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While reading the “Piss Poor” article [“Piss Poor: Burlington Mulls Proposals for More Public Bathrooms,” May 22], I was reminded of the Greg Kotis play Urinetown: The Musical, where it has become a privilege to pee. Urinetown is a drought-ridden place that has sunk to the level of charging its citizens to use the toilet. Only the privileged have private bathrooms, forcing the unfortunates to use the town’s one bathroom facility, for which they are charged a fee. Composer Mark Hollman wrote: “…Better hope your pennies / add up to the fee / We can’t have you peeing / for free / If you do, we’ll catch you / We, we never fail! / … It’s the oldest story / Masses are oppressed / Faces, clothes, and bladders all distressed / … No more bathrooms like in olden days / You come here and pay a fee / for the privilege to pee.” Is this what Burlington has become? A town where only the privileged are given the right to relieve themselves? Where we force the homeless and needy to urinate and defecate outside due to lack of adequate facilities? Maybe we haven’t quite become a Urinetown yet, but I believe this is a pisspoor way to treat our people. Carrie Baker
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In [“An F-35 Preview Shakes Up Winooski,” June 5] Winooski City Councilor Mike Myers suggested the F-35s “pump a lot of money into the economy.” How? For one thing, they haven’t gotten here, and they won’t be repaired here. The F-16s were fixed up here, so jobs will actually be fewer at the airport. Does he know this? Also the “average daily noise level” of 65 decibels is misleading. It’s like a quiet room — except for a moment when someone throws a cherry bomb in the window. The average for the 24-hour period could be 65 decibels, but for that minute it’d be pretty darn loud. Now imagine that volume lasting several minutes. If residents find the noise unbearable, they’ll leave. Where’s the money in that? Admittedly, Councilor Myers may not
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mind the sky-shaking volume of the new jets. Perhaps his city will be a haven for folks with bad hearing: Rents will go down, and it’ll thrive — maybe. Winooski has a sizable population, a lot of new housing, a college-age music scene and a large immigrant population, all of which “pump money into the economy” already. Will jets drive them out? Charlie Messing
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All those initiatives at the state level to improve research and development will also come a cropper if the pay and benefits are not attractive. Certainly the deficit in the pension fund must be addressed, but not on the backs of the pensioners, past and future. Above all, teachers and nurses must be better compensated and not have to work ’til they drop. Free, quality public education at all levels will pay by far the biggest dividends and improve Vermonters’ quality of life. Sign me up to help with that! Linda Maloney
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I applaud the manifesto calling for an application of the 10th Amendment, the more so as I recognize and appreciate many of its signers [Off Message: “Charlotte Writer’s Manifesto Calls for a More Assertive, Ambitious Vermont,” June 12]. As a lifelong activist (I’m 80 now and still demonstrating at the Statehouse), I am familiar with the concerns and affirm most of the suggested solutions. The one idea I vigorously reject is emulating Rhode Island in turning state pensions into 401ks. That kind of evisceration of the guaranteed payout pension system went hand-in-glove with the suppression of unions and is the major cause of increased poverty among retirees — a particular concern for Vermont, with its aging population. We need to correct the imbalance between low income and high cost of living that makes Vermont a less-than-desirable place to move to — not make it worse. To cap the cost-of-living adjustment without capping the cost of living is just mean.
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[Re Feedback: “Just Say Yes,” June 19; Off Message: “Burlington Citizen Group Sues to Stop Champlain Parkway,” June 11]: I live in the South End, and the Champlain Parkway would damage many of the things I’ve come to love in this city. It would run a fourlane highway within a couple of blocks of Oakledge Park, right through the yard of the Generator maker space, and destroy the world’s tallest filing cabinet — which, as reported by Seven Days, is now considered a holy site by some [“Worshipping the World’s Tallest Filing Cabinet,” April 24]. It is also not clear that the road will fix the problem it’s supposed to. Many studies have found that increasing road capacity encourages more people to drive, and traffic ends up almost as bad as it started. If you asked the mayor whether he wanted more CO2 emissions, a less pedestrian-friendly city and more people choosing to drive, I bet he would say no. Why then is he asking us to “Just say yes” to this road? Alex Hahl
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I just read the letter from Vincent Hunter about your piece on Vermont enacting the abortion rights law [Feedback: “That’s Life,” June 5]. Given his concern about “exterminating future Vermonters,” perhaps we are now at the point where medical science can implant a womb into a man’s body, at least temporarily? I hope so. Then we could enlist folks like him to be the first to sign up. Any male who has ever had sex for any reason — consensual, nonconsensual, coerced, doesn’t matter — can be enrolled, too. They can then be forced to carry these “future Vermonters” to term. If he doesn’t have the financial means, stability or ability to raise the child properly after that, he can always give up for adoption the child he has been forced to carry. Or he can raise the child the best he can and make it work for at least the next 18 years.
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Burned out on big-budget superhero movies? Writer and director John M. Kline puts an offbeat twist on the genre in his 2018 film Once Upon a Superhero. The independent sci-fi flick follows a homeless wanderer named Solar Flare whose exile from the sun takes him to the seedy underbelly of Hollywood. A filmmaker Q&A follows the Vermont premiere at Essex Cinemas & T-Rex Theater.
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Bottoms Up Fans of fermented beverages quench their thirst at the Stowe Brewers Festival. The annual event hosts 40 craft beer, cider and mead makers for two days of scheduled sipping sessions in a picturesque mountain setting. Workshops, live music, food truck eats and a karaoke contest add flavor to this 21-and-up beer lovers’ bash. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 53
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Paddle Power If you look across Lake Champlain late Sunday morning, don’t be surprised to see a fleet of boats cutting a triangular course from Vermont to New York and back. The Lake Champlain Challenge Race welcomes participants to enjoy the scenery from human-powered watercraft ranging from kayaks to pedal boats to standup paddleboards in this annual three-mile outing.
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TRUE FICTION The Atlantic described Zinzi Clemmons’ 2017 novel What We Lose as “a startling, poignant debut.” Vogue dubbed it the “debut novel of the year.” The highly celebrated and loosely autobiographical work follows a young woman forging her identity after losing her mother to cancer. Clemmons reads from the book at Norman Williams Public Library in Woodstock. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 54
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Sense of Self Artists Misoo and Wendy Copp may work in different mediums — Misoo is a painter, and Copp creates fantastical garments from natural materials — but they both have something to say on the topic of identity. Now on view at GreenTARA Space in North Hero, “Identities: Cultural Creations” includes works by both women exploring the concept of identity in a changing world. SEE REVIEW ON PAGE 74
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Teaching Artists Each summer, the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival draws young string musicians to Burlington to learn from professional string instructors. Hailing from conservatories and universities around the country, faculty members showcase their skills by giving concerts, including “Unbounded Delight.” Classical connoisseurs enjoy selected works by Robert Schumann and Alexander von Zemlinsky, along with a commissioned piece by Arsentiy Kharitonov. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 61
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Two in Tune Central Vermont musical duo Strangled Darlings describe their sound as “Americana doom pop.” Playing mandolin, harmonica, tenor bass and percussion, members George Veech and Jessica Anderly harmonize in original songs inspired by everything from Neil Armstrong to witchcraft in the Civil War. They celebrate the release of their new album, American Pageant, with a show at the Light Club Lamp Shop in Burlington. SEE STORY ON PAGE 66
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listed on the state register. However, it is eligible for the national historic register. When arson destroyed the original Civil War-era Gothic cathedral in 1972, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington commissioned well-known modernist architect Edward Larrabee Barnes to fashion a new building. He partnered with Daniel Kiley, a former Charlotte resident who is considered the foremost landscape architect of the 20th century, to design the grounds. The choice was progressive for the custom-conscious Catholic Church, and the result is not your typical house of God. There are no spires pointing heavenward or Stations of the Cross depicted in stained glass. Immaculate Conception is angular and modern, outfitted in green and brown bricks that mimic the 123 honey locust trees that surround it. Kiley organized
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the trees geometrically in an evenly spaced grid, aligning them with Barnes’ angular walls. “The landscape and the building are linked,” Colman said. “You can’t have one without the other.” It’s one of the few sites in Vermont that combines a modernist structure and landscaping and that was designed by a duo “as prominent as the Barnes-and-Kiley team,” Wadhams said. Last Friday afternoon, more than a dozen people congregated on the church lawn. One
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evin Colman isn’t the first to describe Burlington’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception as an oasis in an urban landscape. Its 2.2-acre plot is boxed in by the downtown transit center, the stalled CityPlace Burlington project, and busy Pearl Street. On any given sunny day, people lounge in the dappled light on the lawn, resting beneath the leafy canopy. “That grove of trees really sets that building apart from the hustle and bustle,” said Colman, the architectural historian at the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation. “In the sanctuary, you’re not really aware of the outside city, the urban environment,” he said. “It’s this really quiet, peaceful place, and that’s intentional.” It might also be fleeting: The church is on the market. The asking price is a whopping $8.5 million, causing preservationists to worry that only a large-scale commercial or residential developer will be able to afford it. “It’s not in bad shape at all, and to just throw it away seems sad,” said Emily Wadhams, a member of the Preservation Trust of Vermont board. “It would be much more appropriate to find a way to appreciate the architecture and reuse and recycle the building to a new use.” The church closed last December after its dwindling congregation could no longer afford to keep the doors open. Its parishioners now worship at the Cathedral of St. Joseph on Allen Street, just a few blocks away in the Old North End. The Immaculate Conception property has been on the market for about a month, according to Steve Donahue, principal of Donahue & Associates, which is serving as broker for the parish. Architects told Donahue that the site could be redeveloped with up to a halfmillion square feet of space, he said. The city assessed the building and land at $4.5 million, but Donahue and parish leaders priced it for the maximum build-out potential in what is arguably the highest-valued commercial area in the state, he said. The cathedral is in Burlington’s “downtown core” district, which permits buildings up to 10 stories tall, city planning director David White said. Zoning calls for a “vibrant urban center with a variety of high-density building types” and “very active and engaging street frontages.” Preservationists say the building is historically significant, though it’s not
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man had suspended a hammock between two trees. A German shepherd and his owner took a break in the shade. Jay Appleton was waiting for his bus on Pearl Street. He scoffed when asked about the church’s historic trees. “We need housing more than we need trees,” he said. “These trees are actually not in the greatest shape. It’s cool, but there’s nothing sacred about them as far as I think. The city has a lot of parks.” South Burlington resident Ben Richmond stood on the nearby GMT bus platform. Gazing out at the green space, he said it would be “too bad” if the plot were razed. “It’s pretty. A lot of people come here and hang out,” he said. “It’s peaceful.” Preservation Burlington, a nonprofit that aims to protect historic architecture in the Queen City, lists the cathedral’s status as threatened, along with Memorial Auditorium and the Moran Plant. State architectural historian Colman serves on the organization’s board, as does Gwen Langdon, who said the group doesn’t want the church to be demolished and pledged to push for preservation once a project comes up for review. Langdon, who researched reusing religious structures in graduate school, said the conflict between preserving and redeveloping old churches is not unique to Burlington. Many of them were built in town centers where real estate is scarce and expensive. “It’s very attractive, and we see this could be a possible concern depending on who the sale is awarded to and what type of design is planned for the site,” Langdon said. “We’re not necessarily an organization that says, ‘Save it and turn it into a museum.’ We see the need for a modern use of a historic structure.” When it was open, Immaculate Conception was operating at a $3,000 loss every week. When Reverend Lance Harlow joined the parish in 2016, he estimated that the 270 members would have to pay $25 a week to keep the church going, he told Seven Days last year. They voted unanimously to put it on the market. The Cathedral of St. Joseph isn’t without its own financial challenges. Its steeple was just replaced after a windstorm knocked the original one askew in 2010. That project was primarily financed, according to Vermont Catholic magazine, by the $2.15 million sale of the former St. Joseph School to the Champlain Housing Trust in 2017. Today, the cathedral’s front steps need repair, and proceeds from the Immaculate Conception’s sale would help pay for it, said Donahue.
He suggested that selling to a housing developer might be the “responsible” choice, but he said the parish members alone would make that decision. Harlow did not return repeated calls for comment, and Ellen Kane, the spokesperson for the diocese, declined an interview. The cathedral property isn’t yet listed on Donahue & Associates’ website because the firm is first marketing it to potential buyers who previously showed interest, Donahue said. He declined to name names. “It’s an exciting opportunity for somebody,” he said. “We’re certainly hoping for a lot of interest both from local folks and from folks from out of state.” Should the buyer want to redevelop, they’d have to first pass the city’s extra layer of review for historic structures, White said. The Development Review Board must consider whether the new use would have the same community value that the historic structure originally provided. White said such redevelopments “have typically been approved.” He pointed to the demolition of the historic U.S. Naval Reserve building to make way for the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, which opened on the city’s waterfront in 2003. A Navy memorial was later erected nearby. Wadhams said the Preservation Trust of Vermont has successfully rescued other threatened historic buildings, such as the Watershed Tavern in Brandon, heavily damaged by Tropical Storm Irene, and the Vermont Marble Museum in Proctor, which had closed and was up for sale. Ideally, Wadhams said, someone would come forward with a plan for Immaculate Conception that preservation groups could present to the diocese as an alternative — an art gallery, performing arts center or other community space. The former St. Joseph School is now the Old North End Community Center, she noted. Wadhams knows that Burlington could use more affordable housing, but she doesn’t think Immaculate Conception is the right place for it. It’s too special, she said. Colman, the architectural historian and Preservation Burlington board member, agrees. “That piece of land has been used for religious purposes for over 150 years,” he said. “It’s been a gathering place, a place of congregation for the people of Burlington. It would be great to see that continue.” m
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he last Champlain College president to step down, David Finney, gave the Burlington school plenty of notice in 2013 — 14 months, in fact. Likewise, University of Vermont president Thomas Sullivan announced his retirement a year before it will become effective next week. So the June 12 announcement by Finney’s successor, Champlain College president Donald Laackman, that he would leave the post barely two weeks later, on the 28th, was striking. Trustees and Laurie Quinn, who will serve as interim president, insist the quick exit is not a sign that anything is amiss, even though Laackman’s departure after five years on the job comes at a time when Vermont’s lucrative higher education sector is in tumult. Three private Vermont colleges shut down after graduation last month, and several others are struggling with deficits and declining enrollment. “We’re in great shape,” said Quinn, who, as interim, will become the college’s first woman president. She steps into the job from the No. 2 slot at Champlain: provost and senior vice president of academic affairs.
But the numbers aren’t all good. Champlain’s full-time undergraduate fall enrollment has dropped 6 percent over the last two years, to 2,129 in 2018. Partly in response to that, the college initiated an early retirement program this year. Sixteen staffers and seven faculty members took the deal. Laackman declined to be interviewed, but his team says he’s been a skilled manager during challenging times. Quinn and trustees note that Laackman logged budget surpluses, not deficits. And while undergrad enrollment has slipped, it has not plunged. Considering the demographic decline of high school graduates in Vermont and the Northeast, that’s an impressive achievement, they say. In Vermont, the number of high school grads declined 6.7 percent over the last two years, according to the New England Board of Higher Education. In a bid to reach beyond the market for traditional students, Laackman boosted online enrollment significantly, to 2,348 students last fall, more than triple the number in fall of 2013. Every higher education institution in the country is at risk in the current
market, said trustee Neale Lunderville, chair of the search committee for a new president and the former general manager of the Burlington Electric Department. “That said, we are better placed than a lot of schools,” he said. He praised Laackman as an expert financial manager and said trustees are sad to see him go. Trustee Rick Davis, a philanthropist and Vermont real estate developer, echoed that sentiment and said the board did not pressure Laackman to leave. He praised Laackman as the “right guy at the right time,” for Champlain but acknowledged that the president’s job can be tough. “You can’t please 100 percent of the people 100 percent of the time,” Davis said, adding that he was surprised to learn from board president Scott Carpenter in late May that Laackman was resigning. Carpenter wrote in an email that Laackman leaves the college “on strong footings.” There are reasons that successful presidents often give notice of their departures a year in advance, according to Larry Ladd, a Boston-based college consultant with the firm Grant Thornton. Such an announcement projects stability, provides time to celebrate the outgoing
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president and allows for continued decision making, since interims often aren’t given much authority, Ladd said. He’s not familiar with the situation at Champlain. But reducing staff through means such as early retirement incentives is actually a good sign, because administrations should address potential budget problems before they get into deficit mode, he said. It’s unclear whether Laackman is leaving before his contract is up. Quinn declined to answer that question or say whether Laackman will receive any severance. His total compensation was $551,511 for the fiscal year ending in June 2017, according to the most recent publicly available Internal Revenue Service Form 990 tax filings for the nonprofit college. Those same documents show that while Laackman has steered clear of the deficits plaguing the Vermont schools that recently closed — Green Mountain College, the College of St. Joseph and Southern Vermont College — the school has faced tighter margins under his leadership. Back in 2013 when Finney was at the helm, Champlain reported a net income of $15.2 million. By 2016, that figure had dropped to $5.8 million, IRS filings show. Meanwhile, according to numbers provided to Seven Days by the college, debt increased between 2015 and 2019 from $50.4 million to $71.4 million. A good part of that borrowing was to cover the 2016 construction of an apartmentstyle dorm in downtown Burlington that Finney, not Laackman, initiated. Formerly a two-year business school, Champlain has evolved into an institution that offers career-oriented bachelor’s and graduate degrees, as well as programs in fields such as cybersecurity and video game design. Its growing campus of carefully restored historic buildings and shiny new construction balances gravitas and modern gleam. Champlain’s long emphasis on job training will help it succeed in the more competitive higher ed marketplace, Quinn predicted, adding: “We were a career school before it became cool to be a career school.” The college must be “proactive,” and the recent retirement offers were one of the levers to help balance the budget, she added. Quinn declined to provide details about the financial packages that were offered but said all the departures were voluntary. The result leaves the college with 410 employees.
She said Laackman is leaving because he is ready but declined to provide more details about the timing. As the president cleans out his desk, employees are also saying goodbye to colleagues who took the early retirement offers. It’s difficult to see valued and experienced colleagues leave, but some were planning to retire in the next few years anyway, said Mike Kelly, an associate professor of rhetoric who served as faculty senate president from 2013 to 2016. He pegged Laackman as a great fiscal manager who negotiated longterm contracts with faculty that helped foster stability at a school where there is no academic tenure system. “Actually, the last five years have been better for faculty than they were the five years before that,” Kelly said. He added: “I think that Don [Laackman] did what his strengths gave him the most capability to do, and that is [to] sort of right-size the institution from a fiscal perspective. Once the work was done, what to do next was a little bit murkier, and he decided to go at that point.” Laackman is not Vermont’s only departing college president. In addition to Sullivan, Bennington College president Mariko Silver is leaving July 1 to lead the Henry Luce Foundation in New York. On May 31, Thomas Greene, president of the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, announced he was going on sabbatical effective July 1 and would officially step down as president in June 2020. Laackman’s wife, Allyson, a former Obama White House staffer, has announced that she will be leaving her job as executive director of the Burlington Housing Authority. There’s no hard date for her departure, and she expects to work — even remotely — until her replacement is found, she said. The couple moved to Burlington from the Chicago area, where Donald Laackman had served as president of Harold Washington College. Allyson Laackman declined to discuss their next move or the reasons for her husband’s resignation in any detail. “You know, I’m really not interested in sharing too much of the personal stuff,” she said. “His decision to step down now was his decision, and I’m completely proud of everything he’s accomplished.” m
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he guards at Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington knew that Veronica Lewis could be violent. In the first three months she was imprisoned on an attempted murder charge for shooting a firearms instructor in the face, the 31-yearold lashed out numerous times. Claire Gilligan had not witnessed that aggressive behavior firsthand when she took a seat in a small jailhouse interview room on September 24, 2015. Lewis’ public defenders had hired Gilligan to evaluate their client’s mental state as part of building a criminal defense, court records show. She had already met with Lewis twice at the jail, sitting across from her with no table or restraints between them. Gilligan told guards she didn’t anticipate a problem. Lewis arrived from solitary confinement in shackles. Guards double-checked that the handcuffs were tight around her wrists, one of which was tattooed with “D.E.A.T.H” and angel wings. As three of them escorted a blank-faced Lewis to the threshold of the interview room, Gilligan greeted her client with “Hi, Veronica.” Lewis immediately lunged at the psychologist and threw her cuffed arms over the woman’s head. Gilligan fell into a fetal position on the floor, her head still pressed against Lewis’ chest. Lewis ripped a fistful of hair from Gilligan’s scalp. Gilligan heard only muffled voices as guards pried Lewis away. Afterward, she wouldn’t remember anything Lewis said, just how she smelled and the sudden onset of terror. “I was praying that this was not going to be my last day on Earth,” Gilligan recalled last week. Lewis later described Gilligan as “glassy-eyed” and told a guard that, where Lewis is from, people “get killed” for that, according to a police affidavit supporting the subsequent charge of felony aggravated assault. It was the first of six assault charges Lewis would rack up in custody while she awaited trial for shooting Darryl Montague at his Westford gun range in June 2015 — and one of several she said was motivated by the “look” in her victim’s eyes. She allegedly gave one inmate a concussion, threw a cup of urine in a guard’s face and, according to an Associated Press report, smeared feces in the cell of actor Randy Quaid’s wife, Evi, when the pair was held briefly while fugitives from California.
CRIME The debate in Vermont legal circles is not whether Lewis was insane when she shot Montague. The question is: Whom should Vermonters trust to make sure she doesn’t hurt anyone else? Lewis’ strange path — from jail to mental hospital and, this month, back to jail — suggests there are no easy answers. Concluding she was not competent to stand trial on charges stemming from the shooting, Superior Court Judge James Crucitti ordered her transferred from prison to a psychiatric hospital under the custody of the Department of Mental Health in April 2017. Lewis had lost an estimated 80 pounds and become dangerously malnourished during her 21 months behind bars, the result of “hunger strikes” she attributed to suspicions that her food was poisoned, according to Crucitti’s order. A defense psychiatrist diagnosed Lewis with schizoaffective disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. She had been hospitalized for psychiatric issues at least 16 times before moving from her birthplace of Queens, N.Y., to a private
therapeutic home in Vermont in 2015. That’s where she was living at the time she shot Montague, court records state. “Her mental illness grossly impairs her judgment and behavior; her capacity to exercise self-control and judgment is so lessened that she poses a danger of harm to herself and others,” Crucitti wrote. Lewis remained hospitalized for just over two years, during which time her assaultive behavior abated and she resumed eating. But this month, U.S. marshals arrested Lewis and hauled her back to the South Burlington prison on new federal charges tied to the 2015 shooting. The feds said her arrest was necessary to protect the public. More likely, according to those who attribute Lewis’ violence to her mental illness, she’s a casualty of the politicized debate about how Vermont should treat the criminally insane. Her re-incarceration, they say, is inhumane — and won’t keep anyone safe. The confusion started last month when Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George dropped all state charges against Lewis after a state-hired forensic
psychiatrist determined that Lewis was insane when she committed the crimes. Criminal justice reformers and Lewis’ public defender welcomed George’s decision, which affirmed the principle that people whose crimes stem from mental illness should be treated as patients, not locked up as criminals. Practically speaking, George placed Lewis’ fate in the hands of the Department of Mental Health, which had been treating her at the Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital in Berlin. Lewis’ public defender, Jessica Brown, hoped her client would remain in the department’s custody, in whatever form of care her doctors saw fit, for the foreseeable future. The foreseeable future lasted less than two weeks. On June 5, Gov. Phil Scott requested that Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan consider refiling criminal charges due to the gravity of the crimes and legal limitations of the supervision provided by the Department of Mental Health. Before Donovan formally responded, federal prosecutors began preparing new federal charges against Lewis. On June 12, U.S. Attorney Christina Nolan announced that her office was charging Lewis for stealing and illegally possessing the firearm she used to shoot Montague in 2015. The feds hadn’t charged Lewis earlier, Nolan told reporters, because they didn’t want to duplicate efforts while a more serious attempted murder charge was pending in state court. But with the state charges dismissed, Nolan said, she believed Lewis’ release from the psychiatric hospital was “imminent” and decided to act quickly so that nothing “tragic” happened. Nolan initially told reporters that U.S. marshals had arrested Lewis at the South Burlington prison, where she said the Department of Mental Health dropped Lewis off as a first step in releasing her into the community. The U.S. Attorney’s Office later clarified that Lewis was in fact arrested at the Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital. A spokesperson refused to provide Seven Days with any other information about the mix-up or Lewis’ supposedly pending discharge, except to say, “We were informed that her release was imminent.” That was news to George, who said the Department of Mental Health, which has strict patient confidentiality policies, refused to provide her office with information about Lewis’ treatment. If
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tor of Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform, Lewis’ return to prison represents a kind of “state-sponsored violence” against a person whom another prosecutor had already conceded could not be held legally responsible for shooting Montague. “We should be horrified that our government, in our name, would put someone who is deeply mentally ill in that setting,” he said. The circumstances around Lewis’ re-incarceration are extremely unusual. Jack McCullough, who has represented mental health patients through Vermont Legal Aid for more than 25 years, said he couldn’t recall another instance when the feds brought charges against a patient who was already committed to the department’s custody. In an interview, Vermont’s top mental health administrators didn’t express dismay at the prospect of a patient being removed from treatment and placed in prison. Instead, Squirrell B ROWN sought to clarify that the department is set up to treat shortterm illnesses and return individuals to the community, not continually supervise dangerous individuals with chronic conditions. She said the controversy over George’s case dismissals is an opportunity to consider how Vermont could better integrate mental health care and criminal justice. Brown and Dalton acknowledged that the Department of Mental Health is underfunded and resource-strapped but questioned what they believe is the state passing off responsibility for making hard decisions about Lewis’ care. “If people are truly concerned that Veronica Lewis is a danger to the community, the safest place for her to be was in the psychiatric hospital, where she was receiving excellent medical and mental health treatment, where she was the most stable that she’s been in years,” Brown said. Gilligan declined to share a perspective on how Lewis ought to be supervised, in part because she acknowledged that she might be looking through a “clouded lens, given what happened to me.” The attack prevented her from completing a psychological evaluation of Lewis. She added, “I’m just happy that the feds are involved now.” m COURTESY OF VERMONT STATE POLICE
the department was planning to release Lewis from the psychiatric hospital, it’s more likely that it planned to move her to a less intensive treatment facility than to discharge her from state custody entirely. Mental Health Commissioner Sarah Squirrell told Seven Days that her department is obligated to care for patients in the “least restrictive” setting. For hospitalized patients, the shortest possible step down is an seven-bed residential facility in Middlesex that is locked and secured by a 15-foot fence. Patients typiVeronica Lewis cally stay there for six to 18 months, Squirrell said. Lewis appeared in federal court in Burlington on June 17 for a hearing about whether she should remain in custody on the firearms charges. Lewis’ federal defender, Michael DeSautels, appeared to refer to the Middlesex facility when he told Magistrate Judge John Conroy that the state hospital or a “secure and locked facility that had been in the plan of J E SSICA the state mental health office” would be a “perfect fit” for Lewis. But those treatment options were no longer available. When U.S. marshals serve a federal arrest warrant on a patient, the Department of Mental Health interprets the order as “superseding” state authority and immediately discharges the patient from department custody, Squirrell said. Brown told Seven Days the state discharged Lewis the day the feds arrested her. With no treatment setting readily available, Conroy ordered that Lewis remain jailed, even after grilling the government’s attorneys about their ability to ensure she receives her medications while incarcerated. Nolan accompanied Montague and his family in the gallery during the hearing. Montague, who still carries two bullets Lewis fired into his skull, has been vocal about his desire to see her held criminally culpable. His long-simmering frustration turned to cautious optimism when Nolan filed federal charges, he told Seven Days. “I came within minutes of not being able to have this conversation and spent a year laying on my back in the house and have spent the last four years in recovery,” he said. “I still have draining physical issues … Up until literally a few hours ago, I wasn’t even going to get the satisfaction of the person who does this going to jail.” But to Tom Dalton, executive direc-
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John Franco, the attorney representing a group of citizens opposed to aspects of the project, welcomed the news. He had filed a motion on their behalf on May 22 asking a judge to rule that the signs violate the billboard law and Burlington’s zoning ordinances. Brookfield took them down before the judge ruled on the motion, Franco said. “Brookfield did the right thing,” Franco said. “We thank them for it, and hopefully we’re turning a new page here.” Signs or no, there is still no date for construction to commence. Voegele told the audience last week that Brookfield was still crunching numbers from the bid process, a prerequisite for building. “I understand how difficult it is that there’s a hole in the ground over there with barriers around it, and believe me, we have a huge investment here,” Voegele said. “We get it. We would rather simply be over there pushing dirt around right now. So this isn’t the position we want to be in, but it is sometimes what has to happen with big, complicated developments.” COURTNEY LAMDIN
The spot is meaningful, too. The paper hosted a music series in the alley for 10 years, and Thorsen and the early Seven Days crew frequented Red Square. Thorsen exhibited his work there and at nearby city hall, the BCA Center and other spots, Roberts said. The street renaming comes ahead of a planned event in Thorsen’s memory. “Thorever: A Celebration of the Life & Times of Matthew Thorsen” kicks off at Red Square at 4 p.m. on July 20 and will feature a city proclamation, musical performances, poetry readings and showings of the late photographer’s work. The celebration will spill into the alley and to nearby Nectar’s and Club Metronome. Roberts hopes the street sign is ready for unveiling on that day. “He just leaves a big footprint behind,” Roberts said of Thorsen. “I think that’s why it’s so fitting for there to be this street so that people see his name and maybe remember who he was.” Sullivan is ecstatic that her late husband will be immortalized in the city he loved. “I don’t think I’ve known anybody a street was named after,” she said. “That’s kind of a first.” C O U RT N E Y L AMDI N
UVM Apologizes for a Eugenics Survey That Ended in 1936 It came 83 years after the fact, but the University of Vermont Tom Sullivan issued an apology last Friday for the “stereotyping, persecution and in some cases state sponsored sterilization” that resulted from the Vermont Eugenics Survey that operated from 1925 to 1936. The survey targeted Native Americans, French Canadians, people of color and the poor. UVM professor Henry Perkins directed and founded the effort, with support from other UVM leaders including then-president Guy Bailey. Last fall, UVM trustees voted to remove Bailey’s name from the campus library because of his support for the survey. “We recognize and deeply regret this profoundly sad chapter in Vermont and UVM’s history,” university president Tom Sullivan said in a statement. Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk-Abenaki Nation, had lobbied Sullivan for the apology as a natural next step. He told Seven Days last Friday that it was an important bridge toward healing. His own grandmother was targeted in the survey but escaped sterilization. “I have to give Tom Sullivan and UVM
credit for actually doing this step,” said Stevens, a Shelburne resident. “How many years have we been looking for this? Generations. At least they are stepping up to the plate, so I want this to be a positive. Obviously, there was a dark history, but I have to applaud them for doing this.” The eugenics movement went well beyond Vermont, but its disturbing history in the Green Mountain State has triggered recent debate. Last month, Vermont state librarian Jason Broughton announced that author Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s name would be removed from a state book award. Critics said her contributions are tainted by her ties to the Vermont Eugenics Survey. Sullivan, who will retire as president this summer, calls in his letter for education as a preventive force in the future. “Let us move forward, together, as an educational community to ensure that such a grave injustice never be repeated,” his statement urges. “By providing relevant, accessible educational initiatives going forward, we have an opportunity to better come to terms with the past and learn from these tragic lessons.” MO LLY WALS H FILE: OLIVER PARINI
The 61 billboard-esque signs surrounding the downtown hole formerly known as the Burlington Town Center were removed the afternoon of June 19 — the only work at the stalled CityPlace Burlington development in almost a year. Crews removed the 8-by-10-foot advertisements along Cherry and Bank streets, revealing boards, some graffitied, that shield the pit from public view. Combined, the signs measured 2,880 square feet, far exceeding the 150-square-foot allowance in Vermont’s billboard law, which was enacted in 1968, Seven Days reported last fall. The signs had been
A late Seven Days staffer will be “Thorever” remembered in downtown Burlington after a city council vote Monday night. The alley between Red Square and Akes’ Place off Church Street is now known as Thorsen Way in honor of staff photographer Matthew Thorsen, who died from cancer at age 51 on New Year’s Day 2019. The council unanimously approved a resolution renaming Mechanics Lane as a way of recognizing Thorsen’s artistic contributions to the Queen City. “Matt’s work helped to tell the stories of thousands of Vermonters,” associate publisher Colby Roberts told the council. “If you picked up a copy of Seven Days over the past 24 years, you will have almost exclusively seen Matt’s work. And for any of you who knew him, he was an incredibly unique individual.” Roberts and Thorsen’s wife, Seven Days art director Diane Sullivan, began pursuing the project this spring. Roberts gathered signatures from abutting property owners and asked for the change last week at a meeting of the city council’s license committee. It was warmly welcomed, he said in an interview Monday.
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Susan Brody Hasazi Susan Brody Hasazi, 72, of South Burlington and Duxbury, Vt., passed away on May 14, 2019. A memorial service to honor and remember Susan will be held June 30 at 3 p.m. at the First Unitarian Universalist Society on Pearl Street in Burlington.
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n October 2018, LEA-OR “TOOTI” ZARFATIEIRMANN decided that her final project in her advanced-placement art class would involve shibari, the ancient Japanese art of decorative knot tying. When her mother asked why, the thengraduating senior at Mill River Union High School in North Clarendon explained, “because it’s a great metaphor for the way society is restricting self-expression.” At the time, Zarfati-Eirmann had no idea that her words would prove prophetic. On the morning of June 5, just hours before her final project was supposed to be exhibited alongside works by her fellow students, the 16-year-old was informed by Mill River’s principal that her photographs were “inappropriate” for display in a public school and had to be taken down. That decision came just two days before the teen’s high school graduation. Zarfati-Eirmann said she was distraught when she got the news and spent the next 40 minutes sobbing in the bathroom. As she later explained in a last-minute addendum to her artist’s statement, which she posted on a blank wall where her photos had been meant to hang, “My work representing the restrictions of society has been restricted itself. I apologize that art is no longer something to spark discussions and challenge the mind.” In a phone interview with Seven Days last week, TYLER WEIDEMAN, principal at Mill River, explained his reasons for pulling the plug on Zarfati-Eirmann’s photos. Weideman, who took over as principal in March, said that he wasn’t part of the original faculty discussions about her art project, which had gotten a green light from his predecessor, TODD FINN. It wasn’t until June 4, the night before Mill River’s annual Celebration of the Arts event, that Weideman saw Zarfati-Eirmann’s photos for the first time. “I asked quite a few students and teachers what they thought of it,” he recalled. Before he’d even reached his own conclusions about the exhibit, he said, “a group of six or seven students” approached him to say that they were “disturbed and offended” by the depictions of their fellow students bound in ropes. As Weideman pointed out, Mill River serves 428 students in grades seven through 12, some of whom are just 12 years old. 22
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According to the principal, Mill River has a written policy that prohibits student art depicting sex, violence, guns, narcotics or drug paraphernalia. While Weideman recognized that knot tying is an ancient art form, he said he couldn’t allow a display of photos that might be interpreted as sexual, violent or sadistic in nature. “We have kids who come from various backgrounds of trauma, and it’s not something we can have in a public school,” he added. “Don’t get me wrong. I think she did an amazing job. She put a ton of hard work into it. But it just wasn’t appropriate to show that work.” Zarfati-Eirmann remains perplexed by Weideman’s decision. As she explained in an interview with Seven Days last week, she spent two years learning to tie the intricate knots involved in shibari and worked for months to complete her project, which consisted of about a dozen photographs. Zarfati-Eirmann’s models, all of whom were fellow students, had signed consent forms to participate, as had their parents, and were fully clothed in the photos. All of the photography was supervised by an adult and took place within the school building with the full knowledge and consent of AP art teacher JONATHAN TAYLOR. (Taylor couldn’t be reached for comment as of press time.) And, she noted, the photos had hung in the school’s art room for several months without sparking controversy. Zarfati-Eirmann readily acknowledged that this particular art form has a dark history. Shibari, which means “to bind” or “tie up” in English, originated in Japan as a method of restraining or torturing prisoners, albeit one that also honored its captives. It later evolved into a form of erotic expression, but it is also used nonsexually for deep-tissue massage and relaxation, akin to acupressure. In fact, Zarfati-Eirmann noted that two of her models later asked if they could borrow her ropes when they were having stressful days, because of the knots’ calming effects. The teen’s mother, ZOHARA ZARFATI, understood the principal’s decision, even if she disagreed with him. However, she was more disturbed by his unwillingness to engage in a meaningful dialogue to try
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isn’t offended when people don’t recognize his artworks as personal creations. That’s because his specialty is creating icons that appear on websites, smartphones and traffic signs, and they’re designed to be instantly recognizable, stylistically consistent and unobtrusive. Vermonters may well have seen Raphael’s work without knowing it. Years ago, the 39-year-old Panton native created the logo for the City of South Burlington and the icons used for the Green Mountain Scenic Byway and the way-finding signs in downtown Burlington. For the past two years, Raphael has worked for Font Awesome, a company whose icons appear on more than 200 million websites worldwide. The Vergennes-based designer, illustrator and occasional actor — he’s a member of the local sketch comedy troupe STEALING FROM WORK — has also created icons for Apple, Instagram and Sesame Workshop through his freelance company, Sensible World. ORY RAPHAEL
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PLAY ON THE WORD “SON.” Like many tech-savvy entrepreneurs, Raphael always has multiple irons in the fire. He’s the creator of Symbolicons, a library of more than 8,000 icons, and cofounder of Notabli, a family-oriented social media network in which parents can
Green Writers Press Wins Inaugural Vermont Literary Inspiration Award
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ince it opened for business in 2013, GREEN WRITERS PRESS has worked to inspire writers and readers in Vermont and beyond to think differently, not just about publishing but about the world at large. The small Brattleboro imprint has made a name for itself by championing environmentally friendly publishing practices, mirroring its stated mission “to spread a message
more easily organize and share their kids’ photos, videos and other creations. But Raphael’s latest pet project reflects a bit of whimsy: a nearly wordless book aptly titled Goes Without Saying. It’s a palm-size collection of more than 100 idioms, pop culture references, and titles of books, movies and shows — all presented in the form of rebus puzzles, or visual riddles and puns conveyed using simple symbols. “An icon itself is like a little puzzle,” Raphael said in a recent Seven Days interview, during which he wore a T-shirt displaying the icon of, well, a T-shirt. “One of the fun things about this book is taking an icon whose idea is meant to be concrete and flipping it on its head.” In Raphael’s world, a sun icon may represent daytime, the celestial body itself or a play on the word “son.” One rebus puzzle in the book is composed of three icons: an eyeball, a heart and a sheep. Its meaning: “I love you.” The idea of Goes Without Saying had its genesis in 2013 when Raphael, who was working on a new “icon family,” or collection of icons, committed to creating a new icon every day for one year. In 2015, he took on the challenge again, but this time he assigned each icon a three-digit number: The first icon was 001, the second was 002, and so on. When Raphael reached day seven, aka 007, he decided to design something related to James Bond, the iconic British spy character created by author Ian Fleming. Raphael created a rebus puzzle representing the 1964 film Goldfinger using three gold bars and a pointing finger. of hope and renewal” and “build awareness to stop the global climate catastrophe.” In recognition of those efforts, the annual BOOKSTOCK literary festival in Woodstock has named the boutique publishing house the first recipient of a new honor, the VERMONT LITERARY INSPIRATION AWARD. Green Writers Press founder, author and activist DEDE CUMMINGS will accept the award before the festival’s keynote address on Saturday, July 27, at Woodstock Town Hall Theatre. Bookstock, which is free and open to the public, runs Friday through Sunday, July 26 through 28. “This award is for the authors and readers and staff at Green Writers
When friends and colleagues responded positively to it, he crafted rebus puzzles for all 24 released James Bond movies, all of which appear in Goes Without Saying. He didn’t consider publishing the puzzles in book form, Raphael continued, until he brought a collection of them to a New Year’s party a few years ago. “It started with two people trying to guess the puzzles,” he recalled. “And before I knew it, the entire room of people had gathered around, and they tried to guess.” Raphael has loved the visual arts since he was a child and dreamed of one day becoming a professional cartoonist. He got his start in design work while earning his performing arts degree at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. For several years, Raphael had a work-study job designing posters and programs for the college’s theater department. “Distilling all these concepts into a single representative image,” he noted, “is very similar to the work I’m doing now with icons.” Raphael realized he had a better chance of getting a paid position as a designer than as an actor. So, after working for a couple of years as a designer in Chicago, he returned home to Vermont and went to work for his father’s landscape architecture firm, LandWorks. The first icon set Raphael ever created was for the Addison County Chamber of Commerce. Because the chamber hadn’t budgeted for creating icons, he negotiated to retain a license to them as his intellectual property. With the rise of the internet, he “spread those icons far and wide,” said Raphael. His designs eventually attracted the attention of someone at Apple and now Press who have given so much to try and keep an independent press going in Vermont,” Cummings told Seven Days. “It’s just a thrill.” Green Writers Press was chosen from among a handful of candidates statewide to receive the award, according to Bookstock volunteer treasurer PETER ROUSMANIERE, who sat on the selection committee. He said the press exemplifies the mission of Bookstock itself. “Bookstock wants to support individuals and organizations that support literary life in Vermont,” he explained. “Green Writers Press has published a lot of Vermont authors.” In a statement announcing the
BOOKS number in the thousands. Raphael continues to find time for his pet projects. This year, he gave himself a new creative challenge: designing one iconthemed puzzle daily that represents the theme of a book or movie but not necessarily its title. For example, icons of a gorilla, a woman and the Empire State Building represent King Kong, though none of them conveys specifically “King” or Kong.” Raphael is also considering publishing a second book or card game based on this concept. “I think that is the curse of being in the creative industry,” he added. “I have hundreds of ideas of little things [that] I want to do like this every day.” Contact: ken@sevendaysvt.com
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award, Bookstock coordinator JORDAN ENGEL wrote, “The Green Writers Press is quintessentially Vermont.” Besides publishing books by local writers, such as former Vermont governor MADELEINE KUNIN and poets TONY WHEDON and GARY MARGOLIS, Green Writers Press has an increasingly global reach, with authors and poets on its roster from Maine to the Canary Islands. Earlier this year, it was named one of three finalists for the national Association of Writers & Writing Programs’ Small Press Publisher Award for nonprofit presses. “I think Bookstock is really stepping GREEN WRITERS PRESS SEVEN DAYS JUNE 26-JULY 3, 2019
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Knot Happening « P.22 to resolve the situation. According to Zarfati, she and her daughter met with the principal and art teacher shortly after the decision, during which Zarfati proposed that the administrator review all of the photos to see if he could find some that he deemed acceptable for display. But, according to Zarfati, Weideman declined to do so and was unwilling to offer an alternative venue for displaying the images. “So, basically, he didn’t engage in any communication or problem solving,” said Zarfati, who had worked for 30 years as a special educator herself. “Good art is meant to engage [people] in deep, critical thinking and reflection. As an educator, I know that if I don’t engage in good, reflective thinking, I’m not a good educator.” Because Zarfati-Eirmann was due to graduate two days later, she said she decided not to spark a major public controversy and mar the otherwise joyous commencement ceremony. But Rutland visual artist BILL RAMAGE, a professor emeritus of art at Castleton University, was more blunt in his condemnation of Mill River’s decision.
