim will eliminate the need for those pesky doctors. In brief, punchy chapters, Hongoltz-Hetling traces six case studies of 21st-century One True Cure promoters, with solutions ranging from faith healing to lasers to leeches. The narrative that emerges is alternately hilarious and horrifying.

Take the story of the bleach cure. It began back in the 1990s when a man named Jim Humble, who describes himself as a billion-year-old alien, developed a disinfectant-based drink that he believed

could cure malaria and cancer. By 2020, the “alien” and his human partner, Mark Grenon, were getting rich o his Miracle Mineral Solution. Pandemic fears sent sales through the roof, and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration obtained a court injunction against the business. Grenon penned a desperate plea to the president.

Was this the inspiration for Trump’s press conference monologue? While we’ll never know, the makers of Miracle Mineral Solution claimed the president’s words as a lucrative endorsement. Not long afterward, another One True Cure peddler profiled in the book — Robert Young, who attributes all diseases to pH imbalance — announced his theory that coronavirus vaccines contain nanoparticles that turn people into zombies.

It’s easy to dismiss such beliefs as absurd, just as it was easy — until January 6, 2021, anyway — for mainstream media to dismiss the QAnon conspiracy theory. But HongoltzHetling argues that we should pay serious attention to modern quackery, first because it has real, tragic consequences and second because of what it reveals about the ills of the medical system it attempts to replace.

Dawn Kali, one of Young’s devotees, felt those consequences firsthand. After years of the nondoctor’s treatments failed to stop the spread of her cancer, she sued him and won $26 million as compensation for the decades of life she had lost.

In one of the book’s most revelatory

passages, Kali describes to the author how she feels finally getting hospital treatment after years of hanging out at Young’s chummy desert retreat. “Spiritually,” Hongoltz-Hetling writes, “there was nothing positive about the [hospital] experience, no sustenance, no warmth, no humanity.” Kali endures the cold anonymity of modern health care, though, because she now knows its treatments actually work.

To understand the ascendance of quacks, the author suggests, we have to understand what they offer to their “patients” that doctors and hospitals don’t. The stories of One True Cure purveyors are entertaining slices of Americana. But they also reveal larger institutional problems: the physician shortage, the rise of profit-driven medicine, the powerlessness of regulators to stop the wildfire spread of online misinformation. Hongoltz-Hetling writes:

I see the evolution of One True Cure peddlers—from lone outlaws, to

swarms of sco aws and organized freedom fighters, to organizers of a near-dominant paradigm that led to a revolution-minded storming of the nation’s capitol—as the embodiment of the flaws of the medical establishment and governmental institutions.

That’s a strong indictment from someone who writes in such a freewheeling style. As in his previous book, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears) , Hongoltz-Hetling has serious points to make, but he’s equally focused on spinning amusing tales of human delusion and misbehavior. By splitting the stories of his six quacks into short, alternating chapters, rather than completing each one before moving to the next, he deploys a literary tactic less common in journalism than in best-selling thrillers. The method works, though — many of his chapters end on cli -hangers, encouraging readers to

HONGOLTZ-HETLING HAS SERIOUS POINTS TO MAKE, BUT HE’S EQUALLY FOCUSED ON SPINNING AMUSING TALES OF HUMAN DELUSION AND MISBEHAVIOR.

Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

OF KIMBERLY HONGOLTZ

keep turning pages and perhaps even to skip ahead.

More sober journalists may scoff at some of Hongoltz-Hetling’s stylistic choices. He refers to Humble throughout as “the alien in Jim Humble’s skin” and to Trump as “the former game show host.” He tells his subjects’ stories with jaunty, novelistic freedom: “In fact, if you could put great into a bottle, well then, Young’s life would have been a whole bottleful of great.” And he has an off-putting habit of tossing Lewis Carroll nonsense words such as “brillig” and “frabjous” into his sentences to underscore the absurdity of the looking-glass world in which the quacks reign supreme.

All this playfulness has a point, however. When the cheesy jokes stop and Hongoltz-Hetling gets serious, he often turns around and implicates himself — and his readers — for our eagerness to laugh off his subject. In an extended account of attending a faith healing workshop in Florida, the author mocks both himself and the participants, detailing his own awkward efforts to blend in and conceal his journalistic agenda. He writes:

I walked out of the church with a Cheshire Cat smile on my face, thinking of the lunacy I had just witnessed. I wondered whether the public would be more likely to prevent the deaths of innocent victims by confronting faith healers at every turn? Or would understanding and empathy be more effective?

A moment later, however, “My smile faded,” Hongoltz-Hetling writes, as he realizes that he has neither confronted the faith healers nor attempted to sway them with empathy. Instead, he has passively observed them, despite his knowledge of at least one case in which reliance on faith healing led to a child’s death.

A One True Cure for quackery remains elusive. If there’s a more effective way to challenge anti-science thinking than the agonizingly slow machinery of the FDA and the justice system, Hongoltz-Hetling hasn’t found it. But his portraits do offer empathy as well as satire, exploring the multitude of reasons besides the obvious one (money) that motivate people to set themselves up as healers.

When we relegate looking-glass views of the world to fodder for ironic Twitter

FROM IF IT SOUNDS LIKE A QUACK… A JOURNEY TO THE FRINGES OF AMERICAN MEDICINE

When the sellers of the One True Cures began to identify as medical-freedom advocates, the change in messaging and tone didn’t raise any immediate alarms at the FDA and the other enforcement agencies tasked with protecting the health of the American public. Enforcement agents didn’t care about political rhetoric and stances of potential fraudsters. They simply went on pounding away at the violators, as they always had. That’s what guiding documents like the Operations Manual told them to do.

But a small minority of public health officials did see the downsides of their own inherent stodginess and were beginning to realize that being mind-numbingly boring was an impediment to influencing an American public that, in the digital age, wanted its important information to be sugarcoated with entertainment value.

threads, Hongoltz-Hetling suggests, we become part of the problem. “Perhaps,” he concludes his faith healing anecdote, “that’s how One True Cures get out of hand in the first place.” ➆ INFO

If It Sounds Like a Quack… A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, PublicAffairs, 323 pages. $29.

“For good times and bad times” — that’s what friends are for, right? With apologies to the late Burt Bacharach, what if the ultimate act of friendship is also the one that ultimately ends it?

That’s the moral dilemma facing two besties in Act 39, written by Circus Smirkus founder Rob Mermin. The play runs from June 22 through July 2 at Goddard College’s Haybarn Theater in Plainfield. Act 39 is based on Mermin’s friendship with Bill Morancy, who, with Mermin’s support, ended his life, and his suffering from pancreatic cancer, in 2015 by exercising his rights under Act 39, also known as the Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act, which became state law in 2013.

The play is so autobiographical — “based totally on true events,” Mermin said during a break in rehearsals — that its two characters are named Rob and Bill.

Mermin recalled this friendship in a moving 2016 episode of Erica Heilman’s “Rumble Strip” podcast on Vermont Public. That first-person account rendered personal, intimate and palpable an issue that many Vermonters encounter as political and abstract. Mermin began speaking directly to people interested in learning more about medical aid in dying, sometimes in collaboration with end-oflife advocacy nonprofit Patient Choices Vermont.

After a few years of telling his Act 39 story, he began writing it down. The first draft, he said, was “cathartic.” It also took a somewhat on-the-nose approach — a kind of “panel discussion,” as Mermin described it in a phone interview. After shelving and retrieving the project a few times over a few years, Mermin realized that “just telling the story of what happened and how it went down with me and my friend Bill” might offer more illumination of the issue.

To remain true to that story, Mermin wrote into the script his own serious illness — a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in 2014 that would foreshadow, in a sense, the challenges ahead for Rob, played by J.T. Turner, and Bill, played by Donny Osman, who is also the show’s producer.

Disclosing such personal details “was not easy for me. I’m more of a private person,” Mermin, the retired clown-mime, said over the phone. In one poignant exchange in the play, Rob tells Bill that “having Parkinson’s is like doing mime all day long. Every movement is intentional.”

While Mermin may have been reluctant to open up, others in his circle were unsurprised to see him write from the heart.

“When he mentioned that he had started writing a play, I had a sense that humor and friendship would be a central theme,” Patient Choices Vermont president Betsy Walkerman shared via email. “Rob is

Exeunt Strategy

A play inspired by Vermont’s end-of-life law celebrates a twilight friendship

BY ERIK ESCKILSEN

Savoy Theater, where Morancy worked as a projectionist. The two became friends.

As dramatized in the play, they would initiate hangout time together with a tap on the floor separating their apartments. Sometimes this would lead to a game of catch outside the building — action also included in the play. But it wasn’t all fun and games: Morancy was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer in fall 2015 and learned that, the cancer having metastasized, he’d have about six months to live.

The autobiographical mooring of Act 39 creates an unavoidable spoiler, since the play’s title implies the resolution of Morancy’s life, an outcome that Mermin has shared publicly. That’s OK. Because, as a recent rehearsal revealed, the play is not so much a mystery as a meditation — on friendship and how sometimes fleeting human connections give life form and meaning.

As Bill and Rob together navigate events that neither had anticipated, the journey brings out their contrasting characters. Rob is the mystical believer prone to magical visions — and ready with a magic trick — while Bill is the “grounded realist,” as Osman described his character. (Osman’s collaboration with Mermin dates back to Osman’s Circus Smirkus ringmaster gig in the late 1980s, the early years of the troupe. He later served in the state legislature.)

Under Callan’s direction, Act 39 mixes friendly dialogue with more dramatic flourishes, such as when some events — backstories, historical anecdotes and dreamlike visions — play out on a center-stage riser, with Bill and Rob interacting in the downstage foreground. Two additional actors play multiple roles in these memories and sidebars, among them Rob’s lost love Marian and Mistress Death (Maren Langdon Spillane), and Hercules, Samuel Morse and Sigmund Freud (Dominic Spillane).

Cavan Meese’s set and lighting design and Johnnie Day Durand’s soundscapes will transform Mermin’s heavily autobiographical script into “realms of reality and fantasy and almost a magical sense about things,” Callan said in a phone interview. “We want to leave room for the audience [to] experience a sense of wonder and a sense of the celebration of the present.”

a story-teller, and a great one.” Walkerman added that Mermin also checked his facts with her about the medical aid-in-dying process.

Act 39 , directed by Monica Callan, is a fresh take on the story of Mermin and Morancy’s friendship in the unique

language of theater, reanimating painful but also joyful moments. The plot follows the general arc of their relationship, starting in 2007 — the year Mermin left Circus Smirkus — when they each moved into the same School Street apartment building in Montpelier. They soon crossed paths at the

To call Act 39 timely is an understatement. A decade after the eponymous law’s passage, Vermont now extends medical aid in dying to nonresidents, leading a small but growing national movement. What makes the play resonant, however, are the questions it raises beyond the political sphere — about life’s greatest mystery: death.

Hidden in the breezy, platonic repartee is a dramatic structure punctuated by a series of debates: Rob and Bill debating the elusive question of what happens to

J.T. Turner (left), Donny Osman and Maren Langdon Spillane rehearsing Act 39

PHOTOS: JEB WALLACE-BRODEUR

ROB MERMIN

us when we die; Rob and a pharmacist debating whether Rob’s “picking up a little white bag of death for my friend” is kindness; Rob and Mistress Death debating whether his planned intervention in Bill’s passing can be considered fate; and Freud and Mistress Death debating whether the indignity of the jaw cancer that reputedly hastened his demise was really necessary.

Director Callan reaps the pathos in this small story of two friends while drawing energy from its connection to larger debates about civil liberties. During a break in rehearsals, she spoke of opposition to Act 39 and the rollback of Roe v. Wade as “disturbing” encroachments on individual autonomy.

“Who are we to tell people how they live and die?” she said, adding that it’s easy to feel powerless in the face of such “disgusting intolerance.” She looks to her theater art — “telling stories that move us” and urging audiences to think for themselves — as a way to have some agency

in the face of overwhelming, polarizing political forces.

“That’s the only power I have,” Callan said.

For Mermin, Act 39 has launched what sounds like a second act for the retired circus performer. He’s been sharing his experiences, along with some therapeutic circus artistry, with other people dealing with Parkinson’s. He’s considering whether another play might come from that.

“When I’d be performing in the ring,” he said, “I was a silent clown performer, a mime-clown. But now, in this phase of life, I find that I have stories to tell that are meaningful.” ➆

INFO

IN THIS PHASE OF LIFE, I FIND THAT I HAVE STORIES TO TELL THAT ARE MEANINGFUL.

Act 39 by Rob Mermin, directed by Monica Callan, produced by Pushcart Productions, June 22 through July 2: Thursday through Saturday, 7 p.m.; and Sunday, 2 p.m., at Haybarn Theater, Goddard College, in Plainfield. $20 suggested donation. sevendaystickets.com

Monica Callan (center)

Vanish: Disappearing Icons of a Rural America begins in a snowstorm. The sky and earth are sheet-white; visibility is low. A lone figure with a tripod in tow marches toward something in the distance — the faint outline of a cow barn. It’s 7:30 a.m. on a Saturday in Charlotte, and though the snowy conditions don’t make for a pleasant walk, they provide a fleeting opportunity to photograph the barn in its battle with the elements.

The intrepid man behind the lens is Jim Westphalen, a Shelburne-based photographer who has been chasing and shooting classic rural structures for more than a decade. His new film, Vanish, swivels the camera around to explore his subjects and process. The film had a sneak preview in April and will have an encore screening this Saturday, June 17, at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater before officially premiering at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in August.

Originally conceived as a 20-minute short, Vanish is now an 80-minute feature. It follows Westphalen across Vermont, and cross-country to Montana, as he photographs old barns, schoolhouses and churches — and speaks with the families and communities to whom they belong. Westphalen considers the structures in his photographs to be important artifacts of the American frontier; for the people who live around them, they are sites of cherished family memories.

Vanish is an art film, but it’s also a film about “history, anthropology and storm chasing,” Westphalen said.

The film appeals not only to “art buyers or photography appreciators, but [to all] Vermonters,” said Theresa Harris, director of Middlebury’s Edgewater Gallery, which represents Westphalen’s work.

This is Westphalen’s first foray into cinema. He directed the film and leaned on his longtime studio manager, Bill Killon, for help with editing.

In Vanish, audiences see the unglamorous work that goes into Westphalen’s creative practice — canned-tuna meals eaten roadside, 4:30 a.m. alarms in Montana motel rooms — and learn about his childhood visits to his grandparents’ lodge in the Poconos, where his love of the American countryside began.

“I’ve always been on the other side of the camera,” Westphalen told Seven Days, reflecting that “it was tricky” to take center stage.

Westphalen shares the limelight with Mother Nature. He is repeatedly blown back by wind, swallowed by storms. Capturing the fight between the elements and the human landscape is core to

Now You See It

BY ABIGAIL SYLVOR GREENBERG • abigail@sevendaysvt.com

away at the door — folks who traveled from Burlington and beyond,” theater executive director Lisa Mitchell said.

She added that Westphalen’s presentation of the effort to save the memory of an eroding landscape “is something that really resonates with Vermonters.”

Jay Craven, artistic director of the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, selected Vanish for the festival program for similar reasons. Westphalen’s work goes “beyond the pictorial into something cultural,” he said, citing the artist’s “unusual” facility “in evoking time and place.”

Craven added: “Its connection to Vermont is certainly one of its strengths.”

Despite the film’s local roots, Westphalen hopes to share it with a broader audience and has submitted it to film festivals across the country. To him, Vanish isn’t a vanity project but a call to attention.

“I want people to realize that that’s not just some crappy old building; that was somebody’s life,” Westphalen said. “If I can make people sit up and notice what we have for this very brief moment in time, then I’ve done my job.” ➆

Westphalen’s art. “You won’t see me out on too many sunny days,” he said, naming “vulnerability” as something he looks for in his subjects.

Westphalen’s chief aim is to “create the awareness and the appreciation of what we have here,” he said, referring to our once-iconic rural structures. He leaves it to

audience members and other stakeholders to respond as they see fit — be it through memorializing the bygone buildings or fighting to restore them.

Vanish has already struck a chord with viewers. The film’s April screening at Town Hall Theater filled up quickly. “We were sold out and sadly turned people

INFO

Vanish: Disappearing Icons of a Rural America, Saturday, June 17, 7 p.m., at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. $16-18. townhalltheater.org

The film will also appear at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, which runs from August 23 to 27. middfilmfest.org

PHOTOS COURTESY OF JIM WESTPHALEN

I WANT PEOPLE TO REALIZE THAT THAT’S NOT JUST SOME CRAPPY OLD BUILDING; THAT WAS SOMEBODY’S LIFE.

JIM WESTPHALEN

Elling-Morris gold mill in Montana

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The Right Thingies

Hyunsuk Erickson’s “ ingumabob Society” is a gleeful installation with a hopeful mission

BY PAMELA POLSTON • ppolston@sevendaysvt.com

Stalagmites have sprouted in the BCA Center. Or so it might seem. In the second-floor gallery of the Burlington venue, Hyunsuk Erickson’s installation presents dozens of skinny, vertical structures — some tiny, some very tall — in groupings around the room. Each is sweatered in myriad colors and textures of crocheted yarn. The shapes of these, um, things are variously knobby, twisty and minaret-y, yet each reaches inexorably upward.

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There might be a clue to the nature of these structures in Erickson’s exhibition title: “Thingumabob Society.” Or not. Maybe she doesn’t know what to call them, either. They are enigmatic — delightfully so.

Erickson, who grew up on a farm in South Korea, says in an artist statement that her family “made use of the materials available to us.” A creative child, she scavenged odds and ends and watched seeds in wonderment as they transformed into plants, she explains. A waste-not sensibility and fascination with nature continue to inform her mixed-media work.

“I seek to create tension and ambiguity by combining a peculiar mixture of materials, like those I found in my childhood,” Erickson writes. “I crochet and weave over hard materials (wood, plastic, ceramic, 3D printed forms) with yarn and found fabric to build structures, which I have named ‘Thingumabob.’”

For Erickson, ambiguity exists on more levels than the visual one. Her exhibition also expresses the “tension of the synthesis and resistance of both the Korean and American forces that influence my life as I continuously adapt,” she writes. Erickson now lives near Washington, D.C. “Thingumabob is growing, morphing from a few structures into multiple families, and now, into a collective society as I create more and more,” she adds.

Each member of Erickson’s evolving family is distinctively “other,” yet her assembled tribe at BCA conveys a nearly

palpable sense of belonging, a fierce togetherness. The collectivity could be interpreted as a response to current political, social and cultural ructions in the factionalized U.S. Erickson does claim that her installation is “a shrine of wisdom, healing and hope.”

That’s a worthy aspiration. But there’s value, too, in the simple pleasure of viewing the oddball residents of Erickson’s manufactured society, anthropomorphizing them, allowing oneself to be charmed by them. Each piece has its own style and exudes something like personality. Erickson has adorned them with every color of — and

HER ASSEMBLED TRIBE AT BCA

beyond — the rainbow. Some structures have sparkles; pettable, fluffy yarn; or wispy little topknots. The materiality is endlessly engaging.

Erickson’s thingumabobs are arranged in clusters, like neighborhoods. The largest structure by far dominates not only its cluster but the entire room. So tall that it bends to avoid the ceiling, the piece is also distinguished by a body of unglazed terra-cotta. A stack of hollow tubular forms makes up an irregular cone, from which yarn-swaddled appendages protrude like branches. Erickson ingeniously punctured holes in the clay through which she attached

the yarn. Myriad strands appear to be growing, vine-like, from within the body.

Surrounding this towering creature are numerous small ones in a medley of inscrutable biomorphic shapes. Some sit directly on the floor, others on tiny clay islands. It’s hard not to think of this group as a mother and an atoll of unruly offspring.

In an adjacent cluster, more than a dozen spindly, attenuated thingumabobs of various heights stand on chartreusecolored islands. To continue the neighborhood metaphor, a third grouping is more like a suburb: shorter structures in a sprawling arrangement. Some of the

CONVEYS A NEARLY PALPABLE SENSE OF BELONGING, A FIERCE TOGETHERNESS.

residents are rotund, like balloons contained by crochet girdles.

Lurking in the corner behind this community is a person-size structure that, as Erickson explained at the exhibit’s reception, is wearable — if the wearer doesn’t mind not being able to move or see.

A couple of compact exurbs, perched on low tables against the wall, display smaller structures. And one rather comical bunch springs — or droops, really — from a wall, resembling penises at half-mast.

Erickson, whose art training includes painting in every medium, brought her brush and watercolors to the exhibition, too. She applied yellow and blue blobs with red centers directly to one wall, letting the paint drip like little tails. On the opposite wall, she painted larger pastel, amoebic shapes that look like flowers. These embellishments bring extra joy to the white-cube gallery.

Erickson’s installation is playful, but her creations are not toys. In the end, the motley “Thingumabob Society” has something substantial to say about relationships, community and celebrating difference. ➆

INFO

Hyunsuk Erickson, “Thingumabob Society,” through September 17 at the BCA Center in Burlington. burlingtoncityarts.org, hyunsukerickson.art

NEW THIS WEEK

mad river valley/waterbury

BENJAMIN ALESHIRE: “Cyanotypical,” blueprint photographic portraits on fabric. Reception and open studios: Friday, June 16, 5-8 p.m., with poetry reading by Aleshire and Skye Jackson at 7 p.m. June 16-August 18. Info, joseph@ waterburystudios.com. Waterbury Studios.

GREEN MOUNTAIN WATERCOLOR EXHIBITION: A display of more than 100 paintings by member artists, featuring the Whiskey Painters of America, judged by Tim Saternow, AWS. Reception: Sunday, June 18, 5-7 p.m. June 18-July 22. Info, 496-6682. Red Barn Galleries, Lareau Farm, in Waitsfield.

middlebury area

MARIA FLORES GALINDO & PETER WALLIS: “The Past Is Fighting Itself Again / Las Cuentas de Mi Abuela,” collage figures of ripped paper, and paintings that explore place and memory, respectively. Reception: Friday, July 7, 5-7 p.m. June 21-July 31. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

brattleboro/okemo valley

5TH ANNUAL VERMONT SUMMER GROUP SHOW: Works by 26 local artists in a variety of mediums. June 16-September 2. CAROL KEISER: Acrylic paintings depicting floral still lifes, Mexican interiors and friends gathering. June 16-August

1. DEEDEE JONES: “The Ways of Water,” pastel landscapes from around the world. Reception: Friday, June 16, 5-7 p.m. June 16-August 12. Info, 289-0104. Canal Street Art Gallery in Bellows Falls.

randolph/royalton

MARK NIELSEN: Watercolor paintings by the Vermont artist. Reception: Saturday, June 17, 3-5 p.m. June 16-August 12. Info, 885-3525. The Tunbridge General Store Gallery.

outside vermont

SUMMER EXHIBITIONS: An exhibition of 2022’s juried winners: Travis Paige, Anne Cogbill Rose and Ann Saunderson; as well as a solo exhibition of concrete miniatures evoking home by Bess French. Reception: Friday, June 16, 5-7 p.m. June 16-July 14. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

ART EVENTS

ARTIST TALK: PATTY HUDAK: The Howard Center Arts Collective presents a Zoom discussion with the Underhill artist, whose work embodies philosophies and processes linked to Ireland, China and Japan. Online, Tuesday, June 20, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, artscollective@ howardcenter.org.

ARTISTS’ ROUNDTABLE: Local artists share personal perspectives about what fuels creativity in a discussion led by a moderator, with public participation. 118 Elliot, Brattleboro, Thursday, June 15, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 917-239-8743.

BTV MARKET: An outdoor market featuring wares by local artists, makers, bakers and more, accompanied by live music and lawn games. Burlington City Hall Park, Saturday, June 17, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Info, 865-7166.

CIRCULAR WEAVING DEMONSTRATION: Carol Johnson Collins, fiber artist and owner of Singing Spindle Spinnery, shows her craft, in conjunction with a current exhibition. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Thursday, June 15, 1-3 p.m. Info, 388-2117.

CRAFTERNOON: ZINE MAKING: A workshop in creating is a booklet or pamphlet with original or appropriated texts and images that can be photocopied and shared. Materials provided, along with snacks, music and a zine library to

peruse for inspiration. The Museum of Everyday Life, Glover, Saturday, June 17, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, 401-500-1466.

OPEN STUDIO: Draw, collage, paint, move, write and explore the expressive arts however you please during this drop-in period. Available in studio and via Zoom. Most materials are available in the studio. All are welcome, no art experience necessary. Expressive Arts Burlington, Thursday, June 15, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Donations. Info, info@ expressiveartsburlington.com.

PICNIC FOR ‘POTLUCK’: Celebrate the opening of the season and David Stromeyer’s 473rd sculpture. Activities include building a paper sculpture, guided walking tours and an artist talk. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, Enosburg Falls, Sunday, June 18, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 512-333-2119.

TALK: ‘A FLY IN THE BUTTERMILK’: Sheldon archivist Eva Garcelon-Hart and Middlebury College professor emeritus of history William Hart discuss the unexpected presence of African Americans in Middlebury during the 19th and 20th centuries, in conjunction with the current exhibition, “Artists in the Archives: Unseen Neighbors.” Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Wednesday, June 14, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2117.

TALK: MARY FRAN LLOYD: The exhibiting artist discusses her experience and practice in abstract realism, including the meditative process known as neurographic art. Brandon Artists Guild, Friday, June 16, 7-8:30 p.m. Info, 247-4956.

TALK: THE EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY OF HAZEL KNAPP: Bryan Martin discusses the life and career of one of the Southern Vermont Arts Center’s earliest member-artists. Register for Zoom link at svac.org. Online, Tuesday, June 20, 7-8 p.m. Free.

VERMONT BLOWN AWAY: Vermont Glass Guild artists create glass art inspired by children’s drawings in front of a live audience, in conjunction with “Glasstastic 2023,” an exhibition of glass art at the Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center. Fire Arts Vermont, Brattleboro, Saturday, June 17, 2-4 p.m. $10; free to BMAC members. Info, 257-0124.

VISITING ARTIST TALK: NAFIS M. WHITE: The interdisciplinary artist discusses her works created from objects commonly found in beauty supply stores, industrial sites, and global and political landscapes. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Wednesday, June 21, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2727.

ONGOING SHOWS

burlington

‘ABENAKI: FIRST PEOPLE EXHIBITION’: The council and members of Alnôbaiwi (in the Abenaki way) and the museum open a new exhibition featuring the Abenaki Year, the seasonal calendar of people who lived in the area for more than 8,000 years before Europeans arrived, as well as works by contemporary Abenaki artisans and a replica of a 19th-century Abenaki village. Through October 31. Info, 865-4556. Ethan Allen Homestead in Burlington.

ANNUAL MEMBERS’ SHOW: A showcase of artworks in a variety of mediums by gallery members. Exhibition also on view in the Soda Plant Hallway through July 28. Through June 30. Info, spacegalleryvt@gmail.com. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

ART AT THE HOSPITAL: Oil paintings by Louise Arnold and Jean Gerber and photographs by Mike Sipe (Main Street Connector, ACC 3); photographs on metal by Brian Drourr (McClure 4 ); acrylics and mixed-media painting by Linda Blackerby (Breast Care Center) and Colleen Murphy (EP2). Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through September 30. Info,

Photos: Details of “Thingumabob Society”

865-7296. University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington.

ART AT THE MALTEX: Paintings by Julia Purinton, Carol Boucher, Erika Lawlor Schmidt, Brecca Loh and Elizabeth Nelson. rough August 15. Info, 865-7296. Maltex Building in Burlington.

‘BLACK FREEDOM, BLACK MADONNA & THE BLACK CHILD OF HOPE’: Designed by Raphaella Brice and created by Brice and Josie Bunnell, this mural installed for Burlington’s 2022 Juneteenth celebration features a Haitian-inspired image of liberation.

‘Cocked and Gagged’

Passersby the Susan Calza Gallery, on Montpelier’s Main Street, can see through the tall bay windows streams of red ribbons hanging from the ceiling. It looks festive. But “this ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco,” as David Byrne sings in “Life During Wartime.” As it happens, other lyrics in that song, released in 1979, fit the theme of the gallery’s current exhibit: “Heard of a van that’s loaded with weapons / Packed up and ready to go … e sound of gunfire, off in the distance / I’m getting used to it now.”

Calza’s mixed-media installation, which she provocatively titled “Cocked and Gagged,” addresses a horrific American phenomenon: gun violence — specifically mass killings. By official definition, the “mass” in that term means an incident in which four or more people are intentionally murdered. As of Saturday, Calza had hung 280 red ribbons. Each one represents a mass-shooting incident in 2023, not the number of people killed.

e individual deaths are recorded in a red 2023 daybook set upon a square antique table in the center of the gallery; Calza wrote by hand the victims’ names, ages and locations. A yellow sticky note on the book welcomes visitors to have a look. An adjacent chair — also an antique, with cushions the color of dried blood — invites sitting and contemplating.

An old-school cassette player on the desk encourages visitors to hit the “on” button. If they do, they’ll hear a double-layered recording of Calza’s voice. One track is a calm recitation of the stats in the book, which after a few minutes becomes drone-like, almost

rough June 18. Info, 865-7166. RENEE GREENLEE: “Blue Alchemy,” an exploration of the Lake Champlain watershed in 10 cyanotypes on silk banners. rough August 15. Info, greenlee.renee@gmail.com. Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.

CARRIE ADE: “Wild Little Places,” stylized acrylic paintings of nature. rough June 29. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.

‘CONNECTIONS’: Howard Center Arts Collective presents an art installation of painted mailboxes and mosaics, inviting viewers to reflect on the benefits of old-fashioned mail delivery and to consider whether mailboxes have become relics of the past. rough July 31. Info, artscollective@howardcenter.org. Howard Center in Burlington.

‘OUTSTANDING: CONTEMPORARY SELF-TAUGHT ART’: Drawings, paintings and 3D works by area artists Larry Bissonette, Denver Ferguson, June

Gutman, Chip Haggerty, Liza Phillip, Pamela Smith, omas Stetson and Kalin omas. rough September 17. FAITH RINGGOLD: “Jazz Stories,” four works in silkscreen, serigraph and acrylic on paper from the artist’s series begun in 2004 . rough July 16. HYUNSUK ERICKSON: “ ingumabob Society,” multicolored, towering, playful sculptures that suggest sprouting seeds or family groupings. rough September 17. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

hypnotic; on the second track, the voice is louder and clearly distraught. “I’m doing this so I have a sense of somehow connecting with what’s happening in my country,” Calza says of the installation. “We really have to do something! I’m not sure what. None of us know what to do.”

Future visitors will experience the audio differently; Calza said she’s planning to run the litany of deaths on a continual loop in the gallery, with more voices. “For some reason, people are reluctant to turn on the tape recorder,” she observed.

e most startling visual elements of “Cocked and Gagged” — and the literal expressions of that title — are largescale black-and-white photographs on opposite walls of the one-room gallery. In a quartet of stills from an earlier, unrelated video by Calza, she’s aiming a pistol at the viewer. e other image is a self-portrait by artist Dominique Gustin; her eyes are closed and her long hair is wrapped tightly around her mouth. Cocked and gagged, respectively.

