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THE PIT, PART II

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to Church Street,” developer Dave Farrington said. “There’s probably 600 or 700 people that will be living in phase one that can get directly to Church Street — to the shops and the restaurants and everything through what we know now as the main, street level of the existing mall.”

Once built, the new project and the original CityPlace development would include a combined 450 new housing units.

The updates come on the heels of other major CityPlace news. Late last month, CityPlace partners Farrington, Al Senecal and Scott Ireland announced that they’d bought out majority owner Don Sinex, who first proposed the project in 2014. The partners had reportedly grown frustrated with construction delays, especially as they face a key project deadline: If construction doesn’t start by September, they must bear the cost of the reconstruction of St. Paul and Pine streets instead of being reimbursed by the city’s tax increment financing funds.

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That’s how many gallons of maple syrup Vermont produced this year — a record high and nearly 50 percent more than in 2021.

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1. CityPlace Developers Unveil Plans for Former Mall, L.L.Bean” by Courtney Lamdin.

Restaurants, underground parking, an apartment complex and a hotel are said to be in store for the second phase of the longstalled plan.

2. “A Stowe Zip-Line Guide Was Killed When a $26 Piece of Equipment Failed. Will His Death Spur Change?” by Derek Brouwer. The rides can be thrilling but aren’t independently regulated.

Starting this year, the City of Burlington will observe Juneteenth — June 19 — as an official municipal holiday. Respect.

Construction hasn’t yet started on the long-stalled CityPlace Burlington project. But its owners say they are already planning the development’s second phase.

Last Thursday evening, the Wards 2 & 3 Neighborhood Planning Assembly got a sneak peek of plans for the buildings surrounding the infamous “pit,” including what remains of the former Burlington Town Center mall and the now-vacant L.L.Bean building.

Concepts show a four-story, 15-unit apartment complex fronting Church Street and a 12-story hotel with about 240 rooms. The hotel entrance would be on a section of St. Paul Street that was severed from the city grid by the former mall. Developers have agreed to rebuild parts of St. Paul and Pine streets as part of the main CityPlace project.

Drawings also show two restaurants — one on the first floor and another on the roof — plus underground parking for about 100 cars, ground-level retail spaces, and a pedestrian walkway connecting Church and St. Paul streets. “[The walkway is] a nice connection between phase one, which is what everybody calls ‘the pit’ ... to get people up

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THAT’S SO VERMONT

Most people who encounter the destructive spongy moth caterpillar see it as a terrible nuisance. The invasive insect with a voracious appetite — until recently known as the gypsy moth caterpillar — is defoliating oak and maple trees in Vermont for the second year in a row, leaving silken thread and chomped-up leaves in its wake.

Jenn Karson totally gets people’s disgust. Her property in Colchester has been hit hard by the caterpillars, too.

But Karson also sees the creepy crawlers’ presence as Damaged an opportunity to think deeply leaf data set about some pretty big topics:

the fine line between destruction and creation, the ephemeral nature of things, and how consumption contributes to environmental problems.

Like many Vermonters, Karson and her partner, landscape architect Ken Mills, were shocked when they first encountered the caterpillars late last spring. But Karson also found herself fascinated by the eatenaway forms they left behind. She started sharing the remnants of leaves with others and was struck by how people found hidden images in them, much like the psychological Rorschach test.

In the past year, Karson has accumulated more than 2,000 leaves. When she finds an interesting one, she spritzes it with water, flattens it on a cloth surface using a paintbrush, sandwiches it between cutout squares of parchment paper, then presses it under bricks or large books. She stores the leaves in her grandmother’s old hope chest.

Karson works at the University of Vermont as both an art department lecturer and director of the UVM FabLab, a place where students use digital fabrication tools like 3D printers and CNC milling machines to turn their ideas into inventions. With a grant from the university, she’s been able to pay undergraduate students to help her preserve and photograph the leaves. She’s writing a book proposal about the endeavor, and she’s also hoping that her work can aid scientists.

For Karson, the highlight of the project has been observing how — when confronted by the strange and unexpected shapes created by caterpillars — people find beauty and even humor in something that is, on its face, “really horrifying.”

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LIQUOR VERSUS BEER

I was disappointed that while “Vermont Legislature Expands Market for Readyto-Drink Spirits Beverages” [June 7] made reference to the beer industry’s opposition to H.730, it failed to include the industry’s statement on the legislation.

Liquor-based RTDs belong in liquor stores — not on grocery shelves with Vermont brewers. While Vermont legislators recognized that liquor is different from beer, H.730 was a massive handout to the liquor industry at the expense of Vermont taxpayers and brewers.

Relinquishing distribution rights and moving liquor-based RTDs out of Vermont’s state-run 802 liquor stores will drastically reduce state revenue and undermine the responsible drinking message that the beer industry has long supported. Vermont has a thriving local beer industry that was hit hard by the pandemic, and as local brewers recover, legislation like this puts the local industry at a disadvantage by giving a tax cut to out-of-state liquor companies.

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Davidson is director of public affairs for the Beer Institute, which represents the beer industry in the United States.

MISDEMEANOR IS NOT ENOUGH

[Re “Former St. Albans Cop Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Handcuffed Woman,” May 18]: It is disgusting and a total shame to hear that a former officer of St. Albans, Jason Lawton, was charged with a measly misdemeanor after assaulting a woman multiple times who had been handcuffed and doing what? Kicking a door. Maybe prompts were given to stop, but there was and is no need to get physical for a behavior that is minuscule.

I am a professional in the human services field. On a daily basis, I am confronted with aggression, both physical and verbal, as well as many other types of behavior that puts me and my colleagues in unsafe situations. What do I have in my tool belt to de-escalate a situation?

My words and the rapport I have with the client. If I were to respond to someone who was in my custody the way that Lawton responded, I would be charged with way more than a misdemeanor.

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in terms of ensuring that private security companies abide by their obligations, but in doing so this allows states to evade their own obligations to protect human rights.”

That Gray touts her record whitewashing mercenaries says much about her and the establishment supporting her.

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General’s Office. This is just playing into the unjust system that corrupt law enforcement officers get to take advantage of when they fail to do their duty: protect and serve. This system is failing. Assistant attorney general Paul Barkus, his team and the state are failing us.

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[Re From the Publisher: “Cover to Cover,” June 8]: Your use of the word “schizophrenic” as a skill is both inaccurate and insensitive and shows a serious ignorance of the serious mental illness afflicting approximately 1 percent of the population of the entire world. I have several family members who suffer from this mental illness, and it is not a skill.

Please consider assigning a reporter to research this illness and report accurately on it.

Phyllis Tarbell, RN BSN CROWN POINT, N.Y.

Editor’s note: We got a number of emails and Facebook comments last week questioning this word choice.

Merriam-Webster dictionary offers two definitions of schizophrenia: The first, medical definition details the mental illness; the second, lay definition is “contradictory or antagonistic qualities or attitudes” — precisely the meaning the writer sought to express.

We appreciate the feedback and will be more thoughtful about language related to mental illness in the future.

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[“In Vermont’s U.S. House Race, D.C. Insiders, Lobbyists Sign Up for Team Molly Gray,” May 18] states that Molly Gray is “the establishment pick” for Vermont’s lone congressional seat and that she’s raised “tens of thousands of dollars from federal lobbyists.”

The “establishment” knows something the article omitted: Gray’s website touts her work “with the U.S. government” in Iraq “to launch the International Code of Conduct Association; the first global initiative mandated to oversee compliance of private security contractors with human rights.”

That organization was so far on the wrong side of human rights that it was the subject of a 20-page report, “Mercenaries Unleashed,” by War on Want, a UK human rights organization, which wrote: “The [International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers and the International Code of Conduct Association] act as fig leaves for the [private military and security company] industry to legitimise its actions.”

Two scholarly articles amplify that point. One reports that the “human rights” organization and the so-called “code of conduct” Gray worked for were created for mere “rebranding” and “selfregulation” of the U.S. mercenaries: Their purposes were merely “to counter the negative perceptions” about the mercenary industry.

The other goes further, stating that the “self-regulation” enabled by the so-called code of conduct “lets states off the hook

[Re “The Next Stage,” June 1]: I’ve seen countless shows at the Flynn over the past 20-plus years. I’ve been hit up to donate or become a member about as many times, and I decline every time. Right here in one of the best live-music towns, the Flynn makes little effort to tap into that market or accommodate fans between the ages of 18 and 50, who would happily pay more money to dance and drink.

A reasonable bar program would make money and do wonders for the experience. Adults don’t like to wait 30 minutes in line and drink beer and wine out of sippy cups! The service model of pouring cans into plastic is outrageously inefficient and creates so much waste. The cleaning cost of the occasional spill on the precious upholstery is worth it. Selling cans of beer and wine (rather than taking the time to pour them in plastic that costs money and turns into waste) is such an obvious step to take — one the Flynn leadership could overhear from fans at every show if they listened.

Now, I know I’m getting a little footloose here, but they could even allow dancing — gasp! — and develop a flexible seating situation that allows removable chairs or standing room only for some shows. Right now, it seems to this livemusic fan that the Flynn’s board still thinks rock and roll is the devil’s music and drinking is sinful.

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RAISING HOMES

Life Lines Food + Drink Culture Art Music + Nightlife On Screen Calendar Classes Classifieds + Puzzles 97 Fun Stuff 100 Personals

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A farmers market vendor spins sweet success with cotton candy

Greek on the Grill

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From the Publisher

Raising Homes

The ’Gate That Started It All

Cellar Data

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‘The Ultimate Department Store’

It takes a village to grow housing.

How Vermont towns are trying to make it happen

Postmodern Pioneer

1960s Fluxus artist Nye Ffarrabas is celebrated at Brattleboro’s C.X. Silver Gallery

Popular Wake Robin tag sale returns after three-year hiatus

Eva Sollberger is on vacation this week.

It’s a great time to revisit her 500th episode, an award-winning rerun from 2017 in which Eva and a few familiar faces embark on a whirlwind musical adventure to discover the true meaning of being Stuck in Vermont.

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Book review: Watergate: A New History, Garrett M. Graff

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Comedian Chris Laker on bullies, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and podcasting with Jack Antonoff

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Outdoor Dance Floor Vermont Dance Alliance and Jeh Kulu Dance and Drum Theater come together at Plainfield’s Onion River Campground for Come Dance With Us!, an all-ages evening of movement and music in the great outdoors. Come for the pop-up performances and African dance workshops. Stay for the picnics, swimming and PYO blueberries.

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One Woman, Two Languages Acclaimed Vermont actor Abby Paige summons her French Canadian ancestors for her one-woman show at Montpelier’s Lost Nation Theater and asks them questions: What’s the deal with the queen? Is Céline Dion a witch? Les Filles du Quoi? is a comedic, bilingual exploration of family, heritage and the stories we tell each other. It plays through June 26.

Burlington’s second annual Juneteenth celebration is a love letter to Black culture, history and community.

Across three days and multiple locations, revelers attend live performances by musicians including KeruBo, Omega Jade and Myra Flynn; panels and poetry slams; and an address from none other than legendary activist Angela Davis (pictured).

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SATURDAY 18

Doggone Good Time Folks and their furry friends head up St. Johnsbury’s Dog Mountain for the pooch refuge’s Founders Celebration Dog Party. In honor of Stephen and Gwen Huneck, the couple who brought Dog Mountain into the world, canines run free while their people enjoy live music, tacos, lawn games, a bounce house and other summertime delights.

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Fruit by the Foot Early summer sure is sweet at the Middletown Springs Historical Society’s Strawberry Festival.

Hungry attendees eat their fill of shortcake, biscuits, lemonade and ice cream while local artisans sell honey, maple syrup, jewelry, knitwear and photographs. Live music soundtracks the afternoon, and the Historical Society museum is open to all.

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We’re Here Members of the local LGBTQ community meet up at Chaffee Art Center for the Rutland Plus Pride Celebration, a family-friendly festival honoring queer and trans art and joy. Local poet Bianca Amira Zanella leads an open mic, the BenAnna Band plays nonstop queer anthems, and the center overflows with games, crafts, bubbles and other fun.

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Urban Legend On display in the pub space at Burlington’s ArtsRiot is “Streetstyle,” a collection of works by Burlington mixed-media artist Kelly Holt. Inspired by the people and locales of European cities, Holt uses photographs, paper, paint, graphite and acrylic to create abstract odes to urban life and history.

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Seven Days gets printed north of Montréal at the Imprimerie Mirabel. The weekly ritual wraps in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, when a box truck laden with newspapers crosses the U.S.Canada border and rolls up to our loading dock at the south end of Burlington’s Battery Street.

This international arrangement has continued uninterrupted since 2018, through pandemic surges, protests and Gianmaria Borzillo and Giovanfrancesco Giannini in politics. For most of the past two “Save the last dance for me” years, Vermonters and Quebecers have been prohibited from visiting each other’s countries. More than once, I’ve imagined stowing away in the printer’s truck on its return trip to Canada.

These days, though, it’s much easier to travel north of the border. In the past three weeks, my significant other and I have driven twice to Montréal, which is in full summer-festival mode with outdoor stages, blocked-off streets, food trucks, and happy people of all ethnicities out and about.

There’s some required predeparture “paperwork” that at first seems daunting on the ArriveCAN website.

References to a “quarantine plan,” for example, no longer apply to fully vaccinated travelers, but you still have to provide a Canadian address — even if you’re just going up for the day. Uploading passport numbers, port of entry information and vaccination records is simpler.

The free process, which has to be initiated no more than 72 hours before entering Canada, generates a “receipt” with a QR code that you’re supposed to present at the border. All of that info is stored in your ArriveCAN account, expediting the process for future visits.

We had our paperwork ready for inspection both times we got to the north end of Interstate 89 — only to have the border agents shoo it away. Perhaps just scanning our passports provided the same info, but we sailed right through with no mention of COVID-19. Then, after a short stretch on historic Route 133, we hit the new highway that has trimmed travel time from Burlington to Montréal to one hour and 41 minutes.

On the first occasion, we were rushing to make an outdoor dance performance in a public park on the east end of town — part of Montréal’s ambitious 15-day Festival TransAmériques, featuring dance and theater works from around the world. Two men went from dancing cheek to cheek to more traditionally masculine moves in “Save the last dance for me,” Alessandro Sciarroni’s modern take on the polka chinata, a ritual dance once performed by young males in Bologna, Italy, that is now on the verge of extinction.

Near Place des Arts, in a relatively new performance complex devoted entirely to dance, we saw and loved “Les jolies choses,” by Québec choreographer Catherine Gaudet. Between shows, in the public square we watched a man in a glass tank adapt to rising water in which he slowly became totally submerged — a free, outside show that might have been about climate change or pandemic adaptations.

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he City of Burlington is keeping critical information technology equipment in the basement of Memorial Auditorium, a decrepit building that’s been vacant and considered unsafe for human occupancy since 2016.

If a flood, fire or vandal destroyed the equipment, it would disrupt city government and potentially create a technology blackout for thousands of businesses and residents. That’s because Burlington Telecom, once a city department and now a private company, also keeps critical network infrastructure in the graffitied Main Street relic.

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could take up to 18 months. Scot Barker, Burlington’s chief innovation officer, has requested $500,000 from the city’s unassigned fund balance to pay for it. The request is part of a fiscal year 2023 budget package being considered by the city council, which must adopt a plan by July 1.

“The physical security of these assets is threatened,” Barker wrote in a May 9 memo. “That threat grows greater as time passes.”

Despite its urgent tone, the memo hasn’t alarmed city leaders.

“You’ve shown more interest in this than any councilor has,” Mayor Miro Weinberger told this reporter during an interview on the subject. He also said the city has kept the equipment safe there for

six years, even as some parts of the building have continued to deteriorate. City councilors contacted by Seven Days either knew little about the situation or weren’t concerned about it because Memorial isn’t on the verge of collapse.

“This is a significant issue. It’s gonna take a bunch of work and effort,” Weinberger said. “I wouldn’t want to be overly alarmist about the current situation, but I think it is one that we can improve … and we’re taking steps to do that.”

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In her campaign for U.S. House, Vermont Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint (D-Windham) appears to have been using a frowned-upon tactic known as “red-boxing” on her website to attract attention from super PACs that might throw their weight — and money — behind her.

Campaigns are not allowed to coordinate with super PACs, which can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money. But increasingly, campaigns have created sections of their websites, usually using a red box as a signal, to alert super PACs to information the campaign would like to see used in an advertisement — without directly coordinating with them.

On Monday, the Balint campaign changed some signs of red-boxing on her website shortly before — and after — this story appeared online. The site previously had a red button (now orange) labeled “Learn More About Becca.”

Clicking on it takes users to another page that includes professionally shot photos of Balint in action: with her wife, meeting constituents, riding her motorcycle.

“Primary voters need to hear that Becca is the candidate in this race who has delivered and been a champion for rural Vermonters on the issues that matter to them most,” an all-caps message declares, above a list of key facts and talking points about Balint.

Saying “voters need to hear” can be code for super PACs to run radio ads, according to a story last month in the New York Times, which describes the red-boxing tactic under the headline “The Little Red Boxes Making a Mockery of Campaign Finance Laws.”

Seven Days sent the relevant part of Balint’s web page to the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan nonprofit. A spokesperson replied that “it does look like a case of red-boxing to us.”

A Balint campaign spokesperson, Natalie Silver, vehemently denied using the tactic.

“This is information that’s all over our site,” Silver said. “It’s all over our messaging. It’s very clear what the issues are in the race … There’s nothing secret about this page.”

The brazenness of the tactic is what makes it so effective — and technically legal, the Times reported.

Because the information is “publicly available internet materials,” the Federal Elections Commission has not stopped the practice or declared it illegal, despite past complaints, the newspaper reported. m

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t 8:59 a.m. on Saturday, Jim Wick SCENE AND HEARD IN opened the door of the commuVERMONT nity parking garage at Wake Robin, a high-end, hilltop retirement six checkout stations at the front of the community in Shelburne. The first shop- garage, which is big enough to hold around per had arrived at 6:30 a.m. By 6:45, a line 50 cars. Wilson moved to Wake Robin in had begun to form. Now cars were parked 1996, a few weeks before the community’s bumper-to-bumper along the road lead- first tag sale. She has volunteered at all of ing to the residences, and hundreds of them and watched the event steadily grow masked customers were over the years. flooding in, on the lookThe tag sale is “more out for cut-rate treasures. than a moneymaker for us,” They quickly transformed Wilson said as she enjoyed a the cavernous space into a few minutes of calm before bustling marketplace. customers flowed in. “It’s a J OAN ROBIN SON Wick, a Wake Robin resiwhole year’s project.” It’s also dent and floor manager of the commu- a testament to the community spirit at nity’s tag sale, clanged a bell. Volunteers Wake Robin, she said. clapped and cheered as a seemingly Organizers collect donations from unending stream of people, reusable Wake Robin residents throughout the shopping bags in hand, beelined it to year. Each of the dozen or so departrectangular folding tables overflowing ments — art, books, crafts and so on — has with art, jewelry, books and antiques. a captain in charge of pricing and storing After a three-year pandemic hiatus, the inventory as it comes in. the popular Wake Robin tag sale — an In the weeks before this year’s sale, 17 annual event that’s run for almost three teams of residents fanned out across Chitdecades — drew a throng once again. Both tenden and parts of Addison counties, residents and shoppers seemed happy to putting up flyers and roadside sandwich be back. boards advertising the event. More than Kit Wilson, wearing a blue apron bearing her first name, sat at one of the ‘THE ULTIMATE DEPARTMENT STORE’ » P.18

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Champlain Housing Trust is launching a program that will provide financial assistance to help BIPOC Vermonters become homeowners.

The program will enhance the trust’s shared equity housing program, which assists low-income home buyers by covering down payments of 20 to 30 percent of a home’s value. Under the new program, the trust will add $25,000 more for BIPOC home buyers. Recipients must take a home buyer education class and get a mortgage on their own from a lender.

The initiative is meant to address years of inequities that have resulted in a low homeownership rate for BIPOC people in Vermont and elsewhere, said Chris Donnelly, director of community relations for the Burlington-based nonprofit, which develops and manages affordable housing in northwestern Vermont.

“Our housing policy over the last 100 years has been racist,” Donnelly said, describing studies that show minorities have been blocked from homeownership through bias in long-standing lending programs and in real estate sales.

The Vermont legislature and activists have worked in recent years to address decades-old covenants tied to some housing development deeds that sought to restrict neighborhoods to white people only.

Vermont has one of the highest ownership gaps between Black and white residents in the U.S., according to a report published in April by the Vermont Housing Finance Agency. The report says 72 percent of white Vermont households own their home, while just 24 percent of Black households do.

Homeownership is a fundamental life goal that brings many people a sense of security and dignity, said Issouf Ouattara, a Champlain Housing Trust board member who lives with his family in a Colchester apartment he purchased in 2016 through the shared equity program.

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is also a primary means for people to accumulate wealth.

“At the end of the day, I will be getting something out of this,” Ouattara said. “This place is going to gain value.”

Nobody has purchased a home yet through the new program. But a buyer is lined up to do so in July, Donnelly said.

The program is modeled after tools called “special purpose credit programs” that are designed to expand economic opportunity for minority groups. They are legal under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, said Lisa Rice, who is president and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance, a nonprofit that seeks to address historical inequities in housing.

To develop the program, Champlain Housing Trust worked with an affordable housing policy group called Grounded Solutions Network, which is helping agencies around the country introduce special purpose credit programs.

“This legally allows a lender or a housing program to create a program that is specifically intended to benefit people who have been historically excluded or underserved in terms of mortgage and homeownership access,” said Tony Pickett, CEO of Grounded Solutions.

Under the trust’s original shared equity housing program, homeowners who have received mortgage assistance do not take that with them when they sell the home.

It stays with the house, which lowers the price for the next buyer. The homeowner does get to keep 25 percent of any appreciation on the home value when they move on.

Under the new program, the $25,000 given to BIPOC home buyers is a three-year forgivable loan. If they sell the house after that, they can take the money with them; they must return a portion if they sell sooner.

The trust is using a $3 million donation from the New England Federal Credit Union to support and administer the BIPOC homeownership program, Donnelly said. The donation covers all the program’s expenses for three years, he said. m

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once a central gathering space. It hosted college basketball games and big-name concerts in its heyday; Burlington City Arts was once headquartered there.

Years of deferred maintenance eventually caught up with the building. Steel beams are rusted through, the brick exterior is cracked and water-damaged, and the 50-year-old heating and cooling system is showing its age. But one of Memorial’s biggest deficiencies is the parapet, a protective wall around the roof’s perimeter. It’s in such poor repair that water has infiltrated the brick walls, causing officials to worry that the roof could cave in.

“That’s bad,” summed up Samantha Dunn, an assistant director in Burlington’s Community & Economic Development Office, which oversees Memorial. “Once that collapses, we don’t know what the domino effect would be.”

Memorial hosts the backbone of the city’s network, including routers, firewalls and other vital equipment needed to connect to the internet and ward off cyber threats. Burlington Telecom officials didn’t respond to multiple requests from Seven Days to discuss its equipment in the building, and city officials were reluctant to speak on BT’s behalf. Weinberger, though, did say the Memorial hub was the telecom’s “most significant” IT installation when the city sold BT. The equipment is at risk of damage from leaky pipes or the building’s own sprinkler system, which could go off should a fire break out, Barker said. And while the building is locked, security cameras there routinely show unauthorized people inside. Cyber threats are an obvious concern, particularly in light of last fall’s attack on the University of Vermont Medical Center, which paralyzed operations there for a month.

Barker himself isn’t allowed into the building alone because of its condition, and the city denied requests from Seven Days for a tour of the server room in the basement, citing cybersecurity concerns.

Brett Johnson, president of IT service provider simpleroute in South Burlington, said the city should have removed the equipment long ago. Not only is the vacant building structurally unsound, Johnson said, but the lack of security “is like having an open network port.”

“Could a bad actor ... go plug a laptop in and then do real harm to the city? That’s a real potential possibility, given the access that exists within that facility,” Johnson said. “You would very likely have access to sensitive resources.”

Weinberger acknowledged that the situation is not ideal.

“We have found it challenging to keep

the building fully secure while it’s unoccupied,” he said. “There is some greater risk than there would be in an occupied building that is contributing to the sense that it would be prudent to make a move.”

Weinberger said city officials discussed moving the IT equipment when Memorial closed in December 2016. But he said the city determined the building was generally safe for the few staffers who would need to access it.

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At the time, hopes were high that the city would soon repair the structure, abating the risk to the essential equipment downstairs.

In 2018, a community survey found support for renovating and reopening the building. The momentum carried into 2019, when a city request for proposals attracted a bid from South Burlington concert promoter Higher Ground to operate an event space there. In early 2020, the city was crafting a $15 million bond proposal to support the plan. Then the pandemic hit, shelving the project.

More bad news came in late 2021, when the Burlington School District announced it would need to build a new high school after detecting dangerous airborne chemicals in its current building. The amount needed to pay for that project means the city, which shares a debt limit with the school, won’t be able to bond for more money to repair Memorial in the near future, Weinberger said.

The city does have $1 million in capital funds reserved for Memorial, which voters approved in March as part of a $10 million bond. The money will be used to shore up

Ad paid for by BHAKTA Spirits the roof, replace structural beams and install a new heating system to keep the building from deteriorating. But it won’t pay to relocate the network hub. Even an eventual renovation of the building, and the disruption and dust that come with it, could pose a risk to the equipment, Weinberger noted.

The $500,000 request in the fiscal year 2023 budget would pay to relocate the equipment and replace some aging hardware, including servers that are more than 15 years old. The expense is one slice of a proposed $2.4 million drawdown from the reserve fund, which currently has a balance of $10.3 million.

The city will also likely have to pay for Burlington Telecom to vacate Memorial.

When the BT sale was finalized in 2019, the city signed a lease allowing the telecom to continue using the server room in Memorial through March 2024. BT can renew the lease for two more five-year periods.

But if the city broke the lease, it would be responsible for paying some of BT’s moving expenses. With between 18 and 24 months’ notice, the city would have to pony up $800,000; with 30 months or more, $600,000. If the telecom ended the lease, however, the city would be off the hook.

The cost, though, is already covered: Weinberger earmarked $800,000 of the $30.8 million proceeds from the sale to Schurz for the move.

The equipment might have been moved by now if another entity had won the bid for BT. Keep BT Local had agreed to pay the relocation costs. Torontobased Tucows didn’t but vowed to move the equipment within 18 months of a sale. Schurz, the current owner, made no such promises.

The mayor acknowledged that it may seem like the city got a raw deal by agreeing to pay for BT’s move. But he said the city was smart to cap its liability at $800,000, since the move will likely cost much more.

“We agreed upon a reasonable price, and we were able to reserve for it because we planned for this,” he said.

“I think it was fair to all parties the way we handled it.”

At this point, BT’s plans are unclear.

Barker said he’s had initial discussions with the company but isn’t sure whether it will choose to vacate or when. Weinberger added that company officials have never raised concerns with the city about storing their critical infrastructure in a failing building.

The city, though, can’t afford to wait.

“The risk is too high,” said Johnson, the IT security professional. “Given enough time, the risk compounds, and it becomes guaranteed.” m

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THE WHISKEY EXORCISM PT. I he power of Christ compelled him—and the daemon within provided detailed directions leading to a hidden cache of Armagnac brandy which Headmaster of Griswold (H.O.G.) Raj Peter Bhakta has promised to pour at a supernatural discount for all townsfolk troubled by this latest disturbance of the peace.

To wit, Sunday’s exorcism of a bewitched local schoolchild has resulted in the discovery of an ancient collection of Armagnac deep within the subcellar of a local Gothic tomb; after dispatching the imps within, Mr. Bhakta, acting under the protection of his priest Father Stanley, set about rolling the barrels back to Griswold Library for a thorough blessing in advance of public consumption.

The possessed schoolchild, ten-year-old Eli Wiggins of Church Street, has been completely cured of his bedevilment

by Father Stanley. The lad has returned to his studies at the Green Mountain Community School and claims no memory of the traumatic event.

But allow me to return to the exposition. When a correspondence alleging a case of malevolent possession first crossed my desk in Griswold Library, I thought it nothing more than a fanciful prank. But as the stack of mysterious letters began to grow, so too did the unquiet of my mind—and I took it upon myself to make a housecall at the return address, a certain 13 Church Street. Suspecting the usual waylay by the goons of Raff Bezaleel Jr.—the self-proclaimed “Apple Brandy Baron of Richville” and noted nemesis of H.O.G. Bhakta—I naturally arrived equipped with my revolver.

I sounded the knocker upon the Wiggins homestead and was ushered in by the bedeviled boy’s mother, who directed me to the lad’s chambers wherein I found him crawling upon the ceiling, zooming about the room like a depraved housefly, and taking quite a number of in-flight drams from a most flavorless corn whiskey whose name I am unable to print for fear of a daemonic legal battle of my own. Endless empty pints of this firewater were shattered upon the floorboards; in one corner was a thoroughly decapitated pig, its entrails scattered betwixt the broken glass. Scrawled upon the wall in the poor animal’s blood was naught but the words “MUST HAVE BRANDY.” Just then—as I stood contemplating what sales opportunity might ensue from the possession—I was accosted by the airborne child and rendered unconscious.

Mercifully, Father Stanley, who had been at that hour deep in prayer in his cathedral’s rectory, had sensed a disturbance in the force—and had rushed to my aid. Next I know I am being rustled awake with quite a wound upon my cranium. “Betcha wished you’d have finished that baptism, eh?” said Father Stanley as he slapped my cheeks until I came to, with the possessed child continuing to fly in circles o’er my head.

“My smelling salts!” I cried out. “Dear Father, they are in the hidden pocket of my overcoat!” Father Stanley found the salts posthaste and held them to my nose as I began blindly discharging my pistol at the spook. Alas, my musket fire did little to affright the daemon.

“Your mortal weapons are useless!” exclaimed Father Stanley.

“We must use the power of the Lord.” From beneath his frock he revealed a pistol of his own and began blasting the beast with a Supersoaker of Holy Water whilst hollering in the tongues of some dead liturgical language. He unchained his bejeweled rosary and held it aloft, whereupon it bathed the chambers in a most fearsome green hue—at which point the smelling salts had done a number on my faculties, causing me to run from the home in search of Headmaster Bhakta in a fit of abject terror.

I found the H.O.G. in a reverie by the Griswold firepit and tried to explain our predicament—and just then we turned as a speeding golf cart piloted by the priest screeched to a halt as his tophat flew into the flames. “Get in!” cried Father Stanley.

“The possessed child has proffered directions to the tomb from whence the daemons flow!”

Father handed me a treasure map drawn in crayon with arrows leading to an ancient burial ground just south of the Poultney Riviera. At its center was circled a sepulcher; above it were the words BRANDY AND SPOOKS ARE HERE. And to this site Father Stanley drove us at a mighty clip as though flying upon the wings of Christ.

Arriving at the tomb in question, Mr. Bhakta grabbed for Father’s Supersoaker, kicked in the rusted iron doors with his bootheel, and began firing indiscriminately.

“Father,” Mr. Bhakta called from within the musty tomb. “Say a Hail Mary and bring your snifter. You must be the first to savor the ancient Armagnacs I have found within.”

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150 of Wake Robin’s 400 residents donated their time and labor. The day before the sale opened to the public, residents and staff got first dibs on shopping.

Each sale typically brings in $20,000, which helps fund Wake Robin’s robust program offerings for residents: beekeeping, silversmithing, handbell choir, pickleball. The retirement community offers different accommodations based on residents’ needs, including independent living, assisted living, nursing support and memory care, explained resident Sarah Meyers, one of the main organizers. Seniors often downsize as they switch from one level of care to the next, she said.

The annual sale proves you’re never too old for a good deal. Among the first to arrive was Jen Colman, young by Wake Robin standards but a veteran of eight previous sales. The Burlington woman

Mickelson framed with a golf ball from the 2005 Masters Tournament, a wooden golf ball display rack, and a vintage putter he planned to research on the internet.

Colman, who rehabs old jewelry as a hobby, headed straight for the jewelry and collectibles section. She read aloud the prices of the necklaces, bracelets and earrings she’d gathered, and a volunteer wearing a gold fedora and a pink lei added them up on a piece of paper.

As the checkout line stretched to the back of the garage, Cathy Marshall and Chris Zappala of Charlotte waited patiently to pay for their finds — including a framed floral watercolor by Vermont artist Katharine Montstream for $40 and a Sony Walkman cassette player for $1. They said they were looking forward to playing old tapes for their kids.

Three young women from Burlington had collected several bags’ worth of items for the house they share, including a long terracotta window box they were debating whether to fill with herbs or flowers, a framed print giving off 1970s vibes with its green-and-yellow color palette, and the board game Trivial Pursuit.

First-time customers Tammy and Lizzy Katon found out about the sale on Facebook and were impressed by the selection. The mother and daughter from Burlington made out with a jumble of pots and pans, plants, and a Turkish hookah.

At 1 p.m., according to tradition, items were marked down to half price. After the 3 p.m. closing time, the volunteers, described by Meyers as “like a colony of ants,” scurried to box up the unwanted goods to donate to nonprofits. They needed to work quickly. Residents were eager to move their cars back into the garage on Sunday. m

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loves the eclectic mix of items and how well organized it is. She’s become chummy with a handful of perennial early birds, who engage in small talk as they wait for the garage door to open.

Jess Goerold, a former Vermont resident who now lives in Troy, N.Y., is one of them.

Goerold woke early to make the two-and-ahalf-hour drive to Shelburne, the first stop on a weekend getaway. She loves the “convivial” atmosphere and the “super friendly” attitude of the folks who run the sale.

That’s not to say there isn’t competition when it comes to getting the crème de la crème. Amy Beattie of Burlington, a second-timer, discussed her shopping strategy as she waited. “If you like it, take it,” she advised.

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one in short order.

Houseplants, priced around $2 apiece, went “like hotcakes,” noted Molly Comeau, who was working in the gardening section.

Joan Robinson — presiding over piles of colorful Pyrex bowls, casserole dishes and juicers — noted that everyday silverware was a top seller in the kitchen and housewares section.

The tag sale is “the ultimate department store,” Robinson said. “Neiman Marcus, move over.”

Some customers knew exactly what they

were looking for. Beattie’s husband, Steve, scooped up a trio of golf-themed goods: a photograph of Tiger Woods and Phil

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Cheryl Ann Rinder

MARCH 7, 1950-JUNE 6, 2022 MIDDLEBURY, VT. Our beloved Cher, Cheryl Ann Rinder, died of pancreatic cancer on June 6, 2022, in the evening after a joy-filled year of living each day to the fullest and spreading gratitude far and wide. While her passing was much too soon, Cher, a selfless giver of love, would rather we bask in the love she was able to share with us so generously than mourn her passing.

Cher was born to Leanore (née Bergen) and Reginald Rinder in Rockville Centre, N.Y., on March 7, 1950. In 1953 the family moved to Panama, where Cheryl became the middle child of five, as a little sister and brother were added to the group. You would have wanted to see Cheryl’s street in Panama, where she was the little leader of a small pack of neighborhood boys! (All the other kids her age happened to be boys.) As she grew there, she developed a love of the tropical climate and belonging to a large family. When Cheryl was 6, the Rinders moved to Bedford, N.Y., where Cher attended St. Patrick’s parochial school and graduated from Fox Lane High School.

In a piece of oftenrecounted family lore, Cher was robbed of the opportunity to meet her paternal grandfather because, as chief officer, he was lost at sea in the Bermuda Triangle in a storm, reportedly while following the captain’s orders to check the riggings at the stern. Her grandmother, still mourning the loss of her stillborn first child the previous year — a daughter — bravely birthed Cher’s father about a week later.

After experiencing the loneliness of being an only child with few relatives (only the dear Canadian cousins), Reg Rinder never took a friend or family member for granted.

Cher embodied that value, creating epic friendships and building family everywhere she traveled throughout her

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life. Not only did she carry and give birth to six children, but she also served as a loving stepmother and halfstepmother to a handful of others. Beyond her immediate family, the sparsity of her father’s side of the family was balanced by a prolific Irish clan on her mother’s side: the Bergens. Aunts, uncles, cousins, second cousins, international cousins, etc. abounded. Cher never missed the many destination family reunions over the course of the decades and, thanks to her own large brood, always contributed the largest contingent of attendees. She imparted the joys of celebrating family upon her children.

Though Cher was a loving, dutiful and cooperative daughter, to her parents’ chagrin she passed up a piano scholarship to enroll at Middlebury College in Vermont. She walked away not only with a degree in religious studies in 1972 but also with many cherished friendships that she would maintain over the course of her lifetime.

With her business partners, Cher started Fire & Ice Restaurant in Middlebury in 1974 and created Rosie’s Restaurant along the way.

And she married one of her business partners in 1977.

Cher worked professionally her entire life, but in 1978 she discovered her most rewarding calling, motherhood, with the birth of baby Paris Rinder-Goddard. Amid many camping and fishing trips, the birth of Pilar RinderGoddard followed in 1981, and finally, Bow Rinder-Goddard was born in 1984.

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While juggling family and work responsibilities, Cheryl’s alcoholism became evident and her life unmanageable.

She got divorced and joined a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. That spiritual program of progress, not perfection, imparted bedrock principles by which Cher lived the rest of her life, leading, sponsoring and inspiring so many in their trudging along the path of happy destiny. She considered her sobriety to be the most important gift of her life — without it, she wouldn’t have had anything else.

At one particular meeting in the late 1980s, Cher approached someone whom she believed to be a newcomer to reach out her hand in the tradition of responsible service. There began a 30-plus-year love adventure with John Sherwood Stark, a fellow in recovery, recent divorce and parenthood.

Cher took his two boys, Henry Abbott (1982) and Alexander (1983), into her heart so willingly that they felt born again as her stepchildren — with the bonus of stepsiblings whom they worshipped.

In fact, the love that Cher gave so freely to those boys extended to their biological mother, Susan James, who spent many hours and took many trips over the years with Cher and John. Susan was one of the many people who counted Cher as their best friend at the time of her death.

Cher and John’s relationship was cemented with the birth of Liberty Rose Stark-Rinder, at home, in Middlebury in 1990. They officially married in an intimate ceremony at their home, surrounded by their children, on Christmas Eve 1991. The following summer, excitement turned to sadness when Cher’s next pregnancy ended in miscarriage. It seemed fated that she would subsequently become pregnant with not one but two babies.

The twins, Ali Lovette and

Glory Bianca Stark-Rinder, were born in 1993.

As if the total of those eight children wasn’t enough (six biological and two step, for anyone who lost count), in a testament to her abundant caring and living-by-example energy, Cher would often have her ex-husband’s son from his new wife, Cindy Smith, with the pack on overnights and trips. With the sometimes addition of Tarpon Goddard (1987) (he brought the in-house group of kids to nine), many dogs, cats, horses, goats, chickens, guinea pigs, hamsters, hermit crab and even an iguana over the years, never a moment was dull.