“It’s censorship,” said Ramage, whose own works have been displayed throughout the country for decades. “I just think people have to be really careful about what they censor and why. It can become a dangerous thing.” Currently, the 16-year-old hasn’t decided what she’ll do next; according to her mother, she’s taking some time off before pursuing further education. But Zarfati-Eirmann was hoping to find another Vermont gallery willing to display her work to a wider audience. (Later, she secured an evening reception on Friday, June 28, at the Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.) And, while she respects the school’s goal of trying to protect students from disturbing imagery, she’s still perplexed as to why hers was interpreted in this way. “In a public high school, you don’t want something sexual or violent or drug related,” she said. “But this isn’t that.” m
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n my first pass up the mountain, I missed my destination and had to pull over to ask a lady working in her garden. In my defense, few homes in the neighborhood had addresses on their mailboxes, and my GPS had lost contact with the mother ship, or however that works. It was early morning, and I was plying the unpaved back roads of Vermont — the town of East Topsham, to be specific, in Orange County. “Yup, I know the Marcottes,” the gardener told me, standing up and clapping her gloved hands, releasing a scattering of black soil. “Ya drove past ’em. They’re … let’s see … three houses down on the right. The place looks like an army barracks, if ya know what I mean.” “I do know what ya mean,” I replied. “Like a half-cylindrical structure. Yeah, I remember it. Much obliged.” The deeper you get into the boondocks, the more improvisational the housing becomes. With its corrugated aluminum exterior and wrap-around wooden deck, the Marcottes — or whoever constructed the building — were clearly doing their own thing. The driveway appeared so steep and soft that I feared getting stuck if I drove down it. Luckily, Kyle Marcotte and his daughter, Willow, were already walking up to meet me on the road. Kyle had blue, sparkling eyes and a full brown beard. (He reminded me of Levon Helm, the late drummer of the Band, which irrationally made me like the man before he said a word.) Willow was aptly named: a tall and slender preteen with long, blond hair parted neatly in the middle. She was at that charming age when, if the kid is lucky, gangly mixes with graceful, like a shy and frisky foal. Willow was lucky.
I had been hired by a social service agency to drive them to some sort of father/daughter class or seminar, I think it was, being held in Burlington. I had worried that this would involve some traumatic or at-risk family situation, but the evident closeness and easy comfort between this father and daughter put those concerns to rest. The way they both spontaneously reacted when, from my seat, I opened the automatic rear sliding door — “Wooow!” — gave me some indication that these folks were part of Vermont’s rural poor. Every day in Burlington, we’re confronted with homeless folks, but the persistent poverty pervading rural communities can remain largely invisible to urban dwellers. The two of them took seats behind me in my minivan. “Thanks a lot for coming up here to get us,” Kyle said. “My car’s not going nowhere for a while. The transmission is shot.” “Glad I could help,” I said, and we took off down the mountain. “So, Willow,” I said, catching her eye in the rearview mirror, “I guess you’re missing school today. What grade are you in?” “I’m finishing up sixth grade,” she replied, with confidence and some verve. “Sixth grade, cool. Do you like school?” “I like math and science a lot, and I have some cool friends, but there’s these two mean girls that are always bothering us.” “Oh, that’s too bad,” I sympathized. “There’s always a couple of mean kids, I guess. Well, you know what Taylor Swift says — you just gotta ‘shake it off.’” I had no idea if a tweener from East Topsham would be a fan of Taylor Swift, but that was all I had. I informed Willow that I had satellite
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our hours after a former city worker gunned down 12 people at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center last month, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took to Twitter to call for gun control. “The days of the NRA controlling Congress and writing our gun laws must end,” he wrote, referring to the National Rifle Association. “Congress must listen to the American people and pass gun safety legislation. This sickening gun violence must stop.” In a statement to the New York Times, Sanders spokesperson Arianna Jones said he would “continue pushing for policy that reflects the urgency of this national crisis, including his three-decades-old support for an assault weapons ban.” The response was classic Sanders. Central to his 2020 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination is the notion that he has consistently supported the same policies — and opposed the same special interests — throughout his half century in public life. But when it comes to gun rights, the senator from Vermont has been anything but consistent. During his first two decades in Congress, Sanders supported much of the NRA’s legislative agenda. And according to many who witnessed his rise from political obscurity to the presidential debate stage, he owes his career to the very special interests he now denounces. Sanders was elected to the U.S. House in 1990 after his predecessor, Republican Peter Smith, embraced an assault weapons
Bernie Sanders and then-representative Peter Smith debating in Burlington on October 22, 1990
ban, earning the wrath of the NRA and an influx of money to defeat him. “We don’t like everything that Mr. Sanders has to say about firearms,” NRA lobbyist James Baker told the Rutland Herald in October 1990 as the organization flooded the state with anti-Smith advertisements and mailings. “But he’s been up front about it. He’s at least as good, if not better, than Mr. Smith.” When Sanders first ran for president in 2016, Smith declined every interview request but one, from the Washington Post, and even then refused to discuss the 1990 race. “It was going to be very partisan, and I did not want to become the issue,” he told Seven Days this month.
Now semiretired and living in Santa Fe, N.M., the 73-year-old ex-politico wants to make clear that, in his view, the NRA’s involvement was “the predominant reason” Sanders defeated him nearly three decades ago. “He would like to have the reason why he won the first race go away,” Smith said of Sanders. “But it’s a matter of public record.” Upon arriving in Congress in 1991, Sanders repeatedly voted against legislation requiring waiting periods for those buying firearms. He opposed a 1996 measure that would have allowed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to fund research on gun violence. And
READY, AIM, FIRE: A TIMELINE OF SANDERS’ STANDS ON GUN CONTROL
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March 3, 1989 Smith Backs Assault Weapons Ban Following the Stockton shooting, Smith announces that he will cosponsor the Semiautomatic Assault Weapons Act of 1989.
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June 15, 1990 Smith, Sanders Tussle at Sportsmen’s Debate During a debate hosted by the Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, Smith attacks Sanders for “buying the national NRA strategy.”
January 17, 1989 Five Children Killed at California Elementary School A gunman kills five children and wounds more than 30 others at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, Calif.
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October 26, 1988 Sanders Opposes Waiting Periods The Burlington Free Press quotes Sanders opposing a mandatory seven-day waiting period prior to gun purchases, calling it “a local control issue.”
he voted in favor of a 2005 law shielding gun manufacturers from lawsuits — a “historic victory” for the NRA, as the organization’s executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, called it at the time. Sanders has since reversed course and now supports a raft of federal gun-control initiatives. But for most of his career, Sanders argued that the states, not the federal government, should be charged with regulating firearms. During a failed 1988 bid for the U.S. House, Sanders publicly opposed mandatory waiting periods for
| 1990 October 26, 1990 NRA Spends Big in Vermont “We don’t like everything that Mr. Sanders has to say about firearms,” NRA lobbyist James Baker tells the Rutland Herald. “But he’s been up front about it. He’s at least as good, if not better, than Mr. Smith.”
November 6, 1990 Sanders Defeats Smith On Election Day 1990, Sanders wins 56 percent of the vote in Vermont’s race for the U.S. House, while Smith takes 39.5 percent, and Dolores Sandoval 3 percent.
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gun buyers and told the Burlington Free Press he was satisfied with the nation’s gun laws. “It’s a local control issue,” he said shortly before the ’88 election. “In Vermont, it is not my view that the present law needs any changing.” Nearly 25 years later, in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., Sanders made the same argument in an interview with Seven Days, much of which has not previously been published. “My own view on guns is: Everything being equal, states should make those decisions,” he said during the March 6, 2013, interview in his Capitol Hill office. At that moment, Sanders seemed unwilling to commit to a series of new gun laws proposed by then-president Barack Obama and vice president Joe Biden, including an assault weapons ban. “I don’t think assault weapons—” Sanders began, cutting himself off. “Let me just say this about guns: You’ve got 300 million guns in this country. You’ve got 5 million assault weapons. If you passed the
strongest gun-control legislation tomorrow, I don’t think it will have a profound effect on the tragedies we have seen, which are really tragedy.” The next month, Sanders voted for the entire Obama/Biden package — including universal background checks, bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and tougher penalties for gun traffickers and straw purchasers — but the measures failed to pass the Senate. Ever
since, Sanders has portrayed himself as a champion of gun control. “Things really changed with the 2012 Newtown shooting,” said Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA School of Law who studies gun policy. “We’ve seen this go from being an issue that Democratic candidates avoided talking about to being one that they have to talk about.” As Sanders contends with a field of presidential rivals “falling all over themselves” to outdo one another on gun control, Winkler said, “it seems like some of his early votes are going to come back to haunt him.” More damaging still could be the perception that, when it comes to guns, Sanders is not the paragon of principle he’s reputed to be. His inconsistency on the issue suggests that his position has been driven by the politics of the moment — an uncharacteristic aberration for Sanders. “He doesn’t really care about guns,” his close friend Richard Sugarman, a University of Vermont professor, explained to the National Journal in 2014. “But he cares that other people care about guns. He thinks there’s an elitism in the antigun movement.”
Rather than acknowledge that his views have evolved over time, the Sanders campaign insists he’s stayed the course for more than 30 years. Sanders himself has repeatedly suggested that he lost his first race for the House in 1988 because he backed a ban on assault weapons, though there’s little evidence that’s the case. Media coverage of that campaign hardly mentions the issue. Nevertheless, his aides point to the episode as yet another example of his unwavering consistency. “I think his fundamental view has been unchanged,” Jeff Weaver, who worked as Sanders’ campaign driver in 1988 and now serves as senior adviser to his presidential bid, said in a recent interview. “The principles that he’s operating on have been consistent. The context has changed,” Weaver said, referring to the ever-worsening epidemic of mass shootings. “The understanding of the kind of problem that we’re confronting has changed — and he has responded to that.”
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May 8, 1991 Sanders Votes Against Brady Bill (Pt. 1) Sanders opposes the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, explaining that if a seven-day waiting period is “wanted in the legislature, let it be dealt with in the legislature.”
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November 26, 1991 Sanders Votes Against Brady Bill (Pt. 2) Sanders opposes the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1991, which includes a five-day waiting period.
| 1992 October 25, 1991 Engineer Shoots Workers at Bennington Plant Elizabeth Teague fatally shoots a manager at the Eveready Battery plant in Bennington and wounds three others. Two days later, Sanders defends his vote on the Brady Bill, telling the Rutland Herald, “Anyone who has any illusions that gun control will cause a significant dent in the very serious problem of crime is mistaken.”
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November 10, 1993 Sanders Votes Against Brady Bill (Pt. 3) Sanders opposes a new version of the Brady Bill, which would mandate a five-day waiting period.
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November 22, 1993 Sanders Votes Against Brady Bill (Pt. 4) Sanders opposes the conference report for the Brady Bill, which would temporarily impose a five-day waiting period.
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May 5, 1994 Sanders Votes for a Federal Assault Weapons Ban Sanders backs the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, which would ban the possession and sale of certain semiautomatic weapons.
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July 11, 1996 Sanders Votes Against Funding for Gun Violence Research Sanders opposes the Lowey Amendment to H.R.3755, which would restore funding to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study gun violence.
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June 18, 1999 Sanders Votes for Gun Show Three-Day Waiting Period Sanders supports an amendment to the Mandatory Gun Show Background Check Act, which would institute a three-day waiting period for firearms purchased at gun shows.
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April 20, 1999 Thirteen Killed at Colorado High School Two students fatally shoot 12 students and a teacher and wound 24 others at Columbine High School in Colorado.
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When Smith ran for Congress in 1988, the former lieutenant governor vowed to oppose any new gun laws — and won the NRA’s endorsement. But two months after taking office, he returned to Montpelier in March 1989 to make a dramatic announcement: The 43-year-old Republican had changed his mind. “I’m here today to announce that I have cosponsored a bill to stop the spread of semiautomatic assault weapons in this country,” said Smith, a preppy alumnus of Princeton and Harvard universities who hailed from a family of bankers and politicians. On a table beside him sat his own Winchester 94 hunting rifle and an AK-47 that the Montpelier police chief had brought for the occasion. Smith said he’d continue to support the use of firearms like his for hunting and self-protection. “What I cannot — and will not — defend is the proliferation of paramilitary assault weapons that were designed solely for one purpose: killing human beings,” he said, referring to the AK-47 and nine other firearms the bill would ban. “These are not hunting rifles. These are killing machines.” Smith later attributed his change of heart to two events. That January, a white supremacist drifter had fatally shot five children and wounded 32 others at a Stockton, Calif., elementary school. And in February, Smith had met with a group of high school students from a crime-ridden neighborhood of Washington, D.C., who felt menaced by guns in their community. “It was simply one of those moments,” Smith said recently. “The next morning I was brushing my teeth, looking in the mirror, [and] I had this moment of, You’re going to be looking at this face all your life,
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and you better like the person you’re looking at.” According to Steve Terry, a former journalist and congressional aide, Smith had touched “the third rail” of Vermont politics. His turnaround represented “the first time that a prominent politician from Vermont has supported any type of national gun ban,” the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus reported at the time. “Vermont always had a live-andlet-live gun culture,” former governor Howard Dean recently recalled. Dean, who was endorsed by the NRA in all eight statewide races he ran, said he couldn’t recall a single piece of gun-control legislation that gained traction in the legislature during his time in office in the 1990s. July 20, 2012 Twelve Killed in Colorado Movie Theater Shooting A gunman kills 12 people and wounds 70 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
October 20, 2005 Sanders Votes to Protect Gun Industry From Lawsuits (Pt. 2) Sanders again supports the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.
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April 9, 2003 Sanders Votes to Protect Gun Industry From Lawsuits (Pt. 1) Sanders backs the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which would provide immunity to gun manufacturers and retailers.
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June 28, 2006 Sanders Votes to Protect Funding for Trigger Locks Sanders supports an amendment to H.R.5672 that would prohibit funds from being used to enforce the use of trigger locks.
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August 2, 2012 After Aurora Shooting, Sanders Remains Opposed to Federal Gun Control In a statement to the Addison County Independent after the Aurora shooting, Sanders says, “In my view, decisions about gun control should be made as close to home as possible — at the state level.”
Press in 1988, you said gun control was a local issue,” Smith said. “This is a federal issue. I’m delighted to see that you’ve come along…” As Sanders attempted to interrupt Smith, the moderator cut them both off and brought the debate to a close. Later that day, Rosenfeld wrote in his book, Sanders called him to express unease about the role of firearms in the campaign. “It’s an issue I do not feel comfortable about,” he confided to his press secretary. “We want Mr. Philbin to do our dirty work for us.”
‘THE STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMEL’S BACK’ Watch Sanders, Smith and their rivals in Vermont’s 1990 U.S. House race debate in a Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs forum. To see the full video, visit sevendaysvt.com.
it, he recounted that in June 1990 Sanders had told him that the vice president of the Sporting Alliance for Vermont’s Environment had pledged the group’s support to him in the general election. The issue came to a head later that month, when all five candidates running in the congressional primary took part in a debate hosted by the Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, footage of which Seven Days obtained from the Vermont Historical Society. Sanders told his television audience that he had supported an assault weapons ban two years earlier — and he wouldn’t change his tune when it was politically expedient. “I said that before the election,” he said in the debate. Smith’s Republican primary opponent, Timothy Philbin, was even less subtle. “When you run for office and you say something … and do the opposite, that
concerns [voters],” Philbin said, staring down Smith from across a crowded table. “That’s not representation.” Sanders piled on, saying he agreed with Philbin. “The reason, I think, that this is as high as it is on the political agenda this campaign is not primarily about guns,” he said. “I think it has something to do with credibility.” The exchange left Smith seething. “I would just look Tim Philbin and Bernie Sanders in the eye and say: What you are saying is absolute political garbage,” he snapped at his opponents in the Williston television studio, pounding the table. “Now, Tim, I know you come from a long tradition, and you believe it. Bernie, I have to say, I respect you, but I am surprised to see you buying the national NRA strategy.” As the debate drew to a close, Smith defended his position as “common sense” and castigated the NRA. “First, they talked about guns. That didn’t work, so they attacked my family. That didn’t work, so they put up posters with me and Adolf Hitler. That didn’t work, so they decided to go after the issue of credibility.” Then he took one last swing at Sanders. “In closing, I would say: Bernie, in the Free
April 17, 2013 Sanders Votes for Obama Gun Control Proposals Sanders supports several amendments to the Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013, including ones that would reinstate a lapsed assault weapons ban and expand the use of background checks.
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March 6, 2013 After Sandy Hook, Sanders Says States Should Set Gun Laws In an interview with Seven Days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Sanders says, “My own view on guns is: Everything being equal, states should make those decisions.”
How critical a role the NRA played in Sanders’ election has been a matter of debate for decades. Though his advisers now downplay the organization’s involvement, Sanders himself cited it as one of several reasons for his victory in his 1997 memoir, Outsider in the House. “While the NRA has never endorsed me or given me a nickel, their efforts against Smith in 1988 clearly helped my candidacy,” he wrote, adding that the group had “strongly” opposed him in subsequent elections. The record shows that Sanders made the most of Smith’s troubles. At a gathering of sportsmen in Ludlow just weeks before the election, he pledged “to be honest with you” if he made it to Congress. According to a Rutland Herald account of the event, he told his audience that he did not believe “gun control is a panacea for the forces of crime.” “People pull the trigger, not the guns themselves,” Sanders added. In the closing weeks of the campaign, the NRA distributed thousands of “Dump Peter Smith” bumper stickers, according to the Herald, and spent tens of thousands of dollars on advertisements and mailings. STICKIN’ TO HIS GUNS?
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February 19, 2019 In 2020 Campaign Launch, Sanders Vows to Address Gun Violence “I’m running for president because we must end the epidemic of gun violence in this country,” Sanders says as he joins the 2020 presidential race. “We need to take on the NRA, expand background checks, end the gun show loophole, and ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons.”
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The reaction to Smith’s shift was swift and fierce. Flyers circulated with his likeness beside a photo of Adolf Hitler. “WHICH MAN IS THE ORIGINATOR OF GUN CONTROL?” it asked. Another depicted Smith with a Pinocchio nose. The Sporting Alliance for Vermont’s Environment called on him to resign. And, according to Smith, his family faced harassment and threats. During a town meeting that December at Middlebury’s Ilsley Public Library, Hinesburg resident Craig Cook told Smith, “The bill that you sponsored is taking away my freedom of choice and … my culture.” Richard Watts, then a rookie reporter for the Addison County Independent, covered the meeting and was taken aback by the hostility and anger Smith faced. “Maybe we’re used to it today, but there used to be a little more civility at those things,” said Watts, who now runs UVM’s Center for Research on Vermont. “They felt they had been lied to.” The following March, leaders of 22 hunting and fishing clubs convened a meeting of the newly formed Vermont Sportsmen’s Legislative Committee, according to the Vanguard Press. Nineteen of them indicated they would back Sanders, a former mayor of Burlington, if he challenged Smith in the 1990 election. “The issue is credibility,” explained Harry Montague, vice president of the Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, adding that, with Sanders, “you know what you are going to get.” The former mayor of Burlington, an independent, had outperformed expectations when he’d run for the seat two years earlier, picking up nearly twice as many votes as Democratic nominee Paul Poirier and losing to Smith by just 3.7 percentage points. This time around, Sanders had reason to believe that the sporting community would have his back. Steven Rosenfeld, who served as his press secretary in 1990, later wrote a campaign tell-all called Making History in Vermont: The Election of a Socialist to Congress. In
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establishment man, didn’t care about the elderly and the poor. Other causes included the dearth of a credible Democratic candidate — Sandoval, a UVM professor, was best known for supporting the legalization of all drugs — and the unusual length of the 1990 congressional session, which kept Smith off the campaign trail late into the fall. When then-president George H.W. Bush traveled to Burlington to stump for him, Smith caused a stir by publicly criticizing
According to Terry, the longtime observer of Vermont politics, all those issues contributed to Sanders’ victory, but it was Smith’s gun flip-flop that did in the incumbent. “It was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” he said. “That’s sort of why Bernie got elected,” confirmed state Sen. Anthony Pollina (P/D-Washington), who volunteered on the Sanders campaign and went to work for him the next year.
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his guest for refusing to raise taxes on the wealthy. Trailing in the polls by late October, Smith released a negative TV ad linking Sanders, a self-described socialist, to Cuban president Fidel Castro and suggesting that Sanders had been “nauseated” by president John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. “Peter Smith’s support after that ad collapsed,” Weaver recalled.
Condolence cards flooded in after Smith was defeated — and many of them mentioned the NRA’s role. Don Milne, a travel agent who would soon become clerk of the Vermont House, sent Smith a copy of a letter he’d written to the NRA canceling his membership. “I can not find it in myself to support either morally or financially an organization that did so much to elect the congressman that will represent our state in the
upcoming session of the United States Congress,” Milne wrote in a letter now housed in the Vermont Historical Society collection. “I do hope that the NRA will do some soul searching and act in a more responsible fashion in the future.”
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Sanders had been in Congress for less than a year when he found himself responding to an act of gun violence — in his home state. On October 25, 1991, a 30-year-old engineer named Elizabeth Teague brought a semiautomatic handgun to work at the Eveready Battery factory in Bennington, where she fatally shot 47-year-old plant manager Jonathan Perryman and wounded three other coworkers. Before fleeing the building, she set off several crude explosive devices consisting of gunpowder and gasoline. When Sanders traveled to Bennington two days later to address a labor forum, he couldn’t escape questions about his vote earlier that year against the so-called Brady Bill, which required a seven-day waiting period for all handgun purchases, enabling states and localities to perform criminal background checks in the interim. In an interview following the forum, the first-term House member called the bloodshed in Bennington “tragic” — but he argued that the legislation would have done nothing to prevent it. The solution, he said, was to lift people out of poverty. “Anyone who has any illusions that gun control will cause a significant dent in the very serious problem of crime is mistaken,” Sanders told the Herald. It was the first of many such uncomfortable interviews for Sanders, who for the next two decades would often have to account for his voting record when another mass shooter struck. Five months before the Bennington killing, when he cast his first vote against the Brady Bill, Sanders made the case that waiting periods and background checks were best left to the states. “If it’s wanted in the legislature, let it be dealt with in the legislature,” he told the Associated Press, adding, “Vermont and Wyoming are very different types of states than California or New York State.” An aide, Doug Boucher, told the Washington Post that more Vermonters had been killed that year by knives than by guns — an assertion the Vermont Crime Information Center quickly debunked. The Vermont Times offered another explanation for Sanders’ vote in a story unsubtly headlined, “Who’s Afraid of the NRA? Vermont’s Congressmen, That’s Who.” Pollina, then serving as Sanders’ state director, rebutted the premise of the
piece, noting that his boss disagreed with the NRA over assault weapons. “[H]e doesn’t just represent liberals and progressives. He was sent to Washington to represent all Vermonters,” Pollina told the paper. “It’s not inappropriate for a congressman to support a majority position, particularly on something that Vermonters have been very clear about.” The state’s newspaper editorial boards apparently disagreed. The Free Press wrote that Sanders had offered “limp excuses” for his vote, while the Herald called his position “opportunistic.” “Sanders is dead right when he says the cure for rampant violence lies in economic justice, education and law enforcement,” the Times Argus editorialized. “But he’s dead wrong in writing off the measure as useless. Until Americans can achieve that more just, less desperate society, a measure that can help keep guns out of the wrong hands is vital.” When the Washington Post profiled him in the summer of 1991, Sanders sounded exasperated by the notion that he had “caved to the NRA.” “I have a problem with a Congress and media that spend an enormous amount of time talking about the Brady [B]ill, which
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even the strongest proponents know will not have a major impact on crime,” he said. “I view it as hypocritical.” Sanders voted against the Brady Bill three more times before it finally became law in 1993. That year, he backed an
The following May, Sanders finally backed a bill the NRA opposed: an assault weapons ban similar to the one that had been his predecessor’s undoing. The measure was later folded into a comprehensive crime bill that instituted a
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alternative proposal that would have replaced the waiting period with an instant criminal background check — evidence, in Weaver’s telling, that Sanders supported gun control even then. But the Washington Post called such claims “misleading,” noting that the NRA was behind the plan and that it would have effectively gutted the Brady Bill because “the technology for such an instant check did not exist.”
three-strikes policy for violent criminals, expanded use of the death penalty, and funded the hiring of new police officers and the building of new prisons. Sanders backed that, too. Sanders’ support of the ban infuriated some of the same people who’d brought him to power. That August, the Vermont Sportsmen’s Coalition launched a “ByeBye Bernie” campaign, according to the Free Press. Its leaders promised to do to
Sanders what they’d done to Smith four years earlier. “He lied to us … He told us gun control should be debated at the state level,” the group’s spokesperson, Douglas Hoffman, said. “There was a bill to ban semiautomatic weapons in the Vermont legislature this year, and it lost. But Bernie voted for the same thing in Congress.” Sanders called that reasoning “torturous” and noted that he had consistently supported an assault weapons ban since 1988. “[I]t would be dishonest for anyone to suggest that I have been less than honest or straightforward about my stand,” he said. In that fall’s campaign, for the first time, Sanders leaned in to his support for gun control, buying a print advertisement hailing his “courage” for getting assault weapons “off our streets.” “Bernie Sanders stood up to the National Rifle Association and other powerful interests and voted for the ban,” the ad said. That November, Sanders defeated Republican state senator John Carroll by 3.3 percent, the closest race of his congressional career. STICKIN’ TO HIS GUNS?
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In the years following Sanders’ vote for the assault weapons ban, his record on gun legislation was decidedly mixed, according to a tally kept by PolitiFact. At times, he crossed the NRA, such as when he voted for a three-day waiting period for firearms purchased at gun shows and when he opposed a measure that would have limited the use of trigger locks. At times, he continued to support its agenda, such as when he opposed funding for gun violence research and backed NRA initiatives to allow firearms in national parks and on Amtrak trains. The votes that would cause him the most political grief would be those, in 2003 and 2005, for the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which prohibited lawsuits against gun manufacturers and retailers for the unlawful misuse of firearms. That position appeared at odds with Sanders’ history of “railing at corporate interests,” Valley News political columnist John Gregg wrote in December 2005. It represented a “‘tragic capitulation to the special interest gun lobby,’” he quoted Michael Barnes, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, as saying. Sanders’ explanation? “He agrees with the proposition that if gunmakers follow all the federal rules … and someone goes and buys the gun and does something illegal with it, [the firearms industry] should not be held responsible for it,” Weaver, then Sanders’ chief of staff, told the Valley News at the time. Eliot Nelson, a retired pediatrician and early Vermont gun-control advocate, said he was flummoxed by the move. “I was appalled that anybody would think that the gun industry should enjoy immunity for making and selling and marketing a product whose primary purpose is to kill and intimidate,” the South Burlington resident said. He said he wrote to Sanders to express that view but never heard back. As the frequency of mass shootings in America grew, Sanders stuck to his view that, generally speaking, the federal government should steer clear of gun policy. Guns were a problem in New York City and Chicago, he would argue, but not in Vermont. Those who study the issue say that’s not the case. Though Vermont has a low homicide rate, it has higher than average suicide and gun-related domestic violence fatality rates. 34
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“We have a gun violence problem,” said UVM pediatric critical care physician Rebecca Bell. “And it is problematic when policy makers gloss over that.” Ironically, the very people whose support Sanders was courting with his position on guns — white, rural men
— were the ones most at risk, according to Bell. “These are the people who are really hurting in this state,” she said. In August 2012, after a gunman killed 12 people and wounded 58 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., Sanders told the Addison County Independent that “decisions about gun control should be made as close to home as possible — at the state level.” The parents of one Aurora victim, Jessica Redfield Ghawi, later sued the online businesses that had sold the gunman ammunition and body armor. But because the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act barred such suits, a federal judge threw it out and forced Ghawi’s parents, Lonnie and Sandy Phillips, to pay the companies’ $203,000 attorneys’ fees. “I would like Bernie Sanders to at least apologize to us for the heartache this has caused,” Lonnie Phillips told USA Today during the senator’s 2016 presidential campaign. It wasn’t until a gunman killed 20 young children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012 that Sanders fully embraced federal gun laws — and, even then, not immediately. For nearly three months after the shooting, the senator avoided interviews on the subject and refused to speak with Seven Days. When he finally sat down with this reporter the following March, he sounded skeptical of the Obama/Biden gun-control proposals. Those would have, among other things, expanded the use of background checks and restored the assault weapons ban, which had expired in 2004.
Though Sanders had said in a written statement in January that he was “certainly prepared” to back another assault weapons ban, he seemed to throw cold water on the idea in the March interview. “I suspect the ban on assault weapons is not going to go very, very far,” he said. “But we’ll be looking.” If it did reach the floor of the Senate, would he vote for it? “We’ll see,” he responded. “We’ll see to what other things it is part of. But I did vote for that ban in ’94.” When Seven Days sought to clarify why, then, he’d express uncertainty about the measure, Sanders interrupted, pointed to a sheet of paper with a list of accomplishments and tried to redirect the interview to the economy. “This is not one of my major issues,” he said. “It’s an issue out there. I’ve told you how I feel about it. If there’s anything else you want to ask me about, I’m happy to answer. But that’s about it.” Ultimately, Sanders did vote for each element of the Obama/Biden plan in April 2013, including the assault weapons ban. According to Jones, his current presidential campaign spokesperson, he hadn’t considered doing otherwise. “He has, in fact, never faltered in his support for the assault weapons ban,” she wrote in an email. Sanders, who has not granted Seven Days an interview since April 2015, did not respond to numerous requests for comment for this story.
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As he battled Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, Sanders struggled to explain his past support for the NRA’s agenda — particularly his vote to grant immunity to the firearms industry. Though Weaver had argued a decade earlier that it was a matter of fairness to gun manufacturers, Sanders sought to recast his vote as support for small Vermont gun shops. The candidate later claimed he’d backed the immunity bill in 2005 because it included restrictions on armor-piercing bullets and support for gun locks, but the Brady Campaign pointed out that the 2003 version, which he’d also supported, included neither provision. After defending the law for months, Sanders announced in January 2016, days before the Iowa caucuses, that he’d cosponsor legislation repealing it. Two months later, at a debate in Flint, Mich., he backtracked and defended the immunity law again — drawing praise from the NRA.
“Sen. Sanders was spot-on in his comments about gun manufacturer liability/PLCAA,” the organization wrote on Twitter, referring to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. The explanation for Sanders’ immunity vote continues to evolve. “I think it’s pretty clear that the courts have interpreted that law much more broadly than certainly Bernie was comfortable with,” Weaver recently told Seven Days. He said his boss had reversed course on only one other gun-related position: CDC funding for gun violence research, which he now supports. Four years after Clinton attacked him from the left on gun control, Sanders is taking a different approach to the issue. Rather than simply defending past votes, he is voicing full-throated support for gun control. “I’m running for president because we must end the epidemic of gun violence in this country,” he said in his February 2019 campaign announcement. “We need to take on the NRA, expand background checks, end the gun show loophole, and ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons.” With 24 people competing for the Democratic nomination, “Every candidate wants to be distinctive in some way to differentiate themselves from the others,” according to Robert Spitzer, a professor at the State University of New York Cortland and an expert on gun politics. “The gun issue is really tailor-made for that.” Already, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has proposed a series of executive actions to crack down on the gun industry, while Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has said he’d pursue a federal gun-licensing program. But Spitzer is skeptical that Sanders’ gun record will rob him of the nomination, saying it’s “just not a top-tier issue.” Nearly 30 years after Smith’s loss launched Sanders’ congressional career, the ex-politician is trying not to focus on his former adversary’s unexpected star turn. “I wouldn’t deny that, from time to time, it sort of bugs me,” Smith conceded. Though he hasn’t lived his life “in the rearview mirror,” Smith said, he learns of each new episode of gun violence with a heavy heart. “It makes me sorry I failed,” he said. But, Smith continued, “You pick a fight, and that’s what I did. I chose a fight, and I lost.” m
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s an advocate, Julie Gagnon Prior has had to give a lot of hugs. She didn’t hug much before she got sick, she said, but now hugs are her greeting of choice — fierce, warm squeezes that she administers with all her might. That might be the first thing you notice when you meet Prior, 50. The second is that she has a tremendous laugh. And then maybe, if you spend a few hours with her, you’ll see the signs of her disease: the inconspicuous symptoms of Lyme that sometimes appear when she talks or smiles. All the same qualities Prior demonstrates in person show up in her 2020 Vermont Pinup Girl Calendar — her disease, but also her energy and her humor. Each month features a different photo of Prior, who grew up in Jericho and Essex Center and now lives in Grand Isle, looking strong and sexy and very Vermonty. In one photo, she lounges suggestively on a junked red van wearing an oversize sweatshirt and dirt-stained jeans. In another, she poses coyly on a boat in a bright-yellow rain jacket and black boots. Prior didn’t pursue the calendar project because she’s looking to land a spread in Vogue. When it’s just about her, she said, she prefers not to attract attention at all. But she wanted to turn a spotlight on a cause near and dear to her: Vermont Lyme, a nonprofit that works to prevent tick-borne illnesses and support those affected. One hundred percent of the proceeds from each $10 calendar will go to the organization. Prior hopes to raise $20,000 through sales by year’s end; she’s already collected more than $3,000. Though Vermont has the second highest incidence of Lyme in the U.S., the disease often flies under the radar. That’s partly because of the debate surrounding a diagnosis of “chronic Lyme disease”; according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “experts do not support its use.” (The CDC prefers the term “post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome” and says the cause of the symptoms is “not known.”) Advocates like Prior, however, believe that sufferers too frequently go undiagnosed. “So much is hush-hush,” Prior said. “And there’s no cure. No remission.” The calendar is lighthearted, but its first and last pages provide protocol for avoiding tick-borne illnesses and outline Prior’s own health experiences. She’s been living with a severe case of chronic Lyme 36
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CULTURE disease for more than a decade, since she was bitten by a tick and then misdiagnosed in 2008, she said. The postponement of treatment only made it worse. “Once you’re as far as I am, there’s nothing at this point that can help me,” Prior said. Now, her list of symptoms ranges from Bell’s palsy, which weakens the muscles in half of the face, to full-body small-fiber neuropathy, which keeps her from reacting properly to burns and other stimuli. Prior is in pain most of the time and needs to lie down every few hours; she carries blankets and a pillow with her everywhere, just in case. This summer, she said, she’ll schedule a surgery that will burn and deaden her occipital nerve, with the goal of relieving the constant headaches that she said feel like knives in her skull. The disease has also put a hard stop to Prior’s lifelong pursuit of adrenaline. Though she’s earnest and solemn when describing her disease, her face lights up when she talks about her adventures. And
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that’s another side of herself that Prior displays in the calendar. “I’ve always been an outdoor extreme athlete, pushing everything to the limit, crazy,” she said. “My last passion before I got sick was whitewater kayaking. I loved it.” An avid athlete in school, Prior has always liked hard manual labor, which she can now do only in small doses. Nine years ago, she met Carl Penske, now her significant other, on the side of the road; she was looking for help filling the hole she had made in the ground when she ripped her in-ground trampoline with the tires of her four-wheeler. Prior said she was wearing jeans, boots and a ball cap when they met. Later, as
photo from duct tape, zip ties and a piece of gravel. The couple beams in front of an abandoned house that Penske was in the process of tearing down. “He wanted to make a scene of newlyweds and their new house,” she remembered. The caption reads, “The boots make the woman.” Pat Bannerman, who is vice president of Vermont Lyme and has had her own struggle with the disease, thinks Prior has struck gold. “I really think she’s got a great niche,” Bannerman said. “For her to take the essence of the state of Vermont … It’s the uniqueness you see everywhere in Vermont. And for her to be this outdoorsy pinup girl, I think it’s hysterical.”
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they worked around the house together, Penske — who runs a multifaceted service business in Grand Isle — joked about how good she looked while she was working. “I’d be getting down and dirty, and he’d laugh and say, ‘Oh, you’re so sexy,’” Prior said. “And then I’d pose, pretending to be sexy. And it was funny because it was the farthest thing from the truth!” Somebody suggested that she turn the poses into a calendar, and Prior realized that could be the fundraiser she’d been looking for. But she was going to put her own spin on the pinup-girl concept. “I had the idea of doing it like a real person, a real Vermont person,” Prior said. Take the image for February: Penske, clad in a ’70s-era suit and baseball cap, holds Prior’s muscular leg, which is bare except for a work boot. She wears a short, sparkly blue dress and her “Elmer Fudd hat” and holds a bouquet of dead roses. On Prior’s ring finger is a makeshift engagement ring, constructed for the
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Enduring Love Theater review: The Fantasticks, Weston Playhouse B Y A L E X BROW N COURTESY OF HUBERT SCHREIBL
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n the late 1950s, when musicals were big and getting bigger, lyricist Tom Jones and composer Harvey Schmidt wrote the smallest musical they could. The Fantasticks tells a complex story of love and shattered illusions, and does it with deceptively simple characters and enduringly beautiful music. The Weston Playhouse production infuses the show with contemporary vitality and brings out both the playful and the melancholy in a musical built on contradictions. The story is so simple that it appears to be finished before intermission. A 16-yearold girl and the 20-year-old boy next door fall in love. Hopeless, mushy love; sincere but cloying. Their fathers have tried to keep them apart, going so far as to put up a wall between the houses. An old and predictable plot. But The Fantasticks is about looking at life from a little distance, where opposites converge and romance is both laughable and laudable. The story of young Luisa and Matt is narrated by the acerbic El Gallo and illustrated by a nimble Mute, who stands in for the wall and facilitates other bits of action. The musical’s theme is the discovery of illusion, and when two aging actors stumble in, they become part of El Gallo’s demonstration of what it means to lose the self-confidence of youth, including the certainty of love. The Fantasticks holds the record for the world’s longest-running musical, having opened at a small off-Broadway playhouse in 1960 and closed in 2002 after more than 17,000 performances. Because it deals in archetypes, even 60 years later the story of innocence and experience isn’t dated. In Weston’s production, the young men (including the music director behind the piano) wear hipsterish checked shirts; the old ones wear clueless loungewear. The visible updating doesn’t have to go much deeper, aside from making some gestures more overtly sexual. But subtler changes make this production vital and current. The score’s beautiful but somewhat stately melodies acquire a hotter edge, and the central theme of lost
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innocence glows with special clarity today. The production acquires contemporary power from the riveting intensity of the eight performers themselves. Director Susanna Gellert, in her first year as Weston’s executive artistic director, emphasizes the show’s allegorical storytelling by using a formal, presentational style. She often positions the actors in symmetrical stillness, then lets them launch into action with the impulsiveness of bottled-up energy. To amplify — and simultaneously undercut — the script’s phantasmagorical elements, Gellert and scenic and lighting designer Scott Zielinski expose the playhouse’s unglamorous back and side walls. They park the musicians at piano and harp squarely onstage and eliminate the teaser curtain to reveal the lighting grid. If the bare walls say, “nothing up my sleeve,” the story showers plenty of surprises on the audience. It’s the eightmember cast that completes the magic. Though their characters are intentionally uncomplicated, each must embody
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contradictions, evoked for both humor and pathos. The performers excel at putting beating hearts underneath the story’s cardboard cutouts. Julie Benko, as Luisa, has a face that can render every blushing excess of adolescence, from saucer-eyed hope to defiant daring. Resisting squeaky youthfulness, she turns an abstract ingénue into a person both decisive and awkward. And her strong singing is a window into a Luisa with a real soul. As Matt, Francisco González flexes untested courage and trails off into dreaminess until the story forces him to face hard truths. With a silky voice and graceful movement, González beautifully reflects the heroism each viewer projects onto him. He’s captivating in “Soon It’s Gonna Rain,” his duet with Benko, and “I Can See It,” his exchange with El Gallo. Devin Ilaw fills El Gallo with a thrilling fire. He enters with a radiant smile, and it’s impossible not to trust someone with those flashing eyes, even if his cool selfassurance warns that we shouldn’t. Ilaw enchants as a dancer and singer as El Gallo lets himself be touched by events he once appeared to control. The Mute, played by Megumi Nakamura, witnesses or stirs the action. Her reactions are just big enough to show engagement, punctuating the audience’s
experience. With precise movement, she embodies magic itself. David Bonanno and Wayne Pretlow play the fathers. They let the struggles of fatherhood cloud their tired faces, but then they kick up their heels and dance in exuberant duets. Both their funny feud and their warm friendship are truly adorable. Geoffrey Wade plays the old actor with glorious, rickety grandiosity. The character believes so firmly in his threadbare doublet and shaky Shakespeare quotations that his hammy declamations are a delight. The other wandering trouper, played by Tom Aulino, specializes in death scenes. Aulino sets him tottering across the stage and produces lovely suspense about how overblown a theatrical demise can be. On Weston’s relatively big stage, Gellert’s version of the musical’s minimalism sometimes puts the viewer at too great a distance. Above the grand piano and bare theater walls, Zielinski rings the stage with a massive floral painting that dwarfs the performers. The actors have to compete hard with these large elements. When Gellert adds a superbly lit, rippling curtain of Mylar strips to suggest the woods, viewers are likely to be mesmerized by the green-gold shimmer and not the love scene. Because the audience must reconcile so many points of focus, the story at the center is overpowered. Music director Yan Li allows the music to swing a bit, setting aside the stale staginess of classic Broadway. The wistful “Try to Remember” is especially strong with the whole cast singing it as the show begins. Fine musicianship aside, in Friday’s preview the vocals too often lost sonic battles with the piano. Sometimes the best way to explore complex emotions is to stylize them into allegory. And it doesn’t take a big spectacle to dazzle the audience, just a simple sign of enchantment. Confetti will do. In The Fantasticks, it rains down. m Contact: alex@sevendaysvt.com
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hen I visited Bliss Bee in Williston, a list of Vermont suppliers graced the wall, including the Northeast Kingdom dairy responsible for the creemee mix. Couples drank wine and Vermont beers with their burgers. Kids slurped chocolate milk paired with jumbo all-beef hot dogs as long as their forearms. This family-oriented eatery is the latest from the Farmhouse Group, known for full-service farm-totable restaurants Farmhouse Tap & Grill and Pascolo Ristorante in Burlington and Guild Tavern in South Burlington. The group also owns two locations of El Cortijo Taqueria y Cantina in Burlington and Winooski, as well as Farmhouse Group Events. Yet cheery-hued Bliss Bee is located in the bustling shopping center of Maple Tree Place, next to a Starbucks. It runs ads aimed at hungry cinemagoers at the nearby Majestic 10. Service is only at the counter, and adult meals start at $8.49 and top out at $14.99. What’s up? Jed Davis, founding owner and president of the Farmhouse Group for nearly a decade, opened Bliss Bee in mid-April. He described it as a play in the booming “fast casual” segment of the industry, where
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slaw? I also enjoyed the maple-glazed tofu grain bowl with roasted carrots and broccoli, served with citrusy sesame-tahini vinaigrette. That vegan grain bowl is Noelle’s go-to, her husband said. The menu reflects contemporary American dining preferences, and Jed Davis had only to look to his own family for guidance. His wife eats no meat, gluten or dairy. Their meat-free younger daughter loves the salmon, tomato, asparagus and roasted broccoli grain bowl. Davis and his older daughter are omnivores with soft spots for
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opened a satellite beer garden in the parking lot of the old KeyBank at 70 Main Street last weekend, following a trial run in mid-June. The brewery’s new site is five blocks from its primary location at 150 West Canal Street, where owner BRIAN ECKERT opened Winooski’s only brewery in 2014. “We wanted to use [it] as a pressure-relief valve for the number of people who come through,” Eckert told Seven Days. “And we wanted more outdoor area for people to hang out at.” The parking-lot beer garden serves five to six beers on tap and can offer an
array of up to 10 IPAs, sour beers and darker brews, Eckert said. An on-site food tent offers grilled-cheese sandwiches, including a no-frills classic made with American cheese and variations with fixings such as cheddar, pepper jelly and apple slices; or chèvre, tomato and pesto. On rainy days, when the beer garden doesn’t open, those sandwiches will be available at the brewery. Four Quarters’ satellite site is open Thursday through Saturday from 3 to 9 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m., weather permitting. The taps at the beer garden are attached to a mobile unit that will make occasional trips to pop-up events, Eckert said.