Calza said Gustin’s photograph, titled “Inertia,” was created during the pandemic and wasn’t intended to

address gun violence. She had seen it on Instagram and reached out to Gustin for permission to include it in this exhibit. “I found it to be a captivating image, and, like all compelling images, it reveals essential human concerns,” Calza said.

Indeed, the enigmatic photograph could represent any number of human responses. In the context of this exhibit, one of them might be numbness to the unending carnage of mass shootings. “For me [the image] sums up the predicament we’re in,” Calza said. “We don’t want to look.”

Nor do we want to accept the fact that gun violence is now the leading cause of death for children. “How can that be?” Calza implored.

Underscoring the statistics, as well as the means of death, she added bullet shells to the installation. Five thousand of them. e brass-colored casings are poured into pretty parfait cups, piled on a cake stand under a glass dome and swept into a heap in a corner.

“Cocked and Gagged” is on view through July 23. But Calza said she’s committed to recording gun deaths for a year and the exhibit will evolve with different contributions from other artists.

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“Cocked and Gagged” installation details

GIN FERRARA: “Tiny Islands,” small paintings created with leftover dried paint from the South Burlington artist’s palette. Through June 30. Info, 338-7441. Thirty-odd in Burlington.

MARY LACY: “Anatomy Of,” drawings and mixedmedia mosaics of body parts. Through June 17. Info, 324-0014. Soapbox Arts in Burlington.

‘PASSIONATELY NEW NEW’: An exhibition of artists that have taken workshops or used open studio time over the past year: Nina Friscia, Liz Buchanan, Lindsay Carey, Darcy Feralio, Bren Alvarez, Anne Knott, Ady Dooman and Alane McNamara. Closing reception: Saturday, June 17, 2-5 p.m. Through June 17. Info, 373-7096. new new art studio in Burlington.

PIEVY POLYTE: Paintings by the Haitian artist, coffee farmer and founder of Peak Macaya Coffee. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through August 31. Info, 865-7296. Burlington City Hall.

SARAH ROSEDAHL: “Coffee Break,” paintings of farm animals enjoying a cup. Curated by SEABA. Through June 27. Info, 859-9222. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee in Burlington.

‘VERMONTERS’ VIEWS OF CUBA’: An exhibition featuring images by local photographs, in conjunction with the “Four Cuban Photographers” show at the Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction. Sponsored by GreenTARA Space. Reception: Friday, June 16, 4-6 p.m. Through July 6. Info, 355-2150. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington.

‘WHENEVER FOREVER’: A group exhibit featuring works by members of Iskra Print Collective and other local artists. Through June 17. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington.

‘XOXO: AN EXHIBIT ABOUT LOVE & FORGIVENESS’: An interactive exhibition that provides children and caregivers the opportunity to think about and explore feelings through activities designed to help them understand, appreciate and express their emotions. Through September 4. Info, 864-1848. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Burlington.

chittenden county

CASEY BLANCHARD: “Change the Story,” an exhibition of hand-pulled prints that ask us to restructure and revision the systemic beliefs that guide our actions and decisions. A portion of sales will be donated to World Central Kitchen. Through July 15. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard.

DEB PEATE: “Whimsical Heads,” wall sculptures featuring William Morris textile designs and vintage jewelry. Through July 1. Info, 863-2569. Healthy Living Market & Café in South Burlington.

EL EMIGRANTE: Paintings of imagined landscapes by the Mexican migrant working in Vermont and a display of his story from the comic “Algo Adentro/Something Inside.” Through June 30. Info, wellness@opendoormidd.org. Brownell Library in Essex Junction.

FOUR CUBAN PHOTOGRAPHERS: Fifty images in black and white or color that explore the environment, people and society of their country by Tomás Inda Barrera, Nadhiesda Inda Gonzalez, Alfredo Sarabia Fajardo and Yadira Ismael Sotomayor. Presented by the CAFÉxchange Project. Through July 1. Info, 355-2150. Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction.

GREG NICOLAI: Black-and-white and color photographs. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through June 23. Info, 865-7296. Pierson Library in Shelburne.

‘INSTINCTIVE PATHS’: A summer group show featuring paintings and more by 12 local artists. Through July 15. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

KAREN BELL: Traditional and innovative works in Scherenschnitte, the art of cutting paper into decorative designs. Through June 25. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

MARC HURWITZ: Travel photography featuring large-scale outdoor murals in Lyon, France, and

Glasgow, Scotland. Through June 30. Info, 8464140. South Burlington Public Library Art Wall.

‘OBJECT/S OF PLAY’: An interactive exploration of the creative processes of American toy designers

Cas Holman and Karen Hewitt. ‘POP UP’: An exhibition of contemporary inflated sculptures inside and outside the museum featuring three artists and artist teams from the field of pneumatic sculpture: Claire Ashley, Pneuhaus and Tamar Ettun. (Outdoor sculptures not on view on days with excessive wind.)

STEPHEN HUNECK: “Pet Friendly,” an exhibition of hand-carved and painted furniture, sculptures, relief paintings, bronze sculptures and more by the late Vermont artist. Through October 22. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.

barre/montpelier

ANNUAL MEMBERS EXHIBITION 2023: A group exhibit in a variety of mediums by Vermont artists.

PIEVY POLYTE: “Art Standing With Community,” acrylic paintings inspired by the artist’s native Haiti, as well as Vermont’s people, landscapes, spiritual traditions and music. Through July 2. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

‘A THIRTY-YEAR CONVERSATION ABOUT ART’: Works in a variety of mediums by Alexandra Bottinelli, Cheryl Betz, Larry Bowling, Maggie Neale, Elizabeth Nelson, Kathy Stark, Janet Van Fleet and Ann Young. Third Floor Gallery. Through June 24.

‘ART IT UP!’: An annual exhibition and silent auction to benefit the art center’s programs. View and bid in person, in the Second Floor Gallery, or online.

Through June 16. ‘ONE + ONE IS GREATER THAN

TWO’: Works by 29 artists that depict multiples, patterns and relationships. Main Floor Gallery. Through June 24. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

BETH BARNDT & LINDA FINKELSTEIN: An exhibition of collage, postcards, monotypes, paintings and mixed-media works, including eco dyeing and printing. Through June 28. Info, 479-0896. Espresso Bueno in Barre.

BRIAN HERRICK: “Season’s Shift,” grid-based paintings drawn from nature by the Montpelier artist. Through July 30. Info, ebbsandfloods@gmail. com. Woodbelly Pizza in Montpelier.

CHRISTINE HENNINGER: “Buen Provencho,” recent digital photographs. Curated by Studio Place Arts. Through July 1. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre.

‘COCKED AND GAGGED’: A mixed-media installation that references the escalating numbers of American mass shootings in 2023, featuring photographic self-portraits by Susan Calza and Dominique Gustin. Through July 23. Info, susancalza@gmail.com. Susan Calza Gallery in Montpelier.

DIDI & GEORGIANNA BRUSH: “Brush Strokes,” a mother-and-daughter exhibition of paintings. Through June 30. Info, moetown128@gmail.com. Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.

‘ELEMENTS OF SHELTER’: Original works in wood, metal and glass by Yestermorrow faculty members

Thea Alvin, Meg Reinhold, Nick Pattis, Anna Fluri, Sophia Mickelson and Johno Landsman, in conjunction with the Waitsfield design/build school. Through May 31, 2025. Info, 828-3291. Vermont Arts Council Sculpture Garden in Montpelier.

ERIC HIBIT: “The Spontaneous Garden,” a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper that draw inspiration from nature and everyday objects. Through July 14. Info, hexumgallery@gmail.com. Hexum Gallery in Montpelier.

ERIK NELSON: “On a Mountain,” nine abstracted, acrylic paintings of forested hillsides near Camel’s Hump. Curated by Studio Place Arts. Through August 12. Info, 479-7069. AR Market in Barre.

HILARY ANN LOVE GLASS: Mixed-media drawings and paintings of flora and fauna. Through June 30. Info, 229-6206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.

KATE BURNIM: “Liminal Arc,” paintings that contemplate space, time, separation and togetherness, boundaries, transition, and memory. Through June 30. Info, 279-5558. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

‘SEPARATION / MIGRATION’: Artwork by Sarah Ashe, Holly Hauser, Lisa Myers and Jeremy Vaughn on the theme of forced migration and the trauma of family separation. Through August 15. LIZ LE

SERVIGET: “Tracking Time Through COVID,” small paintings made every day since the beginning of the pandemic, including cards, portraits, reflections and a diorama. Closing reception: Friday, August 4, 5-7 p.m. Through August 4. Info, info@cal-vt.org. Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier.

SHOW 55: A members’ exhibition featuring work by 16 area artists. Through July 2. Info, 552-0877. The Front in Montpelier.

stowe/smuggs

‘NATURE’S RESILIENCE’: A showcase of works in a variety of mediums by 17 artists exploring the human impact on climate change. Through July 2. ‘THE CREATIVE PROCESS’: An exhibition of works by 40 artists as well as their reference photos, test strips, sketches or other supportive materials. Through September 3. LEGACY COLLECTION: A showcase exhibition of paintings by gallery regulars as well as some newcomers. Through December 23. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

F/7 EXHIBITION: “Reflecting on Reflections,” photographs by the central Vermont artist group: Elliot Burg, Lisa Dimondstein, Julie Parker, Sandy Shenk, Ron Spring and Annie Tiberio. Reception: Friday, June 30, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Through August 18. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

NORTHERN VERMONT ARTIST ASSOCIATION: The 92nd annual show of the state’s oldest visual arts organization, featuring artwork by more than 40 members. Through July 1. Info, 644-8183. Visions of Vermont in Jeffersonville.

PAMELA WILSON: “Potentiality,” paintings, ceramics, textiles and ephemera. Through July 1. Info, 646-5191781. Minema Gallery in Johnson.

SCOTT LENHARDT: An exhibition of graphic designs for Burton Snowboards created since 1994 by the Vermont native. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

TREVOR CORP: “Tick-Tock,” whimsical sculptures inspired by clocks. Through July 16. Info, 635-2727. Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson.

mad river valley/waterbury

DENIS VERSWEYVELD: “Pairs,” sculpture, paintings and drawings by the Vermont artist. Through October 21. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery in Waterbury.

‘DESIGN MADE VISIBLE’: A multidisciplinary group exhibition exploring the table as metaphor. Through June 22. Info, 496-6682. The Gallery at Mad River Valley Arts in Waitsfield.

middlebury area

‘ARTISTS IN THE ARCHIVES: UNSEEN NEIGHBORS: COMMUNITY, HISTORY & COLLAGE’: Digital and analog collages by 23 artists from seven countries that reflect on the idea of community in the 21st century. Through August 26. ‘STELLAR STITCHING:

19TH CENTURY VERMONT SAMPLERS’: An exhibition of needlework samplers made by young girls in the 19th-century that depict alphabets, numerals and decorative elements. Through January 13. ‘VARIETY

SEW: A SAMPLING OF TEXTILE TOOLS AND DEVICES’: Sewing machines, spinning wheels and myriad sewing paraphernalia from the permanent collection. Through September 30. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

CALL TO ARTISTS

ARTS ON THE GREEN: Calling artists and artisans to the fourth annual outdoor arts market and festival in Chelsea. The September 2 event includes vendor booths, live music, food trucks, auction tent and family art activities. Find application details at chelseavt-arts.com.

Deadline: July 30. Online. $50 for vendor booth. Info, chelseaartscollective@gmail.com.

CALL FOR MURAL ARTIST: River Arts, Lamoille Housing Partnership and Evernorth seek proposals for a 12-panel mural to be permanently installed on the Village Center Apartments façade in Morrisville. All materials provided; artist to receive a $2,500 stipend to complete the project. Visit riverartsvt.org for details. Online. Through July 21. Free. Info, 888-1261.

COMICS & CARTOONS: Mad River Valley Arts in Waitsfield is taking submissions for an upcoming exhibit, “Mad Contemporary.” Info and application at madrivervalleyarts.org. Online. Through June 30. Info, 496-6682.

CREATIVE FUTURES GRANTS: The Vermont Arts Council awards grants of up to $200,000 to creative sector organizations and businesses, including sole proprietors, that can demonstrate economic harm caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Application at vermontartscouncil.org. Deadline: June 30. Online. Info, creativefutures@ vermontartscouncil.org.

GATEWAY MURAL PARK: The Montpelier Public Arts Commission is awarding two grants to Vermont-based visual artists or artist teams for designing and painting murals below the Montpelier I-89 Interstate bridge within the new Gateway Mural Park. More info at montpeliervt.org. Deadline: June 15. Online. Info, montpelier artsvt@gmail.com.

JUNETEENTH MURALIST NEEDED: Arts So

Wonderful is seeking an artist to help create a community mural on canvas between Burlington City Hall and the BCA Center for Juneteenth celebrations on June 17. Materials provided. The mural will later be installed at the waterfront near the Moran Frame. If interested, contact Bruce Wilson at artssowonderful2@gmail.com. Burlington City Hall. Through June 15. Info, 307-8030.

MOTHERSHIP MONTHLY FILM CHALLENGE:

You and your crew have one month to create a film of 10 minutes or shorter. All experience levels and any genre welcome. All films will be screened at the Mothership on July 1. A winner will be crowned and must defend their title the following month. If interested, email for details. MothershipVT, Burlington. $10-15 suggested donation. Info, mothershipstudiovt@gmail.com.

NORTHFIELD SAVINGS BANK CUSTOM

ARTWORK: The South End Arts + Business Association, Northfield Savings Bank and Christine Burdick Design present three opportunities for artists to display their work at the bank’s new branch at 116 College St. in Burlington. Works include a design for vinyl applications on a glass door, stipend up to $2,000; artwork for a conference room, stipend up to $3,000; and a large wall installation, stipend up to $8,000. On-site walk-through to see the areas on Friday, June 16, noon to 1 p.m. Visit seaba.com to apply. Deadline: June 18. Online.

POSTER MAKERS NEEDED: The VT PFAS

Coalition seeks 10 artists to design 11-by-17-inch posters for display in store windows, exhibits, demonstrations, farmers markets, etc. Digital or hand-created in any mediums (no PFAS), the posters should be easily reproducible via color printing. The design should have a grassroots activism look and allow for several logos. Compensation: $75. Submit ideas or a sketch, and a few photos of past work, to pfasinfo@wilpfus.org by August 1. Learn more at militarypoisons.org. Online.

PUBLIC ART AT GREEN STREET SHELTER:

The Vergennes Partnership, recipient of a $15,000 Vermont Arts Council grant, is seeking an artist or artist team to reimagine the Green Street bus shelter area. Find guidelines and details at vergennesdowntown.org. Deadline: June 20. Online. Info, 598-7424.

QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL: Apply to vend or perform at a one-day event on August 26 at the Plainfield Recreational Field. Queer AF! celebrates rural queer life, art and craft. Application at linktr.ee/vtqueercrafts.

Deadline: June 15. Online. Free. Info, vtqueercraft@gmail.com.

RABBLE-ROUSER ART GALLERY SHOWCASE: Black, Indigenous, people of color and queer artists are encouraged to apply to an open themed monthly exhibition. Art can be unconventional, multicultural, political, seek to break societal constructs, question norms, foster social change or just make people ponder. Send artwork samples or portfolio along with name, medium, artwork description and size and price per piece, if applicable, to culture@rabblerouser.net.

Rabble-Rouser Chocolate & Craft Co., Montpelier. Through June 30. Free. Info, 225-6227.

‘ROCK SOLID’: Applications are open for the annual stone sculpture show featuring a variety of classical and contemporary pieces; some 2D works are included. Exhibition dates are September 13 to October 28. Email submissions to: submissions.studioplacearts@gmail.com.

Deadline: August 1. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10 nonmember applicants. Info, 479-7069.

SEEKING ARTIST MEMBERS: The Front gallery in Montpelier is looking for new artists. Members contribute time, energy and financial support to keep the gallery running. We have a new show every month, featuring all members’ work in six group exhibitions, alternating with six solo shows each year. Info and application at thefrontvt.com/apply.

Deadline: June 17. Online. Info, apply@ thefrontvt.com.

SEEKING BOOK ARTISTS: The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery is hosting a juried exhibition with Vermont’s Book Arts Guild this summer and invites any artist who would like to participate in this community to submit work. The concept of the artist’s book can take many forms and encompass various techniques, including collage, printmaking, paper making, sewing, graphic design, calligraphy and digital techniques. Details at spacegalleryvt.com. Deadline: June 22. Online. $10; free to members of Book Arts Guild.

SOUTH END ART HOP REGISTRATION: Artists and vendors are invited to sign up to participate in Burlington’s largest art festival in September. Details and application at seaba.com. Online. Through July 31. Info, 859-9222.

nature, all in green. Through June 15. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

‘COASTING’: Works by Liz Hoag, Tim Horn, James Kimak, Jay Lagemann, Lori Mehta and Janis Sanders featuring summertime views of Maine, Massachusetts and New York. RORY JACKSON: “Seasonal Majesty,” a solo exhibition of new paintings by the local artist. Through June 27. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

‘LIFT EVERY VOICE’: An exhibition of 15 hooked rugs reproduced from the “I Am a Black Woman” series by Elizabeth Catlett (1947). Guest curated by Maddy Fraioli. Through July 21. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.

‘TOSSED’: Nearly 20 works that make use of found, discarded or repurposed materials, curated by museum exhibition designer Ken Pohlman. Through December 10. RECENT ACQUISITIONS: An exhibition of more than 30 recent additions to the museum’s permanent collection, including work by Veronica Ryan, Sean Scully, Joan Snyder, John Steuart Curry, Fidelia Bridges, James McNeil Whistler and others. Through August 6. Info, 443-5007. Middlebury College Museum of Art.

‘TEXTURE’: Artworks that are rough, soft, scratchy, silky, furry or glossy in a variety of mediums by more than 50 artists. Through July 8. Info, 989-7225. Sparrow Art Supply in Middlebury.

‘VESSELS AND VANISHING POINTS’: An exhibition of contemporary ceramics by Nicholas Bernard and Judy Jackson, photography by Caleb Kenna, paintings by Alexis Serio and glass work by Tsuga Studios. Through June 18. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at the Falls in Middlebury.

rutland/killington

‘ANIMALS IN ART’: An exhibition of “Don’t Feed the Art” works, and a photo competition for favorite pet photos. Through June 30. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.

ANNUAL MEMBERS’ EXHIBITION: Members of the nonprofit arts education organization show their work in a variety of styles. Through July 9. Info, 438-2097. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland.

NEW MEMBERS EXHIBITION: Fused-glass work by Garrett Sadler, wood crafts by Guy Rossi, landscape paintings by Brian Hewitt, pastel paintings of animals and nature by Lynn Austin, and sculpture and realist paintings by Liza Myers. Through October 31. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

upper valley

‘COW’: An exhibition of dozens of bovine artworks based on the same paint-by-number kit, executed in a huge variety of unusual mediums and submitted by participants from around the world. Through August 31. Info, 369-5722. Main Street Museum in White River Junction.

‘ECLECTRICITY’: Photographs by Natalie Boze and paintings in various mediums by Becky Cook that encompass nature and man-made structures, real or imagined. Through June 29. Info, artbcook@gmail. com. Norwich Public Library.

GROUP EXHIBIT AND SILENT AUCTION: The gallery celebrates its second anniversary with an exhibition of works by more than 50 artists and a fundraising auction on Instagram: @kishka.auction. Through July 1. Info, info@kishka.org. Kishka Gallery & Library in White River Junction.

JOHN LEHET: “Spring Hopes Eternal,” seasonal nature-based photography. Through July 3. Info, 295-4567. Long River Gallery in White River Junction.

‘MANY ARTISTS, ONE MODEL’: An exhibition of images dedicated to the late artist and model Penny Bennett by Vickie Herzberg, Sue Schiller, Rachel Gross, Sheri Hancock, Stephen Plume, Michael

CARLA WEEKS: “Verdant,” large paintings that examine the relationship between architecture and

ART SHOWS

Shafer, Bartlett Leber and others Through August 25. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

SUSAN SMEREKA: “Family,” works in mixed-media collage and monotype by the Burlington artist. Through July 31. Info, 603-443-3017. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

northeast kingdom

ANN CREAVEN: “Black & White and In Between,” photographs. Through June 27. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie in West Glover.

‘IN FOCUS’: A group exhibition of photographs by Rob Boskind, Lawrence Cincotta, Karl Ehrlich, Steve Malshuk, Elinor Osborne and Ralph Zimmerman. Through June 17. Info, 334-1966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.

KEVIN DONEGAN: “Sign of the Times,” a sculptural exploration of the road sign as a framework for reflection and cultural critique. Through July 9. Info, jamesteuscher@live.com. White Water Gallery in East Hardwick.

LIAN BREHM: “Paper Passages: Reflections of Mexico,” colorful sculptural paper assemblages created during a residency in San Miguel de Allende. Through June 30. Info, melmelts@yahoo.com. The Satellite Gallery in Lyndonville.

MARY TAPOGNA: “Hail Mary, Full of Glass,” mosaic works using found and recycled materials and depicting religious and secular subjects. Through July 1. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

ROSS CONNELLY: “Variables,” photographs by the Hardwick-based photographer and retired journalist. Through June 30. Info, oliveylin1@gmail. com. 3rd Floor Gallery in Hardwick.

SHIAO-PING WANG: “Seeing Beauty,” paintings based on patterns, signs and symbols by the New Hampshire artist. Through July 9. Info, 533-2000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

‘WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND’: An exhibition of objects that explores the practical, spiritual and ecstatic human relationship to wheels and what they enable. Through May 31. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

‘WONDERLANDS’: Paintings of Cuba by James Rauchman and figurative works by the late self-taught artist Gayleen Aiken. Through June 30. Info, 533-9370. GRACE in Hardwick.

brattleboro/okemo valley

ANDY WARHOL: “Small Is Beautiful,” 100 of the artist’s smaller-format paintings, from the Hall collection. RON GORCHOV: A 50-year survey of the American abstract artist’s work, featuring shaped canvases from the 1970s to large-scale paintings in his last years. SUSAN ROTHENBERG: Nearly 30 figurative, gestural paintings by the late American artist from throughout her career. Weekends only, reservation required. Through November 26. Info, info@hallartfoundation.org. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

‘THE ART OF HANDMADE PHOTOGRAPHY’: A group exhibition in a variety of genres, mediums, styles, sizes and approaches by more than 30 local and national photographers, juried by Dale Rio. Through July 2. Info, 251-6051. Vermont Center for Photography in Brattleboro.

‘CREATIVE RELATIONS’: A multimedia group show featuring works by 10 area artists. Through June 30. Info, 917-239-8743. 118 Elliot in Brattleboro.

JOHN R. KILLACKY: “Flux,” an exhibition of objects from a wordless, process-based video inspired by scores, propositions and performative actions of Fluxus-era artists; cinematography by Justin Bunnell, editing by C. Alec Kozlowski and sound composition by Sean Clute. Through August 30. Info, 257-7898. CX Silver Gallery in Brattleboro.

KAREN BECKER: “Bearing Witness, Part 2,” a 40-year retrospective of artworks in a variety of mediums

featuring landscapes and animals. Through August 13. Info, 387-0102. Next Stage Arts Project in Putney.

manchester/bennington

ALBERTO REY: “Cultural Landscapes,” a major exhibition featuring the artist’s Battenkill River project, including large-scale paintings, drawings, notes and photographs; as well as Rey’s Cuban heritage and bicultural identity. Through June 25. Info, 367-1311. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

‘A HISTORY OF BENNINGTON’: An exhibition of artifacts that invites viewers to examine how history informs and affects our lives. Through December 31. ‘NEBIZUN: WATER IS LIFE’: An exhibition of artwork by Abenaki artists of the Champlain Valley and Connecticut River Valley regions to illustrate the Abenaki relationship to water, our awareness of water as a fundamental element necessary for all life, and concern about pollution of our water. Curated by Vera Longtoe Sheehan. Through July 26. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

MATT BROWN: Color woodblock prints in the Japanese hanga style by the New Hampshire artist. Through July 31. Info, 362-1405. curATE café in Manchester.

SPRING/SUMMER 2023 MEMBER EXHIBITION: An annual exhibition of works in painting, drawing, prints, textile/fiber, sculpture, photography, ceramics and more by member artists. Through July 16. Info, 362-1405. Yester House Galleries, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester.

randolph/royalton

‘IN MEMORIAM’: A special exhibition honoring artists who recently passed: Deborah Bohnert, Varujan Boghosian, Ben Moss, Edward Koren and Marcus Ratliff; also including works from the estates of Hugh Townley, Helen Matteson, Ira Matteson and Nancy Taplin. Through July 30. Info, info@bigtownvermont.com. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

LINDA SCHNEIDER & JOAN HOFFMANN: Oil paintings of landscapes and seasonal views of Vermont and the American West. Through July 29. Info, artetcvt@gmail.com. ART, etc. in Randolph.

‘RE: VISIONS’: A group exhibition of artworks in various mediums by local artists. Through July 1. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph.

outside vermont

‘AN ASSEMBLAGE OF BREATHS’: The third annual exhibition in support of mental health awareness, in collaboration with West Central Behavioral Health, featuring 30 regional artists. Through June 17. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

‘PORTABLE UNIVERSE: THOUGHT AND SPLENDOUR OF INDIGENOUS COLOMBIA’: Nearly 400 artworks, including jewelry, masks, effigies, textiles and more, dating from about 1500 BC to the present. Through October 1. ‘VIEWS OF WITHIN: PICTURING THE SPACES WE INHABIT’: More than 60 paintings, photographs, prints, installations and textile works from the museum’s collection that present one or more evocations of interior space. Through June 30. DEMPSEY BOB: “Wolves,” a retrospective of totem poles, sculptures and masks by the Canadian master carver. Through September 10. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

KENT MONKMAN: “The Great Mystery,” four new paintings by the Cree artist along with five works in the museum’s collection that inspired them, by Hannes Beckmann, T.C. Cannon, Cyrus Edwin Dallin, Mark Rothko and Fritz Scholder. Through December 9. Info, 603-646-2808. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. ➆

music nightlife

SUNDbites

News and views on the local music + nightlife scene

BY CHRIS FARNSWORTH

Catching Up With History

Full confession time: I was feeling nervous about this year’s Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Between the fest slimming down from 10 days to five, the generally shitty nature of trying to stage any big music happening these days, the grousing from some local jazz players about the new direction and just my continual gut feeling of “this might not work,” I had my fears.

However, much like my longtime nightmare scenario of household appliances suddenly becoming sentient and trying to murder me (thanks, Maximum Overdrive), those fears turned out to be completely unfounded. The folks at the Flynn and guest curator LAKECIA BENJAMIN delivered the goods and then some. The music was incredible, the crowds were big, the weather (mostly) behaved, and the Queen City was a perfect host for one of the most daring and cutting-edge jazz fests we’ve seen in 40 years of the event.

What really struck me as special about this year’s fest was, well, its Blackness. If you’re going to stage a days-long

celebration of jazz, it’s important to reference both the origins of jazz — its creation by Black musicians — and its future. Anyone who saw Best New Artist Grammy Award winner SAMARA JOY and saxophonist KAMASI WASHINGTON command the stage knows that the future for jazz is as wide open as it is exhilarating.

That energy, that sense of Black excellence and Black history, will be on full display again this coming weekend when the City of Burlington’s Racial Equity, Inclusion and Belonging o ce throws one hell of a Juneteenth celebration.

“I might have overdone it a little bit,” LUIS CALDERIN said over the phone, laughing.

“But I wanted this to be a proper music festival this year.”

A damn fine DJ in his own right, Calderin

was tasked with putting together this year’s Juneteenth celebrations, and holy guacamole, has he come through. Folks should head over to btvreib.com to check out the full lineup that will take over downtown Burlington this Saturday, June 17. But the highlights really pop.

First o , ’90s hip-hop act ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT headline the night from the Flynn Main Stage. The last time I saw them live, I didn’t have any student loans! Ah, the ’90s… Calderin believes the group is the perfect choice to headline this year’s event, which has a theme of “Embrace & Belonging.”

“I was inspired by ’90s, conscious hip-hop for this,” he said.

“All the energy that came out of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 has transformed a little, I think. The city is ready to move on to the next stage. And

Arrested Development was perfect — smart, conscious, dope hip-hop on the biggest stage in the state. It’s going to be a celebration of vibe.”

This is the third year the City of Burlington has celebrated Juneteenth, which became a national holiday in 2021 — though Calderin is quick to point out that Black communities in Vermont have celebrated Juneteenth since 2002. Also known in the past as Freedom Day or Jubilee Day, the holiday commemorates June 19, 1865, the day Union soldiers showed up in Galveston, Texas, and announced an end to slavery in the United States, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

“There are places in the country where they’ve been celebrating Juneteenth for over 100 years,” Calderin pointed out. “Here in Vermont, we’re catching up.”

While Calderin was on hand to advise and assist with the last two Juneteenth celebrations, this year the REIB and its new director, KIM CARSON, basically handed him the keys. And Calderin wasted no time, changing up the festival in some key ways.

For one, the party is all downtown this year, and it’s not actually on Juneteenth.

“I wanted to make this party as accessible for people, all people, as possible,” Calderin said. “So we moved the celebration to the Saturday before the holiday, and I moved everything downtown on the streets, in the park and at the Flynn.”

The day kicks o at 11 a.m. with a fullon gospel brunch featuring the JUNETEENTH COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR, directed by DEXTER CRISS. From there, it goes from strength to strength, with sets by some of the area’s best hip-hop acts, including KONFLIK, ASAH MACK, RIVAN and OBI THE VOICEGOD; music from indie folk artist LUTALO and JENNI JOHNSON & THE JAZZ JUNKETEERS; DJ sets from newly minted city councilor MELO GRANT and DJ RON STOPPABLE; and so, so much more. Such as…

There’s a comedy show with MIKE THOMAS, ZORAYA HIGHTOWER and MARLON FISHER and a poetry jam with RAJNII EDDINS, HARMONY EDOSOMWAN and NADIA FRAZIER, both at the Flynn gallery, a Juneteenththemed BTV Market in City Hall Park with food vendors (see “No Beef,” page 42), readings and talks, basketball on Church Street … If you can’t find a way to have fun at this thing, you might actually be dead.

“Man, I grew up in this community,” Calderin said. “I think that’s why Kim [Carson] and the REIB decided to trust me with this. It’s been an incredible honor and a responsibility that I do not take lightly.”

Rajnii Eddins

Arrested Development

On the Beat

Some of Vermont’s most talented singer-songwriters will come together for the Green Mountain Indie Folk Rising Star Showcase at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. The concert on Saturday, June 24, features local songwriters FERN MADDIE, TROY MILLETTE, JESSE TAYLOR, IAN STEINBERG and DAVID KARL ROBERTS. It’s a great chance to catch some of the finest folk acts in the scene as the musicians “journey into themes of grief and renewal, ardor and joy,” according to the event press release. For more information, check out loveshackrecords.com.