In addition to rebuilding a wonderful relationship with Dale and Cindy, Cher helped John reach out to his adult children, one of whom, Michelle Stark (1966), moved into the upstairs apartment at Cher and John’s house during a transition in her life.

Cher served as a daily beacon of support to Michelle and her young son, Marin. Even for the children who were not in touch, Molly of New York and Wayne of Baltimore, Cher worked to establish a link. In an incredible gesture of kindness and communication, Cher even kept in correspondence with Wayne’s biological mother and his adoptive mother.

In the midst of all of that, Cher had other careers. In the early 1980s, Cher put all of her caring energies into training and working as a nurse at Porter Hospital.

Cher went on to work in and manage the next family business, Stark Window Cleaning, until she was too weak to answer her phone. Other powerful examples of Cher’s sainthood included housing her father and caring for him until his death in her home in 2004. Days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Cher joined John on a riverboat cruise for John’s mother, Marian, who, though in her final days of life, relished the trip. They would carry her on and off the boat at port to explore and seek medical attention.

Marian died, coincidentally

also of pancreatic cancer, the day after returning home.

Finally, prior to her diagnosis, Cheryl had begun a gratitude practice, focusing on all positive elements of life, writing them down and texting it out to friends and family. She continued, even after her diagnosis, with the list of daily recipients of hundreds of people. Hearts broke across the country as she became too weak in her last days to stay awake long enough at night to send the message. In the mornings, there was no time to send it because the revolving door of loving well-wishers visiting the house was nonstop.

Among those great troves of those whom she loved and who loved her in return, Cher is survived by her husband who cared for her extensively over the last year, John Stark. Her siblings: Reginald (Beth), Rosemary (Andres Garcia), Mark (Dennis Ferioli), and JoAnn Orozco (Didier van Hove). Her children: Paris Rinder-Goddard (Mira), Pilar Rinder-Goddard (Jeff Jerger), Abbott Stark (Philipp Mews), Alex Stark, Bow Rinder-Goddard (Meghan Vaughn), Liberty Stark-Rinder (Caylen Padua), Glory Stark-Rinder (Kyle Kilbury), Ali-Stark Rinder and Tarpon Goddard (Tiffany Danyow), Michelle Stark (Ric Conroy), Molly Stark Kennedy (Douglas Kennedy), and Wayne of Baltimore. The father of her first children: Dale Goddard (Cindy Smith).

The mother of her stepsons: Susan James. Her grandchildren: Saylor and Emmy Goddard; Albee and Jade Jerger; Aurora, Duncan and Wesley Vaughn-Husk with Zaiden and Esmae RinderGoddard; Marin Napoliello; and Tucker Touchette. And many cherished cousins, nieces and nephews, and grand ones, too.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. Memorial services will be organized at a date to be announced this summer. Please let us know if you’d like to be notified: bit.ly/3aZarSI.

Linda Cummings Deliduka Join us in celebrating the life of Linda Cummings Deliduka (August 21, 1942-March 10, 2021).

Linda was adamant she wanted an event when people would be able to laugh, hug, reminisce, tell stories and whisper if needed. “A pre-COVID-style good time, overlooking Lake Champlain, and I want everyone to be invited, and I want there to be time for those to come and go around their schedule as they please.”

Family, friends, foes, accomplices, mentees, and members of the many groups, organizations and associations: You are hereby invited to come as your schedule allows for Linda’s last hurrah on Sunday, June 26, 2022, noon to 4 p.m., at the St. John’s Club, 9 Center Ave., Burlington, VT. Casual dress is recommended to enjoy the deck and beach as weather permits. Expect to park on Lakeside Avenue and enjoy a short walk.

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OBITUARIES Rev. Ann Elizabeth Geer DECEMBER 16, 1938JUNE 1, 2022 BURLINGTON, VT.

Rev. Ann Elizabeth Geer, 83, minister, scientist, artist and beloved matriarch, died peacefully following a short illness at home in Burlington, Vt., on June 1, 2022. She was a fascinating woman with an activist and adventurous heart; she thought she could do anything, and she was right. She was born in New Orleans, La., on December 16, 1938, daughter of Frederick Hannon and Lois Eddy (Johnson) Hannon, and later adopted by her stepfather, William Wallace Blake-Haskins. She lived her early life in the West Indies, first in Cuba and then in the Dominican Republic, where her father trained racehorses on the presidential palace grounds. Her first language was Spanish.

Following political upheaval, the family moved to Hialeah, Fla., and then relocated to Lincroft, N.J., where they shared their land with jockeys and trainers in a home surrounded by a mileand-a-half horse-racing track.

Following the death of her father, when Ann was 13, her mother, an emergency room nurse and supervisor, moved Ann and her two brothers, Fred Jr. and John “Jake” to Little Silver, N.J. There Lois met and married William Wallace Blake-Haskins, who adopted both Ann and Jake.

Ann attended Mary Help of Christians Convent School until her senior year, when — caught reading books on science under the covers and threatened with punishment — her stepfather, a longtime educator, “liberated” her from the school. For the last half of her senior year, she attended Freehold Regional High School, where she was recognized as a National Merit Scholar upon graduation. Through most of her childhood she studied ballet, which contributed to her lifelong elegance.

Following high school, Ann studied nursing at Monmouth College while working as a proofreader for the Asbury Press at night.

It was during this time Ann

learned to fly biplanes, taught by an instructor who tried to dissuade her by flying under a bridge and making repeated engine stalls.

Undeterred, she continued until she was flying solo. Ann also bought a baby blue MG, which she sometimes raced on weekends with a group of friends. She did many repairs on the little race car on her own, as few mechanics in the area knew about foreign cars. After nursing school, wanting to go into medicine, she attended Rutgers and lived with a Hungarian family who told her “We will not feed you” and then, of course, fed her every meal. At Rutgers, while studying science, she became fascinated with animal behavior, particularly interested in “The Dance of the Bees,” swallows, monkeys and bats and how their behavior was affected by the sun and poles. Her interest in animal behavior, which included living with her own spider monkey named Samantha, brought her to Princeton, where she met Klaus Hoffman, a visiting professor from the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, Germany. They developed a personal and professional relationship, primarily learning about nocturnal and navigation behavior and its connection with the pineal gland. Once, they brought thousands of bats to the top of a clock tower in Princeton, releasing them in a thunderstorm to study their behavior. Local newspapers wrote about the curious numbers of bats flying around town that night.

Visitors to her home would often find bats hibernating in her freezer. Following Ann’s graduation from Rutgers with a bachelor of science, she and Hans traveled the United States — often in her

MG — studying and embracing botany, biology and marine life before moving to Hamburg, Germany, where Ann partnered with Hans on research.

Ann returned to America in 1964 and moved to “the Village” in New York City, hanging out with “famous” beatniks and beginning her long history of political activism. She began working as a teaching assistant at Columbia Presbyterian Academic Hospital, working in cardiology and discovering that she had an affinity for micro cardiac surgery.

In 1967 she met Robert G. Mead when they were both working in pharmaceuticals.

They married and moved to Yonkers, N.Y., with their son, William Wallace Mead, born 1967. In 1970, their daughter, Elizabeth Ann Mead, was born. A student of famous silhouette artist Carew Rice, Ann started cutting beautiful and intricate silhouettes, showing her work around New England to high acclaim. In 1972 the family moved to Arlington, Vt., where Robert began his long career at Mount Anthony High School as a teacher and track coach.

They divorced but remained in close contact, sharing in the upbringing of their beloved children.

In 1975 Ann married Rev. John Geer, the pastor of a Methodist church. Feeling the call of the ministry herself, Ann obtained her master of divinity and in 1978 was ordained as a Faith United Methodist minister after studying at Wesley Theological Seminary.

Their marriage and ministry brought them to the Berkshire hill towns of Charlemont, Heath and Rowe, where she won over the rugged and heartfelt hill-town folks when she changed one of the parishioner’s tires in a blizzard. Ann and John’s ministry then took them to Chicopee, Mass., where they continued their “Deaf Church of Love” for deaf and hearing-impaired persons of all faiths. This work eventually led to the creation of a deaf AA group and a deafsigning choir, with Ann as the “choir director” kneeling in front and signing backwards.

In Chicopee, her ecumenical work expanded beyond her brilliant Sunday sermons to include working on the Peace and Justice Commission of the Springfield Diocese and with members of the Black community to reorganize the NAACP — where she served on the executive and fair housing committees. This led to her work with Nueva Esperanza, where she led public forums and eventually cocreated an ecumenical group to establish wake services and advocacy on behalf of Holyoke’s “dead poor,” especially members of the Puerto Rican community whom some funeral directors refused to serve. Other activism included grassroots advocacy for citywide support for an arms freeze; presenting public testimony; and work to improve dialogue between Yankee Atomic employees and local activists.

In her free time, she and John traveled — always to the water — with their family or dear friends, Bob and Cindy Gagne.

In their travels, if there were a ferry even remotely nearby, that was the route she’d take.

At the height of her career Ann was hired as executive director of the Greater Springfield Council of Churches. There, her fearless activism and zeal combined to make her a leader on anti-racism, AIDS activism and work to keep predatory casinos out of western Massachusetts — along with bringing together leaders of all faiths to understand their collective mission. Her work also included interfaith trips to Israel to work with Palestinian and Jewish ecumenical leaders. Notably, in 1996, after over 100 Black churches were burned in the South, Ann led a delegation of churches and volunteers to rebuild churches and increase public awareness.

Similarly, when she learned that AIDS patients — dear friends of hers — were being denied burials, she organized a private coalition of faith leaders and volunteers to bring dignity to their final days and burials. In response to concerns about gambling, Ann cocreated and was the president of the National Coalition Against Gambling Expansion, a national political

action organization across all 50 states concerned about the addictive effects and the dependence of governments on revenues from gambling.

This work brought her national attention, and sometimes backlash. It also brought her awards for speaking up, notably from a chiropractic association who heralded her “strong backbone.” She was recognized as “Woman of the Year” and was one of the first female Rotarians in 1999.

Following a car accident and subsequent failed back surgeries, Ann retired from the Council of Churches and moved to Burlington, Vt., to be closer to her daughter’s family. There, she and her husband, John, who passed away in 2004, lived in a little blue bungalow overlooking Lake Champlain.

Her 20 years of retirement were highlighted by travel, wonderful dinners, laughter, gardening and obsessive attention to politics. Ann was a stalwart Democrat with progressive leanings. She was a wonderful cook and loved all kinds of food — especially from the West Indies. She was curious about everything and could talk on any topic with intelligence and enthusiasm. Ann enjoyed social media and her “Lake Log” of stunning Lake Champlain sunsets, sailboats (which she called “moths”), perpetual flower arrangements and beautiful perennial gardens were appreciated by all. A proud night person driven by insatiable curiosity, she was delighted to live in the time when smartphones were created — she could look up anything she wanted to know! (Although, most electronics and computers acted strangely in her presence).

“Mor Mor,” as she was known to her grandchildren, loved being a grandmother to Justin Royal, Louis David, William Robert, Alexandra Roseann, Winslow John and Blake Hayden-Ann. They were the light of her life; she scrupulously followed everything they did, making sure she never missed an opportunity to celebrate them on holidays or birthdays and creating special memories in the annual “cousins’ week.” Her vacation planning was legendary; she always

found unique adventures, locations and experiences.

Later in life, she welcomed the emergence of a bonus relational family: the Kibbels (Bill, Dianna, William and Julie) of Pennsylvania. She considered every person she met a lifelong friend. She made everyone feel like she was proud of them — and she was. Of all her brilliant and varied skills, being a loving, fun, energetic and supportive mom to Billie and Beth was perhaps her greatest achievement. Her children still feel her unconditional, fearless love.

Ann was not afraid of death. In the past year, she often said, “I can’t believe I made it this far!” When she learned that she had advanced cancer just a short time ago, she was firm that she did not want aggressive treatment. She was curious about what the next “adventure” would bring and was only sorry that she wouldn’t be able to share what happens when we die, because she loved to tell a good story.

Additionally, Ann leaves her brothers and their spouses, Fred Sr. and Bette-Jo, and Jake and Nanse; their children, Fred Jr., Emily and Andy; their spouses and children; Ann’s husband John’s children, Richard, Priscilla and Tom and their spouses and children; extended family members; Ingrid and Vanessa Fox; Jessica Dean; many dear friendships; and social media connections she cultivated and nurtured with her “cheering on” of their lives.

A memorial service and celebration of life will be announced to friends and family in the coming weeks. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation in her name to any of the activist causes dear to Ann’s heart. And, in her honor, speak up for injustice, take the long way, plan an adventure, reach out and make friends with every person you meet, love unconditionally, and always, always stop to watch the sunset.

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

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lifelines lines OBITUARIES Paula DeMichele

Barbara Elsbeth (LaBrusciano)

JANUARY 15, 1949JUNE 2, 2022 SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT. Paula DeMichele, age 73, passed away on June 2, 2022.

Born in the Midwest, Paula was proud of her Finnish and Italian heritage.

She studied English and theology, earning multiple degrees. Her employers included Habitat for Humanity, the Catholic Church and the Visiting Nurses Association.

She lived in Texas, Maryland and Washington, D.C., before moving to Vermont in 2006.

While a resident of Essex, she attended meetings and was remembered by a recent selectboard member as “a fierce and passionate advocate for affordable housing.”

After moving to South Burlington in 2019, Paula contributed to meetings of its Affordable Housing Committee. Members recall: “Paula had some challenging firsthand experiences with housing affordability.

She was out there supporting herself emotionally and financially, but rather than be passive and resign herself to her fate, she stood up to advocate for herself and others who faced similar challenges.”

“She was a valuable addition to the committee as the

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first consumer of affordable housing among us who brought a very different perspective.”

“Paula worked hard at understanding the complexities of why our system is so broken, and she was always warm and kind. She was giving of her time and talent. We will miss her and appreciate her for her kindness and dedication to affordable housing to help others and to make our community more humane.”

She loved music, especially singing in choirs, and had an extensive music collection.

Paula was an avid gardener, reader, book collector and writer of poetry, short stories, plays and letters to the editor. She also loved cats.

Paula was a critical thinker with a strong faith in God. Her pastor at a local Methodist church said, “She brought so much to our small groups and Bible studies.”

Paul A. (Joe) Dye Jr.

1936-2022 Paul A. (Joe) Dye Jr. died peacefully on Monday, June 6, at the Arbors at Shelburne.

A time for celebration and reflection on Joe’s life will be held for friends and family at a later date determined by the family.

The full obituary can be viewed here: gregorycremation. com/blog.

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A hawk circled over Berlin Hill on June 2, 2022, as Barbara Elsbeth was received by the ancestors, through rays of golden light and the bluest sky she had ever seen. Radiant, having dispatched her pain as baked earth effigy into the arms of willow that had revealed visions before, water to cleanse and air to clear.

Barbara was born on August 30, 1939, on the eve of a seismic global shift, to Edward Francis and Anne Blake Smith of Parkchester, in the Bronx, New York City.

Premature at birth, she was a 1939 New York World’s Fair “incubator baby” on display at the World of Tomorrow pavilion, a testament to her tenacious nature.

She attended St. Helena High School, where the humble demeanor and frayed vestments of Monsignor Scanlon left a lasting impression, as did time volunteering on the St. John’s Guild Floating Hospital for the city’s poor and underserved. Receiving a degree in occupational therapy from Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, she went on to become director of OT at Rhode Island State Hospital and would later work in hospice and eldercare.

Barbara was active in the Catholic Worker Movement, civil rights, feminism and opposition to the war in Vietnam, and she greatly admired Rev. Daniel Berrigan, Dr. Martin Luther King, Dorothy Day and Pete Seeger. As a young mother in Woodbury, Conn., Barbara would pack her kids into the car with handmade signs and visit the federal prison in Danbury to demand the release of the Berrigan brothers, and she regularly brought the family to vigils protesting the Vietnam War. She settled in Waitsfield, Vt., in 1975 and raised her four children, Christopher, Anne, Paul and Peter, in a creativity-filled environment that carried into their adult lives: art, literature, song, sewing, puppet making, gardening, and all the kids grinding grain for bread, pizza and bagels and shaping their own small raisin pies.

Barbara became involved in education as her children came of school age. She taught in Montessori schools, conducted workshops and strove to

steer public school systems in a more progressive direction. She received her MA in arts education at the University of Vermont and taught art at Harwood Union High School, and is remembered as warm and accepting, treating each student with dignity. She made learning about art an intellectual pursuit, as well as a tactile and expressive one. Later, she conducted college workshops and worked with elders to tell their stories through various mediums.

Her own artwork is a deeply personal exploration of light and pain, reverence for the beauty of this world and her relation to the divine. She eschewed exhibiting or commodifying her work, believing that to be almost profane.

She immersed herself in the exploration of Ifa faith and divination, of the Yoruba culture of Nigeria, through artwork, spiritual life and scholarship, deepening her connection to nature, magic and veneration of the dead. Her doctoral work and teaching in this area was cut short by tragic personal events.

Barbara was a seeker of natural settings and culture, embarking on epic day trips in her old Saab to Lake Elmore and Kettle Pond to sketch children on the beach, and to Middlebury and UVM libraries and art exhibitions. She was known at every thrift store around and filled her house with “treasures.” Her world-class VCR tape collection was the stuff of legend.

She had the unique ability to connect with people, instantly deep, seemingly random, creating lasting friendships. Seeking community wherever she went, she is remembered, cherished and missed by all whom she touched.

Her body was anointed, shrouded and shouldered down her final winding path to the accompaniment of spiritual songs, and put into the ground behind her daughter’s home, surrounded by loving friends and family.

Barbara is survived by her children Christopher, Anne and Peter (Hillary Gardner); her grandchildren, Ruby, Ella, Theo, Lorenzo, Nico and Nevin; and her brother, John Edward Smith.

She was predeceased by her beloved son Paul.

In lieu of flowers, please consider throwing your television out the back door.

J. (John) Francis Angier

JUNE 11, 1923-JULY 27, 2020 J. (John) Francis Angier died at the tender age of 97 at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa, FL., on July 27, 2020. Prior to living in Florida, he resided in Addison, Newport and Williston. Due to the pandemic, it was not possible to have an open funeral service until now. The celebration of his life will finally take place on Saturday, June 25, 11 a.m., at Saint Ambrose Church in Bristol, VT., followed by a brief interment service with military honors at the nearby St. Joseph Cemetery before the reception at the parish hall.

Francis was married to Madeleine Bourdon Angier for 65 years, until her death on December 25, 2011. They lived most of their lives in the town of Addison, VT., where they farmed and raised five sons, John, Michael, Phillip, Pierre and Thomas, who died in 2015.

Francis was a veteran of WW II and also served in the Vermont National Guard. In his later years, he wrote his best-selling book, Ready or Not: Into the Wild Blue, about growing up on a hardscrabble farm during the depression, becoming a B-17 pilot in WW II, surviving his bomber being shot down over Nazi Germany, being held as a POW until the end of the war and his participation in the Cold War while serving in the National Guard. Please join us on June 25th to celebrate the life of one of the last surviving members of “the Greatest Generation.”

OBITUARIES

IN MEMORIAM

Jeannine deLaBruere BURLINGTON, VT. 1938-2022

On May 3, 2022, Jeannine deLaBruere, age 83, transitioned peacefully to join her Lord with her five daughters at her side a few days after experiencing a massive stroke. She was the daughter of Winfred and Yvonne Lavigne in St. Eldridge, Québec, Canada. She and her family loved music and dancing.

Even though she didn’t speak English, at the age of 20 she moved to northeastern Vermont, where she raised her children. Her strong work ethic, customer service and bilingual skills were a valuable asset during her work in retail.

Later in life, she became a home caregiver for special needs and aging adults.

People loved Jeannine’s joy of life, sense of humor, contagious laugh and playful nature. Everyone looked forward to seeing her dress-up attire at senior events. She found joy in making people smile and saw beauty in everyone.

But nowhere was her unconditional love more evident than in the love she gave her children and grandchildren.

She couldn’t have been more proud of them and took every opportunity to share stories,

photos and videos of each of them with both friends and strangers.

Jeannine was resilient, resourceful and always learning new things. After she got her first computer at age 50, she was hooked on technology, learning and then teaching others new ways to use her laptop, iPad, iPhone and Apple Watch. Jeannine loved collecting and restoring gadgets that someone might need one day, especially when they were for “zero pennies.”

Her desire to be independent drove her to strive for a healthy lifestyle, which included a daily dose of apple cider vinegar, walking and often taking the stairs up to her eighth-floor Cathedral Square apartment in Burlington.

Although, she never passed up a maple creemee.

Jeannine was a spiritual and moral compass for her

family and many people in her life. Her strong faith resonated in every aspect of her life and allowed her to live life serving others as she never doubted God would take care of her, no matter what.

She is survived by her five daughters, Lucie deLaBruere, Joanne deLaBruere, Chantal deLaBruere O’Connor, Linda deLaBruere, and Kathy deLaBruere Jacobs; their partners/spouses; 14 grandand great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Auore Lavoie and Dolores Lavigne.

Jeannine is predeceased by her granddaughter Alexandra deLaBruere, brothers Leopold and Victor Lavigne, and sisters MariePaule Isabelle and Rita Lavigne.

In lieu of flowers, you may make a donation to the Vermont Foodbank or Age Well.

In Loving Memory of

Connie Marshall

APRIL 16, 1948-JUNE 18, 2019 Dear Connie, I can’t say it enough how much I love and miss you.

You have left an indelible imprint on all of our hearts.

With much love always, Your loving family

Kathleen H. Morrissey JUNE 14, 2013

Janet “Jann” LaBelle-Prince

JUNE 18, 1947-JUNE 2, 2022 BURLINGTON, VT. Janet “Jann” LaBelle-Prince passed away at the Respite House in Colchester, Vt., on June 2, 2022, after a long illness. Jann was the daughter of Ramon J. “Ray” and Marjorie LaBelle. She was born on June 18, 1947, in Burlington, Vt. Jann was a generous, compassionate and incredibly strong woman. She tragically and suddenly lost her beloved son Martin “Marty” when he was 19 years old in 2004. It was a loss she never really recovered from. Jann was loved by many and had many dear friends, including her adopted daughter, Katharine “Katie” Monje, and her close friend Mary Lou Marsh. She is also survived by her sister Joan LaBelle Creasia; her nieces Karen and Tracy; her greatnieces and nephews Christina M. and Michael A. Yarrish and Cameron B. and Christopher T. Hohenschutz, for whom she cared deeply.

As a child, Jann was sexually abused once at age 4 and then again by a Catholic priest between the ages of 12 and 18. She lived dual lives: a life of abuse and deep pain; and a life of success, many talents and survivorship.

Jann took classes at Johnson State College and Northeastern College. She graduated from the New England School of Art in Boston, Mass., in 1966 and was a prolific artist throughout her life. Always wanting to grow and learn as an artist, she was drawn to and studied Asian art and was tireless in her pursuit to capture landscapes using different mediums, such as water colors, oils and charcoal.

Jann was passionate about capturing on paper what she was inspired by in the world. She was so proud of her eight solo art shows and 70 group art shows. She has shown her work in Vermont, Pennsylvania and California, and her art can be found all over the East Coast.

Like her “daddy,” Ray LaBelle, whom she admired, loved and missed dearly,

Jann was a very talented musician with a great sense of humor. Jann was an accomplished pianist, performing publicly and teaching piano for decades. She was a businesswoman and lifelong teacher of art and music. Her love and respect of children shined throughout her life.

She established an art program at the Essex Junction Technical School. She taught art in Essex Junction, summer school at the Week School in Vergennes, and private and group art and piano lessons in her home for over 50 years. Jann also created promo slides at Vermont Public Television and owned and operated her business called Colors, Corners and Concertos. She certainly left an indelible mark on the lives of her beloved students.

Jann had a deep connection with animals. She loved her many poodles (Missy, Chloe, Molly and Belle), her birds whom she taught to talk (Chang, Buddy and Peaches), and equine therapy horses (Rumor and Zevi).

Jann was so proud and grateful to begin horseback riding at age 60. She found great solace in communicating with her horse Rumor. As observed by others, her connection with Rumor was the most beautiful thing they’d ever seen. After her son

Marty passed, Jann’s horse Zevi would put his big head on her shoulders as she cried in his stall. The loss of her son was profound, and Jann found peace when working with horses.

Jann’s friends Katie and Mary Lou wish to thank the amazing teams at Age Well Vermont, University of Vermont Medical Center Home Health & Hospice and the Respite House for all of the care provided in the last months of her life.

Friends and relatives are invited to celebrate Jann’s life together on Monday, June 20. A viewing and memorial will be held at the Ready Funeral Home, 261 Shelburne Rd., Burlington, VT, starting at 11 a.m. Interment will follow at New Mount Calvary Cemetery in Burlington.

Jann’s friends invite you to join them at the Saint John’s Club, 9 Central Ave., Burlington, VT, between 4 and 6 p.m. to share food, drinks and memories of Jann’s life and her incredible strength.

In lieu of flowers please make donations in Jann’s name to one or more of the following: the Humane Society of Chittenden County, UVMMC Home Health & Hospice, the National Stuttering Foundation/Association, Age Well Vermont and Vermont Children’s Hospital.

If roses grow in Heaven, Lord please pick a bunch for us.

Place them in our Mother’s arms and tell her they’re from us.

Tell her we love her and miss her, and when she turns to smile, Place a kiss upon her cheek and hold her for a while.

Because remembering her is easy, We do it every day, But there’s an ache within our heart That will never go away.

— With love, from your family

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How Vermont towns are trying to make it happen

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s he travels Vermont, Tyler Maas sees of more affordable, multifamily buildings in its a possible remedy to the housing crisis village center. hiding in plain sight. It is the accessory Water and sewer systems are expensive, but dwelling unit, or ADU — the rather millions of dollars in federal infrastructure unwieldy name for a converted shed, funds have been made available as a result of the home or garage apartment that can multipandemic. “Any town that is contemplating doing ply the residential capacity of a single lot. it, do it now,” Buckley said. “There’s plenty of “The ADU potential is everywhere — that’s the money, which will never happen again.” beauty of it,” said Maas, who, as ADU program Apart from the infrastructure funds, cities, director for the Vermont State Housing Authortowns and villages are getting their shares of $200 ity, regularly sings their praises to town housing million sent to Vermont through the American committees, nonprofit agencies and other groups.

Rescue Plan Act. Hinesburg planning and zoning To Maas, encouraging the director Alex Weinhagen construction of ADUs is said his town’s affordable one relatively easy way for housing committee has towns to address a shortage been looking into whether of middle-income housing. some of its $1.3 million in “Everyone talks about ARPA funds could be used hitting the ‘missing middle,’ to alleviate the town’s and this really is it,” he said. housing shortage.

This shortage of midWill Hinesburg embrace priced homes is increasthe humble ADU, as Montingly the concern of pelier was just starting to Vermont’s municipalities, do? In 2019, the housing which are trying to fill the authority, which manages void with the limited tools the federal Section 8 housat their disposal. ing voucher program in Vermont, started offering Although Vermont lawmakers have directed $20,000 grants to help millions of dollars to affordCapital City property able housing programs owners convert garages for low-income residents and sheds or build apartin recent years, the state ments in their homes. also has a severe shortage Four Montpelier ADUs of homes for people who were completed before earn too much to qualify the pandemic derailed for those programs — the construction plans, Maas KATIE BU CK L E Y teachers, nurses, police said; three more are in officers and other middlethe works. The Town of wage earners who are in Woodstock recently hired high demand for thousands of vacant jobs. And someone to shepherd homeowners through the there’s very little state or federal support for such ADU permit process and help them obtain state housing. and federal funding.

Towns are stepping in to fill that vacuum by Housing can be an intensely local issue, and revamping their zoning bylaws, joining with individual municipalities are addressing the private landowners to encourage development of shortages in individual ways. But some towns are affordable housing and taking advantage of state starting to collaborate with each other, as well as programs aimed at reducing regulatory hurdles with regional nonprofits and housing agencies. for new projects. Communities are tapping into a They almost have to, said Chris Campany, executorrent of new federal funding to tackle one of the tive director of the Windham Regional Commisbiggest obstacles to housing development across sion, which is part of a large housing coalition in much of Vermont: a lack of public infrastructure. southern Vermont.

“Everybody is about affordable housing, but you “Things have gotten way more sophisticated can’t get there unless you set the stage, and the and require commitments of time and institutional stage is water and sewer,” said Katie Buckley, an knowledge and professional knowledge, beyond official at the Vermont League of Cities & Towns just volunteers taking this stuff on,” Campany said. who helps communities make use of federal aid.

Seven Days took a close look at how five commu“Water and wastewater is sort of foundational for nities across the state — an assortment of ski towns, everything.” tony second-home enclaves, rural villages and That’s why many towns are studying how much cities — are grappling with the unmet demand it would cost to improve their water and sewer for affordable homes. No two communities are capacity. Hinesburg passed an $11 million bond exactly alike. They are economic powers and tiny last year to update its wastewater treatment facilburgs, haves and have-nots, but all share a sense of ity. For more than a decade, Westford has been urgency in the face of a deepening crisis. working on a proposed community wastewater treatment system, which would allow construction RAISING HOMES » P.26

Everybody is about affordable housing, but you can’t get there unless you set the stage, and the stage is water and sewer.

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Seven Days is examining Vermont’s housing crisis — and what can be done about it — in our “Locked Out” series this year. Send tips to lockedout@sevendaysvt.com.

These stories are supported by a grant from the nonprofit Journalism Funding Partners, which leverages philanthropy and fundraising to boost local reporting. For more information, contact Corey Barrows at corey@sevendaysvt.com or visit jfp-local.org.

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Steering her electric MINI Cooper past one historic home after another, housing activist Jill Davies narrated how the clapboard structures fit into Woodstock’s housing crisis.

to buy homes in the storybook version of Vermont that is Woodstock. The grand 19th-century homes radiate a stately perfection that seems all the more authentic for the few more modest residences still to be seen here and there. Hilly, winding lanes leading from town show a charming medley of homes, and the 643-acre MarshBillings-Rockefeller National Historical Park lies just steps away from the green.

“You can’t blame anyone for wanting to live here,” said Davies, who occupies a home in the village. “It’s walkable. It’s lovely.”

But that appeal has made it nearly impossible for most people to settle in the resort town, or anywhere nearby. With

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funded by the town’s 1 percent local option tax, will spend about $100,000 this year on pilot programs aimed at expanding the housing supply.

One initiative would pay homeowners who convert short-term rentals to long-term rentals. Another would reward homeowners who construct an ADU. Woodstock has hired a housing adviser to help community members navigate the ADU permit process. And the EDC’s housing working group — which Davies chairs — is examining a plan that would pay small developers to build new housing.

Davies would also like the town to adopt a program promoted by a Coloradobased nonprofit organization called Vail InDEED. It would pay homeowners to add deed restrictions in order to reserve dwellings as primary residences for people working locally at least 30 hours per week. She hopes Woodstock’s programs can become a model for Vermont.

Housing advocates agree that solutions will likely be small in scale. Maintaining the antique look is critical to the tourism that sustains Woodstock’s economy.

“The solution is going to be a little here, a little there, and there is obviously sensitivity about where those units are, about maintaining the character of the village,” said Mark Scully, who owns the Vermont Eclectic gift shop. “I just don’t Jill Davies in Woodstock think anyone is going to be putting up a large apartment building.” little real estate for sale or rent — and none The town is also reviewing its zoning priced for people who earn around the regulations to make development easier. area’s median income of $61,500 — town Woodstock requires two parking spaces for staff and volunteers are seeking creative each ADU, but the selectboard may reduce ways to encourage construction. that to one, said Keri Cole, a real estate Woodstock’s Economic Development agent and selectboard member. Cole would Commission, which runs a grant program like to see more developments that mix

One house was empty and being renovated. A few others appeared vacant.

A rambling giant close to the road, she noted, had started out as two houses but was converted to one.

Davies, who is retired, understands why newcomers are paying big money

apartments and commercial space. “We do have spots in the village that would work really well for that,” she said.

Cole noted that residents fought for 12 years to block the Safford Commons affordable housing development, which opened in 2015 and is growing.

Housing developments are “always controversial,” she acknowledged. “I would hope that the culture of NIMBYism has lessened, but I know that it hasn’t.”

Last week, the lowest-priced Woodstock house on Zillow was a threebedroom ranch listed for $629,000. That’s out of reach for Woodstock’s teachers, municipal employees and restaurant servers, said Davies, who works to dispel the notion that everyone in town is wealthy.

She knows locals who were recently evicted because their rental homes were put up for sale by the owners.

It strikes her as unfair that “normal people,” as she calls them, are being pushed out by well-heeled newcomers.

Houses are under construction: highend homes sprouting on the hilltops. And for the less wealthy, work is under way on four more units at Safford Commons.

Town officials aren’t the only ones tackling the shortage. Unable to find a house her family can afford to buy, Woodstock renter Robin Tindall has taken to writing to people who own vacation homes, asking whether they’d consider selling to her. Tindall scours town tax records for information on houses that appear vacant.

“If the mailing address is Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, which a lot of them are, I know it’s just a second home,” Tindall said. “I’ve said, ‘I’ll buy your house, and you can come back three weeks a year for perpetuity and have your vacation.’”

Tindall grew up in what is now Killington and graduated from Woodstock Union High School. Things have changed.

“I feel like the town — and perhaps large chunks of the whole state — are becoming a sort of Disneyland,” she said.

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Mac Rood knows he can’t solve the Mad River Valley’s housing shortage alone.

But with 10 acres of land and decades as a builder and architect, he’s hoping to close the gap at least a little.

Rood and his wife, Bobbi, are clearing land at their home in Waitsfield to create eight building lots. They’ll rely on selling the lots at $34,000 apiece to pay the up-front costs of a community sewer system, road and power. The lots are small, and the homes will be limited to 2,000 square feet.

Rood, who has lived in the valley since 1973, thinks other landowners could borrow from his model — which employs a little-used Waitsfield zoning bylaw that promotes affordable housing — to tackle the housing problems dogging rural Vermont.

“If people look around where they are living, they could say, ‘Maybe I could build one extra house here. Maybe I could build five extra houses here. Maybe I could just build an ADU,” Rood said.

Efforts to create more housing in the contiguous resort towns of Fayston, Warren and Waitsfield go back decades.

The towns are addressing the housing problem individually, through their own planning and zoning offices, and together through the Mad River Valley Planning District, a nearly 40-year-old joint venture funded by the towns and the Sugarbush ski resort.

In addition, Rood and other builders and architects created the nonprofit Mad River Valley Housing Coalition in 1989 to confront the need for affordable housing. Through the coalition, experienced local volunteers help people assess the permitting and construction costs of home building. The group commissioned a study of the area’s housing market in 2020 and in January hired Michelle Leibowitz, a

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Half the restaurants are closing or reducing their hours because they can’t find people to work.

Bobbi and Mac Rood at their Waitsfield home, which was a project of the local Yestermorrow Design/Build School

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part-time consultant with years of housing policy experience, to run the nonprofit.

At the same time, Waitsfield is hiring a consultant to recommend zoning changes with an eye to make home construction easier. And Warren has undertaken a multiyear overhaul of its regulations to enable more density, said Amy Tomasso, a community planner for the Mad River Valley Planning District. The towns have already reduced lot size requirements to increase density in their downtowns.

Tomasso also would like towns to change their zoning bylaws to accommodate tiny homes.

Dave Sellers, creator of the small, eclectic Madsonian Museum of Industrial Design in Waitsfield, is focusing this summer’s exhibits on housing. He thinks municipal zoning adjustments aren’t enough to solve the housing shortage.

“We think the shopping centers should be owned by a community group in Waitsfield,” he said, “and then we can

get donated money and make that land available for housing.”

While local rental homes are available, landlords are increasingly converting them to list on short-term rental sites such as Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking. AirDNA, which provides short-term rental data, said the area had 465 listings in April.

People are moving to town, the housing coalition’s 2020 study found, but most of the new residents are in households making $100,000 a year or more — far above the area’s median income. Homes sold in Waitsfield or Warren last year went for a median price of around $330,000, well in excess of the statewide figure of $270,000.

As a result, “We’re having trouble providing housing for just regular middleincome working people,” Rood said. “Half the restaurants are closing or reducing their hours because they can’t find people to work. Ultimately, you wonder what is going to happen if there are no mechanics, no doctors, no checkout clerks at the supermarket.”

Any new development in the Mad River Valley’s core shopping and pedestrian district would require some investment in water and wastewater infrastructure. The towns are studying how much that would cost, said JB Weir, Waitsfield’s zoning administrator.

Rood has figured it out on a small scale.

Using his own land puts him ahead of other developers because he doesn’t have to worry about a repayment schedule or come up with a return that would please partners or investors. Work on his project started two years ago, and construction on the first home is expected to begin in August. All of the lots are already spoken for.

Rood expects that adding road, power and the shared septic system will ultimately cost homeowners around $36,000 more than the purchase price of the land, for a total cost of around $70,000. If it RAISING HOMES

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comes in at less than that, he said, any money left over will be returned to the purchasers. His goal is to break even on the land.

He’s also sidestepping another big obstacle to development — neighborhood opposition — by building on his own property. The small community he envisions has no immediate neighbors.

Rood said nobody raised objections to the plan during the permitting process, and he noted that a nearby landowner is interested in doing something similar. Rood looks forward to having people move in.

“This is all about creating community and a neighborhood,” he said.

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and Winooski created a TIF district in the early 2000s to improve its sidewalks, streets, and sewer and water infrastructure.

Seven municipalities around the state, including South Burlington, St. Albans and Barre, currently have TIF districts.

As the demand for homes has soared, South Burlington has grappled with how to rein in its suburban sprawl, which has gobbled up land on the outskirts of the city’s built-up commercial districts. One of the objectives of South Burlington’s TIF district is to finance the public infrastructure — the parks, bike and pedestrian routes, crosswalks, and new municipal building, where Conner and Blanchard both work — that will attract privately built housing around an energized downtown nucleus, thus relieving some of the threat to the city’s greener reaches.

“We’re hoping that we’re creating the conditions so that decades from now we’ll have a thriving downtown and a thriving community,” Conner said. “It’s really exciting to see this all come together in time to help address a piece of this really big statewide housing shortage.”

Not far from city hall, developer Snyder-Braverman recently broke ground on a 60-unit complex called Union Place.

The project received a $2.8 million boost from the University of Vermont Medical Center, which plans to use the apartments to house its own employees — an arrangement that other employers, including Middlebury College and Northern Stage in White River Junction, have emulated as their workers struggle to find housing.

