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$2.9 million

That’s how much Burlington’s Railyard Enterprise Project would get if a bill in the U.S. House wins passage.

STICKY SITUATION

Vermont maple syrup producers are struggling to find plastic jugs in which to store the sweet stuff, VTDigger.org reports. Another casualty of the labor shortage.

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WEED CeresMED, which owns medical cannabis vendors Champlain Valley Dispensary and Southern Vermont Wellness, will merge with the Toronto-based company Slang Worldwide in a $25 million deal. The transaction will provide CeresMED with an infusion of capital as it prepares to enter the recreational market next year.

“It’s been a long road to get here, and we’re super excited to have found someone who aligns with our values and how we see ourselves in the bigger industry, and who can capitalize us,” said Bridget Conry, director of brand experience for CeresMED. “It’s been really hard to finance our growth.”

Slang, a publicly traded company that buys and sells licenses for cannabis edibles and accessories, has distributed some of its own brands through CeresMED’s dispensaries since 2015; because federal law prohibits the interstate sale of cannabis, explained Conry, CeresMED purchases the formulas and manufacturing equipment from Slang, then assembles the products in its own facilities.

The merger will underwrite a 50,000-square-foot expansion of CeresMED’s Milton headquarters and eventually allow the company to hire up to 50 more employees, said Conry, effectively doubling its size. The acquisition will also open new markets for CeresMED’s Vermont-manufactured CBD products in 12 other states, including Oregon and Colorado, where Slang owns distribution channels.

“This is an opportunity for Vermont brands, especially women and BIPOC-owned brands, to get that exposure and

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possibly be able to link up to those supply chains, as well,” said Conry.

The move means that all three of Vermont’s medical cannabis license holders will be owned by out-of-state conglomerates. Under S.54, the bill passed by the Vermont legislature last year that legalized the sale of recreational marijuana, medical cannabis license holders can begin selling for recreational use in May 2022, five months earlier than the October 2022 start date for other Vermont retailers. Given the added advantages of corporate investment, some cannabis advocates are concerned that Vermont’s recreational market has already been stacked against small independent producers.

“This kind of consolidation isn’t a surprise, unfortunately, but it’s happening even sooner than we anticipated,” said Geoffrey Pizzutillo, executive director of the Vermont Growers Association.

In other states that have legalized recreational use, he said, retailers who operate under large corporate umbrellas can afford to set artificially low prices to gain advantage over their competitors. The Vermont Growers Association has been advocating for municipalities to ensure greater equity in the cannabis marketplace, Pizzutillo said; several towns, including Burlington, adopted policies on Town Meeting Day that eliminate the five-month head start for medical license holders.

“We want a decentralized, craft-driven market,” said Pizzutillo, “so we can export our $20 gram just like we export our $10 IPAs.” CHELSEA EDGAR

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Karen Lawson presenting a check to Downstreet Housing in 2019

Castleton University students have started their own NAACP chapter.

The school is the first in Vermont to have one.

GAMES ON

Ilona Maher of Burlington is headed to the Tokyo Olympics to play for the U.S. Women’s Rugby Team. Vermont’s second Olympian for these games.

PEOPLE POWER

The Vermont legislature overrode Gov. Phil Scott’s vetoes of bills that will allow noncitizens to vote in local elections in Montpelier and Winooski. Checks and balances.

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1. “Vermont State Police Discriminated Against Black Woman Who Runs Clemmons Family Farm, Commission Says” by Matthew Roy. In a previously undisclosed vote, the Vermont Human Rights Commission found reasonable grounds to believe that state police discriminated against Lydia Clemmons because of her race and gender.

2. “251: Tracking Elle Purrier St. Pierre in Montgomery” by Sally Pollak. For the first installment of 251, a series of dispatches from Vermont towns, Seven Days visited Montgomery, the hometown of soon-to-be Olympian Elle Purrier St. Pierre.

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4. “Burlington GOP Council Candidate’s Transphobic Tweets Resurface” by Courtney Lamdin. Republican Christopher-Aaron Felker mocked transgender people, including former gubernatorial candidate Christine Hallquist, on social media.

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The voracious insects are devouring leaves and denuding trees.