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For Gletsos, gathering wild ingredients “is really about expanding my own sense of wonder” and “bringing some expression of the Northeast Kingdom” to his hauntingly complex, cult-status brews. But if the beers are unique, the ingredients are seasonally common: yarrow and rose petal in July, sumac and goldenrod in September, lichen in October, and other plants and mushrooms throughout the growing season. Gletsos, whose day job is brewing at world-renowned Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro Bend, began Wunderkammer as a side project in 2016. He uses space at Hill Farmstead to produce and bottle his small-batch beers, making about 100 barrels of Wunderkammer beer per year. Half of it is bottled, half kegged. After studying at Maine College of Art in Portland, Gletsos, 41, came to Vermont in the ’90s to perform with Bread and Puppet Theater, which he occasionally still does. His creativity is apparent in the Wunderkammer labels he illustrates, and in his poetic musings. To be in the woods foraging is to “experience the world in a slightly different way,” he said. And he
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delights in seeing fans of his beer take up foraging, as well. To drink the results of such a foray? “In the sense of eliciting wonder and curiosity about the world,
I hope it sort of draws you out of your everyday experience,” Gletsos said. Wunderkammer’s expressive beers do just that. The Hyla Crucifer, made with lichen, chagga, “some sticks and leaves, as well as other typical brewing material,” Gletsos said, is a revelation in how intricate a beer can be. A sip first reveals tartness, followed by rooty qualities, and then earthy and pleasantly bitter tastes. These are bewitching beers to share with friends while talking about the nature of joy and art. Or perhaps pondering what it means to drink an exceptionally complex, $12 bottle of beer made from foraged ingredients in the climate-changing 21st century. Wunderkammer can be found periodically at a few places in Vermont, including Parker Pie in West Glover, Tap 25 and Cork Wine Bar & Market in Stowe, and Healthy Living Market & Café in South Burlington. Gletsos sends an occasional keg to New York State and to Oregon, where he used to live, but he’s not seeking to expand or increase production. He described his releases as akin to finding flushes in the woods, like a patch of chanterelles one can
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way to hit that target — more of: I’m here, with the dusty sunbeam flavor of yeasts [from] the area,” he said. Gagné uses Vermont apples and other fruits — skins, seeds and all — for his barrel-aged fruit beers, and the yeasts on those fruits add to the mixed wild culture. As with natural wines, the weather and seasonal variations make for a different beer every time. “The most interGLE TSOS esting beers are the ones where I try to not mess up what the farmer did,” he said. “What beauty do you observe around you, and how do you aggregate that to allow the yeast to reach its potential?” Like Gletsos’ foraged beers, Gagné’s approach is drastically different from that of standard beer making, which seeks to reproduce the same flavors in each batch. In a state where hop-heavy IPAs and double IPAs oversaturate the microbrew market, it’s refreshing to have beer that seeks to surprise, not conform. These beers’ complexities evolve in part from the time it takes to make them, which is reflected in the higher price point. Although Hermit Thrush’s kettle sours can be ready in four to six weeks, its barrel-aged beer ages for 12 to 18 months before it leaves the brewery. Some Wunderkammer beers are released after nine months. At other breweries, typical ales, including IPAs, can be ready in as little as two weeks; lagers can be drinkable in three. While most beer should be imbibed young, the barrel-aged beers of these microbrewers can sit for a long time. But don’t wait years before trying one of Hermit Thrush’s quaffable Party Guy sours, or its Fou D’or, a barrel-aged sour golden ale. Drink them with savory food, especially salty charcuterie or sweet-and-spicy barbecue. While sipping, consider how the beer reflects the Brattleboro landscape: the bright taste of its fruit, the crispness of its water and perhaps the metaphorical, tentative sweetness of the decommissioning of nearby Vermont Yankee. m
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stumble upon with good timing and the willingness to wander. Due to the inclusion of Brettanomyces and mixed cultures, many Wunderkammer beers are sour, though Gletsos thinks of sourness as an aspect of flavor, not a style in and of itself. But at Hermit Thrush Brewery in Brattleboro, sour and wild are the sole focus. “There’s a certain magical mystery to the fact that we’ve only done wild VASILIOS fermentations, ever, and have never bought yeast,” said Christophe Gagné, 32, president and brewmaster of Hermit Thrush. “Beer all used to be sour, to varying degrees, until Louis Pasteur came along and was able to control the yeasts. Sour beer was safer than water in the 1600s,” he noted. Nowadays, Gagné uses a mix of traditional methods and contemporary innovation to produce Hermit Thrush’s beers. After experimenting with culturing different yeast strains from throughout the Northeast, he found that Brattleboro’s southern Green Mountains and farmland, full of “green things and sweet things,” helped produce yeast with “good diversity and high cell count.” Also pleased with Brattleboro’s crisp water, he founded Hermit Thrush with Avery Schwenk in 2014. Gagné explained their process of capturing wild yeasts, which they do for six or seven weeks every fall. After the initial brew day, they screen in the overhead door and let the sterile beer cool overnight in open-top steel coolships, allowing in the moist valley air. By morning, the mix is bubbly and fermenting from the yeasts carried by the wind. This mixture becomes part of the house pitch, which contains 180 different yeast strains from the Saccharomyces, Pediococcus, Lactobacillus and Brettanomyces yeast groups. Gagné has had the yeasts isolated and plated, and he can distinguish the attributes that different yeasts give to beer. “If you tease apart the biology, you start to learn which families, or species or strains, make certain flavors,” Gagné said. “Some make funk and some don’t. Some taste like wine or fresh fruit — everything from hay to horse blanket.” He regards yeast as a brewing “partner” rather than an ingredient. “Sour beers are much less about designing a flavor profile than finding a
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warrant the use of a fork. The coleslaw unexpectedly contained pineapple, which I kind of liked. But the main attraction was my RBF, its foam spilling over the top of the tankard. I employed both spoon and straw to tackle the behemoth, alternating bites and slurps until I could see the bottom of the glass. The ice cream was a bit grainy, owing to freezer burn, but it hit the spot just the same. Cold and sugary, like any float should be. My friends were equally satisfied. One of them, who’s trying to increase his caloric intake this summer, ordered the Coney chili dog basket and a vanilla shake, which clocked in at 1,605 calories and $9.20. (The shake had a bad case of freezer burn.) My friend trying to reduce calories got a corn dog basket with sweet potato fries at 370 calories and $8.50. Good thing we were eating outside, because that ish was messy. And the three of us had quite a bit of plastic, paper and Styrofoam left over at the end. That ’50s feel comes at the price of sustainability. Lots of leftover fries, too, because the portions were huge. As far as Dining on a Dime is concerned, the A&W’s food-to-price ratio is as good as it comes. I recommend pairing it with a swim at the quarry down the road, though it’s probably best to do the swimming first. m COURTESY OF SEAN MEAGHER
newly minted 21-year-old, I’m still in the honeymoon phase with beer. I love Sabine Poux diggin' in the stuff in all its forms, from overpriced to a black bean burger IPA to cheap supermarket six-packs. But earlier this month I had a hankering for a different kind of brew, the kind that begs to be served with a generous dollop of vanilla ice cream. So, two friends and I caravanned to the A&W Drive-In in Middlebury to satisfy our RBF (root beer float) cravings. It was a hot day, so we plopped down under a big shady tree next to the parking lot. A couple of other families ate from their cars, trays clipped to the open windows. If it wasn’t for the beautiful Green Mountain backdrop, we could have been at any one of the chain’s thousands of locations. The 100-year-old greasy, meaty establishment was an unlikely choice for two of us: I’m a vegetarian, and one companion was trying to limit her caloric intake. Regardless, all of us were determined to get gut-bustingly full. Our smiley waitress, wearing one of the brand’s charI had already done the math: A regular-size root beer acteristic orange baseball caps, brought all our food over float was $4, so I had approximately $8 to spend on food at once in plastic baskets, the kind that usually house to fall within the $12 Dining on a Dime price limit. I was chicken tenders at themed diners. I unwrapped the delighted to see a veggie option on the menu, meaning I burger from its foil and found exactly what I expected: a didn’t have to fall back on my usual fast-food last resort once-frozen patty, enhanced with a single leaf of lettuce and a slice of tomato, sandwiched in a doughy bun. of side dishes. It was as all-American as a veggie burger could be. The While I’m sure a large order of cheese curds ($6.95) or onion rings ($3.75) would have made for a filling meal, burger itself tasted familiar, which I later found out was I opted for the black bean burger and made it a basket, because it’s Morningstar Farms brand; this A&W doesn’t which came with fries and a teeny container of coleslaw sell the Beyond Burger like some other locations. I found for $7.75. Most menu items are priced about the same, it as tasty as it was predictable (which is to say, very). The fries were yummy, too — but soggy enough to each with a cheaper sandwich-only version.
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BUSINESS AFTER HOURS RECEPTION: Area business leaders join Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce members in learning about Capstone Community Action’s work to help end poverty in the state. Capstone Community Action, Barre, 5-7 p.m. $10-15; preregister. Info, 229-5711.
SECOND QUARTER WOMENPRENEURS NIGHT OUT: Members of the business community share resources and feedback while enjoying food and spirits. Bring your business cards. Mad River Distillers Burlington Tasting Room, 5:30 p.m. $10-20; free for sustaining members. Info, 870-0903.
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EDIBLE WELLNESS: A Q&A demystifies the benefits of consuming cannabidiol. Attendees treat themselves to sweet CBD delights. Nutty Steph’s Granola & Chocolate Factory, Middlesex, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090.
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FIBER RIOT!: Creative types get hooked on knitting, crocheting, spinning and more at an informal weekly gathering. Mad River Fiber Arts & Mill, Waitsfield, 5-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 496-7746.
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KNITTER’S GROUP: Needles in tow, crafters share their latest projects and get help with challenging patterns. All skill levels are welcome. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.
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DANCE HEGINBOTHAM & ALARM WILL SOUND: Collaborating with the 22-member new music ensemble, eight dancers bring their celebrated athleticism, humor and theatricality to a world-premiere performance as part of SHIFT 2019. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $11-32. Info, 603-646-2422.
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DEATH CAFÉ: Folks meet for a thought-provoking and respectful conversation about death, aimed at accessing a fuller life. Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center, Rutland, 7-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 353-6991. FINANCIAL FUTURES LUNCH & LEARN: An informal gettogether attracts communityminded financial professionals who want to support Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity’s financial literacy and empowerment programs. Bobbin Mill Community Center, Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 660-3456, ext. 110. NURSING BEYOND A YEAR MEET-UP: Breastfeeding parents connect over toddler topics such as weaning and healthy eating habits. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-8228.
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STARGAZING: Clear skies at night mean viewers’ delight when telescope users set their sights on celestial happenings. Call to confirm. Mittelman Observatory, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury College, 9-10:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-2266. SUNSET ON THE LAKE: Sustained by appetizers and drinks, cinephiles support the Vermont International Film Festival and honor VTIFF community champion Bess O’Brien. Private residence, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $50-250. Info, 660-2600.
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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: A new IMAX film unravels the mystery of the creature we love to fear. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: Some of the Pacific Ocean’s most beautiful islands and marine national monuments grace the screen. 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. ‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: Advanced filming techniques WED.26
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What better way to spend a summer weekend than surrounded by the great outdoors and the sounds of live folk, roots and Americana music? Boston-based roots trio Lula Wiles, singer-songwriter Hunter Paye and Vermont entertainer Rusty DeWees, aka the Logger, are among the acts to share their talent at Patrick Ross’ Camping & Music Festival. Presented by Rock Farmer Records, a Newbury production company founded by Ross, who is an accomplished fiddler, this familyfriendly fest also offers jam sessions, local eats, and Vermont craft beer and cider. Proceeds benefit the Vermont Folklife Center’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program.
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LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR NEW BUSINESS OWNERS: An overview of legal matters helps entrepreneurs avoid common mistakes. Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.
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Devil’s Advocate “As a Satanist, I believe confronting injustice is an expression of one’s Satanic faith,” says one member of the Satanic Temple in a trailer for the 2019 documentary Hail Satan? Directed by Penny Lane, this eye-opening and humorous documentary takes a tongue-in-cheek look at this religious group with a strong commitment to social and political justice. Often clad in black and donning devil’s horns, its members use sometimes shocking tactics to advocate for issues such as religious freedom, women’s reproductive autonomy and the abolition of corporal punishment in public schools. As another member puts it in the trailer, “Satanism is looking out for the other, because we are the other.”
‘HAIL SATAN?’ Thursday, June 27, 7 p.m., at Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, in Burlington. $5-8; free for Vermont International Film Festival members. Info, 660-2600, vtiff.org.
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Lost Boy When high school student Dane suddenly dies of an aneurysm, members of his community must find their own ways to cope. This is the story of The Dream of the Burning Boy, David West Read’s drama presented by MOXIE Productions. The play, which premiered Off Broadway in 2011, follows Dane’s friends and family, including his conflicted girlfriend, sarcastic sister and devastated mother, as they navigate their altered worlds. The boy’s English teacher has a particularly hard time processing the tragedy — he even has nightmares about Dane’s death. Grange Hall Cultural Center co-owner Monica Callan directs regional talent in this poignant play about finding strength in adversity.
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The video for the LowDown Brass Band’s 2019 single “We Dem Boys” takes viewers on a tour of a raging house party with guests moving and grooving in time with the funky horn-driven tune. Known for bringing elements of soul, funk and rock to the traditional New Orleans brass band sound, the group gives hip-hop lots of love
‘THE DREAM OF THE BURNING BOY’ Thursday, June 27, through Saturday, June 29, 7:30 p.m., at Grange Hall Cultural Center in Waterbury Center. See website for additional dates. $17. Info, grangehallcc@gmail.com, grangehallcc.com.
on its 2018 album LowDown Breaks. In a review of the eclectic release, DownBeat magazine’s Brian Zimmerman wrote, “The group works to pay homage to the institution of hip-hop, setting its gaze specifically on the breakbeat, while keeping an eye trained on the jazz genre.” Fans can’t help but dance when the Chicago-based
band hits the stage as part of the Montréal International Jazz Festival. MONTRÉAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL: LOWDOWN BRASS BAND Sunday, June 30, 9:30 p.m., at TD Stage, Place des Festivals, in Montréal. Free. Info, 855-299-3378, montrealjazzfest.com.
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expose the planet’s top hunters on land, under the sea and in the air. 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. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: Actor Kate Winslet narrates a virtual odyssey into the largest and least-explored habitat on Earth. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘SIDEWAYS’: Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church portray two men on a road trip through California’s wine country in search of a bonding experience before one of them walks down the aisle. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 533-2000.
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COMMUNITY SUPPER: A scrumptious spread connects friends and neighbors. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300. LEDDY PARK BEACH BITES: Lakeside picnickers enjoy games, adult beverages, food-truck fare and live entertainment. Attendees on two wheels make use of free bike valet service. Leddy Park, Burlington, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0123. SANDOR KATZ: The bestselling author serves food for thought with the talk “The Art of Fermentation.” Simpson Hall, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 586-7711.
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BRIDGE CLUB: Players have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $6. Info, 872-5722. CRIBBAGE & PINOCHLE: Card sharks engage in friendly competition. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.
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ACTIVE ISOLATED STRETCHING & STRENGTHENING: Certified instructor Alicia Feltus lays out unique sequences of limbering up to increase blood and lymph flow, prevent injury, and improve recovery. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:306:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@hungermountain.coop. BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: Folks of all ages ward off osteoporosis in an exercise and prevention class. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier,
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7:30 p.m. $14-20. Info, 253-3961. Presented by Saint Michael’s Playhouse at McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $36.50-45.50. Info, 654-2281.
7:30, 9 & 10:40 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322. CHAIR YOGA: Comfortable clothing is recommended for this class focused on balance, breath, flexibility and meditation. Barre Area Senior Center, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.
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THE METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD: ‘DIALOGUE DES CARMÉLITES’: Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the touching role of Blanche in a broadcast production of Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 1 p.m. $10-17. Info, 760-4634.
MEETING YOUR MIND & BEYOND: THE BENEFITS OF APPLYING MINDFULNESS: The third installment of an ongoing seminar with Carol S. Hyman and Reeve Lindbergh focuses on “The Gift of Challenging Relationships.” St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1393.
METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD: ‘LA BOHÈME’: Soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Vittorio Grigolostar in the timeless story of young artists in Paris, recorded during the 2013-14 season and shown on the big screen. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-15. Info, 748-2600.
RESILIENCE FLOW: Individuals affected by traumatic brain injuries engage in a gentle yoga practice. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262. YOGA4CANCER: Meant for anyone affected by the illness, this class aims to help participants manage treatment side effects and recovery. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262.
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BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: Learners take communication to the next level. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: ¡Hola! Language lovers perfect their fluency. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
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‘A CENTURY SONGBOOK’: An uplifting show by Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre celebrates the last 100 years of Jewish history in Montréal through songs and stories. Sylvan Adams Theatre, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, 8 p.m. $54. Info, 514-739-7944.
distinct modes of heartfelt string playing. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-9:15 p.m. $25; free for students. Info, 503-1220. OLD NORTH END NEIGHBORHOOD BAND TEEN MUSIC JAM: Be they accomplished musicians or just starting out, young players find harmony in the traditional music of Burlington’s past and present immigrant groups. Boys & Girls Club, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 881-8500. UKULELE CLUB: Instrumentalists of all abilities meet to practice and play. Hartland Public Library, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 436-2473. VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: Young vocalists vie for spots in a professional singing ensemble and education program. Various locations statewide. Free; preregister. Info, vermontgirlschoir@gmail.com.
MONTRÉAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL: Legendary performers including the Preservation Hall Jazz Band deliver jazz, blues and contemporary tunes alongside rising talents. See montrealjazzfest. com for details. Various Montréal locations. Prices vary. Info, 855-299-3378.
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Find club dates in the music section. BURLINGTON CITY ARTS SUMMER CONCERTS: LOWELL THOMPSON: The Queen City alt-country artist serves up tunes from his 2014 album Stranger’s Advice. Lower Church St., Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. CAPITAL CITY BAND: The community ensemble hits all the right notes at a weekly gig on the green. Vermont Statehouse lawn, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 456-7054.
GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: ‘LANDSCAPES OF THE HEART’: Works by Vieuxtemps, Frazelle, Biber and Mendelssohn demonstrate four SEVEN DAYS JUNE 26-JULY 3, 2019
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FROGGER!: Folks find slippery, bumpy amphibians by sight and sound. A-Side Beach, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $24; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. PLANTS THAT HURT & PLANTS THAT HELP: On a botany walk, outdoors lovers get to know medicinal, poisonous and edible species growing in Vermont state parks. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 4 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.
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SIX SURPRISING ESSENTIALS FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING SUCCESS: Coach Leora Dowling leads a seminar and Q&A to help participants become the presenters they want to be. New York Life Vermont, Colchester, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 989-3250.
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Find even more local events in this newspaper and online: Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.
film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.
music + comedy Find club dates at local venues in the music + nighlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music. All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.
KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN BIKE CLUB BIKE BUM RACE SERIES: Mountain bikers of all ages, riding solo or in teams of up to five, tackle the trails. Athletes cool down at an after-party. Killington Resort, 1-5 p.m. $15-150. Info, 800-734-9435.
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ALYSSA HARTMAN: Struggling to juggle the demands of a young family? In “Tiny Humans Big Emotions,” the emotional intelligence coach offers strategies for helping kids develop the tools to navigate their complex world. Brookfield Old Town Hall, 6 p.m. Free. Info, brookfieldoth@gmail. com. FRED MAGDOFF: The presentation “Creating an Ecological Society: Climate Change, Capitalism and Socialism” addresses urgent questions such as “What would a socially just and ecologically sustainable society look like?” Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 373-0329.
JOHN HEGINBOTHAM & TYONDAI BRAXTON: The choreographer and composer discuss their long artistic partnership and the origins of their latest work, set to debut at Dartmouth College as part of the SHIFT 2019 event series. Top of the Hop, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422. TEDX BROWNELL LIBRARY: Lifelong learners watch TED Talk videos centered on the topic “Universe of Stories.” Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Electronics novices develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon & 1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.
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ARTSMART: DIALOGUE ON ‘DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES’: Classically trained opera professional Kevin Ginter provides background information on Poulenc’s 20th-century work ahead of a broadcast production by the Metropolitan Opera. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, noon. Free for Dialogues Des Carmélites ticket holders; preregister; limited space. Info, 760-4634. ‘THE FANTASTICKS’: “Soon It’s Gonna Rain,” “Metaphor” and “Try to Remember” are just some of the classic songs in this Weston Playhouse production of the world’s longest-running musical. Weston Playhouse Main Stage, 2 & 7:30 p.m. $45-69. Info, 824-5288. ‘GODSPELL’: This musical retelling of the Gospel of Matthew follows Jesus Christ and his disciples as they sing and dance their way through modern-day New York City, spreading a message love. That is until Judas comes along and … well, you know the rest. Presented by Stowe Theatre Guild at Stowe Town Hall Theatre,
‘MOBY DICK’: Veteran Irish actor Conor Lovett compresses the details, characters and themes of Herman Melville’s 1851 novel into a riveting one-person show. Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse, Middlebury, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $20. Info, 398-2776. MYSTERY DINNER THEATER: Suppertime sleuths solve “The Mystery of the Missing Masterpiece” while dining on salad, flatbread and dessert. Lareau Farm Inn, Waitsfield, 5 p.m. $70; $500 for a table of 8. Info, 496-6682. ‘THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH’: Poor, bored Milo never knows what to do with himself. That is until a mysterious package arrives containing a tollbooth that whisks the boy along a fantastical quest in this theatrical adaptation of Norton Juster’s classic 1961 children’s novel. Weston Playhouse Second Stage at Walker Farm, 4 p.m. $10-20. Info, 824-5288. ‘PRIVATE LIVES’: The Dorset Theatre Festival presents a revival of Noël Coward’s hilarious 1930 romantic comedy of manners, directed by Evan Yionoulis and starring Rachel Pickup and Shawn Fagan. Dorset Playhouse, 2 & 7:30 p.m. $48-58. Info, 267-2223.
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GEORGE’S MYSTERY BOOK CLUB: Bookworms look for clues in Pasadena and Orleans by Sherri L. Smith, who makes a special guest appearance. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774. ‘THEIR NAMES ARE MINE’: POETRY READING WITH RAJNII EDDINS: The local spoken-word poet and teaching artist shares passages from his latest collection, which confronts white supremacy while affirming our mutual humanity. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. VETERANS BOOK GROUP: Women who have served in the U.S. military connect over reading materials and a light dinner. Women’s Comprehensive Care Center, White River Junction VA Medical Center,
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5-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 295-9363, ext. 6134. WRITING CIRCLE: Words pour out when participants explore creative expression in a lowpressure environment. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.
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BURLINGTON WALK/BIKE COUNCIL MONTHLY MEETING: Two-wheeled travelers get in gear to discuss ways to improve conditions for cyclists and pedestrians. Room 12, Burlington City Hall, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 430-4652.
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FEAST & FIELD MARKET: Prepared foods and the indiesoul stylings of Flynn, fronted by Myra Flynn, are on the menu at a pastoral party. Clark Farm, Barnard, 5-9 p.m. $5-10. Info, feastandfield@gmail.com. LET’S GET VERY MERRY — A FUNDRAISER FOR VERY MERRY THEATRE: A fun-filled evening for adults 18 and up includes music, dancing and a silent auction, all supporting kids in the performing arts. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15; cash bar. Info, 540-0406. LIBRARY OPEN HOUSE: Patrons mark the retirement of executive director Tom McKone. Light snacks and beverages are on hand. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, open house, 5-7 p.m.; informal remarks, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. MEMORY CAFÉ: People experiencing memory loss and their caregivers connect in a relaxed atmosphere. American Legion Post 20, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-3369. WEEKENDS ON THE GREEN: Visitors while away the hours with lawn games, craft beer and food-truck snacks. Catch live music on Friday from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and Saturday from 4-8 p.m. Village green, Spruce Peak Plaza, Stowe, noon-9 p.m. Free. Info, 253-3000.
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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.26. ‘HAIL SATAN?’: Director Penny Lane zooms in on the controversial religious group known as the Satanic Temple and its members’ commitment to social and political justice. See calendar spotlight. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $58; free for Vermont International Film Festival members. Info, 660-2600. ‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.26. ‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.26.
INTERNATIONAL OCEAN FILM TOUR: Seven pictures presented by eco-activist Henry Lystad transport viewers to the high seas as part of SHIFT 2019. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $515. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.26. ‘ONCE UPON A SUPERHERO’: Solar Flare, a homeless wanderer who claims to have been exiled from the sun, journeys into the underbelly of Hollywood. A filmmaker Q&A follows. Essex Cinemas & T-Rex Theater, 8 p.m. $7-10.25. Info, 878-7231.
food & drink
BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: Foodies sample local eats on a scrumptious stroll dedicated to the Queen City’s culinary past. Awning behind ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 1 p.m. $55. Info, eliseandgail@burlingtonedible history.com.
Memorial Library, Vergennes, 6-10 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, laksamee. putnam@bixbylibrary.org.
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BEGINNERS TAI CHI: Students get a feel for the ancient Chinese practice. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-1772.
HOW TO BOOST BRAIN HEALTH & PREVENT COGNITIVE DECLINE: Doctor Seth Osgood discusses four primary drivers of cognitive decline, as well as ways to address them naturally. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@hungermountain. coop.
VERGENNES FARMERS MARKET: Local food and crafts, live music, and hot eats add flavor to summer evenings. Vergennes City Park, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-9180. WATERBURY FARMERS MARKET: Cultivators and their customers swap veggie tales and edible inspirations at a weekly outdoor emporium complete with live music and yoga demos. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, waterbury market@gmail.com. WORCESTER COMMUNITY MARKET: Fresh organic produce, live bands and kids’ activities bring neighbors together. 66 Elmore Rd., Worcester, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, thelandingvt@gmail. com.
games
CHITTENDEN COUNTY CHESS CLUB: Checkmate! Strategic thinkers make calculated moves as they vie for their opponents’ kings. Shaw’s, Shelburne Rd., South Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5403. INTRO TO DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Pizza, snacks and beverages fuel teens for a lesson in the role-playing game set in an imaginary world. Bixby
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Burlington Tree Tours MON., JUL. 1; TUE., JUL. 2 HILTON BURLINGTON
Queen City Ghostwalk Ghosts and Legends of Lake Champlain Tour FRIDAY, JULY 5 BATTERY PARK FOUNTAIN, BURLINGTON
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YOGA: A Sangha Studio instructor guides students who are in recovery toward achieving inner tranquility. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.
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YANG 24 TAI CHI: Slow, graceful, expansive movements promote wide-ranging health and fitness benefits. Great Room, Wright House, Harrington Village, Shelburne, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 735-5467.
MONTRÉAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL: See WED.26.
The Dream of the Burning Boy
FRI., JUN. 28; SAT., JUN. 29; SUN., JUN. 30 FEAST & FIELD, BARNARD
NATIONAL HIV TESTING DAY: Community members meet Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman at 11 a.m. and check out a mobile testing van as part of a campaign to achieve zero new HIV infections by 2020. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 11 a.m.3 p.m. Free. Info, 371-6222.
‘A CENTURY SONGBOOK’: See WED.26, 7 p.m.
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MORNING STRENGTHEN & TONE: What better way to start the day than with an invigorating all-levels exercise class? Brookfield Old Town Hall, 7:308:30 a.m. Free. Info, brookfield oth@gmail.com.
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COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: A 20-minute guided practice with Andrea O’Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161.
FOOD — FIRE — FOAM: Woodfired pizza and other palatepleasing provisions fill bellies as Esther Rose provides an old-school country and rural folkmusic backdrop. Terrace, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, 855-650-0080.
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CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Champlain Senior Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.
FALLS PREVENTION TAI CHI: Students improve their ability to stay steady on their feet. Barre Area Senior Center, 3:45-4:45 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.
2nd Quarter Womenpreneurs Night Out! WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 MAD RIVER DISTILLERS, BURLINGTON
BONE BUILDERS: Seniors rise and shine with an exercise program meant to increase bone density and muscle strength. Barre Area Senior Center, 8:309:30 a.m. Free. Info, 479-9512.
COMMUNITY LUNCH: Gardengrown fare makes for a delicious and nutritious midday meal. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 309.
PEACHAM FARMERS MARKET: Area residents and visitors alike rejoice in local flavors, kids’ activities and live tunes. Peacham Village Green, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, peachamfarmersmarket@gmail. com.
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Find club dates in the music section. BURLINGTON CONCERT BAND REHEARSALS: Enthusiastic players of brass, woodwind and percussion instruments find perfect harmony. St. Mark Catholic Parish, Burlington, 6:45-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, burlington concertbandvt@gmail.com. JAQUITH LIBRARY SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Veteran Vermont musicians Beg, Steal or Borrow pick and strum their way through a bluegrass concert. Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Oenophiles let loose with live music by Dirt Road, award-winning wine and mouthwatering eats. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, picnicking begins, 5 p.m.; music, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 372-9463.
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TOAD THE WET SPROCKET: Twenty-five years after the release of their Platinum album Dulcinea, the alt-rock band finds eager ears with hits such as “Fall Down” and “All I Want.” Strand Center Theatre, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 p.m. $45-80. Info, 518-5631604, ext. 105. VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.26.
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FINDING BIRDS BY EAR: Outdoorsy types listen in on what species are singing and flying in the woods near the Little River. Meet at Camp Smith parking lot, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. LAKE CHAMPLAIN LIVE: Citizen scientists board a University of Vermont research vessel where they experience an interactive introduction to the geology and formation of Lake Champlain. Rubenstein Ecosystem Laboratory, Burlington, 9-11 a.m. $30. Info, 391-4410. MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED: Fungi fanatics learn about different varieties — fabulous and fearsome alike — found throughout the park. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 4 p.m. $2-4; free for kids ages 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. STREAM SAFARI: Dip nets in hand, nature lovers survey shady waterways. Nature Trail, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 2 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. SUNSET AQUADVENTURE PADDLE: Stunning scenery welcomes boaters, who explore the Waterbury Reservoir in search of local wildlife. Contact Station, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 6:30 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; limited space; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.
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FISHING LEAGUE WORLDWIDE TOUR: During a four-day tournament, 168 of the world’s best bass anglers compete for a cash prize of up to $125,000. Plattsburgh City Marina, N.Y. Free for spectators. Info, 270-252-1000.
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HOT TOPICS SUMMER LECTURE SERIES: Politico states reporter Annie Snider looks into “The Trump EPA and the Toxic Chemical in All of Us.” Room 012, Oakes Hall, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 831-1371.
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‘THE DREAM OF THE BURNING BOY’: MOXIE Productions stages a story about what happens to a young student’s community when his sudden death exposes a shocking secret. See calendar spotlight. Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center, 7:30 p.m. $17. Info, grangehallcc@ gmail.com. ‘THE FANTASTICKS’: See WED.26, 7:30 p.m. ‘GODSPELL’: See WED.26. ‘MOBY DICK’: See WED.26. NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘SMALL ISLAND’: Performed in London and shown on screen, a theatrical adaptation of Andrea Levy’s prize-winning novel traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the United Kingdom. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 2 & 7 p.m. $18. Info, 863-5966. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600.
‘THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH’: See WED.26. ‘PIRATES OF PENZANCE’: Frederic’s apprenticeship with a band of merry pirates is to end on the orphan’s 21st birthday. But when it is revealed he was born on February 29, and thus only has birthdays in leap years, he is duty-bound to remain in servitude for another 63 years in Gilbert & Sullivan’s comic opera masterwork. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 456-8968. ‘PRIVATE LIVES’: See WED.26, 7:30 p.m.
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film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.
music + comedy Find club dates at local venues in the music + nighlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music. All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.
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SHARON LAMB: Drawing on her background as a psychologist, the writer delves into The Not Good Enough Mother, her 2019 book examining society’s inclination to blame moms for the plights of their children. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-3350.
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AN EVENING WITH JANE PINCUS: In honor of the 50th anniversary of Our Bodies, Ourselves, a book on women’s health and sexuality, attendees hear songs, poetry and articles inspired by the second wave of the women’s movement. Nutty Steph’s Granola & Chocolate Factory, Middlesex, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9020.
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BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: Singles, couples and beginners are welcome to join in a dance social featuring waltz, tango and more. Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, 8-9:30 p.m. $10. Info, 862-2269. ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: Inspired by the 5Rhythms dance practice, attendees move, groove, release and open their hearts to life in a safe and sacred space. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, fearnessence@gmail.com.
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CIRCUS ARTS TRAINING JAM: Daring individuals perfect skills ranging from juggling to tight-rope walking with CAMP Burlington members. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, burlingtoncamp@gmail.com. LOUNGE 91: Green Mountain Railroad passengers delight in live music, cocktails and hors-d’oeuvres as picturesque scenery rolls by. Union Station, Burlington, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $60. Info, 800-707-3530. THE SPARKLE CLUB: Those in need of a little rest and relaxation start the weekend off right with access to the Healing Lodge, Sanctuary Lounge and locker rooms, plus a mini bottle of Champagne or rosé. The Spa at Spruce Peak, Stowe, 5-7 p.m. $30. Info, 760-4782. WEEKENDS ON THE GREEN: See THU.27.
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NEMBAFEST: Mountain bikers of all ages and abilities traverse more than 100 miles of the Kingdom Trails network. Camping, live music and demos from industry leaders round out the event. Juniper’s at the Wildflower Inn, Lyndonville. $5130. Info, 626-0737. PATRICK ROSS’ CAMPING & MUSIC FESTIVAL: Lula Wiles, Bow Thayer and Senayit are among the acts to take the stage
during a three-day bash benefiting music scholarships. Beer, cider, jam sessions and local food trucks top off the weekend. See calendar spotlight. Harvest Moon Farm & Orchards, Newbury. $15-100; free for kids under 16 with an adult. Info, 866-3309. ROCKFIRE: A tribute to Barre’s granite heritage includes treks by firelight set to live music, a molten-metal performance and more. See rockfirevt.com for details. Millstone Hill Touring Center, Websterville, 7 p.m. $525. Info, 476-8188. STOWE BREWERS FESTIVAL: Suds lovers take their pick of more than 100 beers, wines and meads from dozens of purveyors at a two-day fest featuring live music, food trucks, workshops and vendors. Mayo Events Field, Stowe, 5:30-9:30 p.m. $39-45 includes a tasting glass and 15 samples. Info, 872-9000.
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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.26. ‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.26. ‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.26. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.26.
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CHAMPLAIN VALLEY DINNER TRAIN: Passengers feast on a three-course meal while riding the Green Mountain Railroad from Burlington to Middlebury and back. Union Station, Burlington, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $89. Info, 800-707-3530. FARM TABLE DINNER SERIES: A picturesque mountain setting is the perfect backdrop for a feast under the stars featuring a Vermont-inspired four-course menu. The Lodge at Spruce Peak, Stowe, 6 p.m. $155.25. Info, 282-4625. PUBLIC CUPPING: Coffee connoisseurs and beginners alike explore the flavor notes and aromas of the roaster’s current offerings and new releases. Brio Coffeeworks, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 777-6641. RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET: An open-air marketplace featuring live music connects cultivators and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, info@richmond farmersmarketvt.org. SPINNING PLATES: The alleyway next to the theater is transformed into an outdoor dining room with food-truck fare and a beer and wine garden. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 388-1436. SUN TO CHEESE TOUR: Fromage fans go behind the scenes and follow award-winning farmstead cheddar from raw milk to finished product. Shelburne Farms, 1:45-3:45 p.m. $20 includes a block of cheddar; preregister. Info, registration@shelburne farms.org.
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Healthy, non-smoking participants (18-30 years old) needed for a 4 visit UVM study on a chemical system in the healthy brain. Participants will receive $400 for completion of the study.
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TRUCK STOP: Mobile kitchens dish out mouthwatering meals and libations. Live DJs and outdoor entertainment add to the fun. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0406.
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BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.26, 9:15 a.m. CRIBBAGE & PINOCHLE: See WED.26.
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ADVANCED SUN TAI CHI 73: Participants keep active with a sequence of slow, controlled movements. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.
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CHAIR YOGA: Students with limited mobility limber up with modified poses. Sangha Studio 12v-uvmdeptpsych-Brainstudy062718.indd 1 — North, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262. GONG MEDITATION: Sonic vibrations lead to healing and deep relaxation. Yoga Roots, Williston, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $18. Info, 318-6050.
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TAI CHI STUDIO: Beginners and experienced practitioners alike perfect their steps with limited guidance. Barre Area Senior Center, 11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.
Psychologist and expert witness Dr. Sharon Lamb evaluates parents, particularly in high-stakes cases concerning the termination of parental rights. But when her son’s struggle with opioid addiction comes to light, she starts to doubt her right to make judgments about other mothers.
TAI CHI YANG 24: Students get an introduction to a gentle form of exercise said to benefit internal organs. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.
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Find club dates in the music section. BURLINGTON CITY ARTS SUMMER CONCERTS: THE REVENANTS: Bluegrass Gospel Project alums Taylor Armerding, Andy Greene and Kirk Lord join forces to present original, time-honored and contemporary Americana numbers. Lower Church St., Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.
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POINT COUNTERPOINT CHAMBER PLAYERS: The 40th annual Salisbury Summer Performance Series opens with a rousing recital by the Point CounterPoint music camp faculty ensemble. Salisbury Congregational Church, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 352-6671. RED BRICK COFFEE HOUSE: Hot beverages are provided at an open mic and jam session where community members connect over music, cards and board games. Red Brick Meeting House, Westford, 7-10 p.m. Donations. Info, mpk802vt@gmail.com. SKY’S THE LIMIT!: The brother duo the Sky Blue Boys return to their old stomping grounds for a recital of early bluegrass numbers. They are then joined by Danny Coane of the Starline Rhythm Boys to form the VT Bluegrass Pioneers, who perform a second set. Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 223-6965. STÉPHANE WREMBEL: Fingers fly in a world music-influenced performance by the French-born jazz guitarist. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7:30 p.m. $10-35. Info, 533-2000.
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COEXISTING WITH BEARS: An interpretive ranger demystifies large furry mammals and other area wildlife. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.
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FINDING BIRDS BY EAR: See THU.27, 10 a.m. ROCKIN’ IN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS: Hikers step back in geologic time on a walk at the base of some of Earth’s oldest
mountains. Waterbury Dam Crest, Little River State Park, 11 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.
sports
FISHING LEAGUE WORLDWIDE TOUR: See THU.27.
theater
CIRCA: In this heart-stopping nouveau cirque adventure, Australian circus artists test the limits of the human body. Presented as part of SHIFT 2019. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $11-47. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘THE DREAM OF THE BURNING BOY’: See THU.27. ‘THE FANTASTICKS’: See WED.26, 7:30 p.m. ‘GODSPELL’: See WED.26. ‘HAVEL: THE PASSION OF THOUGHT’: Theater company PTP/NYC treats audience members to a workshop performance of plays by Vaclav Havel, Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett. Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. ‘THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH’: See WED.26. ‘PIRATES OF PENZANCE’: See THU.27. ‘PRIVATE LIVES’: See WED.26, 7:30 p.m. ‘WAITING FOR GODOT’: Two men wait by the side of the road for the arrival of a mysterious character in Samuel Beckett’s absurdist tragicomedy staged by BarnArts Center for the Arts. Clark Farm, Barnard, 6:30-9 p.m. $15-20. Info, 234-1645. ‘THE WORLD GOES ’ROUND’: Sort of like a Broadway mixtape, this musical revue highlights the songbook of the Tony Award-winning duo John Kander and Fred Ebb, best known as the songwriting team behind classics such as Cabaret and Chicago. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $20-35. Info, 518-962-4449.
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WRITER’S BLOCK: Scribes bring essays, short stories, one-act plays and poems to be critiqued by a supportive audience. Barre Area Senior Center, 10-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512. ZINZI CLEMMONS: Named one of the best books of 2017 by Vogue and NPR, the author’s debut novel What We Lose questions the nature of identity, grief and love. Clemmons reads from the book. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.
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BARN DANCE: Green Mtn Grillbilles grub, McKees Pub beverages and tunes by country rockers Nottingham Drive propel
a lively party. The Whitcomb House Bed & Breakfast, Essex Junction, 5:30 p.m. $10; for ages 21 and up. Info, 899-2417. CONTRA DANCE: Adina Gordon calls the steps at a traditional social dance with high-energy music by the Long Pond Rounders. Capital City Grange, Berlin, introductory session, 7:45 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $5-15. Info, 225-8921. FAMILIES SQUARE DANCE: Swing your partner! Jennifer Johnson calls the moves at a lively social dance propelled by tunes from the Zac Johnson Band. Brookfield Old Town Hall, 7 p.m. $10 for adults 18 and up. Info, brookfieldoth@gmail.com.