As part of the planned makeover, this year South Burlington voters approved a $4 million TIF bond to finance the construction of Garden Street, a pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly corridor that will serve as a connector between Dorset Street and Williston Road. At one end of Garden Street, near a Trader Joe’s store, Snyder-Braverman has received preliminary approval for a 120-unit apartment complex for people of varied incomes.

In total, according to Blanchard, the city anticipates the construction of at least

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When Ilona Blanchard commutes to her office in South Burlington’s sleekly renovated city hall, a cuboid structure with a solar-paneled roof, she sees a long-awaited vision slowly coming to life — residents cycling to nearby South Burlington High School and parallel parking along the street in front of the municipal building.

“Parallel parking in South Burlington — that’s a big change,” said Blanchard, the city’s director of community development.

Hundreds of new homes planned in this same area would represent an even bigger change.

For more than three decades, South Burlington has aspired to shed its image as a strip mall metropolis and create something resembling a cohesive, walkable downtown, according to planning and zoning director Paul Conner. To achieve that Busytown vibe, South Burlington has committed nearly $25 million to transform a 300-acre area off Interstate 89, between the traffic-choked thoroughfares of Williston Road and Dorset Street, with their looming big-box stores and streetfacing parking lots. The vision: a walkable, bikeable urban core that will feature mixed-income housing, stores and office buildings, plus green space for recreation.

To subsidize this transformation, South Burlington has used a funding mechanism known as tax increment financing, which allows municipalities to borrow against the future revenue that will, ideally, result from new development. In the late 1990s, Burlington used TIF to revitalize its Lake Champlain waterfront, yielding an $80 million increase in taxable property value,

Market Street development in South Burlington

So far, Blanchard said, the public has been overwhelmingly supportive of these initiatives, but she isn’t counting her chickens just yet. “These projects are backed by the full faith and credit of the community, and even if the tax revenue doesn’t come, we still have to pay for them,” Blanchard said.

A downtown metamorphosis on this scale is slow going, heralded by milestones that only die-hard infrastructure heads would toast. In the late 1980s, according to Conner, Dorset Street became the first major roadway in Vermont to have its utility lines buried in preparation for the construction of a multiuse path for bicycles and strollers. South Burlington has come a long way since then: The city now manages nearly 24 miles of bike and recreational trails. In 2025, construction will begin on a bike and pedestrian crossing on the I-89 overpass that connects Burlington and South Burlington, funded by a $9.7 million federal grant.

Blanchard, who often takes the bus or bikes to work, sees in these changes an evolution far more profound than the advent of parallel parking in front of city hall. “We’re trying to shift the perception of South Burlington away from a carfriendly corridor to a place where people have lots of choices about how they get around,” she said.

With any luck, those people might even be able to find a place to live.

Market Street development in South Burlington

800 more housing units throughout the downtown core in the coming years, two-thirds of which will be built by Snyder-Braverman.

TIF bonds must be approved by voters, and the city will ask for a last round of funding next year to continue its streetscape renovations, including the completion of Garden Street and the addition of bike lanes to Williston Road.

WESTFORD HO!

Like nearly 200 other municipalities across the state, the rural Chittenden County town of Westford has no public wastewater system. Not yet, anyway.

For more than a decade and a half, Westford, population 2,000, has been chipping away at an ambitious plan to install a community septic system. The

That money would have covered only a fraction of the cost, projected a few years ago to be $2.4 million — a figure, Manka said, that has almost certainly risen with inflation. But now, Westford expects a $2.4 million boost from a state wastewater initiative that is funded by ARPA. With that help, the dream of a municipal sewage system finally seems within reach.

But the town does not yet have the cash in hand. In order to use the money, Manka explained, the municipality first must set up a formal contract with

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concept, according to town planner Melissa Manka, is fairly simple: Landowners in a wastewater district would pay a monthly fee — ideally, between $75 and $100 — to connect their existing home septic tanks to municipal sewer lines. Waste would be pumped through a network of underground pipes into a leach field on a town-owned property just outside Westford’s village center.

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would rejoin the earth, and an unobtrusive control station on the quaint town green, which has an out-of-time feel. In the summertime, bluegrass bands play in the gazebo there. On a recent afternoon, two boys were bombing each other with fistfuls of dandelion fuzz.

Westford is one of 19 towns in Vermont trying to develop a community wastewater system, according to Lynette Claudon, the chief pollution control design engineer in the Department of Environmental Conservation’s Water Infrastructure Division. Westford’s project is now in the final stages of design and permitting, meaning that construction could begin as soon as the town secures the necessary state approvals — and voters give their blessing.

“I don’t think we necessarily ever thought we’d even get to this point,” Manka said. “At the beginning, it was just like, ‘Oh, there’s a grant to do this feasibility study!’ or ‘Maybe we can apply for this grant to study this aspect of the project or do that soil survey.’”

Until last year, the town’s biggest source of funding for the project had been a $466,164 grant from the Northern Border Regional Commission, which supports economically distressed communities throughout New England.

the state, which would likely issue the funds as reimbursements for expenses stemming from the wastewater project.

When such a contract might be written is unclear, she said.

To complicate matters, the project’s lead contractor, Green Mountain Engineering, ceased operations in February due to lack of staff and an unmanageable workload, according to the Addison County Independent, forcing the town to find a new engineering firm. Manka said she does not know when the contract with the town’s new prospective engineering firm, Stone Environmental, might be completed. Considering these uncertainties, and the lingering effects of the pandemic on nearly every aspect of this undertaking, from the price of materials to labor shortages, the community wastewater project might not be ready for a bond vote by next year’s Town Meeting Day. (As Manka put it, “Not everything’s completely solid yet, you know?”)

Manka’s colleague Kate Lalley works part time as Westford’s zoning administrator, a role that primarily involves issuing permits for new projects. In her work, Lalley said, she often sees how the lack of a reliable public wastewater RAISING HOMES

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THINKING BIG — AND REGIONALLY — IN BRATTLEBORO

If Brattleboro and surrounding towns are going to boost their collective housing supply, it may be thanks to an array of public and private housing advocates who are taking on housing as a regional need, not a town-by-town one.

The group, which is known as the Southern Vermont Housing Coalition and includes several towns, is meeting to share ideas about solutions and to seek loans, grants and investment for housing projects.

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Chloe Learey at the former Austine School campus in Brattleboro

individually as badly outdated and the coalition as an improvement.

“Planning in Vermont is diffused across so many tiny units of government that it’s hard to have the big picture of what is needed,” Campany said. He noted that a recent Brattleboro housing study found that the market could absorb 500 units of housing immediately. He’s pretty sure thousands of units are needed in southeastern Vermont overall.

The coalition estimates that 44 percent of Brattleboro’s households spend more than a third of their gross income on housing costs.

Coalition chair Sue Graff said the group will aim to help its small-town members use their portions of federal COVID-19 money to get started on wastewater systems that would enable home construction in their village centers.

“There is an opportunity for compact development in our towns,” she said.

Brattleboro’s ARPA share is about $3.3 million; Putney, another member of the coalition, is expected to get $734,000.

That’s not enough to build a sewer system by itself, but it could help defray costs of studies and permitting.

“It’s not earmarked for housing in any way, but it certainly is appropriate for infrastructure, and we’re trying to encourage that,” Graff said.

Banding together makes sense when expanding wastewater capacity, Campany

We’re not talking singlefamily homes on little lots.

We’re talking apartments, condos, apartment buildings.

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said. And finding a suitable place for new housing in one small town could serve the needs of neighboring communities.

“Maybe the solution for one town really lies in a conversation among four towns,” he said.

Coalition members have high hopes for a housing project envisioned for the campus of the Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development, which acquired 177 acres when it bought the former Austine School in 2016. The center oversees a housing program for struggling families and is a coalition member.

“Land is a pretty big part of what gets in folks’ way” when developers are assessing the price of new housing, executive director Chloe Learey said. “And we have land.

We have an asset for the community.”

The planned Winston Prouty housing project — a joint effort with a nonprofit that’s affiliated with the Omega Optical campus next door — is years away.

Brattleboro first plans to study the wastewater needs of the combined 300-acre site.

Learey would like to see 100 to 200 units of housing rise there for low- and moderatewage earners in the next two years.

“We’re not talking single-family homes on little lots,” she said. “We’re talking apartments, condos, apartment buildings.

The whole continuum has to be robust.”

Brattleboro, the largest town in the coalition, is also taking steps as a municipality to make it easier to create new

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management system stymies even the most modest housing proposals — such as when a landowner wants to add a small ADU, or even a new bedroom. “In a rural place, you have to provide all your own infrastructure,” Lalley said. And the cost of a new in-ground septic system — which, she said, usually ranges between $25,000 and $35,000 — is prohibitively expensive for most property owners.

Westfordians aren’t clamoring for 50-unit apartment complexes, Lalley clarified. “That would be incredibly controversial here,” she said. “We’re looking for more incremental, organic growth — you know, stealthily adding an ADU here and there. No one would even notice. There would just be a few more people getting coffee every morning.”

Many of the homes in Westford depend on old underground septic tanks, and the area’s fine clay soils have poor filtration.

The Westford Country Store and Café, which opened in 2020 in a historic building on the town green that had been vacant for years, has one apartment on its second floor, and there’s enough square footage to add a second, Manka said. But given the building’s aging septic system and the slow-draining soils, the owner wouldn’t be able to accommodate two units upstairs and still maintain the kitchen operation on the first floor.

“People want a vibrant community here,” Manka said. “Right now, you have to choose: ‘Am I going to go for the apartment, or do I want a café?’”

housing. In 2020, the town relaxed parking requirements to ease the way for property owners to add apartments to their homes downtown.

That program rapidly brought an estimated 30 apartments online, and its success caught the attention of housing policy advocates around the state. Planning director Sue Fillion noted that property owners were able to use emergency COVID-19 funding available at that time to renovate apartments.

Otherwise, she said, “there’s been a house here and a house there, but there has been no significant housing development in the last 10 years at least.”

Now, a consultant for Brattleboro is looking at another round of zoning changes in hopes of encouraging developers to choose downtown sites for multifamily housing, and the town is seeking proposals for senior housing to be built on an underutilized parking lot downtown.

Such measures work only at the edges of such a large and complex crisis; none will solve the area’s housing shortfall alone. But officials see promise in an approach that marshals disparate voices and ideas from across southern Vermont.

“It’s about breaking down some of the barriers that maybe contribute to higher housing costs,” Fillion said. “It’s making sure we are providing lots of options.”

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Postmodern Pioneer 1960s Fluxus artist Nye Ffarrabas is celebrated at Brattleboro’s C.X. Silver Gallery DONA ANN MCADAMS

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he went to happenings with Allan Kaprow and on mushroom treks with John Cage.

She was in a Yoko Ono film, performed in avant-garde festivals and dined with Marcel Duchamp. Nye Ffarrabas, aka Bici (Forbes) Hendricks, was a central figure in the Fluxus art movement of the 1960s. She and others created intermedia events that pushed the boundaries of prevailing norms in painting, sculpture, poetry, music and theater. They erased distinctions between art and life as they celebrated daily activities. Their radical aesthetics influenced subsequent postmodern performance and visual art.

Ffarrabas’ works are in museum collections around the country, including at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. But several factors conspired to blur art history, leaving far too few who remember Ffarrabas’ legacy. After divorc ing her 32

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husband, Geoff Hendricks, she left New York, had multiple careers while still making art and changed her name.

In 1982, she moved permanently to Brattleboro, where she has created art and worked as a psychotherapist ever since.

There, at C.X. Silver Gallery, her legacy is known and celebrated. In 2014, the gallery hosted “Nye Ffarrabas: A Walk on the Inside,” a 50-year retrospective. Many of Ffarrabas’ works are still on exhibit at the gallery, which serves as the repository of her archives.

This fall, C.X. Silver Gallery will publish The Friday Book of White Noise (1964-1969), Ffarrabas’ early journals of ideas and concepts that often led to art pieces and performances. The book was “originally a shared effort between her and her former husband,” gallery co-owner Adam Silver said, but “she took ownership of it over time and is annotating it for publication.”

In March, over lunch in the gallery with Silver and photographer Dona Ann McAdams, Ffarrabas talked about her life

as an artist. Then she took the group on a tour of her works.

Ffarrabas’ early pieces were revelatory, particularly her “Egg/Time Event” sculpture — a simple, everyday object reconfigured. A real egg is encased and hidden in an irregularly shaped plaster block with rubber-stamped red text: “February 22 [19]66” and “DO NOT OPEN FOR 100 YEARS.” McAdams was wowed by “Dinner Service” (1966), a table setting for four with hubcaps as plates and pliers, hammers and screwdrivers as silverware. “The most amazing thing was when she sat down at her table installation,” McAdams enthused, “and she did an impromptu performance with the hubcaps. Fluxus is always a part of it.”

Ffarrabas spoke about the art zeitgeist of the ’60s. Growing up in the Boston area, she first met Hendricks while attending Vermont’s Putney School. (Her name at the time was Bici Forbes.) He invited her to attend “A Spring Happening,” a performance art event organized by Allan

Kaprow in 1961. She was enchanted: “walking around, the sound of bacon frying, someone singing in the shower,” she said. It was unlike anything she had ever experienced. From there, she “kind of oozed into Fluxus and loved it.”

She joined Hendricks in Manhattan.

They married in 1961 and had two children, Tyche and Bracken. The couple participated in events together, but Ffarrabas, known then as Bici Hendricks, continued creating her own work. It was a fertile time for them both as they became stars in the burgeoning Fluxus movement.

“I work with what I find around me, either objects or words, and I go from there,” Ffarrabas said of her artistic practice.

Her husband’s brother Jon Hendricks was an artist and curator. At dinner one evening, he looked through her notebooks.

“I started showing him a few things I was fiddling with,” Ffarrabas said. He invited her to put on a solo show at New York’s Judson Gallery.

Village Voice reviewer John Perreault didn’t quite know what to make of that 1966 Judson exhibition, titled “Word Work.” It was composed of “flags, messages, wall poems, signs, changing displays, meditations, irreverent icons, emblems, eggs, tea parties, field trips and giveaways all by Bici Hendricks who presides pleasantly over this intermedia mélange of tricks, jokes, art, and party favors,” Perreault wrote. “All of these hijinks are delightful, even the slide projectors of poems or instructions, and some of it is definitely art.”

Judson continued to exhibit Ffarrabas’ work. She recounted how her 1969 Fluxus piece “Terminal Reading” came about. “I had wanted to write a novel, and I was writing this stuff and it was bad. So I thought, I’ll burn it.”

She set up four music stands with a hibachi in the middle. Each stand held a black folder containing a quarter of what she had written. “The idea was to start reading, and then somebody else would read,” she said. “Somebody else might come in on top, and soon it sounded like the beginning of a fugue. After each page was read, the pages had to be crumpled and thrown in the fire until there were no pages left.”

A common practice in this period was mail art — artists sending small-scale works through the postal service to

friends. Ffarrabas founded Black Thumb Press, “a pipe dream that did a little more than dream,” she recalled. She and her husband created words and/or pictures to mail to others, along with other artists, including Robert Watts and Ono. One of Ffarrabas’ cards was a conceptual invitation that read, “Imagine that today’s newspaper is a book of mythology.”

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“Egg/Time Event” by Nye Ffarrabas

Ono’s 1967 six-minute film “No. 4” included Ffarrabas in its montage of buttocks of famous artists. As colleagues, she and Ono would visit playgrounds with their children. “We were mothers in the park at times, and we were just friends talking about our work,” Ffarrabas recalled. “We were doing similar stuff.

We would talk about art and money and this and that.”

Ffarrabas participated in Charlotte Moorman’s Annual Avant Garde Festivals from 1966 to 1978. For these

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Bici Forbes (aka Nye Ffarrabas) balancing an egg (1967)

outdoor extravaganzas, she crafted two large calligraphic banners for a parade, offered people Reiki on a park bench and performed “Universal Laundry” (1966), in which she washed clean diapers in a pond in New York’s Central Park and hung up four or five to dry. One was dyed light blue and painted with the United Nations insignia.

Unfortunately, Ffarrabas’ husband received more notice within the art world than she did. At the Happening & Fluxus festival in Cologne, Germany, in 1970, “He had his cubicle, and I had my cubicle,” she recalled. “People would come up to me and say, ‘Oh, wasn’t it nice that you could come, too.’ And I would say, ‘That’s mine!’” as she pointed at her art.

In 1971, her husband asked what they should do for their 10th anniversary. “‘Let’s get a divorce, a Flux Divorce,’” she recalled saying, “and we were off and running.” Friends Ono, John Lennon, Kate Millett and other art world luminaries attended the party at the couple’s brownstone. Cultural critic Jill Johnston played the piano and wrote about it later in her weekly column in the Village Voice.

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It was a public art ritual they created to symbolize an end of their marriage as it had been and the beginning of a new chapter that would include a non-monogamous, open relationship that made space for same-sex partners. They strung barbed wire through the kitchen.

They sawed their bed in half. They donned a pair of overcoats, sewed together back to back; then the women pulled my mother and the men pulled my father until the coats tore asunder.

After the divorce, Ffarrabas dropped her married surname, Hendricks, and continued creating under her given name, Bici Forbes. She and her children moved to a sixth-floor loft in the nascent SoHo arts district in lower Manhattan. But “I didn’t have any marketable skills, and the kids were going crosstown to school,” she said. “It was complicated, so we moved to Cambridge, [Mass.], to live with one of my sisters.”

Life changes ensued: “There I wasn’t trying to put myself forward as an artist; they weren’t ready for this stuff.” She went back to school to become a psychotherapist and practiced for a few years, “but it was hard being near my family.

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I’d been in New York too long for a conservative Boston family!”

Ffarrabas had attended the Putney School as a teen and loved that part of Vermont. Her ex-husband’s family, whom she also loved, lived in Putney. (His father, Walter Hendricks, founded Marlboro College.) She didn’t want to be “in their backyard,” so in 1982 she moved to Brattleboro.

There, she continued writing poetry, creating calligraphic drawings and found-object sculptures, and repurposing wooden chairs with agitprop messaging.

She worked for Child Protective Services in the Vermont Department for Children and Families, and she volunteered in AIDS hospice work.

In 1993, she changed her name to Nye Ffarrabas. “I wanted to be me,” she recalled. “I spent the first 60 years with somebody else’s idea of me, and the next 60 is mine.”

Through genealogy research, she had discovered that Ffarrabas was a variant of Forbes and that Nye was a wonderfully complementary Welsh first name.

C.X. Silver wasn’t the first Vermont gallery to take notice of her art. Windham Art Gallery in Windham and the Michael S. Currier Center at the Putney School exhibited a group of her repurposed political chairs in 2008 and 2010, respectively. She called them “an abbreviated history of our country, told in rocking chairs.”

In 2011, Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art presented “Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life,” an exhibit of works organized into 14 themes. The press release described one of Ffarrabas’ pieces, grouped under the “Happiness?” theme, this way:

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“Universal Laundry”

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Stress Formula proposes that we need more jokes than drugs. A vitamin bottle whose label is inscribed with the suggested dosage, “Take one capsule every four hours, for laughs,” Stress Formula contains clear capsules with little rolled pieces of paper, presumably printed with

humorous messages. Fluxus artists seem to agree that happiness is something we make for ourselves, not the result of something that happens to us.

Dartmouth’s Fluxus exhibition caught the attention of Cai Xi Silver and her husband, Adam. Cai Xi contacted Ffarrabas for a paper she was writing on Fluxus for the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

A few years later, C.X. Silver Gallery mounted Ffarrabas’ 50-year retrospective. Its catalog is replete with essays, anecdotes and exaltations. In it, Ffarrabas’ first curator, Jon Hendricks, reminds readers that “careers have been made on the backs of her pioneering artwork.”

A 1968 quote from the artist herself particularly resonates: “Art has no obligation to be pretty. It does have an obligation to be relevant in its time.”

In 2019, Ffarrabas completed a Möbius strip installation of text on paper for the gallery, and her writing is featured in the Brattleboro Words Trail. She made her most recent piece, “When All the Water Is Gone” (2022), a calligraphy and oxtail bone installation, in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe over the Dakota Access Pipeline.

On June 21, Ffarrabas turns 90. She is “in the midst of several new Fluxus projects,” she said, including working with the gallery on The Friday Book of White Noise.

When asked whether she had any advice for her 20-year-old self, without hesitating she smiled and said, “Forget the 1950s.”

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Chef/co-owner NISACHON “RUNG” MORGAN of SAAP restaurant in Randolph has been named Best Chef: Northeast by the James Beard Foundation. The honor marks the first time a Vermont chef has won the top regional award in what is often called the food and beverage Oscars.

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To make the cones, she uses an event cotton candy machine, which is smaller than the classic model and allows her to make smaller batches and even mix two flavors on one cone. She takes one tablespoon of her cured sugar blend and pours it into the center of the event machine, which heats up to 250 degrees, melting the sugar almost immediately. Because of the velocity at which it spins, the cotton candy shoots out in strands that are thinner than human hair. Armstrong works quickly to catch it and shape it into a sphere on a classic paper cone.

Always inventing new flavors in her Williston home lab, Armstrong also takes custom orders, for which she’ll tackle anything her clients dream up.

Her gourmet treats extend beyond the cone. She offers cotton candy cakes; “sparkle drops,” which create a magical fizz when submerged in drinks; and gift boxes of cotton candy that can be used as party favors. The latter are almost too pretty to eat: The watermelon flavor is half pink and half green, with edible

candied watermelon seeds sprinkled on top.

Because cotton candy is very sensitive to heat, moisture and sunlight, Armstrong works in a dehumidified room with a blackout curtain. She can’t spin live outdoors in the rain.

Her favorite part of the creative process is taste test day, she said, though not every flavor passes. Pizza was a flop, and she’s learned that lavender is a tricky science.

“Lavenders are really overpowering. It can taste like soap. You don’t want cotton candy that tastes like soap — how devastating,” said Armstrong, who has perfected her lavender concoction by using significantly less flavoring relative to sugar. She’s also learned that certain flavors, such as banana, can illicit polarized “strong feelings” from customers.

People harbor many misconceptions about cotton candy, Armstrong said — first and foremost, that it’s higher in sugar content than other treats. In fact, she said, one cotton candy cone contains a tablespoon of sugar. She estimates that the sugar content of one Oreo cookie is equivalent to that of two and a half cotton candy cones; one cupcake equals a whopping six cotton candy cones.

Containers of cotton candy, which can come in any flavor customers dream up

“That’s the magic,” Armstrong said.

“It’s a giant puffball of air and sugar and beautifulness. It’s the perfect treat to trick your kids — and less calories, too.”

Cotton candy was actually invented by a dentist, Armstrong continued, “to be a low-sugar alternative to fair food, like a candy apple.” She learned that in elementary school when she did a project on her favorite treat.

Another misconception she combats is that cotton candy is just for kids.

Armstrong wants her customers to know there’s no age limit on loving the sweet treats she spins.

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“Anyone can eat ice cream. Anyone can eat a cupcake. Anyone can eat cotton candy.”

Armstrong’s own love for cotton candy goes back to her childhood. Growing up

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“When I was 7 years old,” she recalled, “I told one of my little buddies that I wanted to make cotton candy and I wanted to do all crazy flavors, just like the Rainbow Ice Lady … and I wanted to be a crazy cotton candy lady.” Her friend teased her and called her a “carny,” but the sugary seed of an idea had taken root.

It was a sweet escape from the insecurities that Armstrong faced in school.

As a child, she lived with a petit mal seizure disorder, which presented as staring spells. Less was known about epilepsy three decades ago in her small community, Armstrong said, and the school system put her in a classroom for mentally disabled students. She eventually outgrew the childhood epilepsy, but school remained an uphill battle, as she was diagnosed with dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Armstrong’s mother also lived with epilepsy and suffered exhaustion from an excessive medication dosage. She gave her daughter steadfast support, Armstrong said, encouraging her not to dwell on what other people thought. Her two grandmothers gave her the same guidance.

“You don’t need to tone yourself out so that people accept you. The right people will accept you for the way that you are,” said Armstrong, who now lives her life in full color.

She has almost as many colorful costumes as she has flavors, giving new meaning to the saying “You are what you eat.” Her home lab has an array of sparkling, sequined pink slip-on shoes on the floor and a drawer filled with tutus. One of her favorite getups is her shimmering pink tracksuit.

“You can feel emotion when you see colors,” Armstrong said.

Last year, Armstrong found herself working at the Northfield Labor Day Weekend Celebration alongside the very same rainbow ice vendor who was her original muse.

“I got to tell her to her face, ‘You are literally the reason that I am doing this.

I wanted to be just like you,’” Armstrong said.

Armstrong herself has become a muse to the kids and adults who ask to take pictures with her at her events. One of her big “wow” moments happened last year, when she heard that a little girl had dressed up as the Crazy Cotton Candy Lady for Halloween.

“It’s surreal. But it also makes me really happy to make kids happy,” she said.

As Armstrong finished spinning the lavender cone at the Waterbury Farmers Market, the child who had ordered it stood on tiptoe, waiting with excitement.

Armstrong held the puff of pale purple in the air like a torch and leaned over the booth to pass it to her young customer. At the instant of the handoff, both of their faces lit up with joy.

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An increasing number of Vermont bread bakers use locally grown, freshly milled flour. But, as far as she knows, Elizabeth Trostel is the only one in the state using pedal power to mill some of her grain.

Trostel, 38, has been a professional baker for about 15 years, but she’d never biked much — until recently. “I have a bike,” she said. “I’ve been on the causeway once.”

The New Hampshire native first moved to Vermont to attend the University of Vermont. She moved west for several years and then returned in 2016 with her girlfriend, who’s now her wife.

In November 2021, Trostel started her tiny Bicycle Mill Baking in a shared kitchen space at New Leaf Organics farm in Bristol. So far, she has sold her small batches of bread, pastries, granola and some prepared foods at New Leaf’s farmstand on Bristol Road. Bicycle Mill Baking is also a new vendor this year at the Richmond Farmers Market.

Trostel still works four days a week at Burlington’s August First bakery and café, where she is general manager. “I just don’t sleep a lot,” she said.

By about 7 a.m. on a recent Friday morning, dark, crusty loaves of sourdough made with 40 percent freshly milled grain were curing on a wire rack. The bread is named Walter in honor of Trostel’s late father, a serious baking hobbyist whose sourdough starter she still uses. “It’s like keeping a little piece of him,” Trostel said.

For her father’s namesake loaf, Trostel mills Nitty Gritty Grain wheat grown in Charlotte and Thornhill Farm rye from Greensboro Bend. She supplements them with flour from Nitty Gritty Grain.

Later that morning, she baked soft but hearty sandwich loaves made with 50 percent freshly milled kamut, an ancient wheat variety.

There are several benefits to just-milled grain, Trostel said. “The flavor of flour degrades quickly,” she explained, particularly that of whole-grain flours, which contain more oils. Milling her own flour also permits Trostel to work with less common grains, such as kamut, that some people seem to tolerate better than modern strains of wheat.

Trostel initially bought a hand-cranked mill, “but that was too hard,” she said. She could’ve bought a motor to run it but instead opted for a kit that allowed her to power the mill by bike. “I like to do everything the long way,” she said with a chuckle.

During downtime while her dough is resting, rising or baking, Trostel hops onto a standard road bike set up in a stationary trainer with the mill attached to the back wheel.

She tips a bowl of whole grain kernels, known as berries, into the cherry-red funnel at the top of the mill, adjusts the grinding burrs, climbs on and starts pedaling. But the miller cannot speed with abandon, Trostel cautioned. “If you pedal too fast, the oil in the grain heats up, and you get off flavors,” she said.

The bicycle mill may not prove super efficient as Trostel scales up her business, but she expects it will continue to play a role, including guest appearances at the farmers market.

“It’s a fun way to get other people interested in what I’m interested in,” she said. “You could have loaves that were 100 percent community milled.”

Though Trostel doesn’t track her mileage, the exercise is “good for me,” she added. It might also lead to another new business, she joked: “Someday I’ll invite you to my bicycle mill spin studio.” m

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Book review: Watergate: A New History, Garrett M. Graff B Y N E D FAR QUHAR

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arrett M. Graff ’s Watergate: A New History comes 50 years after the fateful night in 1972 when five burglars were caught in the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the luxury Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. The book is a zombie thriller, bringing a cataclysmic 26-month political episode back to life. It’s a visit to the graveyard where five decades ago the American people learned about confidence-shaking criminality by a sitting president and, for the first time in history, a president resigned rather than face inevitable conviction after an expected impeachment.

The president was Richard Nixon, now a disgraced name in the hall of presidents. Today Nixon ranks 31st among 44 presidents whom C-SPAN has rated in consultation with a bank of presidential historians, and he’s been steadily dropping. (Donald Trump ranks 41st, ahead of three real clunkers.)

Vermont author Graff covers Watergate as anything but a pedagogical, dry-as-dust scholar’s subject. Instead, the book is a crime drama, a pirate tale, a mystery, a character study, a spy story and a Greek tragedy, disguised as Pulitzer Prize-level historiography.

As he did in his spellbinding oral history of 9/11, The Only Plane in the Sky (2019), Graff methodically assembles facts, perspectives, activities, analysis, anecdotes and interpretations into a seamless, engaging book that will hold the attention of scholars, college students and beach readers alike. If you’re among the latter, a warning: Get a tablet with a glare-proof screen, because the book itself, at more than 800 pages, is hard to hold and makes a digital reader indispensable.

Graff ’s national résumé is impressive, including editorial leadership at magazines Politico and Washingtonian and multiple acclaimed best sellers. As a high school student in Montpelier, he was governor Howard Dean’s first webmaster; in 2004, he made history with Dean’s masterful internet-based presidential campaign. He has served on Vermont Public Radio’s Board of Directors and

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Graff portrays Nixon’s background fairly and transparently. No mistake: More than most presidents and unlike the disgraced recent president to whom he’s often compared, Nixon was a bright and knowledgeable guy who broadly understood the nation’s ills and its foreign roles and responsibilities. After serving in the U.S. House and Senate and for eight years as vice president under Dwight Eisenhower, he was well prepared for the presidency.

The author conveys Nixon’s paradigmshifting presidential policy achievements: outreach to mainland China, ending the U.S. combat presence in Vietnam, overseeing successful ballistic missile negotiations with the Soviet Union and coproducing landmark eco law.

Yet Graff ’s writing sparkles with respect to Nixon’s psychological backstory — the story now so familiar to Americans, about deceit, paranoia and secrecy. As early as 1947, in his first congressional race, Nixon publicly smeared his opponent as a secret communist, setting a pattern for subsequent campaigns. Among his numerous fears, he had a consuming conviction that the Kennedys had stolen the 1960 election from him, and he imagined a Kennedy in the shadows of future conspiracies.

Nixon wasn’t paranoid only about political opponents. In his view, almost anyone could be double-crossed, jilted or set up; in most cases, loyalty meant nothing. He lashed out at Jews, Catholics and Black people in private conversations with his staff. He had a gut-level hatred for hippies, radicals and those who questioned America. He expected campaign workers to play dirty tricks that would turn off voters tempted to vote for Democrats. For good reason does right-wing political operative Roger Stone — the eminent dirty trickster who got his start on Nixon’s campaign team — have a nearly full-size, minutely detailed tattoo of Nixon on his back.

Nixon was always sure the Democrats were up to something, setting him up and knocking him down. He drank to excess.

He was a conspiracy theorist surrounded

by conspiracy theorists. Henry Kissinger, his Nobel Prize-winning secretary of state, questioned his mental stability.

“As his administration advanced,” Graff writes, “Nixon worried that his brilliant strategy and decisive leadership weren’t being adequately captured for posterity.”

So he secretly ordered a system to tape his White House conversations. “From February 16, 1971, until July 12, 1973, the recording system would capture 3,432 hours of conversation, providing … the most thorough and intimate view America has had of any of its presidents. It also would be the root cause of his downfall.”

On these tapes was the sizzling record of schemes for burglary, illicit fundraising and payoffs, perjury, outright lies, presidential prevarication to the media, and manipulation of staff to maintain secrecy.

Nixon was well into the Watergate crisis when his staff finally ordered the taping system removed.

On Friday, July 13, 1973, Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield acknowledged the existence of the tapes in response to congressional staff questioning about the Watergate burglary. “The words hit like lightning,” Graff writes.

Nixon told his chief of staff to destroy the tapes, but his order was never carried out. As Graff moves beyond Nixon’s history into Watergate itself, his recapitulation of events — the individual conversations, the stealth, the distrust among colleagues, Nixon’s rants, the undermining of his own lawyers — becomes a rollicking, thunderous roller-coaster ride of a read, the kind of thing you can’t put down even when you smell dinner burning.

One example is the story of the Federal Bureau of Investigation official who was eventually revealed as the “Deep Throat” source who fed secret investigative information to reporters. He turns out to be an ambitious insider who coveted the FBI director’s job and spent a large part of his government-salaried time undermining the appointed director. By the time Graff’s narrative reveals this, the reader can only be shocked — shocked, much like the corrupt police official discovering gambling at Rick’s Café in Casablanca.

Graff quotes one of the great firstperson mendacities by any president, from a press conference in which Nixon was publicly posing as a victim, a naïf: “What really hurts in matters of this sort is not the fact that they occur — because overzealous people in campaigns do things that are wrong — what really hurts is if you try to cover it up.” Somehow Nixon always drew the inspector’s magnifying glass onto himself.

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Watergate: A History by Garrett M. Graff.

Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, 832 pages. $35.

Ned Farquhar, of Waitsfield, recently served as president and a board member of Friends of the Mad River and is treasurer of the Mad River Valley Rotary Club. He was a senior adviser to former governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico and on Richardson’s 2007 presidential campaign, and for five years he was a deputy assistant secretary in the Obama administration.

Laugh It Off Comedian Chris Laker on bullies, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and podcasting with Jack Antonoff

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ome people might say that they’re better for the bullying they endured in their youth.

Comedian Chris Laker is not one of them. His new show, “Bully,” hinges on unpacking childhood experiences with being pushed around.

He performs twice on Saturday, June 18, at the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington. After several more North American dates, he takes the show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland.

Laker, 49, has been doing comedy for almost 20 years. He briefly worked as an accountant in his early days of pursuing standup — but he was fired.

The experience didn’t even garner him much material for his act, because he had to sign a nondisclosure agreement after getting canned.

When he’s not telling jokes, the Staten Island native hosts two podcasts. One, “Overslept,” is a stream of consciousness he records most days just after waking up. (Be sure to check out the episodes from March 11 to 16 in 2020 as Laker reacts to lockdown in real time.) The other, which debuted this March, is an unvarnished, meandering tête-à-tête with pop music

producer and Bleachers front person Jack Antonoff, called “A Very Long Conversation.”

Seven Days caught up with Laker by phone.

SEVEN DAYS: Your new show is called “Bully.” Can you break it down a bit?

CHRIS LAKER: My standup has always been really about me and my life experience. I can only speak for myself, but I keep hearing this thing about how bullies are needed, or bullies are good.

I don’t know. I got punched in the face a lot. I feel like I had this perspective like that was good for me or something.

And then I realized, No, I don’t think it helped me at all. So it’s kind of me figuring my way through that. It’s my experience with being bullied and times that I’ve been a bully as a kid, and what that feels like later.

SD: What were the bullies like on Staten Island when you were a kid?

CL: I wasn’t that big of a kid, but I was a little chubby or whatever. I was just kind of a target, for whatever reason.

There were kids that got it worse than

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instructive contrasts. It’s impossible to ignore the difference between hallof-fame Republicans such as senators Howard Baker and Barry Goldwater, who eventually grew disgusted with Nixon and abandoned him, and today’s spineless GOP leadership.

Yet Graff, while including the politicos in the action, leaves such contrast to the reader. He never colors his history with modern-day parallels or compares Nixon’s behavior to that of former president Trump.

Overall, Watergate: A New History is delicious and smoothly digestible. The photos are great. If grad students wrote any chapters, we can’t tell — unlike some recent histories in which multiple chapters reintroduce the same people or issues as though the reader hasn’t yet encountered them.

The references and annotations are thorough and helpful, as is Graff ’s explanation of his research sources and methodology. His style is refreshingly colloquial, more reportorial at times than scholarly, keeping the book exciting from cover to cover. It would help if he reminded us more frequently of specific dates instead of saying “That same day” when the date reference is several pages back, but that’s a quibble.

One reason it’s smart to wait 50 years to do real historical analysis is that by then, you know a lot more about the past — and, for context, what happened in the interim.

One can only imagine what future historians will have to say about the events of the past few years. While Graff himself doesn’t draw the comparison, history will eventually show that Watergate’s tortuous sequence of investigations, firings, bombshell journalistic revelations, whimpering Republican cowardice and simpering GOP loyalty are a pale precedent to what happened during the Trump presidency and in the aftermath of the January 6 riot.

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GRAND OPENING me. Then I kind of became friends with some people who were, like, bullies, and then sometimes your friends beat you up.

It was kind of normal. It was just a lot of fighting.

Looking back, I know these kids were messed up.

They had it rough. I don’t know where that leaves them today. It’s probably all over the map as far as CHRIS who moved past that and who’s stuck in it or who doesn’t even think about it, you know?

SD: Tell me about the origin of your podcast with Jack Antonoff.

CL: Well, Jack is Jacqueline’s cousin. I’ve known him since I’ve known her. And Jacqueline had the idea for a podcast.

She edits them. The first time we sat down was in March of 2020, a couple of weeks before lockdown. It’s just kind of a loose, casual thing.

L AKE R It’s not very regimented.

I wanted to just talk to him about being an artist to see if I can get any insight out of that process to use any of it in what I do. I love his perspective on all that stuff.

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SD: Does your show try to offer solutions to bullying?

CL: How do you stop kids from bullying?

I don’t know how to do that. I wish I did.

SD: So you’re taking the show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. What are some special or unique things about the fest?

CL: I did it in 2018. The audiences are really cool, even though my audiences were tiny. I heard there were, like, 4,000 shows, which is way too many. I heard this somewhere, I didn’t read it, so I don’t know if it’s true, but the average size of an audience at a show at Fringe is six people — which I found to be high. I did a lot of shows for two people. I did a show for one person. I give them the opportunity to leave. Even if they leave the room, I’m going to do the show no matter what.

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SD: Your partner, Jacqueline Novak, is also a comedian. What are some pros and cons of having the same job as your partner?

CL: There are no cons, really. It’s the best.

She really understands. We can talk about our stuff all day. She gets everything. She’s going be there with me in Edinburgh.

She’s going to direct the show. There’s never been a feeling of competition or anything like that, on either side.

SD: Do you find that you influence each other’s writing styles or creative processes?

CL: We’re very different that way. Her brain is very different than mine; the way she talks is different. And I think that helps. I think it would get weird if we were crossing over too much. She’s smarter than me — like, for real. I’m not trying to be folksy. She sees things that I don’t see.