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BEER AND BENEVOLENCE

Prior to opening their Waitsfield taproom two and a half years ago, Lawson’s Finest Liquids co-owners Sean and Karen Lawson embarked on a tour of breweries across the country. At Maine Beer, customers made donations to local nonprofits in lieu of tipping.

The Lawsons loved the idea and adopted it. They were already committed to providing their staff with a living wage and competitive benefits package — including a $700 wellness allowance for items such as kayaks or ski passes, according to Karen. They didn’t want taproom workers to rely on tips to supplement their income, especially since tourism in the Mad River Valley fluctuates seasonally.

The Lawsons decided they would give 100 percent of customer donations to one local nonprofit each month. Visitors ended up being so gener-

ous that they soon could support two nonprofits monthly. The company called the initiative the Sunshine Fund, a nod to its signature IPA, Sip of Sunshine.

But when COVID-19 hit and the taproom closed, the couple had to adjust their business — and philanthropic — model. They instituted an online ordering system, a drive-through and contactless pickup.

Because “donations dropped off exponentially,” Karen said, the company decided to supplement customers’ contributions so that one nonprofit still got at least $10,000 per month during the pandemic.

To date, the beer company has donated more than $575,000 to Vermont organizations. The money has helped Mad River Valley Ambulance Service purchase a new ambulance and upgrade its radio system, and Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sports to build an accessible sports facility at Sugarbush

Resort’s Mount Ellen. And it’s created an endowment that allows the Green Mountain Club to maintain trails in honor of former Lawson’s staffer Andrew Black, an avid hiker who died by suicide in 2018.

As the pandemic recedes, Lawson’s will select another round of nonprofits to fund in 2022. Through August 31, the company is accepting applications on its website. Though the grants focus on three areas — healthy communities, food and economic security, and the environment — the criteria are broad enough that a wide range of organizations are eligible, Karen said.

On June 22, Lawson’s received a gift of its own.

Vermont Business Magazine and the Vermont Chamber of Commerce honored the company with the 2020 Deane C. Davis Outstanding Business Award.

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WE’VE GOT KAYAKS!

A big thank-you to Seven Days and its readers for recognizing our efforts at Outdoor Gear Exchange during this wild year and for the generous highlight in “Pandemic All-Stars: What Outdoor Store Helped You Gear Up for Adventures?”

[June 9].

While this past year has been challenging for all of us in so many ways, it has been such a joy to see Vermonters look to us and the outdoors as outlets in the midst of the heaviness of this pandemic. We are so grateful to be a part of such a respectful and dedicated community, and I hope we get to see all of you out on the lakes and trails enjoying your new gear.

I happily write to inform you of a correction in the original article, though. We still have kayaks, canoes and paddleboards for sale! While the supply-chain issues you’ve read about in the news have certainly affected OGE, we have options for recreational day paddlers, weekend warriors and even the anglers out there. If buying isn’t in the cards, we also have rental SUPs and a canoe to enjoy, as well!

We wish you a safe and fun-filled summer, and our staff look forward to getting you ready for your next adventure — and seeing your smiling faces.

Virginia Farley

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Farley is paddling manager at Outdoor Gear Exchange.

SMALL HOUSE, BIG TEAM

[Re Nest: “Accessorizing Your Home,” June 16]: It is an honor to be in Nest, and I thank Amy Lilly and photographer Luke Awtry for taking the time to bring the story of my dream to print.

I just wanted to point out two things from the article: First, Nikkita — my “roommate,” as Luke called her — prefers “she/her” pronouns versus the “him” pronoun mentioned in the article. All good; Nikkita has been around a long time, and she has been called many things...

Second, I want to thank Amy for mentioning that I did a great deal of the work on the accessory dwelling unit myself, but I want to clarify that I was able to do it with the support of amazing folks like Matt of Haven Mechanical, Derek and his crew from Rob Shea Carpentry, Peter from Chevalier Fire Protection, and

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state’s preparedness and management, as well as the callous mismanagement by so-called “community partners,” by which economic services regional managers cover for themselves and each other in a mutual back scratch among the paid staffers — the real welfare cheats — pretending they have a plan while denying compassionate support, shelter and dignity.