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E-BIKE & BREW TOUR: Electric bicycles transport suds lovers to three local beer producers via scenic routes. Lamoille Valley Bike Tours, Johnson, noon-4:30 p.m. $75 includes an appetizer and two souvenir pint glasses. Info, 730-0161. GUIDED TOURS: History buffs explore the home of Revolutionary War patriot John Strong. DAR John Strong Mansion Museum, Addison, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $3-10. Info, hschwenk29@hotmail.com. HAITIAN CELEBRATION: A live performance by roots revival band Lakou Mizik and Kreyólinspired dishes by chef Bill Snell of Tourterelle transport revelers from the Green Mountains to Haiti. Cumbancha, Charlotte, 5-10 p.m. $12-25; limited space. Info, 425-2118. LEGAL CLINIC: Attorneys offer complimentary consultations on a first-come, first-served basis. 274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 383-2118. LOUNGE 91: See FRI.28. STUNT KITE FLIERS & ARCHERY HOBBYISTS MEETING: Open to beginning and experienced hobbyists alike, a weekly gathering
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allows folks to share information and suggestions for equipment, sporting locations and more. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0030. WEEKENDS ON THE GREEN: See THU.27.
fairs & festivals
JUNEBUG: Games, sports clinics, a silent auction and night swimming at the Montpelier Public Pool draw locals to a lawn party-style fundraiser for the Montpelier Senior Activity Center. Montpelier Recreation Field, 5-9:30 p.m. $5; $15 for families. Info, 225-8694. NEMBAFEST: See FRI.28. OLD-FASHIONED STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL: Sun-kissed berries take center stage at this mouthwatering meet-up. Takeout is available. United Church of Northfield, noon-4:30 p.m. $3-5. Info, 229-4351. PATRICK ROSS’ CAMPING & MUSIC FESTIVAL: See FRI.28. ROCKFIRE: See FRI.28. STOWE BREWERS FESTIVAL: See FRI.28, noon-4 & 5:30-9:30 p.m.
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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘FLYING FUR’: Representatives from local shelters are on hand at a screening of this documentary about a man who flies animals from kill shelters to forever homes. Partial proceeds benefit animal rescue organizations. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $15. Info, 312-788-7763.
Factory, Middlesex, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090. HOT DOG DAYS OF SUMMER: Free frankfurters satisfy snackers. Green Mountain HarleyDavidson, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4778. SHELBURNE FARMERS MARKET: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses, and local novelties grace outdoor tables. Shelburne Parade Ground, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 482-4279.
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INTERACTIVE GAME: Lloyd May, a student in the Masters Program in Digital Musics, demonstrates an activity he created in which participants use sound to create landscapes. Rain date: June 30. Top of the Hop, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.
health & fitness
CARVE YOGA CURIOUS?: Yoga, aerobic exercise and resistance strength training come together in a stress-relieving total-body workout. Hot Yoga Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 999-9963. COMMUNITY YOGA: Active bodies get their stretch on with Carolyn Hannan and Marger Maldonado, increasing balance and flexibility. Namaste! Old Stone House Museum, Brownington, 10-11 a.m. Donations. Info, 754-2022.
language
‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.26.
SPANISH/ENGLISH ‘INTERCAMBIO’: An hour of Spanish speaking gives way to an hour of English conversation. Essex Free Library, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0313.
‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.26.
lgbtq
‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.26. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.26.
food & drink
BARR HILL DISTILLERY OPENING: The Vermont-based distiller of Barr Hill Gin, Tom Cat Gin and Barr Hill Vodka opens the doors of its new location to imbibers who sip drinks on the outdoor patio, tour the facility and raise their glasses in a toast. Caledonia Spirits, Montpelier, bar and patio open, 11 a.m.; tours begin, noon; toast, 2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8000. BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: See THU.27. BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. 345 Pine St., Burlington Farmers Market, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, burlington farmersmarket.org@gmail.com. CHAMPLAIN VALLEY DINNER TRAIN: See FRI.28. CHOCOLATE TASTING IN MIDDLESEX: Candy fanatics get an education on a variety of sweets made on-site. Nutty Steph’s Granola & Chocolate
PRIDE QDP: Community members celebrate Pride Month with DJs Baby B, Fagatron, crystal nips, and Jax & Beans, as well as with free HIV testing from 7-10 p.m. Babes Bar, Bethel, 7 p.m.midnight. $5. Info, 371-6222. PRIDE YOGA: LGBTQ individuals and allies hit the mat for a stretching session suited to all levels. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262.
montréal
MONTRÉAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL: See WED.26.
music
Find club dates in the music section. CAROLINE COTTER: The singersongwriter serves up Americana numbers from her 2018 album, Home on the River. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $45 includes dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295. CONTEMPORARY COMMUNITY CONNECTION: Five-member Vermont band Messenger delight audience members with casual stories and sing-along opportunities. Moretown United Methodist Church, light
refreshments, 6 p.m.; concert, 6:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 496-3592. ‘INUKSUIT’: Listeners wander among up to 99 professional and community musicians, who play gongs, drums, conch shells and glockenspiels in a duet with the ambient sounds of nature. Part of SHIFT 2019. Bema Outdoor Amphitheater, College Park, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 3 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.
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IRIS DEMENT: The “Our Town” singer crosses country and folk lines in a SHIFT 2019 concert. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $1142. Info, 603-646-2422. KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL: MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS: French pianist Simon Ghraichy tickles the ivories in the festival’s 37th season opener. Ramshead Lodge, Killington Resort, 7 p.m. $25. Info, 773-4003. MEADOWMOUNT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: The winners of the 2019 Meadowmount Chamber Music Competition perform a special 75th anniversary recital. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 518-962-4449. VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.26.
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YOUNG TRADITION VERMONT: Emerging ensembles Romy and Ben Munkres, Duncan & Stokes, and the Ziechner Trio take the stage. Meeting House on the Green, East Fairfield, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 827-6626. ZOE & CLOYD: Appalachian sounds come to the Green Mountain State by way of this renowned multi-instrumental duo. Seven Stars Arts Center, Sharon, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 763-2334.
outdoors
BIRD MONITORING WALK: Joined by environmental educator Juli Tyson, citizen scientists spot winged species. Delta Park, Colchester, 8:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, americorps@ wvpd.org. FINDING BIRDS BY EAR: See THU.27, 9 a.m. LITTLE RIVER RAMBLE: With help from a park interpreter, hikers plan the route and duration of a guided trails tour. Park Office, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. OWL PROWL & NIGHT GHOST HIKE: Flashlight holders spy denizens of dusk on a journey to 19th-century settlement ruins, where spooky Vermont tales await. History Hike lot, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. STREAM SAFARI: See THU.27.
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Australian circus group Circa, participants give juggling and hula-hooping a go. Rain location: Top of the Hop. Dartmouth Green, Hanover, N.H., 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422. LABYRINTH WORKSHOP: Attendees learn the history and benefits — including stress-relief and increased creativity — of an ancient practice of quieting the mind while walking a winding path. Stowe Community Church, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 253-1942.
sports
FISHING LEAGUE WORLDWIDE TOUR: See THU.27.
talks
TED LEVIN: The musicologist discusses country singersongwriter Iris DeMent’s place in American music history ahead of her Dartmouth College concert later in the evening. Top of the Hop, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.
theater
‘AFTER THE SOLSTICE’: Annie Voorhees and friends transmit hope, joy and bravery through words and song at a benefit for KIND, a nonprofit supporting children arriving alone or separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $20-100. Info, 382-9222. CIRCA: See FRI.28. CIRCUS SMIRKUS BIG TOP TOUR: Acrobatic adventures abound when young performers display their strength and artistry in “Carnival.” Circus Smirkus Barn, Greensboro, 1-3 & 6-8 p.m. $16-22. Info, 877-764-7587.
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‘DOGG’S HAMLET, CAHOOT’S MACBETH’: Two Shakespeareaninspired plays graces the stage in workshop performances by Off-Broadway theater company PTP/NYC. Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. ‘THE DREAM OF THE BURNING BOY’: See THU.27. ‘THE FANTASTICKS’: See WED.26. ‘GODSPELL’: See WED.26, presented by Stowe Theatre Guild, 7:30 p.m.; presented by Saint Michael’s Players, 2 & 8 p.m. ‘THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH’: See WED.26. ‘PIRATES OF PENZANCE’: See THU.27. ‘PRIVATE LIVES’: See WED.26. ‘WAITING FOR GODOT’: See FRI.28. ‘THE WORLD GOES ’ROUND’: See FRI.28.
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agriculture
GARDENS OF STOWE: A selfguided tour of private and commercial plots paves the way for
a reception with gardening guru Charlie Nardozzi at the Jewish Community of Greater Stowe. Stoweflake Mountain Resort & Spa, noon-4 p.m. $20-25. Info, 800-467-8693.
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COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: Sessions in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh include sitting and walking meditation, a short reading, and open sharing. Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, newleafsangha@ gmail.com.
dance
BALKAN FOLK DANCING: Louise Brill and friends organize participants into lines and circles set to complex rhythms. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 3:30-6:30 p.m. $6; free for firsttimers; bring snacks to share. Info, 540-1020. BALLET VERMONT COMPANY AUDITION: Dancers put their best feet forward when vying for spots in a fall production of Bees & Friends. Spotlight Vermont, South Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, katie@balletvermont. org.
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GUIDED TOURS: See SAT.29. WEEKENDS ON THE GREEN: See THU.27, noon-6 p.m. WORTHY BURGER PARTY IN THE YARD: Food, drink, goods from local vendors and live bluegrass by the Mad Mountain Scramblers are on tap at a party for friends and neighbors. Worthy Burger Too, Waitsfield, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 496-2575.
fairs & festivals
BUGFEST!: From caterpillars to pollinators, creepy crawlers are the guests of honor at an all-ages celebration of insects. North Branch Nature Center,
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Montpelier, 2-10 p.m. Donations. Info, 229-6206. NEMBAFEST: See FRI.28. PATRICK ROSS’ CAMPING & MUSIC FESTIVAL: See FRI.28.
film
See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.26. ‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.26. ‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.26. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.26. ‘THE SONG AND THE SORROW’: A 2018 documentary follows musician Catherine MacLellan as she confronts her painful past with her late father, Canadian singer Gene MacLellan. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 2 p.m. $8-10. Info, 382-9222.
food & drink
CHOCOLATE TASTING IN MIDDLESEX: See SAT.29. EAT UP! AT THE GREEN: Locals skip cooking dinner in favor of food and drink from area purveyors served amid art, live music and good company. Camp Meade, Middlesex, 4-9 p.m. Free. Info, 496-2108. STOWE FARMERS MARKET: An appetizing assortment of fresh veggies, meats, milk, berries, herbs, beverages and crafts tempts shoppers. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, stowefarmersmarket@gmail.com. WINOOSKI FARMERS MARKET: Families shop for fresh produce, honey, meats, baked goods and prepared foods from vendors at an outdoor marketplace. Champlain Mill, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, farmersmarket@downtownwinooski.org.
health & fitness
SUMMER SERIES WITH SUKHA YOGA: An outdoor class led by Noah Weisman supports the Howard Center. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Donations. Info, 324-9016.
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TECH-ASSISTED MEDITATION MEETUP: Mobile devices and headphones in tow, participants explore digital tools and techniques for achieving deep focus. Satori Float & Mind Spa, Shelburne, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 498-5555.
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‘A CENTURY SONGBOOK’: See WED.26, 2 & 7 p.m. MONTRÉAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL: See WED.26. MONTRÉAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL: LOWDOWN BRASS BAND: The gritty sounds of Chicago meet the street beat of New Orleans in highly contagious horn-driven songs. See calendar spotlight. TD Stage, Place des Festivals, Montréal, 9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 855-299-3378. PIKNIC ÉLECTRONIK MONTRÉAL: DJ sets and beat-driven music
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propel a dance party of epic proportions. See piknicelectronik. com for details. Plaine des jeux, Montréal, 2-9:30 p.m. $16-119. Info, 514-904-1247.
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Find club dates in the music section. BURLINGTON CONCERT BAND: Local musicians present a varied program of marches, show tunes and pop classics. BYO blanket or lawn chair. Battery Park, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonconcertbandvt@ gmail.com. ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: Heliand Consort deliver a spirited classical music program highlighting works by Schumann, Newsome, Galbraith and Boulanger. Federated Church of Rochester, 4-6 p.m. Donations. Info, 767-9234. VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.26. VILLAGE HARMONY TEEN WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Singers embrace musical traditions from around the globe in a program of international choral music. South Hero Congregational Church, 3 p.m. $5-15. Info, 426-3210. WESTFORD SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: The internationally touring acoustic duo performs songs from the 2015 album Further West in its last stateside concert before a summer tour of the British Isles. Westford Common, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 363-0930.
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LITTLE RIVER RAMBLE: See SAT.29. SPRUCE LEDGE CAMP HIKE: Outdoor adventurers breathe in the fresh air on a moderate 6-mile trek. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister. Info, 803-373-8613. TOUR OF WATERBURY DAM: Visitors explore a reforested encampment and discover how the Civilian Conservation Corps saved the Winooski Valley from flooded ruin. Meet at the top of the dam, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11:30 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. TRAIL WORK DAY: Helping hands with work gloves expand and upgrade a woodland trail system. Confirm in the case of rain. Millstone Trails Association, Websterville, 8 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Free. Info, 272-6199.
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CENTRAL VERMONT BACKROADS CYCLING TOUR: Choosing from 13-, 33.75- or 59-mile routes, pedal pushers take in the scenery while supporting the Cross Vermont Trail Association. A picnic follows. Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks, Montpelier, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. $70. Info, 498-0079. CHAMP’S CHALLENGE BENEFIT RIDE FOR CYSTIC FIBROSIS: Cyclists spin their wheels on 62-, 43-, 25- and 8-mile routes, while runners and walkers tackle
a 5K course before a lakeside luncheon. Proceeds benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Lifestyle Foundation. Basin Harbor, Vergennes, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. $15-75. Info, 310-3176. CHARLIE LADUC MEMORIAL ‘OL’ RELIABLE’ 54 SPORTSMAN MODIFIEDS & DURKEE INSURANCE AGENCY VINTAGE RACING CELEBRATION: Drivers whip around the dirt track in souped-up vehicles. Devil’s Bowl Speedway, West Haven, 7 p.m. $10-12; free for kids 12 and under; $25-35 for pit pass. Info, 265-3112. FISHING LEAGUE WORLDWIDE TOUR: See THU.27. LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHALLENGE RACE: Boaters hit the water for a three-mile race across the lake in kayaks, canoes and other human-powered vessels. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, registration, 9:30 a.m.; race, 11 a.m. $25 includes a gift bag and lunch. Info, lisap@ lcmm.org.
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YVONEE DALEY: The author of Going Up the Country: When the Hippies, Dreamers, Freaks and Radicals Moved to Vermont reflects on “The Counterculture’s Impact on Vermont and Vermont’s Influence on the Counterculture Generation.” Craftsbury Public Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 586-9683.
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CIRCA: See FRI.28, 3 p.m. ‘EMMA’: Drawing on texts from anarchist Emma Goldman, poetry by Alexander Pushkin and current-day news, Bread and Puppet Theater presents a show that pushes against physical border walls and the imagined boundaries of human difference. Paper-Mâché Cathedral, Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 3 p.m. $15. Info, 525-3031. ‘THE FANTASTICKS’: See WED.26, 3 p.m. ‘THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH’: See WED.26. ‘PIRATES OF PENZANCE’: See THU.27. ‘PRIVATE LIVES’: See WED.26, 2 p.m. ‘WAITING FOR GODOT’: See FRI.28, 5-7:30 p.m. ‘THE WORLD GOES ’ROUND’: See FRI.28, 3 & 7:30 p.m.
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MONTHLY POETRY OF NATURE WALK: Explorers of all ages and experience levels play with words on a gentle stroll with a poet guide. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, poartryproject@ gmail.com. READING FREDERICK DOUGLASS: People honor the civil rights champion with a participatory recitation of his hard-hitting Fourth of July address. Tunbridge Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 889-9404.
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BURLINGTON TREE TOURS: Outdoors lovers learn to identify common species on a moderately paced walking tour of the Queen City’s urban forest. Hilton Burlington, 6 p.m. $16.75. Info, bs@burlingtontelecom.net.
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HANDWORK CIRCLE: Friends and neighbors make progress on works of knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch and other creative endeavors. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.
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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.26. ‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.26. ‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.26. ‘MADE IN VERMONT’: Featuring performances from local personalities such as comedic actor Rusty DeWees, this independent comedy follows a group of struggling creatives as they scheme to win the coveted Golden Gizzard award. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $9. Info, 229-0598. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.26.
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food & drink
SPECIALTY CASK & LIVE MUSIC FROM FIDDLE WITCH: Suds lovers sip Scrag Mountain Pils with lime and salt against a backdrop of bluegrass music. Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-4677.
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BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.26, 6:30 p.m. CRIBBAGE & PINOCHLE: See WED.26. MAGIC: THE GATHERING — MONDAY NIGHT MODERN: Tarmogoyf-slinging madness ensues when competitors battle for prizes in a weekly game. Brap’s Magic, Burlington, 6:30-10 p.m. $8. Info, 540-0498. PITCH: Players compete in a trick-taking card game. Barre Area Senior Center, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 479-9512.
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CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 10:45-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 448-4262. COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: Supervised clinical interns offer guidance and support to those looking to care for themselves using natural remedies. By appointment only. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier and Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 4-8 p.m. $10-30; additional cost for herbs; preregister. Info, 224-7100. GUIDED GROUP MEDITATION: In keeping with the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, folks practice mindfulness through sitting, walking, reading and discussion. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 7:158 p.m. Free. Info, 505-1688. MORNING STRENGTHEN & TONE: See THU.27.
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SAMBATUCADA OPEN REHEARSAL: Burlington’s samba street band welcomes new drummers. Neither experience nor instruments are required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017. VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.26. VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TD BANK SUMMER FESTIVAL TOUR: Guest conductor Sharon Lavery’s VSO debut, “Strike Up the Orchestra!,” culminates in a fireworks display. The Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Chittenden, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $5-35; free for kids 5 and under with adult ticket purchase. Info, 863-5966. VILLAGE HARMONY TEEN WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE: See SUN.30, Grace Episcopal Church, Sheldon, 7:30 p.m.
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STORIES OF THE LAKE: Seeking a cultural and historical view of Lake Champlain, folks board a University of Vermont research vessel for an introduction to the geology and formation of the lake, the history of area native tribes, and more. Rubenstein Ecosystem Laboratory, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $30. Info, 391- 4410.
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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘HAMLET’: Benedict Cumberbatch plays the eponymous prince in an on-screen production of Shakespeare’s tragedy. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $18. Info, 863-5966.
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READING FREDERICK DOUGLASS: See SUN.30, South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, noon. Info, 8464041. Enosburgh Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 933-2328.
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BURLINGTON TREE TOURS: Outdoors lovers learn to identify common species on a moderately paced walking tour of the Queen City’s urban forest. Hilton Burlington, 6 p.m. $16.75. Info, bs@burlingtontelecom.net.
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COMMUNITY DROP-IN CENTER HOURS: Wi-Fi, games and art materials are on hand at an open meeting space where folks forge social connections. GRACE, Hardwick, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 472-6857. OVER DINNER SERIES: IF I CAN’T CONTROL MY BODY, MY BODY ISN’T FREE: Past and current Vermont reproductive rights advocates are the featured guests at a monthly presentation and discussion with local changemakers. Funds raised support women’s health care. Congregation Ruach haMaqom, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. $25.00100. Info, 862-8127.
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COMMUNITY CRAFT NIGHT: Makers stitch, spin, knit and crochet their way through projects while enjoying each other’s company. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
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SWING DANCING: Quick-footed participants experiment with different forms, including the Lindy Hop, Charleston and balboa. Beginners are welcome. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.
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CULTS & CULTURE: A brief presentation of the day’s topic paves the way for an open discussion of the harmful effects of misused power. Morristown Centennial Library, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, gerette@dreamhavenvt.com. TUNESDAYS ON THE FARM: Games, food vendors and live local music spice up a weekly social gathering. Pittsford Village Farm, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, info@ pittsfordvillagefarm.org.
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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.26. ‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.26. ‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.26.
‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.26. ‘WHISPER OF THE HEART’: See MON.1.
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HANDS IN THE KITCHEN: Home cooks learn pickling and canning basics in a hands-on workshop series promoting nutritious habits for adults ages 50 and up. O.N.E. Community Center, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. $5 includes a shared meal; preregister. Info, 864-0123. OLD NORTH END FARMERS MARKET: Locavores score breads, juices, ethnic foods and more from neighborhood vendors. Dewey Park, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, oldnorth endfarmersmarket@gmail.com.
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BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.26, 7 p.m.
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BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE TAI CHI: Whether they’re new to Sun-style practice or wish to review core moves, students join Elizabeth Wirls for some gentle exercise. South Burlington Recreation & Parks Department, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 735-5467. BONE BUILDERS: See THU.27. COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: See MON.1, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED TAI CHI: Time for individual questions and mentoring augments an hour of instruction. South Burlington Recreation & Parks Department, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 735-5467. REIKI CLINIC: Thirty-minute treatments foster physical, emotional and spiritual wellness. JourneyWorks, Burlington, 3-5:30 p.m. $10-30; preregister. Info, 860-6203. TAI CHI TUESDAYS: Friends old and new share a healthy pastime. Barre Area Senior Center, advanced, 1 p.m.; intermediate, 2 p.m.; beginner, 3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512. TUESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: Participants learn to relax and let go. Stillpoint Center, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 318-8605.
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ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Parla Italiano? Language learners practice pronunciation and more in an informal gathering. Hartland Public Library, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 436-2473. ‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers and learners are welcome to pipe up at an unstructured conversational practice. El Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195. LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ITALIAN: Speakers hone their skills in the Romance language over a bag lunch. Kellogg-Hubbard Library,
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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘SMALL ISLAND’: See THU.27.
PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Frenchlanguage fanatics meet pour parler la belle langue. Burlington Bay Market & Café, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 430-4652.
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Find club dates in the music section. FAIRLEE SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: Bearing lawn chairs and picnic meals, locals head to the green for hits from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, performed by the Tricksters. Fairlee Town Common, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 331-0997. MILTON COMMUNITY BAND REHEARSAL: New musicians may join the ensemble as they hone their skills in preparation for their summer concert. Cornerstone Community Church, Milton, 7-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1398. SHAPE NOTE SING: Locals lend their voices to four-part harmonies at this weekly sing-along of early American music in the “fa-sol-la-mi” tradition. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 525-6972. VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.26. VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TD BANK SUMMER FESTIVAL TOUR: See MON.1, Hunter Park, Manchester Center. VILLAGE HARMONY TEEN WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE: See SUN.30, Unitarian Church of Rutland, 7:30 p.m.
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FREE AIKIDO CLASS: A one-time complimentary introduction to the Japanese martial art focuses on centering and finding freedom while under attack. Open to prospective students. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6:15-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 951-8900. MICHELOB ULTRA GOLF LEAGUE: Players take swings in a weekly 9-hole scramble tournament. Sign up as a team or an individual. Killington Golf Course, 5 p.m. $25-30 includes dinner and prizes; preregister. Info, 422-6700.
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INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT WINDOWS: Let’s get technical! Students learn to use the mouse, keyboard and operating system components. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.
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CIRCUS SMIRKUS BIG TOP TOUR: See SAT.29, Green Mountain Mall, St. Johnsbury, 1 & 6 p.m. ‘THE FANTASTICKS’: See WED.26, 7:30 p.m.
BURLINGTON FREE WRITE: Aspiring writers respond to prompts in a welcoming atmosphere. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-1664. HOWARD NORMAN: The National Book Award finalist launches his latest novel, The Ghost Clause, with a reading and signing. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. Free; preregister online. Info, 229-0774. READING FREDERICK DOUGLASS: See SUN.30, Northfield Town Common, 4 p.m. Info, 498-8569. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Info, 695-2968. Norwich Congregational Church, 6:30 p.m. Info, 649-1184. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 6:30 p.m. Info, 244-7036. Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, 7 p.m. Info, 899-4962. STORYTELLING VT: Locals tell true tales before a live audience. Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, deenastories@gmail.com.
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the postal past at this monthly gathering. Williston Fire Station, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 660-4817. STARGAZING: See WED.26.
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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.26.
‘NOTHING LIKE DREAMING’: George Woodard plays an outlaw fire artist whose life changes upon meeting a woman named Emma in the latest drama from Vermont filmmaker Nora Jacobson. A filmmaker Q&A follows. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 533-2000. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.26.
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COMMUNITY SUPPER: See WED.26.
games
BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.26. CRIBBAGE & PINOCHLE: See WED.26.
dance
RESILIENCE FLOW: See WED.26.
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art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.
film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.
music + comedy Find club dates at local venues in the music + nighlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music. All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.
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KNITTER’S GROUP: See WED.26.
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SQUARE DANCING: Swing your partner! Dancers foster friendships while exercising their minds and bodies. Barre Area Senior Center, 1-3 p.m. Donations; preregister. Info, 479-9512.
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FIREWORKS IN THE LITTLE CITY: Folks ooh and ahh as fireworks illuminate the evening sky above the sports field. Vergennes Union High School & Middle School, 9-10 p.m. Free. Info, vergennes partnership@gmail.com. JULY THIRD INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION: Patriots catch competitive games, food and craft vendors, the Montpelier Mile foot race, a parade, a concert, and a fireworks show. Downtown Montpelier, 10-11 p.m. Free; $5-15 for the Montpelier Mile. Info, 223-9604. POPS CONCERT: A medley of contemporary compositions, light classics, and Broadway and film favorites performed by the Vermont Philharmonic primes listeners for fireworks. Rain location: Kenyon Arena. Field, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $10-30; free for kids under 12. Info, 388-2117. WILLISTON JULY FOURTH CELEBRATION: Families get into the patriotic spirit with an ice cream social and the Firecracker 5K Fun Run. On Thursday, a parade, kids’ activities and music pave the way for fireworks at dusk. Various Williston locations, 4-7 p.m. $20-25 for 5K. Info, 876-1160.
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BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: See WED.26. GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.26.
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Find club dates in the music section. CAPITAL CITY BAND: See WED.26. GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: ‘UNBOUNDED DELIGHT’: An evening of spirited chamber music spotlights pieces by Kharitonov, Zemlinsky and Schumann. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-9:15 p.m. $25; free for students. Info, 503-1220. OLD NORTH END NEIGHBORHOOD BAND TEEN MUSIC JAM: See WED.26. SONG CIRCLE: Singers and musicians congregate for an
acoustic session of popular folk tunes. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-1182. VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.26. VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TD BANK SUMMER FESTIVAL TOUR: See MON.1, Grafton Trails & Outdoor Center. VILLAGE HARMONY TEEN WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE: See SUN.30, North Universalist Chapel Society, Woodstock, 7:30 p.m.
Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $36.50-45.50. Info, 654-2281.
‘PRIVATE LIVES’: See WED.26.
CIRCUS SMIRKUS BIG TOP TOUR: See TUE.2.
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Fourth of July address. Wells River Welcome Center, 10 a.m. Info, 757-2693. Quechee Public Library, 11 a.m. Info, 295-1232. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon. Info, 223-3338. South Hero Community Library,
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FROGGER!: See WED.26.
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PLANTS THAT HURT & PLANTS THAT HELP: See WED.26.
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REAL ESTATE INVESTING WORKSHOPS: Local professionals provide resources and up-to-date information when sharing their experiences with investment properties. Preferred Properties, Williston, 6-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9106.
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music + comedy Find club dates at local venues in the music + nighlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music.
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‘THE 39 STEPS’: A cast of four plays more than 150 characters in this delightfully manic, Tony Award-winning whodunit by Patrick Barlow, based on the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film. McCarthy
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agriculture ON-FARM GRILLING WITH HERBS: Cookbook author Molly Stevens and Red Wagon Plant’s Julie Rubaud in a demonstration and on-farm dinner of grilling over charcoal with fresh herbs. Dishes demoed include local meat, vegetables and herbs and will inspire new dishes for the summer using local ingredients. Includes handout, instructions and dinner. Sat., Jun. 29, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $80/1.5-hour workshop, instructions, dinner. Location: Red Wagon Plants, 2408 Shelburne Falls Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Julie Rubaud, 482-4060, julie@ redwagonplants.com, redwagonplants.com/events. PLANTING FOR SUMMER SALADS: Take your summer salad garden to the next level with Red Wagon Plants and its expert staff! Learn helpful tips and strategies and the plant varieties that grow the most beautiful salads in the summer heat. We provide recipes and handouts, demonstrate growing techniques in the garden, and provide refreshments. Sat., Jul. 6, 10 a.m.noon. Cost: $30/2-hour workshop, recipes, handouts, refreshments. Location: Red Wagon Plants, 2408 Shelburne Falls Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Julie Rubaud, 482-4060, julie@redwagonplants, com.redwagonplants. com/events.
your creativity. Thu. Aug. 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $12/2hour class, materials provided. Location: Horsford Gardens and Nursery, 2111 Greenbush Rd., Charlotte. Info: Cristina Clarimon, 735-2034, info@madcollage.com. madcollage.com. WATERCOLORS: Designed for those with little or no experience. Get past the fear of watercolor and get comfortable with the technique and process. Explore the basics of materials, tools, techniques, color, value and seeing your subject. Each class builds painting and observation skills. Recommended materials list will be provided upon registration. Jul. 10-31, Wed., 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $150/all 4 sessions. Location: Cabot Artisans Gallery Workshops, 3053 Main St., Cabot. Info: Sandy Ducharme, 563-2745, sandy.ducharme@gmail.com.
dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes: nightclub-style, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wed., 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.
drumming TAIKO AND DJEMBE CLASSES IN BURLINGTON!: Sessions begin monthly for adults, kids, parents! Parade and conga classes, too. Intermediate Taiko: Mon., 6-8:20 p.m. Taiko, adults: Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m., and Wed., 6:30-7:50 p.m. Djembe, adults: Wed., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Taiko, kids and parents: Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. World Drumming, kids and parents: Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Drums provided. Schedule/ register online. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.
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BROADWAY KIDS: Our shining stars learn kid-friendly showstoppers, gaining confidence and onstage skills. We even discover some cool behind-thescenes secrets when we tour the backstage areas of the Flynn MainStage theater. A special Broadway-style performance for family and friends ends the week. Instructors: Elisa Van Duyne & David Nacmanie. Ages 8-10, Mon.Fri., Jul. 8-12, 8:30-11:30 a.m. Cost: $225/person. Location: FlynnArts, Burlington. Info: 652-4537. flynncenter.org.
ART & POTTERY IN MIDDLEBURY: Adult: Neriage & Nerikomi Colored Clay, Clay Hand Building & Wheel, Digital Photography, Pastels, Oils, Watercolor, Bookbinding, Basket Making. Children: Clay Hand Building & Wheel, Colored Pencil, Camps: Art Is Delicious!, Art of Israel, Nature Art, Welcome to the Zoo, 5 Days of Fun, World of Color, Art is Everywhere! Location: Middlebury Studio School, 2377 Route 7, Middlebury. Info: Barbara Nelson, 247-3702, studioschool2377@gmail.com, middleburystudioschool.org.
BROADWAY SHOWSTOPPERS DANCE: For students in/interested in Flynn Show Choirs. We’ll explore a variety of Broadway and movie musical styles. Structured to benefit beginning dancers & those w/ training. Learn to feel/express music through dance. Build new skills in a supportive environment. At week’s end, we’ll perform several show-stoppers. Instructor: Karen Amirault. Mon.-Fri., Jul. 22-26; Ages 6-8: 8:30-11:30 a.m.; Ages 9-14: noon-3 p.m Cost: $225/ person. Location: FlynnArts, Burlington. Info: 652-4537. flynncenter.org.
ART JOURNALING AT HORSFORD GARDEN: Garden journaling is a quiet, focused activity. A hybrid of written text and visual images, a garden journal is a compilation of thoughts, observations and memories. Nature gazing allows for self-reflection and relaxation. Join us at Horsford Gardens: Explore the magic of this gorgeous setting and release
craft RUG HOOKING: Designed for those with some experience. Focus on colors and use six to eight values in fine shading. Learn varied techniques on decorative stitches using textured wools. Bring your project or have Sandy design the project. Additional material fees may apply. Participants will need to supply hooking tools. Fri., Jul. 19 & Aug. 9, 10-4 p.m. Cost: $90/ person; may be additional materials fee. Location: Cabot Artisans Gallery Workshops, 3053 Main St., Cabot. Info: Sandy Ducharme, 563-2745, sandy.ducharme@ gmail.com.
LATIN JAZZ INTENSIVE: Students work with jazz trumpet and luminary Ray Vega and a variety of artist-educators. Place into one of three combos, apply the principles and nuances of improvisation, investigating chord structure and developing melodic creativity. Latin hand percussion workshops spice up the days and add to your musical toolkit. Ages 13+, Mon.-Fri.,
Aug. 5-9, 12:30-5 p.m. Cost: $365/ person; incl. jazz performance ticket. Location: FlynnArts, Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537. flynncenter.org. SILENT FILMMAKING : Calling all budding filmmakers ages 11-14! Learn the elements of silent moviemaking, including performing, storyboarding, scripting, filming with iPads and editing with iMovie. Work as a team to produce your own short silent film. Instructors: Elisa Van Duyne and Ross Ransom. Mon.Fri., Jul. 22-26, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $350/person. Location: RETN, Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 652-4537. flynncenter.org.
using a variety of machines and tools in Generator’s wood shop. By the end of class, students will feel comfortable in the wood shop and will be able to enjoy the sunset for years to come from their wonderful chair. Wed., Jul. 24-Aug. 14, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $325/person; incl. $50 materials fee. Location: Generator Makerspace, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: Sarah Sprague, 540-0761, education@generatorvt.com, generatorvt.com.
TAP DANCE INTENSIVE MINI-CAMP: Instructor: Elisa Van Duyne. This intensive for ages 8-10, designed for beginning dancers and those with some experience, will catapult young tappers into the world of tap dancing. Various tap styles will be explored as students hone their rhythmic ear and toes, one shuffle-ballstep at a time! Mon.-Wed., Jul. 1-3, noon-3 p.m. Cost: $135/person. Location: FlynnArts, Burlington. Info: 652-4537.flynncenter.org. UNDER THE BIG TOP: Run away with the circus! Campers create clown costumes and characters for their own circus experience. Theatrical exploration of adventures awaits audiences and performers under the big top. Mesmerize family and friends at week’s end when they join us on the Flynn’s MainStage for our spectacular show. Instructor: Tracy Martin. Ages 6-8, Mon.-Fri., Jul. 15-19, 1-3:30 p.m. Cost: $185/ person. Location: FlynnArts, Burlington. Info: 652-4537. flynncenter.org.
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BUDGET BRANDING RAPID VINYL SCREEN PRINTING: Rapid Vinyl Screen Printing (Vinyl Training included). Get your brand out there! Learn how to make affordable merch using Adobe Illustrator and a vinyl cutter. Hands-on workshop teaches students how to make multicolor prints using mesh screen and vinyl application techniques. Learn tools necessary to turn drawings into reproducible designs. Mon., 6-9 p.m., Jul. 15-29. Cost: $235/3-week class; incl. $10 material fee. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: Sarah Sprague, 540-0761, education@generatorvt.com, generatorvt.com. BUILD AN ADIRONDACK CHAIR: Sit back and relax in your very own handmade Adirondack Chair! In this four-week class, students will create their own Adirondack Chair, with a touch of personal style. Students will learn each step involved in designing and building the finished product
material fee. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 5400761, education@generatorvt.com, generatorvt.com.
herbs MYSTERIES OF INDIGO: BLUE DYES: There is much folklore associated with transforming fibers from white to green then, magically before the eyes, to deep indigo blue. Learn to make an indigo vat, working with several species of plants, and learn the techniques to produce beautiful patterns on fabric. Take home silk that we dye together! Jul. 6, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $85/3-hour class. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main St., Montpelier. Info: 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter.org.
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INTRO TO GARMENT SEWING: Students learn to read and follow a sewing pattern, take measurements to choose size, trace patterns, prepare fabric for cutting, cut fabric, and transfer pattern markings. Students will sew the garment on a sewing machine. Students will leave with a wearable garment at the end of the class. Mon., Jul. 8 & 15, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $175/2-week class; incl. $25 material fee. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: Sarah Sprague, 540-0761, education@generatorvt.com, generatorvt.com. THE BLACKSMITH’S KNIFE: The blacksmith’s knife is a forged blade, handle and all, from a single piece of steel, incorporating twists, curls and flourishes to practice basic smithing techniques while producing a useful tool. Unique options for personal touches. Get hands-on experience with tools like the forge, hammer, anvil and belt grinder. Wed., 6-9 p.m., Jul. 10-31 Cost: $340/person; incl. $40
LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers lesson package. Our 13th year. Small classes, private lessons and online instruction with a native speaker. Also live, engaging, faceto-face online English classes. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@ gmail.com, spanishwaterbury center.com.
massage ASIAN BODYWORK THERAPY PROGRAM: This program teaches two forms of massage: amma and shiatsu. We will explore oriental medicine theory and diagnosis, as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, and yin-yang and five-element theory. Additionally, Western anatomy and physiology are taught. VSAC nondegree grants are available. FSMTB-approved program. Starts Sep. Cost: $6,000/625-hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, Suite 109, Essex Jct.. Info: Scott Moylan, 288-8160, scott@elementsofhealing.net, elementsofhealing.net.
meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Taught by qualified meditation instructors at the Burlington Shambhala Meditation Center: Wed., 6-7 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Free and open to anyone. Free public meditation: weeknights, 6-7 p.m.; Tue. and Thu., noon-1 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Classes and retreats also offered. See our website at burlington.shambhala.org. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795.
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flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 3636890, snake-style.com.
nature S.BURLINGTON MASTER NATURALIST: This program will create a close-knit team of naturalists with specific training in natural history across the earth, life and social sciences, who understand and can “read” the landscapes of South Burlington. The program connects people to the nature of their region through training and volunteer projects. Sun. 9/8, 10/27, 2/9, 3/29 & 5/17. Cost: $425/5 6-hour classes; scholarships avail. Location: Fields and Forests of South Burlington, S. Burlington. Info: Roberta Nubile, 373-2567, rnrn@ gmavt.net, vermontmaster naturalist.org/south-burlington.
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sports ROLLER DERBY BOOT CAMP: Green Mountain Roller Derby is recruiting! Join us for our summer boot camp. Six weeks of guided practices, plus admission to Open Skate & use of our loaner gear. No experience needed! Tue., Jul. 2-Aug. 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $50/6-week boot camp. Location: Champlain Valley Exposition, 105 Pearl St., Essex Junction. Info: 299-0908, info@gmrollerderby. com, gmrollerderby.com.
HOLDING SPACE TO MAKE SPACE: This is a workshop for yoga instructors, led by John McConnell. In this workshop, John hopes you will learn a variety of appropriate adjustments, both verbal and physical, see students and adjustments more clearly,
tai chi SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength,
EVOLUTION YOGA: Practice yoga in a down-to-earth atmosphere with some of the most experienced teachers and therapeutic professionals in Burlington. New this summer: Yoga on the Lake, at the Community Sailing Center, MWF, 7-8 a.m., and Saturday, 7:30-8:30 a.m.; and Yoga in the Park, Tuesday, 7:15-8:15 a.m., at Oakledge near Sunclock; and Thursday, 7-8 a.m., in Smalley Park. Daily drop-in classes including $10 community classes, Yoga Wall and Yoga Therapeutics classes led by physical therapists. Dive deeper into your practice or register for our Yoga Teacher Training for Healthcare Providers. $10-$15/class; $140/10-class card; $10/community class. New students $100/10-class card. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 8649642. evolutionvt.com.
and deepen the quality of teaching and community. Sun., Jul. 21, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Cost: $90/ person. Location: Campus Rec Studio at UVM Patrick Gym, 97 Spear St., Burlington. Info: John McConnell, 488-0124, mind bodyfitness@uvm, edu, go.uvm.edu/yoga. LAUGHING RIVER YOGA: Located in a beautiful setting overlooking the Winooski River. We offer high-quality classes, workshops and trainings taught by experienced teachers who honor the beauty and wisdom of the yogic tradition. Check our website to learn more about our life-changing 200hour teacher training program. All bodies and abilities are welcome. Daily classes, workshops, 200- and 300-hour yoga teacher training. Cost: $65/first month of unlimited classes; workshop & training prices vary. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, Suite 126, Burlington. Info: 3438119. laughingriveryoga.com.
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Strangled Darlings’ new album chronicles three years on the road BY J O R D AN AD AMS
BEN DEFLORIO
ouring is an essential part of a professional musician’s life. It’s not only imperative for making connections within the industry and with fans, but it can also be the most profitable part of the job. Most working musicians have to balance time on the road with time back home, either for careers or family obligations. But quirky, indie-folk duo Strangled Darlings aren’t like most musicians. Jess Anderly and George Veech spent three years living in a 20-foot recreational vehicle as they toured around the continental United States. Formerly based in Portland, Ore., the couple looped the U.S. continuously from 2014 through 2017, finally landing in Bethel in 2018. “We really were kind of lost in America for three years — on purpose,” says Anderly. “I think I would have gone nuts a long time ago if I hadn’t had a chance to back away from the sort of standard, expected life,” says Veech. Touring the country was eye-opening, to say the least. The two channeled much of the experience into their latest album, American Pageant. Lyrically twisted and sonically adventurous, the record frames Anderly and Veech as wise, clever, occasionally snarky artists on a mission to reevaluate and process the world around them. They celebrate its release on Saturday, June 29, at the Light Club Lamp Shop in Burlington. A folk album at its core, American Pageant is perhaps better described as an acoustic pop album — although that’s a simplification. Dense, biting lyrics with a literary bent, oddball arrangements and spick-and-span, contemporary production from Rough Francis’ Dan Davine distance the album from conventional, homespun folk. Though Anderly and Veech play a variety of traditional folk instruments, such as tenor bass and mandolin, respectively, their tunes buck tradition with modern flair and an idiosyncratic essence. “Honestly, none of our friends knew if we were gonna make it,” says Anderly, 40, of her and Veech’s decision to upend their lives to embark on a seemingly endless journey. “I don’t think we knew [if it would work],” adds Veech, 47. “I had a lot of shit I was just trying to sort through. You can’t think in a normal office life. Someone’s always in your grill.” Anderly and Veech met in the late 2000s in Portland, Anderly’s hometown.
Jess Anderly and George Veech
Both had steady careers; Veech worked in health care outreach, Anderly in software. Shortly after meeting, a full-band incarnation of Strangled Darlings was born. After a few years, the two decided they wanted to commit full time to the project, shrinking the group to a duo. “We had to sort of deconstruct our lives over a period of a couple of years,” says Anderly. This meant carefully and strategically extricating themselves from everything in Portland, including their jobs. During the two-year period of unraveling ties and commitments, Anderly also became a respiratory therapist. “Music people loved the idea” of the extended road trip, says Veech, though he notes other friends and associates didn’t have as much faith in their plan. The back cover of the physical American Pageant album shows a map of approximately where Strangled Darlings were at any given month during their years on the road. Since they were boondocking — camping without electricity or heat — they spent the cold winter months in Florida and other parts of the deep South. They typically rolled through Vermont during the peak of summer. Adapting to camper life — and their new budget — required a bit of a learning curve. Recalibrating their brains and acclimating their bodies to the tight quarters understandably took some adjustment. To cut down on expenses, Anderly learned how to change the oil and do other minor tune-ups. But perhaps the most important life hack they employed was staying overnight in Walmart parking lots. Unlike the average campground, many of the superstore chain’s outposts allow RVs to stay for a night free of charge. The company’s website even includes a bulleted list of RV etiquette. Aside from having a free place to crash, Walmart’s trademark low prices and selection of produce and other fresh foods made shopping and cooking their own meals in the camper convenient and cheap. Veech refers to the process of cold-calling — or, more frequently, cold-emailing — bars, clubs and other music venues as “tunneling through stone.” At first, they had a response rate of about 1 percent. “That’s why the route was so important,” says Veech. “We had to get back every six to 12 months so they’d remember us and rehire us.” Three years of zigzagging across LIFE IS A HIGHWAY
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Chromatics at Higher Ground
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This column primarily functions as a way to highlight local music news and interesting events, and usually there’s plenty of stuff to write about. Occasionally, though, the column can provide an arena for your humble Seven Days music editor to express his personal views. Sure, a lot is going on this week, too, but I just have to get a couple of things off my chest. So, strap in for a little exercise in pure opinion.