She looks at things differently. Every once in a while I can be of help to her, but she’s extremely helpful to me when I talk these things through. But we always go with our instincts and do our own thing.

SD: One thing that came up on an episode was this concept of “generational nationalism.” What is that, exactly?

CL: It’s people getting attached to what happened to them. I think that’s why people talk about bullies in a nostalgic way, instead of just moving along and being like, “Oh, no, that was messed up; let’s keep moving.” It’s kind of just being tied to something. Like, because I was born this year, that’s the best time … I feel like I try to be in the now. I don’t try to be tied up in what was, you know?

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SD: Here are two more questions that I often ask people I interview. One: What’s something you could never live without?

CL: I guess I’ll say music. Is that an acceptable answer?

SD: Yes, but it wouldn’t have been back when I was music editor of this paper and was mostly talking to musicians. Have you seen any good shows lately?

CL: I saw Jack White the other night.

Pretty amazing. I don’t know what else to say. Our cat died a few weeks ago.

I’m in a pet-less house, and with Fringe coming up, we can’t go to the pound.

We have to wait until after. So, I guess I’d say a cat, but I am living without one now.

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CL: I guess I’ll say April Fools’ Day. I’m not a big prank guy. m This interview was edited and condensed for clarity and length.

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Short Takes on Five Vermont Books Seven Days writers can’t possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, an army of spongy moths. (Ugh!) So this monthly feature is our way of introducing you to a handful of books by Vermont authors. To do that, we contextualize each book just a little and quote a single representative sentence from, yes, page 32.

POEM: A Mashup M.D. Usher, illustrated by T. Motley, Fomite Press, 90 pages. $20.

And some / beat boldly / on a big / bass / drum.

The Treehouse on Dog River Road Catherine Drake, She Writes Press, 320 pages. $16.95.

Heading straight for Pinterest, she typed “Vision Board” in the search box.

Can you Pinterest your way out of an existential crisis? Twenty-eightyear-old Hannah thinks so. The protagonist of Catherine Drake’s first novel, The Treehouse on Dog River Road, has taken a voluntary layoff at her Boston-based investment firm. She needs to clear her head, reevaluate her priorities and make a new plan. Time for a vision board!

Hannah’s sister, Molly, and her husband, Ted, are college professors and research scientists embarking on a monthslong project in South America. They’ve asked Hannah to take care of their 6- and 4-year-old kids for the summer. Perfect timing!

Their Waterbury, Vt., home offers stunning views of the mountains — not to mention views of the sexy carpenter who just moved in next door.

In the opposite place from her professionally flourishing sister and brother-in-law, Hannah doesn’t know what she wants, only what she doesn’t. A Green Mountain summer, a treehouse-building project and a friendly stranger seem like just the ticket to help her figure things out.

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HEAT: A Tale of Love and Fear in a Climate-Changed World Matthys Levy, Distinction Press, 202 pages. $19.95.

What used to be paradise is now a dying landscape.

Albert Drake is distraught as he describes the view outside his Miami window. It’s the middle of the 21st century, and the high-end retirement community he runs, his only source of income, is being destroyed by the climate crisis. He has moved all but eight residents to other communities far from the rising sea and “north of the heat zone.” But now a huge hurricane is building off the coast of Africa, and Drake must move the remaining seniors as quickly as possible.

Author Matthys Levy draws on decades of engineering and climate expertise to craft his second novel. For more than 60 years, Levy designed structures with New York City firm Weidlinger Associates (now Thornton Tomasetti), and in 2007 he published Why the Wind Blows: A History of Weather and Global Warming. His latest novel follows a group of people facing heartbreak and finding hope as scrubber satellites try to remove carbon from the upper atmosphere and millions flee uninhabitable homes.

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Ice Out Susan Speranza, SheWrites Press, 237 pages. $16.95.

When Francesca reached the surface, she flailed, then anchored herself to the ice…

Francesca Bodin has what seems like an idyllic life: a loving husband, a bubbly 4-year-old daughter, a teaching job she adores and a home in the woods. But her lifelong quest for perfection in all things comes to a shattering end when her family plunges through lake ice on a snowmobile. Francesca is left gasping for air, her daughter missing.

Her husband, triggered by another long-concealed trauma — the death of his twin sister — has abandoned them both to die.

Susan Speranza’s third novel, Ice Out, is set in two locales familiar to the author: Long Island and Vermont. Part romance, part allegorical fantasy, the story leaps between the life-or-death urgency of Francesca’s predicament and an exhumation of her past. Upon finally freeing herself from the lake, she encounters a group of women who were similarly betrayed and left to die. Torn between competing desires for salvation and revenge, Francesca wrestles with existential questions as she struggles to discern what’s real and what’s a dream — or a nightmare.

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Beyond the classroom, few people read poetry. With POEM: A Mashup, University of Vermont classics professor M.D. Usher aims to remind readers of its joys.

His book presents a cento, he writes, a patchwork poem stitched together from many voices, similar to a DJ sampling artists and spinning their music into a fresh, cohesive whole.

Usher pulls from the canon of English-language poets — plus one Roman, as befits a classicist.

T. Motley’s graphic treatment amplifies enjoyment and elucidation. The letters of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” weave through the body of a fantastical creature. The phrase “Some wander lonely as a cloud,” slightly adapted from William Wordsworth, floats among fluffy clouds. Frogs regard their watery reflections through spectacles formed from the letters in an Emily Dickinson poem.

Equally illuminating are Usher’s pithy essays on the 21 sampled poets. Of Robert Frost, he writes, “By most accounts, no one liked him.” Poetry may be equally unpopular, but Usher and Motley make a compelling case for giving it another chance.

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Catalysts for Change: How Nonprofits and a Foundation Are Helping Shape Vermont’s Future Doug Wilhelm, Rootstock Publishing, 310 pages. $19.99.

Imagine having a qualified, caring midwife never leave your side for a 12-hour labor.

Providing more “qualified, caring midwi[ves]” was the founding purpose of the Lintilhac Foundation, former Boston Globe reporter Doug Wilhelm writes in Catalysts for Change: How Nonprofits and a Foundation Are Helping Shape Vermont’s Future. The book explores how community-based organizations have influenced activism in Vermont with a focus on the Lintilhac Foundation, which Claire Lintilhac established in 1975 to bring nurse-midwifery back into the health care system through the University of Vermont Medical Center.

The foundation has since expanded to advocate for causes such as land conservation, clean energy and responsible journalism.

Crea Lintilhac, daughter-in-law of Claire, writes in the introduction that “we tell stories of the expertise, strategic accomplishments, persistence, and dedication of these organizations, which have worked to ensure access to health and welfare for all Vermonters.” Wilhelm uses an effective combination of interviews, stories and images to keep the book engaging across 11 chapters as he covers those missions.

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Taking the Waters “Coming Clean,” at the Museum of Everyday Life, shows us how and why we bathe S TO RY & PHOT O BY PAMEL A POLSTON • ppolston@sevendaysvt.com

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he Museum of Everyday Life in Glover is a uniquely Vermonty marvel. It mounts just a single exhibit each year, but for the whole year. It’s free, though donations are welcome. It’s unlocked and unstaffed; visitors are instructed to turn on the lights when they arrive and, if no one else is there, shut them off when they leave. The building, a big white time-worn barn, is unheated and uncooled — dress accordingly. The place has a distinct “cheap art” aesthetic on par with the Bread and Puppet Museum up the road. That’s no coincidence; founder Clare Dolan is a Bread and Puppet Theater veteran.

As its name plainly states, this repository considers the quotidian — stuff that fancier museums might not deem, well, museum-worthy. Previous exhibitions have presented thoughtful and entertaining surveys of the pencil, scissors, rope, bells and whistles, notes and lists, and — most improbably — dust. (Then again, what is more “everyday” than dust?) All of the artifacts are donated and found.

This year, the museum invites visitors to contemplate bathing. Titled “Coming Clean,” the new collection of objects “takes a look at how and why we humans wash ourselves,” introductory text explains.

Throughout history and across cultures, we have “developed an enormous variety of strategies in response to the persistent impulse to make ourselves ‘clean.’”

That big white barn is actually filled with truncated versions of its previous exhibitions — now comprising a permanent collection. So, Dolan opened up an adjacent former milking parlor for the installation of “Coming Clean.” The room itself seems freshly scrubbed, boasting a new pine floor and white-painted walls.

Once a home for lactating bovines, the space is a country cousin to the standard white-cube urban gallery. But the exhibition actually begins outside.

In a grassy courtyard, visitors can choose to take a solar-powered shower or rinse their hands in a small spring-fed pool. The latter is a Northeast Kingdom version of tsukubai, which are “wash basins placed at the gates of holy places 48

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“Cold Plunge”

for ritual cleansing” in Japan, explains the signage. Another outdoor installation is a makeshift shrine: “holy water” in a chipped enamel basin beneath a picture of Bernadette, whose 1858 sighting of the Virgin Mary turned a grotto in Lourdes, France, into a pilgrimage site for believers, who still visit to this day.

Entering the gallery space, the first impression is auditory: It’s the sound of water — not sacramental, but the runningbathtub sort. Sure enough, at the back of the room a rusty old iron tub is filled almost to the brim with water that trickles in from a hose. (A drain hole prevents the tub from overflowing.) And that water is frigid. Here visitors are invited to take a “Cold Plunge.” Hardy types who dip into Lake Champlain in the winter might go for this challenge — a changing area is nearby, enclosed by a shower curtain. The rest of us might briefly stick in a finger or two.

Towels are provided.

Many of the entries for this theme are on point: myriad scrubbers, sponges and exfoliating items; various soaps and cleansers; old porcelain faucet handles; a bidet; a couple of foot-soaking basins

(visitors are invited to indulge in the electric one); vintage posters illustrating proper handwashing; a rubber duckie (“You make bath time lots of fun!”).

The museum’s exhibitions always attract some obsessive collectors who must be thrilled to find kindred spirits.

For “Coming Clean,” a donor named Jack Bossom sent in a few dozen moist towelettes, arranged in groups and framed under glass. They make up just a fraction of the unopened packets that he began to amass 20 years ago — most from air travel. “Now I have what I believe is the largest collection in the world, outside of the companies that make them,” he wrote with understandable pride. His towelettes have a charming variety of names: WashUp, Tote Towel, Clean-Quick, Jiffy Towel, Wet-Nap, Twinks and, best of all, Wash Away Your Sins.

Other displays are unexpected, such as the photos of a gay male bathhouse in New York City and an audio recording (heard through headphones) of Bette Midler singing at one of them in 1971. “Accompanied on the piano by the young Barry Manilow,” reads a text, she “developed

her stage persona and honed her chops in front of audiences of men in towels sitting poolside.”

One especially remarkable item is a grainy black-and-white film of ritual cleansing. The date and religious tradition are not specified, but wall text notes that such practices are found in Christian, Islamic and Jewish faiths. “Some scholars theorize that our mysterious attachment to concepts of spiritual purity and impurity might have evolved from impulses that initially promoted hygiene behaviors that kept us safe from life-threatening pathogens,” reads the text.

A famous “bathing” image in the exhibition was shot in 1969 but still resonates.

On the children’s show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” Fred Rogers and Officer (François) Clemmons cooled their bare footsies together in a kiddie pool.

The seemingly innocuous sketch was in response to racial tension around the ongoing segregation of public swimming pools at the time.

“This quiet scene between Clemmons and Rogers made a big statement, showing millions of children across the country Black and White men bathing their feet together and sharing a towel to dry off,” reads the text. It quotes Rogers: “‘Sometimes just a minute like this will really make a difference’” — perhaps a coded comment for the adults in the room.

Museum of Everyday Life exhibitions are decidedly offbeat, but they’re not jokey.

Text for the entries is researched, informative and thought-provoking. “Coming Clean” might be the museum’s most puissant and relevant presentation to date.

“In a time of pandemic, rife with fears of contagion, the very idea of cleanliness becomes a kind of talisman of protection for our bodies,” the introduction suggests.

The exhibition considers the multiple meanings of its title and by implication addresses a collective need for starting over, refreshed.

INFO “Coming Clean” is on view through July 2023 at the Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. museumofeverydaylife.org

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ARTISAN MARKET: An outdoor marketplace featuring arts, crafts, specialty foods and other handmade items. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, Saturday, June 18, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Info, 775-0356.

f JOHN DOUGLAS: “A Life Well Lived,” a retrospec-

tive of photographs by the late Burlington artist and truth activist. Reception: Saturday, June 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m. June 22-August 22. Info, 793-8482.

Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington.

f ORLANDO ALMANZA: “Born by the River,” lush oil paintings featuring fantastic creatures, rural mythological symbols and magical realism by the Cuban artist. Reception: Thursday, June 16, 5:30-8:30 p.m. June 16-August 13. Info, 324-0014.

Soapbox Arts in Burlington.

mad river valley/waterbury

GREEN MOUNTAIN WATERCOLOR EXHIBITION: More than 100 paintings in diverse styles by artists from across North America, presented by Mad River Valley Arts and juried by Sarah Yeoman AWS. June 22-July 23. Info, 496-6682. Red Barn Galleries, Lareau Farm, in Waitsfield.

northeast kingdom

f ‘ART FROM GUANTÁNAMO BAY’: A touring exhibi-

tion of nearly 100 artworks by six men detained at the U.S. federal facility for as long as 20 years without being charged with any crimes; curated by Erin L. Thompson. Reception and panel discussion: Sunday, June 26, 7 p.m. June 22-August 21. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.

brattleboro/okemo valley

‘FELT EXPERIENCE’: Works by five artists who use the medium of felt in diverse and novel ways: Marjolein Dallinga, Ruth Jeyaveeran, Melissa Joseph, Liam Lee and Stephanie Metz; curated

by Sarah Freeman and Katherine Gass Stowe. f ‘NEBIZUN: WATER IS LIFE’: Artwork by Abenaki artists of the Champlain Valley and Connecticut River Valley, including protest art created in support of the Native American Water Protectors; curated

by Vera Longtoe Sheehan. Opening celebration: Friday, June 24, 7 p.m., featuring a curator talk and performances by Abenaki musicians. BETH GALSTON: “Unraveling Oculus,” an immersive sculptural installation using natural elements and video recorded in a silo. FRANK JACKSON: “There/There,” abstract landscape fresco paintings that address questions of place, memory and experience. MIE YIM: “Fluid Boundaries,” vivid paintings of unsettling hybrid creatures by the New York City-based artist; curated by Sarah Freeman.

ROBERLEY BELL: “The Landscape Stares Back,” outdoor sculpture on the museum lawn. June 18-October 10. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

BTV MARKET: An expansion of the former BCA Artist Market includes arts, crafts and other wares, as well as food and live music. Burlington City Hall Park, Saturday, June 18, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Info, 865-7166.

FIGURE DRAWING SOCIAL: Bring your own supplies and draw a live model. Proof of vaccination required. RSVP at wishbonecollectivevt.com.

Wishbone Collective, Winooski, Wednesday, June 15, 6-8 p.m. $15. Info, 662-3050.

OPEN STUDIO: The Howard Center Arts Collective offers an opportunity for art-making every Monday this summer. Art supplies provided. Adult artists who have lived experience with mental health challenges or substance-use disorder are welcome to join. Expressive Arts Burlington, Monday, June 20, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, artscollective@ howardcenter.org.

OPEN STUDIO FRIDAYS: Wind down from your week with a self-initiated project or activity — from art to writing to reading — in the companionable company of others online. Details at poartry.org.

Online, Friday, June 17, 6-8 p.m. Free; donations appreciated. Info, poartryproject@gmail.com.

OPENING OF SUMMER EXHIBITS: A celebration of new exhibits in the galleries and outside the museum. Face masks are required indoors.

Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Saturday, June 18, 5-7 p.m. Info, 257-0124.

OPENING PARTY FOR EXHIBITIONS: An outdoor reception to celebrate the artwork, with Salvadoran food, cash bar and live music by the Bluebird Orchestra. Masks required indoors. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Saturday, June 18, 5 p.m.

Free. Info, 257-0124.

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burlington

‘FROM THE ARCHIVES: BURLINGTON DISCOVER JAZZ FESTIVAL’: Images of players and performances of past festivals by Vermont photographers Luke Awtry, Brian Drourr and Mark Harlan. Lorraine B. Good Room. Through July 3. Info, 865-7296. BCA Center in Burlington.

‘MUSEUM OF THE ART OF TODAY: DEPARTMENT OF THE INVISIBLE’: Installations, sculptures, photographs, paintings and videos collected by Montréal artist Stanley Février that represent artists from a variety of cultural backgrounds.

June 15-August 28. Info, 514-235-2044. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

6/26 Claire Black 7/15 Sohyun Ahn, Eun Hee Park 8/12 Jorge Garcia Herranz 8/25 Flores Argentinas with Sarah Cullins, John Dunlop, others

ONGOING SHOWS

manchester/bennington

f 2022 JURIED EXHIBITION: “As We Tilt Toward the Sun,” 69 works by 46 Vermont and New Hampshire artists relating to themes of solstice, time, process, change and new beginnings; juried

by Janie Cohen, director of the Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont. Reception: Friday, June 17, 5-7 p.m. June 17-July 9. Info, 603-448-3117.

AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

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8v-islandarts061522 1 VISITING ARTIST TALK: LISI RASKIN: Vermont Studio Center hosts a Zoom discussion with the artist, an associate professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, whose work in a variety of mediums focuses on inclusive pedagogy.

Register at vermontstudiocenter.org. Online, Thursday, June 16, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2727.

ART AT THE HOSPITAL: Acrylic paintings of Haiti

by Pievy Polyte (Main Street Connector, ACC 3); hand-cut paper artworks by Adrienne Ginter (Main Street Connector and BCC); oil paintings of nature by Nancy Chapman (Main Street Connector and McClure 4); acrylic paintings by Lisa Balfour (Pathology Hallway, EP2); and oil paintings of nature by Joy Huckins-Noss (BCC, EP2). Through September 19. Info, 865-7296. University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington.

f DAISY ROCKWELL: “Dhwani/Resonance,” South Asian-inspired paintings by the artist, writer and translator of Hindi and Urdu literature. Reception: Friday, June 17, 7 p.m. June 17-September 17. Info, 803-362-2607. Manchester Community Library in Manchester Center.

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KELLY HOLT: “Streetstyle,” mixed-media urban photography by the Burlington artist. Through June 30. Info, 540-0406. ArtsRiot in Burlington.

MALTEX ARTISTS: New works by James Vogler, Myles Moran, Kathleen Grant, Nancy Tomczak, Kristina Pentek and Bear Cieri, in the hallways.

Through August 31. Info, 865-7296. The Maltex Building in Burlington.

‘PORTRAITS OF PRIDE’: An exhibition of photographs

by M. Sharkey of individuals who were part of the 1983 Pride March; presented by the Pride Center of Vermont and the Vermont Folklife Center. Through September 30. Info, 865-7296. Burlington City Hall.

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“Road to the Lake” by Susan Abbott

“Legato” by Molly Doe Wensberg

‘100+ FACES OF WINOOSKI’: Daniel Schechner of Wishbone Collective photographed more than 150 residents in conjunction with the Winooski Centennial Celebration. The collection can also be viewed online. Info, legacy@winooskivt.gov. ‘MILL TO MALL: HISTORIC SPACE REIMAGINED’: An exhibition that tells the story of the public-private partnership that enabled the preservation and rebirth of a formerly derelict industrial building into a shopping center. Visitors are encouraged to add personal memories of the space to the community recollections. Through July 29. Free. Info, 355-9937. Heritage Winooski Mill Museum.

‘ABENAKI CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE VERMONT COMMUNITY’: A series of murals designed by Scott Silverstein in consultation with Abenaki artists Lisa Ainsworth Plourde and Vera Longtoe Sheehan and members of Richmond Racial Equity; the 10 panels celebrate the Abenaki origins of practices still important to Vermont culture. Through May 31. Info, radiate.art.space@gmail.com. Richmond Town Hall.

ART AT THE AIRPORT: Caleb Kenna, aerial photographs of Vermont (Skyway); and Kathleen Fleming, acrylic paintings inspired by landscapes (Gates 1-8), curated by Burlington City Arts. Through September 30. Info, 865-7296. Burlington International Airport in South Burlington.

f BONNIE ACKER: “Living Color,” oil paintings by the

LIZ LE SERVIGET: “Tracking Time Through COVID,” a solo show of small watercolor paintings made every day since mid-March 2020 by the Montpelier artist. Through August 5. Info, 595-5252. Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier.

Susan Abbott and Molly Doe Wensberg

In a visual duet at Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury, Susan Abbott and Molly Doe Wensberg illustrate two objectively different ways of viewing, and painting, New England landscapes. Their shared exhibition is titled “Town & Country,” but the paintings hew mainly toward the latter.

“I’m still inspired by what I see here every day and in all seasons,” writes Abbott in an artist statement. Many of her paintings in this collection feature the built environment of

Burlington artist. Reception: Friday, June 17, 5-6:30 p.m. Through July 9. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

farms and small towns in their natural environs. But Abbott does not simply copy reality;

‘EYESIGHT & INSIGHT: LENS ON AMERICAN ART’: An exhibition of artworks that illuminates creative responses to perceptions of vision; four sections explore themes ranging from 18th-century optical technologies to the social and historical connotations of eyeglasses in portraiture from the 19th century to the present. Through October 16.

‘IN PLAIN SIGHT: REDISCOVERING CHARLES SUMNER BUNN’S DECOYS’: An online exhibition of shorebird decoys carved by the member of the Shinnecock-Montauk Tribes, based on extensive research and resolving historic controversy. Through October 5.

‘OUR COLLECTION: ELECTRA HAVEMEYER WEBB, EDITH HALPERT AND FOLK ART’: A virtual exhibition that celebrates the friendship between the museum founder and her longtime art dealer, featuring archival photographs and ephemera, a voice recording from Halpert, and quotations pulled from the women’s extensive correspondences.

Through February 9. MARIA SHELL: “Off the Grid,” 14 contemporary quilts that push the boundaries of the traditional gridded format by the Alaska-based quilter.

Through October 16. NANCY WINSHIP MILLIKEN: “Varied and Alive,” four monumental outdoor sculptures set in a pollinator meadow that embody the museum’s commitment to environmental stewardship and feature natural materials intrinsic to the region. Through October 16. Info, 985-3346.

Shelburne Museum.

colors that seem lit from within.

FAIR HOUSING EXHIBITION: A group show featuring works by artists who responded to the prompt, “What makes a thriving, inclusive community?” Presented

by Arts So Wonderful and CVOEO’s Fair Housing Project. Through June 30. Arts So Wonderful Gallery in South Burlington.

f ‘FINE FEATHERS’: Works by more than 60 artists

and poets inspired by birds and feather colors, shapes, patterns and functions. Meet-the-artists reception: Thursday, July 14, 3 p.m. Through October 31. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington.

f LINDA BLACKERBY: Vibrant abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Reception: Wednesday, June 22, 6 p.m. Through October 2. Info, contact@ artsswonderful.com. Shelburne Vineyard.

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JEROME LIPANI: “Visual Fugue,” analytical abstractions and assemblages of found materials, conceived as scores for music and dance improvisation. Through September 30. Info, jeromelipani@gmail. com. Plainfield Co-op.

she augments it. In her Montpelier studio, she renders quotidian scenes in highly saturated Abbott also takes something away from many of her land- and townscapes: people. A human presence is implied — by utilitarian pickup trucks, a clothesline hung with sheets, a neatly mowed lawn — but not seen. The omission is a teensy bit unsettling. But Abbott’s candy-land palette is so inviting, it hardly matters.

She does have a body of figurative works, as well as a collection of gorgeous paintings inspired by her 590-mile trek on Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage trail in Spain. In this exhibition, Abbott offers a different kind of journey: from the ordinary to the magical.

Wensberg, who lives in rural New Hampshire, is content to paint what she sees en plein air. Her myriad compositions of fields and mountains, predominantly in hues of green and blue, are pictures of serenity.

In her earlier career as a tapestry weaver, Wensberg explains on her website, she would “paint with wool.” In 1998 she switched to rendering landscapes in oil on canvas. But her agility with textiles seems to have translated to the brush: Wensberg’s vistas are gently impressionistic — a softness that can coax the viewer into a meditative reverie. Her aim is “to paint the emotion of a place,” she writes, “rather than focusing on specific local information. I remind myself constantly of the expression, ‘less is more.’”

“Town & Country” is on view through June 26.

LISA BALFOUR & KELLY O’NEAL: Acrylic paintings (Merrill Community Room) and photographs exploring place (Pierson Room), respectively. Curated

by Burlington City Arts. Through June 15. Info, 865-7296. Pierson Library in Shelburne.

ROSS SHEEHAN: “A Different Place, Altogether,” mixedmedia works that investigate changing and forgotten physical environments, memories and dreams of and about South Burlington, seeking meaning in the city’s thresholds. Through June 30. Info, 775-303-8863.

South Burlington Public Library & City Hall.

‘TUCKED IN: RESILIENCE IN SMALL MOMENTS’: Artwork created during the pandemic lockdown by Leslie Roth, Dianne Shullenberger and Elizabeth Fram. Through June 19. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

VISUAL ART IN SEVEN DAYS:

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‘IN THE LIGHT OF SPRING’: Artworks in a variety of mediums by 32 members of the Art Resource Association, a Montpelier organization that supports visual artists through exhibition opportunities and workshops. Through June 27.

Info, 229-6206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.

JANET VAN FLEET: Wood and mixed-media sculptures: boats, figures, oracles and prophets. Through June 30.

Info, 613-3182. J. Langdon Antiques & Art in Montpelier.

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‘LOCAL PERSPECTIVES’: An exhibit by members of the Central Hub of the Vermont Pastel Society. ‘THE PRINTMAKING INVITATIONAL 2022’: An exhibition of works by Vermont artists Janet Cathey, Lynn Newcomb and Michael Roosevelt, curated by Phillip Robertson.

Through July 8. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

‘NOW YOU SEE IT’: A group exhibit involving illusion art that plays with perception of space and depth through paintings, sculptures and other works. Main Floor Gallery. Through June 25. MAGGIE NEALE: “Vibrations: Dance of Color and Form,” paintings.

Third Floor Gallery. Through June 25. SILENT ART AUCTION: Artworks and crafts in a variety of mediums; sales benefit SPA programs. Second Floor Gallery. Online catalog available. Bidding at SPA and Morse Block Deli. Through June 17. Info, 479-7069.

Studio Place Arts in Barre.

MARK GRASSO: Pastels, in originals and prints, of the natural world: lakesides, landscapes and seascapes. Through June 28. Info, 479-0896.

Espresso Bueno in Barre.

PAUL GRUHLER: “Harmonics,” geometric abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through June 30.

Info, 279-5558. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

‘RED OCULUS’: A hut-like installation by Susan Calza, sited outside city hall, houses a tape recorder and a notebook and invites passersby to drop in and share what they’re thinking about. Through July 31. Info, 224-6827. Montpelier City Hall.

SHOW 49: Paintings, drawings and sculptures in diverse styles by 16 members of the cooperative gallery. Through June 26. Info, 552-0877. The Front in Montpelier.

SUSAN CALZA: “Bubbles and the Big Head: a meditation on plastic,” mixed-media installation.

Through July 24. Info, 224-6827. Susan Calza Gallery in Montpelier.

‘VOICES OF ST. JOSEPH’S ORPHANAGE’: An exhibition documenting the abuse of children who lived at the former Catholic Diocese-run orphanage in Burlington, and the stories of former orphans that led to changes in child-protection laws. Through July 30. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

‘THE WORLD THROUGH THEIR EYES’: Watercolors and drawings by 19th-century Norwich alumni William Brenton Boggs and Truman Seymour depicting scenes in North and South America, Asia, Europe and Africa. Through December 16. Info, 485-2886.

Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield.

stowe/smuggs

‘TELL US A STORY’: A group exhibit in which artists were invited to convey a narrative in three pieces of work each. Through June 19. 2022 LEGACY COLLECTION: An exhibit of works by 16 distinguished New England landscape artists plus a selection of works by Alden Bryan and Mary Bryan. Through December 24. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

ALTERNATIVE TAKES GALLERY: An exhibition by Misoo Bang, Richard Britell and Mary Reilly

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art featuring three different perspectives on the world, from the architecture of western civilization to the natural world, to the individuals navigating both, accomplished with paint, collage and graphite. Through October 31. Info, 760-4634.

Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort.

‘ART IN A TIME OF CRISIS’: Works in a variety of mediums by Rebecca Schwarz, Caroline Loftus, Kate Arslambakova and Martha Dunbar that address the question: “How does the changing climate affect artists and their practices?” DAN GOTTSEGEN: “I Give You Mountains and Rivers Without End,” abstracted landscape paintings in which patterned bands of color depict music. Through July 9. Info, 888-1261.

River Arts in Morrisville.

‘THE ART OF THE GRAPHIC’: Eight displays of snowboards that let viewers see the design process from initial conception to final product; featuring artists Scott Lenhardt, Mark Gonzalez, Mikey Welsh, Mishel Schwartz and more. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

f MAGGIE NOWINKSI & ALICIA RENADETTE: “Exquisite Variants,” drawings and prints of animal/ botanical hybrid specimens, and sculptures that mimic ecosystems in states of flux, respectively.

Closing reception and gallery talk: Friday, July 1, 6-7:30 p.m. Through July 1. Info, 635-2727. Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson.

MEMBERS’ ART SHOW AND SALE: An annual exhibition of member-submitted artworks in a variety of mediums. Through July 23. Info, 253-8358.

The Current in Stowe.

NORTHERN VERMONT ARTISTS ASSOCIATION: The 91st annual juried member exhibition featuring artworks in a variety of mediums. Through July 9.

Info, 644-8183. Visions of Vermont in Jeffersonville.

RENÉE LAUZON: “The Break Up,” a solo exhibition by the painter and sonic artist. Through July 3. Info, kyle.minemagallery@gmail.com. Minema Gallery in Johnson.

mad river valley/waterbury

f KASEY LOYER: Recent nature-inspired abstract paintings by the South Burlington artist. Reception: Friday, June 17, 6-8 p.m. Through June 18. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery in Waterbury. f THE MAD MIX ANNUAL MEMBERS SHOW: An exhibition featuring Vermont painters, photographers, potters, jewelry makers, glassblowers and sculptors. Reception: Friday, August 12, 5:30 p.m.

Through August 19. Info, 496-6682. Mad River Valley Arts Festival Gallery in Waitsfield.

middlebury area

PRINDLE WISSLER: “It Runs With the Territory,” a retrospective exhibit of paintings and prints by the late local artist. Through June 30. Info, 388-1436.

Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

SARAH KING: “My Side of the Bed,” paintings by the Connecticut-based artist and children’s book illustrator. Through June 15. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

‘SENSE OF RELIEF’: A group exhibition celebrating the art of relief printing with 2D prints, book arts and mixed media by more than 20 artists. Through July 10. Info, 989-7225. Sparrow Art Supply in Middlebury.

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BILL RAMAGE: “A Lamentation for a Lost Lexicon,” paper, canvas and installation works à la Jackson Pollock that address the CIA’s involvement with abstract expressionist art during the Cold War. On view by appointment only. Through June 30. Info, bramage93@gmail.com. B&G Gallery in Rutland.

2022 CARTOONISTS THESIS EXHIBITION: The final projects by this year’s graduates.

Through June 30. Info, 295-3319. Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction

35TH ANNUAL MEMBERS’ EXHIBITION: Sculptures by member-artists in a variety of styles. Through July 10. Info, 438-2097. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland.

‘VERMONT: IN THE COUNTRY’: The second of three all-member shows in all mediums celebrating our favorite state, from rolling farmland to lake scenes. Through July 10. WARREN KIMBLE: “Artful Assemblages,” tableaux created from found objects by the renowned artist and Brandon resident. Through July 9. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

VERMONT PASTEL SOCIETY: A juried exhibition of 58 pastel paintings by members of the association.

Through July 22. Info, info@chaffeeartcenter.org.

Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.

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DAVID STROMEYER: The artist’s outdoor venue featuring 70 large-scale contemporary sculptures is open for the season, Thursday through Sunday.

Through October 10. Info, 512-333-2119. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in Enosburg Falls.

‘SUMMER SUITE’: Paintings by Jill Matthews and Katie Runde. Through July 27. Info, 989-7419.

Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls.

SALLY LINDER: “Love Is,” new paintings by the Burlington artist that show us the many forms of love and ask us to meditate on its meaning. Through July 27. Info, 355-2150. GreenTARA Space in North Hero.

SUSAN ABBOTT & MOLLY DOE WENSBERG: “Town and Country,” paintings of New England landscape from two very different perspectives. Through June 26. Info, 9897419. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

‘TRAVELS IN THE MIND DURING COVID TIME’: A photo journey with artists Barbara Flack and Orah Moore. Through August 4. Info, 285-6505. Haston Library in Franklin.

36TH ANNUAL QUILT EXHIBITION: “Piecing the Past to the Present,” a juried display of works from Windsor County quilters, as well as a pair of historical quilts from the museum’s collection. Through July 10. Info, 457-2355. Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock.

ANNIVERSARY AUCTION: An exhibition and silent auction of donated artworks to celebrate the gallery’s first year of existence. See @kishka.auction on Instagram to bid. Through June 26. Info, 347-264-4808. Kishka Gallery & Library in White River Junction.

JEAN GERBER: “River Travel,” paintings inspired by trips to Alaska, the Yukon and Maine. Through August 31. Info, 295-4567. Long River Gallery in White River Junction.

MARGARET LAMPE KANNENSTINE: Paintings focused on the Ottauquechee River by the Vermont artist. Through June 30. Info, 359-3194. Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee.

‘MENDING THE SPACES BETWEEN: REFLECTIONS AND CONTEMPLATIONS’: Prompted by a vandalized Bible, 22 artists and poets respond to questions about how we can mend our world, find ways to listen and work together. Through November 30.

Info, 649-0124. Norwich Historical Society and Community Center.

‘SPRING INTO SUMMER’: The annual members show featuring prints in a variety of styles and techniques.

Through June 26. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

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STACY HOPKINS: “Shapeshifter,” linoleum prints of ravens by the gallery owner and jewelry artisan.

Through July 31. Info, 603-443-3017. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

JULIA PAVONE: “Abstractions,” a solo exhibition of nonrepresentational paintings in oil, acrylic and encaustic. Through June 18. Info, 889-9404.

Tunbridge Public Library.

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BEN BARNES: A solo collection of realistic paintings of Vermont life. Through June 30. Info, 229-8317.

The Satellite Gallery in Lyndonville.

‘COMING CLEAN’: An exhibition that considers bathing practices throughout time and across cultures, including religious immersion and ritual purification, bathing as health cure, methods of washing in extreme environments, and much more.

All kinds of bathing and scrubbing implements are on display. Through July 2023. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

CYNTHIA STEIL: “Paint, Feathers and Bones,” a retrospective of paintings from around the Northeast Kingdom and travels abroad by the Ryegate artist.

Through July 16. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

LOIS EBY & JUDITH WREND: “In Motion,” lyrical paintings and kinetic sculptures, respectively.

Through July 24. Info, 533-2000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

LYNNE BERARD: “Dream Journey,” paintings in vibrant colors of harmony and gratitude. Through June 28. Info, 525-3366. The Parker Pie Company in West Glover.

f ROSS CONNELLY: “Protest,” a collection of black-and-white photographs documenting civic and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., in the late 1960s by the former co-publisher and editor of the Hardwick Gazette. Closing reception: Sunday, July 10, 4-7 p.m. Through July 17. Info, 563-2037. White Water Gallery in East Hardwick.

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LEON GOLUB: Nearly 70 expressive figurative paintings that explore man’s relationship with the dynamics of power, spanning the American artist’s career from 1947 to 2002. LOIS DODD: A survey of some 50 paintings by the American artist from the late 1950s through last year that depict places she lives and works, from rural Maine to New York City. Through November 27. Info, vermont@hallartfoundation.org.

Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

LYDIA KERN: “Passages,” a multimedia exhibition including wall pieces, video and sculptural installations in doorways. Through June 25. Info, jamie. mohr78@gmail.com. Epsilon Spires in Brattleboro.

NATHAN SHEPARD & MEGAN BUCHANAN: Oil and gouache paintings and poetry, respectively. Through August 12. Info, 387-0102. Next Stage Arts Project in Putney.

OASA DUVERNEY: “Black Power Wave,” a window installation of drawings by the Brooklyn artist, inspired by images of Chinese Fu dogs, the cross and the Yoruba deity Èsù. Through May 6. Info, 257-0124.

Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

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‘PARKS AND RECREATION’: An exhibition of paintings past and present that explores the history and artistic depictions of Vermont’s state parks and other formally designated natural areas. Contemporary works on loan from the Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Through November 6. ‘PERSPECTIVES: THE STORY OF BENNINGTON THROUGH MAPS’: A collection that shows the changing roles of maps, from those made by European colonists showcasing American conquests to later versions that celebrate civic progress and historic events. Through December 31. MARION HUSE: “Picturing Pownal,” paintings and silk-screen prints by the artist (1896-1967) whose successful career spanned 40 years, and who maintained a studio in Pownal. Through June 22.

Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

‘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, 2023. ADAM PENDLETON: “These Things We’ve Done Together,” the first solo show in Canada of the New York-based artist, whose work explores the relationships between Blackness, abstraction and the avant-garde. Through July 10. NICOLAS PARTY: “L’heure mauve” (“Mauve Twilight”), a dreamlike exhibition of paintings, sculptures and installation in the Swiss-born artist’s signature saturated colors.

Online reservations required. Through October 16.

Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

‘IN THE MOMENT: RECENT WORK BY LOUISE HAMLIN’: Paintings and works on paper by the former Dartmouth College studio art professor and print-maker. Through September 3. ‘THIS LAND: AMERICAN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE NATURAL WORLD’: Drawn from the permanent collection, the museum’s first major installation of traditional and contemporary Native American art set alongside early-to-contemporary art by African American, Asian American, Euro-American and Latin American artists, representing a broader perspective on “American” art. Through July 23. Info, 603-646-2808. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. JORDAN KING: “Blurred Lines,” paintings distorted with the use of tape. Through June 24. Info, 518563-1604. Strand Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y. m

CALL TO ARTISTS 2022 PHOTOGRAPHY SHOOT-OUT: The theme for this year’s competition is “Reflections.” First-place winner gets a solo show at Axel’s in 2023. Two entries per photographer. Rules and details at axelsgallery.com/news. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery, Waterbury. Through October 8. $20. Info, 244-7801.

CHELSEA ARTS ON THE GREEN FESTIVAL: Artists, artisans and food vendors are welcome to apply to this Labor Day weekend event. Deadline: August 1. Details at chelseavt-arts.com. Info, chelseaartscollective@gmail.com.