To have already spent these gross amounts of federal money yet admit they have no real economical plan developed for how to reinvent support services, dignity and opportunity for the unhoused is bordering on criminal neglect.

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[Re “Biased Badges?” June 23]: I appreciated the thorough reporting on this sequence of events, and it occurs to me that you might have made a comparison on how differently this might have been dealt with had Shelburne Farms been the source of the concerns raised.

Maura Randall

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GOOD BUZZ

[Re “The Bees’ Needs,” June 23]: Your Pollinator Issue was brilliant, as was Mike Kiernan’s comment, “It’s in diversity that we’ll find resilience,” and Spencer Hardy’s: “There’s so much basic stuff we don’t know about bees.”

Pollinators and biodiversity are appearing more and more on folks’ radar, perhaps just in time, as we recognize the incredible value we receive from nature and begin to respond in kind.

It is time we get to know a little about the pollinators and what we can do to provide them more of the habitat they need.

So, after planting Vermont historic (native) plants for five years, I am now observing and cataloging insect species in our backyard. I have walked 100 miles in our one-acre backyard, and still surprises await me every day. In one month alone, I observed 133 species of insects. Posting photos of them on iNaturalist allows me to view them closely and learn their names. Every day some of them INSIDE! wow me.

The more we know about the life around us, the more we will appreciate the services they provide and the almost incomprehensible beauty of sight and behavior that life exhibits.

Observing insect life in our backyards gives us the chance to get to know our natural-world neighbors, who do so very much for us. It is like going to the zoo, without the cages, to see a diversity of life in its natural habitat and bring home photos to share with neighbors and friends — and scientists.

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endless friends like Cheri, Lindsey, Colin, Alex, Brian and my sister, who donated time, tools and vehicles to transport what I needed to the job site, as I did this all without owning a car.

And a thank-you to my neighbors, who endured days of construction noise, dust, debris and swear words when I hit my thumb with the hammer. It takes a village, and I am so grateful for my village.

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The Pine Street Coalition is pleased that its hard work on a redesign of the Champlain Parkway was recognized and discussed in the May 26 issue of Seven Days [“‘Right Way’ or the Highway”].

However, it is not accurate to assume Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger and the coalition are in complete agreement.

The mayor favors a design that dates back to the 1960s. A lot of changes in people’s lifestyles and driving habits have occurred since then that make the original design obsolete.

The coalition has met with local THE and state highway officials and Gov. Phil Scott to show them our plan. Now we are ready to meet with the mayor and show him a plan that includes the latest social and environmental criteria, including protected bike and pedestrian lanes.

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Survey The Delicate World of VT Pollinators PAGE 30 / The Vermont Wild Bee PAGE 52 40 / Brewing With Honey PAGE 42 / Bee Quilts Prickly Pollinators PAGE 36 / Bee’s Wrap PAGE 37 / Bee the Change PAGE

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[Re “Kicked to the Curb,” June 16]: Maybe this excellent reporting by Chelsea Edgar and Seven Days will help reveal to legislators the ineptitude of the

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Magnificent 7 Side Dishes Art Review Album Reviews Movie Review Ask the Reverend

Food + Drink Culture Art Music + Nightlife Movies Calendar Classes Classifieds + Puzzles 89 Fun Stuff 92 Personals

Dining out lakeside at a rooted Farmers & Foragers

Cocktails To-Go Are Here to Stay New bill allows takeout booze post-pandemic

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COVER IMAGE JAMES KOCHALKA • COVER DESIGN REV. DIANE SULLIVAN

FEATURES 27 Drawing Conclusions

Writer-cartoonist teams add dimension to Vermont tales

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Richmond’s Mann & Machine repairs hybrid and electric vehicles

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The Storyteller’s Spell

Vax to Work

Vermont Folklife Center to publish Turner Family Stories

Many Vermont employers encourage COVID-19 vaccinations, but few require it

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Midnight Blues?

A new Vermonter tries to blend in with the neighbors

Late at night, Burlington’s downtown policing is sporadic

CULTURE 45 Time Travel

Book review: Daughter of Sparta, Claire M. Andrews

Telling Memory

Book review: Ghettoclaustrophobia, Shanta Lee Gander

Family reunions are extra sweet this SUPPORTED BY: summer, especially for nursing home residents. Eva Sollberger recently visited Woodridge Rehabilitation and Nursing in Berlin, where two families reunited beneath a tent in the yard. There were many hugs and plenty of tears.