Wrong Side of the Tracks?
Last week, the Burlington City Council nearly unanimously voted for a change in zoning regulations in the South End that would allow Burton Snowboards to add dining and entertainment facilities, particularly a music venue, to its campus. The obvious choice to come aboard? Higher Ground, duh. It’s important to know that, as of right now, this is all speculative. That is, zoning in the Industrial Parkway area has indeed been revised, and Burton does plan to erect some kind of new recreational hub. But how that will take shape is still up in the air. Those who attended the council’s public forum to speak on the issue raised a lot of concerns. Chief among them: Will plopping the state’s largest rock club into a quiet residential neighborhood be disruptive? I’d say that depends on a number of factors. I don’t think that neighbors would be disturbed by the music happening
inside the club. The building will likely be state-of-the-art and soundproof. Even now, at Higher Ground’s South Burlington location, not much sound bleeds out the doors. So, anyone who brought up that issue can put it away. The bigger issue is traffic, especially at the end of the night. Currently, there are two ways out of Industrial Parkway, which spans Home Avenue to Queen City Park Road. The first is to head east on Queen City Park Road, which leads to Pine Street, Route 7 and Interstate 189. A problem: In order to get to any of those roads, you have to cross a one-lane bridge over the train tracks.
Listening In If I were a superhero, my superpower would be the ability to get songs stuck in other people’s heads. Here are five songs that have been stuck in my head this week. May they also get stuck in yours. Follow sevendaysvt on Spotify for weekly playlists with tunes by artists featured in the music section. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL,
“Lookin’ Out My Back Door” RUN THE JEWELS, “Get It” LIONEL RICHIE, “All Night Long” KELIS, “Bossy (Featuring Too $hort)” MUSEUM OF BELLAS ARTES, “Who Do You Love”
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Presumably, nearly all of the postshow traffic would flow in the same direction. There likely wouldn’t be a ton of traffic heading into the area late at night when shows end — except for all of the Ubers and Lyfts likely to be called forth. If even one car tries to head west, say, into the Queen City Park neighborhood, it could become a serious disruption as cars try to negotiate the one-lane bridge. I could also foresee cars heading east in a continuous stream, not allowing any cars to head west. Motorists often don’t know how to navigate such situations without someone directing traffic. At the other end of the street — assuming no train is coming — it should be fairly easy to file out onto Home Avenue. Lyfts and Ubers could also enter Industrial Parkway from that end of the street. Of course, this doesn’t account for patrons leaving on foot or bike. I’d like to think people would be churchmouse quiet on their walk home as they decompress from the show, but that’s probably asking a lot. Even conversations at regular volume could feel disruptive to neighbors. But you can’t really blame people for that. Part of the risk of living in cities is that they change and grow. Nothing is forever. Even if residents in that section of the South End think they’re living in a quiet bedroom community, they’re actually not. Of all the concerns that citizens raised at the council meeting, no one SOUNDBITES
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CLUB METRONOME: Rodrigo Amarante, Cornelia Murr, Sabrina Comellas (folk-rock), 7:30 p.m., $15/17. FOAM BREWERS: Familiar Faces (jam, eclectic), 6:30 p.m., free.
CLUB DATES NA: NOT AVAILABLE. AA: ALL AGES.
Together Again In the 1980s, New Jersey-based group the
FEELIES
were pioneers. They spearheaded the jangly indie-rock sound that
would soon dominate the landscape. Even R.E.M. claim the band’s debut album, Crazy Rhythms, as a major influence. After disbanding in the early ’90s, its members reunited more than 15 years later to start making music again. Since then, the quirky outfit has released two full-length albums, including 2017’s In Between, which features a slightly folkier sound than previous projects. Catch the Feelies on Friday, June 28, at the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington.
HALF LOUNGE: Chromatic (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: The Ray Vega Quartet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Jaguar Stereo (jazz, experimental), 9:30 p.m., $5. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Sun Parade, Grease Face, Batter (indie), 8 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN: Alyssa Hankey (folk-rock), 7 p.m., free. Thin Lear (folk-rock), 8:30 p.m., free. Mosaic featuring members of Kat Wright and the Welterweights (jam), 10 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: Tom Caswell Blues Band, 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (open format), 11 p.m., free. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Irish Session, 7 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Godfather Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Lowell Thompson and Friends (alt-country), 7 p.m., free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: ‘25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ (musical theater), 7 p.m., $20/27.
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CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: MC Chris (hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $12/15. THE OLD POST: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 8 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs
MOOGS PLACE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free. Jim Charanko (Americana), 8 p.m., free.
mad river valley/ waterbury
ZENBARN: Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 7 p.m., free.
middlebury area
CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Karaoke with DJ Amanda Rock, 9 p.m., free.
champlain islands/ northwest NORTH HERO HOUSE INN & RESTAURANT: The Duo (rock covers), 5:30 p.m., free.
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MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Brooks Hubbard Band (Americana), 7:30 p.m., $7/10.
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ARTSRIOT: Let’s Get Very Merry: A Fundraiser for Very Merry Theatre, 7 p.m., $15.
RADIO BEAN: Matt and the Skeleton Crew (indie), 7 p.m., free. Streetlight Shakers (rock), 10:30 p.m., free.
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): D. Davis and Django Soulo (folk-rock), 7 p.m., free.
RED SQUARE: D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.
WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.
RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (open format), 11 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs
RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Thursday Night Live with DJ Supersounds (eclectic), 10 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Dead Gowns, Clever Girls (indie), 9:30 p.m., free.
DRINK: Downstairs Comedy Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.
VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: ‘25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ (musical theater), 7 p.m., $20/27.
FOAM BREWERS: Paul Asbell Quartet (jazz), 7 p.m., free.
chittenden county
HALF LOUNGE: DJ SVPPLY & Bankz (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: George Petit Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., $5. Light Club Jazz Sessions and Showcase, 10:30 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Moochie (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.
PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
MOOGS PLACE: Open Mic Night, 8:30 p.m., free.
mad river valley/ waterbury
LOCALFOLK SMOKEHOUSE: Open Mic with Alex Budney, 8:30 p.m., free.
champlain islands/ northwest
THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Jam Nation (open jam), 7:30 p.m., free.
THE OLD FOUNDRY AT ONE FEDERAL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE: incaHOOTS (country, rock), 7 p.m., free.
MAGIC HAT BREWING COMPANY: Trivia Night: The Office, 7 p.m., free.
TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Marcie Hernandez (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.
THE OLD POST: Salsa Night with DJ JP, 7 p.m., free.
upper valley
outside vermont
OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Jon Berry & DJ Coco, 9 p.m., free.
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burlington
ARTSRIOT: Lazer Dad (’90s covers), 8 p.m., free. BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Chris Peterman (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. BURLINGTON ST. JOHN’S CLUB: Karaoke, 8:30 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: No Ordinary Love with Moochie (R&B), 10 p.m., free. FOAM BREWERS: JUPTR, Danny J, Carrtoons, Bad Snacks (soul, R&B), 8 p.m., free. THE GARAGE: Rumblecat (rock, funk), 8:30 p.m., $5. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Duncan MacLeod Blues Band, 7 p.m., free.
THE PUBLIC HOUSE AT QUECHEE GORGE: Pub Trivia, 7 p.m., free.
LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Calvin Lane (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., free. Band of the Land (folk), 9 p.m., $5. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.
barre/montpelier
northeast kingdom
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: DJ Cre8 (open format), 10 p.m., free.
PARKER PIE CO.: Howie Cantor (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.
NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. The Melting Nomads, Annie in the Water (jam), 9 p.m., $5.
BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Italian Session (traditional), 6 p.m., free. CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: DOSE (jazz, Americana), 8 p.m., free.
HIGHLAND LODGE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free.
RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free. Ryan Sweezey (singersongwriter), 6:30 p.m., free. DYADO (alt-rock), 8 p.m., free. Julia Caesar (indie rock), 10 p.m., $5. PREECE (punk), 11:30 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: Tom Caswell Blues Jam, 3 p.m., free. Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers (blues), 7 p.m., free. DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 11 p.m., free. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 9 p.m., $5. DJ SVPPLY (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. REVELRY THEATER: Weird & Niche: A Comedy Showcase, 9:30 p.m., $7. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ Supersounds (hits), 10 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Brooks Hubbard Band (Americana, rock), 8 p.m., free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: ‘25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ (musical theater), 7:30 p.m., $20/27.
chittenden county
THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Chad Hollister (sold out) (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., $15/20. FRI.28
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voiced what I think is the main issue here: Should we be psyched that Higher Ground might move even farther away from downtown than it is now? That’s the plight of the current Higher Ground. Aside from Al’s French Frys and a couple of middling restaurants, there’s not much else going on over on Williston Road. In my fantasy, Higher Ground relocates to a part of Burlington where there are already lots of other things to see, do, eat and drink. Yes, Burton’s proposed pleasure center would have gourmet nom-noms and potent potables. But it can’t have as many choices as are available just a couple of miles north. Don’t get me wrong. I’m all about Higher Ground finding a new home if that’s what it wants to do — especially if the new facility will be bigger and better. A higher-capacity venue would open our small market to bigger acts. We’re already getting many high-profile acts that often play venues three times the size of the Higher Ground Ballroom, but a room with a higher head count could only bolster Burlington’s clout in the Northeast music circuit. It’s not like I — or probably anyone else — would turn up my nose at Higher Ground’s potential new location because it’s too far out of the way. But is it
truly the best choice? Hey, I seem to recall a big, gaping hole in the middle of downtown Burlington that the city doesn’t seem to know what to do with…
Dead Comedians Society
Tribute culture has gone too far this time. On Friday, June 28, impression comedian ROGER KABLER presents The Ultimate ROBIN WILLIAMS Experience at the Strand Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh. Yup, it’s a whole show in which the former Zima spokesperson performs as the late, great Robin Williams. Kabler built his career on impressions. But there’s a difference between impersonating celebrities as part of your tight 10 and building an entire show around pretending to be freaking Robin Williams. Nostalgia may be king right now, but certain lines just shouldn’t be crossed. The legendary funnyman was himself a comedian. It’s one thing for a group of musicians to pay homage to famous, established artists. Covering other people’s work is a normal part of music culture. But it’s another thing to “cover” a comedian’s bits. To my knowledge, it just isn’t done. The show isn’t satire, and he doesn’t reveal something deeper about society or Williams’ career by impersonating him. Also, how is this different from watching a hologram, which is generally regarded to be among the tackiest developments in music culture? See “Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too,” an episode of “Black Mirror,” for more on that subject. Who the fuck would pay money to see this? The whole thing feels soulless to me.
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HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: The Feelies (rock), 8:30 p.m., $25/27. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Shane Murley Band (folk-rock), 7 p.m., free. MAGIC HAT ARTIFACTORY: Pattern Addict (indie), 7 p.m., free. MONKEY HOUSE: Raised By Hippies (blues, rock), 5 p.m., free. DJ Disco Phantom (open format), 9:30 p.m., free. THE OLD POST: Phil Abair Band (rock), 9 p.m., free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Leno, Young & Cheney (rock), 5 p.m., free. Photobomb (rock), 9 p.m., free. STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Nathan 6/19/19 3:45 PM Byrne (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free.
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Blue Period Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter Jake Brennan, a Queen
City expat, recently unveiled a new album under his VIOLET ULTRAVIOLET moniker. Titled As the World Churns, the eight doleful tracks recall the loose, carefree vibes of ’70s acoustic rock. His tunes tread into slightly twangy territory, especially on his cover of Tom Petty’s “Time to Move On.” In some ways a bit more raw than his 2016 Section Sign Records release, Pop City, the new album retains the artist’s candid sentiments and pastel imagery. Violet Ultraviolet performs on Saturday, June 29, at the Monkey House in Winooski. Locals PAPER CASTLES and DEAD ISLAND also perform.
barre/montpelier
BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Latin Dance Party, 7 p.m., free. CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Scott Graves (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. Ditrani Brothers (folk, gypsy jazz), 9:30 p.m., free.
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ESPRESSO BUENO: Reid Parsons & Co. (Americana), 7:30 p.m., free. Kathleen Kanz Comedy Hour (standup), 8:30 p.m., free.
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GUSTO’S: Tim Brick (country), 5 p.m., free. Nite Sky (rock covers), 9 p.m., $5.
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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Jesse Agan (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., free. WHAMMY BAR: Cowboys and Angels (country), 7 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs
EL TORO: Chris Lyon (country), 7 p.m., free.
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mad river valley/ waterbury
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ZENBARN: West End Blend, Funk Shui (soul, funk), 9 p.m., $8.
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champlain islands/ northwest
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14TH STAR BREWING CO.: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free. THE OLD FOUNDRY AT ONE FEDERAL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE: Bethany Conner (folk), 6:30 p.m., free.
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TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Chris and Erica (rock, country), 7 p.m., free.
upper valley
SAT.29 // VIOLET ULTRAVIOLET [INDIE]
outside vermont
MONOPOLE: Hamjob (rock), 10 p.m., free. MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free. NAKED TURTLE: Cash Journey (Johnny Cash tribute), 6 p.m., free. Bella Voca (rock), 9:30 p.m., free.
THE ENGINE ROOM: Hot 97.5 Summer Party (hip-hop, R&B), 9 p.m., $5.
OLIVE RIDLEY’S: DJ Skippy (hits), 9:30 p.m., free.
randolph/royalton
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Oxford and Clark (Americana), 7:30 p.m., free.
BABES BAR: ’90s Hip-Hop Dance Party, 8 p.m., $5.
STRAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS: Roger Kabler: The Ultimate Robin Williams Experience (comedy), 8 p.m., $25-35.
SAT.29
burlington
ARTSRIOT: The Dave Keller Soul Revue (blues, soul), 8 p.m., $13. BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Julia Beerworth (folk), 8:30 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Move B*tch with DJ SVPPLY (2000s hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. FOAM BREWERS: Front Biz, Zack DuPont and Matt Deluca (funk), 9 p.m., free. HALF LOUNGE: Moochie (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Strangled Darlings (indie folk), 7 p.m., $5. Lyle Brewer (folk, jazz), 9 p.m., $5. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Blanchface (open format), 10 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Small Change (Tom Waits tribute), 7 p.m., free. Daddy Long Legs, Josh Panda & British Isles (blues, roots), 9 p.m., $7. RADIO BEAN: Emma Cook (singersongwriter), 5:30 p.m., free. Washburn and the River (indie folk), 7 p.m., free. Jazz Night in an Imperialist Oligarchy, 8:30 p.m., free. Henry Finch & the Capacity Ensemble (rock, soul), 10 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: DJ Raul (Latin), 6 p.m., free. Route 100 (reggae), 7 p.m., free. Mashtodon (open format), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ ATAK (house), 11 p.m., free.
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REVIEW this Erin Cassels-Brown, Dreamin’ on Overdrive (SELF-RELEASED, CD, DIGITAL)
Just over two years ago, Erin CasselsBrown released his debut EP, Northern Lights, Vol. 1. The Winooski-based singer-songwriter’s tunes dwelled mostly in a rustic indie-folk place, occasionally revving up to more rockin’ alt-country vibes. Although it wasn’t known at the time, the final track, a kick-up-your-heels ripper called “Bad Bad News,” hinted at the direction he’d take on his next outing. Indeed, Cassels-Brown’s new album, Dreamin’ on Overdrive, is a much more riotous affair than the release that preceded it. Like any good sequel, it reminds listeners not only what they liked about the previous installment but also adds to the story. Its lineup of guest musicians is thicker. Cassels-Brown
[Jeremy Brotz], Knowing Time
(SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)
Taking a chance on a new endeavor takes guts and can lead to (sometimes harsh) criticism. Take “Beverly Hills, 90210” actor Brian Austin Green’s stab at a rap career. His 1996 album One Stop Carnival was so poorly received that in 2010 — 14 years after its release — it wound up on a Forbes listicle of celebrity music flops with albums by the likes of Kevin Federline and David Hasselhoff. On the other hand, a creative leap
taps multitalented Vermonters such as Brett Lanier, Pat Melvin, J Bengoy’s Justin Barton and Alexis Hughes, and Jer Coons, who mixed and mastered the LP. Dan Davine also appears on drums throughout. He co-engineered the record with Signal Kitchen’s Dave de Cristo. The result is a polished and refined statement. As its title indicates, much of Dreamin’ on Overdrive derives from fantasies, hopes and a wispy, unstable resource: human memories. CasselsBrown loads his tunes with unspoken desires, what-ifs and maybe-somedays. But there’s also a sense of contentment. He’s satisfied with what he’s lived through but doesn’t let those experiences limit what could be. Even
when recounting the tough times, he sings with an assuredness that leaves little room for doubt or regret. The title track stands out as one of the most telling of Cassels-Brown’s outlook. The twang-lite rock tune, which highlights the artist’s versatile guitar techniques, is an optimistic reality check. He wrestles with inner demons (“Sweat through my sheets / And I lost fistfights with myself / Kept all my memories on a barbed wire shelf”) but doesn’t let them take over. “Heavy Heart” is a weary love song featuring lovely vocal harmonies from album collaborators Hughes and Coons. Between Cassels-Brown and Lanier’s interwoven guitar work,
Melvin’s solid bass, and Davine’s tight kits, the group perfectly coalesces on this country jamboree slow dance. “No Good Man” is a rootin’-tootin’ slice of life. Not only is Cassels-Brown a talented singer and songwriter, he’s a master of painting a vivid word picture. He artfully details a hard-luck, hardlivin’ protagonist in this bucking bronco of a tune. Anyone who’s spent time in a true dive bar can easily conjure an image (“She’s ordering tall and double / Gonna run the county dry tonight”). CasselsBrown delineates the story with care and humanity. Cassels-Brown reminds listeners that he has the skills to pay the bills, both mechanically and creatively. He recently headlined the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, a telltale sign, locally speaking, of an artist on the rise. Dreamin’ on Overdrive is available to stream on Spotify.
can pay off by revealing fresh talent and potential. Lucky for local listeners, this is the case for Burlington musician [Jeremy Brotz], who released his debut EP, Knowing Time, on June 21. (And yes, the brackets around his name are intentional.) Brotz, a 20-year-old Middlebury College student, cut his teeth onstage performing with local companies Very Merry Theatre and Flynn Youth Theater. He swaps show tunes for indiepop anthems on this five-song collection. The EP kicks off with the coming-of-age tune “??”. The Burlington native contemplates his identity over electronic beats, finger
snaps and acoustic guitar playing. Lyrics such as “I’m falling into a canyon between who I am and the kid in the mirror” will likely strike a chord with young listeners. Originally released in February under the moniker Xynz, the love song “Blink.” includes a rain-like sound effect that gives the feeling of being comfortably cloistered indoors with a companion. While Brotz’s sound is more Dirty Projectors-lite than Canadian bro rocker, I couldn’t help but think of the lyrics to Nickelback’s “Photograph” when I heard the opening lines of “August.”: “I found a box of pictures / Scattered memories on the floor / My arms around a best friend / I don’t know anymore.” Old snapshots are perhaps too obvious a gateway to memory lane, but the song’s message is inspiring. As you grow up, you can, as
Brotz sings, “either hit the ground or learn to fly.” At just five tracks, the EP is short but sweet. Each song sounds detailed and deliberate. Electronic beats are the backbone throughout, while keyboard, acoustic guitar and layered vocals à la Imogen Heap drive home the emotional element. Knowing Time is Brotz’s showcase for his self-taught skills in writing, producing, recording and mixing. Aside from select background vocals performed by friends, all of the sounds are his. Though moments may be overly produced — some unnecessary glitch effects in “August.” distract from the melody — Brotz’s debut effort should put him on the “ones to watch” list for Vermont music fans. Knowing Time is available on iTunes, Spotify and other digital streaming services.
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RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 10 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Reid Parsons & Co. (folk), 7 p.m., free. DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kudu Stooge (jam), 8 p.m., free. SMITTY’S PUB: The Hubcats (rock, folk), 8 p.m., free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: ‘25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ (musical theater), 7 p.m., $20/27.
chittenden county
THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Paul Asbell (jazz), 7:30 p.m., $20/25. Chad Hollister (rock), 9:45 p.m., $15/20. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Eleni Mandell, Esther Rose (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., $15/17. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Smokey Newfield Project (rock), 7 p.m., free. MONKEY HOUSE: Paper Castles, Violet Ultraviolet, Dead Island (indie), 9 p.m., $3/8. 18+. THE OLD POST: Saturday Night Mega Mix featuring DJ Colby Stiltz (open format), 9 p.m., free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Fabulous Wrecks (rock), 5 p.m., free. Hullahballoo (covers), 9 p.m., free. PARK PLACE TAVERN: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free. STONE CORRAL BREWERY: REDadmiral (rock, Americana), 8 p.m., free. WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 9 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. Duo d’Accord (jazz, classical), 6 p.m., free. BUCH SPIELER RECORDS: Community DJ Series (vinyl DJs), 3 p.m., free. CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: The Larkspurs (roots), 9:30 p.m., free. GUSTO’S: Elizabeth Renaud (rock covers), 6 p.m., free. DJ LaFountaine (EDM), 9:30 p.m., free. WHAMMY BAR: DOSE (jazz, Americana), 7:30 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs
EL TORO: Blue Fox (blues), 7 p.m., free. MOOGS PLACE: Dead Sessions Lite (Grateful Dead tribute), 9:30 p.m., $7.
mad river valley/ waterbury
ZENBARN: Grippo Funk Band, 10 p.m., $12/15.
middlebury area
CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: DJ Earl (hits), 9 p.m., free.
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burlington
ARTSRIOT: Mdou Moctar (world, rock), 8 p.m., $15.
Those who don’t speak Tuareg won’t understand Nigerian guitarist
MDOU MOCTAR’s
song lyrics. But
there’s an intense feeling of gravity in his psychedelic,
FOAM BREWERS: Familiar Faces (jam, eclectic), 6:30 p.m., free. Nico Suave (soul, funk), 8:30 p.m., free.
guitar-driven music that artfully imparts the post-
JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.
colonization turmoil of his home region. Moctar’s
LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free.
music, full of churning riffs and complicated
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.
rhythms, is a fierce critique of imperialist culture. In
NECTAR’S: Lazer Dad (’90s covers), 9 p.m., free.
a recent interview with the Guardian, he criticized
ORLANDO’S BAR & LOUNGE: Super Stash Bros. (jam), 10 p.m., free.
the legacy left by years of interference from France, noting that the people of his home country remain “modern slaves.” Check out Moctar on Wednesday,
WED.3 // MDOU MOCTAR [WORLD, ROCK]
July 3, at ArtsRiot in Burlington.
HATCH 31: Sarah King (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free.
Bee’ (musical theater), 7 p.m., $20/27.
(singer-songwriter), first Monday of every month, 9 p.m., free.
free. Giovanina Bucci (singersongwriter), 9:30 p.m., free.
champlain islands/ northwest
chittenden county
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.
LINCOLNS: Laugh Shack with Shafi Hossain (standup), 8:30 p.m., free.
14TH STAR BREWING CO.: incaHOOTS (country, rock), 6 p.m., free. THE OLD FOUNDRY AT ONE FEDERAL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE: Aardvark 2.0 (rock, Americana), 6:30 p.m., free. TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: O’hAnleigh (bluegrass, Celtic), 7 p.m., free.
randolph/royalton BABES BAR: Pride Queer Dance Party, 7 p.m., $5.
outside vermont
MONOPOLE: Maddy Walsh & the Blind Spots (rock, pop), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Fu’Chunk (funk, soul), 8 p.m., free.
SUN.30 burlington
HALF LOUNGE: Open Decks, 10 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Sami Stevens and Kazemde George (jazz), 7:30 p.m., free. Leah Woods (folk, soul), 9 p.m., $5. RADIO BEAN: About Time (funk), 5:30 p.m., free. Big Fuzzy (folk, jazz), 7 p.m., free. Cup of Comedy: A Standup Showcase, 9 p.m., free. Nalani & Sarina (pop, rock), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Sweet William and Sugar Cone Rose (Americana), 4 p.m., free. Joe Moore Blues Band, 7 p.m., free. RUBEN JAMES: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch, noon, free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: ‘25th Annual Putnam County Spelling
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MISERY LOVES CO.: Disco Brunch with DJ Craig Mitchell, 11 a.m., free. MONKEY HOUSE: Glass Lungs, Circus Trees, U Blue, Jessica Rabbit Syndrome (post-rock), 8 p.m., $7/10.
barre/montpelier
BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Cowboys and Angels (country), 11 a.m., free. SWEET MELISSA’S: Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m., donation.
stowe/smuggs
MOOGS PLACE: Mud City Ramblers (Americana), 8 p.m., free.
mad river valley/ waterbury ZENBARN: Vermont Jazz Ensemble, 4:30 p.m., $7.
champlain islands/ northwest
BLUE PADDLE BISTRO: Bob MacKenzie Blues Trio, 6 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom JASPER’S TAVERN: DOSE (jazz, Americana), 4 p.m., free.
outside vermont
OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Victor Waitwright and the Train (blues), 7 p.m., $20/25.
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burlington
ARTSRIOT: Trivia Night, 7:30 p.m., free. HALF LOUNGE: Saint Nick and Jack Bandit (EDM), 10 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 7 p.m., free. Open Circuit: Songsters
RADIO BEAN: Ella Frances Harrison (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Pattern Addict (rock), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Mashtodon (open format), 11 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free. Family Night (open jam), 9 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Comedy & Crêpes (standup), 8 p.m., free. THE TAP ROOM AT SWITCHBACK BREWING CO.: Mary Mack and Tim Harmston: Happy Camper Comedy Tour (standup), 7 p.m., donation.
chittenden county
THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Open Mic Night with Kyle Stevens, 6 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: The Native Howl (folk, alternative), 8:30 p.m., $8/10. MONKEY HOUSE: Erin CasselsBrown (indie folk), 6 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs
MOOGS PLACE: Seth Yacovone, 7 p.m.
mad river valley/ waterbury
ZENBARN: Sly & Robbie, Mykal Rose, ONE over ZERO (sold out) (reggae), 9 p.m., $30/40.
champlain islands/ northwest
TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Open Mic with Chris Parker, 7 p.m., free.
TUE.2
burlington
LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: StorytellingVT, 7:30 p.m.,
NECTAR’S: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5. RADIO BEAN: Gua Gua (psychotropical jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. Sister Speak (folk, blues), 8:45 p.m., free. Bill and the Bellas (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: CRWD CTRL (house, techno), 7 p.m., free. DJ A-RA$ (trap, house), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kids’ Music with Emma Cook, 9:30 a.m., free.
chittenden county
MONKEY HOUSE: Comrades, Deathbreaker, Formerly Bodies, Doom Service (post-hardcore), 8 p.m., $7/10. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free. WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.
middlebury area
RADIO BEAN: John Fealy (folk), 5:30 p.m., free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Peter Wise (singersongwriter), 8:45 p.m., free. Mosaic featuring members of Kat Wright and the Welterweights (jam), 10 p.m., $5. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DOSE (jazz, Americana), 4 p.m., free. Irish Session, 7 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Godfather Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Zach Nugent’s Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead tribute), 8:30 p.m., free.
chittenden county
CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Bluegrass Session, 7 p.m., free. THE OLD POST: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 8 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Wild Leek River (country), 7 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs
MOOGS PLACE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free.
mad river valley/ waterbury
ZENBARN: Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 7 p.m., free.
middlebury area
HATCH 31: The Welterweights (country), 7 p.m., free.
CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Karaoke with DJ Amanda Rock, 9 p.m., free.
champlain islands/ northwest
champlain islands/ northwest
BLUE PADDLE BISTRO: Open Mic with Carol Ann Jones, 6 p.m., free.
upper valley
THE PUBLIC HOUSE AT QUECHEE GORGE: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free.
outside vermont
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
NORTH HERO HOUSE INN & RESTAURANT: Leadfoot Louise (Americana), 5:30 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
outside vermont
MONOPOLE: Annie in the Water (jam), 10 p.m., free. Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free. m
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VSO SUMMER TOUR 7/4 TH Shelburne Museum, Shelburne to settle down in the Green Mountains. Though the couple originally intended to land in South Londonderry, where Veech America showed them a new world had family connections, they instead within a country they thought they picked Bethel. They say they prefer the already knew. town’s sense of community spirit to South “Portland’s very much a liberal Londonderry’s mix of locals and secondbubble,” says Anderly. “Being out in home owners. America — out of these liberal bubbles Since arriving in Bethel, Veech and — there’s more suffering out there than Anderly have become well known to these wealthy liberal cities are willing townspeople who frequent Babes Bar, to acknowledge or can and they’ve struck up even understand.” a musical friendship “America has been with Gaysville-based on fire,” says Veech. singer-songwriter Bow “I’ve never seen it this Thayer. The three have bad.” played several shows “A lot of the album together at Babes. is about what’s going “[Playing with on,” says Anderly. Strangled Darlings] GE ORGE VEECH “Why did we end up appealed to me because with Trump? Trump’s I got to be quiet [and] I not the reason — [he’s] a symptom of what didn’t have to be a front guy,” says Thayer. America’s going through right now. He’s He says he admires the duo’s ability to the expression of these humans that are draw people in not by cranking it up to 11 our fellow Americans.” but by dialing it down to a hush. American Pageant places many of “If you’re good enough at it, the chatsociety’s ills and controversial figures ter will start to diminish and realize center stage: televangelist Joel Osteen, they’re talking too loud,” Thayer continpharmaceutical companies like Pfizer ues. “They’ll suck the chatter right out and Eli Lilly and Company, producer of the room.” Harvey Weinstein, police brutality, social Strangled Darlings have no plans to media, and the opiate crisis, to name a return to the RV lifestyle — although they few. “Homeless,” a self-reflective tune do still have the camper. But they plan to about living the Walmart lifestyle, clev- keep their ties in Portland, as well as some erly references “Little Boxes,” a 1960s of the regions they got to know during folk tune made popular by Pete Seeger. their three-year road trip, such as Florida. Throughout, Anderly and Veech weave “People [in Portland] are like, ‘What American strife into sharply appointed, were you doing in Florida? Why would genre-straddling songs. you even go there?’” says Veech. “I’m like, Eventually, they grew weary of the ‘It’s my country. There’s so much to be long and winding road. gained from otherness.’” m “We’d been touring and playing bar gigs and stuff for years, and Jess was like, Contact: jordan@sevendaysvt.com ‘Maybe it’s time we stopped living in a motor home,’” says Veech. INFO Because Veech, originally from the Strangled Darlings perform on Saturday, June Washington, D.C., area, had grown up 29, 7 p.m., at the Light Club Lamp Shop in visiting Vermont frequently, they decided Burlington. AA. $5. radiobean.com
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he current exhibition at GreenTARA Space in North Hero is a two-artist show of assemblages by Wendy Copp and paintings by Misoo. Titled “Identities: Cultural Creations,” the pairing has a certain complementarity: Copp’s work is funny and magical with undercurrents of gravitas, while Misoo’s is serious and mythical with flashes of humor. The multivalent identity of the historic building itself sets the tone. GreenTARA is a small restored church cleared of pews; the art hangs on a wall opposite the entry — in the former altar space — with tall, narrow arched windows on either side. In keeping with the building’s original use as a general store, from 1823 to 1888, owner (and building restorer) Diane Elliott Gayer serves coffee and tea at a side bar. Copp’s work hangs on the altar walls. Her two dresses, three animal-head masks, and five pairs of boots and shoes walk the line between actual fashion and sculptures made from nature. These creations aren’t wearable, but visitors will have fun imagining themselves in them. They’re assembled from natural materials Copp finds in the woods near her South Burlington home: leaves, pine needles, bark, feathers, flowers and plants, including non-native phragmites (grasses that are invasive in Vermont), kangaroo paw and palm leaves. There is something utterly delightful about “Run Away Bride” (2018), a pair of low-heeled birch-bark shoes with such exaggeratedly pointy toes that running in them would be impossible. The toes are wrapped in dark-brown leaves that contrast with the white birch bark. Dried flowers adorn the tops, and the heels are finished in acorn caps. Those shoes would look splendid with “Returning to Earth” (2013), a dress wrought from the soft fronds of phragmites interwoven with rows of pine needles and groupings of feathers, including a duck’s wing. (Copp paired her dresses and shoes for a 2018 group exhibit at the Kent Museum in Calais; for a 2013 solo show, she topped historical clothing displays at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury with her fabric- or papier-mâché animal heads.) The coat-like dress opens to reveal a skirt with a pattern of flower-like images made from maple leaves. These exquisite creations raise the question of the longevity of Copp’s work. Both dresses — the other, “The Huntress,” is fashioned from grape leaves — were made six years ago. Were they greener then? Copp indicates on her website that she collects her materials in specific stages of decay; one dress pictured there (though not included in this show) is made from successively drier rows of pine needles, from newly green ones at the neck to brown and brittle ones at the
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THESE WOMEN INSPIRE A CHUCKLE FOR
CRUSHING MALE POWER SO UNWITTINGLY. hem. Surely by now, however, the dress is uniformly brown. Like Earth Art, Copp’s art will eventually disintegrate, and perhaps it’s meant to — but that’s a shame. Robert Smithson’s iconic Spiral Jetty earthwork sculpture in Utah is now owned and maintained by the Dia Art Foundation; one hopes for a Dia to step in and renew "Returning to Earth" by Wendy Copp Copp’s art at intervals, too. But time and its effects are exactly Copp’s subject. “At the center of my artistic explorations are questions about Time and the ephemeral nature of existence,” she writes in a statement on her website, and she adds in a write-up for the show that the pieces relate to her mother’s death. Perhaps the artist is more willing than this reviewer to let her woven-reed boots (“Walkin’ Through the Rye”) and the shriveling green vine emerging from a pair of phragmite-furred palm-bark boots (“I Won’t Dance, "Giant Asian Girl: Mina" by Misoo; boots and shoes by Wendy Copp (from left): Don’t Ask Me”) crumble to dust. For those who want a "I Went A-Wandering," "Run Away Bride," "Walkin' Through the Rye," and "Wild Thing 3" more lasting reminder, archival photos of the work by Michael Sipe are available for purchase. Two years ago, South Burlington-based Misoo left Except for “Self Portrait 1,” in which Misoo confronts of her military-esque jacket. Tiers of Renaissance and behind her vast, ceiling-to-floor scrolls of black-on-white the viewer from a chair set among a profusion of Disney baroque church façades and interiors fill the backabstractions for two new series, mostly measuring 36 by storybook scenes, her paintings’ backgrounds depict the ground, including Francesco Borromini’s San Carlo 48 inches, that address the female figure. The 10 paint- signal achievements of Western art, architecture and alle Quattro Fontane off her left shoulder. The figure ings in “Identities” include seven from her “Giant Asian culture, particularly of the Renaissance. The extent to manages to supplant two male bastions at once: military Girls” series — four are self-portraits — and three from which that legacy is male-authored jumps out at the and religious. her “Giantess” series. viewer through contrast. Misoo writes in a statement that her art is meant as a The use of the belittling word “girl” is ironic. Misoo’s Leonardo da Vinci’s nude Saint Jerome, for instance, “therapeutic intervention” for her subjects, all of whom subject in both series, as in her abstract work, is the squats at the bare foot of the sitting Giantess Quin, who are real women who have shared with her their stories sexual abuse of women. For Asian women, this includes rests her arm on the stained-glass windows of Chartres of sexual abuse. But no matter how serious their expresthe white male assumption that they are not just rela- Cathedral. In “Giant Asian Girl — Weiwei,” the subject’s sions, these women inspire a chuckle for crushing male tively small in stature but “sexually exotic, physically armchair is set amid an extensive collage of Michelan- power so unwittingly — or, in the case of “Self Portrait delicate and culturally submissive,” as she writes in a gelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling. 3,” looking curiously down at a tiny male head underfoot statement. Misoo snips her reproductions and photos from mass- before deciding its fate. Misoo’s riposte is a quintessential #MeToo statement. produced art books, often reusing images. Her figures She depicts her subjects, including her non-Asian Giant- are heavily outlined in black, as if further to strengthen Content: lilly@sevendaysvt.com esses, as dominant giants sitting alone, relaxed and uncon- identities already empowered by their dominant sizes and cerned, amid collaged cities, buildings and populations, unapologetic poses. INFO like Jonathan Swift’s Brobdingnagians. Size is indeed In “Self Portrait 4,” the artist depicts herself in a “Identities: Cultural Creations,” on view through July 14 at everything. Napoleonic pose, one hand tucked between the buttons GreenTARA Space in North Hero. greentaraspace.org SEVEN DAYS JUNE 26-JULY 3, 2019
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TALK: ‘MIXED MEDIUMS AND THE DEMYSTIFICATION OF ABSTRACT ART’: A conversation with artist Dona Mara Friedman about the art and creative process, and the understanding of art, in conjunction with her current exhibition. stART Space, Manchester, Wednesday, June 26, 2 p.m. Info, gallery@startspace.art.
burlington
f DAPHNA MERO: Three short films by the filmmaker, dancer and choreographer in the exhibition booth. Reception: Friday, July 5, 5-8 p.m. July 1-31. Info, 391-4083. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.
ONGOING SHOWS
ROBERT GOLD: “Bob’s World,” vibrantly colored painted digital images. July 1-31. Info, 391-4083. Gallery at One Main in Burlington.
burlington
AL SALZMAN: Five large painted murals and a selection of round drawings by the Vermont artist. Through June 26. Info, 371-7158. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington.
barre/montpelier
f AGATHE MCQUESTON: “A License to Stare,” classically rendered sculptures and drawings by the Montpelier artist. Reception: Thursday, July 11, 4-7 p.m. July 1-August 30. Info, 279-5558. Card Room, Vermont Statehouse, in Montpelier. f ‘I AM YOU’: Paintings and drawings by intellectually disabled adults in the Shockwave arts collective. Presented by Washington County Mental Health Services. Reception: Wednesday, June 26, 1-4 p.m. June 26-July 29. Info, 229-1399. Barre Opera House.
ALISA DWORSKY & BILL FEREHAWK: “Job Site,” a room-size installation that explores the drawing and choreography inherent in architecture and incorporates paper, graphite, wood and video projection. SARAH AMOS: “Unique Multiples,” innovative prints employing multiple techniques by the Australian artist, who spends part of her time in northern Vermont. Through October 6. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.
f ‘KINDREDS: TANGIBLE AND INEFFABLE’: Paintings by Kate Emlen and ceramic works by Amanda Nichols. Reception: Friday, June 28, 5-8 p.m. June 28-August 24. Info, 738-3667. The Garage Cultural Center in Montpelier.
‘BOUND TO HAPPEN’: An exhibition of artwork by members of the Book Arts Guild, featuring a wide range of subject matter, techniques and mediums. Through June 29. Info, 578-2512. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.
f LOIS EBY: “Studies in Rhythmic Vitality,” abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Reception: Thursday, July 11, 4-7 p.m. July 2-September 27. Info, leby@loiseby.com. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.
‘Suspended in Focus’
CAROL MACDONALD: “Civil Discourse,” prints featuring birds that speak to the 24-hour news cycle and these polarizing times. Through June 30. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.
stowe/smuggs
common, according to the gallery, is an “intense focus on their subject matter.” Though
f ‘THEN AND NOW’: A plein air landscape exhibition of works by 12 20th-century masters of the medium and 30 contemporary artists painting in the same locations, in celebration of the gallery’s 35th anniversary. Artists’ roundtable and reception: Sunday, June 30, 1-4 p.m.; Eric Tobin, William Hoyt, Cindy House and curator Tom Waters talk at 1 p.m., reception follows. June 27-September 2. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.
middlebury area
f HOMER WELLS: “From the Foothills of the Mighty
Hogbacks to Thompson’s Point,” etched aluminum wall hangings. f JIM BLAIR: “Clouds: Recent Work,” images by the longtime National Geographic photographer. Reception: Friday, July 5, 5-7 p.m. July 1-31. Info, 485-0098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls.
rutland/killington
f ‘ART OF WATER ‘: An all-member, all-mediums
art exhibit, part of the guild’s 20th anniversary celebration honoring planet Earth. Reception: Friday, June 28, 5-7 p.m. June 28-August 27. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.
manchester/bennington
f 22ND ANNUAL NORTH BENNINGTON OUTDOOR SCULPTURE SHOW: Outdoor sculptures and gallery exhibits featuring 41 artists throughout the historic village. Reception: Saturday, June 29, 4-8 p.m., at 48 Main Street. June 29-November 3. Info, 430-9715. Various locations around North Bennington. f ‘EVERYTHING IS STILL: PHOTOGRAPHERS WORKING IN MOTION PICTURE FILM’: An exhibition of 20 photographers from the U.S., Singapore and Japan who use cinematic film to create still images, curated by Vermont artist Stephen Schaub. Reception: Saturday, June 29, 4-6 p.m. June 29-August 11. Info, 367-1310. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.
randolph/royalton
f CELIA REISMAN: “The Vermont Paintings,” intricate landscapes and neighborhood views. Main Gallery. f HELEN MATTESON: “Geometric Exercises,” paintings and drawings by the late Vermont/New York artist. Center Gallery. Reception: 76
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exhibiting 18 artists whose styles and mediums vary significantly. What they have in that quality would seem like a given — all artists are focused on their work, no? — calling it out does pique one’s curiosity. Visitors to the Shelburne gallery can experience this creative intensity firsthand, whether it’s expressed as sunlight in a landscape, an interior fantasy or a particularly meditative abstraction. Through July 23. Pictured: “Bounce” by Shiao-Ping Wang.
Saturday, July 6, 3-5 p.m. June 26-August 11. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.
f ‘RENDERING: CAUSE TO BECOME’: A summer invitational exhibit featuring portrait sculptures by Chris Wilson, paintings by Joan Feierabend, and drawings by Stephanie Suter and Nick DeFriez. Reception: Saturday, June 29, 5-7 p.m. June 29-September 1. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Gallery in Randolph. SADIE KENNEDY: “Sadie’s Handiwork,” embroidery by the local textile artist. July 1-August 31. Info, 685-2188. Chelsea Public Library.