FAIRY HOUSE SUBMISSIONS: HCA is looking for artists to join our whimsical fairy house trail exhibition opening on July 9. Artwork will be displayed outside for the duration of the summer, so should be able to withstand the weather. Fairy house creations should fit within a 2-by-2-foot base.

Delivery date: June 22. Compensation includes admission to the Fairy Festival on July 9 and two complimentary tickets to a future HCA performance. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro. Info, boxoffice@highlandartsvt.org.

INVITING SOLO & SMALL GROUP SHOWS: SPA’s second and third floors are used for solo and small group shows; now seeking proposals for shows in 2023. Submission info at studioplacearts.com.

Deadline: June 25. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10 entry fee; free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069.

LOCAL ARTISTS AT VNRC: We’re seeking Vermont artists for three-month exhibitions starting as early as July 1. We are particularly interested in artists whose work connects with or complements our mission to protect and enhance the natural environments and wildlife, vibrant communities, productive working landscapes, rural character and a unique sense of place. To find out more, contact Alex Connizzo at aconnizzo@vnrc.org or 223-2328, ext. 126. Vermont Natural Resources Council, Montpelier.

Through July 1. Free.

MAKERS’ MARKET: We’re looking for makers whose works aren’t usually represented in the farmers and craft markets. If you lurk in dimly lit garages creating mad masterpieces, if your work has never or rarely been exhibited, apply to be a vendor at art7871.wixsite.com/makersmarketvt. Deadline: July 29.

Vermont Clothing Company, St. Albans. Free. Info, makersmarketvt@gmail.com.

‘THE ORDINARY AND THE EXTRAORDINARY’: Our next show will explore the contrast between the ordinary and the extraordinary. We are looking for artwork that illustrates one, the other, or both. All mediums will be considered. Visit sparrow-art-supply.square.site to learn how to enter. Sparrow Art Supply, Middlebury. Through July 6. Free to enter; $10 if accepted. Info, 989-7225.

PLAINFIELD CO-OP 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Submit proposals for visual work and/or performance for a November group show. We aim to honor folks who have shown or performed here over the last 50 years while also welcoming those new to the scene. We want to feature your art, poetry, music, dance, films, videos, memorabilia, as well as educational/community events and classes.

Contact Alexis Smith at vtpieco@gmail.com. Deadline: September 1. Plainfield Co-op. Info, vtpieco@ gmail.com.

REACT!: Across Roads Center for the Arts presents an EcoArt Call to Action: Recycle, repurpose, reuse, repeat. An exhibit (August 11 to October 16) will encompass art, activities and education on the theme of eco-art and celebrate the 10th anniversary of Vermont’s Universal Recycling Law. Events will include an “Iron Artist” challenge, workshops and auction fundraiser. Application deadline: June 26. Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center. Free. Info, info.acrossroads@gmail.com.

SEEKING NEW ARTIST-MEMBERS: The Front gallery is seeking artists of all backgrounds interested in provoking curiosity, exchanging ideas, and promoting engagement with the visual arts. We feature members’ work in six group exhibitions alternating with six solo shows annually. Members can use the gallery for talks, performances, movies and critiques. Find application at thefrontvt.com. The Front, Montpelier. Through June 15. Free. Info, 552-0877.

SEEKING ORIGINAL ART: The curator for the City of South Burlington is seeking artists interested in showing work in the public gallery at the public library and city hall. To learn more and submit interest, fill out this form: forms.gle/QH7kcLA33n1frF8N7. Through June 30. Info, gallery@ southburlingtonvt.gov.

SUMMER MEMBERS SHOW: The annual exhibition is open to all artists whose memberships are valid through August 1. All mediums accepted; 2D work must be ready to hang. All work must be labeled.

Drop-off June 15 to 24. Details and contract at strandcenter.org or the gallery. Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, N.Y. Free. Info, 518-563-1604.

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News and views on the local music + nightlife scene B Y C HR I S FA R N S WO R TH

Days of Future Past

We all process music differently.

Sometimes it’s the background of memories, a soundtrack for things we’ve done. Other times, it’s the main event, the memory itself — a concert with friends or maybe a song that stopped us in our tracks.

Music is also a lens through which to view history. And, maybe I’m biased, but I find that lens more reliable in many ways than the written word or even documentaries. Music carries a deep lore, full of legends and gripping stories, and an emotional resonance that can make the listener feel history rather than just learn about it.

I was reminded of how powerfully music can teach history when I popped down to the Flynn Space during the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival last week and listened to legendary bluesman BOBBY RUSH. In front of a baby boomer-heavy audience, the 88-year-old took the stage with a guitar, a harmonica and eight decades’ worth of stories.

“Hello there, Burlington,” Rush said, beaming a wide smile beneath his trademark mustache. (He used to tape on a fake one as a teenager in the 1940s to play clubs in Pine Bluff, Ark.) “Any of y’all ever seen me before?”

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and said he saw Rush play in Chicago in the ’60s.

Rush nodded his head. “Oh, yeah, Chicago,” he said in the same way Star Wars’ Obi-Wan Kenobi said, “Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.”

“Played a lot in Chicago,” Rush said, and the multitudes contained in that sentence alone could fill a book.

Bobby Rush

Rush moved to Chicago in 1953, where he would befriend and play music with the likes of LITTLE WALTER, HOWLIN’ WOLF, JIMMY REED, ETTA JAMES and MUDDY WATERS, among others. As he worked through his catalog — noting a few times that he has recorded well over 300 albums — he recounted stories about his old Chicago days.

Almost as skilled at standup comedy as music, Rush had the crowd laughing often, whether singing songs such as “Bowlegged Woman” or telling stories about getting tied up in bed by an exgirlfriend who was wielding a baseball bat. (Just as he got to the point where the ex in question was lubing up the bat with lard, Rush stopped playing and said, “You know, y’all might be a little too sophisticated for this song,” scoring a massive laugh from the crowd.)

Other stories hit a different nerve.

Rush talked about his excitement over getting hired at an all-white blues club in 1950s Chicago called Skins. It paid $13 a night, far more than any other gig at the time, but other Black performers didn’t want to play, much to Rush’s bemusement. He soon understood why.

When he arrived at the club, he saw that he’d be performing behind a curtain the whole time.

“The white folks wanted to hear the blues, but they didn’t want to see a Black man,” Rush recounted with a wry grin.

More than any other moment of this year’s jazz fest, that Rush story summed up what festival cocurators MICHAEL MWENSO and JONO GASPARRO told me was their goal when booking this year’s acts: diving into the Black roots of American music. Rush, like fellow octogenarian festival headliner GEORGE CLINTON, is one of the few living pillars of those roots still on the road, playing music and telling stories. I do not take that for granted, nor should anyone.

The music was incredible, but it was also a privilege to hear a gifted storyteller such as Rush recount his history. There were so many uplifting, educational, emotional and just plain fun moments in this year’s jazz fest — hot damn, that LAKECIA BENJAMIN set was on fire! But no memory will stay with me as clearly as Rush walking around the stage with a harmonica to his lips while his foot beat out a rhythm, like some wizard showing me the secrets of ancient magic.

All About Loving

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The City of Burlington’s Racial Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Office is throwing quite the party for Juneteenth celebrations this Sunday, June 19.

At numerous Queen City sites, the second installment of the city’s holiday celebration features a ton of music, along with games, activities, educational events and plenty of food.

The big ticket is at City Hall Park, with a stacked lineup of music and events. New Jersey hip-hop act POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS, Boston rapper ED O.G. and Brooklyn’s JERU THE DAMAJA will

Messing With Texas

Comedian TIM BRIDGE is getting out of Dodge.

The standup, a fixture in the Burlington comedy scene for the last eight years — and a finalist for best standup comic in this year’s Seven

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Daysies awards — is pulling up stakes and heading for the Lone Star State.

It’s actually Bridge’s second attempted escape from the Green Mountain State; he initially left in 2019 to move to New York City. But as he said in a recent phone call, “I can’t remember what went down, exactly, but didn’t something happen to throw a wrench in everything in 2020?”

After that nifty little pandemic thing scuttled his Big Apple comedy dreams, Bridge returned to Burlington but admits he’s felt stuck in “howto-leave” mode ever since.

After a trip to Austin, a city known for its robust comedy scene, Bridge finally found his escape route.

“I needed Tim Bridge a change of scenery,” he revealed. “You sort of peak as far as what you can do comedically in Burlington after four years. It’s been a wonderful town to live and grow in, though. The comedians and artists in general are all batting above the average. It’s like Single-A baseball, but we’re all hitting dingers, man.”

Bridge isn’t pulling an Irish goodbye, though. On Saturday, June 23, he’ll celebrate his 30th birthday while saying au revoir at Waterworks Food + Drink in Winooski at an event dubbed “Happy Birthday, Goodbye Forever.” With comedians TRACY DOLAN and MIKE THOMAS and MC-for-the-night CRAIG MITCHELL, Bridge will toast himself as he steps through the ever-revolving door of Burlington’s creatives.

“I’m a little disillusioned in the sense of ‘making it,’” Bridge said, referring to his hopes for succeeding in Austin.

“But I did some shows there and, hey, they still laugh down there! Shocking, I know.”

As to whether his material will undergo a big change after switching locales, the 2017 Vermont’s Funniest Comedian contest winner seemed unconcerned.

“The only change I foresee is, you know, actually leaving my house in January now,” he quipped.

If you want to hear one last joke before Bridge sets off for the land of “Walker, Texas Ranger,” head to Waterworks. The show is free, but seats can be reserved through the venue. m

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perform and be inducted into the National Hip-Hop Museum in a special ceremony, along with Pulitzer Prizewinning writer ALICE WALKER. Activist and scholar ANGELA DAVIS will speak as part of the inaugural Black Experience Celebration on Saturday, June 18, at Battery Park. The day-before-Juneteenth event explores the lived experiences of Vermonters and features music, presentations and food. Be sure to check it out at blackexperiencevt.com.

In addition to the Juneteenth inductions, the Hip-Hop Museum will present “Hip-Hop’s Freshest Fashions” at the Flynn Space. The installation, which runs from Thursday, June 16, through Thursday, June 23, features items such as legendary rapper RAKIM’s Gucci jacket and styles worn by artists DJ JAZZY JAY and “Yo! MTV Raps” host DR. DRE. Music-wise, the Waterfront Park stage features JENNI & THE JAZZ JUNKETEERS, SINNN, Winooski’s own A2VT and rapper CHARLIE MAYNE. Over at City Hall Park, highlights include MYRA FLYNN, DJ LUIS CALDERIN and KERUBO. Battery Park has OMEGA JADE (check out the review of her new album on page 58) and DJ RON STOPPABLE on the bill. Roosevelt Park gets in on the action, as well, with a lineup of kid-friendly events, followed by performances by DJ DAKOTA, LUTALO and ALBINO MBIE. The theme of last year’s Juneteenth celebration, the first staged by the city, was honoring the history, culture and resiliency of Black Americans. This year’s theme is love. The Racial Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Office’s website reads, “When you think about Black Americans, you can’t forget about the heart that it took to rebuild, restore, and revive a culture. We will have a weekend long Celebration powered by LOVE. Love from within, around and outside the community.”

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CLUB DATES live music WED.15

Bluegrass & BBQ (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Carissa Johnson (singersongwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

Couchsleepers with Cricket Blue (indie) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Courtyard Music Series (blues, jazz, rock) at Halvorson’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

DJ Steal Wool (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free.

Erin Cassels-Brown and Evan Allis (indie) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $5.

GWAR with Goatwhore, Nekrogoblikon and the Native Howl (metal) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 6 p.m. $35/$39.

Irish Sessions (Celtic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Jazz Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz open mic) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

The Kaleidoscope Kid (indie rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10/$15.

Kind Bud and Nug (acoustic jam) at Vermont Pub & Brewery, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Kristin Ford (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m.

Free.

Troy Millette Presents: Sample Sets (singer-songwriter) at 14th Star Brewing Co., St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Ween Wednesday: Knights of the Brown Table (Ween tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

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Acoustic Thursdays with Zach Nugent (acoustic Grateful Dead) at Red Square, Burlington, 5 p.m.

Free.

Alice Grace (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free. a.m. rejoice (indie folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

Ben Collins & the Celestial Company with Moondogs (indie) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8:30 p.m. $5.

Hana Zara (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10:30 p.m. $5.

Joshua Glass (singer-songwriter) at Filling Station, Middlesex, 6 p.m. Free.

Mark Legrand (country) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free.

Old Tom & the Lookouts with Brett Hughes (folk, Americana) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5/$7.

Paul Asbell Trio (jazz) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Roots Night Bluegrass Jam (bluegrass) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free.

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Ampevene (rock) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Barbacoa (surf rock) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Cozy O’Donnell (dance) at the Depot, St. Albans, 9 p.m. $5.

Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Eric George (folk) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free.

Kabaka Pyramid & the Bebble Rockers (reggae) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $20/$25.

Mark Legrand (country) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 6 p.m.

Free.

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.

Mark Legrand and Bar Belles (country) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free.

Matt & Dave of the Tenderbellies (Americana) at Stone’s Throw Pizza, Richmond, 6 p.m. Free.

Moondogs with No Showers On Vacation (jam, rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Queen Moo with Danny & the Parts (rock) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10. slenderbodies with Mokita (indie) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $17/$20.

Sunshine Serpents (folk rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6:30 p.m.

Free.

Tail Light Rebellion (folk) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

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Floatie with Lily Seabird, Spirts Having Fun, Guy Ferrari (indie rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $10/$12.

Freeway Clyde (jazz) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Genie Santiago and Ava Sophia (singer-songwriter) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Jacob Joliff Band (bluegrass) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $15/$18.

Left Eye Jump (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Long Autumn (alternative) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9 p.m. Free.

Low Echo (roots rock) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, noon. Free.

Matthew Mercury with Community Garden and Lavenderlux (indie rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10.

Ryan Sweezey Band with Troy Millette and Andriana Chobot (pop) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. $5.

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Easy Sweezey Burlington-based musician Ryan Sweezey has been a fixture

on the local scene since 2016. His mixture of pop and folk textures evokes older American roots music while referencing ’90s alt-pop, like Counting Crows and Matchbox Twenty. An a cappella singer in college and the winner of the 2019 Advance Music Singer/Songwriter Contest, Sweezey wields a voice as smooth as the hooks he layers in his songs, such as on his latest single, “My Turn.” The RYAN SWEEZEY BAND celebrate the release of a new album, Out Searching, at the Monkey House in Winooski on Saturday, June 18, with support from TROY MILLETTE and ANDRIANA CHOBOT.

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Smokin’ Js (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

TPR and Friends (rock) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

SUN.19

Blue Fox Trio (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Helen Hummel (folk) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free.

John Lackard Blues Duo (blues) at Vermont Pub & Brewery, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free.

Robin Gottfried Band (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

Sunday Brunch Tunes (singersongwriter) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.

MON.20

Cola with DARI BAY (indie) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8:30 p.m. $15.

Des Rocs, the Blue Stones (rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $20/$23.

TUE.21

Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10.

Haze & Dacey (folk) at Du Jour VT, Ludlow, 7 p.m. Free.

Honky Tonk Tuesday featuring Pony Hustle (country) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

The Wormdogs with Wolf Van Elfmand (bluegrass) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10.

WED.22

Anna Tivel, Jeffrey Martin (folk) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15/$18.

Bluegrass & BBQ (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Courtyard Music Series: David Karl Roberts (benefiting Spectrum Youth & Family Services) (folk, jazz) at Halvorson’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m.

Free.

Erin Casab (singer-songwriter) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Irish Sessions (Celtic folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6 p.m.

Free.

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Jazz Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz open mic) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Netherlands with GUHTS & Savage Hen (alt rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $5.

The Reflexions with Wayward Sons of the Apocalypse (reggae, funk) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Troy Millette Presents: Sample Sets (singer-songwriter) at 14th Star Brewing Co., St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $5.

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WED.22

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

Free.

MON.20

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DJ A-Ra$ (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

WED.15

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

DJ CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

Ladies’ Night All-Male Revue (male revue, DJ) at JP’s Pub, Burlington, 7 p.m. $27.

Dan & Grace (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

DJ CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

DJ4D (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Mo’ Monday with DJs Craig Mitchell and Fattie B (soul, R&B) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

Molly Mood (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

TUE.21

FRI.17

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

Ben Blanchard (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 9 p.m.

Free.

DJ Craig Mitchell (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

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

Emo Night with Malachi (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

SAT.18

After Hours featuring Malachi and Two Sev (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

DJ A-Ra$ (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Raul (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

WED.15

Colby Stiltz (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.

DJ Pato (DJ) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, noon. Free.

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DJ Two Sev (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

Ben Blanchard (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

DJ A-Ra$ (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

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

THU.16

Anyone but Me: A Standup Showcase (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

Standup Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8 p.m.

Free.

THU.16

Comedy Showcase (comedy) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Local Dork (DJ) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Junk Island (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:15 p.m. $5.

WED.22

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

Dan & Grace (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

DJ CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

DJ Steal Wool (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free.

open mics & jams WED.15

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

TUE.21

Lit Club (poetry open mic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

SAT.18

Chris Laker (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. $20.

TUE.21

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

WED.22

Standup Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8 p.m.

Free.

Open Mic with D Davis (open mic) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Dwight & Nicole command the HCA lawn with soul Reign One (DJ) at Red Square DJ Taka (DJ) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10.

trivia, karaoke, etc.

Trivia (trivia) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 6 p.m. Free.

Trivia & Nachos (trivia) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

FRI.17

Joy!: An All-Black Drag & Burlesque Showcase (burlesque) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7:30 p.m. $12.

SAT.18

An Evening of Sondheim: Full Circle Theater Cabaret Fundraiser (dinner, fundraiser) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6 p.m. $60.

Purple Pride Party (drag, burlesque) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $10/$15/$20.

MON.20

Trivia with Brian & Ian (trivia) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8:30 p.m. Free.

TUE.21

Karaoke with DJ Party Bear (karaoke) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m.

Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at the Depot, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free.

Tuesday Night Trivia (trivia) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. m

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With Jade’s multiple identities come a multitude of talents, many of which are highlighted on the record’s penultimate track, “Plight of the Femcee.”

The song begins with her daughter asking, “How did you become a rapper?

I think I want to be one one day.” It’s a relatively simple utterance that reminds listeners of the more complex and critical importance of representation in music and culture.

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multiple nervous breakdowns, getting fired from jobs and, eventually, ending up onstage spitting verses.

The darker reality of Jade’s answer (yin) offers a counterpoint to her loving, maternal tone (yang). Then the beat shifts, and in comes Jade’s MC voice, lower in tone and more serious in nature. She raps about feminism (yin), combating a misogynistic culture with empowering lyrics: “Ain’t no level playing field when you come with a uterus.” Then, “Either damn way we are more than our body / My mind makes the dreams that my body fulfills.” JoBu (yang) ends the song with his own uplifting, feminist verse.

If there is a critique to be made of the album, it’s that Jade’s flow doesn’t always hit. I wasn’t surprised to learn that she also does spoken word and poetry, as there are moments on the EP that sound more like spoken word over soulful beats than an MC’s flows alongside music. Still, Yin & Yang is a strong EP exploring femininity, community, challenge and creation, while acknowledging that competing truths can coexist.

Listen to Yin & Yang at omegajade. bandcamp.com.

My criticism is always superfluous, of course, but especially so with an artist this prolific. Sure, Bike Flipper is his new album, but Kochalka dropped 40 songs on Patreon in May alone. While reviews are often welcome promo, the artist has already moved on.

Kochalka’s extensive recording catalog is consistently lo-fi and high-energy. His music channels the manic id of a 10-yearold kid too bright for his own good — or perhaps a lifelong Dead Kennedys fan who never lost his deep appreciation for poop jokes. Beneath the goofball antics, Kochalka is a keen observer of the human condition, with a sharp intellect.

And he knows it: The album’s sixth track is titled “My Mind Operates on a Higher Level.” It’s typically tongue-in-cheek: “Always burn my dinner ’cause I cook too hot,” he sing-shouts, “always strain my voice ’cause I love to rock.”

As anyone who has seen the man perform live can attest, Kochalka is indeed a credible threat, mostly to himself. Bike Flipper memorializes one

such recent incident in which he broke his wrist.

The record is built on an idea he’s nursed for decades: to record an entire album a cappella. That didn’t entirely happen. There are drums and pianos in the mix and an actual trumpet on the outro, “Broke Trombone.”

True to form, this is a fast-moving project, full of charming imperfections.

For a man who once wrote a manifesto called “Craft Is the Enemy,” those rough edges are the whole point. He writes his songs in a mad rush and often aims to record them the same way. This approach has served Kochalka well. In fact, it’s kind of incredible how he’s been able to sustain such obvious joy in his creations.

After about three decades of constant production, Kochalka eschews craftsmanship, which has brought him to a fittingly funny place. Almost despite himself, he has become a master of wu wei, “effortless action.” Bike Flipper is both unambitious and undeniable. And fair warning: You will never think the same way about peanut butter again.

Bike Flipper is available at kochalka. bandcamp.com.

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ometimes, particularly during the pandemic era, a movie makes a splash at some prominent film festival and then disappears. I first heard about We’re All Going to the World’s Fair in reports from the virtual Sundance Film Festival in January 2021, but the movie wasn’t released until April 2022, and then only in three U.S. theaters. Directed, written and edited by Jane Schoenbrun, this creepy art-house drama about a teen transfixed by an online legend is currently available to rent on various platforms. Expect to see it on HBO Max in the future.

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The deal

Will you like it?

Publicity materials call We’re All Going to the World’s Fair a horror film, but it isn’t, except in the loose sense of inducing free-floating dread. Rather than depict its creepy meme as a literal truth, the movie takes a long, hard look at the phenomenon of online legends and the people who gravitate to them.

We learn everything we know about the world’s fair challenge the same way Casey does: from videos served up by the algorithm of a YouTube-like platform. One clip purports to show rare footage from a 1994 video game that gave birth to the legend — making world’s fair reminiscent of Polybius, a supposed deadly 1980s 60

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Alone in her attic bedroom, teenage Casey (Anna Cobb) turns on her laptop’s camera and announces to an invisible audience that she is taking the “world’s fair challenge.”

She follows the steps of a ritual: repeating the words “I want to go to the world’s fair,” smearing her own blood on the screen and watching a trancey video. Then she sits back and waits to undergo a transformation, promising to document it for her viewers.

But what kind of transformation? Casey watches videos in which other challenge participants describe feeling numb or alienated from their bodies. A fan of the Paranormal Activity franchise, she envisions a demon waking inside her while she sleeps. She sets up a camera by her bed, hoping to film its emergence.

Casey’s videos draw the attention of JLB (Michael J Rogers), a mysterious user who tells her she is “in trouble” and offers to guide her through the perils of the world’s fair. But what does he really want?

And is she actually in danger?

Cobb plays a teen with a disturbing fixation on an online legend in Schoenbrun’s timely art-house drama.

arcade game that probably never existed.

Such legends rarely hold water, but that doesn’t make them any less powerful.

Supernatural stalker Slender Man, for instance, began as a photographer’s fabrication, yet he inspired a real-life stabbing and other violent acts.

Every such mythos has a range of fans, from those who enjoy it as a creative hoax to those who take it in deadly earnest. JLB, we gradually learn, is one of the former: World’s fair is a pastime for him. Tellingly, one of the stickies on his computer links the challenge to various conspiracy theories, including one that has had plenty of real-life fallout: QAnon.

Young and vulnerable, Casey takes world’s fair more seriously than does JLB, but how seriously? That’s the question on which the film pivots: Is Casey faking the symptoms of demonic possession for clout? (“Thirty-two views,” she mutters, frustrated by the poor performance of her early videos.) Or does she really believe that the challenge is transforming her?

While the movie’s pace is glacially slow, Cobb’s mesmerizing performance gives it forward momentum. Casey’s dread as she approaches the challenge feels genuine,

as do her loneliness and primal need for a mother figure, which she finds in a soothing narrator of ASMR videos. Her “possession,” by contrast, is clearly a role she’s playing but a role with emotional truth behind it. When she interrupts a lip-sync performance with a bloodcurdling scream, it’s both a cringingly obvious attempt to go viral and a real cry for help.

Schoenbrun withholds the catharsis and resolution that viewers are likely to seek from the film. One angry user review notes that We’re All Going to the World’s Fair even breaks the cardinal rule called “Chekhov’s gun” (i.e., don’t put a gun in your drama if no one’s going to fire it).

But you don’t expect dramatic resolution from an endless stream of online videos, either, and that’s kind of the point.

Narratives such as QAnon draw their power from their looping, infinitely expansive quality. The ever-shifting relationship between Casey and JLB, two people who never come face-to-face, emblematizes much larger conflicts between generations and belief systems. JLB believes in a clear-cut difference between fiction and reality, even if he spends his time spinning fictions. In Casey’s mind, the line is much

fuzzier — and that fuzziness could have real consequences for all of us.

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PULSE (2001; Kanopy, Pluto TV, Vudu,

Tubi, rentable): Kiyoshi Kurosawa may have made the first horror film about a supernatural contagion that spreads online, setting a template for urban legends to come.

THE DEN (2013; AMC+, IFC Films Unlim-

ited): For a more typical horror movie with an online setting, check out this creepy story of a web-chat researcher who witnesses a murder, from Vermontraised director Zachary Donohue.

EIGHTH GRADE (2018; Showtime, rent-

able): Bo Burnham’s debut is another bone-chilling exploration of what can happen when a lonely kid searches for her identity online. The director’s oneman special shot during lockdown, Bo Burnham: Inside (2021; Netflix), is equally worth watching for its alternately hilarious and disturbing insights into online culture.

NEW IN THEATERS BRIAN AND CHARLES: In this comedy that premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, a lonely inventor (David Earl) builds a robot (Chris Hayward) to keep him company. Jim Archer makes his directorial debut. (90 min, PG. Roxy) JAZZ FEST: A NEW ORLEANS STORY: With plenty of local color, this doc from directors Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern celebrates the Big Easy’s annual jazz extravaganza. (95 min, PG-13. Savoy) LIGHTYEAR: In this spin-off of the Toy Story series from Pixar Animation Studios, Chris Evans voices the original Buzz Lightyear, a Space Ranger fighting to return home. With Keke Palmer and Peter Sohn.

Angus MacLane directed. (100 min, PG. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Playhouse, Roxy, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden) VORTEX: Italian horror auteur Dario Argento and Françoise Lebrun play an elderly Parisian couple struggling with dementia and other ailments in the latest dark drama from Gaspar Noé (Enter the Void).

(142 min, NR. Savoy)

CURRENTLY PLAYING THE BAD GUYSHHH A crew of animal outlaws tries to convince the world they’ve reformed in this animated comedy from director Pierre Perifel, featuring Sam Rockwell and Awkwafina. (100 min, PG. Bijou, Majestic)

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCEHHHHH Michelle Yeoh plays a woman who must travel the multiverse — including her own alternate lives — to save the world in a surreal adventure comedy from Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Swiss Army Man).

With Stephanie Hsu. (139 min, R. Roxy; reviewed 4/13) JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINIONHH Dinosaurs compete with humans for space on Earth in the latest installment of the action franchise, directed by Colin Trevorrow and starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard and Laura Dern. (146 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bethel, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden) MONTANA STORYHHH1/2 Haley Lu Richardson and Owen Teague play siblings who return to their family’s ranch homestead to confront their legacy.

Scott McGehee and David Siegel (What Maisie Knew) directed. (114 min, R. Savoy) TOP GUN: MAVERICKHHHH Thirty-six years after the original action hit, Tom Cruise’s daredevil Navy pilot character is older but still flying test flights in this sequel directed by Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion).

With Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller and Val Kilmer.

(131 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Paramount [Wed only], Roxy, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden)

OLDER FILMS AND SPECIAL SCREENINGS

BENEDICTIONHHHH A decorated soldier and poet of World War I turns against the war in this drama about the turbulent life of Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi), directed by Terence Davies (A Quiet Passion). With Tom Blyth. (137 min, PG-13; Roxy, Savoy)

FIRESTARTER (Bethel, Sunset)

THE BOB’S BURGERS MOVIEHHHH The Belcher family faces an existential threat to its burger-joint livelihood in this big-screen adaptation of the Emmy Award-winning animated sitcom. Loren Bouchard and Bernard Derriman directed. (102 min, PG-13. Capitol [Wed only], Majestic, Sunset)

LAND OF THE LOST [2009] (Sunset)

CRIMES OF THE FUTUREHHH1/2 David Cronenberg returns with a new body horror film in which Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux play performance artists who regale audiences with new mutations of the human body. With Kristen Stewart. (107 min, R. Roxy)

YOUNG FILMMAKER SHOWCASE: HOLOCENE (Big Picture, Sat only)

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESSHHH Benedict Cumberbatch returns as the magic-using Marvel hero, whose life gets a lot more complicated when he opens a doorway to alternate realities. Sam Raimi directed. (126 min, PG-13. Majestic) DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERAHHH In 1928, members of the Crawley family find themselves exploring a recently inherited villa in the south of France. Simon Curtis directed this sequel to the 2019 film based on the TV series. (125 min, PG. Bijou, Majestic, Savoy, Welden [Thu only])

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PLAYHOUSE MOVIE THEATRE: 11 S. Main St., Randolph, 728-4012, playhouseflicks.com SAVOY THEATER: 26 Main St., Montpelier, 229-0598, 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 David Earl in Brian and Charles

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agriculture

1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

CHARLIE NARDOZZI: The award-winning garden writer teaches locals how to grow a happy environment for pollinators. Worthen Library, South Hero, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 372-6209.

business

‘DONBASS’: Vermont International Film Foundation’s virtual cinema screens a darkly satirical 2018 drama lampooning the Russian separatist movement in Ukraine. $6-12; VTIFF members benefits apply. Info, 660-2600.

CREATE A ONE-PAGE MAP OF YOUR BUSINESS: Using a tool called the Business Model Canvas, entrepreneurs develop a guiding plan for their businesses. Presented by Women Business Owners Network Vermont. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 503-0219.

film

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

‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: Viewers experience 19thcentury explorer Henry Bates’ journey through the Amazon rainforest. 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, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: Cameras positioned in nests, underwater and along the forest floor capture a year’s worth of critters coming and going. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m.,

‘JULES AND JIM’: Acclaimed French director François Truffaut’s magical film follows two men who fall in love with a woman who is a statue come to life. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free.

Info, 748-2600.

‘LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR’: Powerhouse soprano Nadine Sierra brings her virtuosic vocalism and captivating stage presence to the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of the tragedy. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $10-24. Info, 382-9222.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: A tenacious mammalian matriarch fights to protect her family in a desolate environment. 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, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: Sparkling graphics take viewers on a mind-bending journey from the beginning of time through the mysteries of the universe. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake

LIST YOUR UPCOMING EVENT HERE FOR FREE! All submissions must be received by Thursday at noon for consideration in the following Wednesday’s newspaper.

Find our convenient form and guidelines at sevendaysvt.com/postevent.

Listings and spotlights are written by Emily Hamilton. Seven Days edits for space and style. Depending on cost and other factors, classes and workshops may be listed in either the calendar or the classes section. Class organizers may be asked to purchase a class listing.

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

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

COOK THE BOOK: Home chefs make a recipe from Lamees Ibrahim’s The Iraqi Cookbook and share the dish at a potluck. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, noon-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-4918.

DANVILLE FARMERS MARKET: Villagers shop local from various vendors handing out fruits, veggies, prepared foods and more. Danville Village Green, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, cfmamanager@gmail.com.

DEDALUS FREE WEEKLY WINE TASTINGS: Themed in-store tastings take oenophiles on an adventure through a wine region, grape variety, style of wine or producer’s offerings.

Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 5-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-2368.

FILIPINO FEAST: PINAKBET: Chef Maria Garrido demonstrates how to cook an aromatic pork belly and vegetable sauté.

Presented by City Market, Onion River Co-op. 5:30-7 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, info@ citymarket.coop.

games

MAH-JONGG CLUB: Tile traders of all experience levels gather for a game. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 888-3853.

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: Those in need of an easy-on-the-joints

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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workout experience an hour of calming, low-impact movement.

United Community Church, St. Johnsbury, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 751-0431.

AYURVEDA: Maryellen Crangle and Dorothy Alling Memorial Library host a seven-week introduction to this ancient Indian and Nepalese healing and lifestyle tradition.

2-3:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, programs@ damlvt.org.

BONE BUILDERS/ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: Folks of all ages ward off osteoporosis in an exercise and prevention class. Virtual option available. Online, 7:30 a.m.; Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

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.

language

ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS: Learners of all abilities practice written and spoken English with trained instructors. Presented by Fletcher Free Library. 6:30-8 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov.

music

finances. Noon-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 764-6940.

DEVELOPING SELF: Participants reflect on their experiences and reconnect with their values in order to address life’s challenges.

Mercy Connections, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 846-7063.

talks

WILLIAM FITZHUGH: The local archaeologist describes the results of his excavation of a 19thcentury cellar in the town forest and shows off artifacts from the dig, including pennies, kitchen utensils and tools. Fairlee Town Hall Auditorium, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 333-4363.

theater

‘THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT’: A determined young fact checker squares off against a famous author in a comedic, highstakes showdown. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $31.0538.50. Info, 862-1497.

CREDIT VS. DEBIT CARDS: UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCES: New England Federal Credit Union experts explain how to manage different types of spending, debt and

crafts

NEEDLEPOINT GET-TOGETHERS: Embroidery enthusiasts bring their needles and threads to stitch together and encourage each other. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, programs@ normanwilliams.org.

dance

BYOBOOK GROUP: Lit lovers bring whatever they’re currently reading to this cozy Morristown Centennial Library book club. 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 888-3853.

seminars

OPENING MEETING: The local museum holds viewing hours after a long, pandemic-enforced hiatus. Sheldon Historical Society Museum, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 370-4148.

words

OPEN MIC: Artists of all stripes have eight minutes to share a song, story or poem. Virtual option available. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

WILD WOODS SONG CIRCLE: Singers and acoustic instrumentalists gather over Zoom for an evening of music making. 7:15-9:15 p.m. Free.

Info, 775-1182.

FREE STORE: Neighbors swap books, kitchenware, shoes, clothing and small items of all kinds.

BALE Community Space, South Royalton, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 498-8438.

THURSDAY ZOOM KNITTERS: The Norman Williams Public Library fiber arts club meets virtually for conversation and crafting. 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@normanwilliams.org.

MUSIC IN THE BARN: Folk, classical and chamber music float up to the rafters in this community concert series. Vermont Youth Conservation Corps, Richmond, 7:30-9 p.m. $20; cash bar. Info, barnmusicvt@gmail.com.

‘SUTRAS FOR A SUFFERING WORLD’ PANEL DISCUSSION: Scrag Mountain Music performers talk about their upcoming show that features the late poet David Budbill’s words set to music.

Livestream available. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 377-3161.

community

‘SIDE BY SIDE’: Northern Stage celebrates the life and work of Stephen Sondheim with a revelatory revue of songs from A Little Night Music, Company, Follies and more. Courtyard Theater, Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 8 p.m. $19-45. Info, 296-7000.

BOOK LAUNCH PARTY: Contributors to the environmentalist anthology Our Better Nature: Hopeful Excursions in Saving Biodiversity discuss conservation, E.O. Wilson and optimism. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 229-6206.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: BEAR’S TAPESTRY: Roller-coaster rhythms and folksy lyrics greet outdoor concertgoers on their lunch breaks. Burlington City Hall Park, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

IDEA TO ACTION: YOUR THREE-WEEK ROADMAP TO SELF-EMPLOYMENT: Mercy Connections helps entrepreneurial workshop attendees become their own bosses. 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 846-7063.

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agriculture

GARDEN LIKE A FARMER: FEEDING YOUR GARDEN: Amateur agriculturalists learn everything they need to know about fertilization and soil health.

Intervale Center, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 660-0440.

THURSDAYS IN THE GARDEN: Horticulturalist Chad Donovan helps home gardeners upgrade their game with a new lesson every week. Red Wagon Plants, Hinesburg, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 482-4060.

business

HIRING2DAYVT VIRTUAL JOB FAIR: The Vermont Department of Labor gives job seekers a chance to meet with employers from around the state.

11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 828-4000.

COME DANCE WITH US!: Vermont Dance Alliance and Jeh Kulu Dance and Drum Theater present an evening of performances, workshops and outdoor fun for all ages. Onion River Campground, Plainfield, 4-7 p.m. $10-40; free for kids. Info, info@vermontdance.org.

education

KATHLEEN KESSON: The education reformer leads a screening and discussion of the 2010 documentary Schooling the World and her transformative Community Schools Blueprint program. BALE Community Space, South Royalton, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 498-8438.

environment

GREEN BOOKS DISCUSSION GROUP: A Norman Williams Public Library book club reads a new nonfiction about sustainability and the environment each month. 3:30-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@normanwilliams.org.

etc.

MUSIC ON THE FARM: MIKAHELY: Farm-fresh foods and Malagasy rhythms are on the menu at a pastoral party. Food and bar service, 5:30 p.m.; music, 6 p.m.

Fable Farm Fermentory, Barnard, 5:30-9 p.m. $5-20; preregister; limited space. Info, 234-1645.

film

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

‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: See WED.15.

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FAMILY FUN Check out these family-friendly events for parents, caregivers and kids of all ages.

• Plan ahead at sevendaysvt.com/family-fun.

• Post your event at sevendaysvt.com/postevent.

WED.15

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: Mothers-to-be build strength, stamina and a stronger connection to their baby. 5:45-6:45 p.m. $5-15. Info, 899-0339.

burlington

CRAFTERNOON: Weaving, knitting, embroidery and paper crafting supplies take over the Teen Space. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-3403.

ECHO SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: Local musicians put on a waterfront show for families. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Pay what you can; cash bar. Info, 864-1848.

STEAM SPACE: Kids explore science, technology, engineering, art and math activities. Ages 5 through 11. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

BABYTIME: Teeny-tiny library patrons enjoy a gentle, slow story time featuring songs, rhymes and lap play. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

LEGO BUILDERS: Elementary-age imagineers explore, create and participate in challenges after school. Ages 8 and up, or ages 6 and up with an adult helper.

South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

SEA LIFE SCAVENGER HUNT: Little marine biologists who find all the sea life posters around the library get a prize. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

stowe/smuggs

MORRISVILLE ADVENTURE CLUB: Little locals learn more about their town during an exploratory activity. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:304:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

WEDNESDAY CRAFTERNOON: A new project is on the docket each week, from puppets to knitting to decoupage. Ages 7 and up. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, youthservices@centennial library.org.

mad river valley/ waterbury

TEEN ART CLUB: Crafty young’uns ages 12 through 18 prep the Children’s Space for summer reading fun by making a giant octopus and other sea-themed decor. Waterbury Public Library, 6-7 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

middlebury area

TEDDY BEAR PICNIC: People and stuffed animals of all ages pack a lunch and gather together for stories, songs and

JUN. 19 | FAMILY FUN Dad to the Bone Folks with a history buff or outdoors-obsessed dad in their lives head to Billings Farm & Museum, where pops get in free on Father’s Day. There’s fun for the whole family and dads of all stripes all day long: Fun-loving dads partake in lawn games and a three-legged race, sporty dads enjoy a historically accurate 19th-century game of baseball, artsy dads make farm-themed crafts, and tenderhearted dads meet the farm’s baby goats, lambs and calves. There’s also a Juneteenth StoryWalk on the grounds and delicious root beer floats at the Farmhouse Café.