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Vermont’s Center for Cartoon Studies collaborates on U.S. health care guide

Kids from King Street Center are slinging citrus on Church Street once again

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Big Noise Matt Lorenz isn’t just the front person of the folk-rock band the Suitcase Junket, he’s the only person playing his gritty original numbers. The Massachusetts singer-songwriter performs as a one-person band, using salvaged instruments and a self-made setup to create a full-ensemble sound. Give his 2020 LP The End Is New a listen, then catch Lorenz as part of Weston Playhouse’s Walker Farm Music: Summer Edition concert series.

MUST SEE, MUST DO THIS WEEK COMPI L E D BY KRISTEN RAVIN

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Under the Sun If you could write a recipe for a perfect summer evening in Burlington, what would it look like? If your answer includes local eats, refreshing beverages and live music near the beach at sunset, you may want to add Leddy Park Beach Bites to your calendar. This summertime staple takes place on Wednesdays, from July 7 through August 11.

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Nature Sounds Vermont woodwind and piano ensemble Heliand Consort’s mission is clearly stated on their website: “To make classical music accessible and meaningful to new audiences.” To that end, the classical quartet presents three concerts of chamber music inspired by the natural world. New and longtime listeners alike can hear the program “Universe in a Sparkle” in Lyndon, Rochester and Williston.

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LIGHT THE NIGHT

This year’s BTV July 3 Independence Day Celebration has special significance for Burlingtonians. After live music performances by locals Pontoon, Francesca Blanchard and Sambatucada!, Mayor Miro Weinberger leads a ceremony honoring those lost to COVID-19 and applauding the Queen City community’s resilience. Fireworks light up the sky above Lake Champlain starting at 9:30 p.m.

See Seven Days calendar listings on page 62 for more

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INDEPENDENCE DAY happenings around the state.

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Page-Turner Emporium Seeking fresh summer reads? Friends of the Dorothy Alling Memorial Library in Williston host a scaled-back version of their annual Book Sale on the library lawn as part of Williston Recreation & Parks’ Independence Day celebration events.

Browsers should be sure to bring their own bags, as well as cash or checks for donations.

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Cartoonists, wrote in an email. “Or is it just a goofy or mildly unflattering caricature, which politicians have endured for centuries?”

Newcomb’s first political cartoon in 1982, for the cover of the Vanguard Press, showed then-governor Richard Snelling and Public Service Board commissioner Richard Saudek together in a car, coming down from Canada after negotiating an energy deal with Hydro-Québec. Saudek hated the drawing so much, “he came close to punching me out in a

TIM NEWCOMB

Every week, Seven Days publishes an assortment of cartoons.

Most of them are in the back of the paper in a section called Fun Stuff.

That name is a bit of a deception. Cartoons aren’t always lighthearted. Over the last few years, the strips we’ve published have offered searing political commentary and memorable caricatures. Tom Tomorrow’s Trump Hulk and Jen Sorensen’s elongated, wavy Mitch McConnell speak volumes.

We haven’t gotten much blowback about those depictions, but it gets a little trickier when we aim closer to home.

Seven Days has drawn some fire since we brought back the Fair Game column in January and started illustrating it with political caricatures. We think the art helps attract readers to the page and chose Montpelier artist Tim Newcomb because he brings vast institutional knowledge to every assignment.

Increasingly, he also brings a certain amount of anxiety. “Cartooning has become a lot more fraught and nerve-racking in the last few years,” Newcomb said. Apart from his work for local newspapers, he makes his living as a commercial graphic designer. “It just seems like people have lost their sense of humor … and ability to consider a different point of view.”

Some women, in particular, have objected to Newcomb’s recent depictions. A cartoon of Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint (D-Windham), Lt. Gov. Molly Gray and state Sen. Kesha Ram (D-Chittenden) on February 10 generated a number of angry emails and tweets. Someone complained to one of Newcomb’s graphic design clients, and he stopped getting work from the organization. “It was made clear that I had no right to be drawing women or people of color because I was a ‘privileged white male,’” said Newcomb.