NATHAN MEUNIER, drummer for SHORE RITES and guitarist for BENEATH BLACK WAVES, has released the first single from their solo project, BURIAL WOODS. Meunier, a queer, nonbinary Burlington-based musician who is also part of the VERMONT SYNTHESIZER SOCIETY, says they were heavily influenced by industrial music while writing the new solo project. The track, “Superimposer,” is a thick slice of darkwave, crafted on modular synths and oozing atmosphere.

Eye on the Scene

Last week’s live music highlights from photographer Luke Awtry

Meunier plans to release another single soon in celebration of Pride month. That will be followed by a six-song EP, then a show at Despacito in Burlington for the first Vermont Synthesizer Society showcase. Check out “Superimposer” at burialwoods. bandcamp.com.

High school bands, get ready to blow out your socials. The DO GOOD FEST, sponsored by National Life Group and held annually in Montpelier, is once again letting the public vote on which high school band or artist gets to open the one-day festival on Saturday, July 15. Ten acts have been chosen and are up on dogoodfest.com/beatsforgood for perusal and voting. The winners don’t just get to open the show, which features sets later in the day by ’90s alt-rockers FASTBALL and PLAIN WHITE T’S; they also score $5,000 for their school’s music program.

Voting closes on June 23, and the winners will be announced on Friday, June 30, by DJs MIKE AND MARY on Star 92.9.

Listening In

(Spotify mix of local jams)

1. “Adore You” by Jesse Taylor Band

2. “Duke and Miguel” by Count Hamilton

3. “Cold” by Asah Mack, Zesty

4. “One Big ird World” by Wild Leek River

5. “needinnothin” by Greaseface

6. “Nights to Remember” by Shore Rites

7. “Stuck In e Middle” by Honey & Soul, Dwight Ritcher Scan

On the Air

Where to tune in to Vermont music this week:

“WAVE CAVE RADIO SHOW,” Wednesday, June 14, 2 p.m., on 105.9 the Radiator: DJs FLYWLKER and GINGERVITUS spin the best of local and nonlocal hip-hop.

“ROCKET SHOP RADIO HOUR,” Wednesday, June 14, 8 p.m., on 105.9 the Radiator: Host TOM PROCTOR plays local music.

“THE SOUNDS OF BURLINGTON,” ursday, June 15, 9 p.m., at WBKM.org: Host TIM LEWIS plays selections of local music.

“CULTURAL BUNKER,” Friday, June 16, 7 p.m., on 90.1 WRUV: Host MELO GRANT plays local and nonlocal hip-hop.

KAMASI WASHINGTON AND LAKECIA BENJAMIN AT BIG JOE’S, BURLINGTON, JUNE 11: It’s 12:05 a.m. on Sunday morning at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. I was at the open jam at the 126 when I received a text: “Kamasi is on his way to Big Joe’s.” e vibe was perfect at the 126, but I couldn’t miss festival headliner KAMASI WASHINGTON, postWaterfront Park set, playing late night at the Vermont Comedy Club, aka “Big Joe’s” — a new festival tradition. So I made my way to the club. e jam was nearing the end when MC CHRISTIE DASHIELL finally coaxed out an unenthusiastic “Yeah … play one more first” from the darkest corner of the club, and then Kamasi took the stage. I wasn’t buying it, though; they live for this. is is how they came up, teenagers sneaking into jazz clubs to jam. Kamasi and festival curator LAKECIA BENJAMIN brought their saxophones. Bassist MILES MOSLEY was still wearing his sunglasses. C’mon. ey came to play.

“ACOUSTIC HARMONY,” Saturday, June 17, 4 p.m., on 91.1 WGDR: Host MARK MICHAELIS plays folk and Americana music with an emphasis on Vermont artists.

“ALL THE TRADITIONS,” Sunday, June 18, 7 p.m., on Vermont Public: Host ROBERT RESNIK plays an assortment of folk music with a focus on Vermont artists.

CLUB DATES music+nightlife

live music

WED.14

Bent Nails House Band (rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Bluegrass & BBQ (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

The Idles (folk) at Vermont Pub & Brewery, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Jazz Jam Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Jessica Leone & Brendan Casey, Wayside Sound (folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10/$15.

Lazy Bird (jam) at Red Square, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Live Jazz (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Nobby Reed (blues) at Twiggs — An American Gastropub, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free.

Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. $5.

Willverine (electronic) at the Wallflower Collective, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

THU.15

Babes Bar’s 5-Year Anniversary with Bow Thayer (folk) at Babes Bar, Bethel, 5 p.m. Free.

Brett Hughes (country) at Filling Station, Middlesex, 6 p.m. Free.

Buoyancy, Remi Russin, Amelia Devoid (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10/$15.

Chris & Issy (acoustic) at Vermont Pub & Brewery, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Cooie DeFrancesco (Americana) at Blue Paddle Bistro, South Hero, 5:30 p.m. Free.

The Fabulous Wrecks (covers) at Black Flannel Brewing & Distilling, Essex, 6 p.m. Free.

Freedom Seeds (jazz fusion) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free.

Good Gravy (bluegrass) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Grace Palmer and Socializing for Introverts (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Ira Friedman (jazz) at Hugo’s Bar and Grill, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Jazz with Alex Stewart and Friends (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

John Lackard Blues Band (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m.

Free.

Mark Abair Unplugged (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 6 p.m. Free.

McMaple (acoustic) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 6 p.m.

Free.

Tell It to the Mountain

Find the most up-to-date info on live music, DJs, comedy and more at sevendaysvt.com/music. If you’re a talent booker or artist planning live entertainment at a bar, nightclub, café, restaurant, brewery or coffee shop, send event details to music@sevendaysvt.com or submit the info using our form at sevendaysvt.com/postevent.

SAT.17

The Back Roots (folk) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Barbacoa (surf rock) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Brzowski, Sed One, Agent 8 (hiphop) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

D.Davis, Mark McGwin (folk) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

Drunk Off Diesel (hardcore) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Duncan MacLeod Trio (blues) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 7 p.m. Free.

Fabulous Wrecks (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Giovanina Bucci (folk) at the Venetian Soda Lounge, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Godcaster, Brunch, Greaseface (indie rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $12/$15.

Forming out of the ashes of one of best Vermont indie rock bands in recent memory — the dearly missed Farm — the MOUNTAIN SAYS NO have continued to make progressive-leaning art rock on records such as JV, Golden Landfill and, most recently, 2022’s Unemployer. The Enosburg Falls-based four-piece flies the flag for the kind of brainy indie rock that dominated the rock charts in the early ’90s — think Radiohead and Pavement — but injects plenty of originality into its angular, guitarheavy songs. The band plays the Oasis in Morristown on Friday, June 16, with support from instrumental math rockers SAD TURTLE

Michael Chorney Trio (jazz) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Mike Bjella, Parker Shper, Rob Morse (jazz) at Hugo’s Bar and Grill, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Moxie, the Q-Tip Bandits, Brunch (indie rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $15/$20.

The Rollin’ Rust (folk) at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, 5 p.m. Free.

Souls of Mischief, Breakbeat Lou, the Architect, Mister Burns (hip-hop) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $30/$35.

The Tenderbellies (folk) at Folino’s, Williston, 6 p.m. Free.

Tom Bisson (singer-songwriter) at the Tap Room at Switchback Brewing, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

FRI.16

All Night Boogie Band (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Beg Steal or Borrow (bluegrass) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 8:30 p.m. $12/$15.

Black Artist Showcase (jazz) at the Venetian Soda Lounge, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Blue Fox Trio (blues) at CharlieO’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Bob Gagnon (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

D.A.D. Trio (folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5/$10.

Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Eric George (singer-songwriter) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free.

Fran Briand (singer-songwriter) at the Old Post, South Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

George Nostrand (folk) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 6 p.m. Free. Hot Pickin’ Party (bluegrass) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free.

Laveda, Paper Lady, Lily Seabird (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $12/$15.

Mark Legrand & Sarah Munro, Dorado Collective (singersongwriter, folk) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Matt Hagen (folk) at Stone’s Throw Pizza, Richmond, 6 p.m. Free.

Morgan Myles, Brayden Lape (country) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $25/$29.

The Mountain Says No, Sad Turtle (indie rock) at the Oasis , Morristown, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Peter Wayne Burton (acoustic) at Gusto’s, Barre, 6 p.m. Free.

Philip Hyjek Trio (jazz) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 7 p.m. Free.

Raised by Hippies (blues, rock) at Martell’s at the Red Fox, Jeffersonville, 5 p.m. $10.

Ray’s Used Cars (Americana) at Arrowhead Lodge, Milton, 7 p.m. Free.

Robin Gottfried Band (blues) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

The Rollin’ Rust, the Red Newts (folk, country) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

The Rough Suspects (rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

Ryan Sweezey (pop) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 6 p.m. Free.

Sabo & Shacklett (rock) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Sky Blue Boys (bluegrass) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

Steve Hartmann (singer-songwriter) at York Street Meeting House, Lyndon, 7 p.m. $15/$20.

Vecchio Stile (jazz) at Hugo’s Bar and Grill, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Yam Yam (jam) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $12.

Jaded Ravins (Americana) at the Den at Harry’s Hardware, Cabot, 6 p.m. Free.

Jordan Sedwin (jazz) at Bleu

Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Lawless (rock) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. Free.

Left Eye Jump (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Matt Payne (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Mullets of Rock (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

My Son the Doctor, Keychains (punk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11:30 p.m. $10/$12.

Tim Brick (country) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free.

Tom Gershwin, Xander Naylor, Pat Markley (jazz) at Hugo’s Bar and Grill, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Tony Brillhart, the Nailers (folk) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

The Tricksters (covers) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Troy Millette (folk) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 6 p.m. Free.

SUN.18

Antara (folk) at the Tap Room at Switchback Brewing, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Bloodroot Gap (bluegrass) at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, 3 p.m. Free.

Blue Fox Trio (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free.

Haze & Dacey (folk) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free.

Joseph, Sawyer (indie pop) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $30/$35.

Nico Suave (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Sunday Brunch Tunes (singersongwriter) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.

Uncle Jimmy (blues) at Vermont Pub & Brewery, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free.

TUE.20

Big Easy Tuesdays with Back Porch Revival (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Bluegrass Jam (bluegrass) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free. Grateful Tuesdays (tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $20.

Honky Tonk Tuesday with Pony Hustle (country) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10.

Night Protocol (synthwave) at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, 5 p.m. Free.

Robert Leslie, Ratland (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5/$10.

WED.21

Bent Nails House Band (rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Bluegrass & BBQ (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Fresh Pressed Wednesday with Danny & the Parts, Magnolia (Americana, indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5/$10.

Jazz Jam Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Lazy Bird (jam) at Red Square, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Live Jazz (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Matt Dolliver & Familiar Faces (jam) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10.

Vermont Bluegrass Pioneers (bluegrass) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. $5. Willverine (electronic) at the Wallflower Collective, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

djs

WED.14

DJ CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

The Mid Week Hump with DJ Fattie B and Craig Mitchell (DJ) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

THU.15

DJ Chaston (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Two Sev (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJ Big Dog (reggae and dancehall) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Molly Mood (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Vinyl Night with Ken (DJ) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 6 p.m. Free.

COURTESY

BRITT SHORTER

FRI.16

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

DJ Dakota (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m.

$5.

DJ Kaos (DJ) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. Free.

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

DJ Taka (DJ) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10/$15.

SAT.17

Blanchface (DJ) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Dance Party with DJ Kanga (DJ) at Babes Bar, Bethel, 8 p.m. $5.

DJ A-Ra$ (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, noon. Free.

DJ JP Black (DJ) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

DJ Raul (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

DJ Ron Stoppable (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m.

$5.

DJ Taka (DJ) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10/$15.

Molly Mood (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

SUN.18

DJ Two Sev (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

MON.19

DJ Transplant (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Memery (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

TUE.20

DJ JP Black (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Local Motives Tuesday (DJ) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

WED.21

DJ CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

open mics & jams

WED.14

Irish Sessions (Celtic, open mic) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

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

Open Mic with JD Tolstoi (open mic) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free.

THU.15

Open Mic (open mic) at Whammy

Bar, Calais, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic (open mic) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

MON.19

Open Mic (open mic) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free.

Open Mic Night (open mic) at Despacito, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.21

Irish Sessions (Celtic, open mic) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Lit Club (poetry open mic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

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

Open Mic with JD Tolstoi (open mic) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free.

comedy

WED.14

Standup Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

THU.15

American Werewolf: Comedy Showcase (comedy) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5/$10. Indie Team Night (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Mothra! A Storytelling/ Improv Comedy Show (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:45 p.m. Free.

FRI.16

Anthony Rodia (comedy) at Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $30-$40.

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

Jimmy McCartney (comedy) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 7 p.m. $10/$15.

Tina Friml and Friends Night of Comedy (comedy) at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. Free.

SAT.17

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

MON.19 Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at the 126, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.21

Roar! Showcase (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5. Standup Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

trivia, karaoke, etc.

WED.14

4Qs Trivia Night (trivia) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free.

Venetian Trivia Night (trivia) at the Venetian Soda Lounge, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

THU.15

Karaoke Night (karaoke) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at McGillicuddy’s Five Corners, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Trivia Thursday (trivia) at Spanked Puppy Pub, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free.

FRI.16

Karoke with DJ Big T (karaoke) at McKee’s Pub & Grill, Winooski, 9 p.m. Free.

MON.19

Trivia Monday with Top Hat

Entertainment (trivia) at McKee’s Pub & Grill, Winooski, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Trivia with Brain (trivia) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free. Trivia with Craig Mitchell (trivia) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

TUE.20

Karaoke with Motorcade (karaoke) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free. Karaoke with DJ Party Bear (karaoke) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Lip Synch Battle (lip synch) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Taproom Trivia (trivia) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at the Depot, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free. Trivia Tuesday (trivia) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free.

Tuesday Night Trivia (trivia) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.21

4Qs Trivia Night (trivia) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free. Venetian Trivia Night (trivia) at the Venetian Soda Lounge, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. ➆

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James Kochalka Superstar, James and Gravy

(SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)

On his new EP, James and Gravy, James Kochalka Superstar o ers up six sugar-sweet ditties with mushy titles like “Fuzzy Moon” and “Weeping Willow.” The EP is the latest e ort from James Kochalka, a multihyphenate artist best known for his comics.

Kochalka was named Vermont’s first cartoonist laureate in 2011 and ran a strip called “American Elf” in Seven Days until 2012. In a 2011 Seven Days profile of Kochalka, Lauren Ober called him a “man-child,” a hometown Peter Pan/Pee-Wee Herman determined to hover in arrested youth. That determination is as present as ever on James and Gravy

The EP’s cartoonish title track welcomes listeners to its juvenile palette. Outfitted with an acoustic guitar, Kochalka sings: “Come on take my hand / and I’ll take you to a land / where everything is James and Gravy.”

As earnest as Kochalka is on this track, there’s a world-weariness underlying it. He might even be turning to earnestness because he is world-weary, running from somewhere as much as running to it. “Ain’t you sick of this place? Let’s just teleport away,” he sings.

He sounds his age, bellowing with a mature voice that gets tired when it strains for high notes or holds

Count Hamilton, Gnomeboy

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Alex Vitzthum is fucking weird. OK, maybe I should rephrase that, as I’ve never actually met the Vermont singer-songwriter: Alex Vitzthum’s music is fucking weird. And not in a “This doesn’t sound like pop music” kind of way, but in a “Look, I listen to the Residents, and this is still weird to me” way.

Fortunately, Vitzthum is very good at making weird work. The opera-trained singer, who previously helmed indie rock acts Clam and Homeboy Aurelio, now leads Count Hamilton, a gloriously scattered jazz-fusion/synthwave/ indie rock outfit featuring drummer Lucas Hamilton, Gabe Allen on bass and drums and saxophonist Max Abraham. The group’s debut album was a concept record about facial hair titled Too Many Beards. The follow-up, Gnomeboy, covers a broader array of topics in

syllables. There’s something sad about listening to an old person speak in the idiom of a young person.

The nakedness of the EP’s production leaves Kochalka exposed. Past projects buried his splintering warble in punk bells and whistles (see 1997’s Monkey vs. Robot) or a cappella trills (see 2022’s Bike Flipper).  By contrast, James and Gravy has a barren soundscape — basic strumming, bonking keys and organ. The recording, engineered by Benny Yurco and produced by Neil Cleary, picks up every croak and crack. It’s really all James, not much gravy.

Some tunes land more like Real Songs than others. The EP’s upbeat second track, “I Wanna Love You,” feels unfinished. Its tinny drums underscore a hook that hinges on the oh-so-original rhyme of “love you” and “be true.” A listener might wonder, Is the wedding singer drunk? Or Who let Dad do karaoke?

However, in the middle of the EP, Kochalka delivers some musical gems. “Fuzzy Moon” includes masterful lyrics that liken the moon to a bottle cap, a patch of mold and a Cheerio, and it features some deft, loping internal rhymes. It’s hard to know what Kochalka means when he says he’s “skinny-dipping down the road,” but this surreal whimsy shows his playfulness in its finest form.

“Hopes and Dreams” stitches together the EP’s generic parts — deep-voiced campfire music à la Dan Reeder and twee wallowing à la Conor Oberst. Does Kochalka rhyme “making love to you” with “dream that’s coming true,” nearly recycling the hackneyed couplet from two songs back? Yeah. But by now, this sloppiness feels like it’s part of his proposition. We can insist on the su ciency of love, plain and simple, if we suspend our critical thinking (and listening) for a second.

Those in search of a cohesive narrative arc might not like James and Gravy. You also definitely won’t like it if you’re not down with badsinger music. Kochalka’s jejune intonations recall lo-fi greats such as Daniel Johnston. For those who find that sort of thing cloying, James and Gravy will be a nightmare. But there are folks out there with a soft spot for sad men singing amateurishly. (I’m one of them, actually.) For them (us), James and Gravy is a charming EP of stripped-down love songs whose bright, a ected façade allows some compelling bits of desperation to poke through.

James and Gravy is available at kochalka.bandcamp. com and major streaming platforms.

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its 14 tracks, from “heartbreak to existentialism, climate change to friendship,” according to liner notes on the album’s Bandcamp page.

There’s also a mythical gnome who appears from time to time as Gnomeboy plays out. Named Mantuga (“the titular gnome of legend,” claims the band) and depicted rather heroically on the album cover, the gnome shows up ostensibly to tie a motif together, but … I don’t know, man. They keep bringing up this gnome. I honestly don’t think it means much, but don’t let that stop you from putting a lot of thought into it. The gnome is probably a red herring, which is a sentence I’ve always wanted to type. But also, maybe discount the gnome at your peril? Anyway…

Musically, Gnomeboy lurches all over the map, swaying from triumphant synth-pop grandeur (“Sunfather”) to jazz fusion (“Sunrise in Iceland”) to some sort of hybrid of indie rock and experimental drone music (“God’s

Favorite Gnome”). The album makes no attempt to unite these sounds or sequence them into a flowing body of work; instead, it lobs a vast sum of musical energy and wildly unhinged creative ideas at the listener.

Between the erratic sonic palette and Vitzthum’s truly bizarre vocal delivery, Gnomeboy is the opposite of accessible. Even on a song that’s about a topic as straightforward and common in music as loneliness (“Dream of Home”), the band presents a kaleidoscope of sounds and moods, pulling on the song like a strip of rubber to the point of discomfort.

That specific zone is oddly where the record hits its stride. It takes a lot of skill and care to make a strange record work, and for all the qualities that give Gnomeboy such a clever air of weirdness, the band’s musical talent and the sophistication of their arrangements are never lost in the mix. Mastered by Rob O’Dea at Burlington’s Tank Recording Studio, the album is a tight production that treats every weird-ass sound with the necessary gravity.

Count Hamilton’s Gnomeboy is streaming now at counthamilton.bandcamp.com.

CHRIS FARNSWORTH

on screen

Reality ★★★★

How much reality can you inject into a drama without making it boring, and how much drama can you inject into a reenactment of real events without making it laughably false? Tina Satter’s film Reality, now streaming on Max, addresses both those questions in a taut 82 minutes.

The movie is based on Satter’s Broadway play Is This a Room, which draws the entirety of its dialogue from the o cial transcript of the initial Federal Bureau of Investigation interrogation of Reality Winner.

A 25-year-old U.S. Air Force vet with a high security clearance, Winner was suspected of printing out a National Security Agency report on Russian hackers’ interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and mailing it to the Intercept. After the events shown in the film, she was sentenced to five years in prison under the Espionage Act — the longest federal sentence ever for unauthorized release of government information to the press.

The deal

On June 3, 2017, FBI Agents Garrick (Josh Hamilton) and Taylor (Marchant Davis) arrive at the home of Winner (Sydney Sweeney). They tell her they have a warrant to search for evidence of “possible mishandling of classified information.” She expresses surprise.

On the lawn, Winner and the agents discuss what they will find inside her modest rental home — her dog, her cat, her pink AR-15. Eventually, they move inside the house, into an unfurnished addition that Winner considers “creepy,” for the interrogation proper.

The agents reassure Winner that they don’t think she’s “a big bad master spy.” Garrick tells her he shares her political frustrations. Taylor says they’re only there to make sure she isn’t an “ongoing problem.” Step by artful step, they nudge her toward a full confession.

Will you like it?

Reality is a fascinating formal experiment — a historical chamber drama in which all the dialogue is factual and all the poetic license happens between the lines. Viewers’ reactions may vary depending on how much they already know about the case, because certain key information is redacted from the transcript. (Satter conveys those

gaps with jarring visual and sonic glitches.) Not until the end of the film do we get a brief, documentary-style rundown of the facts through text and archival footage. At this point, Reality becomes more overtly sympathetic to Winner, citing a U.S. Senate report suggesting that her leak provided a public service.

For the bulk of the run time, however, there’s no editorializing except by Winner or the feds themselves. Reality is essentially a procedural, an informative record of how federal agents tease out a confession. But it’s also tinged with the absurd precisely because it is so “real.” Ironically, the mundaneness of the situation is what makes it intermittently bizarre — and fascinating.

We can assume the agents are trying to bond with Winner and put her at ease, the better to make her tell all. Still, no TV procedural writer is likely to concoct the sort of rambling small talk in which they engage with their suspect. Long stretches of dialogue are devoted to pets and exercise regimens. Winner chats about her cat’s fondness for carbs even after she’s confessed to stealing NSA secrets. Other moments verge on cringe comedy.

While the transcript is rich in non sequiturs — just like reality — the filmmaking and performances flesh it out into a compelling

small-scale tragedy. We don’t need to know the political context to see that Winner is a driven young person struggling to turn her convictions into real-world action. She feels frustrated in her career as a crypto-linguist. She doesn’t apologize for living or vacationing on her own. She ingratiates herself to the agents using dry humor, yet she rarely smiles (in her own self-deprecating words, she has “resting bitch face”).

With skill and nuance, Sweeney shows us how even such a self-contained person can progress in a few hours from deadpan declarations of innocence to a flustered confession. Satter’s direction conveys the distortion of Winner’s interior world as the pressure mounts. Immediately after her confession, for instance, a snail on a window frame suddenly becomes an object of intense close-ups. In this visual context, her nervous chatter makes sense — it’s an anchor to normalcy.

When Winner acknowledges that her crime was a response to chronic feelings of anger and hopelessness, we feel for her. But it’s not a rah-rah partisan moment so much as a recognition that life is always tough for individuals who feel ground in the gears of institutions. Like most of us, Winner has both high-minded and petty motives: She wants to inform the public, and she’s pissed off that her employer

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plays Fox News all day in the o ce. From such daily frustrations is history built. Reality demonstrates that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. And, when it’s filtered through an artist’s vision, it can be just as compelling.

MARGOT HARRISON

margot@sevendaysvt.com,

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I haven’t been able to find a streaming source for Sonia Kennebeck’s 2021 documentary UNITED STATES VS. REALITY WINNER, which offers a broader view of the case, including interviews with Winner and her family. Until it’s available, try “ is Is Reality — the Reality Winner Podcast.”

CITIZENFOUR (2014; YouTube, Prime Video, Tubi, rentable): In the transcript, Winner assures the FBI agents that she’s no Edward Snowden. Laura Poitras’ documentary offers intimate access to perhaps the most famous whistleblower in recent memory.

AGENTS OF CHAOS (2020; Max): is two-part documentary from Oscar winner Alex Gibney delves into the subject of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

Sweeney gives a riveting performance as Reality Winner in Satter’s tightly wound drama with dialogue drawn directly from life.

NEW IN THEATERS

ADIPURUSH: This epic mythological adventure, based on the Hindu Ramayana, is said to be one of the most expensive Indian films ever made. Prabhas and Kriti Sanon star; Om Raut directed. (179 min, NR. Majestic)

ELEMENTAL: Pixar’s latest family animation takes place in a city where people embody different elements — and fire and water meet cute on the subway. With the voices of Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie. Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur) directed. (103 min, PG. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Sunset)

THE FLASH: The superfast DC Comics hero (Ezra Miller) discovers that changing the past can have grave consequences in the latest superhero spectacular, directed by Andy Muschietti (It) and also starring Sasha Calle and Ben Affleck. (144 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Sunset, Welden)

CURRENTLY PLAYING

ABOUT MY FATHERHH It’s culture-clash comedy time when a man introduces his salt-of-the-earth dad (Robert De Niro) to his WASP fiancée’s parents. With Sebastian Maniscalco and Leslie Bibb. (89 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Majestic)

ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET. HHH1/2 Kelly Fremon Craig directed this adaptation of Judy Blume’s classic. (105 min, PG-13. Palace; reviewed 5/3)

THE BOOGEYMANHHH Bereaved sisters face a supernatural horror in this adaptation of Stephen King’s short story, starring Sophie Thatcher and Chris Messina. (98 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Sunset)

THE EIGHT MOUNTAINSHHHH This Palme d’Or-nominated drama traces the decades-long friendship of two men (Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi) who grew up together in the Italian Alps. (147 min, NR. Savoy)

FAST XHHH The son of a drug kingpin comes for revenge on everyone’s favorite fast-driving “family.” (141 min, PG-13. Essex, Palace, Sunset)

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3HHH1/2 The intergalactic crew regroups after a crushing loss in yet another Marvel Cinematic Universe extravaganza. James Gunn wrote and directed. (150 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Sunset)

IT AIN’T OVERHHHH Sean Mullin directed this documentary about New York Yankees legend Yogi Berra. (98 min, PG. Savoy)

THE LITTLE MERMAIDHHH Halle Bailey is the sea princess who longs to walk the earth in Disney’s latest live-action version of its own animated property. (135 min, PG. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy, Stowe, Sunset, Welden [ends Thu])

THE MACHINEHH Bert Kreischer plays a version of himself in this action-comedy adaptation of his standup routine about how a semester abroad came back to haunt him. Mark Hamill plays his dad. (112 min, R. Essex)

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDERVERSEHHHH1/2 In this animated sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, young superhero Miles Morales (voice of Shameik Moore) explores a multiverse full of Spider-People like himself. (140 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Playhouse, Roxy, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden; reviewed 6/7)

THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIEHH1/2 Chris Pratt voices a Brooklyn plumber in the Mushroom Kingdom in this animated adaptation of the Nintendo game. (92 min, PG. Essex)

TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTSHH The toydriven action series takes a jaunt back to the ’90s to meet an Autobot ally faction called the Maximals. With Michelle Yeoh and Pete Davidson. (127 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden)

YOU HURT MY FEELINGS: Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays a novelist who’s deeply wounded by her husband’s reaction to her new book in the latest comedydrama from Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said). (93 min, R. Roxy, Savoy; reviewed 5/31)

OLDER FILMS AND SPECIAL SCREENINGS

ZOOTOPIA (Catamount, Tue only)

OPEN THEATERS

(* = upcoming schedule for theater was not available at press time)

BIG PICTURE THEATER: 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994, bigpicturetheater.info

BIJOU CINEPLEX 4: 107 Portland St., Morrisville, 888-3293, bijou4.com

CAPITOL SHOWPLACE: 93 State St., Montpelier, 229-0343, fgbtheaters.com

*CATAMOUNT ARTS: 115 Eastern Ave., St. Johnsbury, 748-2600, catamountarts.org

*ESSEX CINEMAS & T-REX THEATER: 21 Essex Way, Suite 300, Essex, 879-6543, essexcinemas.com

MAJESTIC 10: 190 Boxwood St., Williston, 878-2010, majestic10.com

MARQUIS THEATER: 65 Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841, middleburymarquis.com

*MERRILL’S ROXY CINEMAS: 222 College St., Burlington, 864-3456, merrilltheatres.net

PALACE 9 CINEMAS: 10 Fayette Dr., South Burlington, 864-5610, palace9.com

PARAMOUNT TWIN CINEMA: 241 N. Main St., Barre, 479-9621, fgbtheaters.com

PLAYHOUSE MOVIE THEATRE: 11 S. Main St., Randolph, 728-4012, playhouseflicks.com

SAVOY THEATER: 26 Main St., Montpelier, 2290598, savoytheater.com

STAR THEATRE: 17 Eastern Ave., St. Johnsbury, 748-9511, stjaytheatre.com

*STOWE CINEMA 3PLEX: 454 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4678, stowecinema.com

SUNSET DRIVE-IN: 155 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 862-1800, sunsetdrivein.com

WELDEN THEATRE: 104 N. Main St., St. Albans, 527-7888, weldentheatre.com

Note: These capsule descriptions are not intended as reviews. Star ratings come from Metacritic unless we reviewed the film (noted at the end of the description). Find reviews written by Seven Days critic Margot Harrison at sevendaysvt.com/ onscreen-reviews.

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WED.14 business

JUNE 14-21, 2023

10 a.m.-5 p.m. $17-20; free for members and kids under 2. Info, 649-2200.

QUEEN CITY BUSINESS

NETWORKING

INTERNATIONAL GROUP: Savvy businesspeople make crucial contacts at a weekly chapter meeting. Burlington City Arts, 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 829-5066.

community

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

DESK: AGEWELL: Seniors stop by the main reading room to ask questions and learn about programs available to them. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

CURRENT EVENTS: Neighbors have an informal discussion about what’s in the news. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 878-4918.