ART EVENTS ‘ART OUTSIDE’: Plein air watercolor, sketching and painting; after a brief intro, participants will explore the natural environments of the park and choose their preferred views/locations. BYO materials. Open to artists of all skill levels. Oakledge Park, Burlington, Thursday, June 27, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, dmwood@ burlingtonvt.gov. ‘THE ARTS AND THRIVING COMMUNITIES’: The Vermont Creative Network Addison/Rutland Zone holds a panel discussion on the arts’ role and impact in creating thriving communities, coinciding with a closing reception for the 14 emerging artists currently in residency at 77ART. 77Art, Rutland, Saturday, June 29, 6:30-7 p.m. Info, 282-7279. ‘BACK FROM THE DEAD: FILM PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY: A panel discussion moderated by Stephen Schaub, curator of current exhibition “Everything Is Still.” Panelists include Season Lau, Brendan Leahy,
VISUAL ART IN SEVEN DAYS:
Brian Kosoff, Don Martino, Billy Mork, Don Ross, Edie Sunday, the Brothers Wright and Raymond Wu. Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Sunday, June 30, 1-2 p.m. Free; reservations. Info, 367-1310. BCA SUMMER ARTIST MARKET: A contemporary outdoor market that offers unique handmade items by Vermont artists including ceramics, woodworking, jewelry, games, clothing, accessories and more. Burlington City Hall, Saturday, June 29, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free to browse. Info, 865-7166. FRIDAY ARTISAN MARKET: Featuring a variety of food, local goods, art, music and family activities. Spruce Peak at Stowe, Friday, June 28, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Info, 253-3437. OPEN STUDIO FIGURE DRAWING: Sessions featuring a variety of approaches to working from the figure are suited to all levels of drawing, painting and sculpture backgrounds and expertise. Easels and tables available. River Arts, Morrisville, Tuesday, July 2, 3-5:30 p.m. $10. Info, 888-1261. PHANTOM PHAIRIES ART EXHIBITION: Paintings, sculptures, video art and illustrations by UVM and MECA students, plus live music. Battery Street Jeans, Burlington, Friday, June 28, 7-10 p.m. Donations collected for Planned Parenthood. Info, amandapalumbo917@yahoo.com. TALK: JIM BLAIR: The longtime National Geographic photographer gives an informal talk about his work, in conjunction with current exhibit “Being There.” Middlebury College Museum of Art, Friday, June 28, 1 p.m. Info, 443-3168.
ART LISTINGS AND SPOTLIGHTS ARE WRITTEN BY PAMELA POLSTON. LISTINGS ARE RESTRICTED TO ART SHOWS IN TRULY PUBLIC PLACES.
CHARLIE HUDSON: “Walking Peripherals,” new work by the Brooklyn-based painter that explores dimension, light and movement. Through July 14. Info, 324-0014. Soapbox Arts in Burlington. FRANCES CANNON: Watercolor paintings, ink drawings and books by the writer and artist. Through June 29. Info, 338-7441. Thirty-odd in Burlington.
f JERRY RALYA: “1,” pastel works from the artist’s “Social Justice” and “Vessels” series. Curated by Little Umbrella. Reception: Friday, July 5, 5-8 p.m. Through July 31. Info, 391-4083. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. KEVIN DONEGAN: “Low Places: New Constructions,” eclectic found-object assemblages. Open by appointment only. Through June 30. Info, 363-5497. New City Galerie in Burlington. ROBERT WALDO BRUNELLE JR.: Recent paintings by the Jericho artist and seventh-generation Vermonter. Curated by Little Umbrella. Through June 30. Info, 391-4083. Gallery at One Main in Burlington. ‘A SAMPLE OF JAZZ RECORDS’: Archival photographs and posters and commissioned prints from artist Felix Sockwell. Photographs contributed by Luke Awtry and Michael Worthington. Through June 30. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington. ‘THE THINGS WE KEEP WITH US’: A collaborative work conceived by mixed-media artist Ashley Roark and featuring works using paper and small saved items by 21 individuals of various ages and backgrounds. The works, and accompanying audio, tell the stories and meaning of these items and what has kept the participants connected to them throughout their lives. Through June 29. Info, 923-6522. The Soda Plant in Burlington. VERMONT COMIC CREATORS GROUP SHOW: Comics and cartoons by the local member group. Through June 28. Info, srosedahl@yahoo.com. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington.
chittenden county
‘ALL THE WATERS’: Twenty-five artists from Chittenden County show works in oil, watercolor,
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ART SHOWS
pastel, collage, photography, glass and mixed media. Through August 31. Info, 899-3211. Jericho Town Hall. ANTHILL COLLECTIVE: The Burlington graffiti artists install work in the brewery’s Artifactory. Through July 31. Info, 658-2739. Magic Hat Brewing Company in South Burlington. HAROLD WESTON: Works by the modernist painter and social activist (1894-1972) dubbed “the Thoreau of the Adirondacks.” Through August 25. ‘WILLIAM WEGMAN: OUTSIDE IN’: More than 60 works from the renowned artist’s collection, including Polaroid photos of his Weimeraners, pages from his handmade book Field Guide to North America and to Other Regions, drawings, and postcard paintings. Through October 20. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum. ‘IN THEIR ELEMENT’: An installation of sculptures on the museum grounds by contemporary artists Rodrigo Nava, Jonathan D. Ebinger and Dan Snow. Curated by Carolyn Bauer. Through October 31. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum. ‘SUSPENDED IN FOCUS’: A group show of 18 artists who have diverse stylistic approaches to their individual work but are united in an intense focus on their subject matter. Through July 23. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. ‘WINDOW ON THE NORTHEAST LANDSCAPE’: Watercolors by Kathleen Manley and Christine Zavgren and oil paintings by Jane Morgan. Through July 21. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.
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‘200 YEARS—200 OBJECTS’: In the final celebratory year of the university’s bicentennial, the museum exhibits a curated selection of artifacts, documents and images from the school’s collections. Through December 21. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. ‘AWAKENINGS’: Floral still life paintings by Kate Longmaid and Asian-inspired abstracted landscapes by Tom Merwin. MICHAEL STRAUSS: “The Magic of Seeing – Inside and Outside of the Frame, Exploring the Illusion of Light, Space, Form and in Landscape Painting,” acrylic and ink paintings. Through June 28. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. DIANE SOPHRIN: “Present Continuous: Commentary and Form,” drawn and painted writings on stitched, layered paper scrolls. Third Floor Gallery. ‘FAULT LINES’: Artists explore the current political climate and the resulting fractures in our world that threaten discontinuity and potential explosive energy. ‘TECTONIC PLATES AND TOPOGRAPHIC TILES’: Sculptural stoneware inspired by geologic forces by Deborah Goodwin. Second Floor Gallery. Through June 29. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.
f EMILIA OLSON: “Resurfaced,” paintings by the Vermont artist. Reception: Thursday, June 27, 4:30-6 p.m. Through August 17. Info, moetown52@comcast. net. Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin. ‘I LOVE IT WHEN I’M WRONG; YES, WHITE PEOPLE, IMMIGRATION IS ABOUT SKIN COLOR’: This multimedia installation using sculpture, audio and video examines discrimination, opportunity and individual triumph. Through June 29. Info, 224-6827. Susan Calza Gallery in Montpelier. JAMIE HANSEN: Photography and assemblages from the streets of Cuba. Through September 1. Info, 552-8105. The North Branch Café in Montpelier. JANET VAN FLEET: “Vanishment,” new work by the Vermont artist exploring the fraught relationship between humans and the natural world, and using, in part, materials repurposed from previous bodies of work. Through June 28. Info, 272-5956. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier. JESSE LOVASCO: Drawings of endangered medicinal plants by the herbalist, artist, poet and 2018 Ecological Art Fellow with United Plant Savers. Through June 30. Info, 229-6206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.
KATE BURNIM AND DARYL BURTNETT: “Almost Forgotten: Works Exploring the Overlooked through Line, Shape and Texture,” paintings and works on paper that range from loosely representative to abstract. Through June 28. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. MERRY SCHMIDT: Paintings inspired by the natural world by the local artist. Through July 3. Info, 426-3581. Jaquith Public Library in Marshfield. MICHAEL JERMYN: Framed images from the Montpelier photographer’s trip to Italy and Spain. Through September 4. Info, 223-4300. Salaam Boutique in Montpelier.
f ‘SHOW 33’: Recent works by members of the collective art gallery. Reception: Friday, July 12, 4-7 p.m., with live music, food and drink. Through August 3. Free. Info, 552-0877. The Front in Montpelier.
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‘VERMONT MUSIC FAR AND WIDE’: An interactive exhibit of artifacts that tell the story of Vermont popular music history in recent decades, including band photographs 1990-2000 by Matthew Thorsen, compiled by Big Heavy World. Through July 27. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. ‘THE WAR OF IDEAS’: Propaganda posters from the collections, spanning the Civil War to World War II and illustrating everything from recruitment to support on the home front. Through October 25. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Center in Barre.
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‘COMPOSING FORM’: A group exhibition of contemporary sculptors working in ceramics, highlighting figurative and abstract work that references human history, intervention and experience. Curated by Rachel Moore. DUSTY BOYNTON: “Reliefs,” painted and cut figures on wood by the Vermont artist. SUZY SPENCE: “On the Hunt,” paintings that consider contemporary power struggles through the metaphor of fox hunting. Curated by Amy Rahn. Through August 24. Info, 235-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.
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Burnim, Renée Greenlee and Erika Senft Miller exhibit photography, sculpture, cyanotypes, painting, video installation, window installation and mixed media, curated by Kelly Holt. Reception: Friday, July 26, 5-6:30 p.m. Through August 31. Info, 760-4634. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort.
f JIM WESTPHALEN: “Of Land and Light,” emotive, nostalgic pigment photographs of Vermont. f JUSTIN HOEKSTRA: New non-objective abstract works by the Burlington artist. f ‘WITHIN SIGHT / WITH INSIGHT’: Paintings by Kevin Kearns and Helen Shulman. Reception: Saturday, July 6, 5-7 p.m. Through August 3. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. NORTHERN VERMONT ARTISTS ASSOCIATION: The 88th annual exhibition of members. Through July 6. Info, 644-8183. Visions of Vermont in Jeffersonville. ‘PEAK TO PEAK: 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION THEN AND NOW’: An exhibition of photographs and artifacts to highlight the evolution of the division’s equipment and training since its beginning in 1943. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.
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GREEN MOUNTAIN WATERCOLOR EXHIBITION: The annual juried exhibition by Valley Arts showcases more than 80 watercolor paintings by artists from across North America. Through July 20. Info, 496-6682. Big Red Barn Gallery at Lareau Farm in Waitsfield.
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‘ICE SHANTIES: FISHING, PEOPLE & CULTURE’: An exhibition of large-format photographs featuring the structures, people and culture of ice fishing by Vermont-based Colombian photographer Federico Pardo. Includes audio reflections from shanty owners drawn from interviews by VFC. Through August 31. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.
universality of everyday experience. Weekends only. Through October 13. Info, 583-5832. Bundy Modern in Waitsfield. ROSALIND DANIELS: “Abstractions in Fiber and Photos,” images characterized by color, geometric shapes and clean lines. Through July 6. Info, 244-7036. Waterbury Public Library.
JAMES P. BLAIR: “Being There,” images by the renowned photographer for the National Geographic Society. Through August 11. Info, 443-3168. Middlebury College Museum of Art.
SAM TALBOT-KELLY: “Draft of a New Harmony in a Slip Dress Pocket,” an installation of experimental costume/set design, hybrid animals and abstract paintings that reimagine Greek myth and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Transcendentalist views of nature. Through June 29. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.
JIM WESTPHALEN: “The Enduring Landscape,” a new collection of photographs of the Vermont countryside and its weathered structures. Through June 30. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.
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KARLA VAN VLIET: Scored and reworked paintings by the Bristol artist. Through August 4. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.
‘50 X 50: COLLECTING FOR THE MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART’: An exhibit that marks 50 years of acquiring art by bringing together one work from each year. Included are paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and photography, from antiquity to the present and from diverse cultures. Through August 11. Info, 443-3168. Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College. ANDREW MARKS: Fantasy creatures carved from briar burl and mounted on stone. Through August 31. ‘HIDDEN TREASURES SERIES: THE SHEPARD FAMILY CONCERT COMPANY’: A special exhibition of objects related to the popular 19th-century singing group. Through June 30. ‘THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE OF DAN KILEY’: A touring retrospective exhibition in celebration of the internationally renowned, Vermont-based landscape architect (1912-2004), featuring four dozen photographs of his designs, biographical information and interpretive analysis. In partnership with the Vermont chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Cultural Landscape Foundation in Washington, D.C., and the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation. Through September 1. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury. ‘HOME: A COMMUNITY ART SHOW’: More than 40 Addison County artists and makers contributed paintings, photography, textiles and more to this non-juried exhibition. Through July 4. Info, 4534032. Art on Main in Bristol.
‘NATURAL GRACE’: Colorful still-life paintings by Jill Matthews and layered, abstracted landscapes by Hannah Bureau. Through June 30. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls. ‘NEW GROWTH’: New work from Anna Dibble, Anne Cady, Bonnie Baird, Hannah Morris, Hannah Secord Wade, Julia Jensen, Pamela Smith and Susanne Strater that celebrates the change of season in Vermont and acknowledges how the artists push creative boundaries. Through July 14. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.
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PAT LAFFIN: “Childlike Memories,” a fifth annual mixed-media exhibit of pieces that relate the artist’s fondest memories of childhood, along with a bit of fantasy. Through June 30. Info, 453-6309. Tourterelle in New Haven.
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writes in exhibition notes. “They have sleek, aerodynamic shapes that lend themselves to an endless combination of color and patterns.” Her one-of-a-kind pieces are crafted from wood, architectural clay, oxidized copper, glass, beeswax, LED lights and repurposed objects. On view through July 12 at the Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Pictured: “Narwhal.”
ANNUAL MEMBERS’ EXHIBITION: Member-artists of all levels show their work and exchange ideas. Through July 14. Info, 438-2097. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland. AUDUBON MEMBER PHOTO SHOW: Avian pictures taken by the Rutland County Audubon Society members. Through July 31. Info, 775-7119. Maclure Library in Pittsford.
CALL TO ARTISTS 2019 LAND AND LIGHT AND WATER AND AIR: The gallery is accepting entries for its flagship juried exhibition, September 3 through November 3. All artists painting traditional landscapes in 2D mediums are welcome to participate. Deadline: July 14. Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100, bryangallery.org. CALL FOR MAKERS: The Champlain Maker Faire, to be held September 28, will focus on two areas: growing distributive manufacturing in Vermont; and engaging schools in making, project and startup development, and tool and equipment use. Those who respond have the option to exhibit Friday at the School Maker Day, at Friday Night’s Makers in the Dark Night of Illumination, and/or at the main Champlain Maker Faire event Saturday. Deadline: August 25. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms. Info, 578-7738, champlain. makerfaire.com. CALL TO ARTISTS AND WRITERS: Brattleboro native Desmond Peeples is rebooting Mount Island, a literary publication focused on supporting rural LGBTQ and POC writers and artists, as an online iteration. Accepting submissions from members of underrepresented communities and allies. Rolling deadline. Through June 30. Info, shantaleegander@mountisland.com, mountisland.com. FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS: The Cambridge Arts Council’s 11th annual event is Saturday, August 10; a gently curated showcase of fine art in all mediums, but we are especially interested in increasing the number of painters. Deadline: August 9. Downtown Jeffersonville. $40 booth fee; $25 for students. Info, cambridgeartsvt@gmail.com, cambridgeartsvt.org/fota.
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GREAT PLEIN AIR: This non-juried festival July 19 and 20 is open to all artists working in any medium; participants can paint one or both days. New this year: optional painting competition Saturday. Plein air exhibition July 21 through October 12. Deadline: July 12. Bridge Street, Waitsfield. $20 one day; $30 both days. Info, 496-6682, valleyartsvt. com. JURIED SHOW AT THE AIR GALLERY: The artist-run gallery has monthly jury sessions in July, August and September. Deadline: September 4. Artist in Residence Gallery, St. Albans. Free. Info, artistinresidence.coop@gmail.com. MAKING FLEECE BLANKETS: Volunteers and supplies needed to help patients in a facility to make fleece blankets and quilts. Deadline: July 2. Burlington Health and Rehab Center. Info, 658-4200. ‘OUR BODIES OUR RIGHTS’: Call to artists for August art show and fundraiser. Visual and performance art submissions accepted. Deadline: July 26. 2Creative Community, Winooski. Free. Info, 718-415-7135, 2creativecommunity@gmail.com ‘ROCK SOLID XIX’: This annual exhibit showcases stone sculptures and assemblages by area artists, September 17 through November 2. We are also looking for 2D works that display the qualities of stone. Deadline: August 2. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10 submission fee; free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069, studioplacearts.com. SOLO & SMALL GROUP SHOWS: SPA uses its second- and third-floor spaces for solo and small group shows. Artists are encouraged to submit a proposal for consideration of such a show in 2020. Deadline: June 28. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10 submission fee; free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069, studioplacearts.com.
SOUTH END ART HOP: Artists can register to show work or enter the juried exhibit, and businesses can register to show artists’ works for the 27th annual, three-day arts festival in Burlington’s South End. Deadline: July 4. SEABA Center, Burlington. Info, 859-9222, seaba.com. SPA STUDIO RESIDENCY PROGRAM: SPA has received funding to support an 11-month studio residency program for November 20, 2019, to October 31, 2020. A small private studio on the second floor of the visual arts center will be provided at no charge to an emerging artist from the greater Barre/Montpelier area who wants to build a new body of work for exhibition. Deadline: August 9. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Info, 479-7069, submissions.studioplacearts@gmail.com, studioplacearts.com. ‘UNBOUND VOL. IX’: Call for entries to the ninth annual juried exhibit of unique works exploring what a book can be, art using the book as material or format. Presented by ArtisTree Gallery in conjunction with the Bookstock Festival in Woodstock. Open to all 2D, 3D, installation, assemblage, film and video artists who are working in New England or New York. Deadline: June 28, 6 p.m. ArtisTree Gallery, South Pomfret. $30 entry fee. Info, 457-3500, artistreevt.org. VOLUNTEER ARTIST NEEDED: In need of a mural being painted at a downtown business property. Will provide the canvas if you will donate your time. High traffic area; mural will be highly visible. Deadline: July 1. Burlington Health and Rehab Center. Info, 658-4200, melissa.greenfield@genesishcc.com.
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‘DREAM MACHINE II’: Classic retro arcades collected by Nick Grandchamp. Through June 30. Info, 603-732-8606. West Street Gallery in Rutland. RITA FUCHSBERG: “Ladies in Waiting,” an installation that examines the experiences of women on death row. Through July 14. Info, 438-2097. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center Gallery in West Rutland.
champlain islands/northwest ‘IDENTITIES: CULTURAL CREATIONS’: Artworks by Misoo and Wendy Copp that address identity in a changing world. Through July 14. Info, greentaraspace@gmail.com. GreenTARA Space in North Hero.
SUSAN LARKIN: “A Nice Walk,” a solo exhibition of recent work by the Isle La Motte painter, based on her daily walks in the woods. Through June 27. Info, 928-3081. Fisk Farm Art Center in Isle La Motte.
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‘DESTINATION: SPACE!’: A series of exhibitions that highlights the art and science of space exploration and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission’s moon landing. Through August 4. MINDBENDER MANSION: An eclectic exhibition full of brainteasers and interactive challenges guaranteed to test brain power and problem-solving skills. Developed by Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Through September 2. Info, 649-2200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. FEATURED ARTISTS: Wooden jewelry by T. Breeze Verdant, naturally dyed fiber works by Jennifer Johnson, and sculptural glass and ceramic works by Alissa Faber. Through June 30. Info, 457-1298. Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock. JOAN MORRIS: “You Are the Music,” shaped-resist dyed prints built from “automatic 3D ink drawings.” Through June 30. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. ‘TRIO: EXPLORING DEMENTIA: An exhibit featuring three late local artists, Betsy Goldsborough, Brenda Phillips and Margaret McCracken, that shows the arc of how the disease influenced their artwork. Through July 6. Info, 457-3500. ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery in South Pomfret.
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‘CONTINUUM’: Paper constructions by Lian Brehm and reduction prints by Phillip Robertson. Through July 14. Info, 563-2037. White Water Gallery in East Hardwick. ‘CUMULUS’: A group exhibition featuring cloud-centric work in a variety of mediums. Through July 14. Info, 533-2045. Miller’s Thumb Gallery in Greensboro. GAAL SHEPHERD: “Hallowed Ground,” paintings, pastels, photography, sculpture and Irish poetry that pays tribute to the devotion of the faithful from Neolithic Erin to contemporary Ireland. Through July 21. Info, 533-2000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. HARRIET WOOD: A retrospective exhibition of abstract paintings by the octogenarian Vermont artist. Through June 30. Info, 472-7164. 3rd Floor Gallery in Hardwick. JAY HUDSON: Realistic acrylic landscape and bird paintings of NEK subjects. Through August 31. Info, lionize47@yahoo.com. Community National Bank, Barton Branch. ‘THE PIVOT AND THE BLADE: AN INTIMATE GLANCE AT SCISSORS’: A collection of objects that convey the long human relationship to scissors, their design and explore myriad professional, creative, superstitious, violent and domestic uses. Through December 31. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. RACHEL LAUNDON: “More Than Fish to Fry,” colorful mixed-media sculptures. Through July 12. Info, 7480158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.
ROSS CONNELLY: Photographs from the artist’s “Nature’s Designs” and “The Border Wall—Nogales, Ariz.” series. Through June 30. Info, 535-8602. The Clip Joint & Co. in Hardwick.
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DONA ANN MCADAMS: “Performative Arts,” a major retrospective of four decades of work by the photographer and activist, who now lives in Sandgate, Vt. Curated by John Killacky. Through September 23. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. ‘MADE IN VERMONT’: A group exhibition of new and recently completed work by Vermont artists, including paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Arista Alanis, Steve Budington, Clark Derbes, Jason Galligan-Baldwin and Sarah Letteney. MALCOLM MORLEY: Approximately 40 paintings, sculptures and works on paper created between 1964 and 2016 by the British-born American artist and founder of super-realism. RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER: Some 40 paintings, sculptures and works on paper that reference everyday objects, symbols, people and places, often made from unconventional and industrial materials. The American painter, sculptor and draftsman died in 2011. Open for tours 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Through December 1. Info, 952-1056. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.
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‘COLOR / GESTURE: EARLY WORKS BY EMILY MASON: Small paintings on paper with explosive color created by the abstractionist in the 1950s and ’60s. Through September 8. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.
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DONA MARA: “REFLECTIONS: The Intangible Things,” a career concept exhibition by the southern Vermont artist, featuring abstract works in multiple mediums that reflect both love of and fear for the planet. Through July 20. Info, 768-8498. stART Space in Manchester.
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GARY BARRON: “Revered Vermont Libraries,” drawings in Prismacolor pencil. Through June 30. Info, 685-2188. Chelsea Public Library.
f RAE NEWELL: “The Tunbridge Fair,” a solo show of paintings by the Bridgewater Corners artist. Reception: Sunday, July 21, 2-4 p.m. Through September 5. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library. ROB FISH: Paintings by the Vermont-based, New York-trained landscape figurative artist, Projects Gallery. Through July 21. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.
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‘THE 99 FACES PROJECT’: A nationally traveling exhibit designed, by Boston-based visual artist Lynda Michaud Cutrell, to reduce the stigma of mental illness. Photographs, videos, paintings and sculptures present true-to-life images to challenge assumptions about what living with mental illness looks like. Through September 30. Info, 603-4942179. Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon, N.H. ‘ARTISTS AS INNOVATORS’: A group exhibition of works by artists who have received fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts over three decades. See artmuseum@plattsburgh.edu for schedule of artist talks and workshops. Through August 9. Info, 518-564-2474. Myers Fine Arts Building, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y. ‘THIERRY MUGLER COUTURISSIME’: A retrospective of the French creator’s prêt-à-porter and haute couture creations, 1973-2001. Through September 8. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. m
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RUNNIN’ DOWN A DREAM Jakob Dylan presides over a star-studded examination and celebration of Laurel Canyon’s mid-’60s creative heyday.
Echo in the Canyon ★★★★★
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eople who grew up in the ’60s know that music used to be better. People who grew up with boy bands and Auto-Tune can quibble, but the debate is an easy one to settle: Watch Echo in the Canyon. Case closed. Directed by Andrew Slater and hosted by Jakob Dylan, the documentary offers an affectionate look back at the creative community that magically sprang up in Los Angeles’ Laurel Canyon around 1965 and in a few years produced some of the most groundbreaking, influential music of all time. It also offers Tom Petty’s final film interview. In the opening scene, Petty and Dylan discuss the proper pronunciation of “Rickenbacker” in a hipster guitar shop. The late singer-songwriter picks up a 12-string and strums a few jangly chords. The result is instantly recognizable as the signature sound of the Byrds — or, rather, of Roger McGuinn. As we’re soon reminded by a who’s who of rock royalty, that sound had a seismic impact. The genesis of this amiably ambling project was a 2015 concert at LA’s Orpheum Theatre. Slater, a former rock manager and record
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executive, teamed up with Wallflowers founder Dylan to stage a celebration of the Canyon scene’s 50th anniversary. The twist was that, rather than put on an oldies show, they’d recruit contemporary artists and let them reinterpret songs from that golden era. The movie cuts among performances from that night, archival footage of the bands and Dylan’s interviews with surviving members. These include McGuinn and David Crosby, who, while both Byrds, now look as though they’re from different eras. McGuinn evidently stumbled upon the secret to eternal youth in his travels. Speaking of which, we’re treated to home-movie footage he shot of the group’s first trip to England, along with accounts of meeting the Beatles, becoming chummy and eventually being semi-plagiarized. We learn George Harrison sent McGuinn a card admitting that the Byrds’ version of “The Bells of Rhymney” was the basis for “If I Needed Someone.” When it comes to impacting the Fabs, the big story is, of course, the transatlantic symbiosis between the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds and the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Wisely, Dylan invites Brian Wilson to tell it. Among the tidbits the picture brings to light is that producer Lou Adler (also interviewed) visited the Beatles with an acetate of Pet Sounds
prior to its release. As Adler and Crosby attest, one led indisputably to the other. “Imagine influencing the Beatles,” muses Petty. Representing this century in the doc are artists such as Cat Power, Jade Castrinos, Beck and Norah Jones. I’m not sure what happened with Jones. She disappears mid-“Never My Love” (by the Association). And Beck makes surprisingly minor contributions both musically and with his commentary. (A chunk of the movie features the kids discussing vintage discs in a swanky hipster pad.) More than compensating for any shortcomings on their part, however, are Dylan, who proves
Toy Story 4 ★★★★
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n a world where things and people merge, what happens when you outlive your usefulness? The question that workers worldwide have been asking themselves is somehow also the question at the heart of Toy Story 4. Arriving nine years after its predecessor, the latest in Disney-Pixar’s hit animated series is a bright-colored, speedy entertainment for kids, a cash grab for studio execs — and, frankly, existentially unsettling. In the universe to which Toy Story (1995) introduced us, toys are sentient beings with a primal commitment to meeting the needs of their child owners. If they were made of flesh and blood instead of felt, china and plush, we’d say they needed a liberation movement. Children’s fiction offers plenty of precedent for dancing around the queasy implications of a living-toy premise. But the folks at Pixar (Josh Cooley directed this installment; Andrew Stanton and Stephany Folsom scripted) choose instead to lean into those implications. In Toy Story 3, the toys’ owner grew up, and the series’ beloved characters were nearly incinerated as “trash.” At the last minute, though, they found a new owner/savior/god, the shy toddler Bonnie (voice of Madeleine McGraw). Once a favorite toy, protagonist Woody (Tom Hanks), now spends most days chilling in Bonnie’s closet, but he’s still 100 percent 80 SEVEN DAYS JUNE 26-JULY 3, 2019
FORK IN IT A strange new “toy” disrupts the rhythms of playtime in the fourth installment of Pixar’s beloved series.
committed to her needs. When Bonnie pastes googly eyes on a spork and brings it home as her new favorite toy, Woody makes it his mission to keep the two together. That isn’t easy, because “Forky” (Tony Hale) identifies as trash and not a toy, and he likes being trash, dashing for the warm embrace of any waste receptacle he can find. It’s the cutest depiction of Freud’s death drive I’ve seen. But oblivion isn’t the only option for
lost or abandoned toys, as Woody discovers when his pursuit of the fleeing Forky takes him off course. In a tourist town, Woody encounters a fleet of unchilded toys, including his old friend Bo Peep (Annie Potts) and the Norma Desmond-esque Gabby Gabby (Christina Hendricks), who lives in an antique store guarded by ventriloquists’ dummies. The two are polar opposites: While the fiery Bo embraces her freedom (“Seven
an agreeably laconic master of ceremonies as well as an engaging performer, and Castrinos. I wasn’t familiar with her, but I’ve been unable to get her rousing rendition of the Mamas and the Papas’ “Go Where You Wanna Go” out of my head. Considering that it comes down to one generation paying its respects to members of a preceding one, Echo in the Canyon is both perceptive and powerfully poignant. It’s heartening to watch these present-day stars acknowledge that long ago in a galaxy far away, others burned so memorably and so brightly. RI C K KI S O N AK
fabulous years!” she proclaims), Gabby is so desperate for a child’s love that she’ll hurt other toys to get it. Bright and shiny, with much of the third act set in and around a carnival, Toy Story 4 boasts impressive animation. Settings and weather often look photorealistic, while the stylized toys have a convincingly human expressive range. The pacing can get frenetic for adult tastes, and the film introduces so many new characters so quickly (including ones voiced by Keanu Reeves, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele) that fans of the original gang could feel short-changed. At the center of this whirlwind, though, is a genuinely compelling question. Which model will Woody follow — cling to his old purpose, or carve out a risky new life for himself? In most stories, the answer would be obvious. But the entire Toy Story series has been spent establishing that kids and toys belong together. Woody’s identity as a team player is a big part of what makes him our hero. Now it’s his potential downfall. In his mind, he’s Bonnie’s surrogate parent; in hers, he could be an over-the-hill employee ready for retirement — or even the trash. That the service you’ve spent your life offering won’t always have value is a lesson that today’s kids, raised in the gig economy, may not need. But their parents will get it. MARGO T HARRI S O N
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NEW IN THEATERS ANNABELLE COMES HOME: Imprisoning the demonic doll in a glass case only makes her more resourceful in the third installment of the campy horror franchise, with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprising their The Conjuring roles. Gary Dauberman directed. (106 min, R. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Sunset, Welden) ECHO IN THE CANYONHHHH1/2 Andrew Slater directed this documentary about the music scene in Los Angeles’ Laurel Canyon, with appearances from the Byrds, the Beach Boys, and the Mamas and the Papas. (82 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 6/26. Savoy) SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (starting Tuesday, July 2): Whether or not you’re enjoying the brief break between Marvel movies, it’s over! In his second solo outing with this franchise, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) copes with the post-Avengers: Endgame world. With Zendaya, Angourie Rice and Jake Gyllenhaal. Jon Watts (Spider-Man: Homecoming) directed. (129 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Essex, Marquis, Paramount, other theaters TBA) YESTERDAY: A young musician (Himesh Patel) wakes up in an alternate timeline where the Beatles never existed and only he remembers them in this comedy from director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire). With Lily James and Sophia Di Martino. (116 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace)
NOW PLAYING ALADDINHH1/2 Disney revives the tale of the street urchin who finds a magic lamp with this live-action version directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Mena Massoud as Aladdin, Naomi Scott as Jasmine and Will Smith as the genie. (128 min, PG) AMAZING GRACEHHHHH Sydney Pollack’s concert film, derailed by technical difficulties and later reassembled by Alan Elliott, captures Aretha Franklin performing at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1972. (89 min, G) ANNAHH Nearly 30 years after his hit La Femme Nikita, writer-director Luc Besson brings us another action thriller about a government assassin, this one a ballerina (Sasha Luss). With Helen Mirren and Luke Evans. (119 min, R) THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARMHHH1/2 John Chester’s documentary chronicles his and his wife’s eight-year struggle to make a farm sustainable in drought-ridden California. (91 min, PG) BOOKSMARTHHHH1/2 High-achieving best friends (Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein) decide to cut loose as high school graduation looms in this comedy directed by Olivia Wilde. With Jessica Williams and Lisa Kudrow. (102 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 5/29) BRIGHTBURNHHH1/2 In this sinister take on superhero mythology, Elizabeth Banks plays a woman struggling with the possibility that her “miracle child” who fell from the sky might be evil. With David Denman and Jackson A. Dunn. David Yarovesky (The Hive) directed. (90 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 5/29)
CHILD’S PLAYHH1/2 Killer dolls are all the rage, apparently, so here’s a remake/reboot of the 1988 horror flick that launched a campy series about murderous toy Chucky (now voiced by Mark Hamill). Aubrey Plaza and Gabriel Bateman star. Lars Klevberg (Polaroid) directed. (90 min, R)
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DARK PHOENIXHH In the latest X-Men installment, the superheroes grapple with the transformation of teammate Jean Gray (Sophie Turner) into the dangerously powerful Dark Phoenix. Simon Kinberg directed the all-star cast, including James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence. (113 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 6/12) THE DEAD DON’T DIEHHHH1/2 Auteur Jim Jarmusch brings us a small-town zombie comedy, starring Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tom Waits and Chloë Sevigny. (105 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 6/19) GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERSHH1/2 In the sequel to Godzilla (2014), humans battle the mighty lizard while he gets competition in the worldwrecking business. Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga and Millie Bobby Brown star. Michael Dougherty (Krampus) directed. (131 min, PG-13) JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 — PARABELLUMHHH1/2 Keanu Reeves once again plays a super-hitman targeted by fellow hitmen in the third installment of the self-aware action franchise, again directed by Chad Stahelski. With Halle Berry and Ian McShane. (130 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 5/22) LATE NIGHTHHH1/2 A well-established talk-show host (Emma Thompson) clashes with the first woman in her writers’ room (Mindy Kaling, who also scripted) in this comedy from director Nisha Ganatra (“Better Things”). With John Lithgow and Hugh Dancy. (102 min, R) MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONALHH Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth play members of a new generation of alien hunters as the goofy scifi-action-comedy franchise returns. With Rebecca Ferguson, Emma Thompson and Liam Neeson. F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton) directed. (115 min, PG-13)
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TOY STORY 4HHHH The arrival of a new toy named “Forky” leads the toys on a road trip of discovery in the latest installment of Pixar’s animated series. With the voices of Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Tom Hanks and Jordan Peele. Josh Cooley makes his feature directorial debut. (100 min, G; reviewed by M.H. 6/26) WETWAREHHH Vermont director Jay Craven’s latest is a sci-fi film set in a dystopian future where people are genetically modified to do dirty jobs. Based on Craig Nova’s novel, it stars Morgan Wolk, Jerry O’Connell and many locals. (100 min, NR; reviewed by M.H. 6/19)
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Route 100, Morrisville, 888-3293, bijou4.com
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CAPITOL SHOWPLACE 93 State St., Montpelier, 229-0343, fgbtheaters.com
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ESSEX CINEMAS & T-REX THEATER 21 Essex Way, Suite 300, Essex, 879-6543, essexcinemas.com
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190 Boxwood St. (Maple Tree Place, Taft Corners), Williston, 878-2010, majestic10.com
wednesday 26 — thursday 27 Aladdin *Annabelle Comes Home Child’s Play Dark Phoenix John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum Late Night (Wed only) Men in Black: International Rocketman The Secret Life of Pets 2 Toy Story 4 *Yesterday (Thu only)
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MARQUIS THEATRE
65 Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841, middleburymarquis.com
wednesday 26 — monday 1 Men in Black: International **Return of the Jedi (Wed only) Toy Story 4 tuesday 2 *Spider-Man: Far From Home Toy Story 4
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Men in Black: International (2D & 3D) The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2D & 3D) Toy Story 4 (2D & 3D)
155 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 862-1800, sunsetdrivein.com
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SUNSET DRIVE-IN
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The Dead Don’t Die (except Mon) *Echo in the Canyon **Flying Fur (Sat only) **Mase in Vermont (Mon only)
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11 S. Main St., Randolph, 728-4012, playhouseflicks.com
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Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. July: Acquire a new personal symbol that thrills your mind and mobilizes your soul. August: Reconfigure the way you deal with money. Get smarter about your finances. September: It’s time to expedite your learning. But streetwise education is more useful than formal education. Study the Book of Life. October: Ask for more help than you normally do. Aggressively build your support. November: Creativity is your superpower. Reinvent any part of your life that needs a bolt of imaginative ingenuity. December: Love and care for what you imagine to be your flaws and liabilities.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. July: Discipline your inner flame. Use your radiance constructively. Your theme is controlled fire. August: Release yourself from dwelling on what’s amiss or off-kilter. Find the inspiration to focus on what’s right and good. September: Pay your dues with joy and gratitude. Work hard in service of your beautiful dreams. October: You can undo your attractions to “gratifications” that aren’t really very gratifying. November: Your allies can become even better allies. Ask them for more. December: Be alert for unrecognized value and hidden resources.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. July: Transform something that’s semi-ugly into something that’s useful and winsome. August: Go to the top of the world and seek a big vision of who you must become. September: Your instinct for worthy and constructive adventures is impeccable. Trust it. October: Be alert for a new teacher with a capacity to teach you precisely what you need to learn. November: Your mind might not guide you perfectly, but your body and soul will. December: Fresh hungers and budding fascinations should alert you to the fact that, deep in the genius part of your soul, your master plan is changing. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. July: I’d love to see you phase out wishy-
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GENUINE Mature, honest, independent, hardworking woman looking to start my next phase in life postdivorce. I enjoy my work, travel, reading, cooking, exploring, exercise, helping others. I love to have fun and have a dry sense of humor, yet I have a serious side, as well. I’ve had a full life so far and look forward to what comes next. classicgem, 56, seeking: M, l VERMONT FARM GIRL Vermont farm girl, teacher, musician, animal lover, reader, climber, friend. Seeking deep conversations with a partner for outdoor activities of all sorts and good food. FarmGirlDrummer, 32, seeking: M, l MYSTICAL, MAGICAL, HARD-CORE OFFGRIDDER I’m empathic, loving and deeply caring, so I’m looking for a partner who honors my heart and treats it with care and respect. I am truly a forest dweller and a homesteader. I would love a partner with the skills and desire for self-sufficient homesteading and wild living. I want something lasting and committed. I want a life partner/s. MountainWoman, 48, seeking: M, W, NBP, l KINKY, MATURE, PRETTY, PETITE, HONEST Mature, pretty woman seeking new friends in Vermont for summer visits. I am 58, open-minded, love to travel. I love transgender and crossdressing males. Also bi females. Rachel2019, 59, seeking: Cp, l OUTDOOR ADVENTURES, GOOD AT SARCASM Are you looking for someone who is fun, down-to-earth, easy to talk to? I am! Let’s spend some time together to see how the conversation goes. I’m happiest when I’m active and on an adventure. I love skiing, sailing/boating, catching (more so than fishing), hiking, biking, snowshoeing. Book smarts aren’t important. Intelligence and life smarts are. LLL19now, 48, seeking: M, l
MEN seeking... LONELY, LOOKING FOR PARTNER Looking for someone who likes to be active to do things together. mickey69, 56, seeking: M, W, TM, TW, Q, NC, NBP, Cp MOUNTAINS, WIND, TRAILS I love being out and about boating, on the lake, in the woods, on walks, in the country, breathing the fresh air and filling my mind with the wonder of it all! Frog2Prince, 53, seeking: W, l LOVE IS WHAT I NEED Well, I went to college to become a computer programmer. I’m hoping to find the right girl to spend the rest of my life with. I’m not looking for liars, cheaters, games or drama. I’d like to find someone who is spontaneous, romantic, tries new things. So if this is you, please feel free to message me. Can’t wait to hear from you. WeRDustInTheWind, 41, seeking: W, l
MAGNANIMOUS Friends would describe me as friendly, outgoing yet quite openminded, with a sense of humor and not afraid to speak up. Admiration and understanding in a friendship/ relationship are very important. In life, change is constant, and how we choose to embrace it can create a positive outcome! YNGATHRT, 65, seeking: W FUN, OUTDOOR, ADVENTURE, SPORTS Easy-to-get-along-with workaholic who is seeking fun times with fun people. Make you laugh ‘til you drop. Wckwlvorine, 34, seeking: W, l A NEW CHAPTER Woodworker, published author, professional, guitar player, skier and dog lover in the NEK. I enjoy Netflix as much as a walk in the field with my furry human Bassador. A cold beer on a hot afternoon while sitting on my deck, looking at distant ridge lines. Slow hands, a warm gentle touch and a kind heart. 420 friendly. Let’s connect! mountainvtman, 72, seeking: W, l LOVE AND QUALITY TIME I tend to treat everyone with unconditional positive regard. It may be rare in today’s world, but I believe humans are essentially good. I’m a psychology and plant geek. I’m currently looking for a woman or couple to spend time with, you know, physically and/or as friends. To enjoy life surrounded by great lovers, friends and companions is a wealthy life! Existentialman, 43, seeking: W, Cp, l SMART, CALM, ADVENTUROUS I like to read and learn new things. I’m a trained musician but have interests in a lot of things. I like to eat healthy but also like to have a good dessert. I’m looking for someone who is attractive, interesting and openminded. Arunner83, 35, seeking: W, l LOOKING. WANT TO BE FOUND? SDM, professional, seeking female companion for arts, travel, music, cinema, fine dining. Open to new knowledge and adventures. Hope you enjoying receiving oral pleasure. Occasional fan of Pablo Escobar a plus. hardybob, 66, seeking: W, l LET’S START EXPLORING Easygoing, fun, smart, educated and outdoors-enthusiastic gentleman. Looking for new friends to hang out and share my passion of life and outdoors with. I am not the “know all” type of person. And open to learning and discovering new things, too. Life is too short; let’s start exploring. Who knows where that could lead us to. SmileyRunner, 39, seeking: W, l RESERVED, CURIOUS AND SMART I’m posed, honest and curious, and so I’m looking for a calm person, serious and open to being a friend — and why not more! GoT12, 34, seeking: W COME FLY WITH ME! I’m 5’7 tall and 175 pounds. Now divorced and separated for more than five years. I’ve been self-employed for 30 years; I’m a pilot with my own plane. I love flying, cycling, traveling and skiing. I’m looking for a traditional long-term relationship. This person should have high expectations in her wants, needs and image, and be positive. bseen, 67, seeking: W, l
ADVENTUROUS, INQUISITIVE FUN STUFF Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken,” last paragraph: “I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence: / Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” I enjoy life and all its wonders, not finished yet. Somewhere, someone shares similar thoughts. flyertom, 78, seeking: W, l NOT SURE WHAT I’M DOING I’ve been single for a long time, had a lot of stuff to work out and wanted to figure out my career. It’s finally time I go into the next part of my life. Active, thoughtful, artistic. Love to cook and spend time in the kitchen with friends. Beers and fires or Netflix. kpbTacoAttach, 33, seeking: W, l
TRANS WOMEN seeking... GENEROUS, OPEN, EASYGOING Warm, giving trans female with an abundance of yum to share (and already sharing it with lovers) seeks ecstatic connection for playtimes, connections, copulations, exploration and generally wonderful occasional times together. Clear communication, a willingness to venture into the whole self of you is wanted. Possibilities are wide-ranging: three, four, explorations, dreaming up an adventure are on the list! DoubleUp, 62, seeking: Cp, l
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HEYWHOKNOWS I spied some sexy shoulders, arms and legs while watching you climb and your beautiful smile after you belayed down to the floor. I enjoyed our outing together. Would like to explore new adventures with you. When: Saturday, June 8, 2019. Where: Petra Cliffs. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914774 ONE MORE LOVE SONG Whenever I’m alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again — like I am whole again, young again, free again, clean again. However far away, however long I stay, whatever words I say — I will always love ... your pozole. Scotch it up for a Sawx game at Esox soon? When: Monday, August 24, 2015. Where: Shelburne. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914773 TDL1082 What started online is now the real thing. You challenge and excite me, and I can’t wait to see what more we will bring. Maybe flossing to Boyz 2 Men? Feels baby... When: Saturday, January 5, 2019. Where: JP’s. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914772 NORTH BEACH SINGLE PARENTS, PENSIVE Orion — was that the name you carved out, your son’s? Your beauty left me speechless — not him. I didn’t realize you’d depart so fast; I’ve been kicking myself ever since. Maybe you saw me staring your way from the water, near my daughter, as you left in that long-sleeve gray shirt hanging off one shoulder. A night out might be nice. When: Tuesday, June 18, 2019. Where: North Beach. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914771
BLONDE IN BLACK DRESS: RACHEL 9:30 a.m.: Rachel, you looked stunning in that black dress that matched my black polo shirt. Besides black clothing and bagels, wonder what else we have in common? When: Tuesday, June 18, 2019. Where: Feldman’s Bagels. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914770 GRAY EYES I asked you out for coffee. You said no. Still want to know you better. When: Friday, December 14, 2018. Where: City Market. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914768 THROUGH TIME AND SPACE I thought over time my yearning for you would go away, but it has only changed and morphed as I have. This can’t be a coincidence; something must be pulling me to you. I’ll always be here waiting to start over. Time and space won’t change us. I said that the day we parted, and I meant it. When: Wednesday, June 12, 2019. Where: Burlington. You: Man. Me: Gender non-conformist. #914767 WE LOCKED EYES We crossed paths yesterday afternoon in our cars and locked eyes. Time stopped for a few seconds. If this is you, please write back. I would love to talk to you. When: Wednesday, June 12, 2019. Where: Vergennes. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #914766 GOLDENMOMENTS327 I am not sure that you read the I-Spy feature, but your profile really caught my interest. How do we proceed from here? When: Sunday, June 9, 2019. Where: Seven Days. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914765
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WE WON’T GET TOO FAR If you look in my direction and we don’t see eye to eye, my heart needs protection. So do I. It’s gonna take a lotta love to get us through the night. It’s gonna take a lotta love to make things work out right. So if you are out there waiting, I hope you show up soon. My heart needs relating — not solitude. When: Sunday, June 9, 2019. Where: ONE. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914764 WILLISTON BEAUTY WALKING You were walking. I was in the pickup truck and turned around to tell you about the mountain lion I saw cross the road in front of you. I would love to be your walking partner! Perhaps we can go to the waterfront and enjoy a sunset walk! When: Sunday, June 9, 2019. Where: Old Creamery Road, Williston. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914763 BARNES & NOBLE Held the door for each other at Barnes & Noble. There was chemistry in our brief moment together. Hoping you see this. When: Saturday, June 8, 2019. Where: South Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914762 COCONUT CARBON FOR FLATULENCE We had fun whilst shopping in the medicines section. You had a lovely smile and were very tolerant of my sense of humor as I teased you. Perhaps you just thought me odd or felt sorry for my affliction. I’d like to see you again. When: Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Where: Rutland Discount Foods. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914761 MEEEEOW ... YOU, ME, NOW? I saw you through a window. Tall, dark hair and holding a cat. You looked at the cat, and then we made eye contact. The cat was cute; so were you. I can’t help feline in love. When: Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Where: near Domino’s and Pingala. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914760 FELLOW HANDLER AT TARGET As I was leaving with my service dog, I caught a glimpse of you and your service dog. You looked young like me. I wish I had the guts to say hello. It could be nice to connect over being handlers and young disabled folx. When: Saturday, June 1, 2019. Where: Target. You: Woman. Me: Non-binary person. #914759
EASTERN DRAGON CHOW You had lunch with another woman. You left but returned to use the ladies’ room. I saw the ring on your finger but wonder if it carries much weight. I was alone at the next table toward the kitchen. Would love to chat with you. Loved seeing your legs! When: Monday, June 3, 2019. Where: Eastern Dragon, St. Albans. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914758 SHELBURNE RD. MOBIL BEER Spied you at the Mobil on the corner of Shelburne Road and Allen Road in the evening. You had beer, and I let you go in line in front of me. I wish I had struck up more of a conversation. Let’s have a few beers together! When: Friday, May 31, 2019. Where: Shelburne Rd. Mobil. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914757 COLLEEN FROM SAN FRAN We were both shopping for Jeeps. I had the black Ram. Wanted to comment on your beautiful smile, but I let you and your dog drive away in your white Canyon. I regretted not talking with you more. Didn’t notice a ring. Perhaps we can connect and talk over a drink. When: Saturday, June 1, 2019. Where: Goss Jeep, Shelburne Rd. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914756 GREENHOUSE AND CHECKOUT COUNTER I said hello to you at the registers when I went back to pay for a bottle that I initially wasn’t charged for on this Wednesday afternoon. You were wearing jeans, and you had a beautiful smile. I wanted to ask you out, but I was way too nervous. Please contact me if you would like to connect. When: Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Where: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914755 EXPECTED MORE FROM YOU. HONESTLY. I used to love a good surprise, and now I’d rather know ahead of time. You said “I love you� too fast. So much for that, girl. Summer just started, and we’re already done. When: Sunday, May 26, 2019. Where: around. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914754 BEAUTIFUL SMILE You were shopping. You were wearing a mauve dress. I was wearing a blue T-shirt and a smile. You have a beautiful smile. I would like to connect. When: Sunday, May 26, 2019. Where: Walmart. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914753
THINKING MUCH TOO HARD Why not go for broke? Trade in all your chips and learn how to be free. Why abstain, why jump in line — we’re all living on borrowed time! So do what you like. When: Sunday, May 19, 2019. Where: Tullamore. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914749 IN LINE AT MOE’S In line behind you. You were with boyfriend but kept checking me out, and we shared a few smiles. You’re hot and seemed interested, so HMU. When: Sunday, May 19, 2019. Where: Moe’s. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914747 WALKING ALONE Well, you have been spied. I would like to get to know more about you. Thoughts? When: Tuesday, May 14, 2019. Where: Seven Days. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914745 PREGNANT ON CHURCH ST. I saw a very attractive pregnant woman walking past Outdoor Gear Exchange, and I didn’t see a ring. I smiled; you smiled back. Maybe we can get a mocktail? When: Monday, May 13, 2019. Where: Church St. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914744 S’MORES AND POPCORN To the handsome bearded man: You were buying makings for s’mores and popcorn. I was a few people behind. We exchanged extended smiles. If I was directly behind you, I would have struck up a conversation. Hopefully you see this and want to meet. I like s’mores and popcorn, too! When: Friday, May 3, 2019. Where: Market 32, Shelburne Rd. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914739 TENDER MOTHER WITH MAGIC SMILE We sat opposite each other in the dining area. I wore funny “clothes,� and you could probably sense I was mesmerized. As I gathered the courage to talk to you, your son ran off and the moment was lost. I hope I see you again. When: Saturday, May 4, 2019. Where: Middlebury Co-op, 12:25 p.m. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914738 HANNAFORD, MORRISVILLE The depth of your smile went to my toes. When: Thursday, May 2, 2019. Where: Hannaford, Morrisville. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914735
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Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums
Dear Reverend,
My lover has been asking me to swallow his sperm, but I just don’t want to. He’s a great lover who makes me orgasm multiple times, but I just can’t bring myself to do this one little thing. Is something wrong with me, and is our relationship doomed?