Does he have a right?

Editors across the nation are grappling with this and other questions as the compositions of our legislatures and boardrooms diversify. Being caricatured has always been a sign that you’ve “made” it — that is, you’re powerful enough to be recognized, and criticized — but for some groups, the exaggerated treatment is too familiar.

“The key question to ask is: Does this drawing tap into a harmful stereotype that is commonly/historically used to demean a group?” Seven Days cartoonist Sorensen, who is also president of the Association of American Editorial

Montpelier restaurant, before calming down somewhat and thinking about it,” Newcomb recalled, noting that the two eventually became friends.

The Vermont cartoonist’s one and only death threat came after a series of drawings focused on Homer St. Francis, then chief of the St. Francis/Sokoki Abenaki Band of Vermont. An anonymous phone caller suggested “I’d find myself facedown in a ditch if I dared to do another cartoon about Abenakis — and Homer in particular,” Newcomb said.

Back in May, when Andrew Yang was still a candidate for mayor of New York City, the Daily News ran a cartoon showing him walking up the subway stairs at Times Square.

Watching him from above, a shopkeeper says to his wife, “The tourists are back.”

Yang said the drawing was racist because it played on the

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the cruel and trope of Asian Americans as outsiders who don’t belong in the U.S. The paper defended artist Bill Bramhall and said his work called out Yang as a carpetbagger — a legitimate criticism of a political candidate.

Keith Knight, whose “The K Chronicles” appears weekly in Seven Days, said the cartoonist should have found another way to make the point — or not made it at all. “You can sit there and say, ‘Everybody should be treated the same,’ but no one’s treated the same as long as we have the society we live in,” said Knight, cocreator of the Hulu show “Woke.”

“You have to kind of factor that in with how you depict different groups in cartoons. I’m not saying it’s easy,” he said.

Knight, who is Black, once used an outdated term in a cartoon about trans people. But the correction came in the form of a private, direct communication, as opposed to a takedown on social media. Knight considered the feedback, made the change and learned from his mistake.

As the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, creator of the revolutionary graphic novel Maus, noted: “...every ethnic group has had its most vile representations in comics form, and it’s interesting that everybody recognizes them. It’s built into our language, and it means it’s a lot of work to subvert them.

But one must subvert them, not suppress them ... It’s important to understand that those pejoratives have to be worked through, not shamed out of existence...”

We’re committed to working this through, even if the process is sometimes painful, because cartoons are a powerful and useful tool. That’s why we put together an entire issue of them every year.

We believe political caricatures have a place in Seven Days.

Yes, cartoons should avoid offensive stereotypes — but no politician should be off-limits. Let us know when we make a wrong move. And rest assured that we’re all bent over the proverbial drawing table, trying to get this right.

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ichael Monte, CEO of the Champlain Housing Trust, knows he’s stepping out of the mainstream by requiring the nonprofit’s 120 employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. But he’s so sure it’s the right thing to do that he’s willing to let employees resign over the issue rather than relax the new rule.

Every eligible person who works at the nonprofit trust, which manages thousands of affordable housing units in Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle counties, must have received at least one vaccine dose by July 1. Monte said he decided on the mandate because many of the trust’s employees work regularly with the public. He knows of one employee who plans to resign in July rather than get the shot.

“I don’t think our position is necessarily something that every business has to take,” Monte said. “We feel compelled because of safety.”

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Millions of people nationally scrambled to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine after they became available in December.

Others have been more hesitant or outright resistant to getting the shot.

There were months of uncertainty about whether anyone could be compelled, and in what situations.

In early June, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission confirmed that employers can require all workers who physically enter the workplace to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

The EEOC didn’t say whether its ruling applies to vaccines that are under the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization, as are all of the COVID19 vaccines now in use.

The FDA requires six months of data on vaccine use before it can issue full approval.

On June 12, a federal district court in Texas dismissed a case that challenged a hospital’s vaccination requirement. That’s

the first such ruling on the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the National Law Review. More than 150 workers at Houston Methodist subsequently resigned or were fired for not getting vaccinated.