FATHER’S DAY AT THE FARM Sunday, June 19, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock.

Regular admission, $8-17; free for dads, members, and kids 3 and under.

Info, 457-2355, billingsfarm.org. family-friendly fun. Bristol Town Green, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 453-5885.

upper valley

STORY TIME!: Songs and stories are shared in the garden, or in the community room in inclement weather.

Norwich Public Library, 10-11 a.m. Free.

Info, 649-1184.

northeast kingdom

NIKKI SAMUELS: The children’s author reads from her book, Nature Parade, and leads a hands-on activity. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 745-1391.

patio. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

READ TO A DOG: Little ones get a 10-minute time slot to tell stories to Lola the pup. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

SEA LIFE SCAVENGER HUNT: See WED.15, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

barre/montpelier

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

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.15, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

BABY & TODDLER MEETUP: Tiny tots and their caregivers come together for playtime, puzzles and picture books. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

chittenden county

upper valley

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; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

TODDLER STORY TIME: Toddling tykes 20 months through 3.5 years hear a few stories related to the theme of the week. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

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LEGO CLUB: Children of all ages get crafty with Legos. Adult supervision is required for kids under 10. Winooski Memorial Library, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 655-6424.

PRESCHOOL PLAYTIME: Pre-K patrons play and socialize out on the

ICE CREAM SOCIAL: Little library patrons celebrate the last day of school with sweet treats, games, bubbles and stories. Norwich Public Library, noon-2 p.m.

Free. Info, 649-1184.

FRI.17

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.15, 12:30-1:15 p.m.

burlington

SPLASH DANCE: Kids soak up some summer fun in the fountain while DJs spin family-friendly tracks. Burlington City Hall Park, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

chittenden county

FRIDAY MOVIES: Little film buffs congregate in the library’s Katie O’Brien Activity Room for an afterschool screening of a G-rated movie. See southburlington library.org for each week’s title. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET: An open-air marketplace featuring live music connects cultivators and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 881-1249.

SEA LIFE SCAVENGER HUNT: See WED.15.

SUMMER READING KICK-OFF: FOAM FEST: Little readers make a splash with lawn games, bubbles and seafoamy fun. BYO towel. Teen volunteers get entered in a raffle. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

stowe/smuggs

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Players ages 9 through 13 go on a fantasy adventure with dungeon master Andy. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, FRI.17

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‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.15.

‘DONBASS’: See WED.15.

FLICKS IN THE PARK: ‘MOONRISE KINGDOM’: Two 12-year-olds run away together in Wes Anderson’s magical 2012 drama. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

QUARRY PROJECT OUTDOOR FILM SCREENING: Short films document the effort to produce a site-specific dance theater performance at Wells Lamson quarry. Q&A with ensemble and filmmaker follows. RETN & VCAM Media Factory, Burlington, 8:3010 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

food & drink

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.15.

BRIDGE CLUB: A lively group plays a classic, tricky game in pairs. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 6-7 p.m.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.15.

FAMILY FUN Check out these family-friendly events for parents, caregivers and kids of all ages.

• Plan ahead at sevendaysvt.com/family-fun.

• Post your event at sevendaysvt.com/postevent.

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3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 888-3853.

SUMMER READING KICK-OFF: Little lit lovers get jazzed for summertime reading with games, refreshments and balloons. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 11 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 888-3853.

upper valley

STORY TIME: Preschoolers take part in stories, songs and silliness. Latham Library, Thetford, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

northeast kingdom

ACORN CLUB STORY TIME: Kids 5 and under play, sing, hear stories and take home a fun activity. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 745-1391.

OPEN STAGE: Local high school students put on an all-ages open mic.

Catamount ArtPort, St. Johnsbury, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

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burlington

FAMILY PLAYSHOP: Kids from birth through age 5 learn and play at this school readiness program. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:15-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 863-3403.

SPLASH DANCE: See FRI.17, 1-3 p.m.

chittenden county

BIG BLUE TRUNK: SUMMER READING KICKOFF: Grade school readers get pumped for the summertime challenge with games, rides and snacks. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-4918.

KARMA KIDZ YOGA OPEN STUDIO SATURDAYS: Young yogis of all ages and their caregivers drop in for some fun breathing and movement activities.

Kamalika-K, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Donations. Info, 871-5085.

LCI LITTLE ANGLERS DERBY: Fisher folk 14 and under, accompanied by an adult, compete to hook the heaviest catch.

Windemere Way State Boat Launch,

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ROYALTON FARMERS MARKET: Local farmers sell their produce, bread and eggs to villagers. South Royalton Town Green, 3-6 p.m.

Free. Info, 763-8302.

games

Free; preregister. Info, morrisvillebridge@outlook.com.

WHIST CARD GAME CLUB: Players of all experience levels congregate for some friendly competition. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 12:30-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 888-3853.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA WITH LINDA: Every week is a new adventure in movement and

mindfulness at this Morristown Centennial Library virtual class.

10:15-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

lgbtq

THRIVE QTPOC MOVIE NIGHT: Each month, the Pride Center of Vermont virtually screens a movie centered on queer and trans people of color.

6:30 p.m. Free. Info, thrive@ pridecentervt.org.

TRY HOCKEY FOR FREE: Beginners are encouraged to take to the ice and learn all about the sport. C. Douglas Cairns Arena, South Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m.

Free. Info, growthegame@csbhockey. com.

Race and Representation.” Old Stone House Museum & Historic Village, Brownington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 754-2022.

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.

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barre/montpelier

burlington

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME ON THE GREEN: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library leads half an hour of stories, rhymes and songs. Williston Town Green, 1010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Colchester, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 879-3466.

SUMMER READING KICK-OFF PARTY: Baked goods, crafts and a sing-along make for a fortuitous start to the ocean-themed summer reading program. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

stowe/smuggs

POP-UP STORYTIME AT THE FARMERS MARKET: Morristown Centennial librarians read books and sing songs about farms, food and plants. Hannaford Supermarket & Pharmacy, Morrisville, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

mad river valley/ waterbury

THE BUZZ ABOUT BEES: Games and crafts based around the importance of buzzy bugs help kids 5 and up win Cabot Cheese’s Pollinator Patch.

Waterbury Public Library, 10-11 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

upper valley

DINOSAUR DISCOVERIES: Visitors dig for dino bones and meet some of the T. rex’s living ancestors. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Regular admission, $15-18; free for members and kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5000.

SUN.19

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.15, 10:15-11:15 a.m.

upper valley

FATHER’S DAY AT THE FARM: Dads, granddads and the rest of the family enjoy crafts, lawn games, baby animal meet-and-greets, and a game of historic baseball. See calendar spotlight.

Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $8-17; free for dads, members and kids 3 and under. Info, 457-2355.

MODERN TIMES THEATER: Punch and Judy plow through perils in this oceanthemed puppet show to celebrate the start of summer reading. Thetford Green, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

northeast kingdom

JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION: Ice cream and kids’ activities punctuate the unveiling of the museum’s new exhibit, “In a Different Hue:

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.15.

STORIES WITH MEGAN: Bookworms ages 2 through 5 enjoy fun-filled reading time. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

INDOOR PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Small groups enjoy a cozy session of reading, rhyming and singing. Birth through age 5. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

SEA LIFE SCAVENGER HUNT: See WED.15, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

SUMMER DECORATION CRAFTS: Creative kids make one ocean-themed project to put up in the library and one to take home. Ages 5 and up. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

TEEN NIGHT: FOOD FOR THOUGHT: The Teen Advisory Board meets over pizza to brainstorm ideas for library programming. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 878-4918.

mad river valley/ waterbury

BABY/TODDLER STORY TIME WITH MS. CYNTHIA: Tiny tykes have fun, hear stories and meet new friends in the children’s section. Waterbury Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

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ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.15, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

burlington

MAKE MUSIC DAY: Mini musicians drop in to make their own instruments.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

SING-ALONG WITH LINDA BASSICK: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers sing, dance and wiggle along with Linda.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1111:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

OCEAN SENSORY BOTTLES: Teens and younger make a soothing, sea-themed toy. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

SEA LIFE SCAVENGER HUNT: See WED.15, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

SUMMER READING PROGRAM CRAFTS: Kids make summertime crafts and talk about what they’re reading. Ages 8 and up, or 6 and up with an adult helper. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 846-4140.

TEDDY BEAR SLEEP OVER: Kiddos drop their plushy friends off at the library for a night of fun. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

TEEN VOLUNTEERS: TEDDY BEAR SLEEPOVER: Photographers in grades 6 and up take photos of the younger kids’ stuffed animals and their exploits.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

TEEN WRITING CHALLENGE: DIY MAD LIBS: Jokesters in grades 6 and up drop in and write word games to be distributed to the library’s younger patrons.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, -24.

Free. Info, 878-6956.

TODDLERTIME: Kids ages 1 through 3 and their caregivers join Miss Kelly and her puppets Bainbow and La-La for story time. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 846-4140.

outdoors

TREES OF SOUTH HERO NATURE RAMBLE: The South Hero Land Trust teaches attendees how to identify their local trees. Tracy Woods, South Hero, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 372-3786.

politics

THOUGHT CLUB: Artists and activists convene to engage

upper valley

BABY STORY TIME: Librarians and finger-puppet friends introduce babies 20 months and younger to the joy of reading. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 457-2295.

BEACH STORY TIME: All ages are welcome to a George Peabody Library read-aloud under the gazebo next to the lake. Treasure Island, Fairlee, noon.

Free. Info, 333-9724.

randolph/royalton

YOUTH EMPOWERMENT & ACTION: Activists ages 14 through 18 discuss community service, climate action, LGBTQ rights and social justice. BALE Community Space, South Royalton, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 498-8438.

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ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.15.

burlington

CRAFTERNOON: See WED.15.

STEAM SPACE: See WED.15.

chittenden county

ADOPT A HOUSEPLANT: Green thumbs paint a pot in which to take home a new plant. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4:30-6 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

BABYTIME: See WED.15.

LEGO BUILDERS: See WED.15.

SEA LIFE SCAVENGER HUNT: See WED.15.

WATER PLAY TIME: Story time is followed by a splashy, bubbly frolic out on the lawn. BYO towel. Ages 5 and under.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

TEDDY BEAR STORY TIME: Kids pick up their stuffed animals from the sleepover, see pictures of what they got up to, then hear a story together.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-6956.

stowe/smuggs

TEEN WRITING CHALLENGE: DIY MAD LIBS: See TUE.21, Through June 24.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Kiddos 5 and younger share in stories, crafts and rhymes. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

STEAM AFTERSCHOOL: Kids learn art, science and math through games and crafts, including paper airplane races, Lego competitions and origami. Ages 6 and up. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

middlebury area

STORY TIME WITH THE BIXBY LIBRARY: Kids and their caregivers enjoy books and songs about art and inspiration out on the lawn. Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, 3:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 877-3406.

barre/montpelier

CRAFTERNOON: Kiddos make slap bands, freaky fish and friendship bracelets. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

stowe/smuggs

L.I.F.T. (LGBTQIA+ INSPIRATION & FRIENDSHIP AMONG TEENS): Queer and trans kids ages 13 through 18 build connections, pursue their interests and find empowerment together. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

WEDNESDAY CRAFTERNOON: See WED.15.

upper valley

STORY TIME!: See WED.15. K

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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.

author of the trippy multiverse adventure novel Finna joins the Peace & Justice Center for a virtual reading. 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2345.

sports

SARAH ALCOTT ANDERSON: The New Hampshire poet reads from her debut collection, We Hold on to What We Can. Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1114.

CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS NIGHT: The racetrack’s 2022 season continues with a nail-biting competition between teams driving vintage cars. Thunder Road Speed Bowl, Barre, 7-10 p.m. $5-30; free for kids under 6. Info, info@thunderroadvt.com.

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. $6-25; $125-418 for season passes. Info, 655-4200.

talks

TRUE CRIME: BURLINGTON: Author Thea Lewis indulges true crime curiosity on a walking tour of the Queen City. 199 Main St., Burlington, 7 p.m. $25. Info, 324-5467.

theater

‘CLUE: ON STAGE’: Island Stage brings Professor Plum, Colonel Mustard and the rest to life in the beloved mystery game turned movie turned play. North Hero Community Hall, 8-10 p.m. $15-20. Info, 777-4326.

‘LES FILLES DU QUOI?’: Performer Abby Paige’s comedic, bilingual one-woman show explores themes of French Canadian heritage and identity.

Virtual options available. Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier City Hall, 7:30 p.m. $10-30. Info, 229-0492.

‘THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT’: See WED.15.

‘NYC 1849’: In this original musical from the Gospel Hollow Players, two Irish girls arrive at Ellis Island for the adventure of a lifetime. Calais Town Hall, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $15. Info, gosplehollowplayers@gmail.com.

‘SIDE BY SIDE’: See WED.15.

words

ESTELA GONZÁLEZ: The Middlebury College professor of Luso-Hispanic studies presents her book Arribada.Viva El Sabor serves complementary Mexican bites. Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, Middlebury, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 377-2576.

INQUISITIVE READERS BOOK CLUB: Bookworms discuss a new horizon-expanding tome each month. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, henningsmh@ yahoo.com.

PHOENIX BOOKS VIRTUAL POETRY OPEN MIC: Wordsmiths read their work at an evening with local performance poet Bianca Amira Zanella. 7 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 855-8078.

PJC BOOK CLUB: NINO CIPRI: The acclaimed

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WORLD MUSIC & WINE SERIES: PASCUALA ILABACA Y FAUNA: The Chilean singer-songwriter makes an appearance at this summer-long series that combines global sounds with global food and wine. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 6 p.m. $15-18; price of food and drink; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 382-9222.

fairs & festivals

LAVENDER BACKWOODS SCREAM: Halloween in June means your costume doesn’t have to feature fleece-lined leggings at this two-day festival of frights, family fun and haunted forest tours. See calendar spotlight. Lavender Essentials of Vermont, Derby, 9 p.m.-midnight. $12; preregister. Info, 323-3590.

QUECHEE HOT AIR BALLOON FESTIVAL: New England’s longest-running celebration of hot air returns with 20 balloonists, 50 craft vendors, 16 food tents and dozens of performers.

See quecheeballoonfestival.com for full schedule. Quechee Village Green, 3-9 p.m. $5-15; free for kids 5 and under. Info, 295-7900.

SUMMER SOLSTICE FIESTA: Mal Maiz plays salsa from the porch of the Black Lives Matter House, Moon & Stars food truck serves up arepas, and locals dance the night away under the stars.

South Royalton Town Green, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 498-8438.

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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film

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

‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: See WED.15.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.15.

‘CASABLANCA’: The 1942 classic screens on the lawn at sundown.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

‘DONBASS’: See WED.15.

‘JAZZ FEST: A NEW ORLEANS STORY’: Local jazz outfit Cosa Buena Nueva opens for this 2021 documentary about the 50-year history of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 5:45-9 p.m. $8.50-9.75. Info, 229-0598.

The Ultimate Tribute to Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band!

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‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.15.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.15.

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ARTSRIOT TRUCK STOP: Mobile kitchens dish out mouthwatering meals and libations. Live DJs and outdoor entertainment add to the fun. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 4:30-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0406.

FRIDAY NIGHTS @ THE FARM: TGIF just got even better, thanks to this weekly gathering of friends, food trucks and ice cream at Fisher Brothers Farm.

Sisters of Anarchy Ice Cream, Shelburne, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 495-5165.

games

MAH-JONGG: Tile traders of all experience levels gather for a game session. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

health & fitness ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.15.

BONE BUILDERS/ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.15.

ONLINE GUIDED MEDITATION: 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.

QIGONG WITH GERRY SANDWEISS: Beginners learn this ancient Chinese practice of meditative movement. Presented by Norman Williams Public Library.

8:30-9:30 a.m. Free; preregister.

Info, programs@normanwilliams. org.

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

Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 229-1549.

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Ogres Have Layers Somebody once told me — that Weston Theater’s Young Company debuts its production of Shrek: The Musical this week. Based on the beloved 2001 film (itself based on a picture book by William Steig), it’s a tale as old as time: A reclusive ogre gets roped into a rescue mission by a slimy lord, saves the princess, finds more than he bargained for and learns a lot about self-love along the way. With a cast including Eli Hamilton as Shrek, Tomias Robinson as Donkey and Emma Diner as Fiona, the show premieres at Walker Farm before taking off on a tour around southern Vermont.

‘SHREK: THE MUSICAL’ Opens Wednesday, June 22, 1 p.m., at Walker Farm in Weston. See website for additional dates.

Free; preregister. Info, 824-5288, westontheater.org.

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REMEMBERING IN COMMUNITY: Online participants honor fathers and other lost loved ones through music, poetry and rituals. Each attendee has the chance to share and connect with others experiencing grief.

Proceeds support Rites of Passage. noon-1 p.m. $5-15. Info, 825-8141.

Learn more at vermonthap.vhfa.org

JUNETEENTH: A LOVE STORY: Three days of programming, including live music, a poetry slam and an address from legendary activist Angela Davis, celebrate Black music, culture and community. Various Burlington locations, 7 p.m. Free. Info, juneteenth@burlingtonvt.gov.

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PRIDE CELEBRATION: Queer and trans folks don their finest rainbow getups for a community picnic, featuring live music and lots of fun. Colburn Park, Lebanon, N.H., 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 603-448-0400.

RUTLAND PLUS PRIDE CELEBRATION: LGBTQ culture and community take center stage at a festival featuring live music, a poetry open mic, art projects, games and more.

Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 342-5811.

music

DAVID BROMBERG QUINTET: The renowned multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter leads a performance of bluegrass, folk, country and more. Double E Performance Center’s T-Rex Theater, Essex Junction, 8 p.m. $40-75. Info, info@doublee vermont.com.

MUSIC IN THE ALLEY: KERUBO: The Kenyan jazz singer kicks off this summer-long series, singing under the string lights and surrounded by art. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery, Waterbury, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7801.

THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS: Two soul legends sing heartstopping classics such as “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” and “The Time of My Life.” Paramount

Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $6575. Info, 775-0903.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: ALEX STEWART QUINTET: The saxophonist and director of the University of Vermont’s jazz program gets toes tapping with his all-star ensemble. Burlington City Hall Park, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-7166.

‘SUTRAS FOR A SUFFERING WORLD’: The words of the late poet David Budbill are given new wings in a performance from jazz legend William Parker, soprano Mary Bonhag, and composers Evan Premo and Erik Nielsen.

First Congregational Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Pay what you can; preregister. Info, lara@ scragmountainmusic.org.

politics

ISAAC EVANS-FRANTZ: The U.S. Senate candidate ends his awareness-raising bike ride with an address about climate change and racial justice. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free.

Info, mdmpastels@yahoo.com.

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theater

‘CLUE: ON STAGE’: See THU.16.

‘LES FILLES DU QUOI?’: See THU.16.

‘THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT’: See WED.15.

‘NYC 1849’: See THU.16.

‘SIDE BY SIDE’: See WED.15.

words

TOWN FOREST WALK & READ: Morristown Centennial Library staff lead a gentle stroll in the Morristown Town Forest while pausing periodically to read pieces about the beauty of nature. Beaver Meadow Trailhead, Morristown, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

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community

ABENAKI CULTURE & WELLNESS FAIR: A family-friendly event features food, live music, drumming and storytelling. Swanton Village Park, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free.

Info, 355-0947.

ABENAKI HERITAGE WEEKEND: Vermont’s Indigenous community invites neighbors to two days of drumming, presentations, vendors and other activities. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 475-2022.

OLD NORTH END REPAIR CAFÉ: Volunteers troubleshoot computers, bikes, furniture and more — and teach locals how to fix their things themselves.

Old North End Repair Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 540-2524.

OPENING MEETING: See THU.16.

dance

stewards of the earth. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 5, 5:15 & 5:30 p.m. $15 suggested donation. Info, 578-8035.

‘TRACES: AN OUTDOOR DANCE HAPPENING’: Dancers celebrate the environment and the start of summer with a performance in the great outdoors. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 603-286-0886.

MORRISVILLE FARMERS MARKET: Lamoille County food producers offer up meats, fish, cheeses, produce and prepared foods. Hannaford Supermarket & Pharmacy, Morrisville, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, movillefarmers market@gmail.com.

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ST. JOHNSBURY FARMERS MARKET: Growers and crafters gather weekly at booths centered on local eats. Pearl St. & Eastern Ave., St. Johnsbury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, cfmamanager@gmail.com.

BILL MARES: The writer talks about the origins and evolution of beekeeping as a hobby and explains how home hives can help bolster besieged pollinator populations. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 11 a.m.-noon.

Free. Info, 888-3853.

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FOUNDERS CELEBRATION DOG PARTY: Folks and their furry friends flood the pooch refuge for a festival in honor of Stephen and Gwen Huneck. Dog Mountain, St. Johnsbury, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 800-449-2580.

WALKING TOUR OF MORRILL’S STRAFFORD VILLAGE: Vermonters tour the spots that the 19th-century Vermont senator Justin Smith Morrill knew and loved, including his birthplace, his father’s blacksmith shop and his burial site. Justin Morrill Homestead, Strafford, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $6; free for kids under 15. Info, 765-4288.

fairs & festivals LAVENDER BACKWOODS SCREAM: See FRI.17, noon-midnight.

QUECHEE HOT AIR BALLOON FESTIVAL: See FRI.17, 5:30 a.m.-9 p.m.

film

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

MONTPELIER CONTRA DANCE: To tunes by the Turning Stile and gender-neutral calling by Will

‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: See WED.15.

FOMO?

‘DONBASS’: See WED.15.

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.15.

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

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.15.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.15.

food & drink

BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: Dozens of stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisanal wares and prepared foods. Burlington Farmers Market, 345 Pine St., 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.

DRIVE-THRU PULLED PORK DINNER FUNDRAISER: Sales of sandwiches, slaw, salad and sweets benefit Machia Wilderness Camp, a summer experience that inspires youth to be responsible

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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.

Find, fix and feather with Nest Notes — an e-newsletter filled with home design, Vermont real estate tips and DIY decorating inspirations.

PUZZLE SWAP: Folks of all ages looking for a new challenge trade their old puzzles. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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SUN-STYLE TAI CHI FOR FALL PREVENTION: Seniors boost their strength and balance through gentle, flowing movements. Father Lively Center, St. Johnsbury, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 751-0431.

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holidays

EAST COAST INSPIRATIONAL SINGERS: Picnicking audience members mark Juneteenth with a rousing performance from the Harlem-based gospel and blues group. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $5-25. Info, 533-2000.

JUNETEENTH: A LOVE STORY: See FRI.17, 4-7 p.m.

lgbtq

PRIDE SKATE NIGHT: POSTPONED. LGBTQ skaters groove the night away, visit the stalls of queer artists and organizations, and enter a raffle benefiting the Black Trans Advocacy Coalition. Robert E. Miller Expo Centre, Champlain Valley Expo, Essex Junction, 6 p.m. $10. Info, ntruslow@gmail.com.

music

EAGLEMANIA: THE WORLD’S GREATEST EAGLES TRIBUTE: Eagles fans flock to a notefor-note tribute to the band behind “Hotel California.” Essex Experience, Essex Junction, 7:30 p.m. $29.50. Info, info@ doubleevermont.com.

FLYNN (THE MYRA FLYNN BAND): The indie soul singer serenades picnickers under the open sky. The Waffle Wagon food truck serves up nosh. Shelburne Vineyard, 7-9:15 p.m. $20-25.

Info, 985-8222.

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VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: See THU.16.

Mentor, dancers balance, shadow and do-si-do the night away.

Newcomers lesson, 7:40 p.m.

Capital City Grange, Berlin, 8-11 p.m. $5-20. Info, 225-8921.

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JENNI & THE JAZZ JUNKETEERS: Audience members enjoy picnic dinners as the band interprets tunes by Ella Fitzgerald, Bonnie Raitt, Aretha Franklin and others. ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, South Pomfret, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 457-3500.

LIVE & OUT: SARAH KING: Shades of blues and alt-country color powerful songs by the Ripton-based singer-songwriter.

Farr’s Hill, Randolph, 7 p.m. Pay what you can. Info, 728-9878.

VERMONT ADAPTIVE CHARITY CHALLENGE: Cyclists, hikers and paddlers traverse the route of their choice to support Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sports. Festival featuring food and live music follows. $150 fundraising minimum.

Skyeship Base Lodge. Killington Mountain, 6:30 a.m.-5 p.m. $10-50; free for veterans, military and adaptive participants; preregister. Info, jeff@vermont adaptive.org.

‘CLUE: ON STAGE’: See THU.16.

‘LES FILLES DU QUOI?’: See

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WRITERS’ WERTFREI: Authors both fledgling and published gather over Zoom 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.

ABENAKI HERITAGE WEEKEND: See SAT.18.

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SHORT TRACK SUPER SERIES: Racers tear up the track in pursuit of the title. Devil’s Bowl Speedway, West Haven, 6 p.m. $5-20; drive-in free for kids 12 and under. Info, 265-3112.

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‘SUTRAS FOR A SUFFERING WORLD’: See FRI.17. Livestream available. Bethany United Church of Christ, Montpelier.

SUMMER FOREST BATHING 2022: Folks unplug, slow down and experience nature through a guided mindfulness practice.

Audubon Vermont Sugarhouse, Huntington, 9:30 a.m.-noon. $30-35; preregister. Info, gcauser@audubon.org.

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‘THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT’: See WED.15.

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fairs & festivals

QUECHEE HOT AIR BALLOON FESTIVAL: See FRI.17, 5:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL: Locals celebrate early summer sweetness by loading up on shortcake and browsing stalls. Middletown Springs Historical Society, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 235-2376.

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

‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: See WED.15.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.15.

‘DONBASS’: See WED.15.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.15.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.15.

food & drink

MAVERICK MARKET: High-quality products from Vermont artisans, as well as food truck fare and live music, populate a weekly bazaar. Essex Experience, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4200.

SWANTON SUNDAY MARKETS & FOOD TRUCKS: Local vendors sell treats, produce and other goodies at a delightful outdoor market. Swanton Village Park, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 309-7892.

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COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: New and experienced meditators are always welcome to join this weekly practice in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hahn. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 6:30-8:15 p.m. Free.

Info, newleafsangha@gmail.com.

SUNDAY MORNING MEDITATION: Mindful folks experience sitting and walking meditation in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Shambhala Meditation Center, Burlington, 9 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, lungta108@gmail.com.

holidays

JUNETEENTH: A LOVE STORY: See FRI.17, 1-7 p.m.

JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION WITH EAST COAST INSPIRATIONAL SINGERS:

The gospel group uplifts Black history and culture at this Northeast Kingdom celebration. Greensboro United Church of Christ, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 533-2223.

SUMMER SOLSTICE CEREMONY: Green Mountain Druid Order marks the longest day of the year with community rituals and drum music. Burlington Earth Clock, Oakledge Park, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, fearnessence@gmail. com.

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‘THE SAGES OF CHELM’: A heartwarming, humorous musical tribute to Jewish folklore follows the founding of a town made up entirely of fools forgotten by an angel. Sylvan Adams Theatre, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, QC, 2 & 7 p.m. $25-45.

Info, 514-739-7944.

music

RED HERON: A brand-new Burlington band combines jazz grooves with folk-rock harmonies. Mt Foolery, Charlotte, 5-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted; preregister. Info, 800-366-5379.

ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: Instrumentalists regale audiences with works by Brahms, Debussy and others for horn, violin and piano. Federated Church of Rochester, 4-5:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, 767-9234.

‘SUTRAS FOR A SUFFERING WORLD’: See FRI.17. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 5 p.m.

outdoors

DAYHIKE & DINE: Landscape lovers and foodies carpool to a hiking adventure, then recharge with lunch at a local restaurant. Bradford Park & Ride, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, jpendak@ gmail.com.

EARLY BIRDER MORNING WALKS: An experienced birder leads a walk to discover who’s singing, calling, nesting or flying around the grounds. BYO binoculars and wear good walking shoes. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 7-8:30 a.m. Free; donations accepted; preregister.

Info, 434-2167.

sports

SHORT TRACK SUPER SERIES: See SAT.18, 5 p.m.

talks

TOM ANDERSON: One of the original developers of the Homestead tells his story. Ethan Allen Homestead Museum, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-4556.

theater

‘CLUE: ON STAGE’: See THU.16, 2-4 p.m.

‘LES FILLES DU QUOI?’: See THU.16, 2 p.m.

‘SIDE BY SIDE’: See WED.15, 5 p.m.

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Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 3 p.m. Free; preregister; donations accepted. Info, 223-3322.

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‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.15.

MARIE-JOSÉE DUQUETTE: The Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region hosts the Boston-based cultural attachée for a talk about the origins of Québec’s Festival of Saint-Jean. Noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, president@ aflcr.org.

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‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: See WED.15.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.15.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.15.

BRIDGE CLUB: See THU.16, 1-2 p.m.

health & fitness ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.15.

BONE BUILDERS/ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.15.

WEEKLY CHAIR YOGA: Those with mobility challenges or who are new to yoga practice balance and build strength through gentle, supported movements.

‘THE SAGES OF CHELM’: See SUN.19, 7 p.m.

music

ST. JOHNSBURY TOWN BAND: The nation’s third-oldest community band regales locals during a weekly ice cream social.

Caledonia County Courthouse, St. Johnsbury, 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-8575.

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PHILLIP B. WILLIAMS: The Lambda Award-winning poet behind Mutiny and Thief in the Interior reads from his work.

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2727.

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LAUNCHVT DEMO NIGHT: Fresh off a two-month accelerator program, startup founders and their teams pitch to judges and audience members for the chance to win prizes. Hula, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-3489.

VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Employment seekers drop in for tips on résumé writing, applying for jobs, and training. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 9:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 888-3853.

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CURRENT EVENTS DISCUSSION GROUP: Brownell Library hosts a virtual roundtable for neighbors to pause and reflect on the news cycle. 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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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, 7:30-9 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382.

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THU., JUN. 16 COURTHOUSE PLAZA, BURLINGTON

‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: See WED.15.

Old Tom & The Lookouts with Brett Hughes

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.15.

‘BRINGING THE ECONOMY HOME: THE RISE OF THE WORLDWIDE LOCALIZATION MOVEMENT’: Local Futures managing director Steve Gorelick premieres this documentary in honor of World Localization Day. BALE Community Space, South Royalton, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 498-8438.

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Father’s Day Open Memorial: Remembering in Community FRI., JUN. 17 ONLINE

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.15.

Queen Moo with Danny & The Parts

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.15.

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FRI., JUN. 17 ARTSRIOT, BURLINGTON

TUESDAY FARMERS MARKET: The Ishams put the “farm” back in “farmers market” with vendor stalls and live music out by the barn. Isham Family Farm, Williston, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 872-1525.

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ADULT KNITTERS & CROCHETERS: Fiber artists purl and treble among friends.

Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

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HOMESHARING INFO SESSION: Homeowners who could benefit from some additional income find out how their spare room and a compatible housemate could work for them. HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 1111:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625.

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PLAY CHESS & BACKGAMMON!: Everyone — beginners and experts, seniors and youngsters — is welcome at this weekly board game night. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

parler la belle langue. Burlington Bay Market & Café, 5:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, pausecafe+owner@groups.io.

SUMMER SOLSTICE SOCIAL HOUR: The Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region hosts a cocktail hour. The Residences at the Essex, Essex Junction, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, ellen.sholk@gmail.com.

montréal

‘THE SAGES OF CHELM’: See SUN.19, 8 p.m.

music

CABOT SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: SCOTTISH FISH: The Bostonbased Celtic quintet entertains audiences with its youthful energy and unique arrangements.

Cabot Town Common, 6-7:15 p.m.

Free. Info, 793-3016.

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: BURLINGTON TAIKO: The Japanese-inspired drum group gives a joyous outdoor concert.

Burlington City Hall Park, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

FUJI||||||||||TA: A Japanese sound artist uses his own hand-built pipe organ to make music reminiscent of air, water and echolocation. Epsilon Spires, Brattleboro, 8-10 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, info@epsilonspires. org.

MAKE MUSIC DAY ST. JOHNSBURY: Bands and musicians of all ages and genres make some noise at the bandstand to mark the first day of summer. Caledonia County Courthouse, St. Johnsbury, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8575.

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BIRD WALK WITH BIRD DIVA BRIDGET BUTLER: Bird-curious locals learn how to spot their river-dwelling, feathered neighbors during a leisurely walk along the Lamoille Rail Trail. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 888-3853.

TUESDAY NIGHT GRAVEL BIKE RIDES: Pedal heads explore their local trails at this weekly meetup. Three Rivers Path Trailhead Pavilion of the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail, St. Johnsbury, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, land animaladventures@gmail.com.

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MALIA DRAGON BOAT TRY IT TUESDAYS: Paddlers of every experience level learn how to pilot a dragon boat, meet new friends and maybe even sign up for a team. Community Sailing Center, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free.

Info, info@mailiaracing.com.

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: See THU.16.

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SUN STYLE TAI CHI: See FRI.17.

‘SIDE BY SIDE’: See WED.15.

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PAUSE-CAFÉ IN-PERSON FRENCH CONVERSATION: Francophones and Frenchlanguage learners meet pour

BOOK CLUB BUFFET: Readers dissect Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale over lunch. Presented by Dorothy Alling Memorial Library.

12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

CHRISTINE MCDONNELL: The Craftsbury author discusses and signs her new picture book biography, Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie’s Place, the Nation’s First Shelter for Women. East Craftsbury Presbyterian Church, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 472-5533.

KHL & NBNC BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP: Kellogg-Hubbard Library cofacilitates a conversation about Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, msinger@kellogg hubbard.org.

SARAH STEWART TAYLOR: Thriller lovers return to the world of the author’s Maggie D’arcy series with the latest installment, The Drowning Sea. Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 649-1114.

WINE & STORY: Lovers of libations and tellers of tales gather for an evening of good company.

Shelburne Vineyard, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 863-1754.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Members of this writing group motivate each other to put pen to paper for at least an hour, then debrief together. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 5-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 888-3853.

WED.22 agriculture

GARDENING CLUB: Growers of all ages and experience levels convene to swap ideas for planned raised flower and herb beds at the library. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

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FLOATING SOUND BATH: Singing bowl and gong player Stephen Scuderi delivers a unique massage and sensory experience.

Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20-40; preregister. Info, 777-0626.

HOMESTEADERS’ MEETUP: Like-minded neighbors gather to talk about sustainability, food systems and off-grid living.

Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

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

‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: See WED.15.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.15.

‘DUNE’: Sci-fi fans enjoy David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic novel. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

FILM SCREENING: Library patrons watch a movie that fits with the summer reading theme, “Oceans of Possibilities.”

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‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.15.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.15.

food & drink

TRUCKS, TAPS & TUNES: Food trucks, craft brews and live music by local acts make for an evening of family-friendly fun. Essex Experience, Essex Junction, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4200.

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ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS: See WED.15.

montréal

MAH-JONGG CLUB: See WED.15.

‘THE SAGES OF CHELM’: See SUN.19, 8 p.m.

DEDALUS FREE WEEKLY WINE TASTINGS: See WED.15.

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SPRING BAKING WITH THE PIE GUY: RESCHEDULED. Gary Stuard demonstrates how to make a strawberry-rhubarb pie full of springtime flavor. Presented by City Market, Onion River Co-op.

5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@citymarket.coop.

BONE BUILDERS/ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.15.

DANVILLE FARMERS MARKET: See WED.15.

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.15.

CHAIR YOGA: See WED.15.

MUSIC ON THE HILL: TOMMY CRAWFORD: A founding member of New York City band the Lobbyists gives a lovely outdoor concert. Artistree Community Arts Center, Woodstock, 6-7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 457-3500.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: SCOTTISH FISH: The

Boston-based Celtic quintet entertains audiences with its youthful energy and unique arrangements. Burlington City Hall Park, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

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TODD LECTURE SERIES: BRYAN WATSON: The retired army general delivers a presentation titled “The Role of Trust in Leading Teams in Crisis.” Livestream available. Mack Hall Auditorium, Northfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2633.

SECRETARY OF STATE CANDIDATES FORUM: The League of Women Voters hosts every prospective state election arbiter at this moderated discussion. Livestream available. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; limited in-person space. Info, league@lwvofvt.org.

seminars

DEVELOPING SELF: See WED.15.

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: See THU.16.

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‘LES FILLES DU QUOI?’: See THU.16.

layers of everyone’s favorite ogre as he rescues Princess Fiona and gets more than he reckoned for.

See calendar spotlight. Walker Farm, Weston, 1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 824-5288.

‘SIDE BY SIDE’: See WED.15.

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MARJORIE NELSON MATTHEWS: The author launches Hawai’i Calls, a family drama in which a woman must build her life back up from scratch after the Pearl Harbor attack. Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m.

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art DAVIS STUDIO ART CLASSES: Discover your happy place in one of our summer en plein air painting or summer independent study classes. Making art boosts wellbeing and brings joy, especially while connecting with other art enthusiasts. Now enrolling adults for summer and fall in drawing, painting and fused glass. Spots fill quickly. Don’t delay! Location: Davis Studio, 916 Shelburne Rd., South Burlington. Info: 802-4252700, davisstudiovt.com.

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GENERATOR is a combination of artist studios, classroom, and business incubator at the intersection of art, science, and technology. We provide tools, expertise, education, and opportunity – to enable all members of our community to create, collaborate, and make their ideas a reality.

HAMMOCK SEWING WORKSHOP: Join us and learn the process of creating your own custom, nylon backpacking-style hammock. This bicolored hammock

compacts down to the size of a Nalgene and was designed with the ease of storage and setup in mind. Perfect for those last-minute gifts you forgot about while snoozing in your hammock. Sun., Jul. 17, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $125 incl. materials fee. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Lane, Burlington. Info: Sam Graulty, 802-540-0761, education@generatorvt.com, generatorvt.com/workshops.

LIVE-EDGE END TABLE WORKSHOP: Emma Garvey will lead students through both the wood and metal shops as they build an end table composed of live edge hardwood and steel tubing. They’ll cover skills including welding and preparing and finishing both wood and steel.

Plus, students will leave with a custom side table they created!

Wed., June 29, July 26 & 13, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $400 incl. materials fee.

Location: Generator, 40 Sears La., Burlington. Info: Sam Graulty, 802540-0761, education@generatorvt. com, generatorvt.com/workshops.