Spitty Kitty (FEMALE, 32)
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Dear Spitty Kitty,
I’ve never really understood the spit-or-swallow debate. Not swallowing seems like it must make for an awkward break in the action. And then what do you do with it? Spit it into a cup? A napkin? I guess I’m a natural swallower because I’ve always just done it and moved on to the next thing at hand, but I know a lot of people feel completely the opposite — and there’s nothin’ wrong with that or you.
Have you ever tried swallowing, or does just the thought of it gross you out? I’d never tell anybody to do something that makes them feel uncomfortable, but if you’ve never done it, you might as well give it a (money) shot at least once. You might be surprised and actually like it. Semen is loaded with vitamins and protein
and has a ton of health benefits — including whitening your teeth and helping you sleep — so it’s good for you, too. If you’re really adamant about not swallowing, let him know that it simply isn’t your bag, it’s never going to happen and it’s not up for discussion anymore. If he’s the great lover you say, he should understand and not bring it up again. Good luck and God bless,
The Reverend
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was deemed complete on June 12, 2019. The project is located at 705 Spear Street in South Burlington, Vermont.
ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0065-2 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On May 3, 2019, University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, 109 South Prospect Street, Burlington, VT 05405 filed application #4C0065-2 for a project generally described as after-the-fact construction of a garage and shed, and modifications to the use of tract for rotating academic research
The District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0065-2”. No hearing will be held and a permit may be is-
sued unless, on or before July 10, 2019, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more informa-
6/6/16 4:34 PM tion. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.
If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the district coordinator as soon as possible, no later than prior to the response date listed above.
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[CONTINUED] The Applicant has requested a partial waiver of notice to adjoining landowners, pursuant to Act 250 Rule 10(F). The District Commission has granted the waiver request based on the determination that the adjoining landowners whose notice has been waived, reasonably could not be affected by the
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proposed project and that serving notice on all the adjoining landowners constitutes a significant administrative burden without corresponding public benefit.
ticularized interest that 6/3/19 3:01 PM may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).
Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by July 10, 2019.
Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 13th day of June 2019.
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the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the district coordinator as soon as possible, no later than prior to the response date listed above. Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by July 8, 2019. Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5). Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 13th day of June 2019. By: /s/Rachel Lomonaco, District #4 Coordinator Rachel Lomonaco, District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-8795658 Rachel.lomonaco@ vermont.gov ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C1322 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On June 7, 2019, 444-452 Route 7 South, LLC, c/o William Sawyer, P.O. Box 69, Milton, VT 05468 filed application #4C1322 for a project generally described as redevelopment of a 3.8 acre parcel which includes the removal of four existing mobile homes, three small apartments, an auto repair business and miscellaneous outbuild-
ings. Construction of a mixed-use development will follow with a 12,500 square foot commercial building with 17 apartments and 24 townhome units. The Project is located at 444 Route 7 in Milton, Vermont. The District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C1322”. No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before July 8, 2019, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing. If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of
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Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by July 8, 2019.
The Burlington Development Review Board will hold a meeting on Tuesday July 16th, 2019, at 5:00 PM in Contois Auditorium, City Hall.
Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5). Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 12th day of June, 2019. By: Stephanie H. Monaghan District #4 Coordinator 111 West
BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD Tuesday July 16th, 2019, 5:00 PM PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
1. 19-0980CA/MA; 110 Riverside Ave (NACR, Ward 1E) Sisters & Brothers Investment Group Reapplication for 57 unit apartment building with underground parking. 2. 19-0996CA/CU; 1143 Pine St (RL, Ward 5S) RM2 Properties LLC Convert single family dwelling into a small daycare center and install a backyard fence. Plans may be viewed in the Planning and Zoning Office, (City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington), between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Participation in the DRB proceeding is a prerequi-
site to the right to take any subsequent appeal. Please note that ANYTHING submitted to the Planning and 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/ pz/drb/agendas or the office notice board, one week before the hearing for the order in which items will be heard. The City of Burlington will not tolerate unlawful harassment or discrimination on the basis of political or religious affiliation, race, color, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, disability, HIV positive status, crime victim status or genetic information. The City is also committed to providing proper access to services, facilities, and employment opportunities. For accessibility information or alternative formats, please contact Human Resources Department at (802) 540-2505
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St., Chelsea VT 05038. He may wish to receive the help of a lawyer. Mr. and Mrs. Philbrick’s attorney is Stan Brinkman. He can be reached through mail at PO Box 294, Woodsville, NH 03785-0294. Ms. Trevino’s attorney is Michelle Donnelly. She can be contacted through mail at PO Box 117, South Royalton, VT 05068. She can be contacted via phone at (802) 831-1500 or through email at MDONNELLY@ vermontlaw.edu. PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §4442 and §4444, notice is hereby given of a public hearing by the Burlington City Council to hear comments on the following proposed amendments to the City of Burlington’s Comprehensive Development Ordinance (CDO): ZA-19-03 Parking The public hearing will take place on Monday, July 15, 2019 during the Regular City Council
Open 24/7/365. Post & browse ads at your convenience. Meeting which begins at 7:00 pm in Contois Auditorium, Burlington City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT. Pursuant to the requirements of 24 V.S.A. §4444(b): Statement of purpose: ZA-19-03: The purpose of this proposed amendment is to add parking requirements for Art Gallery/Studio uses, align parking requirements for small daycares/ preschools with those of large daycares/preschools, to allow tandem parking for all dwelling units and to clarify its arrangement when used for multi-family structures, and to apply residential driveway standards citywide. Geographic areas affected: ZA-19-03: The proposed amendment applies to all of the properties/land in the City of Burlington. List of section headings affected: ZA-19-03: The proposed amendment modifies Sec. 6.2.2 (i), Table 8.8.11, Sec 8.1.12 (c), and Sec. 8.1.14 (b) The full text of the Burlington Comprehensive
Development Ordinance and these proposed amendments are available for review at the Department of Planning and Zoning, City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or on the department’s website at www.burlingtonvt.gov/pz. STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO.: 740-5-19 CNPR In re ESTATE of: Stephen J. Wood NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the Creditors of: Stephen J.Wood late of Burlington VT: I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the 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.
Extra! Extra! There’s no limit to ad length online. Signature of Fiduciary Christopher B. wood Executor/Administrator Christropher B. Wood 802-497-0079 c/o C. Dennis Hill Esq. 333 Dorset Street City, South Burlington VT 05403 Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: June 26, 2019 Name of Probate Court: Chittenden Superior Court Probate Division PO Box 511, Burlington, VT 05402-0511 STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 130-2-18 CNCV SANTANDER BANK, N.A. v. SHANNON H. REILLY AND VERMONT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION OCCUPANTS OF: 203 Elmwood Avenue, Burlington VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq. In accordance with the
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STATE OF VERMONT AGENCY OF TRANSPORTATION NOTICE OF VERIFIED COMPLAINT TRANSPORTATION PROJECT COLCHESTER HES NH 5600(14) In accordance with the requirements of 19 V.S.A. § 504(b)(2), the Vermont Agency of Transportation (“VTrans”) hereby gives notice that it has filed a verified complaint with the Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Civil Division (Docket No. 484-6-19 Cncv) seeking a judgment of condemnation for the taking by the State of Vermont of certain lands and rights therein located in the Town of Colchester in Chittenden County for transportation purposes under the projections of 19 V.S.A. Chapter 5 (Condemnation). The proposed transportation project is described as follows: Transportation Project Colchester HES NH 5600(14) (“the Project”) begins at a point on U.S. Routes 2/7 (“US 2/7”) at the Winooski/Colchester line, thence extending northerly for a distance of approximately 5563 feet (1.05 miles) to a point 75 feet north of the intersection of US 2/7 and Sunderland Woods Road in the Town of Colchester. The Project will rehabilitate US 2/7, the work to be performed under the Project includes the construction of a double crossover diamond interchange, widening of the existing roadway for new turn lanes, cold planning, and resurfacing, new traffic signal equipment, new lighting, new signing, and other roadway related work. In addition, traffic signal equipment will be upgraded at the Tigan Street/Main Street intersection in the City of Winooski. This is all depicted on the Project plans, as amended during the course of the Project. On May 30, 2012, VTrans conducted a 19 V.S.A. § 502 public hearing at The Meeting House, located in Colchester, Vermont. After considering the objections, suggestions and recommendations received from the public at the hearing, VTrans has determined that there is a necessity for the Project, as that term is defined in 19 V.S.A. § 501(1). The purpose of the Project is to rehabilitate US 2/7 to comply with current highway design standards and replace outdated signal equipment. The Project will provide safer ingress and egress to and from US 2/7, improve traffic mobility, and enhance overall safety for the traveling public. VTrans believes that the following named persons are the owners of, or have an interest in the land and/or rights to be taken: I.
PROPERTY OWNERS
Name
Service Address
Mailing Address
Timberlake Associates, L.L.P.
32 San Remo Drive South Burlington, Vermont 05403 MSKVT, PLC 275 College Street Burlington, Vermont 05401 Susan Leach DeBlasio, Esq. Adler, Pollock, and Sheehan P.C. 1 Citizens Plaza 8th Floor Providence, Rhode Island 02903 CT Corporation System 17 G W Tatro Drive Jeffersonville, Vermont 05464 Corporation Service Company 100 North Main Street Suite 2 Barre, Vermont 05641 CT Corporation System 17 G W Tatro Drive Jeffersonville, Vermont 05464 CT Corporation System 17 G W Tatro Drive Jeffersonville, Vermont 05464 David H. Greenberg, Esq. 75 South Winooski Service Address Ave Burlington, Vermont 05402 Robert Cowie 69 Swift Street Suite 100 South Burlington, Vermont 05403 DRM Service Corp 90 Prospect St St. Johnsbury, Vermont 05819 Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC 90 Prospect St. St. Johnsbury, Vermont 05819 Wafika Faour 285 Oak Circle Colchester, Vermont 05446 Tim Lizotte 175 Hercules Drive Colchester, Vermont 05446 Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC 90 Prospect St. St. Johnsbury, Vermont 05819 Yasin Faour 285 Oak Circle Colchester, Vermont 05446 440 Main Street Winooski, Vermont 05404 440 Main Street Winooski, Vermont 05404
32 San Remo Drive South Burlington, Vermont 05403 1274 W RXR Plaza Uniondale, New York 11556
Crystal Clear Hospitality, LLC Dulgarian VT, LLC (Lessor)
Vermont CVS Pharmacy, LLC (Lessee) ARC SSCTRVT001, LLC (Lessor)
Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc. (Lessee) Brockton Corporation (Sublessee) Sisters and Brothers Investment Group, Name(Lessor) LLP
NorthCountry Federal Credit Union (Lessee) R.S.L., LLC
Vermont Gas Systems, Inc.
947 Roosevelt Hwy., Inc. Champlain Cable Corporation Vermont Gas Systems, Inc.
973 Roosevelt Hwy., LLC David E. Quinlan Kelly A. Rybicki
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Kenneth Dulgarian 144 Waterman Street Suite 6 Providence, Rhode Island 02906
Parcel No. 7A, 7B 9A, 9B
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Cogency Global Inc. 1154 Route 30 Townshend, Vermont 05353 43 Summit Ridge Williston, Vermont 05495
850 Main Street Bridgeport, Connecticut 06604
Secretary of State, Corporations Division, 128 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05633-1104
Secretary of State, Corporations Division 128 State Street Montpelier, Vermont 05633-1104
Walter E. Simendinger and Joann H. Simendinger, Trustees of the Walter E. Simendinger Family Trust Wilmington Trust, National Association, As Trustee, On Behalf of the Registered Holders of CitiGroup Commercial Mortgage Trust 2018-B2, Commercial Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2018-B2 Bank Rhode Island
Tax Dept 81017 P.O. Box 20 Boise, Idaho 83726
12A, 12B
Berkshire Bank
75 South Winooski Ave P.O. Box 201 Burlington, Vermont Mailing Address 05402
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TD Bank, N.A.
TD Bank, N.A.
People’s United Muni Finance Corp., D/B/A People’s United Bank (successor-ininterest by merger to the Chittenden Trust Company) New England Federal Credit Union Company
21A, 21B
85 Swift Street South Burlington, Vermont 05403
25A, 25B
973 Roosevelt Hwy Colchester, Vermont 05446
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175 Hercules Drive Colchester, Vermont 05446
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85 Swift Street South Burlington, Vermont 05403
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973 Roosevelt Hwy Colchester, Vermont 05446
30
432 Main Street Winooski, Vermont 05404
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Name Name
432 Main Street Winooski, Vermont 05404
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Not Applicable (N/A)
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9A, 9B
Service Address
Name
Service Address
Board of Listers Board of Listers Colchester, Town Colchester, Town of Selectboard Selectboard Colchester, Town Colchester, Town of of
C/O Town Clerk
C/O Town Clerk
781 Blakely Road
Mailing Address
Parcel Parcel No. C/O Town Clerk No. All
Mailing Address
C/O Town Clerk
781 Blakely
All
781 Blakely Road 781 Blakely Colchester, VT 05446 Road Colchester, VT 05446 Road Colchester, Colchester, VT VT 05446 05446 C/O Town Clerk C/O Town Clerk All All C/O Town Clerk C/O Town Clerk 781Blakely BlakelyRoad Road 781 Blakely 781 781 Blakely Colchester, VT 05446 Road Colchester, VT 05446 Road Colchester, Colchester, VT VT 05446 05446
To the other persons who may have an interest To the above abovepersons personsand andall all other persons who may have an interest in the the lands lands proposed in proposedtotobe betaken: taken: 1. THE THE STATE ISIS PROPOSING TOTO CONDEMN 1. STATEOF OFVERMONT VERMONT PROPOSING CONDEMN PROPERTY IN WHICH YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST. The State of PROPERTY IN WHICH YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST. The State of Vermont, acting by and through VTrans, has filed a Verified Complaint in the Vermont, acting by and through VTrans, has filed a Verified Complaint in the Superior Court that affects your property. Superior Court that affects your property.
One Turks Head Place Providence, Rhode Island 02903
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Mailing Address
Parcel No. 12A, 12B
a. YOU MUST WITHIN DAYSresponse TO PROTECT You must giveREPLY or mail the Agency 20 a written called anYOUR AnswerRIGHTS. within You must givedate or mail the Agency a written response called an Answer 20 days of the on which you received this Summons. You must send a within copy of your Answer to the Agency’s attorneythis located at: 20 days of the date on which you received Summons. You must send a copy of your Answer to the Agency’s attorney located at: Assistant Attorney General Vermont Agency of Transportation National Life Building One National Life Drive Montpelier, Vermont 05633-5001
b. YOU MUST ALSO GIVE OR MAIL YOUR ANSWER TO THE COURT located at: Mailing Address: Vermont Superior Court Chittenden Unit 175 Main St. Burlington, VT 05401
Physical Address: Vermont Superior Court Chittenden Unit 175 Main St. Burlington, VT 05401
Lydia C. Boose P.O. Box 9540 Portland, Maine 04112
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C/O CT Corporation System 17 G W Tatro Dr Jeffersonville, Vermont 05464
P.O. Box 400 Bar Harbor, Maine 04609
21A, 21B
U.S. Small Business Administration 87 State Street Montpelier, VT 05602
21A, 21B
Post Office Box 570 11 Elmwood Avenue, 3rd Floor Burlington, VT 05402-0570 Mailing Address
21A, 21B
Lydia C. Boose P.O. Box 9540 Portland, Maine 04112
Parcel No. 25A, 25B
C/O CT Corporation System 17 G W Tatro Dr Jeffersonville, Vermont 05464 111 Main Street Burlington, Vermont 05401
P.O. Box 1308 Pittsfield, Massachusetts 01202
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Lydia C. Boose P.O. Box 9540 Portland, Maine 04112
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Cogency Global Inc. 1154 Route 30 Townshend, Vermont 05353
850 Main Street Bridgeport, Connecticut 06604
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John J. Dwyer Jr. 141 Harvest Lane Williston, Vermont 05495
P.O. Box 527 141 Harvest Lane Williston, Vermont 05495
4. YOU WILL LOSE YOUR RIGHT TO BE HEARD IF YOU DO NOT GIVE YOUR WRITTEN ANSWER TO THE COURT. If you do not answer within 20 days, you will lose your right to be heard on the Verified Complaint and the necessity of the taking. You will not get to tell your side of the story, and the Court may decide against you, and grant the Agency the right to proceed with the acquisition of your property, and/or the acquisition of other easement rights to your property. 5. THE COURT WILL SCHEDULE A FINAL HEARING ON THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR NECESSITY. The Court will schedule a final hearing on the Verified Complaint if timely Answers are filed denying the necessity of the proposed taking or the public purpose of the project. The purpose of this hearing is for the Court to determine the contested issues and to hear evidence from the Agency, municipal officials, and affected property owners regarding the agency’s need to acquire the land and rights described in the Verified Complaint for the transportation project. 6. THE FINAL HEARING FOR NECESSITY IS NOT ABOUT CHALLENGING COMPENSATION. The Final Hearing is not about challenging compensation. This hearing is for the Court to determine the contested issues and to hear evidence from the Agency, municipal officials, and affected property owners regarding the Agency’s need to acquire the land and rights described in the Verified Complaint for the transportation project.
7. IF THE COURT FINDS THE PROPOSED TAKING LAWFUL: If the Court finds the proposed taking lawful the Court shall issue a Judgment of Condemnation, declaring the right of the Agency to take the property by eminent domain and declaring that title to the property will be transferred to the Agency, once the Judgment of Condemnation is recorded, payment has been tendered or deposited, and a Notice of Taking has been issued to the property owners and/or interested persons named in the Verified Complaint. 8. IF YOU DISAGREE WITH THE AMOUNT OF COMPENSATION OFFERED BY THE AGENCY. Property owners who disagree with the amount of compensation offered by the Agency will have a later opportunity to be heard on the amount of compensation. A property owner who disagrees with a compensation award may appeal in the following manner: a. If the owner’s demand exceeds the Agency’s offer of just compensation by $25,000.00 or less, the owner(s) may obtain a determination of damages by either:
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(1) petitioning the Transportation Board, or (2) filing a complaint or, if applicable, a motion to re-open a Judgment of Condemnation, in Superior Court. b. If the owner’s demand exceeds the Agency’s offer of just compensation by more than $25,000.00, the owner may obtain a determination of damages by filing a complaint or, if applicable, a motion to re-open a Judgment of Condemnation, in Superior Court. A property owner must file a petition, complaint, or motion under subdivision (1) or (2) no later than 90 days after the date of the Notice of Taking. 9. IF YOU DO NOT OBJECT TO THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT. If you do not object to the Verified Complaint, you do not have to respond to the Verified Complaint. 10. 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. Even if you cannot get legal help, you must still give the Court and the Agency a written Answer to protect your rights or you may lose your right to be heard on the Verified Complaint and the necessity of the taking.
LIENORS
Name
Service Address
Mailing Address
Not Applicable (N/A)
N/A
N/A
IV.
7A, 7B
111 Main Street Burlington, Vermont 05401
Alabama District Office 801 Tom Martin Drive, Suite 201 Birmingham, AL 35211 U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, Service AddressDC 20530-0001 111 Main Street Burlington, Vermont 05401
Attorney General of the United States
402 VT RTE 107 South Royalton, Vermont 05068
Name
3. YOU MUST RESPOND TO EACH CLAIM. The Answer is your written response to the Agency’s Verified Complaint. In your Answer you must state whether you agree or disagree with each paragraph of the Verified Complaint. If you believe the Agency should not be granted the relief asked for in the Verified Complaint, you must say so in your Answer.
Name
P.O. Box 64709 Burlington, Vermont 05406
OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES
OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES
of
10 Summit Ridge Williston, Vermont 05495
No. Parcel No. N/A N/A
a. YOU MUST REPLY WITHIN 20 DAYS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.
CT Corporation System 450 Veterans Memorial Parkway Suite 7A East Providence, Service Address Rhode Island 02914 The Corporation Trust Company Corporation Trust Center 1209 Orange Street Wilmington, Delaware 19801
Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Company (successor-ininterest by merger to Lake Sunapee Bank Group, Inc.) U.S. Small Business Administration
12A, 12B
V.
N/A
N/A
2. IF YOU OBJECT TO THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT. If you object to the
U.S. Bancorp, as parent company of U.S. Bank National Association, as Successor Trustee to Bank of America, National Association, successor by merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for those certain Banc of America Commercial Mortgage, Inc., Commercial Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2005-6 TD Bank, N.A.
Tax Dept 81017 P.O. Box 20 Boise, Idaho 83726
Parcel No. 7A, 7B
Mailing Address
N/A
N/A
2. IF YOU OBJECT TO THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT. If you object to the VERIFIED COMPLAINT: VERIFIED COMPLAINT:
Name
12A, 12B
Parcel No. N/A
11. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. The Agency will publish a notice of the Verified Complaint and the substance of the Summons in Seven Days, a newspaper having general circulation in the town or towns in which the proposed project is located. The notice will be published once a week for three consecutive weeks on the same day of the week. 12. COPIES OF THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT AND RIGHT-OF-WAY PLANS. An interested person who wishes to obtain a copy of the Verified Complaint and the right-of-way plans pertaining to the land in which the person is interested may obtain copies by contacting the following:
UTILITIES Service Address Service N/A
Mailing Address Address N/A
Parcel Parcel No. No. N/A
Mr. Bruce A. Melvin, Right-of-Way Acquisition Chief Vermont Agency of Transportation One National Life Drive Montpelier, Vermont 05633-5001
11th day of June, 2019. Dated at Montpelier, Vermont on this, the ____ JOE FLYNN SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION
V.
MORTGAGEES Service Address
People’s United Muni Finance Corp., D/B/A People’s United Bank
11995 El Camino Real San Diego, California 92130
SEVEN DAYS JUNE 26-JULY 3, 2019
Name
Mailing Address
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Parcel No. 13
V.
Service Address
One CVS Drive Woonsocket, Rhode Island 02895
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MORTGAGEES
Name
Service Address
Mailing Address
Parcel No.
OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES
6/17/19 3:14 PM
Name
Service Address
Mailing Address
Board of Listers Colchester, Town
C/O Town Clerk
C/O Town Clerk
781 Blakely Road
781 Blakely
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SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS 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.
[CONTINUED] Joint Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered April 3, 2019, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Shannon H. Reilly to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Sovereign Bank, N.A., dated May 20, 2013 and recorded in Book 1217 Page 398 of the land records of the City of Burlington, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as nominee for Santander Bank, N.A., formerly known as Sovereign Bank, N.A. to Santander Bank, N.A. dated January 4, 2018 and recorded in Book 1379 Page 126 of the land records of the City of Burlington for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 203 Elmwood Avenue, Burlington, Vermont on July 8, 2019 at 10:00AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Shannon H. Reilly by Warranty Deed of David J.B. Driscoll and Liza K. Driscoll dated September 28, 2005 and recorded in Volume 935 at Pages 372-373 of the City of Burlington Land Records. Being a lot of land with dwelling house thereon, situated on the westerly side of Elmwood Avenue in the City of Burlington, Vermont. Said lot has a frontage on Elmwood Avenue of 34 feet, more or less. The dwelling house thereon is known and designated as No. 203 Elmwood Avenue, Burlington, Vermont. 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
TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale. DATED : June 6, 2019 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 0104447 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, WILLISTON VT, WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT THE 11TH OF JULY 2019 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF STEPHANIE BILODEAU. 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. VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT LAMOILLE UNIT PROBATE DIVISION, SS. DOCKET NO. 103-5-19 LEPR IN RE THE ESTATE OF HARRY W. MINGLEDORFF LATE OF JOHNSON, VERMONT NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the Estate of HARRY W. MINGLEDORFF, late of JOHNSON, 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 4 months of the date of the 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 forever barred if it is not presented as described above within the four [4] month period. Dated: June 19, 2019 Signed: s/ Dale W. Mingledorff, Executor Address: c/o David C. Buran, Esq. Law Offices of David C. Buran PC 78 Severance Green, Suite 106 Colchester, VT 05446 Telephone: (802) 8788588 Address of the Court: Vermont Superior Court Lamoille Probate Division 154 Main St PO Box 570 Hyde Park, VT 05655 Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: June 26, 2019
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BABY BUMPS SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS AND PREGNANT WOMEN Pregnancy can be a wonderful time of your life. But, it can also be a time of stress that is often compounded by hormonal swings. If you are a pregnant woman, or have recently given birth and feel you need some help with managing emotional bumps in the road that can come with motherhood, please come to this free support group lead by an experienced pediatric Registered Nurse. Held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Birthing Center, Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans. Info: Rhonda Desrochers, Franklin County Home Health Agency, 527-7531. BETTER BREATHERS CLUB American Lung Association support group for people with breathing issues, their loved ones or caregivers. Meets first Monday of the month, 11 a.m.-noon at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. For more information call 802-776-5508. BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., St. Johnsbury. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury. It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment. Info, Tom Younkman, tyounkman@vcil.org, 800-639-1522. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets the 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:302:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets the 3rd Wed. monthly at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1:00-2:30 p.m. Colchester Evening support group meets the 1st Wed. monthly at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Brattleboro meets at Brooks Memorial Library on the 1st Thu. monthly from 1:15-3:15 p.m. and the 3rd Mon. monthly from 4:15-6:15
Open 24/7/365. Post & browse ads at your convenience. p.m. White River Jct. meets the 2nd Fri. monthly at Bugbee Sr. Ctr. from 3-4:30 p.m. Call our helpline at 877-856-1772. BURLINGTON AREA PARKINSON’S DISEASE OUTREACH GROUP People with Parkinson’s disease & their caregivers gather together to gain support & learn about living with Parkinson’s disease. Group meets 2nd Wed. of every mo., 1-2 p.m., continuing through Nov. 18, 2015. Shelburne Bay Senior Living Community, 185 Pine Haven Shores Rd., Shelburne. Info: 888-763-3366, parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org, parkinsonsvt.org. CANCER SUPPORT GROUP The Champlain Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group will be held every 2nd Tue. of the mo., 6-7:45 p.m. at the Hope Lodge, 237 East Ave., Burlington. Newly diagnosed? Prostate cancer reoccurrence? General discussion and sharing among survivors and those beginning or rejoining the battle. Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS, ACNS-BC, 274-4990, vmary@aol.com. CELEBRATE RECOVERY Overcome any hurt, habit or hangup in your life with this confidential 12-Step, Christ-centered recovery program. We offer multiple support groups for both men and women, such as chemical dependency, codependency, sexual addiction and pornography, food issues, and overcoming abuse. All 18+ are welcome; sorry, no childcare. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; we begin at 7 p.m. Essex Alliance Church, 37 Old Stage Rd., Essex Junction. Info: recovery@essexalliance. org, 878-8213. CELEBRATE RECOVERY Celebrate Recovery meetings are for anyone with struggles with hurt, habits and hang ups, which includes everyone in some way. We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton which meets every Friday night at 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us and discover how your life can start to change. Info: 893-0530, Julie@ mccartycreations.com. CELIAC & GLUTEN-FREE GROUP Last Wed. of every month, 4:30-6 p.m., at Tulsi Tea Room, 34 Elm
St., Montpelier. Free & open to the public! To learn more, contact Lisa at 598-9206 or lisamase@gmail.com. CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE Cerebral Palsy Guidance is a very comprehensive informational website broadly covering the topic of cerebral palsy and associated medical conditions. It’s mission it to provide the best possible information to parents of children living with the complex condition of cerebral palsy. cerebralpalsyguidance.com/ cerebral-palsy/ CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy & fulfilling relationships. By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new joy, acceptance & serenity in our lives. Meets Sunday at noon at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. Tom, 238-3587, coda.org. DECLUTTERERS’ SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming? Maybe two or three of us can get together to help each other simplify. 989-3234, 425-3612. DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE! SMART Recovery welcomes anyone, including family and friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction. It is a science-based program that encourages abstinence. Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership. Sundays at 5 p.m. at the 1st Unitarian Universalist Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington. Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 399-8754. You can learn more at smartrecovery. org. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT Steps to End Domestic Violence offers a weekly drop-in support group for female identified survivors of intimate partner violence, including individuals who are experiencing or have been affected by domestic violence. The support group offers a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect with others, to heal, and to recover. In support group, participants
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talk through their experiences and hear stories from others who have experienced abuse in their relationships. Support group is also a resource for those who are unsure of their next step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship. Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. Childcare is provided. Info: 658-1996. EMPLOYMENTSEEKERS SUPPORT GROUP Frustrated with the job search or with your job? You are not alone. Come check out this supportive circle. Wednesdays at 3 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602. FAMILIES, PARTNERS, FRIENDS AND ALLIES OF TRANSGENDER ADULTS We are people with adult loved ones who are transgender or gender-nonconforming. We meet to support each other and to learn more about issues and concerns. Our sessions are supportive, informal, and confidential. Meetings are held at 5:30 PM, the second Thursday of each month at Pride Center of VT, 255 South Champlain St., Suite 12, in Burlington. Not sure if you’re ready for a meeting? We also offer one-on-one support. For more information, email rex@ pridecentervt.org or call 802-238-3801. FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends and community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety and other types of distress. The group is a confidential space where family and friends can discuss shared experiences and receive support in an environment free of judgment and stigma with a trained facilitator. Weekly on Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586. FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Families coping with addiction (FCA) is an open community peer
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LIVING THROUGH LOSS: WEEKLY SUPPORT GROUP The Volunteer Chaplaincy Program at Gifford Medical Center invites community members to attend “Living Through Loss,” a grief support group from noon to 1:30 p.m. every Friday in the Gifford Medical Center Chapel. The group is open to anyone who has experienced loss. Each of the Friday sessions is facilitated by Gifford Volunteer Chaplain Anna Mary Zigmann, RN, an ordained minister and spiritual care provider specializing in trauma and loss, or by the Rev. Timothy Eberhardt, spiritual care coordinator for the Chaplaincy Program. There is no religious component to the group apart from the Serenity Prayer to close each meeting. For more information, email teberhardt@ giffordmed.org or azigmann@gmail.com, or call 802-728-2107.
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INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/PAINFUL BLADDER SUPPORT GROUP Interstitial cystitis (IC) and painful bladder syndrome can result in recurring pelvic pain, pressure or discomfort in the bladder/pelvic region & urinary frequency/ urgency. These are often misdiagnosed & mistreated as a chronic bladder infection. If you have been diagnosed or have these symptoms, you are not alone. For Vermont-based support group, email bladderpainvt@gmail.com or call 899-4151 for more information.
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HEARING VOICES SUPPORT GROUP This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice hearing experiences as real lived experiences which may happen to anyone at anytime. We choose to share experiences, support, and empathy. We validate anyone’s experience and stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest and accurate representation of their experience, and as being acceptable exactly as they are. Weekly on Tuesday, 2-3 p.m. Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski
HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107. People living with cancer & their caretakers convene for support.
LGBTQ VETERANS GROUP This veterans group is a safe place for veterans to gather and discuss ways to help the community, have dinners, send packages and help the families of LGBTQ service people. Ideas on being helpful encouraged. Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 6-8:30 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church (The Little Red Door), 64 State Street, Montpelier. RSVP, 802-825-2045.
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FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS (FA) Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? FA is a free 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating or bulimia. Local meetings are held twice a week: Mondays, 4-5:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Norwich, Vt.; and Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., at Hanover Friends Meeting House, Hanover, N.H. For more information and a list of additional meetings throughout the U.S. and the world, call 603-630-1495 or visit foodaddicts.org.
GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS Meet twice a month: every second Monday from 6-7:30 p.m., and every third Wednesday from 10-11:30 a.m., at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to the public and free of charge. More info: Diana Moore, 224-2241.
HEARTBEAT VERMONT Have you lost a friend, colleague or loved one by suicide? Some who call have experienced a recent loss and some are still struggling w/ a loss from long ago. Call us at 446-3577 to meet with our clinician, Jonathan Gilmore, at Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main St. All are welcome.
KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients as well as caregivers are provided with a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers. For further info, please contact info@vcsn.net.
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G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction? Find support, peer-led support group. Meets once a month on Mondays in Burlington. Please call for date and location. RSVP mkeasler3@gmail.com or call 310-3301 (message says Optimum Health, but this is a private number).
MALE SURVIVOR OF VIOLENCE GROUP A monthly, closed group for male identified survivors of violence including relationship, sexual assault, and discrimination. Open to all sexual orientations. Contact 863-0003 for more information or safespace@pridecentervt.org. MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem with marijuana? MA is a free 12-step program where addicts help other addicts to get & stay clean. Ongoing Wed. at 7 p.m. at Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski, Suite 301, Burlington. 861-3150. MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP Area Myeloma Survivors, Families and Caregivers have come together to form a Multiple Myeloma Support Group. We provide emotional support, resources about treatment options, coping strategies and a support network by participating in the group experience with people that have been though similar situations. Third Tuesday of the month, 5-6 p.m. at the New Hope Lodge on East Avenue in Burlington. Info: Kay Cromie, 655-9136, kgcromey@aol.com. NAMI CONNECTION PEER SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Bennington, every Tue., 1-2:30 p.m., CRT Center, United Counseling Service, 316 Dewey St.; Burlington, every Thu., 3-4:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2 Cherry St. (enter from parking lot); Berlin, second Thu. of the month, 4-5:30 p.m., CVMC Board Room, 130 Fisher Rd.; Rutland, every 1st and 3rd Sun., 4:30-6 p.m., Rutland Mental Health Wellness Center, 78 S. Main St.; No. Concord, every Thu., 6-7:30 p.m., Loch Lomond, 700 Willson Rd. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, program@ namivt.org or 800639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living with mental health challenges. NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Bellows Falls, 3rd Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., Compass School, 7892
US-5, Westminster; Brattleboro, 1st Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., 1st Congregational Church, 880 Western Ave., West Brattleboro; Burlington, 2nd & 4th Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., HowardCenter, corner of Pine & Flynn Ave.; Berlin, 4th Mon. of every mo., 7 p.m. Central Vermont Medical Center, Room 3; Georgia, 1st Tue. of every mo., 6 p.m., Georgia Public Library, 1697 Ethan Allen Highway (Exit 18, I-89); Manchester, 4th Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., Equinox Village, 2nd floor; Rutland, 1st Mon. of every mo., 6 p.m., Rutland Regional Medical Center, Leahy Conference Ctr., room D; St. Johnsbury, 4th Wed. of every mo., 5:30 p.m., Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital Library, 1315 Hospital Dr.; Williston, 1st & 3rd Mon. of every mo., 6 p.m., NAMI Vermont Office, 600 Blair Park Rd. #301. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, info@namivt. org or 800-639-6480. Family Support Group meetings are for family & friends of individuals living mental illness. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live w/ out the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516 or cvana.org. Held in Burlington, Barre and St. Johnsbury. NAR-ANON BURLINGTON GROUP Group meets every Monday at 7 p.m. at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. Info: Amanda H. 338-8106. NEW (AND EXPECTING) MAMAS AND PAPAS! EVERY PRIMARY CAREGIVER TO A BABY! The Children’s Room invites you to join our weekly drop-in support group. Come unwind and discuss your experiences and questions around infant care and development, self-care and postpartum healing, and community resources for families with babies. Tea and snacks provided. Weekly on Thursdays, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Bring your babies! (Newborn
through crawling stage). Located within Thatcher Brook Primary School, 47 Stowe Street, childrensroomonline. org. Contact childrensroom@wwsu.org or 244-5605. NORTHWEST VERMONT CANCER PRAYER & SUPPORT NETWORK A meeting of cancer patients, survivors & family members intended to comfort & support those who are currently suffering from the disease. 2nd Thu. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 11 Church St., St. Albans. Info: stpaulum@myfairpoint.net. 2nd Wed. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m. Winooski United Methodist Church, 24 W. Allen St., Winooski. Info: hovermann4@ comcast.net. OPEN EARS, OPEN MINDS A mutual support circle that focuses on connection and selfexploration. Fridays at 1 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) A 12-step program for people who identify as overeaters, compulsive eaters, food addicts, anorexics, bulimics, etc. No matter what your problem with food, we have a solution! All are welcome, meetings are open, and there are no dues or fees. See oavermont.org/ meeting-list/ for the current meeting list, meeting format and more; or call 802-8632655 any time! POTATO INTOLERANCE SUPPORT GROUP Anyone coping with potato intolerance and interested in joining a support group, contact Jerry Fox, 48 Saybrook Rd., Essex Junction, VT 05452. QUEEN CITY MEMORY CAFE The Queen City Memory Café offers a social time & place for people with memory impairment & their fiends & family to laugh, learn & share concerns & celebrate feeling understood & connected. Enjoy coffee, tea & baked goods with entertainment & conversation. QCMC meets the 3rd Sat. of each mo., 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Thayer Building, 1197 North Ave., Burlington. 316-3839.