Most Vermont colleges are requiring students to be vaccinated by fall; the University of Vermont said it will require the vaccine when permanent FDA approval is granted.

But it appears few employers have followed suit. Some Vermont employment lawyers said they’ve received calls questioning the legality of workplace mask requirements since the pandemic began 15 months ago, but they haven’t received queries about legal action to avoid vaccination.

Most employers appear to be staying away from a mandate. Even the University of Vermont Health Network has no plans

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John Van Hoesen, a senior vice president and chief content officer at Vermont Public Radio, announced his retirement on Monday, just days before the station is due to merge with Vermont PBS. Van Hoesen joined VPR in 2001 as news director. He said in an announcement he posted on LinkedIn that his most recent role has been helping VPR and PBS establish their new joint mission. VPR did not issue a statement on Monday about his retirement.

VPR and PBS announced last September their plan to merge.

The stations haven’t released much information about anticipated programming or operational changes, apart from a blog by VPR president Scott Finn in March that said the new entity will be more inclusive and more reflective of all the people in the region. Finn said then that it will prioritize coverage of education and expand its journalism. The new entity will be legally incorporated as Vermont Public.

When announcing the merger, the two stations said there were no immediate plans to cut jobs. VPR then had 59 full-time and 14 parttime staffers; Vermont PBS had 42 employees.

“When stations do this, they usually make more revenue than they were anticipated to make separately,” Finn told Seven Days last September.

VPR has a $9 million annual budget and roughly $30 million in assets, according to Finn. Vermont PBS has a $7.8 million budget and $60 million in assets, according to PBS president and CEO Steve Ferreira.

Van Hoesen said in his LinkedIn statement that his retirement will start in July.

“Ultimately, it’s been my honor to be able to devote an entire career to public service in broadcast and print for the people of Vermont,” he wrote.

Neither Van Hoesen, Finn nor Sarah Ashworth, vice president of news at VPR, returned messages on Monday evening seeking comment on Van Hoesen’s departure.

On Tuesday, public relations firm Junapr sent Seven Days a statement.

“John has been important to VPR’s institutional memory,” it read in part, “as his tenure spanned many historic events and turning points in Vermont, including 9-11 in 2001 and Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. We are grateful for his dedication and service.” m

Midnight Blues?

Late at night, Burlington’s downtown policing is sporadic

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hen a gunshot rang out in Burlington’s City Hall Park at 2:45 a.m. on June 5, the four police officers assigned to patrol the city’s downtown had just clocked out.

Two of the four remaining patrol officers on duty in the city were occupied with a call about a “suspicious event” two miles south at Oakledge Park. The other two officers were patrolling elsewhere in the city, far enough away that they didn’t hear the shot, which missed its intended target and hit an uninvolved bystander.

Two witnesses later told police that they didn’t immediately call 911 because they assumed officers were stationed downtown at that hour, as they had been for years.

But that morning — and every Saturday and Sunday during the month before — no officers were deployed downtown between 2:45 and 7:30 a.m., a period of time that is part of the so-called “midnight shift.” In a press release about the shooting, acting Chief Jon Murad blamed the staffing arrangement on the department’s dwindling roster, which has dipped from 90 to 77 active cops since the city council voted last year to reduce the size of the force through attrition.

Acting Police Chief Jon Murad

What Murad didn’t say was that he chose not to staff downtown, an area that a Seven Days analysis found has had the highest call volumes during the weekend overnight hours. Even during the pandemic, when nightlife ground to a halt, cops were called downtown in the wee hours of the morning more often than anywhere else in the city.

In response to requests from Seven Days, the department last week released patrol schedules for July and August. No one was scheduled to patrol downtown during the midnight shift on weekends in July, even as tourists return to Burlington and nightlife reopens. One officer was scheduled to patrol the city center during that time in August.

But on Monday, in response to several emailed follow-up questions, Murad released a new schedule, beginning July 4, that posts one officer downtown on a new overnight swing shift on Friday and Saturday nights. The chief, who declined a phone interview with Seven Days on Monday, did not respond to an email asking why he made the change.