JIPPI JAPPA JEWELRY WORKSHOP: Generator is hosting a Belizean jewelry maker named Khadija Assales through the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Program. She is offering a workshop that will teach participants about the process of harvesting Jippi Jappa, which is a plant native to Belize, and how

jewelry is made using it. Thu., Jun. 30, 6-7 p.m. Cost: $75 incl. materials fee. Location: Generator, 40 Sears La., Burlington. Info: Sam Graulty, 802-540-0761, education@generatorvt.com, generatorvt.com/classes-events/ workshops/#!event/2022/6/30/ jippi-jappa-jewelry-workshop.

LIONFISH JEWELRY WORKSHOP: Generator is hosting a Belizean jewelry maker named Khadija Assales through the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Program. She is offering a workshop that will bring awareness to the problem with the invasive lionfish in the Caribbean and show how we are solving the problem through making lionfish jewelry. Tue., Jun. 28, 6-7 p.m. Cost: $50 incl. materials fee. Location: Generator, 40 Sears La., Burlington. Info: Sam Graulty, 802-540-0761, education@generatorvt.com, generatorvt.com/classes-events/ workshops/#!event/2022/6/29/ lionfish-jewelry-workshop.

martial arts VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program for men, women and children in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Julio Cesar “Foca” Fernandez Nunes; CBJJP and IBJJF seventh-degree Carlson

Gracie Sr. Coral Belt-certified instructor; teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A two-time World Masters Champion, fivetime Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Champion, three-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion,and Gracie Challenge Champion.

Accept no imitations! Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 802598-2839, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

music DJEMBE & TAIKO DRUMMING: JOIN US!: New classes (outdoor mask optional/masks indoors).

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 30000716A 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111 On June 3, 2022, ILH, LLC, Attn: Scott Ireland, P.O. Box 2286, South Burlington, VT 05407 filed application number 300007-16A for a project generally described as construction of a 200’ x 62’ crane enclosure and the relocation of a portable concrete batch plant. This project was previously approved under LUP 300007-16 and was never built. The project is located at 193 Industrial Avenue in Williston, Vermont. This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/ Act250/Details.aspx?Num=300007-16A).

No hearing will be held, and a permit will be issued unless, on or before June 30, 2022, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion.

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For more information contact Stephanie H. Monaghan at the address or telephone number below.

Dated this June 10, 2022.

By: /s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5614 BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2022, 5:00 PM PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Remote Meeting Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/832256962 27?pwd=SGQ0bTdnS000Wkc3c2J4WWw1dzM xUT09 Webinar ID: 832 2569 6227 Passcode: 969186 Telephone: US +1 929 205 6099 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 1. ZAP-22-2; 203 South Cove Road (RL-W, Ward 5S) Stanley Weinberger / Christine Weinberger Appeal of zoning permit: ZP-22-148 application decision denial to demolish existing garage, enlarge footprint and construct two-story structure in its place with a new mudroom and storage shed below with a master suite above.

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4. YOU MUST RESPOND TO EACH CLAIM. The Answer is your written response to the Plaintiff’s Complaint. In your Answer you must state whether you agree or disagree with each paragraph of the Complaint. If you believe the Plaintiff should not be given everything asked for in the Complaint, you must say so in your Answer.

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION WASHINGTON UNIT DOCKET # 21-CV-03437 U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE OF AMERICAN HOMEOWNER PRESERVATION TRUST SERIES 2015A+ Plaintiff v.

FRANK L. SANBORN A/K/A FRANK SANBORN AND NICOLE SANBORN OCCUPANTS OF: 71 Little River Road, Waterbury VT Defendants

5. YOU WILL LOSE YOUR CASE IF YOU DO NOT GIVE YOUR WRITTEN ANSWER TO THE COURT. If you do not Answer within 41 days after the date on which this Summons was first published and file it with the Court, you will lose this case. You will not get to tell your side of the story, and the Court may decide against you and award the Plaintiff everything asked for in the complaint.

SUMMONS & ORDER FOR PUBLICATION THIS SUMMONS IS DIRECTED TO: Nicole Sanborn

6. YOU MUST MAKE ANY CLAIMS AGAINST THE PLAINTIFF IN YOUR REPLY. Your Answer must state any related legal claims you have against the Plaintiff. Your claims against the Plaintiff are called Counterclaims. If you do not make your Counterclaims in writing in your answer you may not be able to bring them up at all. Even if you have insurance and the insurance company will defend you, you must still file any Counterclaims you may have.

1. YOU ARE BEING SUED. The Plaintiff has started a lawsuit against you. A copy of the Plaintiff’s Complaint against you is on file and may be obtained at the office of the clerk of this court, Washington Unit, Civil Division, Vermont Superior Court, 65 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont. Do not throw this paper away. It is an official paper that affects your rights.

2. PLAINTIFF’S CLAIM. Plaintiff’s claim is a Complaint in Foreclosure which alleges that you have breached the terms of a Promissory Note and Mortgage Deed dated August 18, 2008. Plaintiff’s action may effect your interest in the property

7. LEGAL ASSISTANCE. You may wish to get legal help from a lawyer. If you cannot afford a lawyer, you should ask the court clerk for information about places where you can get free legal help.

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Contents of each unit may be viewed on June 28th 2022 commencing at 10:00 am. Sealed bids are to be submitted on the entire contents of each self- storage unit. Bids will be opened one half hour after the last unit has been viewed on June 28th, 2022. The highest bidder on the storage unit must remove the entire contents of the unit within 48 hours after notification of their successful bid. Purchase must be made in cash and paid in

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NOTICE OF SELF-STORAGE LIEN SALE CHIMNEY CORNERS SELF STORAGE 76 GONYEAU ROAD, MILTON VT 05403 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self-storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid. This sale is being held to collect unpaid storage unit occupancy fees, charges, and expenses of the sale. The entire contents of each self-storage unit listed below will be sold, with the proceeds to be distributed to Chimney Corners Self Storage for all accrued occupancy fees (rent charges), late payment fees, sale expenses, and all other expenses in relation to the unit and its sale.

3. YOU MUST REPLY WITHIN 41 DAYS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS. You must give or mail the Plaintiff a written response called an Answer within 41 days after the date on which this Summons was first published, which is __June 8, 2022_________, 2022. You must send a copy of your answer to the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff’s attorney, Loraine L. Hite, Esq. of Bendett and McHugh, PC, located at 270 Farmington Avenue, Ste. 151, Farmington, CT 06032. You must also give or mail your Answer to the Court located at 65 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05602.

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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.

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described in the Land Records of the Town of Waterbury at Volume 265, Page 24. The Complaint also seeks relief on the Promissory Note executed by you. A copy of the Complaint is on file and may be obtained at the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of Washington, State of Vermont.

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advance of the removal of the contents of the unit. A $50 cash deposit shall be made and will be refunded if the unit is broom cleaned. Chimney Corners Self Storage reserves the right to accept or reject bids.

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

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

This order shall be published once a week for three_ weeks beginning on June 8, 2022 in the Seven Days, a newspaper of the general circulation in Washington County, and a copy of this summons and order as published shall be mailed to the defendant Nicole Sanborn, at 32 South Main Street, Waterbury, VT 05676, defendant’s last known mailing address.

Dated 5/31/2022 /s/ Robert A. Mello Hon. Robert A. Mello Presiding Judge Washington Unit, Civil Division STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 22-PR-02193 In re ESTATE of George C. Freeman, III NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of: George C. Freeman, III, late of South 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 1, 2022 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Susan Mock Executor/Administrator: Susan Mock, c/o Jarrett | Hoyt; 1795 Williston Road, Suite 125, South Burlington, VT 05403 802-864-5951 ext 105 gerry@vtelaw.com Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 6/15/22 Name of Probate Court: Chittenden County Probate Address of Probate Court: PO Box 511, Burlington, VT 05401

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 22-PR-02924 In re ESTATE of Catherine B. Nelson NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of: Catherine B. Nelson, late of South Burlington.

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the 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: 06/08/2022 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Marion R. Nelson Executor/Administrator: Marion R. Nelson, Executor, c/o Drislane Law Office, PO Box 1080, Williston, VT 05495, 802-860-7266 michelle@ drislanelaw.com Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 6/15/22 Name of Probate Court: Chittenden Probate Court

Address of Probate Court: 175 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 22-PR-03423 In re ESTATE of Andre Lemieux NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of: Andre Lemieux, late of Williston.

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: Thursday, June 9, 2022 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Eric B. Lemieux Executor/Administrator: Eric B. Lemieux, 155 Westford Rd, Milton, VT 05468 toolcrafter802@ gmail.com 802-355-5680 Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 6/15/22 Name of Probate Court: Chittenden Probate Court Address of Probate Court: PO Box 511, Burlington, VT 05402 STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WASHINGTON COUNTY UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 517-9-19 WNCV THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS SUCCESSOR TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR ASSET BACKED FUNDING CORPORATION, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-HE1 v.

ROGER M. ANDREY AND TODD N. SEYMOUR OCCUPANTS OF: 1227 Roxbury Mountain Road, 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 January 6, 2020, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Roger M. Andrey to Option One Mortgage Corporation, dated December 16, 2004 and recorded in Book 170 Page 798 of the land records of the Town of Warren, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: Assignment of Mortgage from Option One Mortgage Corporation to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Trustee for ABFC Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-HE1, dated June 6, 2008 and recorded in Book 196 Page 1; (2) Assignment of Mortgage from Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Trustee for ABFC Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-HE1 to JP Morgan Chase Bank, National Association, as Trustee for ABFC Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-HE1, dated July 6, 2009 and recorded in Book 201 Page 544; (3) Corrective Assignment of Mortgage from Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Trustee for ABFC Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-HE1 to JP Morgan Chase Bank, National Association, as Trustee for ABFC Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-HE1, dated December 16, 2009 and recorded in Book 205 Page 115; (4) Assignment of Mortgage from JP Morgan Chase Bank, National Association, as Trustee for ABFC Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-HE1 to The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee for ABFC 2005-HE1 Trust, ABFC AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2005-HE1, dated April 20, 2011 and recorded in Book 211 Page 64; and (5) Assignment of Mortgage from The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee for ABFC 2005-HE1 Trust, ABFC Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-HE1 to The Bank of New York Mellon, f/k/a The Bank of New York as Successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as Trustee for Asset Backed Funding Corporation, Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2005-HE1, dated May 28, 2015 and recorded in Book 234 Page 302, all 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 1227 Roxbury Mountain Road, Warren, Vermont

on June 28, 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 Roger M. Andrey by Quit Claim Deed dated April 20, 2000 and October 2, 2000 and recorded at Book 134, Page 486 of the Town of Warren land Records.

Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Roger M. Andrey by Warranty Deed of Papani Realty Trust dated September 5, 1986 and recorded in Book 79, Page 550 of the Town of Warren Land Records.

Said lands and premises may be otherwise described as being Lot 18 of the Roth Farm Subdivision consisting of 3.5 acres, more or less, together with improvements thereon.

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”.

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• Cars, Trucks & SUVs • Motorcycles TVs & Jet Skis • ATVs • RVs & Boats • Tractors • Trailers AND MORE No dealer’s license required!

100+ Cars Expected!

(1422) Beth Donahue Paintings (Wave 2) Online Lots Closing Wednesday, June 22 @ 6PM

(1411) Sauna, Tools & Equipment, & Antiques Online Lots Closing Thursday, June 23 @ 10AM

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Preview: Tues., June 21 from 11AM-1PM

(1384) Firearms and Sporting-Related Online Lots Closing Friday, June 24 @ 10AM

Foreclosure: 4BR/3BA Home on 0.92± Acre Lot with Pool Thursday, June 30 @ 11AM

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131 Dorset Ln., Williston, VT

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 : May 25, 2022 By: /s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 01-04901 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, WILLISTON VT, WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT THE 23RD OF JUNE 2022 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF MAXWELL LINDFORS. 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.

TOWN OF ESSEX ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT AGENDA/PUBLIC HEARING JULY 7, 2022 - 6:00 PM MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE ROOM, 81 MAIN ST., ESSEX JCT., VT Anyone may attend this meeting in person at the above address or remotely through the following options: - Join via Microsoft Teams at https://www.essexvt. org/870/5481/Join-ZBA-Meeting - Call: (802) 377-3784 | Conference ID: 480 347 627# - Public wifi: https://publicservice.vermont.gov/ content/public-wifi-hotspots-vermont 1. CONDITIONAL USE: HDI Real Estate, Inc: Proposal for outdoor seating for Mimmos Restaurant located at 4 Carmichael St in the MXD-PUD, MXD-C Subzone and B-DC Overlay Zones. Tax Map 91, Parcel 4-1.

2. CONDITIONAL USE AMEND: Center Road Properties, LLC: Proposal to expand an existing daycare facility located at 51 Center Rd in the B1 Zone and B-DC Overlay. Tax Map 87, Parcel 1-1.

3. CONDITIONAL USE AMEND: Ehlerville, LLC: Proposal to expand the display area located at 74 Upper Main St in the MXD-PUD, B1 Subzone and B-DC Zone . Tax Map 6, Parcel 22.

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5. Minutes: June 2, 2022 6. Other Business Visit our website at www.essexvt.org.

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Foreclosure: 3BR Home Thursday, July 7 @ 11AM 28 Grape St., Fair Haven, VT

Open House: Thurs., June 16 from 11AM-1PM

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Freeman French Freeman seeks a Project Manager/Project Architect to join our firm in beautiful Burlington, VT. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years’ experience, a working knowledge of Revit, and experience in specification writing and building code reviews.

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CAREGIVERS $3000 SIGN-ON BONUS The Residence at Quarry Hill is seeking compassionate caregivers and the location is great!

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SECURITY OFFICERS The primary responsibilities of the Security Officer are to conduct patrol duties, respond immediately to emergency and non-emergency calls for assistance, and document services provided on each shift.

Each University of Vermont Medical Center Security Officer is assigned to a specific Campus. High School graduate or equivalent, valid driver’s license and safe driving record required.

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Shared Living Provider — Burlington

Interested in becoming a Medication Technician?

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• Full and Part-time shifts available

NVRH is looking for dedicated and compassionate RNs, LPNs and LNAs to join our team and provide high quality care to the communities we serve. NVRH provides a fair and compassionate workplace where all persons are valued by the organization and each other, providing ongoing growth opportunities.

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FULL OR PART TIME LANDSCAPER Apis Garden Coaching and Landscaping is a growing ecological landscaping company seeking part and full time employees for the season. We specialize in pollinator friendly gardening and landscaping for residential clients. Pay starts at $18/hour with no experience, experienced landscapers up to $25/hour.

Contact pete@apisgardencoach.com to apply.

FOOD JOBS WITH A WORK-LIFE BALANCE Sound too good to be true? Not at Red Hen!

MAKERSPACE DESIGN MANAGER Saint Michael’s College is seeking an experienced professional to assume responsibility as the MakerSpace Design Manager of the SMC MakerSpace. This position will report to the Associate Director of Educational Technology. A Bachelor’s degree is preferred or 3 or more years’ experience working in a technical field.

Successful candidates will possess excellent communication skills and the ability to work creatively and collaboratively with faculty, students, staff, IT Assistant Directors, and the CIO to create a welcoming space where creative ideas can be tested and implemented. Essential Duties and Responsibilities of this position include operations and logistics support for the SMC MakerSpace learning community, supervision and training of the MakerSpace student staff, maintenance of MakerSpace equipment and materials inventory, and ensuring compliance with safety and rules/policy guidelines. Candidate should also be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Premier, and Photoshop, as well as skilled in the operation and maintenance of sewing machines, laser cutter, and vinyl cutter.

For a complete job description and to apply online: bit.ly/SMCMSDM

We have several exciting opportunities available which include an excellent benefits package.

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER INTAKE CLINICIAN BUILDING MAINTENANCE & CUSTODIAN SUPPORTED HOUSING

For over 20 years, we have been providing great career opportunities in the food industry. Get in touch with us if your passion is great food, and your needs include: • Consistent schedule: 40 hr/weeks • A livable wage • Health care

• Paid time off • Retirement plan with company match

WE ARE HIRING FOR: BREAD BAKER We’re looking for someone who values good bread and enjoys work that exercises your body and your mind. Bakery or kitchen experience is required. Red Hen is a mid-sized bread bakery focused on hand-crafted, long-fermented breads. We are committed to using high quality, organic ingredients and work with many local farmers to source these. We opened in 1999 and remain dedicated to the integrity of the bread baking processes and creating an environment for our bakers to thrive. Contact Douglas at douglas@redhenbaking.com.

NIGHT BREAD PACKER If you like going to work when most others are headed home, we’ve got just the job for you. We’re looking for a night owl to fill wholesale bread orders four nights a week. Applicants must enjoy physical work, be detail oriented and work well with others as well as alone. Basic computer skills a must. Meet new friends and earn a good living while you do it! Please contact Scot at scot@ redhenbaking.com.

BARISTA Making top-notch espresso drinks and serving customers great food. Previous customer service and cash handling experience necessary. Contact Hannah at hannah@redhenbaking.com.

ATHLETIC TRAINER

YOUNG ADULT NAVIGATOR

Applications are invited for the position of Athletic Trainer at Saint Michael’s College, a private, Catholic liberal arts and Sciences College located in the greater Burlington area of Vermont. Saint Michael’s is an NCAA Division II institution sponsoring 21 varsity sports, and is a proud member of the Northeast-10 Conference, NEWHA, and the EISA. This is a full-time (10-months) position with benefits.

MULTICULTURAL YOUTH COORDINATOR Apply Now!

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ATHLETIC TRAINER INTERNSHIP Applications are invited for the position of Athletic Trainer Internship at Saint Michael’s College, a private, Catholic liberal arts and Sciences College located in the greater Burlington area of Vermont. Saint Michael’s is an NCAA Division II institution sponsoring 21 varsity sports, and is a proud member of the Northeast-10 Conference, NEWHA, and the EISA. This is a temporary position (38 weeks), working 40 hours a week. Job responsibilities include addressing prevention, care, evaluation, and treatment of injuries for intercollegiate student-athletes.

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Stowe Land Trust, a local land conservation nonprofit serving the Stowe, Vermont area, is hiring a Conservation Program Manager to manage SLT’s Stewardship Program and its portfolio www.goodbeginningscentralvt.org of conservation easements and fee lands. The Program Manager also plays a central role with completing new land protection 1t-GoodBeginnings060822 1 6/3/22 12:22 PM projects and assists with program-related outreach and events.

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Hey! Do you love... ...playing with kids ...spending time in nature ...teaching about social justice?

We’ve got the job for you!

The Schoolhouse Learning Center in South Burlington seeks an Assistant Preschool Teacher for our nature- and play-based preschool program. Candidates should enjoy spending a lot of time outdoors in all weather, hiking, exploring, and teaching children about the natural world, as well as supporting a social-justice focused preschool curriculum.

Learn from a fantastic team of experienced teachers, in a progressive school with a long track record of success.

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climate justice organizers!

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Providing Innovative Mental Health and Educational Services to Vermont’s Children & Families.

RESIDENTIAL COUNSELOR Chittenden County The Village House of NFI VT is hiring a residential counselor to serve transition aged youth 17–22 years old in a staffed house in Chittenden County.

Residential counselors will provide structure, service coordination, therapeutic support and supervision. The focus of the program is to provide independent living skills and increased experience in independence through supportive education, mentoring, community integration, and self-determination. The preferred candidate will have the ability to work independently, yet also be a team player. This full-time benefitted position will include evenings, overnights, and one weekend shift. Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology/ Sociology and/or related experience working with young adults preferred.

Apply online at: www.nfivermont.org/careers We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and celebrate the diversity of our clients and staff.

Professional Careers in Worldwide Travel Join Country Walkers and VBT Bicycling Vacations, an award-winning, Vermont-based active travel company, and be part of our high performing, international team.

We have amazing opportunities for Sales, Service and Marketing Professionals interested in supporting worldwide travel adventures with a leader in the industry, positively impacting established brands and working with other collaborative and gifted travel pros.

We’re expanding our team and are seeking professionals for the following full-time positions.

• GUEST SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE • TOUR CONSULTANT • DIGITAL MARKETING AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGER If you’re passionate, driven by excellence, want to make a difference and are looking for balance in your quality of life – check us out!

Ready to learn more? Visit our career pages at VBT.com or countrywalkers.com and submit your resume to nvoth@vbt.com.

$21.66 - $22.43/hour w/Competitive Benefits

Seeking an administrative professional with excellent customer service skills.

Provides a wide range of administrative and technical support, including processing all internal and external customer service requests, basic business and financial tasks, community education and outreach, and data mgt.

Associate’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Communications or a related field, or commensurate work exp., including 3-5 years of customer service exp. in an office setting. Prior experience in public works desired.

Submit cover letter, resume and application online by visiting colchestervt.gov/321/Human-Resources. Open until filled.

Equal Opportunity Employer.

The United States District Court is seeking two (2) qualified individuals for the following positions:

Linux/Database Administrator IT / AV Technician Seeking individuals with relevant skills, or the aptitude to acquire such skills, capable of functioning in a dynamic, team-oriented environment. The location for both positions is Burlington, Vermont. Full federal benefits apply. Complete job descriptions and formal application requirements are found in the official Position Announcements available from court locations in Burlington and Rutland and the court’s web site:

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Information Assurance Administrative Specialist l The Information Assurance (IA) Administrative Specialist provides administrative support for the Information Assurance department’s communications, activities and projects. The IA Administrative Specialist will offer high quality customer service and accurate, timely information. This position will be responsible for the administration, coordination and communication with IA Team Members and external clients and stakeholders.

You can expect competitive salary and benefits, including paid time to give back in your community and generous PTO. We are purpose driven. We, as an organization, above anything else protect the house first and then help our customers win.

If this sounds like the kind of organization, you’d like to be a part of, we’d like to hear from you.

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Family Support Programs Coordinator RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER Manage client expectations, project budgets, and construction schedules; support the Lead Carpenter in the field; and work in tandem toward a mission of efficient execution, smooth processes, and a happy client throughout the build.

This is a client-facing, dynamic position. Applicant must be: • A proven, problem-solving builder with several years of experience in residential construction • Experienced in construction cost estimating and scheduling • Capable of managing relationships with architects and clients with clear communication, humility, and a spirit of cooperation • Simultaneously manage 2-3 large, high-end residential projects, in addition to a few smaller jobs, and develop supporting documentation to execute them.

RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECT ANALYST

Prevent Child Abuse Vermont is seeking two Family Support Programs Coordinators to be part of a statewide team. Successful candidates will be located in one of the following counties: Washington, Windsor, Orleans, Caledonia or Lamoille and will organize, oversee and facilitate parent education and support groups. The position involves some travel around the region. Duties also include recruitment, training and supervision of volunteers, outreach and collaboration with community partners.

Knowledge of child development and child abuse, love of parent education/ support, and experience with online facilitation are all a plus. Reliable transportation required. Bachelor’s degree in human services or related field required. E.O.E. Please email cover letter, resume, and 3 references, along with the employment application to pcavt@pcavt.org or mail to: Prevent Child Abuse Vermont, FSPC Search - PO Box 829 Montpelier, VT 05601-0829 For application visit: pcavt.org/jobs-and-internships

Part of the client-facing team that facilitates all details and processes from project concept to completion.

Full details and to apply:

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ORGANIZER AFT Vermont is hiring a smart, motivated organizer who is willing to work hard for social justice at the workplace and across Vermont.

About AFT Vermont

Daily workload generally consists of but is not limited to: • Estimating (material takeoffs, material & labor allowances, subcontractor pricing) • Selections (plumbing & electrical fixtures, paint, countertops, finish surfaces) • Procurement (material cost tracking/sourcing, order processing, lead time tracking) • Communications (meeting participation/follow up/correspondence with clients, architects, designers, subs, staff) Full descriptions & to apply: silvermapleconstruction.bamboohr.com/jobs

OPTICAL ASSISTANT Peak View Eye Care seeks a personable, dependable, self-directed individual to join its team to deliver excellent professional optical services. The ideal candidate is pleasantly approachable, well-organized, and capable of multitasking, works well with others on a team, and pays exceptional attention to detail. Duties include: • Choosing appropriately fitting eyeglass frames with complementary style and color • Choosing appropriate lens materials & treatments based on visual needs; • Processing eyeglass orders with optical labs & verify the accuracy of the end product • Maintaining an inspiring inventory of contemporary & affordable eyeglass frames • Repairing eyeglasses & adjusting them to fit comfortably and appropriately • Teaching first-time contact lens wearers to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses • Meeting with visiting optical company representatives • Ensuring the accuracy of optical accounts payable

COMMUNICATION COORDINATOR Full time 37.5 hrs/wk

We organize to win better wages, respect & improvements at work.

Send cover letter and resume to HR@vtfn.org or

FULFILLMENT SPECIALISTS

HR, VFN 600 Blair Park, Suite 240 Williston, VT 05495

DIRECTOR OF PLACE-BASED LEARNING Vital Communities, a regional nonprofit located in White River Junction, VT, seeks a full-time Program Director with experience in and passion for Place-Based Learning (PBL) to lead our signature Leadership Upper Valley program and to direct the Place-Based Learning team. The PBL team includes the following programs: Leadership Upper Valley, Upper Valley Farm To School, Valley Quest, the Upper Valley Teaching Place Collaborative, and the Upper Valley Equity Exchange.

Successful candidates will have a passion for place-based learning; an advanced degree or lived experience that is an equivalent; significant management experience including mentoring and coaching; excellent, proven facilitation skills with larger groups; and strong networks in the Upper Valley.

Please send a cover letter expressing your interest along with your résumé and 3 job references to peakvieweyecare@yahoo.com, or to Peak View Eye Care, 27 Main St, Vergennes, VT 05491.

Full job description: vitalcommunities.org/about/join-our-team. Email resume & cover letter to hr@vitalcommunities.org. Application review process begins on June 15, 2022. Applications accepted until the position is filled.

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• A democratic, organizing labor union • The fastest growing union in Vermont • Has majority women membership & leadership

Vermont Family Network is seeking a Communication Coordinator to oversee a communication plan to expand VFN’s visibility and reach to underserved communities throughout Vermont. Bachelor’s degree in Communication or 3 years’ equivalent experience preferred. Must have excellent attention to detail, written and verbal communication skills, and knowledge of a variety of digital media platforms.

Knowledge/experience of disabilities/special health care needs as well as non-profits preferred.

Work weekdays in a relaxed but professional atmosphere. Full-time workers have two 3-day weekends per month. Salary/wage is commensurate with prior experience. Previous employment in health care, customer service, or sales is desired. Licensure or certification as an optician or frame stylist is preferred.

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Full & Part-Time Skida is seeking fulfillment employees to join our awesome warehouse team!

This position will assist in picking and packing orders, organizing, stocking inventory, moving boxes, and keeping our fulfillment areas clean.

The ideal candidate will be positive, self-motivated, detail oriented, and have the ability to communicate effectively as part of a tight knit team.

Experience with pack & ship is a plus. Must be available to work some holidays and weekends.

Please visit skida.com/ pages/careers-join-us for more information and to apply today!

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DENTAL HYGIENIST We are looking for a part-time dental hygienist to join our family oriented general practice in Burlington.

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Solar O&M Service Tech The O&M (Operations and Maintenance) Service Technician is a key member of the Asset Management team. The O&M Service Technician will perform and oversee subcontractor performance of various O&M activities at large commercial and utility-scale solar PV plants located through the northeastern United States.

LINE OPERATORS: Pay $16 to $24 SANITATION, 2ND SHIFT: Pay $18.50-24/hr.

This position works at existing PV power plants and manages health and safety, quality control, and other duties. The O&M Service Technician manages subcontractors and coordination between engineering, design, procurement, construction, and O&M. This is a full-time, salaried position with full benefits package and bonus potential. The ideal candidate will reside near White River Junction, Brattleboro, or Burlington.

WAREHOUSE SUPPORT: $18.50-22.00

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• Weekly Pay! • 3rd Shift Pay Differential!

• Incentives and Referral Bonuses!

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Email resume to: drmariacronynnd@gmail.com

CVOEO has an exciting opportunity to help individuals who are most in need at the Samaritan House in Saint Albans. We are looking for compassionate advocates to help individuals who are experiencing homelessness and who have low income to find or maintain suitable housing, employment and other social and health supports, and connect clients with local social service agencies organizations, landlords, and funding sources.

Available positions include: • Rental Assistance Program Specialist full time, $21/hour • Housing Advocate – part time, weekend hours, $23/hour • Housing Advocate – on call, overnight weekends,

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Chef de Cuisine American Flatbread Middlebury Hearth is seeking a Chef de Cuisine. Our ideal candidate will engage the farming community

These are full-time positions offering very competitive pay and a full benefits package, along with working with great people. We are an equal opportunity employer and a Vermont employer of choice.

in Addison County by showcasing thoughtful cuisine that

Please contact HR@ Butternutmountainfarm.com or call (802)888-3491 for more information.

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Associate Director of Talent Management

emphasizes the “farm-to-plate” ideal. This person is also a positive leader who is outgoing, understands the importance of good communication, and knows how to work with the dynamic tension between bottom-line profitability and local sourcing. salary and benefits. Interested candidates, please forward your resume to danielle@americanflatbread.com. EOE.

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It’s all about the people…

We seek a strategic and programmatic pro to recruit new team members and build the programs that support a dynamic, inclusive, high performing workplace. Digital fluency, comfortable collecting and manipulating data, empathy, strong communication, customer service, and project management are essential skills. Impeccable ethics required. Must be able to hold the people of our team and the needs of the organization in each hand as equal priorities and make decisions that advance and elevate both.

Working knowledge of employee policy and benefits programs, as well as candidate sourcing and tracking software helpful too.

The Associate Director will report to the Vice President and Chief People Officer.

The UVM Foundation is committed to diversity and building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and ages. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities.

For a detailed description of the position and instruction on how to apply, please visit: UVMFoundation.org/Careers.

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SASH COORDINATOR The Winooski Housing Authority is seeking a part-time (20-25 hours per week) SASH Coordinator. This person will be part of a dedicated team of professionals coordinating services for our elderly residents.

DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR WINOOSKI HOUSING AUTHORITY

SASH Coordinators build trusting relationships with SASH participants in order to develop an understanding of each participant’s strengths and challenges as they pertain to living safely in their home. A component of this part-time position will also entail organizing and facilitating activities to help participants stay socially engaged. The ideal candidate will have the ability to work effectively as part of a team of community providers and the ability to build trusting relationships with a diverse group of residents and community members.

Applicants must demonstrate a combination of background and experience of successfully working with the elderly or adults with disabilities.

Outstanding organizational and communication skills are required.

A team oriented, friendly work environment and mission-driven work makes this an exciting opportunity.

If you are interested in this position please send cover letter and resume to caltobelli@winooskihousing.org or mail to: Carol Altobelli, 83 Barlow St., Winooski, VT 05404

Full job description: vitalcommunities.org/about/join-our-team. Email resume & cover letter to hr@vitalcommunities.org. Vital Communities will begin reviewing applications on June 15, 2022. Applications accepted until the position is filled.

PROBATE REGISTER – PROBATE LEGAL ASSISTANT

The Probate Register provides organizational, technical, and public relations work as custodian of the records, and processes and maintains the dockets, files and records under the jurisdiction of the Probate Court (wills, administration of estates, trusts and guardianships, adoptions, name changes). This position certifies court documents pertaining to the Superior Court. Work is performed with considerable latitude for the exercise of independent judgment and initiative and is reviewed either through monthly or quarterly statistical reports and under the supervision of the Court Operations Manager.

This is a full-time, permanent opportunity in Woodstock, Vermont.

Starting salary is $19.42 per hour with full State of Vermont employee benefits.

The ideal candidate will bring a high level of professionalism and confidentiality. Exceptional administrative/clerical skills, the ability to keep accurate records, and to provide accurate information is critical. It is a fast-paced and challenging environment that requires teamwork, flexibility, and strong communication skills. Experience in customer-facing roles with a focus on positive, empathetic, and professional attitude is preferred. This is a great opportunity for someone with experience in an office environment who is looking to take their next career step in the legal field.

Apply online: vermontjudiciary.exacthire.com/job/89963

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Zoning Administrator

The position is a permanent position approved for 32-40 hours per week, to be established at the time of hire. The hiring range is between $19.23/hour - $25.24/hour based on qualifications and experience. Generous health benefits are offered Complete job description is at charlottevt.org; see right-hand sidebar. Please send resumé and cover letter, and any questions, to: dean@townofcharlotte.com. The position is open until filled.

Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions.

Printing & Bindery Specialist - Print & Mail Center - #S3586PO - Come join a team at UVM that prides itself as an essential department for the University of Vermont. Perform most Mail Services and Bindery department functions. Functions to include: Wide format Operator, sorting inbound U.S. mail, campus mail, parcel sorting, delivery of mail and parcels using a UVM vehicle and operation of mail/bindery finishing equipment used in these functions. Experience preferred but willing to train the right candidate.

For further information on this position and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit www.uvmjobs.com. Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Open positions are updated daily. Please call 802-656-3150 or email employment@uvm. edu for technical support with the online application.

The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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Carpenters & Lead Carpenters We are looking for experienced carpenters with knowledge of old and new construction to join the Lewis Creek Builders, DesignBuild team! We are a passionate group of carpenters, designers, and construction management professionals working in a supportive, collaborative environment to manage every aspect of residential building and remodeling projects.

Sign-on bonus equal to one week of gross pay! Flexible start date!

Great benefits package!

Join our dynamic Town Office team in beautiful Charlotte! The Town of Charlotte is recruiting for the position of Zoning Administrator. The primary responsibility of this position is to administer and enforce land use permitting. The position is also responsible for the coordination of wastewater system & water supply permitting (with the assistance of a Licensed Designer) and performance of Health Officer duties.

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Vital Communities, a regional nonprofit located in White River Junction, VT, seeks a full time (32-40hr/wk) Development Coordinator. With an anticipated annual budget of $2.3 million in FY 2023, a rapidly expanding staff, and ambitious revenue goals moving forward, Vital Communities has a growing need to expand our fundraising and development team. The Development Coordinator will support the Development Director with a broad array of fundraising responsibilities, including donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of individuals, foundations, and corporate donors. Additionally, the Development Coordinator will work closely with the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Manager and the Finance & Administration team to support gift recording, acknowledgement, and reporting processes. The best candidate for this position will function well in a team setting, have excellent communication skills (in internal and external-facing contexts) and possess a high level of attention to detail.

Apply online today: lewiscreekcompany.com/ employment Or call 802.662.1630.

Carpenter/Lead Carpenter Pay Range: $23.00-$40.00/hr

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Centers for Wellbeing Warehouse Associate / Delivery Driver $22/Hour $1,000 Signing Bonus We are in search of a craft beer enthusiast to help manage our Vermont warehouse and fulfill customer deliveries. Great pay, benefits & team. No previous driving experience required.

Opportunity to advance to management role.

WORKSITE WELLNESS ASSOCIATE An excellent and flexible opportunity for passionate, responsible professionals. Three, part-time positions (5-10+ hours a week) will promote our worksite wellness and mental health supports to our employers in Chittenden County, Connecticut River Valley and Bennington-Rutland regions.

Our ideal candidates will have: • Outstanding presentation skills, both in-person and via video conference • The ability to engage busy decision makers by phone • Strong time management skills while also working with our multi-disciplinary team on many deliverables and deadlines • Articulate and engaging communication style

Craft Collective is New England's independent craft beer distributor. We serve MA, RI, ME and VT. Apply: getcraft.co/careers

The Colchester School District (CSD) is actively seeking qualified candidates to join our team of educators and support staff. At CSD, we strive to prepare each student for success in life by providing an enriching, welcoming and safe environment. With five schools and over 2,100 students, the district offers a variety of student-facing and behind-thescenes job opportunities. CSD employees receive a generous benefits package, including competitive wages, excellent healthcare, dental insurance, long-term disability, retirement plan, life insurance, and tuition reimbursement.

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Cash Management Accountant We are seeking a Cash Management Accountant to join our Finance Team at Capstone Community Action. The Cash Management Accountant is responsible for managing any cash transactions and the accounts receivable system. This position will work closely with other members of the finance department and administrative staff.

The ideal candidate will have an Associate’s degree in a related field or experience in cash management. Strong interpersonal and computer skills are a must. Interested applicants should submit a letter of interest and resume to: Capstone Community Action, Inc. Human Resources, 20 Gable Place Barre, VT 05641 Or e-mail to: jobs@capstonevt.org Capstone offers a generous benefits package, including health and dental insurance, paid vacation, sick and personal time, 13 paid holidays, 401k match and more.

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Showroom Coordinator If you are a hardworking, dedicated, and detail oriented person then we have a career opportunity for you at Blodgett Supply, a division of Hajoca Corporation. Our close-knit team of 20 works together to provide great service to our customers, and continuously strives to be the best in our business. We are looking for a driven individual for our Williston VT plumbing showroom.

Showroom Salespeople provide product selection assistance and design advice to showroom customers as well as administrative support.

As a Showroom Salesperson with Blodgett your specific job duties will include, but are not limited to the following: • Answering the phone, greeting customers, customer service, order entry, price quotes Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: • Detailed oriented with strong organizational and analytical skills.

• Ability to work well both independently and within a team environment.

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• A strong desire to be the best at what they do • Identify customer needs, provide solutions • Able to plan, organize and multi-task.

• Ability to be self-directed, detailed & highly organized in work activities.

Hajoca Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer (Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled).

VLJP seeks a full-time Project Manager to expand and grow our statewide network and model for multi-lingual, multicultural, public health messaging on topics affecting Vermonters with Limited English Proficiency.

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Administrative Assistant Vermont-NEA is seeking a highly qualified Administrative Assistant to provide support to our professional staff. This position includes the opportunity for telework in addition to in-person work in our Montpelier office. Vermont-NEA offers a competitive salary with an extensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plan, paid leave, as well as cell phone and internet reimbursement to support telework assignments.

In addition to the specific qualifications below, this position requires exceptional interpersonal skills, careful attention to detail, excellent oral and written communication skills, managing multiple ongoing projects, and a commitment to confidentiality, all within the context of a highly professional and advocacyoriented membership organization.

Specific qualifications: This is not an entry-level position. BA or higher degree preferred; at least 3 years’ experience in an administrative assistant position; appreciation for the role of labor unions and for the work of public school educators; advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required.

To apply, send a cover letter and resume, including names and contact information for at least 3 references to: Jeff Fannon, Executive Director, Vermont-NEA 10 Wheelock Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05602, or electronically to kferguson@vtnea.org. Position will remain open until filled.

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SerVermont – Feeding Chittenden Start/End Date: 8/15/2022 – 8/14/2023 Accepting applications until 7/20/22 The SerVermont VISTA member projects will support capacitybuilding development and marketing efforts at Feeding Chittenden, with a focus on building healthy futures through the alleviation of hunger and increasing access to nutritious foods.