VETERANS SUMMIT: Veterans and their families access resources and make connections. Northern Vermont University-Lyndon, Lyndonville, 2-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 825-4389.

crafts

GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS’

GUILD OF AMERICA: Anyone with an interest in the needle arts is welcome to bring a project to this monthly meeting. Holy Family Parish Hall, Essex Junction, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, gmc.vt.ega@ gmail.com.

environment

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING INTO PERMAFROST: A special exhibition focuses on climate education and environmental sustainability. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich,

film

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

‘HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL’: Vin Tabone presents his PBS series on the mid-19th-century art movement. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

‘I’VE LOVED YOU FOR SO LONG’: A woman tries to rebuild her life after being released from prison in this 2008 drama starring Kristin Scott Thomas. A discussion with guest curator Alice Wuertele follows. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: Sparkling graphics and vibrant interviews take viewers on a journey alongside NASA astronauts as they prepare for stranger-than-sciencefiction space travel. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater:

A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: Stunning footage takes viewers on a mind-bending journey into phenomena that are too slow, too fast or too small to be seen by the naked eye. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission

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ROCKUMENTARY FILM

SERIES: ‘A POEM IS A NAKED

PERSON’: Leon Russell and his band perform in this free-form feature documentary. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 387-0102.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: Viewers are plunged into the magical vistas of the continent’s deserts, jungles and savannahs. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: Sandhill cranes, yellow warblers and mallard ducks make their lives along rivers, lakes and wetlands. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

food & drink

FLAG DAY & ARMY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: Cake and discounted flights and pints honor the red, white and blue. 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 3-9 p.m. Free. Info, 857-5318.

THE SURPRISING HISTORY OF COMMON GARDEN

VEGETABLES: Science and history writer Rebecca Rupp tells the stories behind homegrown produce. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 262-2626.

FIND MORE LOCAL EVENTS IN THIS ISSUE AND ONLINE: art

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

film

See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife

Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/music.

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games

BOARD GAME NIGHT: Lovers of tabletop fun play classic games and new designer offerings. Waterbury Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

MAH-JONGG OPEN PLAY: Weekly sessions of an age-old game promote critical thinking and friendly competition. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 12:30-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 362-2607.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA: Waterbury Public Library instructor Diana Whitney leads at-home participants in gentle stretches supported by seats. 10 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

SEATED & STANDING YOGA: Beginners are welcome to grow their strength and flexibility at this supportive class. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 549-4574.

language

IRISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Celticcurious students learn to speak an Ghaeilge in a supportive group. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

lgbtq

‘PRIDE’: Realizing that they share common foes, gay and lesbian activists lend support to striking Welsh miners in this 2014 film based on a true story. Bellows Falls Opera House, 7 p.m. $6. Info, 463-3964, ext. 1120.

montréal

FESTIVAL BLOOMSDAY

MONTRÉAL: The city toasts James Joyce and Irish culture with a week of pub crawls, author readings and concerts. Virtual options available. Prices vary per event. Info, 438-969-2528.

‘JOSEPHINE: A MUSICAL CABARET’: Tymisha Harris stars in this sparkling one-woman show about the groundbreaking life of Black singer, spy and civil rights activist Josephine Baker. Sylvan Adams Theatre, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, 1 & 8 p.m. $25-67. Info, 514-739-7944.

music

CIRCLE SINGING: All voices join to make songs and sounds, led by Jody Albright. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 6:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, rachel@carpentercarse. org.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES:

HAZE & DACY: An indie folk duo serenades lunchers with upbeat acoustic rock and folk tunes. Burlington City Hall Park, 12:301:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7554.

ZACH NUGENT UNCORKED: The sought-after guitarist plays a weekly loft show featuring live music, storytelling and special guests. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.

seminars

SORTING THE NEWS FROM THE CHAFF: Veteran journalist and

educator Mark Timney shares strategies for evaluating sources. Worthen Library, South Hero, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 262-2626.

sports

GREEN MOUNTAIN TABLE

TENNIS CLUB: Ping-Pong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Rutland Area Christian School, 7-9 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913.

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: Spectators buy some peanuts and Cracker Jack to watch the Green Mountain State’s own Futures Collegiate Baseball League team face off against new opponents each night. Centennial Field, Burlington, 6:35 p.m. $6-17; $125-418 for season passes. Info, 655-4200.

talks

VERMONT’S REMARKABLE

SHARPSHOOTERS: Historian Howard Coffin unpacks his recent research into local marksmanship. Cambridge Historical Society, Jeffersonville, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 262-2626.

tech

39TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY: CCTV celebrates its long tenure in community media. Burlington St. John’s Club, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-3966.

STAYING SAFE ONLINE:

Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity hosts a course on data privacy, online safety and organizing digital files. 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 860-1417, ext. 112.

theater

‘SENSE AND SENSIBILITY’: Northern Stage’s playful new adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters. Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $19-55. Info, 296-7000.

‘TRUE WEST’: In this Vermont Stage production, Sam Shepard fans compare three interpretations of his critically acclaimed drama from three different directors. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $3135. Info, 862-1497.

words

AFTER HOURS BOOK CLUB: Readers discuss Jennifer Hillier’s crime thriller Things We Do in the Dark. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

THE MOTH STORYSLAM: Local tellers of tales recount true stories in the hopes of winning an appearance on NPR. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $17.50; preregister. Info, susanne@themoth.org.

PATRICK SMITHWICK: The author of the memoir War’s Over, Come Home discusses the storytelling process. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-3350.

POETRY POTLUCK: Wordsmiths and readers bring a dish and a poem (their own or others’) to share. Whirligig Brewing, St. Johnsbury, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, acampbell@catamountarts.org.

THU.15 business

CAREER READINESS WORKSHOP: The Vermont Department of Labor imparts new skills and knowledge for today’s job market. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 549-4572.

HIRING2DAYVT VIRTUAL

JOB FAIR: Job seekers get a chance to meet with employers from around the state, thanks to the Vermont Department of Labor. 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 828-4000.

community

PARTY ON THE HILL: Revelers celebrate a new planned playground and learn about upcoming summer fun. Hard’ack Recreation Area, St. Albans, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 524-2444.

crafts

KNIT FOR YOUR NEIGHBORS: Fiber artists knit hats and scarves to donate to the South Burlington Food Shelf. Yarn, needles, looms and crochet hooks provided. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

KNITTING GROUP: Knitters of all experience levels get together to spin yarns. Latham Library, Thetford, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

TRAVEL JOURNALING WITH

WATERCOLOR: Diarists document their latest adventures with paint and brush. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

environment

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING INTO PERMAFROST: See WED.14. etc.

PIZZA BY THE POND: A woodfired oven warms pies made of local ingredients while local musicians regale diners. Blueberry Hill Inn, Goshen, 5-8 p.m. $22-35; free for kids 5 and under; preregister; limited space. Info, 247-6735.

film

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

‘GOOD’: In this National Theatre Live broadcast, David Tennant returns to London’s West End in the story of a professor drawn into dark deeds during World War II. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7:05 p.m. $6-15. Info, 748-2600.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.14.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.14.

FAMI LY FU N

Check out these family-friendly events for parents, caregivers and kids of all ages.

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WED.14

burlington

STEAM SPACE: Kids explore science, technology, engineering, art and math activities. Ages 5 through 11. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

COUNCIL OF LIBRARY TEENS:

Adolescents brainstorm future library events and programs. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

barre/montpelier

CHESS CLUB: Youngsters of all skill levels get one-on-one lessons and play each other in between. Ages 6 and up.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

mad river valley/ waterbury

LEGO CHALLENGE CLUB: Kids engage in a fun-filled hour of building, then leave their creations on display in the library all month long. Ages 6 through 8. Waterbury Public Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

upper valley

PEABODY AFTERSCHOOL FUN FOR

GRADES 1-4: Students make friends over crafts and story time. George Peabody Library, Post Mills, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 333-9724.

SUMMER READING KICKOFF WITH MODERN TIMES THEATER: A Punch-andJudy show delights youngsters who are raring to read. George Peabody Library, Post Mills, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 333-9724.

manchester/ bennington

MCL FILM CLUB: Teen auteurs learn how to bring stories to life on camera. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 362-2607.

NEW MOMS’ GROUP: Local doula Kimberleigh Weiss-Lewitt facilitates a community-building weekly meetup for mothers who are new to parenting or the area. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 549-4574.

THU.15 chittenden county

PRESCHOOL MUSIC WITH LINDA BASSICK: The singer and storyteller extraordinaire leads little ones in indoor music and movement. Birth through age 5. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

PRESCHOOL PLAYTIME: Pre-K patrons play and socialize after music time. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

VERMONT PUBLIC’S FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY: Two media outlets fête a year of combined forces with tours, kids’ activities, a photo booth and food trucks. Vermont Public, Colchester, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-9451.

barre/montpelier

FUSE BEAD CRAFTERNOONS: Youngsters make pictures out of colorful, meltable doodads. Ages 8 and up. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Energetic youngsters join Miss Meliss for stories, songs and lots of silliness. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

stowe/smuggs

WEE ONES PLAY TIME: Caregivers bring kiddos 3 and younger to a new sensory learning experience each week. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

mad river valley/ waterbury

PRESCHOOL PLAY & READ: Outdoor activities, stories and songs get 3- and 4-year-olds engaged. Waterbury Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

FRI.16

burlington

DAD GUILD FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND

CELEBRATION: DADS, DIAPERS & JOKES: Parents and supporters enjoy standup comedy, compete in a diaperchanging contest and vote for Dad Joke of the Year. Adults only. Burlington Beer, 7-9 p.m. Sliding scale; preregister.

SPLASH DANCE: DJs spin the decks by the fountain as kids party the day away. Burlington City Hall Park, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7554.

barre/montpelier

STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: Participants ages 6 and under hear

Pop Fly

America’s national pastime goes really retro — as in, back to 1860 — at Father’s Day at the Farm at Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock. People of all ages take a crack at bat in a game that uses the original rules — and original spelling — of “base ball.” That means the bases are stuffed with straw, the baselines are set with wood shavings, home plate is metal, and everyone plays barehanded. Even the bats are authentic reproductions made of ash. Visitors can get in the game or watch from the bleachers, and check out the farm’s many other games, races and exhibits.

FATHER’S DAY AT THE FARM

Sunday, June 18, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.,“base ball” game at 2 p.m., at Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock. $10-17; free for members and kids 3 and under. Info, 457-2355. billingsfarm.org

stories, sing songs and eat tasty treats between outdoor activities. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

upper valley

STORY TIME: Preschoolers take part in tales, tunes and playtime. Latham Library, Thetford, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

manchester/ bennington

YOUNG ADULT DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Teens battle beasts with swords and spell books in this campaign designed to accommodate both drop-in and recurring players. Ages 12 through 16. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 2-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 549-4574.

SAT.17

DAD GUILD FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND

CELEBRATION: DRAG, JUGGLING AND FACE PAINT ... OH MY!: The support network’s holiday weekend bash continues with drag story hour, circus performances, games, music and snacks from Pingala Café. O.N.E. Community Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

chittenden county

‘ELEPHANT & PIGGIE’S WE ARE IN A

PLAY!’: SOLD OUT. An elephant and a

Waterbury Public Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

middlebury area

FOAL DAY: Locals pack a picnic lunch for this amazingly equine opportunity to meet the baby Morgans and tour the stables. University of Vermont Morgan Horse Farm, Weybridge, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $7-10; free for UVM ID holders and kids under 5. Info, 388-2011.

SHEEP & WOOL DAY: Flock fans have a dyed-in-the-wool good time with a petting zoo, spinning demos, crafts, lawn games and a story walk. Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, noon-3 p.m. Free. Info, 877-3406.

rutland/killington

RUTLAND YOUTH PRIDE PROM: Rutland’s drag queens share hair and makeup tips before teens boogie on the dance floor. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, partnersforprevention802@ gmail.com.

northeast kingdom

FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND: The Vermont Gas & Steam Engine Association displays its collection, with free ice cream for dads on Sunday. Old Stone House Museum & Historic Village, Brownington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 754-2022.

manchester/ bennington

NOTORIOUS RPG: Kids 10 through 14 create characters and play a collaborative adventure game similar to Dungeons & Dragons. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 362-2607.

STEAM SATURDAY: Little ones play around with foundational science and art fun. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 362-2607.

pig go on an adventure in this musical adaptation of the beloved Mo Williams children’s books. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10-11:30 a.m. & 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

LITTLE ANGLERS DERBY: Young fisherpeople cast their lines in competition. Live bait and loaner rods are available. Windemere Way State Boat Launch, Colchester, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 879-3466.

SUMMER READING KICKOFF PARTY: Kids enjoy rides and snacks to celebrate the season. Williston Town Green, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-4918.

barre/montpelier

KIDS CRAFTS: Children make Father’s Day key chains and Juneteenth flags. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

stowe/smuggs

MUSICAL STORY TIME: Song, dance and other tuneful activities supplement picture books for kids 2 through 5. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

mad river valley/ waterbury

MONTHLY PLAYGROUP: Parents and caregivers connect while their young kids explore collaborative play.

SUN.18 burlington

DAD GUILD FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND CELEBRATION: AT THE LAKE MONSTERS!: Members of the support network and their families watch Champ’s antics while the local team plays ball. Centennial Field, Burlington, 5:05 p.m. $8.

DAD GUILD FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND CELEBRATION: PANCAKES AND PORTRAITS: Mikahely and Linda Bassick make music while dads flip flapjacks for the fam. Trinity Children’s Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free.

chittenden county

FATHERS DAY FISHING DERBY: Anglers cast their lures in a friendly competition. Lunch available. Trophies for age groups 5-14. Chittenden County Fish & Game Club, Richmond, 8-11 a.m. Free. Info, 8784942, swinter@myfairpoint.net.

upper valley

FATHER’S DAY AT THE FARM: Visitors of all ages join in an old-time baseball game on the field or enjoy ice cream while cheering from the bleachers. See calendar spotlight. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 2 p.m. Regular admission $10-$17; free for members and children under 3. Info, 457-2355.

‘UTICA: THE LAST REFUGE’: A 2021 documentary explores the positive contributions refugees make to local economies and illuminates the struggles they face. A panel discussion follows. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 5:30-10 p.m. Free. Info, masbury@trorc.org.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.14. ‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.14.

food & drink

FREE IN-STORE TASTINGS: Themed wine tastings take oenophiles on an adventure through a region, grape variety, style of wine or producer’s offerings. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Bakery, Stowe. Info, 585-7717.

games

THE CHECK MATES: Chess players of all ages face off at this intergenerational weekly meetup. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 549-4574.

DUPLICATE BRIDGE: A lively group plays a classic, tricky game with an extra wrinkle. Waterbury Public Library, 12:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7223.

health & fitness

SIMPLIFIED TAI CHI FOR

SENIORS: Eighteen easy poses help with stress reduction, fall prevention and ease of movement. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 3:15-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 362-2607.

SOCIAL BIKE RIDE: Cyclists over 50 connect on an AARP-guided trek. BYO bike. Leddy Park, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 951-1302.

TAI CHI THURSDAYS: Experienced instructor Rich Marantz teaches the first section of the Yang-style tai chi sequence. Manchester

Community Library, Manchester Center, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 645-1960.

montréal

FESTIVAL BLOOMSDAY

MONTRÉAL: See WED.14.

‘JOSEPHINE: A MUSICAL CABARET’: See WED.14, 8 p.m.

music

BURLINGTON CONCERT BAND

REHEARSAL: Local musicians bring their instruments to practice every week. St. Mark Catholic Parish, Burlington, 6:45-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 343-3856.

FEAST & FIELD MUSIC SERIES:

BEECHARMER: Farm-fresh foods and Americana tunes are on the menu at a pastoral party. Fable Farm, Barnard, 5:30 p.m. $5-25. Info, 234-1645.

TROY MILLETTE: Heartfelt original country-rock songs carry through the air, courtesy of the Fairfax musician. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.

lgbtq

PRIDE PICNIC: Members of the LGBTQ community and allies enjoy their own plein air repasts while listing to tunes and meeting reps from local organizations. Colburn Park, Lebanon, N.H., 6 p.m. Free. Info, 603-448-0400.

PRIDE POETRY: Four local LGBTQ+ poets read from their work. Fox Market and Bar, East Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, robynjoy76@gmail.com.

SILENT DISCO: DJ Sean and DJ Kell blast the tunes through headphones as dancers celebrate Pride under the stars. Colburn Park, Lebanon, N.H., 9 p.m. $17; preregistration required. Info, 603-448-0400.

montréal

FESTIVAL BLOOMSDAY

MONTRÉAL: See WED.14.

music

JUAN NIEVES & LEGADO’S

ORQUESTRA: A Latin American ensemble plays salsa tunes on the hillside as Moon and Stars serves arepas and empanadas. Artistree Community Arts Center Theatre & Gallery, South Pomfret, 7 p.m. $20; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 457-3500.

politics

THOUGHT CLUB: Artists and activists convene to engage with Burlington’s rich tradition of radical thought and envision its future. Democracy Creative, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, tevan@democracycreative.com.

seminars

NAVIGATING THE SENIOR MAZE: Elders and their families explore senior housing options in the second of four weekly workshops. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-3982.

UNDERSTANDING THE

FINE PRINT: New England Federal Credit Union hosts an online review of the selection process for credit cards and tips for managing debt. Noon-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 802.764.6940, selsky@nefcu.com.

sports

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: See WED.14, 6:35 p.m.

talks

BILL MARES: The writer and 45year beekeeper details the origins and evolution of apiculture for FOBs (friends of bees). Roger Clark Memorial Library, Pittsfield, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 262-2626.

RICK WINSTON: The author of Red Scare in the Green Mountains: Vermont in the McCarthy Era shares his local history research. Dorset Historical Society, noon. Free. Info, 262-2626.

tech

TECH AND TEXTILES: Crafters work on their knitting or crocheting while discussing questions such as how to set up a new tablet or what cryptocurrency

Raise Your Glass

Fans of sculpture and flame get fired up at Vermont Blown Away, a live glassblowing demonstration at Fire Arts Vermont in Brattleboro. Three-person teams of artists from Vermont Glass Guild race to create glass sculptures based on local children’s drawings. Teams have 15 minutes to figure out how they’ll render the drawing, then one hour to bring it to life in a friendly competition, with all creations eventually auctioned off to benefit the guild’s education fund. The event offers a preview of “Glasstastic,” a Brattleboro Museum & Art Center exhibition opening on June 24.

VERMONT BLOWN AWAY

Saturday, June 17, 2 p.m., at Fire Arts Vermont in Brattleboro. $10; free for BMAC members; preregister. Info, 257-0124, ext. 101. brattleboromuseum.org

even is. George Peabody Library, Post Mills, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 333-9724.

theater

‘SENSE AND SENSIBILITY’: See WED.14.

‘TRUE WEST’: See WED.14.

words

FUNDRAISER AND SILENT

AUCTION: Acclaimed author Chris Bohjalian chats about his novels while bidders browse auction items at this library benefit. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 5 p.m. $75. Info, 362-2607.

INQUISITIVE READERS BOOK

CLUB: Bookworms dig into a new horizon-expanding tome each month. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, henningsmh@ yahoo.com.

MARJORIE RYERSON: The poet, professor and former state legislator discusses her latest book, The Views From Mount Hunger. Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1114.

FRI.16 crafts

SCRAPBOOKING GROUP: Cutters and pasters make new friends at a weekly club. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 549-4574.

environment

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING INTO PERMAFROST: See WED.14. etc.

PIZZA BY THE POND: See THU.15.

TINA FRIML AND FRIENDS NIGHT OF COMEDY: The Middlebury native returns home to regale fans with her unique set. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 382-9222.

film

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

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.14.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.14.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.14. ‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.14.

food & drink

FREE BEER TASTING: Shoppers sample selections from Mill River Brewing. Cheese & Wine Traders, South Burlington, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-0143.

RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET:

Vendors present a diverse selection of locally produced foods and crafts as picnickers enjoy music from a different local band each week. Richmond Town Park, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, rfmmanager@ gmail.com.

games

MAH-JONGG: Tile traders of all experience levels gather for a game. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

health & fitness

GUIDED MEDITATION

ONLINE: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library invites attendees to relax on their lunch breaks and reconnect with their bodies. Noon-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@ damlvt.org.

MARK & JILL: A hall of fame bluesman and a sultry Texas singer harmonize over a haunting slide guitar. Bennington Museum, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 447-1571.

SOULSHINE REVIVAL: The Allman Brothers tribute band serenades sippers. Shelburne Vineyard, 7-9:30 p.m. $10. Info, 985-8222.

STEVE HARTMANN: A Vermontbased singer-songwriter performs folk tunes. York Street Meeting House, Lyndon, 7 p.m. $15-20. Info, 748-2600.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES:

PAPER CASTLES: Local musicians collaborate for a set of indie rock songs in the styles of the Beatles, Tom Petty and Pavement. Burlington City Hall Park, 12:301:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7554.

tech

MORNING TECH HELP: Experts answer questions about phones, laptops, e-readers and more in one-on-one sessions. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 846-4140.

theater

‘ARCADIA’: In BarnArts’ production of Tom Stoppard’s critically acclaimed play, the time-space continuum bends as two sets of characters share the same space in different eras. Feast and Field, Barnard, 7-9 p.m. $15-20. Info, 234-1645.

‘THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES’: A young veteran returns home and gets caught up in his parents’ marital conflicts in this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, staged by Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 775-0903.

‘TRUE WEST’: See WED.14.

words

JENN BROWN AND JOSH

BARBER: Two Vermont poets read from their work. The Front, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, robynjoy76@gmail.com.

MATTHEW OLZMANN & MICHAEL COLLIER: The acclaimed poets share selections from their published collections. Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m.

SAT.17

bazaars

THE BTV MARKET: Shoppers browse an eclectic array of items from artists, makers and bakers. Burlington City Hall Park, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7554.

crafts

VERMONT BLOWN AWAY:

Vermont Glass Guild artists create glass art inspired by children’s drawings in front of a live audience. See calendar spotlight. Fire Arts Vermont, Brattleboro, 2-4 p.m. $10; free for Brattleboro Museum & Art Center members. Info, 257-0124.

dance

‘SEASONS: SUMMER’: Avant Vermont Dance debuts a family-friendly evening of outdoor dance and art-making. Comtu Cascade Park, Springfield, 5-6 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, info@avantvt.com.

MONTPELIER CONTRA DANCE: Steve Zakon-Anderson provides the tunes for a celebration of folk line dancing. Masks required. Capital City Grange, Berlin, 7:4011 p.m. $5-20. Info, 225-8921.

BALLROOM DANCE LESSON: Green Mount Chapter hosts a class in movement. Bring clean dance shoes. Holy Family Parish Hall, Essex Junction, 6:15-10:15 p.m. $15-20. Info, 310-8842.

environment

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING

INTO PERMAFROST: See WED.14. etc.

DOG MOUNTAIN FOUNDERS

CELEBRATION: Dogs’ best friends gather to enjoy live music by the Chris White Band, lawn games, food trucks and canine contests. Dog Mountain, St. Johnsbury, noon-4 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 1-800-449-2580.

fairs & festivals

ABENAKI HERITAGE WEEKEND: Vermont’s Native American community celebrates with storytelling, crafts, drumming and singing. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 265-0092.

BTV JUNETEENTH BTV: The Queen City commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans with a daylong festival of music, poetry, comedy, food, conversations and reflections. See calendar spotlight. Various Burlington locations, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Free; price of food and drink. Info, reib@burlingtonvt.gov.

film

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

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.14.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.14.

‘VANISH: DISAPPEARING

ICONS OF RURAL AMERICA’: PhotographerJim Westphalen travels across the country to document rural America’s disappearing structures. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $1618. Info, 382-9222.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.14.

‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.14.

food & drink

BURLINGTON FARMERS

MARKET: Dozens of stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisanal wares and prepared foods. 345 Pine St., Burlington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 560-5904.

CAPITAL CITY FARMERS

MARKET: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, locally made arts and crafts, and live music. 133 State St., Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, montpelierfarmersmarket@ gmail.com.

NORTHWEST FARMERS

MARKET: Locavores stock up on produce, preserves, baked goods, and arts and crafts from over 50 vendors. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 242-2729.

games

BEGINNER DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Waterbury

Public Library game master Evan Hoffman gathers novices and veterans alike for an afternoon of virtual adventuring. Teens and adults welcome. noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

BOARD GAME BRUNCH: Tabletop gamers face off in a variety of activities. Suggested for ages 18+. ADA accessible. South

FOMO?

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online: art

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

film

See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife

Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/ music.

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

Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

CHESS CLUB: Players of all ages and abilities face off and learn new strategies. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

holidays

JUNETEENTH BTV: The Queen City commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans with a daylong festival of music, poetry, comedy, food, conversations and reflections. See calendar spotlight. Various Burlington locations, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Free; price of food and drink. Info, reib@burlingtonvt.gov.

lgbtq

QUEER T-DANCE: Dancers bust a move to celebrate Pride. BYOB. The Field Center, Bellows Falls, 4-10 p.m. $5-30 suggested donation. Info, 603-313-0052.

RUTLAND COUNTY PRIDE

FESTIVAL: The Rutland County Pride Center hosts a day of speakers, musicians, wordsmiths, drag performances, food and activities. Downtown Rutland, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 236-9880.

montréal

‘JOSEPHINE: A MUSICAL CABARET’: See WED.14, 8 p.m.

music

BLUE MOON MUSIC: The trio plays an eclectic mix of music from jazz giants such as Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.

HAZE & DACEY: A Virginiabased duo entertains with a set that moves from folk-pop to alt-country. River Garden Marketplace, Brattleboro, 7:309:30 p.m. Free. Info, 200-2040.

SACRED HARP SINGING: Harp singers serenade for the long haul in this all-day event. Dinner will be served. International Commons, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 989-4387.

outdoors

BIRD WALK: Birders lead a guided marsh walk on a four-mile loop. Meet at the boardwalk kiosk on Marble Street. West Rutland Marsh, 7-10 a.m. Free. Info, birding@rutlandcounty audubon.org.

CRAFTSBURY GARDEN TOUR: Participants wander through perennial flower gardens, orchards, farms and homesteads while enjoying café treats. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $20 suggested donation. Info, 586-9683.

INTRO TO BIRDING: Interested ornithologists take a walk down to Otter Creek to discover a myriad of feathered creatures. Wright Park, Middlebury, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 388-1007.

sports

THE VERMONT ADAPTIVE CHARITY CHALLENGE: Cyclists, mountain bikers, paddlers and hikers enjoy the beauty of Vermont for a fundraiser, followed by an afternoon festival with food trucks, live music and an auction. Skyeship Base Area, Killington Resort, 6 a.m.-5 p.m. $75; $150 fundraising requirement. Info, 786-4991.

VERMONT GREEN FC: The state’s newest men’s soccer club continues its second year with flair and a focus on environmental justice. Virtue Field, University of Vermont Archie Post Athletic Complex, Burlington, 7 p.m. $8-15; free for kids 5 and under. Info, club@vermontgreenfc.com.

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: See WED.14, 6:05 p.m.

talks

NORTHERN STAGE, YEAR ONE:

AN ORIGIN STORY: Founding artistic director Brooke Wetzel Ciardelli and rural communities advocate Matt Dunne explore the company’s beginnings and impact. Preregistration required. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 296-7000.

theater

‘ARCADIA’: See FRI.16.

‘THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES’: See FRI.16.

‘TRUE WEST’: See WED.14.

words

WRITERS’ WERTFREI: Authors both fledgling and published gather to share their work in a judgment-free environment. Virtual option available. Waterbury Public Library, 10 a.m.noon. Free; preregister. Info, judi@ waterburypubliclibrary.com.

SUN.18

crafts

OUTDOOR PAINT-ALONG:

Budding artists get a beginnerfriendly lesson from Kadina Malicbegovic. Intervale Center, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $1025. Info, 861-9700.

environment

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING

INTO PERMAFROST: See WED.14.

fairs & festivals

ABENAKI HERITAGE WEEKEND:

See SAT.17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

film

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

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.14.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.14.

‘NEWTOK’: An Alaskan village forced to relocate seeks justice in facing the threat of climate change in this 2021

health & fitness

KARUNA COMMUNITY

MEDITATION: A YEAR TO LIVE (FULLY): Participants practice keeping joy, generosity and gratitude at the forefront of their minds. Jenna’s House, Johnson, 10-11:15 a.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, mollyzapp@live.com.

montréal

‘JOSEPHINE: A MUSICAL CABARET’: See WED.14, 2 & 7 p.m.

music

GRACE COOLIDGE MUSICALES: A recital showcases the talents of piano students across Vermont to honor the former first lady. President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site, Plymouth, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 672-1195.

NICK CARTER: A New Englandbased singer-songwriter plays soulful folk tunes. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.

SIA TOLNO & AFRO DEAD: A global music collective reimagines the music of the Grateful Dead in an African style. Cooper Field, Putney, 6 p.m. $20-25; free for kids under 12. Info, 386-295-3687.

outdoors

STREET TREES OF BURLINGTON

WALK: Naturalist Christian Pages leads a tour of local greenery. University of Vermont 5K Loop, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free; registration required. Info, 861-9700.

SUMMER NATURE ROMP: Nature center staff guide a wildly fun outing with a new theme each week, from tracking and birding to plant identification and nature journaling. All ages. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 229-6206.

sports

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: See WED.14, 5:05 p.m.

theater

‘ARCADIA’: See FRI.16, 4-6 p.m.

‘SENSE AND SENSIBILITY’: See WED.14, 5 p.m.

‘THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES’: See FRI.16, 2 p.m.

‘TRUE WEST’: See WED.14.

MON.19 community

NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY COMMITTEE MEETING: Concerned community members join up online to discuss potential recycling and reprocessing options for spent nuclear fuel. Noon-1:15 p.m. Free. Info, 272-1714.

crafts

KNIT WITS: Fiber-working friends get together to make progress on their quilts, knitwear and needlework. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 362-2607.

environment

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING INTO PERMAFROST: See WED.14.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.14.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.14. ‘NEWTOK’: See SUN.18.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.14. ‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.14.

Emancipation Celebration

America’s newest federal holiday, Juneteenth commemorates the date the last enslaved people in the Confederacy were told they were free — two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation actually freed them. Burlington’s Racial Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Committee throws a 12-hour bash to mark the day, headlined by hip-hop trailblazers Arrested Development. The party stretches throughout downtown, with performances by poets such as Harmony Edosomwan and Rajnii Eddins, musicians including Konflik and Rivan, DJs, comedians, food vendors, wellness stations, and plenty of conversation and reflection.

JUNETEENTH BTV

Saturday, June 17, 11 a.m.-11 p.m., at various locations in Burlington. Free. Info, 923-9839. btvjuneteenth.com

documentary. Sustainable Woodstock hosts the online screening. Free; donations accepted. Info, 457-2911.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.14.

‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.14.

food & drink

ADVENTURE DINNER SUNDAY

PICNIC: Picnickers enjoy a sumptuous Italian summer spread. Shelburne Farms, noon3 p.m. $80; preregister. Info, 248-224-7539.

FATHER’S DAY PANCAKE

BREAKFAST: Dad and his biggest fans start the holiday with a buffet of pancakes with maple syrup, fruit salad, pastries, sausage and eggs. Mad River Valley Ambulance Service, Waitsfield, 8-11 a.m. $5-8. Info, 496-8888.

STOWE FARMERS MARKET: An appetizing assortment of fresh veggies, meats, milk, berries, herbs, beverages and crafts tempts shoppers. 2043 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, stowe farmersmarket@gmail.com.

STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL: Strawberry lovers enjoy shortcake with ice cream while perusing a craft fair and a new exhibit of vintage childhood toys and accessories. Middletown Springs Historical Society, 2-4 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 235-2561.

SUNDAY FUNDAY: Food and drinks are on tap when attendees gather outside for games. 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, noon-5 p.m. Free. Info, 857-5318.

SUMMER SOLSTICE CEREMONY: The Green Mountain Druid Order honors the light with drumming and flowers at a midsummer gathering. Burlington Earth Clock, Oakledge Park, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, gmdodreamland@gmail.com.

FOMO?

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online: art

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

film

See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife

Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/ music.

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

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health & fitness

ADVANCED TAI CHI: Experienced movers build strength, improve balance and reduce stress. Holley Hall, Bristol, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; donations accepted. Info, jerry@ skyrivertaichi.com.

LAUGHTER YOGA: Spontaneous, joyful movement and breath promote physical and emotional health. Pathways Vermont, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, chrisn@pathwaysvermont.org.

LONG-FORM SUN 73: Beginners and experienced practitioners learn how tai chi can help with arthritis, mental clarity and range of motion. Holley Hall, Bristol, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; donations accepted. Info, wirlselizabeth@ gmail.com.

YANG 24: This simplified tai chi method is perfect for beginners looking to build strength and balance. Congregational Church of Middlebury, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, wirlselizabeth@gmail.com.

holidays

JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION: A new exhibit of artifacts showcases the role of Vermonters in the Civil War. Old Stone House Museum & Historic Village, Brownington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 754-2022.

COURTESY OF BLACK CUB PRODUCTIONS

words

ADDISON COUNTY WRITERS

COMPANY: Poets, playwrights, novelists and memoirists of every experience level meet weekly for an MFA-style workshop. Swift House Inn, Middlebury, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, jay@zigzaglitmag.org.

STEPHEN P. KIERNAN: The author of The Glass Chateau celebrates the book’s launch in the glassblowing studio where research for the novel took place. AO Glass, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

TUE.20 community

CURRENT EVENTS

DISCUSSION GROUP: Brownell Library holds a virtual roundtable for neighbors to pause

and reflect on the news cycle. 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

dance

MORRIS & MORE: Dancers of all abilities learn how to step, clog and even sword fight their way through medieval folk dances of all kinds. Revels North, Lebanon, N.H., 6 p.m. Pay what you can. Info, 603-558-7894.

SWING DANCING: Local Lindy hoppers and jitterbuggers convene at Vermont Swings’ weekly boogie-down. Bring clean shoes. Beginner lessons, 6:30 p.m. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:309 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382.

environment

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING INTO PERMAFROST: See WED.14.

film

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

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.14.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN

WORLD 3D’: See WED.14.

‘NEWTOK’: See SUN.18.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.14.

‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.14.

food & drink

NORTHFIELD FARMERS MARKET: A gathering place for local farmers, producers and artisans offers fresh produce, crafts and locally prepared foods. Depot Square, Northfield, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 485-8586.

health & fitness

SUMMER YOGA: Becky Widschwenter leads a nonjudgmental practice designed for beginners in the library garden. BYO mat. Waterbury Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

TAI CHI TUESDAY: Patrons get an easy, informal introduction to this ancient movement practice that supports balance and strength. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 9-10:15 a.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 362-2607.

language

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS: Instructor Andrea Thulin helps non-native speakers build their vocabulary and conversation skills. Manchester Community

Library, Manchester Center, 5:307 p.m. Free. Info, 549-4574.

music

COMMUNITY SINGERS: A weekly choral meetup welcomes all singers to raise their voices along to traditional (and not-so-traditional) songs. Revels North, Lebanon, N.H., 7:30 p.m. Pay what you can. Info, 603-558-7894.

seminars

EATING TO BOOST ENERGY ON A BUDGET: Thrifty shoppers learn how to access nutritious food at low cost. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 764-6940.

words

SARAH STEWART TAYLOR: The author of the Maggie D’arcy series debuts the next installment.

Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1114.

WILLIAM GADDIS ‘THE RECOGNITIONS’ BOOK GROUP DISCUSSION: The Burlington Literature Group reads and analyzes this influential postmodernist novel over 13 weeks. 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, info@nereadersandwriters.com.

WINE & STORY: Lovers of libations and tellers of tales gather for an evening of good company. Shelburne Vineyard, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 985-8222.

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WED.21 business

FRANKLIN COUNTY YOUNG

PROFESSIONALS FINAL

BRAINSTORM: Young businesspeople strategize how a new professional development group can meet their needs. 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; cash bar; preregister. Info, 524-2444.

QUEEN CITY BUSINESS

NETWORKING INTERNATIONAL

GROUP: See WED.14.

UVM RISE SUMMIT:

Former senator Patrick Leahy is the keynote speaker at a conference focused on pressing problems in the state and around the country. Virtual options available. Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, rise@ uvm.edu.

environment

GREENSAVINGSMART PODCAST

CLUB: Audio media creators discuss environmental topics and network. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1417 ext. 112.

UNDER THE ARCTIC: DIGGING INTO PERMAFROST: See WED.14.

film

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

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.14.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.14.

‘NEWTOK’: See SUN.18.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.14.

‘WINGS OVER WATER 3D’: See WED.14.

food & drink

SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION: Discounted pints ring in the season

at a pet-friendly gathering. 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 3-9 p.m. Free. Info, 857-5318.

games

MAH-JONGG OPEN PLAY: See WED.14.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA: See WED.14. SEATED & STANDING YOGA: See WED.14.

language

IRISH LANGUAGE CLASS: See WED.14. SPANISH CONVERSATION: Fluent and beginner speakers brush up on their español with a discussion led by a Spanish teacher. Presented by Dorothy Alling Memorial Library. 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@damlvt.org.

lgbtq

‘BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER’: Megan meets an unashamed teen

FROM BATTLEFIELD TO MONUMENT:

A self-driving tour takes visitors on a scenic and historic drive. Bennington Battle Monument, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission $2-8; free for children under 6. Info, 828-3051.

randolph/royalton

NATURE PLAY: Kids explore the outdoors with science tools and a mud kitchen. Justin Morrill Homestead, Strafford, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 765-4288.

northeast kingdom

FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND: See SAT.17.

manchester/ bennington

FATHER’S DAY CAR SHOW: Automobile enthusiasts show off their wheels. Vermont Veterans’ Home, Bennington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 447-6510.

CARTOONING WORKSHOP: Ashley Jablonski of the Center for Cartoon Studies leads the first of two sessions on developing and drawing a story in graphic format. For kids 8 and up. Brookfield Old Town Hall, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 276-3103.

TUE.20

chittenden county

FAMILY STORY TIME: Familiar stories, songs and rhymes follow the themes

lesbian when her parents send her to a boot camp meant to alter her sexual orientation in this 1999 comedic film. Bellows Falls Opera House, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-313-0052.

THRIVE QTPOC MOVIE

NIGHT: Each month, Pride Center of Vermont virtually screens a movie centered on queer and trans people of color. 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, thrive@pridecentervt.org.

music

LARRY AND JOE: Two musicians celebrate their Venezuelan and North Carolinian roots in a latinbluegrass fusion. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Pay what you can. Info, 728-9878.

MAKE MUSIC DAY: Randolph businesses welcome live music performances as part of the worldwide one-day fête, with 16 gigs around the town. See @RandolphArts on Facebook for full schedule. Various Randolph

of friendship and community. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

MIDDLE SCHOOL MAKERS: Teens in grades 5 to 8 participate in arts and crafts activities. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

PLAYGROUP & FAMILY SUPPORT: Families with children under age 5 play and connect with others in the community. Winooski Memorial Library, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 655-6424.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Little ones enjoy a cozy session of reading, rhyming and singing. Birth through age 5. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

barre/montpelier

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: See THU.15.

locations, 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 431-6267.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES:

GIOVANINA BUCCI AND MICHAEL BREWSTER: Two singer-songwriters and acoustic guitarists share their love of blues and folk music in the fresh air. Burlington City Hall Park, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7554.

ZACH NUGENT UNCORKED: See WED.14.

seminars

SORTING THE NEWS FROM THE CHAFF: See WED.14, 7 p.m.

THE VALUE IN ADVICE:

Anyone seeking professional financial guidance learns to maximize their money in an online course. Hosted by New England Federal Credit Union. Noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 764-6940.

sports

GREEN MOUNTAIN TABLE

TENNIS CLUB: See WED.14.

VERMONT GREEN FC: See SAT.17. ➆

manchester/ bennington

STORY TIME: Youth librarian Carrie leads little tykes in stories and songs centered on a new theme every week. Birth through age 5. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 362-2607.

WED.21 burlington

STEAM SPACE: See WED.14.

chittenden county

LEGO BUILDERS: Aspiring architects enjoy an afternoon of imagination and play. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

FOMO?

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online: art

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

film

See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife

Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/ music.

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

= ONLINE EVENT

SUMMER CRAFTYTOWN: Kids create and take home craft projects. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

barre/montpelier

CHESS CLUB: See WED.14. upper

valley

PEABODY AFTERSCHOOL FUN FOR GRADES 1-4: See WED.14.

manchester/ bennington

MCL FILM CLUB: See WED.14. NEW MOMS’ GROUP: See WED.14. K

THE FOLLOWING CLASS LISTINGS ARE PAID ADVERTISEMENTS. ANNOUNCE YOUR CLASS FOR AS LITTLE AS $16.75/WEEK (INCLUDES SIX PHOTOS AND UNLIMITED DESCRIPTION ONLINE). SUBMIT YOUR CLASS AD AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTCLASS.

art

COLD WAX AND OIL PAINT CLASS

Participants will learn how to mix cold wax with oil paint, applying alternating layers of transparent and solid colors, mixing in textural elements, lines and mark-making joy.

Participants will leave with a set of note cards and a 5-by-7 original work ready for framing. Jun. 24, 1-4:30 p.m.; Jun. 27, 3:30-7 p.m.

Cost: $225/2 sessions. Location: Mad River Valley Arts, 5031 Main St. #2, Village Square, Waitsfield. Info: 802-496-6682, info@madriver valleyarts.org, madrivervalley arts.org

DAVIS STUDIO ART CLASSES:

Discover your happy place in one of our weekly classes. Making art boosts emotional well-being and brings joy to your life, especially when you connect with other art enthusiasts. Select the ongoing program that’s right for you. Now enrolling youths and adults for classes in drawing, painting and fused glass. Location: Davis Studio, 916 Shelburne Rd., S. Burlington. Info: 802-425-2700, davisstudiovt.com.

business

SOUTH BURLINGTON WOMEN

IN BUSINESS: FREE RESOURCE

EXPO: e event will start with open networking among attendees with provided refreshments, so be sure to bring those business cards! en we will sit down for a quick presentation from community leaders about free business resources available to you for continued success. Space is limited, so be sure to register today! u., Jun. 29, 9 a.m. Location: South Burlington Public Library, 180 Market St., S. Burlington. Info: sevendaystickets.com.

THE RETIREMENT DILEMMA: Come hear local experts on the complex topic of retirement financing. Turning retirement savings into a retirement lifestyle is a skill, and it’s easy enough to learn. Walk away with a deeper understanding of what you can do to secure your retirement plans and guarantee your needs are met! Tue., Jun. 13, 6 p.m. Location: e Board Room at the South Burlington Public Library, 180 Market St., S. Burlington. Info: erik@ckfinancialresources.com, sevendaystickets.com.

craft

BLOCKPRINTING BOTANICALS:

Carve botanicals to print onto paper and fabric. Join visual artist Jen Berger to learn the basics of carving linoleum. Bring your own four-by-six-inch image or make one in the group. Leave with your own reusable linoleum block, prints and the knowledge to make many more. Sat., Jun. 17, 11 a.m. Cost: $65. Location: Horsford Gardens & Nursery, 2111 Greenbush Rd., Charlotte. Info: attherootvt@gmail.com, sevendaystickets.com.

course, Fundamentals of Sewing. 32 hours of instruction and supported hands-on work time. 2 sessions for beginners: Mon.- u., Jul. 10-20, or Jul. 24- Aug. 3. Intermediate session Mon.- Fri., Aug. 7-11. Cost: $800/8 days.

Location: Continuing rED at Fourbital Factory, 750 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 802-487-6408, info@fourbitalfactory.com, fourbitalfactory.com/ workshops-training.

culinary

BRITISH BAKING WITH SUMMER FRUITS: Join our class to create two delicious summer desserts: Victoria sandwich cake with lemon curd and summer berry trifle. Mix ingredients, cook lemon curd and custard, assemble stunning desserts, impress guests! Each student takes home a personal trifle, and we sample the cakes together. Locally sourced ingredients. No baking experience needed. Note: Masking is optional. Sat., Jul. 15, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $60. Location: Richmond Community Kitchen, 13 Jolina Ct., Richmond. Info: 802434-3445, sevendaystickets.com.

COOKBOOK BAKING WORKSHOP:

‘FLOUR’ BY JOANNE CHANG: We’ll tackle a handful of recipes from the book family-style, sending everyone home with a full belly, something sweet to share and a copy of Flour by Joanne Chang. In order to order the books in time, registration closes early, so don’t wait too long to confirm your spot. Tue., Jun. 20, 6 p.m. Cost: $85. Location: Red Poppy Cakery, 1 Elm St., Waterbury Village Historic District. Info: 203400-0700, sevendaystickets.com.

CUPCAKES AND COLOR STREET:

Ladies’ night! We will decorate an assortment of four different cupcakes in different styles and then try out Color Street patented real nail polish strips with help from a pro. Guests will also be able to demo and purchase some other Color Street items.

Fri., Jul. 23, 6:30 p.m. Cost: $40. Location: Red Poppy Cakery, 1 Elm St., Waterbury Village Historic District. Info: 203-400-0700, sevendaystickets.com.

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE

gardening

FLOWER ARRANGING: Learn sustainable flower arranging! No foam used. Join us for a demo, create your own bowl arrangement with lush flowers and take it home. Limited space, so sign up early and bring a friend! Nibbles, refreshments and great memories included. Wed., Jul. 19, noon. Cost: $100. Location: Sterling Forest Lodge, 3791 Sterling Valley Rd., Stowe. Info: mothra6@earth link.net, sevendaystickets.com.

PLANT AND SIP: Join us for an evening greenhouse tour, light bites and BYOB! Learn about cut flowers and select a trio of pots to plant. Perfect for decks, patios or porches. Choose from premium flowers such as dahlias, sunflowers and more. Customize with a variety of colors. Come solo or bring a friend and meet fellow plant lovers! u., Jun. 8, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $115. Location: Snaps and Sunflowers, Cambridge. Info: 802-735-3328, sevendaystickets. com.

outdoors

BRAKING WORKSHOP: A handson workshop on (cable-actuated) brakes of all types! We will give a general overview of braking systems and how they work, how they wear and come out of tune, and how to fix them when they do. Helpful for mechanics of any ability level, from beginner to experts! u., Jun. 22, 6:30 p.m.

Cost: $30. Location: Old Spokes Home, 331 North Winooski Ave. Info: 802-863-4475, sevendays tickets.com.

SHIFTING WORKSHOP: Join us for a workshop on bicycle shifting systems, chains and gears. We’ll talk about the basic functions of your bicycle’s drivetrain, how it works and what to do when things aren’t working quite right.

u., Jun. 15, 6:30 p.m. Cost: $30.

Location: Old Spokes Home, 331 North Winooski Ave. Info: 802863-4475, sevendaystickets.com.

THE ONE-NIGHT STAND: A SINGLE EVENING COURSE IN

martial arts

AIKIDO: THE POWER OF HARMONY: Discover the dynamic, flowing martial art of aikido. Relax under pressure and cultivate core power, aerobic fitness and resiliency. Aikido emphasizes throws, joint locks and internal power. Circular movements teach how to blend with the attack. We offer inclusive classes and a safe space for all. Visitors should watch a class before joining. Beginners’ classes 4 days a week. Membership rates incl. unlimited classes. Contact us for info about membership rates for adults, youths & families. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Benjamin Pincus, 802951-8900, bpincus@ burlingtonaikido.org, burlingtonaikido.org.

music

BIKE CARE BASICS: Having a basic understanding of your bike and knowing how to care for it is empowering to both you and your ride. is workshop will help you stay safe, keep your bike running longer, and give you confidence in either getting what you need at the bike shop or figuring out how to deal with it on your own.

u., Jun. 27, 6:30 p.m. Cost: $50.

Location: Old Spokes Home, 331 North Winooski Ave. Info: 802863-4475, sevendaystickets.com.

language

LEARN TO SEW ON PINE

STREET!: Join us in Fourbital Factory’s new education center, Continuing rED, to learn sewing techniques. We’re offering sewing classes for beginning and intermediate sewists. e curriculum is inspired by Fourbital Factory’s professional in-house

CLASS: In this workshop, we will talk about what makes this great American classic so irresistible. You will then assemble and decorate your very own eight-slice version to take home and enjoy for the weekend. In addition, you will receive a copy of Janina’s recipe for this dessert following the class. u., Jun. 15, 6 p.m.

Cost: $10-45. Location: Red Poppy Cakery, 1 Elm St., Waterbury Village Historic District. Info: 203400-0700, sevendaystickets.com.

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE: e Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region is offering a new series of French classes for adults from beginner through advanced levels. Specific class offerings may be found at the Alliance Française website. Please contact Micheline Tremblay for more information. Jun. 5. Location: Alliance Française, Burlington. Info: education@aflcr.org.

UKULELE SHENANIGAN: Sing and play together! It’s a ukulele jukebox, and participants make up the set list as we go, drawing song titles from a list of 200-plus favorites. is live, online sing-/ play-along ukulele jam welcomes all levels. We’ll sprinkle in ukulele technique tips, learn new chords, laugh and raise the rafters in song. Wed., Jun. 7, 6:30 p.m.

Location: Online. Info: sevendays tickets.com.

Humane Society

Jamie

AGE/SEX: 5-year-old spayed female

ARRIVAL DATE: April 7, 2023

SUMMARY: Meet Jamie! This girl made her way to HSCC when her owners could no longer care for her. She’s settled in well at HSCC and is a big fan of spending time outside and eating lots of snackies. Jamie’s learned that cheese is just the greatest, snuggles are the best, and we bet she’ll just blossom in her new home! Stuffies, walkies and treaties required, of course!

DOGS/CATS/KIDS: Jamie has lived with another dog and did well. She can be dog-selective but may do well with a new dog if it’s the right match. Her history with cats is unknown. There were kids in Jamie’s previous home, but we don’t know what their interactions looked like.

Visit the Humane Society of Chittenden County at 142 Kindness Court, South Burlington, Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. or Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 862-0135 or visit hsccvt.org for more info.

$0 DOG ADOPTIONS!

There’s never been a better time to find your new best friend! Now through June 17, adoption fees for adult dogs (like Jamie here!) are completely waived – visit HSCC’s adoption center to learn more and meet our available dogs.

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CLASSIFIEDS

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FOR RENT

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SOUTH END APARTMENT

Burlington South End 1-BR studio, $1,100/ mo. Close to UVM & bus line. NS, refs. req. To incl. cable & partial bills. Call 802-658-2615.

HOUSEMATES

CENTRAL VT RENTFREE HOMESHARE

Share spacious home in Moretown w/ senior woman & dog seeking friendly presence, help w/ pet care & medication reminders, light housekeeping; meals would be great, but not necessary. Private BA. Compatible pets & outdoor smoking considered. Rent-free + utils. share. Contact 802-863-5625 or homesharevermont. org for application. Interview, refs., background checks req. EHO.

GREAT VIEWS IN THE VALLEY

Share gorgeous views in Waitsfi eld home w/ senior man seeking cooking &

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Contact 802-863-5625 or homesharevermont. org for application.

Interview, refs., background check req. EHO.

HOMESHARE IN THE ISLANDS!

Spacious living area in Grand Isle, 25 miles to Burlington, w/ garden space & lovely views!

Homeowner is a retired professional who enjoys reading & the outdoors.

W/D available. $550/ mo. + utils. share.

Contact 802-863-5625 or homesharevermont. org for application.

Interview, refs., background checks req. EHO.

HOUSING WANTED

LOOKING FOR HOMESHARE

Male, 72, looking for homeshare w/ woman 45-65 in Chittenden County. Rent negotiable. Contact homebase130@ gmail.com.

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FERRISBURGH LAND FOR SALE

6.8 treed & open acres. Incl. post & beam 26’x36’ barn, driveway, pond, septic design, electricity on-site. $140,000. 802-877-1529.

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3,900-sq.ft. warehouse w/ offi ce, loading dock, 10x10’ overhead door, 2-BA. Busy Route 7 Rutland location w/ plenty of parking. 3-phase power. Contact 802-775-9619.

OFFICE/RETAIL SPACE AT MAIN STREET LANDING on Burlington’s waterfront. Beautiful, healthy, affordable spaces for your business. Visit mainstreetlanding.com & click on space avail. Melinda, 864-7999.

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AUTO

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APPEAL FOR SOCIAL SECURITY

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SAVE YOUR HOME

Are you behind paying your mortgage? Denied a loan modifi cation? reatened with foreclosure? Call the Homeowner’s Relief Line now for help: 855-7213269. (AAN CAN)

HEALTH/ WELLNESS

CASH FOR CANCER PATIENTS

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MASSAGE THERAPY

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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 and similar Vermont statutes which make it illegal to advertise any preference, limitations, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, handicap, presence of minor children in the family or receipt of public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or a discrimination. The newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate, which is in violation of the law. Our

readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. Any home seeker who feels he or she has encountered discrimination should contact:

HUD Office of Fair Housing 10 Causeway St., Boston, MA 02222-1092 (617) 565-5309

— OR —

Vermont Human Rights Commission 14-16 Baldwin St. Montpelier, VT 05633-0633

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COVERED HOME REPAIRS

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HOME ORGANIZER/ DECLUTTERER

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NEED NEW FLOORING?

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SAVE YOUR ASH TREES

Save your ash trees from EAB before it’s too late! Free tree evaluation & estimate for systemic multiyear control. Contact 802-752-5596, ashtreemedic.com.

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PETS

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Even-tempered, intelligent. Avail. now at our home in Jericho. 1st shots & wormed. Both parents imported from Europe w/ European pedigrees. Both are on premises. $350. Contact 802-899-4582 or tim.nulty@gmail. com.

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Fine Art, Antiques, & Farm Equipment

Online Auction Closing

Wed., June 21 @ 10AM Cabot, VT Location

Preview: Tue., June 20 from 11-1

Spring has sprung ... so, time for a massage! See the online ad for more information. Contact pete_bellini@ protonmail.com.

PSYCHIC COUNSELING

Psychic counseling, channeling w/ Bernice Kelman, Underhill. 40+ years’ experience. Also energy healing, chakra balancing, Reiki, rebirthing, other lives, classes & more. 802-899-3542, kelman.b@juno.com.

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MISCELLANEOUS

BCI WALK-IN TUBS

Now on sale! Be 1 of the 1st 50 callers & save $1,500! Call 844-5140123 for a free in-home consultation. (AAN CAN)

Mountain View Snack Bar & 3BR/2BA Mfg. Home

Tues., June 27 @ 11AM

Register & Inspect from 10AM 3107 Vermont Rte. 15 E, Morrisville, VT

Berklee graduate w/30 years’ teaching experience offers lessons in guitar, music theory, music technology, ear training. Individualized, step-by-step approach. All ages, styles, levels. Rick Belford, 864-7195, rickbelford.com.

Woodworking Machinery, Manchester Center, VT

Thu., June 15 @ 10AM

Foreclosure: 1655’SF Home on 0.19± Acre, St. Albans, VT

Thu., June 15 @ 11AM

Public Auto Auction, Williston, VT

Simulcast Sat., June 17 @ 9AM

3BR/1.5 2,796± SF Colonial Home, Essex Junction, VT

Tue., June 20 @ 11AM

Public Auto Auction, Williston, VT

Simulcast Fri., June 23 @ 9AM

DIFFICULTY THIS WEEK: ★★★

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Legal Notices

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C0014-7 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111

Application 4C0014-7 from SHM Shelburne, LLC

14785 Preston Road, Suite 975, Dallas, TX 75254 was received on March 21, 2023, and deemed complete on June 2, 2023. The project specifically authorizes the after-the-fact demolition of the former boat storage building and of the Bruce Hill Yacht Sales building (FKA 4520 Harbor Road), in addition to the constructed impervious area that replaced the Bruce Hill Yacht Sales building, the after-the-fact construction of the replacement boat storage building, the construction of an outdoor boat storage rack, the construction of an underground stormwater treatment system on the eastern portion of the property, and the construction of an outdoor boat washing facility which will be regraded and paved to facilitate positive drainage to a proposed oil/water separator and pump station, which will send the wash water to an existing holding tank.

The project is located at 4584 Harbor Road in Shelburne, Vermont.

This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ ANR/Act250/Details.aspx?Num=4C0014-7).

No hearing will be held, and a permit will be issued unless, on or before June 28, 2023, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c) (1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb.vermont.gov/documents/

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party-status-petition-form, and email it to the District 4 Office at: NRB.Act250Essex@vermont. gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

For more information contact Kaitlin Hayes at the address or telephone number below.

Dated this June 8, 2023.

By: _/s/ Kaitlin Hayes

Kaitlin Hayes

District Coordinator

111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 (802) 622-4084

kaitlin.hayes@vermont.gov

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C019012B 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111

Application 4C0190-12B from Greenfield Capital, LLC, 35 Thompson Street, South Burlington, VT 05403 was received on May 8, 2023, and deemed complete on May 26, 2023. The project specifically authorizes signage and an updated lighting plan for a 3-story office building and warehouse with 400 parking spaces on a 20-acre parcel, previously authorized for construction in LUP 4C0190-12A. The project is located at 435 Community Dr in South Burlington, Vermont. This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/Act250/Details. aspx?Num=4C0190-12B).

No hearing will be held, and a permit will be issued unless, on or before June 26, 2023, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10

V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb. vermont.gov/documents/party-status-petitionform, and email it to the District 4 Office at: NRB. Act250Essex@vermont.gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

For more information contact Kaitlin Hayes at the address or telephone number below.

Dated June 6, 2023.

By: /s/ Kaitlin Hayes

Kaitlin Hayes

District Coordinator

111 West Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452 (802) 622-4084 kaitlin.hayes@vermont.gov

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C032917U-1 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111 Application 4C0329-17U-1 from Jim Ewing Property, Inc, 7 Ewing Place, Unit F, Essex Junction, VT 05452 was received on May 23, 2023, and deemed complete on June 6, 2023. The project is generally described as clearing of existing wooded Lot 6 for future development. The project is located at 6 Corporate Drive in Essex, Vermont. This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/Act250/ Details.aspx?Num=4C0329- 17U-1).

No hearing will be held, and a permit will be issued unless, on or before June 26, 2023, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10

V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb. vermont.gov/documents/party-status-petitionform, and email it to the District 4 Office at: NRB. Act250Essex@vermont.gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

For more information contact Stephanie H. Monaghan at the address or telephone number below.

Dated June 6, 2023.

By:/s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan

Stephanie H. Monaghan

District Coordinator

111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-261-1944

Stephanie.Monaghan@vermont.gov

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C060823D 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111

Application 4C0608-23D from Essex Rescue, Inc., c/o Peter Mutolo, 1 Educational Drive, Essex Junction, VT 05452 and Why Not, LLC, 16 Hagan Drive, Essex Junction, VT 05452 was received on May 4, 2023 and deemed complete on June 7, 2023. The permit specifically authorizes the after-thefact subdivision of a 125.07-acre parcel into two parcels, Parcel C and Parcel C-1 to be used for future commercial and/or residential uses. Parcel C will become 122-acres in size and Parcel C-1 will become 3.07-acres in size. There is no construction authorized on either Parcel C or Parcel C-1 without a subsequent permit amendment. The project is located at Essex Way & VT Route 289 in Essex, Town of, Vermont. This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/Act250/Details. aspx?Num=4C0608-23D).

No hearing will be held, and a permit will be issued unless, on or before June 29, 2023, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb. vermont.gov/documents/party-status-petitionform, and email it to the District 4 Office at: NRB. Act250Essex@vermont.gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

For more information contact Kaitlin Hayes at the address or telephone number below.

Dated June 9, 2023.

By: /s/ Kaitlin Hayes

Kaitlin

Hayes

District Coordinator

111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 (802) 622-4084 kaitlin.hayes@vermont.gov

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C1355 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111

Application 4C1355 from Vermont Commons School 75 Green Mountain Drive, So. Burlington, VT 05403 was received on May 15, 2023 and deemed complete on June 5, 2023. The project specifically authorizes the construction of an Outdoor Education Center for classes, research, long-term environmental studies, opportunities for students to learn environmental responsibility and stewardship, and recreation field for ultimate frisbee, soccer, sand-court volleyball. Facilities will include a 25-vehicle gravel-surface parking lot,

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an open-sided pavilion for shelter in inclement weather, a small equipment shed near the parking lot, two tent platforms, a shed for a composting toilet, and two portolets located near the parking lot with fenced screening. No electric power, septic, water, or overhead lights are included in this permit. The project is located at 2369 Spear St. in Charlotte, Vermont.

This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ ANR/Act250/Details.aspx?Num=4C1355).

No hearing will be held, and a permit will be issued unless, on or before June 27, 2023, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb. vermont.gov/documents/party-status-petitionform, and email it to the District 4 Office at: NRB. Act250Essex@vermont.gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

For more information contact Kaitlin Hayes at the address or telephone number below.

Dated June 7, 2023.

By: /s/ Kaitlin Hayes

Kaitlin Hayes

District Coordinator

111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 (802) 622-4084 kaitlin.hayes@vermont.gov

BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD

WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 2023, 5:00 PM

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

Remote Meeting

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83225696227?

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Webinar ID: 832 2569 6227

Passcode:

1. ZAP-23-7; 16 South Winooski Avenue (FD5, Ward 8E) Ronald McDonald House Charities / Kristine Bickford

Appeal of zoning administrative denial (ZPF-23-27) to replace existing fence with six-foot-high fence.

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.

The City of Burlington will not tolerate unlawful harassment or discrimination on the basis of political or religious affiliation, race, color, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, disability, HIV positive status, crime victim status or genetic information. The City is also committed to providing proper access to services, facilities, and employment opportunities. For accessibility information or alternative formats, please contact Human Resources Department at (802) 540-2505.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY SELF STORAGE

In accordance with VT Title 9 Commerce and Trade Chapter 098: Storage Units 3905. Enforcement of Lien, Champlain Valley Self Storage, LLC shall host a live auction of the following unit on or after 9am 6/23/23:

Location: 78 Lincoln St. Essex Junction, VT 05452

Samantha Ducharme, unit #146: household goods

Auction pre-registration is required, email info@ champlainvalleyselfstorage.com to register.