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Virus Is Under Control, but Workers Remain Scarce in Vermont B Y A N N E WAL L AC E ALL E N anne@sevendaysvt.com

If Congress extends the $300 weekly unemployment insurance supplement, now due to expire in September, Vermont would turn it down, Gov. Phil Scott said at his regular COVID-19 press briefing on Tuesday.

Five jobs are available in the state for every person who is seeking work, said Scott, and Vermont needs to do everything it can to encourage people to take one. He thinks the extra unemployment insurance money might be serving as a deterrent.

“I think it’s gone on long enough,” he said of the federal funding. “We would let it lapse.”

COVID-19 seems largely under control in Vermont, at least for now.

The state has lifted all virus-related restrictions, and officials are urging residents to get outside and enjoy July 4 activities.

But some businesses are having trouble gearing back up to their prepandemic levels because they can’t find workers. Asked what the state can do, Scott noted that Vermont had the lowest unemployment rate in the country before the pandemic set in early last year.

“This shouldn’t come as any surprise,” Scott said, adding that the worker shortage is the reason he focuses on attracting more people to the state and making Vermont more affordable.

“I take a lot of criticism at times from the legislature on some of the vetoes I’ve imposed over the last four years,” he said. “Most of them are budgetary issues. We didn’t need to raise taxes during this time, because we need to make Vermont more affordable.”

The number of people collecting unemployment benefits has dropped slightly in recent weeks, and in May the state instituted a work search requirement for many of the people who get benefits.

With one of the oldest populations in the country, Vermont has been losing an estimated six workers from the workforce every day for the last four or five years, the governor said.

In 2018, the state started reimbursing out-of-staters for their costs to relocate to Vermont.

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to require vaccines, spokesperson Neal Goswami said.

“Lots of discussions, but I can’t point to any company that is mandating it,” said Betsy Bishop, president of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce. “Mostly lots of encouragement, incentives, messaging.”

Matt Musgrave, government affairs director for the Associated General Contractors of Vermont, said its members have hosted vaccine clinics, but none is requiring vaccinations.

“I can’t tell you how many videos and promotional things Richard and I have put out, with pictures of ourselves getting the shots,” Musgrave said, referring to the agency’s executive vice president, Richard “Dick” Wobby Jr. “We would recommend paid time off so someone can go and get it done.”

It’s the duty of employers to keep workers and customers safe, said Tom Nuovo, a Colchester lawyer who handles employment cases. “Thus, mandating a vaccine is in the employer’s best interest,”

it, so we didn’t pressure them at all,” said Thrailkill. While he did get a COVID-19 vaccine, it was his first shot since early childhood. “I’m not a big vaccine person myself,” he said.

States started administering COVID19 vaccines in December, and researchers and the public are closely watching for any side effects. About 150 million Americans are fully vaccinated. Health authorities, including the Mayo Clinic, say that adverse effects such as serious allergic reactions are rare.

“Millions of people in the United States have received COVID-19 vaccines under the most intense safety monitoring in U.S. history,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says on

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Nuovo said. He added that until the vaccine receives full FDA approval, employees might be able to make a valid argument against it.

Those who tried and failed in Texas were working for a hospital, he noted, “so there are some additional concerns there.”

Even though they’re not requiring the vaccination, some employers are keeping track of how many workers have received it. John Thrailkill, who owns Advanced Illumination, a Rochester company that manufactures specialized LED lighting, offered each of his 35 employees $100 to get the shot. Most did, Thrailkill said.

For the rest, “I’m not going to force anyone to take the vaccination,” he said, noting that some of his employees are military veterans who were required to get anthrax vaccinations 25 years ago.

Some veterans’ groups and researchers say those shots caused long-term health problems, though the vaccine did earn FDA approval.

“People are rightfully concerned about

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its website. “COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.”

The Howard Center is encouraging its workers to get vaccinated, said Denise Vignoe, a spokesperson for the Burlington-based nonprofit, which provides substance abuse, mental health and other assistance to the public. A staff poll in February, just two months after vaccinations became available to some Vermonters, showed 90 percent had received a dose or planned to when they became eligible, Vignoe said.

“As for a requirement, that could change if regulatory guidance changes, or there are other changes related to the pandemic,” Vignoe said.