This work will help to: • Sustain and raise funds to support Feeding Chittenden programming • Enhance the organization’s social media/online presence • Collect and disseminate stories from community members experiencing food insecurity • Organize events and special projects • Assist the Major Gifts & Communications Manager in PR and communication efforts, including sending out press releases and coordinating news stories.

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Part-time Zoning Administrator (ZA) The Town of Lincoln, Vermont, seeks a part-time Zoning Administrator (ZA) for approx.

20 hours per week. Pay is commensurate with experience.

The ZA administers and enforces zoning regulations and supports the Planning Commission and Development Review Board. Minimum qualifications include one year relevant work experience, excellent oral & written communication skills & attention to detail.

For complete job description, please contact Ann at the Lincoln Town office at: townbk@lincolnvermont.org or (802) 453-2980.

Apply by email with a letter of interest and resume as a PDF attachment to Bill Finger, Selectboard Chair at admin@ lincolnvermont.org or by mail to Bill Finger, Lincoln Town Office, 62 Quaker Street, Lincoln, VT 05443.

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RESIDENT RELOCATION COORDINATOR The Relocation Coordinator is a key member of the Relocation team. The Relocation Coordinator is responsible for overseeing the daily relocation tasks required at multiple sites while working closely with residents to prepare and assist them with all required relocation activities. The position involves regular communication with clients, managing third-party vendors, including cleaners, moving and pest control companies, and data collection and tracking. A positive attitude and a solutions-based approach are expected when providing relocation services to clients and residents.

HOU offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including health, health reimbursement account (HRA), FSA, life, vision, dental, disability insurance, professional development support, paid time off and sick leave, and a 401K retirement plan. HOU is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Chief Client Services Officer The Chief Client Services Officer is responsible for providing overall leadership, direction, planning, and development of client services operations. This full-time position is accountable to ensure effective and efficient delivery of services across all programs and populations.

The position will also provide key strategic direction and develop agency-wide systems, policies, and best practices.

Requirements: Valid Vermont License at Independent Practitioner Level, ten (10) or more years of clinical and progressively responsible experience with five (5) years of experience at the Director or above level, in behavioral health, mental health, substance use or developmental services that includes providing direct clinical services to clients, developing relationships with referral, funding and community partners, and supervision of professional clinical staff; or any equivalent combination of education and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

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Competitive Compensation • Great Benefits, including 36 days of paid time off • Inclusive Work Culture

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PART-TIME ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER & PLANNING ASSISTANT The Town of Westford is seeking a person to fill the role of a part-time Administrative Officer and Planning Assistant (average 24 hrs/wk). This is not a remote position. The AOPA is a highly responsible administrative position that requires considerable judgment in the literal application, interpretation, and enforcement of the Westford Land Use & Development Regulations and State Statutes, while providing staff support and technical assistance to the Development Review Board and Town Planner.

This position requires an individual who is courteous, tactful, objective, and fair. The ability to communicate clearly, verbally and in writing, is essential. A Bachelor’s degree in planning, landscape architecture, natural resource management, or related field is highly desirable.

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As a key member of the Student Government Association’s (SGA) business operations team, the SGA Business Assistant will provide support for human resource and business operations including student employee and temporary staff hiring, file and data management, financial reporting, analysis and management, and student club purchasing oversight. Reporting directly to the Business Manager of SGA, this position will actively collaborate with the Business Manager and other key staff and student leaders on the SGA Business Office team. The Business Assistant will be a contact for current temporary employees, student club leaders, vendors, and UVM administrative departments, as appropriate, to provide business and financial oversight and guidance to the over 200+ recognized student clubs and organizations.

Apply online: https://www.uvmjobs.com/postings/53492

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TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY

ACCOUNTING SERVICES MANAGER The Town of Middlebury is hiring for an Accounting Services Manager position. You have the opportunity to join our team in a position that is responsible for operation and all accounting functions for the Town.

A detailed job description can be found on the Town’s website: townofmiddlebury.org. The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree, and a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a related field.

The pay for this position is $63,000-$68,000 depending upon experience.

Please send cover letter, resume and application to: Town of Middlebury, Attn: Crystal Grant, Executive Assistant to the Town Manager Town Offices, 77 Main Street Middlebury, VT 05753

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DISABILITY LAW ATTORNEY Evernorth is hiring! At Evernorth, we believe in equal access to affordable housing and economic opportunities; the power of partnerships based on integrity, respect, and teamwork; and a collaborative workplace with professional, skilled and dedicated staff — and we are an equal opportunity employer.

DIRECTOR, REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT Burlington, VT. Evernorth is hiring a Director, Real Estate Development for our fabulous Real Estate team! This position implements goals and strategies for the department and assists the Sr. Vice President, Real Estate Development in developing the overall work plan for the department. This person will steward a balanced approach to the development pipeline, which includes the financial, environmental, and social goals of the pipeline. They will lead the Evernorth project management team and serve as a resource for department members. This position will also take primary responsibility for a limited number of projects working as a project manager or a developer.

COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS TEAM Burlington or Portland, ME The Community Investments Officer collaborates between Evernorth staff, external partners, project sponsors, developers, and funders by analyzing and underwriting affordable housing and community and economic development investment opportunities, guiding projects from development through investment approval and closing. We are looking for someone with a bachelor’s degree; financial modeling, project management, critical thinking, organizational, attention to detail, and interpersonal skills; the ability to work independently on multiple projects simultaneously; and a working knowledge of affordable housing, economic development, and/or community development programs.

The Community Investments Closing Manager collaborates as the liaison between Evernorth staff, external partners, project sponsors, developers, and funders, to coordinate, organize, and manage real estate closings for affordable rental housing and community development investments. We are looking for someone with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience and/or paralegal training/certification with experience supporting real estate transaction closings. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication, project management, attention to detail, organizational skills, and be able to manage multiple real estate closings simultaneously.

The right candidates would like to grow in each role and be a part of a collaborative, highly motivated, fun, dedicated, and experienced team and mission-driven organization.

To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to Recruiter at hr@evernorthus.org.

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Vermont Legal Aid seeks a full-time Disability Law Attorney to work in the southern part of the state. The position will be based out of either our Rutland or Springfield Offices but can be temporarily remote.

We encourage applicants from a broad range of backgrounds, and welcome information about how your experience can contribute to serving our diverse client communities. Applicants are encouraged to share in their cover letter how they can further our goals of social justice and individual rights. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to a discrimination-and-harassment-free workplace.

Responsibilities include individual and systems advocacy in a variety of forums on behalf of persons with disabilities.

Case work is primarily in the area of disability-based discrimination, special education, government benefit programs, guardianship, and other areas concerning individual rights.

Starting salary is $57,500+, with additional salary credit given for relevant prior work experience. Four weeks paid vacation and retirement, as well as excellent health benefits.

Attorney applicants must be licensed to practice law in Vermont, eligible for admission by waiver, or planning to take the July Vermont or UBE bar exam. In-state travel in a personal vehicle required.

Application deadline is June 24th. Your application should include a cover letter and resume, bar status, writing sample, and at least three professional references with contact information, sent as a single PDF. Send application by e-mail to hiring@vtlegalaid.org with the subject line “DLP Staff Attorney June 2022.” Please let us know how you heard about this position.

See vtlegalaid.org/current-openings for additional information and job description.

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The Town of Hinesburg, Vermont seeks qualified applicants for the position of Water and Wastewater Operator. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the position will remain open until filled. Materials should be submitted electronically to todit@hinesburg.org.

The position requires a State of Vermont Class III Public Water System Operator Certificate and a State of Vermont Grade 2 DM Pollution Abatement Facility Operator Certificate. The Town offers a comprehensive benefits package and the hourly rate of pay is dependent upon qualifications and experience.

A full job description and application can be found under: about/employment at www.Hinesburg.org.

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Would you like to join a team of professionals whose mission is to protect Vermont consumers? This is a great opportunity for a detail-oriented individual who has a comprehensive knowledge of property and casualty insurance. Most review work will be done independently with some collaboration to discuss issues and policy decisions. Organizational skills as well as the ability to clearly communicate compliance issues are integral to the position. Office based but telework may be available. 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 Rosemary A. Raszka at rosemary.raszka@ vermont.gov. Department: Financial Regulation. Location: Montpelier. Status: Full Time. Job Id #32722 for level IV or #32606 for level V. Application Deadline: June 26, 2022.

DIRECTOR OF PREVENTION SERVICES – BURLINGTON

The Vermont Department of Health, Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs (ADAP) has an exciting opportunity to lead the state in substance misuse prevention. The Director of Prevention Services is a member of the leadership team within ADAP and leads a team of professional staff to implement and oversee statewide prevention programs. We are looking for an individual with knowledge of the social, economic, and cultural issues typically surrounding substance use problems and experience in leadership. For more information, contact Cynthia Seivwright at cynthia.seivwright@vermont.gov.

Department: Health. Location: Burlington. Status: Full Time. Job Id #31459. Application Deadline: June 30, 2022.

Learn more at: careers.vermont.gov

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VHCB is seeking a highly skilled accounting professional for the role of Controller.

Join the financial team of an innovative funding organization with a mission that encompasses affordable housing and community development, land conservation and historic preservation. Manage the preparation of monthly financial statements, ensure accurate accounting and reporting of federal and state grants management, and support the management of VHCB’s loan portfolio, budget, and audit process. Applicants will have experience creating multi-fund financial statements and managing a complex general ledger as well as a working knowledge of governmental and/or fund accounting and GAAP. Experience and familiarity with federal grants management and federal administrative regulations is required, as is a degree in accounting and a minimum of eight years’ experience in accounting. Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a concern for accuracy are a must to work in this fast paced, interesting, and supportive environment.

Clean Water Programs Manager Are you knowledgeable and passionate about clean water, agriculture and land conservation? Do you have strong technical, organizational, and communication skills? Join our team, managing VHCB’s role as Clean Water Service Provider in the Memphremagog Basin, overseeing non-regulatory water quality projects.

Working with state and local partners, help achieve Vermont's clean water goals using various strategies including conservation easements, land acquisition, wetlands restoration, and best management practices. Qualifications: Prior experience and training in natural resources, agriculture, environmental studies, land conservation, physical science, or engineering. Data management and financial analysis skills are required; experience in grant and budget management and with federal or state grant programs is preferred. Keen attention to detail and excellent written and oral communication skills are important, as is experience with capacity building and working with boards, non-profit organizations, municipalities, and state and federal agencies.

Full-time positions with competitive salary and excellent comprehensive benefit package.

Equal Opportunity Employer. Reply with cover letter and résumé to: jobs@vhcb.org Positions will remain open until filled. Read the job descriptions at: vhcb.org/about-us/jobs

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Literacy Program Manager Development/Finance Coordinator For Literacy Nonprofit The Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF) is an award-winning nonprofit based in Waterbury Center. For 24 years CLiF has inspired a love of reading and writing among 350,000 low-income, at-risk, and rural children up to age 12 throughout Vermont and New Hampshire. CLiF is currently building a new headquarters in Waterbury Center. See clifonline.org for more.

LITERACY PROGRAM MANAGER: 32-40 hours per week. CLiF seeks an enthusiastic, organized programs professional to help manage some of CLiF’s most important literacy programs and to build and cultivate relationships with schools, libraries, and other nonprofits across VT and NH. Duties include: Working with CLiF grantees to develop and schedule CLiF Year of the Book, Rural Library, Momentum, and other programs; working with program colleagues; planning CLiF’s community literacy and rural library conferences; collaborating with CLiF presenters including authors and illustrators; outreach, including writing and presentations. (This position does not involve teaching or curriculum development.)

Requirements: 4+ years of program development experience with proven success in creating and managing community programs. Passion for literacy. Excellent project management, organizational, and people skills, with exceptional attention to detail. Proven ability to manage projects and small teams. Strong computer proficiency required; Apple preferred. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Comfortable speaking with groups.

DEVELOPMENT/FINANCE COORDINATOR: 32-40 hours per week. CLiF seeks an enthusiastic professional with development, bookkeeping, and database experience to assist with CLiF’s fundraising efforts, manage CLiF’s donor database, prepare finances for off-site processing, and undertake other related tasks, such as bulk mailings. Duties include: Processing donations using Neon donor database. Generating thank you letters to donors. Donor outreach. Writing grants. Assisting Executive Director in expanding CLiF’s fundraising capabilities. Giving presentations, and representing CLiF at public events. Preparing reports and weekly bank deposits. Some accounting (primarily preparing accounts payable for off-site processing). Assisting with office management.

Requirements: 4+ years of development and donor database experience. Experience with QuickBooks, or willingness to learn. Passion for literacy. Excellent project management, organizational, and people skills, with exceptional attention to detail. Proven ability to work in teams and independently. Strong computer proficiency required; Apple preferred. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Comfortable speaking with groups.

Send resume and cover letter by June 24 to clif@clifonline.org. Some work performed in CLiF office, some done remotely. CLiF offers a friendly and collaborative working environment.

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Milton Town School District

BUSINESS MANAGER POSITION MILTON TOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT is seeking a highly collaborative and strategic business manager to work alongside the MTSD Director of Operations to provide cost-effective leadership in administering the financial affairs of the MTSD. The ideal candidate will work in tandem with the MTSD Director of Operations to manage a four-person business team.

CANDIDATES MUST HAVE expertise in accounting with experience in business and/or school finance and be able to work with diverse stakeholders to provide the necessary educational services with the financial resources available and to ensure that the school district derives maximum benefits from the prudent expenditure of funds via the administration and supervision of all programming.

Salary and benefits comparable to education and experience.

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Join our dedicated team and together we’ll build a community where everyone participates and belongs.

Positions include a $500 sign on bonus, a strong benefits package and the opportunity to work at one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont.”

Service Coordinator: Continue your career in human services in a supportive environment by providing case management for individuals. The ideal candidate will have strong clinical, organizational & leadership skills and enjoy working in a team-oriented position. $45,000 annual salary.

WELCOME TO MILTON TOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT Milton Town School District is focused on continuous improvement of learning and teaching, offering ample opportunities for professional growth. Just 25 minutes from Burlington, the urban center of Vermont, Milton is an easy commute from Chittenden and Franklin Counties. Milton’s location provides access to numerous cultural venues, including Flynn Theater, The University of Vermont, Shelburne Museum, and Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. Milton has excellent recreational facilities, such as Sand Bar State Park, Arrowhead Public Golf course, and Eagle Mountain Hiking trails.

Direct Support Professional: Provide 1:1 supports to help individuals reach their goals. Full and part time positions available starting at $18/hr.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS • Minimum of a Bachelor’s in Business or accounting with comparable experience considered • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in accounting or business administration in a school setting or comparable experience • Citizenship, residency, or work visa

Employment Specialist: Be a part of Vermont’s leading supported employment program and help individuals discover their career path. The successful candidate will demonstrate reliability, strong communication skills, and the ability to solve problems effectively and professionally.

Starting wage $19.00/hr.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Supports the Director of Operations in preparing financial statements for the MTSD Board Trustee. The Business Manager is not required to attend Board meetings.

2. Communicate effectively with all stakeholders as applicable.

3. Implement district policies; follow school practices/procedures.

4. Collaboratively provide supervision and leadership to a small business office team.

5. Demonstrate a commitment to continuous professional development.

6. Model professional behavior at all times.

7. Collaborate with other school and district staff members to achieve the district’s mission and school’s annual goals.

8. Perform other responsibilities as assigned by the superintendent.

Equal Opportunity Employee Milton Town School District is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital/civil union status, ancestry, place of birth, age, citizenship status, veteran status, political affiliation, genetic information or disability, as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally, we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose such discrimination and harassment or participate in an equal opportunity investigation.

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Residential Direct Support Professional: Work just

two days, receive full benefits and have five days off each week! Provide supports to an individual in their home and in the community in 24h shifts including asleep overnights in a private, furnished bedroom. Starting wage is $18/hr .

Shared Living Provider: Open your home to someone with an intellectual disability or autism and open a whole world to them, and to you. There are a variety of opportunities available that could be the perfect match for you and your household.

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FOUNDATION COORDINATOR As an integral contributor to Stark Mountain Foundation (SMF), the Foundation Coordinator will become SMF’s events, fundraising, communications, and operations. In this new position, the Foundation Coordinator will help to ensure stakeholder satisfaction and bolster organization efficiency and effectiveness to fuel SMF’s growth and evolution.

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Bed & Breakfast - BREAKFAST COOK The Lang House on Main Street seeks a part-time breakfast cook -- three mornings per week (6 am to noon) -- who can begin immediately. We offer our guests high-quality breakfast fare for which they are grateful, and many become loyal, repeat guests.

The Lang House is family owned and we appreciate cooks who are friendly and bring an innovative approach to the most important meal of the day! We offer a competitive hourly rate.

Send resumes to: innkeeper@langhouse.com

Founded in 2000, SMF, a charitable 501(c)(3) organization, promotes education, environmental and historic preservation, and recreation to help preserve the environment and character of General Stark Mountain in Fayston, Vermont.

Part-time, flexible hours, reports to the president of SMF’s board.

Position description: starkmountain.org/positions.

ReArch Company is an innovative construction management, property management, and real estate development firm founded upon the principles of ethical conduct, superior customer service, sustainable practices & aggressive advocacy of our clients’ needs. Our vision is to be transformative in the industry and in order to achieve this, we are searching for the best to come join our team!

ReArch values employees, providing a safe and fun work environment with opportunity to develop skills, engage in stimulating and challenging projects and opportunity for growth within the company. We offer a competitive salary, annual bonus, 401k plan, generous vacation package, health and dental insurance along with life insurance, short and long term disability along with a strong wellness program.

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IT SUPPORT TECHNICIAN/ ENGINEER • Full Time, local travel, hybrid in-person/ remote (some in-person & on-site required) • Salary ($50,000-70,000/yr) OUR MISSION: rbTech exists to drive the productivity and success of our clients by creatively implementing technology that balances security, cost, complexity and performance.

WHO’S A GOOD FIT: We prefer candidates with at least 2 years of industry experience. Our ideal candidate will have excellent customer service skills, should be a strong communicator and a team player. You will need to have a strong desire to learn, and be willing to share your ideas for how to make your workplace better for both ourselves and our customers. You must be very comfortable with network fundamentals (NAT/ routing, DNS, DHCP etc.). We support a very broad range of network environments including Windows Server, Active Directory, VMware, Azure/ hybrid cloud, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Linux, BSD and much more.

WHAT MAKES US A GOOD FIT: At rbTech, we offer competitive salary commensurate with experience, a generous health care stipend, paid training, time off and retirement matching. We have a fun, casual workplace with an impossibly awesome team. Together we have built a company that we’re all proud of, and hope that you’ll be a good match for who we are, what we do, and how we do it.

LET’S CONNECT! Drop us a line at careers@rbtechvt.com with a cover letter & your resume. Tell us why you feel like you might be a good fit & let us know what you’re looking for in a workplace. We’ll ping you back when we start scheduling interviews! Thanks for reading this far!

We are currently hiring for the following role:

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT The Administrative and Accounting Assistant will partner with the Accounting team to provide superior customer support to clients, subcontractors and coworkers.

RESPONSIBILITIES: • Answering incoming phone calls, screen and direct to appropriate team member.

• Process release of liens and perform follow up with subcontractors.

• Greet and assist visitors.

• Ensure reception area is tidy and presentable.

• Receive, sort and distribute mail and package deliveries.

• Maintenance of office and kitchen supplies.

• Assist with conference registration and related travel for participants.

• Assist with Accounts Receivable processing.

• Participate actively with other administrative support staff in assisting other team members, as required.

• Compliance Management assistance.

• Additional duties as assigned.

• Assist with Accounts Payable processing.

QUALIFICATIONS: • Candidates should have an Associates or Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field or have previous experience in a similar role. Our ideal candidate has a strong customer service focus, with a professional communication style along with a team player attitude.

• The Administrative and Accounting Assistant will be located at our South Burlington, VT office location, set in a beautiful park setting, with a nearby gym & walking trails outside our door.

ReArch Company will only consider email or postal mail submissions; no phone calls please.

Please submit resume and cover letter including salary requirements in confidence to: careers@rearchcompany.com or via mail to ReArch Company, Inc., Human Resources, 88 Technology Park Way, Suite 2, South Burlington, VT 05403.

Resumes & cover letters that do not meet these qualifications and address complete education, work history and salary requirement will not be considered. Only applicants chosen for interviews will be contacted. E.O.E.

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BURLINGTON HOUSING AUTHORITY (BHA) FINANCE & HUMAN RESOURCES ADMINISTRATOR Apply your knowledge, skills and experience to work with the General Manager and manage the financial and human resources of CVSWMD. Assist with staff recruitment, onboarding and orientation with a commitment to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion.

Your passion for spreadsheets, detail and accuracy will also help us develop systems, track data and assess key trends related to the business of the District. Some remote work available.

40 hours/week, $21.56 to $30.77/hour Location: Montpelier, VT

RECYCLING/HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE (HHW) PROGRAM COORDINATOR Organize and lead five HHW annual collection events throughout our district, staff our award-winning Additional Recyclables Collection Center (ARCC), drive our box truck and help the CVSWMD provide excellent service for its residents by becoming a subject-matter expert. Fun, active, rewarding work with tremendous opportunity to learn about solid waste and serve residents and organizations in central Vermont.

40 hours per week, $18.70-$24.93/hour.

Location: Barre, VT

FIELD ASSISTANT/DRIVER Passionate about recycling? Join our team and become an expert while staffing our award-winning Additional Recyclables Collection Center (ARCC) and helping with special collections. You’ll make a real difference in how Vermonters recycle “beyond the blue bin,” process materials for end-markets, and work in a fun, active, fast-paced team environment.

20 hours/week, $13.60 - $19.83/hour.

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in Burlington, VT is seeking candidates to continue BHA’s success in promoting innovative solutions that address housing instability challenges facing our diverse population of extremely low-income families and individuals. Join us & make a difference in our community!

LEASING AND ELIGIBILITY SPECIALIST is responsible for the waitlist selection, screening for program eligibility, gathering information for Property Managers to screen for tenant suitability, processing lease ups, processing tenant move out files, monitoring vacancies and providing back up assistance to the Property Managers.

PROPERTY MANAGER provides oversight of day-to-day operations to ensure long-term viability of the properties assigned within BHA’s property portfolio. This position requires independent judgment, timely management of deadlines as well as discretion in carrying out responsibilities.

SENIOR STAFF ACCOUNTANT manages the accounting operations of the Authority. The responsibilities for this position include preparing timely and accurate accounting records and financial reports; managing operating budgets; and maintaining a comprehensive and effective system of internal controls, all of which are designed to ensure the accuracy of BHA’s reported results, mitigate risk, and ensure that resulting financial statements comply with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and the U/S/ Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requirements.

HOUSING RETENTION SPECIALIST provides eviction prevention and service coordination to low-income seniors, persons with disabilities and families. This position will work as a part of a skilled team and will focus on assessment, intervention, and service coordination of at-risk households.

SITE BASED SERVICE COORDINATOR supports those who have mental health and substance abuse challenges and/or who have moved from homelessness to Decker Towers, South Square, and Champlain Apartments. This position works closely with the Property Manager and other site-based staff to identify challenging behaviors and respond with appropriate direct service and coordination of community services with a goal of eviction prevention and facilitating a healthy tenancy. ***To learn more about these career opportunities, please visit: burlingtonhousing.org.

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 & women to apply. Multilingualism is a plus!

BHA offers a competitive salary, commensurate with qualifications and experience. We offer a premium benefit package at a low cost to employees. Benefits include 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 and access to reduced cost continuing education. We also offer a generous time off policy including paid time off, sick, and 13 paid holidays. And sign on bonus of up to $2,000.

If interested in these career opportunities, please submit your resume and cover letter to: humanresources@burlingtonhousing.org. Burlington Housing Authority is an E.O.E.

At CVSWMD, we help residents and organizations in our 19 member towns reduce, reuse, recycle, and rethink waste for a more sustainable future.

We offer excellent benefits that include generous leave, 100% medical/dental/vision for employee and family, and retirement.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY BY ROB BREZSNY REAL JUNE 16-22 rean attitude! There is no sign of the zodiac better able than you Bulls to find holiness in mundane events and to evoke divine joy from simple pleasures. I predict this specialty of yours will bloom in its full magnificence during the coming weeks. You will be even more skillful than usual in expressing it, and the people you encounter will derive exceptional benefits from your superpower.

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Here’s a message I hope you will deliver to the universe sometime soon: “Dear Life: I declare myself open and ready to receive miracles, uplifting news, fun breakthroughs, smart love and unexpected blessings. I hope to be able to give my special gifts in new and imaginative ways. I am also eager for useful tips on how to express my dark side with beauty and grace. One more perk I hope you will provide, dear Life: Teach me how to be buoyantly creative and sensitively aggressive in asking for exactly what I need.”

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): “The whole point for me is to change as much as possible,” says Aries actor Keira Knightley. What?! Is she serious? Her number one aspiration is to keep transforming and transforming and transforming? I guess I believe her. It’s not an entirely unexpected manifesto coming from an Aries person. But I must say: Her extra bold approach to life requires maximum resilience and resourcefulness. If you think suchCondry, an attitude might be fun to try, the Artists Willthat Kasso Jennifer coming weeks willdaughter, be one of the best times Herrera Condry and their to experiment.

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Surprise! It was a winner. His prize was $20 million. I propose we make him your role model for now, my fellow Crabs. Let’s all be alert for assets we may have forgotten and neglected. Let’s be on the lookout for potentially valuable resources that are ripe for our attention. More info on Knott: tinyurl.com/ remembertocheck.

LEO (Jul. 23-Aug. 22): Hundreds of years ago, people in parts of Old Europe felt anxiety about the summer solstice. The sun reached its highest point in the sky at that time, and from then on would descend, bringing shorter and shorter days with less and less light.

Apprehensive souls staged an antidote: the festival of midsummer. They burned great bonfires all through the night. They stayed awake till morning, partying and dancing and having sex. Author Jeanette Winterson expresses appreciation for this holiday. “Call it a wild perversity or a wild optimism,” she writes, “but our ancestors were right to celebrate what they feared.” Winterson fantasizes about creating a comparable ceremony for her fears: “a ritual burning of what is coward in me, what is lost in me. Let the light in before it is too late.” I invite you to do something like this yourself, Leo. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): Virgo author Elizabeth McCracken says, “I don’t dream of someone who understands me immediately, who seems to have known me my entire life.”

What’s more meaningful to her is an ally who is curious, who has “a willingness for research.”

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LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): Libran author Stig Dagerman said that when he was sad as a child, his mother kissed him until his mood lightened. When he was older and sad, his mama said, “Sit down at your desk and write a letter to yourself. A long and beautiful letter.”

This would be a good task for you right now, Libra. Whatever mood you are in, I invite you to write a long and beautiful letter to yourself.

I further recommend that you carry out the same ritual once every six weeks for the next nine months. This will be a phase of your life when it’s extra crucial that you express soulful tenderness toward your deep self on a regular basis. You may be amazed at how inspirational and transformative these communications will be.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sometimes, the arrival of a peculiar event in your life is a good sign. It may mean that fate has sent an intervention to disrupt a boring phase of inertia or a habit-bound grind. An unexpected twist in the plot may signal a divine refreshment. It could be a favorable omen announcing a helpful prod that’s different from what you imagined you needed. I suspect that an experience or two fitting this description will soon materialize in your life story. Be alert for them. Promise yourself you’ll be receptive to their unexpected directives.

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tarius author Edna O’Brien long ago shed the strict Catholic faith in which she was raised. But she still harbors spiritual feelings colored by her tradition. She says, “Ideally, I’d like to spend two evenings a week talking to [novelist] Marcel Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.” I suspect a similar balance of influences will be healthy for you in the days ahead, Sagittarius. My advice is to connect with an inspiration you drew sustenance from while growing up. Spend equal time consorting with deep-feeling smart people who will stimulate you to rearrange the contents of your rational mind.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’ve composed a message for you to deliver to your best allies. It will help you be clear about the nature of your energy exchanges. Say something like this: “I promise to act primarily out of love in my dealings with you, and I ask you to do the same with me. Please don’t help me or give me things unless they are offered with deep affection. Let’s phase out favors that are bestowed out of obligation or with the expectation of a favor in return. Let’s purge manipulativeness from our dynamic. Let’s agree to provide each other with unconditional support.”

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PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Piscean-born Robert Evans has been an amateur astronomer since he was 18. Though he has never been paid for his work and has mostly used modest telescopes, he holds the world record for discovering supernovas — 42. These days, at age 85, he’s still scanning the skies with a 12-inch telescope on his back porch. Let’s make him your role model for the coming months. I have faith you can achieve meaningful success even if you are a layperson without massive funding. PS: Keep in mind that “amateur” comes from the Latin word for “lover.” Here’s the dictionary’s main definition: “a person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons.”

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BLACK CAT FOR A PENNY I was scattered, gathering some supplies when you caught my eye playing with that cat. I felt a lovely connection with you. Maybe I was I a bit shy. I wanted fate to cross our paths, but I have this ache to connect with you again. When: Friday, June 10, 2022. Where: Montpelier Aubuchon.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915570 ACE OF MY HEART The years fly by like a book’s pages thumbed through my fingers. Your likeness is on every parchment, an imprint so profound that it affects the entire plot and the protagonist herself. You have brought such depth and color to my story. I patiently await the final chapters, clutching hands with you. —Dizzy. When: Saturday, June 11, 2022. Where: everywhere.

You: Woman. Me: Woman. #915569 TRAILHEAD ENCOUNTER We exchanged a few words about the trails going off Bolton Notch Road, standing in front of our cars. Perhaps we could talk some more? When: Monday, May 30, 2022. Where: Bolton.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915568 LOST AT DARTMOUTH You, tall brunette, nice smile, were lost at Dartmouth last week. I helped get you back to the main entrance. Wish I had more time to talk. Would love to see you again. When: Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Where: Dartmouth-Hitchcock.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915567 MEMORABLE TRIP TO THE DUMP Usually not an interesting activity, but your smile and eyes brightened up my trip! I helped you maneuver a set of shelves into the Stowe dumpster (watch out for that nail). When: Friday, June 3, 2022. Where: Stowe dump.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915565

MY TRUE SOULMATE I spy you in Montpelier making sweets, enjoying live music and days at the lake in New Hampshire. You truly make me feel like I’m living in a dream that I don’t want to wake up from. I hope we have many, many more years of making memories together. —Your beau. When: Thursday, June 2, 2022. Where: your place and mine. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915566 REI FRONT FOYER, MEMORIAL DAY You were walking out; I was walking into REI. The eye contact and smiles were short-lived but very memorable.

Time was around 4:15. When: Monday, May 30, 2022. Where: REI in Williston.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915564 I SPY TWO PEOPLE FLIRTING I spy two people flirting near the bread.

You two seem like you like each other.

Maybe ask each other out for coffee or something. When: Saturday, May 28, 2022. Where: Trader Joe’s. You: Couple. Me: Woman. #915563 SHELL GAS STATION, WINOOSKI 8:30 a.m.-ish. You opened the door for me, and we walked to our cars together, chatting. You wore a loose sweater and had gotten a paper bag from inside and were cleaning out the empty cans from your car. I pumped gas, tongue-tied, and left.

But I wanted to ask you out. When: Friday, May 27, 2022. Where: Shell gas station, Winooski. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915561 OLDER READER ON COLLEGE STREET We briefly locked eyes the other day as I was heading down the street. You were on your porch reading, and I hesitated to pull my mask down to tell you how handsome you were. I’d love to get another opportunity to do so if you’re interested. When: Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Where: College Street, near the YMCA. You: Man. Me: Man. #915560

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Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

Dear Reverend,

In my 50-plus years, I have had many male friends. Sometimes things turn romantic, sometimes not. Lately, it seems the ones that are completely platonic have girlfriends who are jealous and insecure. I have received emails basically saying, “Stay away from my boyfriend.” I have done nothing wrong, and I treasure these friendships. I don’t want to sneak around and see my friends in secret.

How do I deal with these negative women?

Bosom Buddy

(FEMALE, 52)

IN MY BED LAST YEAR You were in my bed a year ago, and I would love to get you back! All I can think about is ymomn&lmdwc! When: Sunday, June 6, 2021. Where: my bed.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915562 ORANGE/BLACK SCION TC Around 3 p.m. You pumped gas in an orange/black Scion tC. You were wearing a reddish dress with a slit down the side showing your leg and side tattoos. You looked absolutely beautiful. I was in a dark SUV at the doors, dark blue shirt on with sunglasses. Single? Maybe we can chat? When: Saturday, May 21, 2022.

Where: Jolly in Underhill/Jericho.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915559 LAUGHED AT COLCHESTER FOOD SHELF I was behind your car in line first thing at Colchester food shelf for a couple of months. Exchanged a few words, and you made me laugh. Would like to laugh more — maybe a quick meetup. Maybe laughing friends ... they would be nice. So new at this. Let’s be kind. When: Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Where: Colchester food shelf. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915558 COLCHESTER FOOD BANK, FIRST WEDNESDAY In line in your sporty silver car. I was behind you. We said hi, and you made me laugh. Like to sit and chat and laugh some more. I am close by and hope you are free. When: Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Where: Colchester food bank.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915557 RE: GODDESS BE GONE It takes two to tango and also to text back and forth. Empty threats on a public forum may not be the most effective or successful strategy to find a resolve. Hope you consider my words.

Affairs begin in the mind. Best. When: Friday, May 20, 2022. Where: iSpy. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #915556 DIRTY LAUNDRY, BEAUTIFUL SMILE We exchanged smiles in the laundry and again in the back parking lot. I wish I had introduced myself but was deep in errand mode, as I’m sure you were. I was in shorts, white shirt, black bucket hat and black truck. You were in jean shorts, Nike sneakers and a blue SUV. Drinks or coffee sometime? When: Monday, May 16, 2022. Where: Laundromat by City Market. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915555

Dear Bosom Buddy,

Jealousy is one of my least favorite emotions. Whether you’re feeling it or are the cause of it for someone else, nothing good ever comes of it. What’s worse is that it’s often unfounded and hard to get past.

The fact that you’ve inspired such jealousy more than once makes me wonder whether you don’t realize you’re doing something causing these women to be concerned, but I’ll take your word for it. If everyone involved is around your age, perhaps this is happening because the dating pool gets shallower as we age and these women are being overly protective of their catch. I know it’s hard, but try to see the situation from their point of view. A little empathy goes a long way in solving any problem.

RICE CAKES Sweet girl looking for rice cakes. You really impressed me with your positive, upbeat attitude. You seem like such a lovely person, a rare thing these days. I hope you always find what you need! You found the rice cakes, didn’t you? Peace and good health to you. Peter. When: Friday, May 13, 2022. Where: Middlebury Hannaford.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915554

NTH POWER SHOW AT FOAM You were dancing up front and commented to me that the last song, Earth, Wind & Fire’s “That’s the Way of the World,” was relatable given that you are of a certain age. I agreed with your sentiment. Wanna hit another show sometime this summer? When: Saturday, April 30, 2022. Where: Foam Brewers.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915549

PING IN CO-OP PARKING LOT Thank you to the kind woman who let me listen with her to the “Snap Judgement” show about Ping on VPR in the parking lot of the downtown co-op two weeks ago.

Wow. What a story. Thanks for sharing the moment with me and trusting a stranger. I hope I run into you again sometime! When: Thursday, April 28, 2022. Where: downtown co-op parking lot. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915553 NICELY TATTED OVERHEAD DOOR TECHNICIAN Your body works hard. You deserve a massage. Let me give you a free, relaxing experience, your body rejuvenated and pleased. The massage is all to your comfort level, full body or just the back, draped or not. It is about meeting your needs. Trained masseur for your pleasure.

When: Monday, May 9, 2022. Where: University Medical Center loading docks. You: Man. Me: Man. #915552 TRAVIS 64 CADDY, CHARLIE-O’S, MAY 6 Hey Travis, we never got to finish that conversation, and I didn’t get your number. I’m back in Florida. Called Charlie-O’s, and the bartender suggested I post here. I hope your dog is well and the caddy had a smooth “first time out in six months” run. Would not mind getting to know you better at all. When: Friday, May 6, 2022. Where: CharlieO’s. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915551 SMITTEN ON MOUNT HUNGER I was hiking down, and you were hiking up the Waterbury Trail. You stepped aside so I could pass, but I said, “No, you go first. I don’t want to break your cadence.”

I was thrown off balance the whole way down by your sparkling eyes and cheerful disposition. Accord, Arteon, and GTI in parking lot. Hike or coffee sometime?

When: Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Where: Mount Hunger Waterbury Trail (5:30 p.m.). You: Woman. Me: Man. #915550

GODDESS BEGONE! I spy a woman who needs to find her own man and stay away from my husband. It’s all fun and games until you can’t play by the rules. I’ve said it not once, not twice, but thrice — the game is over! Your actions most definitely do not represent those of a goddess, and you are giving women a bad name. When: Monday, April 25, 2022.

Where: in my husband’s text messages.

You: Woman. Me: Couple. #915548 WATERBURY MAPLEFIELDS RECYCLING CYCLIST You were enjoying coffee after recycling, and I wasn’t an idler, just a VPR listener. We chatted about cycling. When: Saturday, April 23, 2022. Where: Waterbury Maplefields.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915547 WONDERFUL SMILE, M&M BEVERAGE, BARRE! 6:30ish. Just returned to my car with a coffee and looked up to see your sweet face smiling at me on the way to your vehicle. Our eyes kept catching each other, exchanging grins. Wish I had said hi or how your smile lights you up, like it did for me! Hopefully you read these things. When: Friday, April 22, 2022. Where: M&M Beverage, Barre.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915546 MET OUTSIDE OF KNEAD BAKERY We met outside. You were waiting for your mom; I was waiting for food. My dog was super thankful for the pets. I’d love to talk again, if you’d like. When: Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Where: Knead Bakery. You: Woman. Me: Trans woman. #915544 NORTH WILLARD SIREN I did not see you, and you cannot have seen me, but I heard you singing on a porch around 8 p.m. Your creamy, unaffected alto lingers in my mind, and I can’t remember my own name. Oh, Jeremiah, indeed. When: Thursday, March 31, 2022. Where: North Willard, near Archibald. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915541

Sneaking around with your male friends is the absolute wrong way to go. If a girlfriend found out about that, there would be a whole heap of trouble. You should do just the opposite and put your platonic friendship on display. Have you tried hanging out with any of your guy friends and their ladies? Invite them to a soirée at your house or go out on the town together. Make a real effort to show the women that you aren’t a threat.

There’s no law that says you have to like your buddies’ partners, but who knows? Maybe you’ll wind up making more friends, and that’s never a bad thing.

Good luck and God bless,

The Reverend

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