LISTER’S RECORDS OF

NOTICES POSTED

We hereby certify that the Notices to Taxpayers of the time and place of holding the Grievance Meeting for 2023 and in the form as set forth on the opposite page were signed by us this day duly posted in the Town Clerk’s Office and in four other public places in said Town of Colchester to wit:

Town Clerk’s Office - 781 Blakely Rd.

Dick Mazza’s General Store - West Lakeshore Dr. Colchester Post Office - Malletts Bay Ave. Burnham Memorial Library – Main St. Simon’s Quick Stop – 6387 Roosevelt Hwy

Dated at Colchester in the County of Chittenden this 2nd day of June 2023.

Geri Barrows

Charlotte Gardner

Angela MacDonald Listers of the Town of Colchester

NOTICE OF TAXPAYERS

Agreeably to the provisions of Title 32, Vermont Statues Annotated, Section 4111, notice is hereby given that the undersigned Listers within and for the Town of Colchester have this day completed the abstract of individual lists of persons, co-partnerships, associations and corporations owning taxable property in said town on the first day of April, 2023; that they have this day lodged the same in the office of the clerk of said town for the inspection of taxpayers; that on the 16th day of June, at 9:00 o’clock in the fore noon, the undersigned Listers, to hear grievances of person, co-partnerships, associations and corporations aggrieved by any of their appraisals or by the acts of such Listers, whose objections thereto in writing shall have been filed with them as prescribed by statute, and to make such corrections in said abstract as shall upon hearing or otherwise be determined by them; and that unless cause to the contrary be shown, the contents of said abstract will, for the year 2022 become the grand list of said town and of each person, co-partnership, association or corporation therein named.

Given under our hands at Colchester, in the County of Chittenden, this 2nd day of June 2023.

Geri Barrows

Charlotte Gardner

Angela MacDonald

Listers of the Town of Colchester

REID COMMONS CATHEDRAL SQUARE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SERVICES

Cathedral Square (CSC) is seeking proposals from qualified Construction Managers for both pre-construction and construction services for Reid Commons, a new affordable, independent living, 33 unit, senior housing project located in St. Albans, VT. Complete RFP details and all attachments can be obtained by contacting CSC’s project management consultant, Sue Cobb – scobb@ redbirdconsulting.net. Proposals are due on June 27, 2023 no later than 4 p.m. Cathedral Square is an equal opportunity employer. Women Owned, Minority Owned, Locally Owned and Section 3 Businesses are encouraged to apply.

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT

PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT

DOCKET NO.: 23-PR-01901

In re ESTATE of David Smith

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

To the creditors of: David Smith, late of Shelburne, VT

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first

publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: June 8, 2023

Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Sarah C. Y. Smith

Executor/Administrator: Sarah C. Y. Smith c/o Adam Bartsch PO Box 928, Shelburne VT 05482 802-985-8811 abartsch@neetlaw.com

Name of Publication: Seven Days

Publication Date: 6/14/2023

Name of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Probate Division Address of Probate Court: P.O. Box 511, Burlington, VT 05402

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 23-PR-02129

In re ESTATE of Jessica R. Kramer

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

To the creditors of: Jessica R. Kramer, late of Essex, VT

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

Dated: June 7, 2023

Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Jaimie Kramer

Executor/Administrator: Jaimie Kramer C/O Corey Wood, Esq. PO Box 174, Essex Junction, VT 05453 (802)879-6304 cwood@bpflegal.com

Name of Publication: Seven Days

Publication Date: 6/14/2023

Name of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Probate Division

Address of Probate Court: P.O. Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402-0511

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT

PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT

DOCKET NO.: 23-PR-02667

In re ESTATE of MICHAEL BURRAGE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

To the creditors of: MICHAEL BURRAGE, late of Alexandria, Virginia

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: June 7, 2023

Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Launa L. Slater

Executor/Administrator: Ann Burrage & Peter Burrage, c/o Launa L. Slater, Wiener & Slater, PLLC 110 Main Street, Suite 4F, Burlington, VT 05401 (802) 863-1836 launa@wsvtlaw.com

Name of Publication: Seven Days

Publication Date: 6/14/2023

Name of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Probate Division

Address of Probate Court: P.O. Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402-0511

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 23-PR-02984

In re ESTATE of Dorothy E. Saba

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

To the creditors of: Dorothy E. Saba, late of Burlington, Vermont.

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: June 8, 2023

Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Mark Saba

Executor/Administrator: Mark Saba c/o Glenn A. Jarrett, Jarrett | Hoyt 1795 Williston Rd, Suite 125 S. Burlington, VT 05403 802-864-5951 glenn@vtelaw.com

Name of Publication: Seven Days

Publication Date: 6/14/2023

Name of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Probate Division Address of Probate Court: P.O. Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402-0511

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WASHINGTON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 142-3-20 WNCV

HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR GSAA HOME EQUITY TRUST 2005-12, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-12 v.

ANDREW MONTROLL, ESQ., AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN E. ALEX AND VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF TAXES

OCCUPANTS OF: 4334 Vermont Route 1, Warren VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered December 21, 2021, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by John E. Alex and the late Mary Ann Clark to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., dated March 11, 2005 and recorded in Book 172 Page 702 of the land records of the Town of Warren, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. to HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for GSAA Home Equity Trust 2005-12, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-12 dated March 26, 2013 and recorded in Book 221 Page 520 of the land records of the Town of Warren for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 4334 Vermont Route 1, Warren, Vermont on August 17, 2022 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage,

To wit:

Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to John E. Alex and Mary Ann Clark by Warranty Deed of John Simko and Doreen Simko of even or approximate date herewith and to be recorded in the land records of the Town of Warren, Vermont.

Being all and the same lands and premises as were conveyed to John Simko and Doreen Simko by Warranty Deed of Russell C. LoGuidice dated November 28, 1977 and recorded December 6, 1977 in Book 46, pages 455-456 of the land records of the Town of Warren, Vermont.

Being all and the same lands and premises as were conveyed to Russell LoGuidice by Warranty Deed of Alvin J. Babcock and John M. Murphy dated October 3, 1972 and recorded October 18, 1972 in Book 36, pages 442-445 of the land records of the Town of Warren, Vermont.

Being lands and premises said to consist of approximately 2.3 acres of land with a residence thereon, located at 4334 Vermont Route 100 in Warren, Vermont, Said lands are, in fact, bisected by Vermont Route 100.

Legal Notices

Subject to and with the benefit of rights, restrictions, covenants, terms, rights-of-way and easements referenced in the above mentioned deeds and instruments and their records, or otherwise of record in the Town of Warren Land Records, and subject to terms and conditions of state and local land use regulations and any permits issued by any state or local authority under those regulations, which are valid and enforceable at law on the date of this deed - not meaning by such language to renew or reinstate any encumbrance which is otherwise barred by the provisions of Vermont law. Reference may be had to the above mentioned deeds and their records, and to all prior deeds and instruments and their records, for a more particular description of the herein conveyed lands and premises.

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

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

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

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : June 5, 2023

By:

/s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren

Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq.

Bendett and McHugh, PC

270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT

SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION

CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO: 23-CV-02074

In Re: Abandoned Mobile Home of Christopher Tilford (Deceased)

Notice of Auction Sale

Please take notice that the Auction Sale of the Abandoned Mobile Home of Christopher Tilford (Deceased) shall take place on June 22, 2023 at 11:00 A.M. at the location of the Mobile Home, 96 4th Street in Breezy Acres Mobile Home Park, Colchester, Vermont. The Mobile Home shall be conveyed to the highest bidder, in “AS IS” condition. Other terms to be announced at sale. Inquiries to Plaintiff’s counsel.

Dated this 9th day of June, 2023.

/s/ Steven J. Kantor, Esq.

Steven J. Kantor, Esq.

Doremus Kantor & Zullo

346 Shelburne Road, Suite 603

P.O. Box 445 Burlington, VT 05402-0445

(802) 863-9603

skantor@dkzlegal.com

Attorney for Plaintiff Breezy Acres Cooperative

VERMONT SELF STORAGE

THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 01-4118, Located at 28 Adams Drive Williston, VT, 05495 Will be sold on or about the 22nd of June 2023 to satisfy the debt of Jennifer Anderson. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

Support Groups

A CIRCLE OF PARENTS FOR MOTHERS OF COLOR

Please join our parent-led online support group designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes!

Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. We will be meeting weekly on Wed., 10-11 a.m. For more info or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@ pcavt.org, 802-498-0607, pcavt.org/ family-support-programs.

A CIRCLE OF PARENTS FOR SINGLE MOTHERS

Please join our parent-led online support group designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes!

Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. We will be meeting weekly on Fri., 10-11 a.m. For more info or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@pcavt.org, 802-498-0607, pcavt.org/ family-support-programs.

A CIRCLE OF PARENTS W/ LGBTQ+ CHILDREN

Please join our parent-led online support group designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes! Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. We will be meeting weekly on Mon., 10-11 a.m. For more info or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@pcavt.org, 802-498-0607, pcavt.org/ family-support-programs.

AL-ANON

For families & friends of alcoholics. Phone meetings, electronic meetings (Zoom) & an Al-Anon blog are avail. online at the Al-Anon website. For meeting info, go to vermontalanonalateen.org or call 866-972-5266.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

Do you have a drinking problem? AA meeting sites are now open, & online meetings are also avail. Call our hotline at 802-864-1212 or check for in-person or online meetings at burlingtonaa.org.

ALL ARTISTS SUPPORT GROUP

Are you a frustrated artist? Have you longed for a space to “play” & work? Let’s get together & see what we can do about this! Text anytime or call 802-777-6100.

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUPS

Support groups meet to provide assistance & info on Alzheimer’s disease & related dementias. They emphasize shared experiences, emotional support & coping techniques in care for a person living w/ Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. Meetings are free & open to the public. Families, caregivers & friends may attend. Please call in advance to confirm the date & time. The Williston Caregiver Support Group meets in person on the 2nd Tue. of every mo., 5-6:30 p.m., at the Dorothy Alling Memorial Library in Williston; this meeting also has a virtual option at the same time; contact support group facilitators Molly at dugan@cathedralsquare. org or Mindy at moondog@burlingtontelecom.net. The Middlebury Support Group for Individuals w/ Early Stage Dementia meets the 4th Tue. of each mo., 3 p.m., at the Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd., Middlebury; contact Daniel Hamilton, dhamilton@residenceottercreek.com or 802-9890097. The Shelburne Support Group for Individuals w/ Early Stage Dementia meets the 1st Mon. of every mo., 2-3 p.m., at the Residence at Shelburne Bay, 185 Pine Haven Shores, Shelburne; contact support group facilitator Lydia Raymond, lraymond@residenceshelburnebay.com. The Telephone Support Group meets the 2nd Tue. monthly, 4-5:30 p.m. Prereg. is req. (to receive dial-in codes for toll-free call). Please dial the Alzheimer’s Association’s 24-7 Helpline, 800-2723900, for more info. For questions or additional support group listings, call 800-272-3900.

ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS W/ DEBT?

Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous & Business Debtor’s Anonymous. Wed., 6:30-7:30 p.m., Methodist Church in the Rainbow Room at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington. Contact Jennifer, 917-568-6390.

BABY BUMPS SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS & PREGNANT WOMEN

Pregnancy can be a wonderful time of your life. But it can also be a time of stress often compounded by hormonal swings. If you are a pregnant woman, or have recently given birth & feel you need some help w/ managing emotional bumps in the road that can come w/ motherhood, please come to this free support group led by an experienced pediatric registered nurse. Held on the 2nd & 4th Tue. of every mo., 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Birthing Center, Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans. Info: Rhonda Desrochers, Franklin County Home Health Agency, 527-7531.

BETTER BREATHERS CLUB

American Lung Association support group for people w/ breathing issues, their loved ones or caregivers. Meets on the 1st Mon. of every mo., 11 a.m.-noon at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. For more info, call 802-776-5508.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP

Vermont Center for Independent Living offers virtual monthly meetings, held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury. It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment. To join, email Linda Meleady at lindam@vcil.org & ask to be put on the TBI mailing list. Info: 800-639-1522.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT

Montpelier daytime support group meets on the 3rd Thu. of every mo., at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:30-2:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1-2:30 p.m. Colchester evening support group meets on the 1st Wed. of every mo., at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m. White River Jct. meets on the 2nd Fri. of every mo., at Bugbee Senior Center from 3-4:30 p.m. Call our helpline at 877-856-1772.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP

The Champlain Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group will be held every 2nd Tue. of the mo., 6-7:45 p.m. via conference call. Newly diagnosed? Prostate cancer reoccurrence? General discussion & sharing among survivors & those beginning or rejoining the battle. Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS, ACNS-BC, 274-4990, vmary@aol.com.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY

Celebrate Recovery meetings are for anyone struggling w/ hurt, habits & hang-ups, which include everyone in some way. We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton, which meets every Fri. from 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us & discover how your life can start to change. Info: 893-0530, julie@mccartycreations.com.

CENTRAL VERMONT CELIAC SUPPORT GROUP

Last Thu. of every mo., 7:30 p.m. in Montpelier. Please contact Lisa Mase for location: lisa@harmonizecookery.com.

CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE

Cerebral Palsy Guidance is a very comprehensive informational website broadly covering the topic of cerebral palsy & associated medical conditions. Its mission is to provide the best possible info to parents of children living w/ the complex condition of cerebral palsy. cerebralpalsyguidance.com/ cerebral-palsy.

CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS

CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy & fulfilling relationships. By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new joy, acceptance & serenity in our lives. Meets Sun. at noon at the Turning Point Center, 179 S. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. Tom, 238-3587, coda. org.

THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP

The Compassionate Friends international support group for parents, siblings & families grieving the loss of a child meets every 4th Tue. of the mo., 7-9 p.m., at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 2 Cherry

St., Burlington. Call/email Alan at 802-233-0544, alanday88@gmail.com, or Claire at 802-448-3569.

DECLUTTERERS’ SUPPORT GROUP

Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming? Maybe 2 or 3 of us can get together to help each other simplify. 989-3234, 425-3612.

DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE!

SMART Recovery welcomes anyone, including family & friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction. It is a science-based program that encourages abstinence. Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership. Sun. at 5 p.m. The meeting has moved to Zoom: smartrecovery.zoom.us/j/92925275515. Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 399-8754. You can learn more at smartrecovery.org.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT

Steps to End Domestic Violence offers a weekly drop-in support group for female-identified survivors of intimate partner violence, including individuals who are experiencing or have been affected by domestic violence. The support group offers a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect w/ others, to heal & to recover. In support group, participants talk through their experiences & hear stories from others who have experienced abuse in their relationships. Support group is also a resource for those who are unsure of their next step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship. Tue., 6:30-8 p.m. Childcare is provided. Info: 658-1996.

FAMILY & FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS

This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends & community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety & other types of distress. The group is a confidential space where family & friends can discuss shared experiences & receive support in an environment free of judgment & stigma w/ a trained facilitator. Wed., 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586.

FAMILY RESTORED: SUPPORT GROUP FOR FRIENDS & FAMILIES OF ADDICTS & ALCOHOLICS

Wed., 6:30-8 p.m., Holy Family/St. Lawrence Parish, 4 Prospect St., Essex Jct. For further info, please visit thefamilyrestored.org or contact Lindsay Duford at 781-960-3965 or 12lindsaymarie@gmail. com.

FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP

Families Coping w/ Addiction (FCA) is an open community peer support group for adults (18+) struggling w/ the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. FCA is not 12-step-based but provides a forum for those living the family experience, in which to develop personal coping skills & to draw strength from one another. Our group meets every Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m., live in person in the conference room at the Turning Point Center of Chittenden County (179 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington), &/or via our parallel Zoom session to accommodate those who cannot attend in person. The Zoom link can be found on the Turning Point Center website (turningpointcentervt.org) using the “Family Support” tab (click on “What We Offer”). Any questions, please send by email to thdaub1@ gmail.com.

FIERCELY FLAT VT

A breast cancer support group for those who’ve had mastectomies. We are a casual online meeting group found on Facebook at Fiercely Flat VT. Info: stacy.m.burnett@gmail.com.

FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS (FA)

Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? FA is a free 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating or bulimia. Local meetings are held twice a week.: Mon., 4-5:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Norwich, Vt.; & Wed., 6:30-8 p.m., at Hanover Friends Meeting House, Hanover, N.H. For more info & a list of additional meetings throughout the U.S. & the world, call 603-630-1495 or visit foodaddicts.org.

G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING)

Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction? Find support, peer-led support group. Meets once a mo. on Mon. in Burlington. Please call for date & location. RSVP to mkeasler3@gmail.com or call 310-3301 (message says Optimum Health, but this is a private number).

GRIEF & LOSS SUPPORT GROUP

Sharing your sadness, finding your joy. Please join us as we learn more about our own grief & explore the things that can help us to heal. There is great power in sharing our experiences w/ others who know the pain of the loss of a loved one & healing is possible through the sharing. BAYADA Hospice’s local bereavement support coordinator will facilitate our weekly group through discussion & activities. Everyone from the community is welcome. 1st & last Wed. of every mo. at 4 p.m. via Zoom. To register, please contact bereavement program coordinator Max Crystal, mcrystal@bayada.com or 802-448-1610.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS

Meet every 2nd Mon., 6-7:30 p.m., & every 3rd Wed. from 10-11:30 a.m., at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to the public & free of charge. More info: Diana Moore, 224-2241.

GRIEVING A LOSS SUPPORT GROUP

A retired psychotherapist & an experienced life coach host a free meeting for those grieving the loss of a loved one. The group meets upstairs at All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne. There is no fee for attending, but donations are gladly accepted. Meetings are held twice a month, the first & third Sat. of every month from 10-11:30 a.m. If you are interested in attending, please register at allsoulsinterfaith.org. More information about the group leader at pamblairbooks.com.

HEARING VOICES SUPPORT GROUP

This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice-hearing experiences as real lived experiences that may happen to anyone at any time. We choose to share experiences, support & empathy. We validate anyone’s experience & stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest & accurate representation of their experience, & as being acceptable exactly as they are. Tue., 2-3 p.m. Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-777-8602, abby@pathwaysvermont.org.

HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT

Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107. People living w/ cancer & their caretakers convene for support.

INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/PAINFUL BLADDER

SUPPORT GROUP

Interstitial cystitis (IC) & painful bladder syndrome can result in recurring pelvic pain, pressure or discomfort in the bladder/pelvic region & urinary frequency/urgency. These are often misdiagnosed & mistreated as a chronic bladder infection. If you have been diagnosed or have these symptoms, you are not alone. For Vermont-based support group, email bladderpainvt@gmail.com or call 899-4151 for more info.

KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS

The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients, as well as caregivers, are provided w/ a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers. For further info, please contact info@ vcsn.net.

KINSHIP CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP

A support group for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. Led by a trained representative & facilitator. Meets on the 2nd Tue. of every mo., 6:30-7:45 p.m., at Milton Public Library. Free. For more info, call 802-893-4644 or email library@ miltonvt.gov. facebook.com/events/ 561452568022928.

LAUGHTER YOGA

Spontaneous, genuine laughter & gentle breathing for physical & emotional benefit. No yoga mat needed! This group is held every Mon., 2-3 p.m., at Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Contact Chris Nial for any questions: chrisn@pathwaysvermont.org

LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE

The SafeSpace Anti-Violence Program at Pride Center of Vermont offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship, dating, emotional &/or hate-violence. These groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share info, & offer & receive support. Support groups also provide survivors an opportunity to gain info on how to better cope w/ feelings & experiences that surface because of the trauma they have experienced. Please call SafeSpace at 863-0003 if you are interested in joining.

LIVING THROUGH LOSS

Gifford Medical Center is announcing the restart of its grief support group, Living Through Loss. The program is sponsored by the Gifford Volunteer Chaplaincy Program & will meet weekly on Fri., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., in Gifford’s Chun Chapel. Meetings will be facilitated by the Rev. Timothy Eberhardt, spiritual care coordinator, & Emily Pizzale MSW, LICSW, a Gifford social worker. Anyone who has experienced a significant loss over the last year or so is warmly invited to attend & should enter through the hospital’s main entrance wearing a mask on the way to the chapel. Meetings will be based on the belief that, while each of us is on a unique journey in life, we all need a safe place to pause, to tell our stories &, especially as we grieve, to receive the support & strength we need to continue along the way.

MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS

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

MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP

Area Myeloma Survivors, Families & Caregivers have come together to form a Multiple Myeloma Support Group. We provide emotional support, resources about treatment options, coping strategies & a support network by participating in the group experience w/ people who have been through similar situations. 3rd Tue. of every mo., 5-6 p.m., at the New Hope Lodge on East Ave. in Burlington. Info: Kay Cromie, 655-9136, kgcromey@ aol.com.

NAMI CONNECTION PEER SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS

Weekly virtual meetings. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, program@namivt.org or 800-639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living w/ mental health challenges.

NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP

Weekly virtual & in-person meetings. ASL interpreters avail. upon request. Family Support Group meetings are for family & friends of individuals living w/ mental illness. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, info@namivt.org or 800-639-6480.

NARCONON SUNCOAST DRUG & ALCOHOL REHABILITATION & EDUCATION

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

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS

is a group of recovering addicts who live without the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516 or cvana.org. Held in Burlington, Barre & St. Johnsbury.

NARCANON BURLINGTON GROUP

Group meets every Mon. at 7 p.m., at the Turning Point Center, 179 S. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. Info: Amanda H. 338-8106.

NEW (& EXPECTING) MAMAS & PAPAS! EVERY PRIMARY CAREGIVER TO A BABY!

The Children’s Room invites you to join our weekly drop-in support group. Come unwind & discuss your experiences & questions around infant care & development, self-care & postpartum healing, & community resources for families w/ babies. Tea & snacks provided. Thu., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Bring your babies! (Newborn through crawling stage.) Located in Thatcher Brook Primary School, 47 Stowe St., childrensroomonline.org. Contact childrens room@wwsu.org or 244-5605.

NORTHWEST VERMONT CANCER PRAYER & SUPPORT NETWORK

A meeting of cancer patients, survivors & family members intended to comfort & support those who are currently suffering from the disease. 2nd Thu. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 11 Church St., St. Albans. Info: stpaulum@myfairpoint.net. 2nd Wed. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., Winooski United Methodist Church, 24 W. Allen St., Winooski. Info: hovermann4@comcast. net.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA)

A 12-step program for people who identify as overeaters, compulsive eaters, food addicts, anorexics, bulimics, etc. No matter what your problem w/ food, we have a solution! All are welcome, meetings are open, & there are no dues or fees. See oavermont.org/meeting-list for the current meeting list, meeting format & more; or call 802-863-2655 anytime!

PONDERING GENDER & SEXUALITY

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

POTATO INTOLERANCE SUPPORT GROUP

Anyone coping w/ potato intolerance & interested in joining a support group, contact Jerry Fox, 48 Saybrook Rd., Essex Junction, VT 05452.

QUEER CARE GROUP

This support group is for adult family members & caregivers of queer &/or questioning youth. It is held on the 2nd Mon. of every mo., 6:30-8 p.m., at Outright Vermont, 241 N. Winooski Ave. This group is for adults only. For more info, email info@ outrightvt.org.

READY TO BE TOBACCO-FREE GROUPS

Join a free 4-5-week group workshop facilitated by our coaches, who are certified in tobacco treatment. We meet in a friendly, relaxed & virtual atmosphere. You may qualify for a free limited supply of nicotine replacement therapy. Info: call 802-847-7333 or email quittobaccoclass@ uvmhealth.org to get signed up, or visit myhealthyvt.org to learn more about upcoming workshops!

RECOVERING FROM RELIGION

Meets on the 2nd Tue. of every mo., 6-8 p.m., at Brownell Public Library, 6 Lincoln St., Essex Junction, unless there’s inclement weather or the date falls on a holiday. Attendees can remain anonymous if they so choose & are not required to tell their story if they do not wish to, but everyone will be welcome to do so. The primary focus of a Recovering From Religion support group is to provide ongoing & personal support to individuals as they let go of their religious beliefs. This transitional period is an ongoing process that can result in a range of emotions, as well as a ripple effect of consequences throughout an individual’s life. As such, the support meetings are safe & anonymous places to express these doubts, fears & experiences without biased feedback or proselytizing. We are here to help each other through this journey. Free.

REFUGE RECOVERY MEETING

Burlington Refuge Recovery is a Buddhist-oriented, nontheistic addiction recovery group that meets every Tue. at 6:45 p.m. at Turning Point Center, located at 179 S. Winooski Ave. in Burlington.

SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND

Support group meeting held on the 4th Tue. of every mo., 6:30-8:30 p.m., Williston Police Station. Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732.

SEX & LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS

12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem w/ sex or relationships? We can help. Info: Shawn, 660-2645. Visit slaafws.org or saa-recovery.org for meetings near you.

SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS, MONTPELIER

Do you have a problem w/ compulsive sexual behavior? A 12-step program has helped us. SAA Montpelier meets twice weekly at 6 p.m: Mon. virtual meeting, details at saatalk.info; Thu. face-to-face at Bethany Church, Montpelier. Details at saa-recovery. org. Contact saa.vtrecovery@gmail.com or call 802-322-3701.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT

HOPE Works offers free support groups to women, men & teens who are survivors of sexual violence. Groups are avail. for survivors at any stage of the healing process. Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our office at 864-0555, ext. 19, or email our victim advocate at advocate@sover. net.

SOCIAL ANXIETY SUPPORT GROUPS

For screened adults age 28-40. Therapist-led sessions. For more info, contact diane@ldtayeby. com.

STUTTERING SUPPORT GROUPS

If you’re a person who stutters, you are not alone!

Adults, teens & school-age kids who stutter, & their families are welcome to join 1 of our 3 free National Stuttering Association (NSA) stuttering support groups at UVM (join by Zoom or in person). Adults:

5:30-6:30 p.m., 1st & 3rd Tue. monthly; teens (ages 13-17): 5:30-6:30 p.m., 2nd Thu. monthly; school-age children (ages 8-12) & parents (meeting separately): 4:15-5:15 p.m., 2nd Thu. monthly. Pomeroy Hall (489 Main St., UVM campus). Info: nsachapters. org/burlington, burlingtonstutters@gmail.com, 656-0250. Go, Team Stuttering!

SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP

For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide. 6:30-8 p.m., on the 3rd Tue. of every mo. Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 N. Main St., Wallingford, 446-3577.

SUICIDE HOTLINES IN VT

Brattleboro, 257-7989; Montpelier (Washington County Mental Health Emergency Services), 2290591; Randolph (Clara Martin Center Emergency Service), 800-639-6360.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Circle (Washington Co. only). Please call 877-543-9498 for more info.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE

If you have lost someone to suicide & wish to have a safe place to talk, share & spend a little time w/ others who have had a similar experience, join us on the 3rd Thu. of every mo., 7-9 p.m., at the Faith Lighthouse Church, Route 105, Newport (105 Alderbrook). Please call before attending. Info: Mary Butler, 744-6284.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE: S. BURLINGTON

This group is for people experiencing the impact of the loss of a loved one to suicide. 1st Wed. of each mo., 6-7:30 p.m., at the Comfort Inn & Suites, 3 Dorset St., S. Burlington. Info: Heather Schleupner, 301-514-2445, raysoflifeyoga@gmail.com.

TOPS

Take Off Pounds Sensibly chapter meeting. Hedding United Methodist Church, Washington St., Barre. Wed., 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info, call David at 371-8929.

ATTENTION RECRUITERS:

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Are you looking for an innovative, dynamic, and collaborative place to work?

We are seeking a teacher for our rising fourth grade, a cheerful, enthusiastic group of children. Base salary of $42,000 plus additional increments for years of experience up to $72,000+. Employees also receive a benefit payment of $8,400 annually in lieu of health insurance and other benefits including a signing bonus for qualified candidates.

Marblestone Wealth at Ameriprise Financial

Join a dynamic financial planning practice in Colchester, VT.

Client service and administration will be the focus of this position. Full-time or part-time employment. Fun and engaging culture with great benefits.

Resume and cover letter to Jilene.x.guttenfelder@ampf.com

FOOD SERVICE WORKER

Full-time, Part-time and Per-Diem Opportunities available for Food Service Workers. We’re happy to o er a new hourly wage starting at $16.30/ hour. Shift di erentials up to $6.15 per hour.

Documentary Filmmaker

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School Nutrition Worker

Eden Central School

Eden Central School seeks someone who loves to cook for kids to join our school nutrition team. This position performs a wide range of cooking tasks to prepare student meals, cook from scratch and follow standardized recipes. Must be willing to attend trainings in child nutrition and take online trainings.

Minimum of a high school diploma, or equivalent, plus one to two years of cooking experience preferred, but can train the right individual. Familiarity with public school hot lunch programs desirable. Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds. School year position, 7.5 hrs daily. Send resume with 3 references to: Karyl Kent, 736 VT Rt 15w Hyde Park VT 05655 or email kkent@luhs18.org

Lake Champlain Access Television (LCATV) is seeking an independent, enthusiastic, and community-minded documentary filmmaker for the new fulltime position of Creative Content Producer. The Creative Content Producer will be responsible for establishing and maintaining community relationships that lead to the production of long and short-form video content. They will also work with other staff and board toward an eventual paid-production model. Applicants should have a track record of working with diverse individuals and groups and proficiency with current video production and post-production tools. This is an exempt position and salary will be commensurate with experience. It includes a comprehensive benefits package with health and dental coverage, paid time off, and an employer-matched retirement fund. Please send a résumé, link to an online demo reel, and cover letter by June 30, 2023. info@lcatv.org

Office Manager

Vermont Studio Center’s Office Manager is the first point of contact for the organization and the first job is to greet incoming and current residents, applicants, alumni, donors, and interested public as they contact VSC, offering friendly, effective interpersonal and written communication. The Office Manager manages phone and digital inquiries, US mail, Fed-Ex and UPS. In addition, they assist with the arrival of guests for the Development office, Finance office, and Executive Director’s office and perform general office duties as needed. This position is responsible for many clerical tasks to ensure that staff can communicate and work efficiently. The range of compensation for this position is $40-50K, as well as comprehensive employee benefits that include health, vision, and dental insurance; a 401K plan; and studio space on campus.

Full job ad:vermontstudiocenter.org/jobs-at-vsc

Learn More & Apply: uvmhealthnetworkcareers.org/ food-service_sevendays

OUTDOOR RECREATION GRANT MANAGER

This position will provide leadership, coordination and administration of outdoor recreation grants as part of the Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation (FPR), including professional-level communication and administration work with FPR’s federally-funded and state-funded recreation grant programs. The position will be part of a team providing critical funding for improving Vermont’s outdoor recreation opportunities. This position may have opportunities for supervision. Some travel will be necessary and options for telework are available.

Specific duties of the position will be focused on the following:

• Administer state & federally-funded outdoor recreation grant programs

• Serve as liaison for federal funding agencies,

• Collaborate with FPR business office and recreation program staff to efficiently and effectively oversee 50-75 active outdoor recreation grants at a time

• Support process improvement and communication within the outdoor recreation grants team & with internal and external partners

• Communicate grant process and requirements to potential grant applicants including municipal entities and non-profit organizations

• Communicate about the impacts of FPR’s outdoor recreation grant making in Vermont

• Represent recreation grants team at meetings and conferences

Apply online: careers.vermont.gov/job/Outdoor-Recreation-GrantManager/1037139900/

Athens Diner is now hiring.