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We are looking for a Regional Product Manager for our corporate office in Charlotte, VT. This is not a remote position. He/She will be responsible for specific product management and tour-related operations. This role will also be responsible for preparing budgets and forecast as well as execution of all aspects of tour-specific vendor management including planning, contracting and organization. The Regional Product Manager will have direct responsibility of specific tour quality and performance. Job Type: Part Time ( 20-29 Hours Per Week). Apply by sending us the following: • A resume and introductory cover letter • A self-assessment of why you are interested and why you would be a great fit for Sojourn • Two to three letters of reference pertaining directly to this position and including contact details Send your application to jobs@gosojourn.com. No phone calls, please.
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Additional community support hours available every Monday and Wednesday for a young man who lives in Moretown 10:00-3:00. This position involves supporting him with senior meal delivery, food pantry delivery and going to the gym. Send resumes to: sjacques@uvs-vt.org
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Community Capital of Vermont is seeking a dynamic and effective Executive Director. CCVT is a statewide small business and microenterprise lender serving low to moderate income Vermonters. Since 1995 CCVT has helped Vermont entrepreneurs secure capital for startups and expanding businesses throughout the state. The E.D. reports to our Board of Directors and 1:07 PM is responsible for the day to day operations of the organization, and supporting the Board’s leadership on policy and long-term planning. Areas of responsibility include financial management, fundraising, oversight of lending and business advisory programs as well as coordinating our marketing and outreach efforts. This position offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits. A complete job description with additional information on this position is available on our website: www.communitycapitalvt.org.
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Laraway Youth & Family Services offers highly specialized educational, therapeutic, behavioral and clinical support programs designed to help children and families learn, heal and grow. At Laraway we embrace the challenge of helping youth to recover from trauma while discovering the special and unique gifts they bring to the world.
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Wake Robin seeks a Maintenance person to join our Staff. Our maintenance team utilizes a variety of technical skills to repair and maintain electrical, plumbing, security, and air quality systems throughout the facility and in resident homes. The qualified candidate will have well rounded maintenance skills and must have specific experience and/or training in HVAC systems, as well as a strong aptitude for computer-based operational systems. This is an opportunity to join a stable and talented team of individuals dedicated to doing good work, for great people, in a beautiful setting. Interested candidates can apply online at Wakerobin.com or email a resume with cover letter to: HR@wakerobin.com.
Laraway Youth & Family Services offers highly specialized educational, therapeutic, behavioral and clinical support programs designed to help children and families learn, heal and grow. At Laraway we embrace the challenge of helping youth to recover from trauma while discovering the special and unique gifts they bring to the world. If supporting a team by building bridges and leading collaboration through relationship building, community partnerships, education and advocacy gets you excited then our Executive Director role may be of interest. Laraway’s next leader must promote a sincere hope and belief in the strength of the Human Spirit, thrive in the face of challenge, and promote our vision of inclusion and community. The Executive Director plays a crucial role in delivering the Mission of the Agency and is responsible for maintaining a budget and financial targets, ensuring quality of programs and integrity standards, and complying with applicable local, state and/or federal regulations, statutes and/or guidelines.
Wake Robin is an equal opportunity employer.
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THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REPORTS DIRECTLY TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR: • Establishing the strategic direction for the agency, ensuring Laraway successfully fulfills its Mission into the future;
We make things that matter - from the products that enable the way we live today to the technologies that drive what’s possible for tomorrow.
• Developing sufficient resources to ensure the financial health and integrity of the agency to include submission of annual budget and monthly financial statements to the Board of Directors; • Performing ongoing assessments of the needs and emerging trends, facilitating changes in services and programming as appropriate;
MECHANICS AND TECHNICIANS Enable Advanced Semiconductor Equipment Maintenance and Perform Continuous Improvement Activities.
We are excited to announce new starting wages for Mechanics and Technicians! Mechanic Requirements:
H.S. Diploma w/ Demonstrated Technical Experience
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First Call Maintenance & Preventative Maintenance
• Enhancing the agency image by being active and visible in the community and by working closely with other professional, civic and private organizations; • Creating and implementing a sustainable fundraising strategy to support the agency’s mission. Qualifications include a Master’s Degree in the Human Services or Education field, have a minimum of five years of experience as a senior manager of a nonprofit, and have strong organization ability including planning, delegation and program development. This leader will also have knowledge of fundraising strategies and donor relations unique to the nonprofit sector.
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Mechanic Job Requisition: 18002513
Our agency is also seeking applications for Behavior Interventionists, Community Support Staff, and a licensed Special Educator/Case Manager. Please see our Website at www.Laraway.org for further details
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If you are interested in being a part of a dynamic organization that encourages creativity, growth and collaboration…come join our team!
Technician Job Requisitions:
A comprehensive compensation and benefits package is offered to all full-time employees.
2 year Associate’s → Electrical or Mechanical Preventative & Reactive Maintenance Up to $26.00 Days; up to $29.25 Nights New College Graduate→ 18003089 (Graduated w/in last 18 Months)
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Intern→ 18003090 (Enrolled in 2 year Technical Associate’s) Experienced/Entry Level→ 18002106 You must be 18 years or older with high school diploma/GED to apply. For more information about responsibilities, required qualifications, or how to apply contact: jobs@globalfoundries.com or 802-769-2790 or apply on our website: www.globalfoundries.com/about-us/careers.
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Please visit www.miltonvt.gov/ We are looking for an experienced administrative leader to help us do what we employment for additional details & to apply. do: make a difference with our practice. We are a 2019 Best Place to Work in Vermont seeking a CAO who will lead a talented administrative team already in place. Significant experience with financial management is a must, followed by proven ability to enable our IT and operational managers to do their best work 2H-TownOfMilton062619.indd 1 as a team. The CAO will also facilitate timely and effective decision-making by our partners. Experience managing a board of directors, or similar body of A world where human choices ensure a sustainable future. senior owners/executives, is highly relevant. Successful candidates will have a passion for aligning their business toward social and environmental good. NEPCON is looking for a Forestry Associate
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Additional information is available at dunkielsaunders.com/careers/.
to be based in our Richmond, Vermont office!
Please submit a letter of interest and resume to applications@dunkielsaunders.com by July 31, 2019.
For more information go to: www.nepcon.org/careers Application Deadline: 07-14-2019
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Me2/Orchestra – Burlington, VT (part-time)
Me2/Orchestra (“me, too” orchestra) is the world’s only classical music organization created for individuals living with mental illness and the people who support them. Our mission is to erase the stigma surrounding mental health diagnoses through supportive classical music ensembles and inspiring performances.
• Fork lift experience required. CDL a plus. Email resume and cover letter to: info@shacksbury.com
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The Vergennes Congregational Church UCC, an Open and Affirming, progressive Christian community is seeking a Coordinator of Children and Family Ministries. This part10:16 AM time position carries an expectation (on average) of 15 hours/week. The successful candidate will be a person of faith with experience in working with children and/or youth, who will coordinate a program of stimulating and nourishing faith formation. For more information, including the Job Description, please contact Skip Masback, Faith Formation Committee, Vergennes Congregational Church at:
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3v-VergennesCongregationalChurch062619.indd 6/21/19 1 2h-ShacksburyCider061919.indd 1 6/17/19 3:16 PM Lead our 50-member orchestra in rehearsals on Thursday evenings, Sept-May. Conduct performances in both traditional and non-traditional venues (such as Position location: South Burlington, VT, or Randolph, VT gymnasiums and correctional institutions) up to six times Founded in 1962, DuBois & King is a multi-discipline consulting engineering firm per season.
SENIOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNER with offices in Vermont and New Hampshire. The firm provides a team of integrated professionals producing results to contribute to the health, safety and well-being of communities we serve.
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16 hours per week, 44 weeks per year (mid-August through mid-June) – $18.36 per hour The Faith Development Assistant provides administrative support for the Society’s educational programs for all ages, coordinates childcare for infants and toddlers in the Society’s nursery on Sunday mornings, and arranges for age-appropriate supervised activities for children at other Society events, meetings, and functions as requested.
YOUTH MINISTRY COORDINATOR 18 hours per week, 44 weeks per year (mid-August through mid-June) – $18.36 per hour The Youth Ministry Coordinator directly supports and builds programs and ministries specifically to serve youth, while fostering channels for youth to engage across areas of congregational life. The position primarily includes leadership for our high school Youth Group, but also includes various outreach efforts so as to broaden and deepen our youth ministry.
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8+ years of Experience PE or AICP Certification preferred Minimum Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering, Planning, or related field. Experience Managing Transportation Planning or Design Projects Strong understanding of Complete Streets design concepts and bicycle and pedestrian planning Excellent Oral and Written Communication Skills Experience Working with Regional DOTs, Regional Planning Commissions Ability to Mentor and Develop Staff Relevant experience with software platforms including: ArcGIS, TrafficWare, MicroStation, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite.
This is a senior level planning position that will include leading public meetings, regional travel, some evening meetings, and the authorship of professional reports and studies. Responsibilities will also include some proposal writing, management of staff, budgets and schedules and maintenance of client relationships. Send resume to: DuBois & King, Inc. P.O. Box 339, Randolph, Vermont 05060 Fax: 866-783-7101 Email: rgoodall@dubois-king.com EEO 7T-DuboisKing062619.indd 1
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OPERATIONS DIRECTOR We are excited to be growing and are seeking an Operations Director to serve as a crucial member of our small, mighty, mission-driven team. Candidates with demonstrated expertise in operations, management, & development, who communicate effectively with a sense of heart & humor, are encouraged to apply.
Qi Veterinary Clinic is looking for a highly motivated, selfstarting individual eager to join a team of passionate health care providers. We practice integrated holistic medicine in South Burlington, Vermont, emphasizing lifestyle, nutrition, exercise, herbal medicine, acupuncture, and conventional care to maintain our patients at their best health. We are seeking a technician with interest in improving skills in anesthesia, surgery, radiography, and laboratory testing, as well as gaining knowledge in whole food nutrition therapy, and herbal medicine. Our compensation package is competitive with the best in Vermont: hourly wages between $15-20 per hour, two weeks paid vacation, one week personal/ sick leave, 6 paid holidays, health care contribution, 401K match to 3%, and service discounts. Come learn a different way of practicing preventative holistic medicine in a full serve clinic.
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Energy Action Network (EAN) is seeking a highly motivated, collaborative, and multi-skilled person to become a core part of our non-profit staff team in a senior management, permanent, full-time position. Our Program Manager will be responsible for project management, network coordination, and communications and event management. Located in Montpelier. Competitive salary and generous benefits. Find out more and apply: www.eanvt.org/employment Applications due by July 15, 2019. EAN is an EOE. www.eanvt.org
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HEAD OF SCHOOL The Sharon Academy, Sharon, VT
The Sharon Academy, an independent school in Sharon, VT, offers all the advantages of a small school environment. On our two campuses for grades 7-12, we provide a nurturing and challenging environment where students are able to thrive academically, emotionally and physically. Founded on the Common Principles of the Coalition of Essential Schools, TSA emphasizes selfdirected, mastery learning. The Sharon Academy presents an outstanding leadership opportunity and seeks a new Head of School for July, 2020. Interested candidates are directed to: www.sharonacademy.org/head-of-school-position/. Application deadline is July 15, 2019.
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Instrument Technician Middlebury College seeks an Instrument Technician to work under the direction of the Senior Instrument Technician on maintenance, repair, basic operation, basic user training, and other support functions for analytical instrument systems and laboratory equipment, and to assist faculty and students with instrument-related activities. BS or BA in a physical science or engineering, or in a biological or other science with appropriate training or experience on a variety of spectrometric and chromatographic instruments and laboratory equipment. Minimum of 1–3 years’ experience in calibration, maintenance, and repair of analytical instrumentation in a laboratory setting required. Must have a general understanding of the core scientific principles and practices used in analytical instrumentation and be able to analyze and troubleshoot problems down to the board or subsystem level. Must be proficient in operation and use of computer hardware and application software, and be able to maintain and troubleshoot laboratory and field equipment, including various electromechanical and electronic systems and devices. To view the complete job description and apply online, visit https://apptrkr.com/1503637 Middlebury College employees enjoy a high quality of life with excellent compensation; competitive health, dental, retirement, and vision benefits; and educational assistance programs. EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability.
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Administrative Endorsement preferred but not required. Must be willing to pursue an administrator’s endorsement and will be working under a newly merged district with three campuses. The individual will work closely with other building administrators and the Superintendent. Further information can be found on SchoolSpring.
For full job description & to submit a resume contact: info@silvermapleconstruction.com.
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Engaging minds that change the world Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions. Business Manager - Center for Academic Success (CFAS) #S2119PO - Join our team supporting UVM students’ success. Manage human and financial resources for programs, staff, and budgets totaling over $4 million, represent CFAS to internal/external constituents, manage a wide range of financial accounts, interpret/implement HR and financial policies/ procedures, initiate transactions, and support departmental hiring and performance appraisal efforts. Participate in strategic planning, implement departmental goals, and create a welcoming, inclusive department. Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree and 2-4 years’ human resources and/or financial experience. Proficient with Excel. Effective interpersonal, collaboration, communication, problem-solving, organizational, and prioritization skills. Able to maintain confidentiality and demonstrated commitment to multicultural competency. Desirable: Experience working on a team, with college-age students, TRIO students, Federal grants, PeopleSoft, PeopleAdmin, Axiom, or similar systems.
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Elementary School French Teacher Waitsfield and Warren Elementary Schools, part of the Harwood Unified Union School District, seek a French Seven Days teacher for our K-6th grades. Our elementary program Issue: provides 6/26 introductory language exposure along with world Due: culture 6/24 instruction. by noon Candidates must love kids and world of the language acquisition process Size: language; 3.83 xunderstanding 5.25 and effective instructional strategies for this age group are Cost: $476.85 (with 1 week online) also essential. This is a 4 days/week teaching position, with benefits and competitive pay. A candidate interested in more part-time work could work in just one of the schools.
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We are a small engine retail and repair shop, looking for a full time technician. Some experience required; however, would be willing to train. Should have an aptitude to read schematics; some computer experience is required. Saturday on a rotational basis is required. Send resumes to: smengaccounting@comcast.net
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Immediate openings for Carpenters, Carpenter Helpers & Site Work Laborers. Competitive wages & benefits. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin (EOE). Apply at Wright & Morrissey, Inc.-General Contractor, 99 Swift Street, Suite 100, South Burlington, VT 05403 or email resume and/or describe work experience. info@wmorrissey.com
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This is an afternoon and evening position. The Coach functions in a direct care student support capacity at Mansfield Hall consistent with the mission, values, philosophy and approach of the organization. The Coach uses relationships developed with students to provide guidance and fellowship in the Mansfield Hall community. Coaches assist students in day to day activities and provide direction and support in following a student’s daily schedule and Student Pathway to Independence Plan. The Coach should have an ongoing sense of students’ well-being and affect, lagging skills and skill development goals, and challenges and successes. This position also collaborates with and takes direction from Director-level staff and Mansfield Hall Administrative Leadership to assure the highest quality programming for the students. Minimum Qualifications for Knowledge/Experience: A bachelor’s degree in behavioral sciences or related fields. Apply online: mansfieldhall.org/employment Mailing Address: 289 College Street, Burlington, VT 05401 Tel: (802) 440-0532 | www.mansfieldhall.org
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Vespas is looking for a high energy candidate to help expand and grow our company while maintaining the fun upbeat environment that already exists. Management experience preferred. Responsibilities include all aspects of the kitchen; prep, hand-tossed pizza, sauté/ grill, managing/instructing staff, baking, catering, daily specials, maintaining cleaning standards, ordering. $15-$18/hr with benefits.
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AmeriCorps VISTA Positions Available! Stone Environmental, Inc. is a 100% Employee owned company. Our team members are some of Vermont’s best scientists, engineers, modelers, and project managers. We are seeking enthusiastic and committed individuals to join our talented team and want to talk to you.
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WATER RESOURCES SCIENTIST The person performing this job will be a "managerdoer” responsible for a mix of project management and execution of technical work, including coordinating and conducting desktop and field data collection activities. Please visit our website, www.stone-env.com, for full job descriptions and information about how to apply.
SerVermont currently has multiple AmeriCorps VISTA positions available across Vermont beginning in August 2019. Locations include Barre, Bellows Falls, Brattleboro, Burlington, Springfield, St. Johnsbury and Vergennes. The SerVermont VISTA Project places members in one-year terms at organizations and state agencies across the state that fight poverty and increase opportunity for low-income individuals. Our VISTAs gain professional development experience while building capacity for host site organizations through activities like fundraising, volunteer management, program development and outreach. This is a year-long, full-time volunteer position that offers a monthly living allowance, relocation assistance, and a choice of an Education Award of $6,095 to use towards past or future education expenses OR an end of service cash stipend of $1,800. In addition to on-site training, members have access to a monthly professional development series and additional opportunities to assist them in their service and beyond. To learn more about specific opportunities, please email your resume to Robyn Baylor at:
Home Instead Senior $200.0 Care, a provider robyn.baylor@vermont.gov. Sign o 0 Deadline for Submissions is June 30th, 2019. of personal Bonus n !!! care services to seniors in their homes, is seeking friendly and dependable people. 5v-StoneEnvironmental062619.indd 1 6/21/195v-SerVermont062619.indd 4:31 PM 1 CAREGivers assist seniors with daily living activities. P/T & F/T positions available. 12 hours/week minimum, flexible scheduling, currently available. $12-$16.50/hour depending Receptionist – Summer Position on experience. No heavy lifting. Apply online at: Middlebury Office www.homeinstead.com/483 Zoning Administrator/Sewage Control or call us at 802.860.4663.
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The Intervale Center in Burlington seeks a part-time Finance Director to join our growing organization. This position is responsible for all financial matters & works closely with the Executive Director, senior leadership and the Board of Directors to develop and implement strategies across the organization. This is a 20-24 hour per week position. Send resumes to: jobs@intervale.org
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Vermont law firm seeks a qualified individual to handle Vermont law firm seeks a qualified individual to handle reception desk responsibilities from mid-June through reception desk responsibilities from mid-June through mid-August. Duties include greeting clients and vendors, mid-August. Duties include greeting clients and vendors, routing inbound phone calls, calendaring and related office routing inbound phone calls, calendaring and related office tasks. Candidates should possess excellent communication tasks. Candidates should possess excellent communications skills, have a pleasant telephone manner, be computer skills, have a pleasant telephone manner, be computer literate, organized, and be able to work in a fast-paced literate, organized, and be able to work in a fast paced environment. This is a full-time temporary position. environment. This is a fulltime temporary position. Salary Salary commensurate with experience. commensurate with experience.
The Town of Charlotte is accepting applications for a Zoning Administrator/Sewage Control Officer/ Health Officer/E-911 Coordinator. The primary responsibility of this position is to administer land use permitting. The position also staffs the Zoning Board of Adjustment and is responsible for enforcement of the Charlotte Land Use Regulations, wastewater system permitting (with the assistance of a Licensed Designer), performance of the statutory duties of the Health Officer, and issuing E911 addresses. The position is a permanent position approved for 40 hours per week. Compensation is in accordance with the Town of Charlotte Salary Administration Policy. The starting wage rate is between $18.80 and $21.27, based on qualifications and experience. Generous health benefits are offered. A job description can be viewed at www.charlottevt.org; see right-hand sidebar. To apply, please send a resumé and cover letter to dean@townofcharlotte.com. The deadline for submitting an application is July 5th.
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University Event Services: Part-Time Registration Coordinator Responsible for working with clients from beginning to end on their event’s registration needs including creating registration sites, processing payments and refunds, handling inquiries from registrants, collecting balance dues, managing reconciliations of accounts, and preparing reports for clients. The right fit for this position has an eye for detail, strong financial experience and a heart for customer service. Position will report to the Assistant Director for Sales and Conference Services, and work up to 20 hours per week. Flexible hours available. Some early-morning, evening and weekend hours will be required for on-site registration support. QUALIFICATIONS: 3-5 years of customer service and strong financial experience. Detail oriented, effective interpersonal, communication and analytical skills required. Able to manage multiple projects and work in a fast-paced environment. Experience using a registration software, working understanding of HTML and Microsoft Office suite. Must have valid driver’s license and good driving record. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Experience with Asana, Constant Contact, Event Management System (EMS) software, PeopleSoft and a creative eye for event registration web design. Send a cover letter and resume to Denise Zang, Assistant Director for Sales & Conference Services at eventregistration@uvm.edu. The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category legally protected by federal or state law. The University encourages applications from all individuals who will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution.
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SevenG.W. DaysSavage is a leading disaster restoration company Issue: 6/26with the following employment openings: Due: 6/24 by noon RESTORATION TECHNICIANS Size: WATER 3.83 x 5.25 PAINTERS/TAPERS/CARPENTERS Cost: $476.85 (with 1 week online) & CLEANERS Qualifications: •
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We are seeking to find a Software Developer to join our passionate, growing team in the fun and relaxed atmosphere of our offices in the heart of Burlington’s Pine Street innovation corridor. Ranked as one of the Best Places to Work in Vermont in 2018 by the Best Companies Group, VON values innovation, creativity and respect for every team member.
The A/R team is responsible for bringing in the money and weeding out fraudsters. Indulge your inner Sherlock Holmes by joining our team to help track down late funds, investigate potential customers for credit worthiness, and take a bite out of Cyber Crime by vetting orders for potential chicanery.
Software Developer
The successful candidate will have at least a two-year Accounting degree (or comparable work experience), excellent attention to detail, and a customer service mindset.
Visit: www.vtoxford.org/jobs for a full job description. To apply send your resume and cover letter to jobs@vtoxford.org.
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Instrumart has an opening in our Accounts Receivable Department!
Think you’re a fit for this position and ready to be the next Instru-ployee?
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STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS SEEKING:
PART-TIME LEGAL ADVOCATE: 20 hours/week to provide legal advocacy services to those who have experienced domestic violence. Legal and/or social service experience required. Criminal background check required. Pro-rated benefits. Full job description at www.stepsVT.org/jobs. Resume & cover letter by Friday, July 19 to employment@stepsVT.org.
Please go to instrumart.com/jobs for the full job description, requirements, and to fill out our online application. Application deadline: July 5, 2019.
No phone calls please.
When applying, please have fun with your cover letter. Your cover letter is your chance to tell us what separates you from all the other applicants; please take the opportunity to provide us with an original, compelling case for why we need to hire you!
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Software Developers have a primary assignment to the application or web development team and report to the team lead for project assignments and technical oversight. Team members report directly to the IT Director for all other purposes.
We have a full time position in our growing kitchen, making our delicious sandwiches, salads, and soups. The ideal candidate has restaurant experience but is looking for a break from restaurant hours, takes pride in making excellent food, works cleanly and efficiently, and works well independently and in a team.
Please contact Rob Booz. rob@redhenbaking.com
Vermont Oxford Network (VON) is a nonprofit voluntary collaboration of health care professionals at over 1,200 hospitals and organizations worldwide, working together to improve medical care for the most vulnerable newborns. At VON we transform data into action to help save babies’ lives.
The Software Developer’s role is to design, code, test, and analyze software programs and applications. This includes researching, designing, documenting and modifying software specifications throughout the production life cycle. The Software Developer will also analyze and amend software errors in a timely and accurate fashion and provide status reports where required.
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EOE. People of color, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ individuals and those who have experienced domestic violence are encouraged to apply.
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Development Director
We have a new career opportunity! The Children’s Integrated Services Coordinator provides leadership to the regional CIS system of care with the goal of supporting families in accessing needed services in a coordinated and integrated manner and serves as a liaison between the Department for Children and Families Child Development Division and regional CIS service providers and teams.
Westport, NY
Champlain Area Trails seeks its first Development Director to plan and implement fundraising programs: annual giving, major gifts, capital campaigns, planned giving, and foundation and public grants.
Full job description at
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This is a full time position with a salary in the mid $50,000 range. We offer an excellent benefit package including medical, dental and vision insurance, generous time off, a retirement plan and discounted gym membership. To apply please submit a cover letter and resume by email to: CISCoordinator@cvoeo.org. To learn more about this position, please visit www.cvoeo.org.
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Inclusive Arts Vermont is an EOE and values a diverse staff. All are welcome and encouraged to apply. Visit our website for a full job description. Applications are due July 10th. Send a resume, writing sample, and cover letter to: katie@inclusiveartsvermont.org
Successful candidates will have exceptional customer service skills and demonstrated success in facility or event management. Should have experience recruiting and managing volunteers and staff, as well as strong technology competence in a hospitality or operations environment. For a detailed description of the position and information on how to apply, please visit our website UVMFoundation.org/Careers.
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When you work for the State of Vermont, you and your work matter. A career with the State puts you on a rich and rewarding professional path. You’ll find jobs in dozens of fields – not to mention an outstanding total compensation package.
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Champlain Community Services is a growing developmental services provider agency with a strong emphasis on selfdetermination values and employee and consumer satisfaction.
Service Coordinator Join our team of professionals and provide case management for individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism. In this role you will learn about strategies for individualized supports; build trusting, professional relationships; lead teams towards a greater goal; and continue your career in human services in a supportive & fun environment. This is a rewarding position where you can make a big difference in the lives of many. Champlain Community Services is a distinguished developmental service provider agency and was voted as one of the Best Places to Work in 2019. We would love to have you as part of our team.
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The Agency of Digital Services (ADS) is seeking an experienced IT Project Portfolio Manager to join the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO). The EPMO is a centralized division within ADS comprised of IT Project Managers & IT Business Analysts and provides project management and business analysis services to partner Agencies across the State. Preference will be given to candidates that possess a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, and Agile certification or experience. For more information, contact Rick Steventon at rick. steventon@vermont.gov. Status: Full Time. Reference Job ID # 1890. Application Deadline: Open until filled.
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CVOEO is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Are you passionate about inclusion?
Inclusive Arts Vermont seeks a full-time Development & Communications Director. This position is an integral part of our management team, and works in tandem with the Executive Director on fundraising, marketing, and finance operations. This is a permanent position eligible for benefits. Qualified candidates will have experience with fundraising, social media communications, and grant writing.
The UVM Foundation seeks a passionate and motivated hospitality professional to be our new Alumni House Operations Manager.
If you have a Bachelor’s degree in human services (Master’s degree preferred), a minimum of 5 years related professional experience with young children and their families, detailed knowledge of the local region’s network of maternal and early childhood supports and services and processes for accessing them, excellent verbal and written communication skills — bilingual abilities a plus, and an understanding of funding related to early childhood supports and services, we’d like to hear from you!
DEADLINE: JULY 31, 2019
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HUMAN SERVICES CASE AIDE – BENNINGTON
Voc Rehab Vermont is seeking a team-orientated individual with very strong customer service, interpersonal and administrative skills for our Bennington office. This candidate will be the first point of contact a consumer will have with the organization. Must be able to juggle multiple priorities and perform complex tasks involving state/federal programs and have solid computer skills. Tasks include reception, clerical support to counselors and VABIR staff, technical support, and other duties. For more information, contact William Pendlebury at william.pendlebury@vermont. gov. or 802-447-2865. Department: Disabilities Aging & Independent Living. Status: Part Time – Temporary. Reference Job ID # 1988. Application Deadline: July 7, 2019.
PROGRAM TECHNICIAN III - ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE PROGRAMS – BURLINGTON
The Department of Health is currently seeking a Program Technician to serve as a central point for grant subrecipient monitoring for the Division of Alcohol & Drug Abuse Programs. Job duties include the tracking of grantee reporting; Microsoft SharePoint site development and maintenance, federal audit compliance; and internal & external technical assistance regarding the Division’s sub-granting process. Position is located at our main office in downtown Burlington, VT - right next to Church St. For more information, contact Emily Trutor at Emily.Trutor@ vermont.gov. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 1997. Application Deadline: July 11, 2019.
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CHAMPLAIN VALLEY HEAD START CVHS HEALTH CONSULTANT (Burlington, VT) EARLY HEAD START INFANT/TODDLER HOME VISITOR
Licensed medical professional to support health component of federally-funded 0-5 program serving 319 (Franklin County) children and their families, and pregnant women, in northwestern VT. Responsibilities include working Provide services in home-based settings to program participants to: support prenatal education with families, children, staff, and health providers to manage health needs of enrolled children and and serviceswomen. to promote prenatal outcomes women; provide or support the parent care of pregnant Thishealthy may include supporting stafffor in pregnant implementing treatment plans, facilitating infants toddlers so ascompleting to enhancea postpartum their physical, social, and cognitive development; and staff and training sessions, home visit emotional, with new mothers, and obtaining health records. is a contracted for 3-4 of hours week with flexible scheduling. Competitive supportThis parents in the careposition and nurturing theirper infants and toddlers; and help parents movehourly wage dependent upon education and experience. toward self-sufficiency and independent living.
RequiRements: Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related education field, Qualifications:
with demonstrable experience • RN with Bachelor’s Degree and training in the provision of services for infants and toddlers. 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year. Starting wage upon completion of 60 –working day period: • VT State licensure $16.30 to 18.36/ per hour. Health plan and excellent benefits. • Experience working with infants, toddlers and preschool-aged children and their families with
The Converse Home, an assisted living community located in downtown Burlington, is now hiring someone who can provide basic to moderate maintenance service including, painting, indoor and outdoor work, basic lawn maintenance, light plumbing and projects with the maintenance team. We are looking for a friendly and compassionate individual who can work well as part of a team. You must be able to regularly lift 20lbs and occasionally lift over and up to 50lbs. This is a Full Time Day Shift position, 40 hour per week. Benefits Include: Vacation time, Medical, Dental, Retirement. A Clean, Valid Vermont Driver’s License and a clean background check is required Please check us out at www.conversehome.com, fill out an application online or in person. Send resumes to kellie@conversehome.com
SuCCESSful appliCantS excellent verbalspeaking and written communication diverse backgrounds (limited muSt financialHavE: resources, non-English families, varying education skills; skills in documentation and record-keeping; proficiency in mS Word, e-mail and internet; levels) exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. must be energetic, positive, mature, • Knowledge of the management of common chronic and acute conditions affecting young children 4t-ConverseHome062619.indd 1 6/21/19 professional, diplomatic, motivated, and have a can-do, extra-mile attitude. a commitment to PROGRAM DIRECTOR • Independent status social justice andcontractor to working with families with limited financial resources is necessary. Clean Program Director, HIV Services. Fulldriving record and access to reliable transportation required. demonstrate physicaltoability Must be energetic, positive, mature, professional, diplomatic, and must motivated. A commitment social to time, management-level position; carry and out required tasks. justice to working with families with limited financial resources is necessary. Access to reliable MSW strongly preferred. Seeking transportation required. submit resume cover letter with threevia work references via email to Please submit resumePlease and cover letter withand three work references email to pirish@cvoeo.org. a strong manager with excellent Julie Springer, jspringer@cvoeo.org. No phone calls,calls, please. No phone please. communication and organizational skills to coordinate and maintain services for HIV+ individuals. Responsible for the supervision of 7 CVOEO IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER CVOEO IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER Case Managers, a small direct services caseload, data collection and grant reporting, HIV testing and some harm reduction and/ 7t-ChampVallHeadStart-093015.indd 1 7t-ChamplainValleyHeadStart061919.indd 1 6/14/19 9/24/15 10:01 1:13 PM AM or HIV prevention education. Experience with addressing complex ethical scenarios, participatory management style, collaboration with community partners, and oversight of state/federal grants is required. Candidates must have life experience and/or working Program Requirements: knowledge of HIV/AIDS and practice from a non-judgmental, harmHigh School Diploma with demonstrated reduction model. Experience with Ryan White and HOPWA funding technical aptitude streams helpful, as is familiarity with and knowledge of housing, “We make things that matter - from the Program Responsibilities: mental health, and substance abuse issues and local resources products that enable the way we live First call maintenance and preventative essential. Reliable transportation required. today to the technologies that drive
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NEW TECHNICAL APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM what’s possible for tomorrow!”
Get a free college education and save up to $57K in College expenses while working full time with benefits. You can earn a starting wage up to $18.50/hour which is over $38K per year! After completion of the program in 4 years, you can earn a wage of $26/ hour which is over $54K per year! We are looking to hire into this competitive program, high school grads who are 18 years or older**, who have demonstrated technical aptitude, and have achieved high scholastic and community accomplishments. 7t-GlobalFoundriesAPPRENTICE061219.indd 1
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Experienced up to $18.50/hour days; up to $20.81/ hour nights. 401K, Vacation, Sick-time, Quarterly Bonus Program, Medical, Dental and Vision Plans and many more...
Program Requisition: Requisition # 19001101
For more information about responsibilities, required qualifications or how to apply contact: jobs@globalfoundries.com or 802-769-2790 or apply on our website: globalfoundries.com/about-us/careers
Starting salary: $39,500-$42,000; full health & dental; excellent benefits; flexible working environment
CASE MANAGER Full-time Case Manager (based in Burlington). Dynamic position working with HIV+ individuals to facilitate medical connections, financial stability, and housing; some HIV testing, harm reduction, and HIV education. Knowledge of HIV/AIDS, community resources, and harm reduction philosophy necessary. Reliable transportation required. Full-time position (37.5 hours/week) based in Burlington with generous benefits (health, vision, PTO). Salary range: $28,000-30,000. All those looking for a challenging role that directly impacts HIV/AIDS in Vermont, please apply.
**18 years old by 08/16/2019
Positions open until filled; HIV+ individuals and people of color strongly encouraged to apply. Please email cover letter and resume by June 28th to Peter Jacobsen, Executive Director, Vermont CARES at:
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Carpenters Wanted! Needed Immediately! Finish Carpenters, Carpenters and Carpenters Helpers. Good Pay, Full Time and Long Term! Chittenden County. Call Mike at 802-343-0089 or Morton at 802-862-7602.
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CITY OF BURLINGTON
The Public Works Engineer position is responsible for the professional and administrative engineering work involved in the development and implementation of various civil engineering projects within the public right-of-way for the City of Burlington, generally including streets, sidewalks, and structures but excluding water, wastewater, and stormwater. Requirements include a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering and 4 years’ experience including civil engineering with demonstrated experience in any of the following fields: transportation, geotechnical, structural, or construction engineering. Position is considered Regular Full Time. To apply, please see our website: www.governmentjobs.com/careers/burlingtonvt Women, minorities and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply. EOE.
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SESSION STARTS ON JULY 30, 2019. Wake Robin, in partnership with Vermont MedEd, is happy to announce our LNA training program. Wake Robin is Vermont’s premiere retirement community and ranks among the top 100 nursing homes in the country; an award due in large part to our excellent staff and facility. Our goal is to provide training and employment opportunities consistent with Wake Robin’s unique brand of resident-centered care. If you have at least 2-years experience in caregiving, wish to grow your skills among the best, and begin your career as an LNA, contact us. Interested candidates, please send resume and cover letter via email to hr@wakerobin.com. For additional information see our Employment page at www.wakerobin.com or like “Wake Robin Works” on Facebook. Wake Robin is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Senior Community Banker Shelburne Road
There is no better time to join NSB’s team! Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We are looking for a professional to join our team as a Senior Community Banker in our Shelburne Road Branch located at 1120 Shelburne Road, Shelburne, VT. This position offers an excellent opportunity to work for a premier Vermont mutual savings bank. Job Responsibilities & Requirements • A thorough knowledge of banking and the technology which enables customers to conduct financial transactions, and the ability to build customer relationships, earn trust, and maintain confidentiality, is essential. Exceptional customer service, opening and maintaining customers’ accounts and services, as well as guiding customers through the consumer loan process in accordance with established policies and procedures are requirements of this position. • The Senior Community Banker must possess excellent communication and customer service skills for both internal and external customers. Requirements include 3-5 years of bank experience and registration with the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System. A Bachelor’s degree is preferred. Find your place with us at NSB • NSB offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, profit sharing, matching 401(K) retirement program, professional development opportunities, and a positive work environment supported by a team culture. Northfield Savings Bank hours of operation are Monday – Thursday, generally 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Please submit your resume and application in confidence to: Careers@nsbvt.com (Preferred) Or mail: Northfield Savings Bank Human Resources P.O. Box 7180 Barre, VT 05641-7180 Equal Opportunity Employer/Member FDIC
Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL) is seeking a Clinical Analyst to facilitate clinical interface implementations with external clients and the Vermont Health Information Exchange, State and Federal health care organizations, and/or third-party registries. Results-oriented candidates must demonstrate expertise in clinical health care data interfaces, data mapping, project management, testing and client communication skills.
This is a full-time permanent position requiring the following skills: • Demonstrated expertise with HL7 health care data and health care data workflow • Demonstrated expertise with XML data and SQL experience is a plus • Subject matter expertise in clinical terminology such as SNOMED-CT and other code sets • Excellent research and data analysis skills • Exemplary written and verbal communication skills • Ability to lead meetings and facilitate issue resolution between health care organizations, vendors, and consultants • Demonstrated project management skills • Advanced problem solving and process improvement capabilities • Excellent leadership, self-motivation, and the ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment • Experience as a laboratory technician or clinical/nurse experience is preferred Reporting to the Director of Operations, the ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, nursing, informatics, or related field. The position requires five or more years of experience with clinical health care data sets and project management. Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL) is a nonprofit organization that assists Vermont health care providers with adopting and using health information technology to improve the quality of care delivery, to enhance patient safety and to reduce the cost of care. VITL is legislatively designated to operate the health information exchange (HIE) for Vermont and is governed by a collaborative group of stakeholders including health plans, hospitals, physicians, other health care providers, state government, employers and consumers. For more information, please visit www.vitl.net. Email a cover letter and resume to human resources, hr@vitl.net. No phone calls please. 9t-VITL062619.indd 1
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• Dental Hygienist At Centurion, our dedication to making a difference and our passionate team of the best and the brightest healthcare employees has made us one of the leaders And more! Check out all of our clinical and non-clinical of the correctional health industry. Whether you are driven by purpose and positions and apply online at www.chcb.org/careers. impact or on a journey of professional growth, our opportunities can offer both. Centurion is proud to be the provider of healthcare services to the Vermont Department of Corrections. 4t-CommHealthCenterBurlingtonMULTI062619.indd 1 6/21/19
The Medication Assisted Treatment Case Manager coordinates and provides Substance Use Disorders/Addiction program activities and monitoring of client progress in a correctional setting. Communicates patient concerns with clinical care providers to ensure quality patient care.
TOWN OF WILLISTON STORMWATER COORDINATOR
We are currently seeking Case Managers to work FULL TIME at the following Correctional Facilities: • Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility-Rutland, VT
The Town of Williston is now accepting applications for the position of Stormwater Coordinator.
• Northeast Correctional Complex-St. Johnsbury, VT • Northern State Correctional Facility-Newport, VT • Southern State Correctional Facility, Springfield, VT Position is split half time; 20 hours per week at Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility-South Burlington, VT and 20 hours per week at Northwest State Correctional Facility-Swanton, VT When submitting resume, please indicate the location you are interested in.
This position provides leadership, regulatory oversight and technical guidance for stormwater management that focuses on quality, quantity and management of stormwater, including management of public stormwater infrastructure, GIS data and related Water Quality programs. A complete job description can be viewed at:
http://town.williston.vt.us
(under general information/employment opportunities) REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited educational institution with applicable coursework/degrees in Hydrology, Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, and/ or GIS with a minimum 4 years of experience in stormwater management program and ecosystem improvements or equivalent education, training and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills and abilities for the position. Minimum 2 years’ experience with use of GIS software for utility mapping and asset management or related experience.
Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree in a human services or counseling related discipline required • Drug and Alcohol Counselor Certification preferred • Experience providing substance use disorder/addiction treatment preferred • Experience providing case management services preferred • Must show current tuberculosis documentation and active CPR certification
This is a full time position in the Department of Public Works. Salary range of $51,730-$74,298 position includes full benefits, salary dependent upon experience.
• Must be able to pass background investigation and obtain agency security clearance where applicable
Please send a cover letter and resume to
We offer excellent compensation and comprehensive benefits including for FULL TIME; Health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, 401(k) with company match, generous paid time off, paid holidays, flexible spending account and much more...
Attention: Bruce K. Hoar, Public Works Director, 7900 Williston Road, Williston, VT 05495 or by email to bhoar@willistonvt.org. Preferred deadline is 4:30 PM, July 5, 2019.
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Her byline rarely appears in Seven Days, but Carolyn Fox reads every word each week — very carefully. When she’s not acting as chief proofreader and fact-checker of the weekly newspaper, the 31-year-old is responsible for six of the eight publications the company produces. No one behind the scenes at Seven Days is more organized or exacting. Her eyes are the last to scrutinize almost everything we create. A native of upstate New York, Carolyn came to Seven Days right out of Champlain College, where she earned a degree in mass communications. A glowing recommendation from her professor — writer Tim Brookes — sealed the deal. In perfect Queen’s English, he told us Carolyn was a rare talent, a relentless perfectionist. And he was right. For the first three years, Carolyn compiled and wrote the weekly calendar — one of the toughest assignments at the paper. After a stint managing Kids VT, she took on the 7 Nights annual Vermont dining guide, the What’s Good newcomers’ guide, BTV: The Burlington International Airport Quarterly and All the Best, which compiles the results of the annual Daysies competition. She also works on the supplement Nest. Carolyn helps plan and edit each of these specialty publications — a total of 12 issues throughout the year. “Where else would I get the chance to edit whole magazines about food and drink, travel and tourism, shopping and home design — sometimes all in the same week?” she asks rhetorically. “I’d be reading them cover to cover whether they paid me or not,” notes Carolyn. “Might as well do it for a living!”
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