FOH Manager: $20/hr plus tips.

Prep cook\Sous Chef

$18-$28/hr. Wed-Sun Servers

Send resume to info@athensdinervt.com

Youth Program Coordinator

VWW is seeking a Youth Program Coordinator to provide support for the day-to-day coordination and implementation of youth programming.

If you are inspired by our mission of promoting economic justice by advancing gender equity and supporting youth along their career journeys, visit bit.ly/3P5jROr to learn more and apply.

Housing Family Voucher Program Benefit Specialist

CVOEO’s Housing Advocacy Programs seek an energetic and committed individual with a high degree of initiative to join our team as the Housing Family Voucher Program Benefit Specialist. In this position you will conduct eligibility assessments, review subsidy applications for completeness, and ensure compliance with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Housing Opportunity Grant (HOP). The Family Housing Voucher Program is a rental assistance support program for families with dependent children experiencing homelessness across Vermont.

CVOEO offers a great working environment and an excellent benefit package including medical, dental and vision insurance, paid holidays, generous time off, a retirement plan and discounted gym membership. Please visit cvoeo.org/careers to submit cover letter, resume, and 3 work references.

Marketing Manager

Do you have a passion and drive to apply your talents to make a difference? Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity seeks a Marketing Manager to drive the organization's marketing strategy and promote critical aspects of GMHFH's work to targeted audiences

Responsibilities included developing and implementing all online (social, email, website, digital advertising) and offline (collateral, print ad, direct mail, TV, radio) marketing and communications campaigns, managing budgets and media buys, and adhering to HFHI brand guidelines

Successful candidates will have solid copywriting, graphic design, and photography skills and experience administering digital ad campaigns Candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply

Visit our website for full job description and details on how to apply. vermonthabitat.org/employment

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CAROLYN ZELLER Intervale Center, Burlington

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

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School Nutrition Worker

Johnson Elementary School seeks someone who loves to cook for kids to join our school nutrition team. This position performs a wide range of cooking tasks to prepare student meals, cook from scratch and follow standardized recipes. Must be willing to attend trainings in child nutrition and take online trainings.

Minimum of a high school diploma, or equivalent, plus one to two years of cooking experience preferred, but can train the right individual. Familiarity with public school hot lunch programs desirable. Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds. School year position, 7.5 hrs daily.

Please send resume with 3 references to:

Karyl Kent 736 VT Rt 15w, Hyde Park VT 05655 Or email kkent@luhs18.org

Case Manager (Multiple Positions Available)

AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP Program Director

Work at an organization that cares as much about you as the clients it serves! Our employees appreciate their health benefits, employer paid retirement plan contributions, flexibility, professional development opportunities and positive work environment.

We seek new team members who can empathize with others, are comfortable with computers, are strong communicators and are enthusiastic about growing as professionals. For more information, visit: cvcoa.org/employment.html

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86 Stormwater Coordinator/ Project Manager

ATTENTION RECRUITERS:

The Town of St. Albans seeks an engaging, collaborative, and dynamic person to serve as Stormwater Coordinator/ Project Manager. This person will provide leadership, regulatory oversight, budgetary oversight and technical guidance for stormwater management that focuses on quality, quantity, and management of public stormwater infrastructure and related GIS data. Responsible for oversight of stormwater capital improvement projects from development through construction. Conducts data collection, data management, and reporting as necessary to facilitate stormwater utility operations. Completes tasks necessary to maintain the Town’s compliance with MS4 and other permit requirements.

For detailed job description: stalbanstown.com. Expected salary to be in the $55K to $65K range, depending on experience. To apply, please send a cover letter, resume and three references to: Director of Public Works, P.O. Box 37, St. Albans Bay, VT, 05481 or by email to j.gray@stalbanstown.com Accepting applications until position is filled.

Join our Board of Directors!

The Vermont Association for Mental Health and Addiction Recovery is a mission-driven non-profit that trains and certifies the Recovery Coach workforce statewide. We provide leadership and expertise on mental health, addiction, trauma, and resilience policy issues. We facilitate education and advocacy that connects elected and appointed leaders, community-based organizations, advocates, and people utilizing services to create wellbeing and resilience in Vermont.

We are seeking 5-7 new members to join our visionary Board of Directors for a three-year term and help guide our work.

We are excited to cultivate a board reflecting multiple identities, cultural lenses, skill sets, and aspirations. We consider race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, personal life experience - especially with addiction/substance use disorder recovery and mental health challenges, as well as professional experience.

If interested in joining us please email or text a brief description of your interest and passion to director@recoveryvermont.org or 802-279-9069

Director, Center for Student Involvement

Director of Campus Housing & Community Living Assistant Coaches (Part-Time)

Women’s Lacrosse & Men’s Basketball

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

SUNY Plattsburgh is an AA/EEO/ADA/VEVRAA committed to excellence through diversity and supporting an inclusive environment for all.

SHARED LIVING PROVIDER

Open your home to someone with an intellectual disability or autism and open a whole world to them, and to you. Working with our team of professionals, you’ll help someone live a safe and fulfilling life at home and in the community. Both full and part time positions are available and include a generous sign on bonus and stipend, paid time off, comprehensive training and supports. The perfect match for you and your household awaits! Visit ccs-vt.org or contact Jennifer Wolcott: 802-6550511 ext. 118

ADMINISTRATIVE & SALES LEAD

We are seeking a trustworthy Administrative and Sales Lead to join our team at our local retail jewelry store. This position will be responsible for assisting with administrative tasks, sales, and repair intake. The ideal candidate will have excellent customer service skills, attention to detail, and be able to multi-task in an occasionally fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Greet customers and assist with sales and special orders

• Manage the repair intake process by creating repair orders and communicating with customers about the status of their repairs

• Assist with inventory management, including stocking and restocking merchandise

• Process customer payments and maintain accurate records of transactions

TOUR COORDINATORS

Travel is booming, and we are growing! Music Contact International, a group tour operator specializing in customized domestic and international performance travel, is seeking full-time Tour Coordinators.

Join our team, and be part of a community of dedicated, bright, and well-traveled professionals!

Salary range: 55-60k

For more details on the roles and application process, visit:

TOUR COORDINATOR: bit.ly/MCItourCoord

No phone calls, please.

Clean Water Program Director

Are you knowledgeable and passionate about clean water, climate resilience, and land conservation? The Clean Water Program Director leads VHCB's work with state and local partners to implement and grow water quality projects in the Memphremagog Basin to help achieve Vermont's clean water goals, with potential to further develop our climate resilience work. VHCB is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we strongly encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply. To learn more, visit vhcb.org/about-us/jobs. To apply, reply to: jobs@vhcb.org with your cover letter and resume.

• Answer phone calls and emails and respond to customer inquiries

• Perform administrative tasks, such as filing, data entry, and maintaining customer records

• Collaborate with team members to ensure a positive customer experience and meet sales goals

• Maintain a clean and organized store environment

Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent

• Minimum 2 years of previous sales and customer service experience preferred

• Strong attention to detail and ability to multitask Send resumes to: Info@shannonsofvermont.com

Community & Economic Development Specialist

The Town of Johnson, Vt. seeks self-motivated, self-directed, creative & energetic person to fill the position of Community and Economic Development Specialist. Exciting opportunity for part-time employment (24 hrs./wk.). Options for a flexible schedule & excellent (pro-rated) benefits package. Letter of interest and resume to Dhastings@townofjohnson.com Job Description and Community/ Position Profile: townofjohnson. com. We are an E.O.E. with a strong commitment to inclusivity.

Landscape Gardener

Mama’s Gardens is a garden maintenance and installation company working in Grand Isle County at homes both large and small. We have openings for gardeners/laborers for the 2023 season starting immediately and ending approximately November 3.

Duties include: Mulching, weeding, pruning, edging, digging, planting, watering and general garden maintenance. Prior experience working in the horticultural field is highly desirable. Knowledge of plant ID, weeding and deadheading practices is a plus. Applicants must be able to lift 50 lbs. Applicants must have reliable transportation. The ability to work independently as well as with others is key. Send resumes to: mamasgardens@gmail.com

JOB TRAINING. WELL DONE.

Join the Community Kitchen Academy!

Community Kitchen Academy (CKA) is a 9-week job training program featuring: Hands on learning, national ServSafe certification, job placement support and meaningful connections to community. Plus... the tuition is FREE and weekly stipends are provided for income eligible students!

At CKA you’ll learn from professional chefs in modern commercial kitchens and graduate with the skills and knowledge to build a career in food service, food systems and other related fields. Throughout the 9-week course, you’ll develop and apply new skills by preparing food that would otherwise be wasted. The food you cook is then distributed through food shelves and meal sites throughout the community. CKA is a program of the Vermont Foodbank, operated in partnership with Capstone Community Action in Barre and Feeding Chittenden in Burlington. Next sessions start July 17th in Burlington and August 7th in Barre.

APPLY ONLINE: vtfoodbank.org/cka

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Finance Professional

Responsible for maintaining the town’s cash accounts, investing town money, approving accounts payable, payroll, collecting and recording tax payments and fees. Play a critical fiduciary role in the town’s financial operations and record-keeping required under State law. Individual may be appointed as Town Treasurer. Successful applicants will have 3-5 years of financial administrative oversight experience, or a comparable knowledge base and skill set. Requires knowledge of fund accounting. Some weeknight meetings or weekend hours required. Experience with NEMRC municipal software is strongly preferred. Hourly pay based on experience. 10-20 hrs/wk. Details at starksborovt.org/employment

Please send cover letter and resume to Rebecca Elder at rebecca@starksborovt.org Applications accepted until position is filled. E.O.E.

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LEASING CONSULTANT

Property Management Company looking for an articulate, energetic people-person to join their team full-time. Some tasks included in position are conducting property tours, communicating with prospective renters, processing applications, providing extraordinary customer service, scheduling appointments, taking the lead on the marketing efforts and community outreach, planning resident events and administrative tasks. Must be able to multitask and thrive in a fast-paced environment. Strong sales aptitude and computer proficiency is required. The work schedule is Monday-Friday, 11am - 5pm. Candidate must be flexible and willing to work as needed. If interested, please e-mail resume to: dfinnigan@hallkeen.com

Housing Stewardship Coordinator

Put your creative and proactive problem solving skills to use supporting the sustainability and impact of Vermont’s network of community-based housing non-profits. Support our housing partners as effective stewards of permanently affordable housing to ensure long term performance of our housing investments. This position is open until filled; application closes no later than July 21, 2023.

VHCB is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we strongly encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply. To learn more, visit vhcb.org/about-us/jobs. To apply, reply to: jobs@vhcb.org with your cover letter and resume.

Events Coordinator

Onion River Outdoors is seeking an Events Coordinator to help us manage and build on our roster of well-loved community bike, run, ski, and snowshoe events. See the full job description on the About Us page of our website. This position averages about 20 hours/week but we would welcome a conversation with applicants who are interested in more hours.

Skills and aptitudes required for our Events Coordinator: Passion for outdoor pursuits, great communication skills, positive outlook, a love for organizing, and ability to keep lots of balls in the air. Bonus points for applicants who have event planning experience, a retail sales background, or who have taught outdoor activities. Some weekend and holiday hours are a given, but so is a fun workplace in an active community. Competitive wages, paid sick time, matched retirement plan, flexible schedule, and other benefits available. Send resume and cover email to outdoors@onionriver.com

DIRECTOR OF Employee Experience & Culture

Capstone Community Action is a leading social service agency in Central Vermont dedicated to lifting Vermonters out of poverty. At Capstone Community Action, our mission is to empower individuals with the tools and resources to move beyond poverty, and champion positive social change.

We are seeking a dynamic leader to develop, oversee and implement a comprehensive diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) strategy and serve as the subject matter expert and thought partner with leadership to align with the organization’s strategic objectives and goals.

The Director of Employee Experience and Culture will share our passion for lifting Vermonters out of poverty and understand that our success starts with the empowerment of our teams through organizational culture and experience. This position will oversee all Human Resource activities for the organization and champion the initiative to create and support an environment that demonstrates our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

To learn more about this position and to apply, please visit capstonevt.org/careers

Capstone Community Action is an E.O.E. and Provider. Applications from all genders, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and people from diverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

USPS JOB FAIR 8 New England Drive, Essex Junction, Vt.

Assistant Rural Carrier (ARC) $19.94

Centers for Wellbeing

Program Specialist Counselor

Our innovative public/private non-profit clinical and wellness agency has an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to collaborate with our team as we deliver innovative programs across the state.

Do you flourish when supporting Vermonters in need? Solving complex problems that need both teaming and collaboration? Building rapport with people who have significant barriers to employment? This position will provide assessment, planning and team building for Vermonters on the 3Squares benefit. It will also help them find and secure employment. We need a confident, consumer-focused, tech fluent person to join our team of counselors, program coordinators and workforce development partners. This position is primarily home-based. Master’s degree in psychology, or Social Work required, licensed as a LCMHC, LICSW, LMFT, or Psychologist preferred, experience with nonprofit work a plus.

If you thrive in collaborating with people at all levels with respect, then we want to talk with you. If you have questions about this position, email marca@investeap.org. Please apply at careers.vermont.gov/job-invite/46798/

We are a DEIA+-focused, equal opportunity employer that is committed to supporting our staff at work and home.

USPS JOB FAIR

City Carrier Assistant (CCA) $19.33

PTF City Carrier (PTF) $22.18

Mail Handler Assistant

Unable to make it, call Ashley, 802-872-2257 Ashley.L.Hamilton@usps.gov

Unable to make it, call Ashley, 802-872-2257 or email Ashley.L.Hamilton@usps.gov

www.usps.com/careers

Systems Administrator

PCC is a 40-year-old, Vermont-owned and operated software and services company. We specialize in practice management and EHR software and related services for pediatricians. We are seeking a Systems Administrator, which supports 250+ pediatric practices nationwide.

This systems administration position works on a PCC team that focuses on maintaining our clients’ servers and network infrastructure. The position is integral to a dedicated, client-focused technical services team and requires technical expertise coupled with exceptional customer service and communication skills.

PCC offices are a casual, but professional work environment located in Winooski, Vermont. We offer a competitive salary and fantastic benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time-off, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, a hybrid work environment, and numerous other perks.

Please visit pcc.com/careers for a full job description. To apply, email a cover letter and resume to jobs@pcc.com

AA/EOE

JOB DEVELOPER Rutland

The Job Developer will pro-vide support to new arrival refugees served by the USCRI Vermont in Rutland, VT achieve early self-sufficiency through employment. The position will be responsible for maintaining existing employer relation-ships and developing new employment opportunities by proactively networking with potential employers. including assisting clients in obtaining child care, trans-portation to the job, and in-formation regarding and re-ferral to other services that will help clients maintain employment. Multilingual candidates encouraged to apply. USCRI is a E.O.E.

Submit applications online: refugees.org

JUDICIAL ASSISTANTS

BURLINGTON

Looking to enter the legal world and make a difference? $20.00 per hour, permanent full-time positions. The Judicial branch of state government has multiple openings available. We offer a competitive rate with top-notch health, dental, paid time off and pension. The successful candidate has 2 years’ general office experience, be a team player, good communicator, able to use technology, organized, and seeking a prestigious and professional atmosphere.

For a more detailed description and how to apply: vermontjudiciary.org/employmentopportunities/staff-openings. E.O.E

Delivery driver [non-CDL] / Warehouse Assistant

Town Clerk & Town Treasurer

THE TOWN OF SAINT GEORGE is seeking to hire for two part-time positions: Town Clerk & Town Treasure. Saint George is the smallest town in acreage in Vermont and is sandwiched in between Williston, Shelburne & Hinesburg. With a population of a little more than 700, it has around 300 homes and businesses. It is a rural community filled with dynamic, proud, and wonderful people.

The open positions may be combined into one position for qualified candidates if desired. For more information, please see the job postings on the Town website: bit.ly/StGJobs Applications should be emailed to: jcolfsgselectboard@gmail.com with the name of the position(s) you are applying to in the subject line.

As we continue to grow as Vermont’s premier fine wine distributor, we are looking to bring on the right person for a dynamic delivery driver role to represent us in the field with our customers.

We're looking for a dependable team member who will enjoy a 4-day work week driving around the beautiful countryside of Vermont. As a team member at 802 Distributors, you can take pride in representing wines from all over the world and servicing our clients with strong interpersonal skills and a positive attitude. This opportunity is great for someone who seeks a balance of working face-to-face with clients and having time to themselves.

To succeed in this role, candidates will have at least some experience in the following:

• Delivery or work related driving experience (+1 year preferred)

• Customer service experience (+1 year preferred)

• Point of sales experience (any experience is helpful)

• Beverage industry experience (any experience is helpful)

• Working knowledge of Google maps (or equivalent app)

• Ability to lift at least 30 lbs regularly

Additional things that will only help:

• An interest in wine or the wine industry

• Knowledge of Vermont geography

• Enjoys listening to podcasts, audiobooks, scenic drives

• Tuesday - Friday, Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience

• CDL is NOT required. Full time. Apply at: 802Careers@gmail.com

School Nutrition Worker

Lamoille Union High School seeks a motivated individual to join our school nutrition team.

This position performs a wide range of cooking tasks to prepare student meals, cook from scratch and follow standardized recipes, comply with all state sanitation guideline requirements, and operate POS cash register system. Must be willing to attend trainings in child nutrition and take online trainings. Minimum of a high school diploma, or equivalent, plus one to two years of cooking experience preferred, but can train the right individual. Familiarity with public school hot lunch programs desirable. Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds. School year position, 7.5 hrs/day.

Please send resume with 3 references to:

Karyl Kent 736 VT Rt 15w, Hyde Park VT 05655 Or email kkent@luhs18.org

Lane Press prints, binds, and mails high-quality magazines for publishers nationwide. We’re widely known for our craftsmanship, and we’re looking for dedicated, collaborative, and friendly employees to join our team. Apply today!

WE HAVE IMMEDIATE NEEDS FOR:

Customer Success Manager: Lead a 4-person team of specialists who work with our customers to ensure their experience with Lane shines!

Mail Data Specialist: Be part of a 4-person team that services our customers’ needs. Prepare distribution estimates and process incoming customer mail files for production.

Prepress Specialist: Also a member of a 4-person team serving our customers. Receive, format, and process digital page files for print production.

Prepress Technician: Process customer job files for print production, including preflighting, imposition, and plate-making.

Pressroom Trainees, All Shifts: Learn to perform technical, manual, and machine tasks in our pressroom. Train under veteran press operators.*

Bindery Production Crew, All Shifts: Work on our bindery production line, performing tasks to complete magazine binding and prepare finished magazines for shipping.*

*Summer employment available in our pressroom & bindery!

COME FOR A TOUR!

After a brief phone interview, interested candidates are invited to tour our facility and see our operation firsthand! No better way to find your next career.

Lane offers competitive wages and comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees.

Learn more & apply: careers.lanepress.com

Lane Press is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

VERMONT STATE COURTS

SPORTS EXCHANGE COORDINATOR - For International NGO

PH International is seeking a full-time Sports Exchange Coordinator for the Sport for Social Change Program (SSC). Through the SSC Program, PH will coordinate multiple reciprocal international sports exchanges and manage a small grants program to support innovative participant initiatives. The program will include both in-person and virtual exchange components that will engage athletes, coaches, and sports administrators from around the world and the United States.

PH International (Project Harmony, Inc.) is an international non-profit with over 35 years of experience focusing on civic engagement, cross cultural learning & increased opportunities in the digital age. The U.S. headquarter office is located in Waitsfield, VT with field offices in Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Republic of Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro and Ukraine with projects implemented in countries across the globe.

FULL JOB DESCRIPTION & APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS AT ph-int.org/vacancies/.

Application deadline: July 1, 2023.

CO-RESIDENT MANAGER

DECKER TOWERS

Burlington Housing Authority (BHA) in Burlington, VT is seeking a Co-Resident Manager for our 160-unit apartment building community located at 230 St. Paul Street in Burlington. Our Resident Managers are on call after BHA regular business hours to attend to various resident requests, any site-based emergency, light maintenance, community room cleaning duties, and other duties as assigned. Resident Managers must live on-site and are given a free apartment with utilities included, as well as a monthly telecommunications stipend.

Candidates must meet the physical requirements of the position including moving in different positions to accomplish tasks, ascending or descending stairs, adjusting or moving objects up to 50 pounds, and repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands, and fingers. This position also works in outdoor weather conditions.

The Resident Manager schedule includes regular check ins and updates with the Property Manger each week, and other meetings and communication as needed. Basic computer skills, with the ability to use Word and email effectively, as well as ability to communicate through text messaging is required.

BHA serves a diverse population of residents and works with various local agencies and partners. To carry out our vision most effectively of delivering safe and affordable housing to all, we are committed to cultivating a staff that reflects varied lived experiences, viewpoints, and educational backgrounds. Therefore, we strongly encourage candidates from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals and women to apply. Multilingualism is a plus.

Please send a letter of interest to: humanresources@burlingtonhousing.org

Burlington Housing Authority - Human Resources

65 Main St, Suite 101, Burlington, VT 05401

Burlington Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Legal Office Coordinator

SRH Law PLLC (formerly Dunkiel Saunders) seeks a motivated and skilled Legal Office Coordinator to join our mission-driven law firm. The ideal candidate can work effectively as a team member with other professionals, can prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously, and has strong organizational and interpersonal skills. Candidates should be conversant with Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Acrobat, and be comfortable efficiently learning other cloud-based software and applications. Specific responsibilities of the position include providing front desk/ reception coverage, interacting with clients, facility management, scheduling, ensuring day-to-day office functioning, and general administrative support of attorneys and paralegals. Experience in office administration is strongly preferred.

SRH Law works with clients—including businesses, nonprofits, cooperatives, government entities, and individuals—who share our commitment to making a difference in their communities and the broader world. We take our inspiration from our clients’ good work and help them excel in their business or mission by resolving their legal issues with creativity and integrity, and we are looking for a team member to help us accomplish this important work. Competitive salary and benefits. 401(k) plan with employer match, dependent care account, employer-paid health insurance, free parking, paid vacation, and excellent work life balance. Interested persons should e-mail a letter of interest and resume to applications@srhlaw.com by June 23, 2023.

Planning & Zoning Administrator

The Town of Underhill seeks to hire a Planning & Zoning Administrator (PZA). The successful candidate will administer and enforce the Town of Underhill’s zoning and subdivision bylaws, as well as general planning functions. The PZA will work with the Development Review Board, and Planning Commission when necessary. Land use and zoning experience, the ability to read and interpret building and engineering plans, and the ability to effectively communicate zoning regulations and permit requirements to the public is required.

The individual must enjoy working in a small dynamic office, have knowledge of V S.A. 24 Chapter 117 and experience working with engineers, attorneys and land developers. This is a full-time position with benefits, 40 hours per week. Pay is commensurate with experience; range is 50-55K with competitive insurance and benefits package. Seeking to hire as soon as possible

Review the complete job description at underhillvt.gov.

Send cover letters, applications and resumes by Monday 6/26/2023 at 4:00 p.m. to:

Jennifer Silpe-Katz, PO BOX 120 Underhill, VT 05489

Or email: Jsilpe-katz@underhillvt.gov

Information Technology DIRECTOR

The City of South Burlington is looking for an innovative, strategic and dynamic proven leader to be our next IT Director. Oversee and lead all aspects of Information Technology for the City. Design and develop IT strategies and infrastructure, hardware and software, network operations and security, server maintenance and connectivity, help desk and customer service operations and project management. Administrative functions include budget and resource management. As a Department Head, this position is a member of the City Manager’s Leadership Team.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems or a related field, plus a minimum of five years’ experience in information technology leadership and administration, equivalency considered. Learn more about the position and see a detailed job description by visiting our website: southburlingtonvt.gov/

APPLY NOW: Review of applications will begin July 5, 2023. To apply, please email a SB City employment application form, cover letter, resume and three references to sbcityjobs@southburlingtonvt.gov with “IT Director” in the subject line.

CONTROLLER

SLANG Worldwide is seeking an experienced accountant to oversee the Milton Vermont Ceres team in the role of Controller. The ideal candidate will have proven industry experience as an accountant within a senior role. As a strong communicator and skilled financial analyst, you will make it your mission to streamline our financial reporting, budgeting, and payroll processes. You will produce thorough financial-status reports for senior management to help improve our operational efficiency and aid in our continued growth. You will qualify to apply if you have: a bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, or related field; 5+ years’ proven accounting experience as a senior-level accounting or finance manager; a working knowledge of regulatory standards (IFRS and US GAAP); a strong understanding of economic and banking processes; a strong working knowledge of detailed financial data analysis and exceptional Excel skills; an exemplary history of financial project management; experience with ERP software with a preference for SAP ByDesign; a working knowledge of federal, state, and local tax compliance regulations and reporting; and a working knowledge of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations and provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

To apply for this position and view full job description visit slangww.com/pages/work-at-slang

SLANG is an equal opportunity employer who celebrates diversity. Your gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, or skin color won’t make a difference here. If you’re smart and good at what you do, come as you are.

THERE IS NO BETTER TIME TO JOIN OUR 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 Commercial Credit Department as a Credit Analyst in our Chittenden County area.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES & REQUIREMENTS

The Credit Analyst evaluates the financial condition of commercial borrowers applying for credit with the bank. The successful candidate will have exceptional customer service and strong communication skills. We are looking for someone who is detail oriented in a fastpaced environment. A bachelor’s degree in business, finance or accounting, or five years’ related experience is required.

CREDIT ANALYST

CHITTENDEN COUNTY

BUILDERS | MAKERS | DOERS

OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH

BUILD your CAREER with the NSB Team! The average years of service for an NSB employee is above 9!

WHAT NSB CAN OFFER YOU

Competitive compensation based on experience. Well-rounded benefits package. Profit-Sharing opportunity. Excellent 401(k) matching retirement program. Commitment to professional development. Opportunities to volunteer and support our communities. Work-Life balance!

Please send an NSB Application & your resume in confidence to: Careers@nsbvt.com

Equal Opportunity Employer / Member FDIC

WHERE YOU AND YOUR WORK MATTER...

SENIOR ASBESTOS AND LEAD INSPECTOR – BURLINGTON

This position educates, advises, and enforces Vermont asbestos and lead control regulations to ensure safe work practices in buildings. This is a dynamic position that includes both desk and field work and collaborates with state and local building professionals. Inspects worksites, provides compliance assistance to contractors about health-protective work practices, investigates non-compliance, builds enforcement cases, and audits training courses. Training provided to the right candidate. For more information, contact Amy Danielson at amy.danielson@vermont.gov. Department: Health. Location: Burlington. Status: Full Time. Job Id #46435. Application Deadline: June 18, 2023.

PUBLIC HEALTH SPECIALIST II & III – BURLINGTON

The VT Department of Health seeks an energetic and driven public health professional to support our Heart Disease Program’s community and clinical partnerships, health equity initiatives, and federal CDC grant. It is located in the Division of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention and works with other chronic disease programs and Agency of Human Services partners. It is Burlington, VT based and will require some in-office hours and limited in-state travel. Please Note: this position is being recruited at multiple levels. if you would like to be considered for more than one level, you MUST apply to the specific Job Requisition. For more information, contact Nicole Hamlet at nicole.hamlet@vermont.gov.

Department: Health. Location: Burlington. Status: Limited Service. Job Id #47208 for level II or #47243 for level III. Application

Deadline: June 21, 2023.

The State of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity Employer

WHY NOT HAVE A JOB YOU LOVE?

With a benefit package that includes 29 paid days off in the first year, a comprehensive health insurance plan with your premium as low as $13 per month, up to $6,400 to go towards medical deductibles and copays, a retirement match, and so much more.

And that’s on top of working at one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont” for five years running.

Great opportunities from direct support to employment specialist at an award-winning agency serving Vermonters with intellectual disabilities. Both full and part time positions available and include a generous sign-on bonus. Make a career making a difference. Apply today at ccs-vt.org/current-openings

MSR - Member Service Representative - Vergennes & Essex

One Credit Union is currently seeking an experienced Full-Time MSR /Sr. MSR (Member Service Representative) to join our VT Team. The MSR/Sr. MSR will be the primary new account person for our members while also assisting the teller line as needed. As a sales coach, the MSR/Sr. MSR will help their teammates make quality referrals and demonstrate how listening to member cues and clues can result in opportunities.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• 2-3 years of experience in a sales environment with a solid track record (including cross selling).

• 2-3 years of banking or financial services experience.

• 1+ year(s) experience in cash handling position that involved customer service.

• Great interpersonal and communication (written and oral) skills.

• Ability to work branch hours.

• Strong TEAM player.

• Demonstrated organizational skills while managing multiple tasks.

• Well organized individual with time management and prioritization skills.

• Will be responsible for meeting individual sales and service goals.

• Processes consumer loan applications which may include application input, understanding credit, income & evaluation analysis, product and regulatory knowledge as well as loan closing.

• Advises members on how our products and services can meet their financial needs.

REQUIREMENTS/BENEFITS:

• High School Diploma or equivalent. Associate’s or B.S. in Business or related field desired.

• Wages commensurate with experience and skillsets.

• Benefits o ered: Health Care, HRA, FSA, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability, 401k plan, Holidays (11),

• Paid Time O (PTO).

Send resumes to: mray@onecu.org and indicate which location you are applying for.

IMMEDIATE OPENING

Full-time Physical Therapist

PT360, Vermont’s only Employee-owned Physical Therapy Cooperative, is looking to add to its ever-growing Physical Therapy team and have an immediate opening for full-time, out-patient, orthopedic physical therapists in our Burlington clinic. We offer an attractive benefit package that includes competitive wages, sign on bonuses, health benefits, continuing education, 401K matching, health club membership, vacation and personal time off, flexible schedules, parental leave policy, and ownership opportunities after two years.

PT360 provides comprehensive PT services in state-of-the-art facilities including Aquatic PT, Myofascial Release, Postural Restoration, Athletic Training Services, Sports and Orthopedic Medicine, post-rehab group fitness classes, corporate wellness, and much more. Come join our dynamic team and feel the cooperative difference.

Please send your resume to PT360, 426 Industrial Avenue, Suite 190 Williston, Vermont 05495. Or email Deborah@PT360coop.com

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Executive Director

Seeking Executive Director for one of Vermont’s most essential nonprofit organizations

The Wilson House of East Dorset VT seeks a dynamic, forward-thinking, energetic Executive Director to lead the continued upward trajectory of the organization on local, state, national, and international platforms. The Wilson House is the birthplace of Bill W., co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous and is a revered destination for people in recovery. The Executive Director will build on the successes of recent years through strong leadership, building relationships, supporting staff, and developing the financial resources needed to accomplish the priorities of the strategic plan.

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For more information and to see a full job description, please send a letter of interest & resume to wilsonhouseboard1@gmail.com

OPERATIONS SUPPORT:

Seeking full-time, year-round Operations Support person. The ideal candidate is an adaptable team player with a positive attitude who is willing to work both indoors and outdoors performing a variety of tasks associated with the logistics of operating the program.

Responsibilities: Tasks including food packing and rationing, gear outfitting, transportation and facilities maintenance. Candidates must be willing to work weekends and occasional evenings and are part of an on-call rotation.

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

The Director of Development (DoD) is responsible for planning, implementing, overseeing, and assessing Shelburne Museum’s fundraising plans in support of the organization’s strategic vision and growth. Reporting to the Museum Director and serving as a member of the senior leadership team, the DoD will be responsible for the museum’s annual fundraising, membership, and stewardship programs, currently achieving $2 million in contributed revenue annually, and will increase contributed revenue over the next five years based on the museum’s financial needs. The DoD will manage capital and endowment campaigns, including final elements of the 75th Anniversary campaign.

For more information, please visit ArtsConsulting.com/Employment

PLANNED GIVING MANAGER

Wake Robin is continuing to grow our teams! We are seeking a part-time Planned Giving Manager to join our community.

True North is a therapeutic program located in the beautiful Green Mountains of Waitsfield, Vermont. True North is a small, independently owned program, providing personalized therapeutic interventions and transition support for 14-17 year old adolescents and 18-25 year old young adults with an emphasis on assessment and family participation. This is an excellent opportunity to work for a nationally recognized therapeutic wilderness program, be part of a dynamic, supportive team and live and work in a fantastic community.

True North promotes an inclusive work environment. We seek to recruit diverse staff who will contribute a variety of perspectives in our mission to help young people and their families. We encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups including professionals of color and nonconforming gender identities. Salary is competitive, and commensurate with experience. All positions must pass background checks and a drug test. See each job description for responsibilities, qualifications, and compensation package. Apply here: truenorthwilderness.com/careers/ or use the QR code in this ad.

Qualifications: Clean and valid driver’s license is required.

Compensation: Salary is competitive, and commensurate with experience. Comprehensive benefits include health, dental, vision and accident insurance, an employee assistance program, an annual wellness fund, student loan repayment reimbursement and an employer matched SIMPLE IRA.

ADVENTURE COORDINATOR:

Seeking an Adventure Coordinator to facilitate day outings with students including hiking, water sports (canoeing, kayaking, and paddle boarding), backcountry cooking, yoga, disc golf, cross country skiing, and snowshoeing.

Responsibilities: Oversee and facilitate the adventure activities at True North. Adventure coordinator is a 5 day/ week role with some responsibility on weekends and “on-call.”

Qualifications: Candidates must be at least 21 years old. Bachelor degree preferred. WFA certification, competency and leadership skills in the listed activities, and the ability to facilitate meaningful and intentional experiences. Certifications in any of the listed disciplines is preferred.

Compensation: Salary is competitive, and commensurate with experience. Comprehensive benefits include health, dental, vision and accident insurance, an employee assistance program, an annual wellness fund, student loan repayment reimbursement and an employer matched SIMPLE IRA.

The Planned Giving Manager is responsible for developing, implementing and administering contribution opportunities and planned giving strategies for the Wake Robin community.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• At least 3 years of demonstrated experience, success, and progressive responsibility in fundraising.

• Exemplary communication, interpersonal, presentation and relationshipbuilding skills.

• Grant research and writing

• Embrace a collaborative and team approach.

• Comfortable using data and technology to track, evaluate and effectively utilize best practices.

• Manage confidential and complex information with tact and discretion.

• Knowledgeable in principles and techniques of fund solicitations or high-end financial management.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelor’s degree

PAY: Starts at $31.00/hour, may increase depending on experience.

SCHEDULE: Part-time (24-32 hours/week), with some flexibility on schedule.

PRESCHOOL DIRECTOR Bristol, VT

The Wren's Nest Forest Preschool Director will work full-time to play an integral role in the daily running of this program by working directly with students, collaborating and overseeing staff members, including student interns, AmeriCorps service members, and volunteers. They will also attend networking events, & keep the program in good standing with SPARQ and Vermont State licensing regulations. The Director will also assist in the design and build of the new school facility set to begin summer 2023 and complete fall 2024. Apply online: willowell.org/jobs

Fairfax DPW Openings: DPW Crew

info@willowell.org

The Town of Fairfax seeks to hire a full-time, year-round member for our Crew. Our team takes pride in maintaining the Town’s equipment, roads, and facilities and creating improvements where we can. The successful applicant will be a team player willing to do their best and learn along the way. Candidates are required to hold a VT Driver’s License, be able to respond to the Town Garage within 30 minutes of being called-in, successfully pass a background check, and participate in drug testing. A CDL and three years of related experience is preferred. Anticipated pay range is $20.10 to $24.54 per hour with pay commensurate with experience. The position is eligible for overtime.

Facilities Operator

The Town of Fairfax is seeking to fill the full-time position of Facilities Operator. This position maintains and repairs the Town’s facilities, water/sewer system, and roads. The successful applicant will be a team player willing to do their best and learn along the way. Candidates are required to hold a VT Driver’s License, be able to respond to Town facilities within 30 minutes of being called-in, successfully pass a background check, and participate in drug testing. Applicants should possess Class 3 Certification for Public Water System Operator and Domestic I for Pollution Abatement Facility Operator or have the ability to acquire within one year of hire. Training is available. Anticipated pay range is $22 to $24 per hour with pay commensurate with experience. The position is eligible for overtime.

Public Works Director

The Town of Fairfax is seeking to fill the position of Public Works Director. The Director oversees and plans for the Town’s water and sewer utility as well as its DPW Crew that maintains its roads, facilities, and parks. This is an exempt, o ce-based position with training available. Five years of related experience and/or training is required. A degree in engineering or closely related field from an accredited college or university is preferred but additional experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree. Anticipated (full-time) annual salary is $68,640 to $74,880 with pay commensurate with experience.

These positions have excellent benefits including VT Municipal Retirement and a competitive compensation package. To review the entire job descriptions and download applications visit the Town’s website at: fairfax-vt.gov/jobs

Mail your cover letter, application, and resume to: Town of Fairfax, Attn. Town Manager, 12 Buck Hollow Road, Fairfax, VT 05454. Postings will remain active until the positions are filled. The Town of Fairfax is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Supervisory Union

HUMAN RESOURCE COORDINATOR

Lamoille North Supervisory Union, located in Hyde Park, is seeking a Human Resource Coordinator. The Human Resource Coordinator will coordinate a team that will support the routine functions of the Human Resources (HR) department including, but not limited to personnel hiring and interviewing processes, communications with Board Committee(s), benefits functions, and leave management functions, FMLA and Worker’s Compensation. The Human Resource Coordinator will be materially involved with supporting the districtwide negotiations process as well as personnel recognitions and corrective actions as appropriate from time to time.

The Human Resource Coordinator will ensure the organization’s compliance with all local, State and Federal labor laws, regulations and reporting, including, but not limited to, compliance with the FLSA, ADA, EEO and FMLA. The Human Resource Coordinator will collaborate regularly with the Finance Coordinator and payroll accountant(s) to review inter-departmental systems and processes to facilitate the seamless flow of vital information back and forth as needed to ensure smooth workflow and the accuracy of personnel and financial data and reporting.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to act with integrity, professionalism, confidentiality and impartiality; will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills, as well as analytical and problem solving skills. The HR Coordinator will devote a high level of attention to detail, and be able to prioritize and delegate tasks as necessary.

Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite or related software, familiarity with database use and the ability to quickly learn the organization’s human resource information system(s) and talent management system(s) are a plus. Associate’s degree or equivalent related experience, preferably in Human Resources, BusinessAdministration, or related fields and a minimum of three years of human resource experience preferred.

This is a salaried, full-year position offering a generous benefits package. Salary is commensurate with experience & education. Interested candidates can apply on-line at schoolspring.com/ job.cfm?jid=3968040. Or submit a letter of interest, resume and three current reference letters to: Deborah Clark, Business Manager at dclark@lnsd.org

Lamoille North S.U., 96 Cricket Hill Road, Hyde Park, VT 05655

Equal Opportunity Employer

BUILDING OPERATIONS TECHNICIAN

Burlington Housing Authority (BHA) in Burlington, VT seeks a full time Building Operations Technician to join our dedicated team. This position performs general maintenance work in BHA owned and managed properties. This includes building exteriors, common areas, apartments, building systems, fixtures, and grounds. Our Building Operations Techs are required to participate in the oncall rotation, which covers night and weekend emergencies.

Qualified candidates should have a minimum of two years of work in general building maintenance or building trades. The ideal candidate would have a demonstrated proficiency in building trades including carpentry, electrical, painting, plumbing, grounds keeping, and snow removal.

Technicians must have a valid state motor vehicle operator license at all times. The physical activities for this position include squatting, ascending and descending ladders, scaffolding, and stairs, working in small or confined spaces, twisting and lifting up to 100 pounds, often repeating motions with wrists, fingers, and hands. This position works in all environmental conditions.

Technicians must be detail oriented, efficient, be able to work within time sensitive parameters, and able to work independently, as well as part of a team. Having strong interpersonal skills and being sensitive to the needs of the elderly, disabled, and very low-income households is a must.

BHA serves a diverse population of tenants and partners with a variety of community agencies. To most effectively carry out our vision of delivering safe and affordable housing to all, we are committed to cultivating a staff that reflects varied lived experiences, viewpoints, and educational histories. Therefore, we strongly encourage candidates from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, and women to apply. Multilingualism is a plus!

BHA offers a competitive salary, commensurate with qualifications and experience. Our robust benefit package includes premium medical insurance with a health reimbursement account, dental, vision, short and long term disability, 10% employer funded retirement plan, 457 retirement plan, accident insurance, life insurance, cancer and critical illness insurance.

We provide a generous time off policy including 12 days of paid time off and 12 days of sick time in the first year. In addition to the paid time off, BHA recognizes 13 (paid) holidays and offers 2 additional paid floating holidays.

If you are interested in this career opportunity, please submit a resume and cover letter to humanresources@burlingtonhousing.org

Burlington Housing Authority - Human Resources

65 Main St, Suite 101 Burlington, VT 05401

Burlington Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Summer Kick-Off Market & Party

THU., JUN. 15

UNION STATION, BURLINGTON

Strawberry Shortcake Class

THU., JUN. 15

RED POPPY CAKERY, WATERBURY

Indian Sub-Continental Cuisine Takeout

FRI., JUN. 16

TINY COMMUNITY KITCHEN, BURLINGTON

Dads, Diapers & Jokes: A Dad Guild Celebration

FRI., JUN. 16

BURLINGTON BEER COMPANY, BURLINGTON

Rebecca Turmel Band with Of Conscious Mind

FRI., JUN. 16

THE UNDERGROUND - LISTENING ROOM, RANDOLPH

Vermont Pro Wrestling Entertainment presents World of Hurt Wrestling

SAT., JUN. 17

O.N.E. COMMUNITY CENTER, BURLINGTON

Blockprinting Botanicals

SAT., JUN. 17

HORSFORD GARDENS & NURSERY, CHARLOTTE Roots

2023

SAT., JUN. 17

STRAWBERRY HILL FARM, STOWE

Ethiopian and Eritrean

Cuisine Takeout

SAT., JUN. 17

O.N.E. COMMUNITY CENTER, BURLINGTON

‘Flour’ by Joann Chang, Cook Book Baking Workshop

TUE., JUN. 20

RED POPPY CAKERY, WATERBURY

Living with Loss: A Gathering for the Grieving

WED., JUN. 21 ONLINE

Little Shop of Horrors:

Gala Night!

THU., JUN. 22

ISHAM FAMILY FARM, WILLISTON

Act 39, an original play by Rob Mermin

THU., JUN. 22

HAYBARN THEATRE AT GODDARD COLLEGE, PLAINFIELD

Vermont Renaissance Faire

SAT., JUN. 24 - SUN., JUN. 25

STOWE EVENTS FIELD, STOWE

VT Morgan

Heritage Days

FRI., JUN. 30 - SUN., JUL. 2

TUNBRIDGE FAIRGROUNDS, TUNBRIDGE

Cupcakes and Color Street

FRI., JUN. 23

RED POPPY CAKERY, WATERBURY

Chinese BBQ Pork Buns

SAT., JUN. 24

RICHMOND COMMUNITY KITCHEN, RICHMOND

Tenderbellies

SUN., JUN. 25

THE OLD ROUND CHURCH, RICHMOND

Baking FUNdamentals

Camp for the Young & Curious

MON., JUN. 26 - FRI., JUN. 30

RICHMOND COMMUNITY KITCHEN, RICHMOND

Artist Faculty Series: Opening Concert |

June 27

TUE., JUN. 27

ELLEY-LONG MUSIC CENTER, COLCHESTER

fun stuff

“Tell no one about this.”

CALCOKU & SUDOKU (P.XX) CROSSWORD (P.XX)

JEN SORENSEN

HARRY BLISS

WANT MORE FUN STUFF?

GEMINI

(MAY 21-JUN.20)

Among her many jobs, my triple Gemini friend Alicia has worked as a deep-sea rescue diver, an environmental activist, a singer in a band, a dog food taster, an art teacher for kids and a volunteer at a sleep lab researching the nature of dreams. Do I wonder if she would be wise to commit herself to one occupation? Not really. I respect her decision to honor her ever-shifting passions. But if there would ever come a time when she would experiment with a bit more stability and constancy, it may come during the next 11 months. You Geminis are scheduled to engage in deep ruminations about the undiscovered potentials of regularity, perseverance and commitment.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Aries-born Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Potato Eaters” shows five people in a dark room barely illuminated by lamplight. Seated around a small table, they use their hands to eat food they have grown themselves. Vincent wanted to convey the idea that they “dug the earth with the very hands they put into their bowls.” I don’t expect you to do anything quite so spectacularly earthy in the coming weeks, Aries, but I would love to see you get very up close and personal with nature. I’d also love to see you learn more about where the fundamental things in your life originate. Bonus points if you seek adventures to bolster your foundations and commune with your roots.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Renowned Mexican artist Diego Rivera emerged from his mother’s womb in 1886. But some observers suggest that Rivera’s soul was born in 1920: a pivotal time when he found his true calling as an artist. During a visit to Italy, as he gazed at the murals of 15th-century mural painters, “he found the inspiration for a new and revolutionary public art capable of furthering the ideals of the ongoing revolution in his native land,” in the words of art historian Linda Downs. I will be extra dramatic and speculate that you may have a comparable experience in the coming months, dear Taurus: a rebirth of your soul that awakens vigorous visions of what your future life can be.

CANCER (Jun. 21-Jul. 22): As religious sects go, the Shakers are the most benign. Since their origin in the 18th century, they have had as many women as men in leadership roles. They practice pacifism, disavow consumerism and don’t try to impose their principles on others. Their worship services feature dancing as well as singing. I’m not suggesting that you become a Shaker, Cancerian, but I do hope that in the coming months you will place a premium on associating with noble groups whose high ideals are closely aligned with your own. It’s time to build and nurture your best possible network.

LEO (Jul. 23-Aug. 22): For years, Mario A. Zacchini worked at a circus as a “human cannonball.” On thousands of occasions, he was shot out of a cannon at 90 miles per hour. “Flying isn’t the hard part,” he testified. “Landing in the net is.” His work might sound dangerous, but he lived to age 87. Let’s make Mario your role model for a while, Leo. I hope he will inspire you to be both adventurous and safe, daring but prudent. I trust you will seek exhilarating fun even as you insist on getting soft landings.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): One of my favorite astrology teachers, Stephen Arroyo, notes, “Most people have a strong opinion about astrology, usually quite extreme, even though 95 percent have never studied it whatsoever.” Of course, astrology is not the only subject about which people spout superficial ideas based on scant research.

Viral epidemiology is another example. Anyway, Virgo, I am asking you to work hard to avoid this behavior during the rest of 2023. Of all the zodiac signs, you have the greatest potential to express thoughtful ideas based on actual evidence. Be a role model for the rest of us! Show us what it means to have articulate, well-informed opinions.

LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): Meditation teacher Cheri Huber wrote a book called Be the Person You Want to Find. This would be an excellent title for your life story during the next 10 months. I hope you will soon ruminate on how to carry out such a quest. Here are two suggestions: 1) Make a list of qualities you yearn to experience in a dear ally and brainstorm about how to cultivate those qualities in yourself. 2) Name three highintegrity people you admire. Meditate on how you could be more like them in ways that are aligned with your life goals.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Now is a good time to take stock of how you have fared in the Dating and Mating Games through the years. Why? Because you are entering a new chapter of your personal Love Story. The next two years will bring rich opportunities to outgrow stale relationship patterns and derive rich benefits from novel lessons in intimacy. An excellent way to prepare is to meditate on the history of your togetherness. PS: The term “fate bait” refers to an influence that draws you toward the next turning point of your necessary destiny. Be alert for fate bait.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Sagittarian actor Samuel L. Jackson loves the color purple. He insists on it being featured in his films, and he often wears purple outfits. In Black Snake Moan, he plays a purple Gibson guitar. In the animated movie Turbo, he voices the role of a purple racing snail. In his Star Wars appearances, he wields a purple light saber. Now I am endorsing his obsession for your use. Why? First, it’s an excellent time to home in on exactly what you want and ask for exactly what you want. Second, now is a favorable phase to emphasize purple in your own adventures. Astrologers say purple is your ruling color. It stimulates your natural

affinity for abundance, expansiveness and openness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): People who understand the creative process say it’s often wise to stay mum about your in-progress work. You may diminish the potency of your projects if you blab about them while they’re still underway. I don’t think that’s true for all creative efforts. For example, if we collaborate with partners on an artistic project or business venture, we must communicate well with them. However, I do suspect the transformative efforts you are currently involved in will benefit from at least some secrecy for now. Cultivate the privacy necessary to usher your masterpiece to further ripeness.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Musician Frank Zappa (1940-1993) was a freaky rebel, iconoclastic weirdo and virtuoso experimenter. Everything normal and ordinary was boring to him. He aspired to transcend all categories. And yet he refrained from taking psychedelic drugs and urged his fans to do the same. He said, “We repudiate any substances, vehicles, or procedures which might reduce the body, mind, or spirit of an individual to a state of sub-awareness or insensitivity.” Zappa might have added that some substances temporarily have a pleasing effect but ultimately diminish the life force. In my estimation, Aquarius, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to reevaluate your relationship with influences that weaken the vitality of your body, mind or spirit. It will also be a favorable period to seek new modes of lasting liberation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): If you are at a festival or fair where you could win a lot of money by smashing watermelons with your head, I hope you won’t do it. Same if you imagine you could impress a potential lover by eating 25 eggs in three minutes: Please don’t. Likewise, I beg you not to let yourself be manipulated or abused by anyone for any reason. These days, it’s crucial not to believe you can succeed by doing things that would hurt or demean or diminish you. For the foreseeable future, you will be wise to show what you do best and express your highest values. That’s the most effective way to get what you want.

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HI, LYNN. MONTPELIER SHAW’S.

Hi. I wished I had asked if you were open to meeting for coffee or a drink. I’d love to continue our conversation. Steve. When: Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Where: Shaw’s, Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915772

HOTTY PATOTTY (OH SO NAUGHTY?)

Saw you sitting with a cute spotted dog and an eye patch. We made voluptuous eye contact that was borderline heretical. Meet for some Tony Danza and margs? When: Monday, May 15, 2023. Where: waterfront. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915771

HANNAFORD BY ESSEX OUTLETS

You were a cute male driving an Audi with your snow tires in the back seat. We chatted in the checkout line — waved to each other at least six times as we parted ways. Were you just super friendly, or were we flirting? If you see this, I would like to get to know you better. When: Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Where: Hannaford, Essex outlets. You: Man. Me: Man. #915770

BRAZIL NUTS?

We chatted about selenium and refrigerated Brazil nuts. I enjoyed our brief interaction (and your good looks). If you’re single and would like to see if we have anything else to chat about, drop me a line. When: Sunday, April 30, 2023. Where: City Market South End. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915769

CONVERTIBLE WAVES

You: upper middle-aged man with white locks driving a bomb-ass convertible. Me: middle-aged woman driving a different color, same make convertible going the opposite way. Your smile is contagious, and I appreciated the super enthusiastic wave. You’ve got a pretty fantastic ride, and mine makes me smile like a damn fool, too! When: Saturday, May 6, 2023. Where: Colchester. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915767

DON’T JERSEY CITY MARKET

We were walking into the market at the same time on Monday night. I told you how I liked your “Don’t Jersey Vermont” bumper sticker. You smiled; we talked; I almost fainted. We bumped into each other again, made another quick comment, but then we both kept walking. I fully regret not asking you for your name or number. When: Monday, May 1, 2023. Where: South End City Market. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915766

REZ IN WATERBURY, 4/30

You and your friend/relative left shortly after my group of six arrived; we caught each other’s eye more than once, and I had no clue how to stop you and introduce myself. Your eye contact convinced me you’re someone I was meant to know. Me: six feet tall, short-clipped beard, blue jacket, greenish shirt. Can I treat you to lunch somewhere? When: Sunday, April 30, 2023. Where: the Rez, Waterbury. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915765

HOW CAN I MISS YOU?

I stopped at Mac’s Quick Stop on South Main Street in St. Albans about eight months ago. You smiled really big and said “Hi!” in a really flirty way. You were about five foot eight, blond and gorgeous and were driving a white GMC work truck. I have found myself missing you like you are a part of me. What. e. Hell. When: Saturday, September 17, 2022. Where: St. Albans. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915764

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Wishing I’d had the nerve to ask you for your number. When: Saturday, April 29, 2023. Where: Waterfront Park.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915763

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Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

De Rev end,

I just found out that my wife of 23 years had a lot of undisclosed sexual partners before getting together with me. She claims she only told me about vaginal sex partners but failed to disclose other sexual acts with a number of other people prior to meeting me. Am I wrong to see her in a less favorable light and feel so betrayed?

Mr. Petty (MAN, 43)

FEMALE LIFTIE AT MORSE HIGHLANDS

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You: Woman. Me: Man. #915761

SHAW’S PARKING LOT

I saw you in the parking lot, and you helped me find my car (which was, like, 10 feet away from me). You were wearing a hat and had a lot of tattoos. I was wearing a blue shirt and a black skirt. You seemed cool. If you see this and want to hang out sometime, let me know. When: Friday, April 28, 2023. Where: Shaw’s parking lot. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915760

RECORD STORE DAY, MONTPELIER

We had an awkward interaction when you asked if I needed help finding anything. I was the guy with the short mullet and glasses. We kept making eye contact and smiling at each other after that. I asked you about the difference between the two copies of Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love. I bought the remastered version. When: Saturday, April 22, 2023. Where: Buch Spieler, Montpelier. You: Man. Me: Man. #915759

BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES

Dear woman, I viewed you from my window as you did your job at my neighbors’ last week. Always lovely to see you! Could we share burgers and beers on my back deck some pleasant evening? e past is behind us. Let’s choose friendship and peace instead. Always... When: Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Where: central Vermont. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #915758

DeMr. Petty,

Seriously? You’ve been married to this woman for more than half your life, and some dalliances that happened nearly a quarter of a century ago bother you? Come on now. I don’t know exactly what “sexual acts” you’re referring to, but even if they were full-on freaky-deaky, they’re ancient history. ey happened before you were together.

I’m not sure why this topic came up at this point in your relationship, but her “failure to disclose” might not have been intentional. Lord knows I can barely remember what happened last week, let alone two decades ago. Have you told her every little detail about your sexual escapades before you met her? Even if she wanted to keep some things about her past to herself until now, that’s her business.

VERMONT COMPOST

Did we have a moment of connection while you helped my dad and me load up compost into a red Tacoma last week, or was it just a beautiful spring day? If both, LMK. When: Tuesday, April 25, 2023. Where: Vermont Compost. You: Gender nonconformist. Me: Woman. #915757

CALEDONIA SPIRITS HOST, 4/14

I loved talking to you while trying the honey vodka. We were sharing housing ideas. You in Montpelier, me in Vergennes. I am kicking myself for not getting your number. Loved your glasses. Let me know if you want to share a hike and tea. Or, as you said, travel with someone. I thought there was a connection. When: Friday, April 14, 2023. Where: Caledonia Spirits distillery. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915756

APRIL 7, HG, THE MACHINE

We talked about Genesis, our love of hockey and, of course, Pink Floyd. We seamlessly called the songs. You wore a Canadiens cap. I had on a yellow dress. Trying to make it to public skate but have been ill. Can’t get your smile out of my mind. Had a wonderful time. When: Friday, April 7, 2023. Where: Higher Ground. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915755

‘AIR’ AT PALACE 9

You were watching Air on a Sunday evening. You were one of only three people there, including myself and my mom. I thought you were cute and would have started a conversation had I been alone. Did you like the movie? What brought you to the theater that night?

Let’s talk about it if you were interested, too. When: Sunday, April 16, 2023. Where: Palace 9. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915754

MANUAL TRANSMISSION

2004 CRV

What was I thinking?! I should have given you my contact info. LMK if you would like it. When: Sunday, April 16, 2023. Where: Champlain Farms on North Ave. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915753

HARRIET’S DAD, SOUTH BURLINGTON

Harriet was thirsty. Your smile, so warm. I am curious if you are single. If not, then your partner is super lucky. If yes, then perhaps we could take Harriet for a walk sometime? Please share when you respond why I had my vest on during a 80-plus-degree day so I know it’s you! When: Sunday, April 16, 2023. Where: South Burlington bike path. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915752

HOT AT HUNGER MOUNTAIN CO-OP 9:30 a.m. You: masc.-presenting, short dark hair, tattoos, black tank top, black suspenders, tan Carhartts. Me: masc.-presenting, brown hair, goatee, flowers and skulls outfit. Briefly made eye contact when you were looking at breads. Care for a spring fling? When: Sunday, April 16, 2023. Where: Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier. You: Man. Me: Genderqueer. #915751

BUMPER-STICKERED JEEP

I was jumping into my Jeep when traffic was stopped on Route 116 in Hinesburg. You rolled down your window and gave me a thumbs-up, saying you loved all my bumper stickers. I said thanks. e light turned green before I could ask if you were single. I am! You wore a suit and blue tie and drove a Volkswagen. When: Friday, April 14, 2023. Where: Route 116, Hinesburg. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915750

GORGEOUS SMILE OFF THE BELTLINE

Hi. Pulled up next to you at the intersection of North Ave. at the exit off the Beltline with my friend. Made eye contact with you, and you smiled at me, which made my night. Up for meeting up sometime to see how things go?

When: Saturday, April 15, 2023. Where: North Ave. intersection off the Beltline.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915749

CAPTIVATING EYES

Our paths crossed at the elevator. I think I caught you by surprise as I stepped out and you were stepping on. When our eyes met, it felt like maybe we knew each other. We probably don’t, but it would be nice to change that. Spy back if you can! When: ursday, April 6, 2023. Where: Bare VT elevator. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915748

MISSING THE PRETTIEST OPTICIAN

I’m missing the prettiest optician in Burlington. If you see this, please contact me by telegram. When: Friday, February 10, 2023. Where: Vision Center. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915747

JET-BLACK HAIR, PARKWAY DINER

You came in with a couple of friends and sat at the counter. I had just flown in and was sitting with my parents. We kept glancing at each other, and I thought you were cute AF, but I couldn’t really figure out how to say hi. Maybe we can go for a walk or something. When: Sunday, April 9, 2023. Where: Parkway Diner. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915746 effect

Clearly this has upset you, but that seems rather unreasonable. You need to figure out why this information has had such an effect on you. Perhaps it has stirred up some unresolved trust issues. Are you worried that there are things that happened during your time together that she hasn’t told you about? If that’s the case, the two of you should work it out.

In the big picture, your wife is exactly the same person she was before you found out about these long-lost partners. If you’ve had a good relationship thus far, it would be a shame to let something like this spoil it. You’re insanely lucky to have had so much time together. Find a way to let this go and move forward in an honest and loving way.

Good luck and God bless, The Rev

73-y/o male by myself with a nice country home on an interesting property in the central part of the state. Have very good financial security. Very healthy and trim and blessed with a lot of good energy. Enjoy home time, exploring out and about or traveling away. Would like to meet a fun-loving girlie-girl who might develop into a genuine connection. Have no children and both feet on the ground. Would enjoy seeing a good woman and maybe possible partner who likes to dress well and be a friend. Send me your phone number or a note and way to respond. #LL1671

I’m a 72 y/o M seeking a woman 70s-80s. I would love to experience sensuality with a mature woman in her 70s and 80s. Phone # please. #LL1674

ank you to the blond UVM nanny who aided me after crashing a car on Greenbush Road in Charlotte. You are the best! Stay true to yourself! Your folks would be proud. Would be great to buy you a creemee!

#LL1673

I’m a 60-y/o male seeking new friends for a massage swap. Northern central Vermont. Your story gets mine. Beginners welcome. #LL1672

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Sensual older couple enjoying life. Snowbirds (Florida), welltraveled, fit and fun. Seeking to meet others curious about alternative modes of sexuality. Meet up in BTV for a glass of wine and chat? #LL1670

I’m a very unique lady who likes to walk this beautiful Earth, garden, watch the birds and butterflies. I love music and a very good movie. I’m a true lover of a friend or partner, as well. I also look great for my age. I hope to meet a gentleman with the same likes as myself.

#L1668

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Man from Plattsburgh, N.Y., looking to find the right lady between 40 to 58 y/o. I’m an honest, caring person just looking to find my match. I am 5’7, 215 pounds, blue eyes. I work full time in law enforcement. Hope to meet the right lady. #L1666

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58-y/o male. Single, no children. Burlington area. Financially secure. Seeking a female, 45 to 60 y/o, single, any race, for companionship, long-term honest relationship, romance and love. I like conversations, going for walks, music and movies. I am very healthy and clean. No drugs or alcohol. Phone number, please. #L1663

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Discreet oral bottom. I’m a 54-y/o SWM, 5’8, slim, with dark hair, blue eyes. Seeking any well-hung 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. #L1660

I’m a horny, male senior who is cute, fit and fun. Seeking a female. #L1661

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I’m a man in my 60s seeking a woman, 50s to 60s. I am an active and caring male. Looking for a kind, friendly and curious woman to go hiking, have dinner with and play pickleball. #L1664

48-y/o bi-curious male seeks incredibly naughty characters. Exotic, smutty and taboo fantasies are more fun! Almost anything goes! Perverted tales and hot confessions? Kinky individuals with deviant desires? Yes, please! Be excited. All sexualities, totally inclusive. I think you’re wonderful. Please share your fantasies! #L1662 Do you find yourself smiling a lot? Are you a happy woman who would like a happy man? Strong, kind and understanding. Are you into hugs and kisses, health, hay rolling, 420, guitar, and song? Do you live with and help Mother Nature? A note with a postal address gets more info and a photo. #L1656

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