Like Thrailkill, Sarah Morris, a manager at the Basin Harbor Club, understands why some of her employees might not get the shot. The club is

doing its part to help the effort, though: It hosted a vaccine clinic and offered a free beer to workers who got vaccinated.

The Vergennes resort set a goal of having 90 percent of its workers vaccinated, and Morris said she thinks they’ve reached it.

Two young men Morris works with are declining the vaccine. One has had COVID-19 already. The other feels that if most of the people around him are vaccinated, he doesn’t need to be because his age makes him a lower risk for developing serious complications.

“We’ve talked through it, and I can’t completely disagree with him,” Morris said of the risk.

The law requires employers to allow for exemptions based on a health condition or religious beliefs, and Champlain Housing Trust is working on those accommodations with some workers, Monte said. As for the worker who plans to leave, “We said, ‘OK, we wish you luck, and we’ll support you in finding some other work,’” Monte said.

Monte acknowledged that in Vermont’s tight job market, employers who demand vaccines are taking a risk that they’ll deter good candidates. But he said avoiding infection was more important to him.

“We have a lot of folks who are doing maintenance, who are property managers or who are working at a couple of hotels we’re running right now,” Monte said. “We are really doing lots of work in the public.”

Gov. Phil Scott announced on June 14 that 80 percent of Vermonters 12 and older, the eligible population, had received at least one dose. He lifted all remaining COVID-19-related restrictions and, after 15 months, the state of emergency expired the next day.

At Nuovo’s law office, clients are asked whether they’re vaccinated. If they’re not, meetings are held outdoors, when convenient. But “considering we’re at an 80 percent vaccination rate, I’ve got to believe it’s probably not a major issue in Vermont,” he said.

Vaccination rates vary in the state. The Vermont Department of Health reports that 84 percent have received at least one dose in Chittenden County; in Essex County, that rate is about 58 percent.

State officials have sent mobile vaccine clinics to workplaces, social events and even outdoor recreation spots. For months, Scott has told Vermonters at his regular press conferences that vaccines save lives.

“Our rate has reduced the number of deaths dramatically,” he said in May. “We’re not mandating anything. It’s your personal choice. But we’ve been successful, and our numbers show it.” m

Phish Front Man’s Proposed Addiction Treatment Center Divides Ludlow B Y C H E L S E A E D G AR • chelsea@sevendaysvt.com

For nearly four months, the Town of Ludlow has been embroiled in a municipal drama concerning a proposed residential addiction treatment center at the site of a former weight-loss clinic, two miles from Okemo Mountain Resort. The fate of the center is now in the hands of Ludlow’s Development Review Board, which must decide by July 12 whether the project can proceed.

In late 2020, Phish front man Trey Anastasio’s Divided Sky Foundation purchased the 18-acre property in the Windsor County ski town for $1.7 million, funded largely by viewer donations from Anastasio’s livestreamed concerts during the pandemic. Ascension Recovery Services, a West Virginia-based health care company that manages similar treatment centers across the country, would operate the 40-bed facility, which is tentatively slated to open later this year.

Anastasio, who is in recovery himself, said he launched the project to help people of all economic backgrounds who are struggling with addiction. “Substance use disorders affect people from all walks of life,” he told

Rolling Stone in March, “and the problem is intimately linked with isolation — whether that’s isolation due to the pandemic or for any other reason.” Last year, overdose deaths in Vermont increased 37 percent from 2019, claiming more lives in 2020 than the COVID19 pandemic, according to data from the state Department of Health. Opioids claimed the lives of 28 Windsor County residents — more than any other county in Vermont.

Ludlow’s Development Review Board, which issues rulings on land use permit applications, began holding public hearings on the proposed treatment center in April.

Typically, said Ludlow Town Manager Scott Murphy, these hearings are rote affairs; the board’s mandate is only to determine whether a project complies with zoning guidelines. “But some people don’t understand that concept,” Murphy said. “And some people here are hoping to slow it down.”

Indeed, meeting minutes indicate that discussions in the last three monthly hearings have often meandered far from sewer plans and parking lot capacity. Some residents of a condo complex more than a

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mile from the proposed treatment center, represented by attorney Toni Girardi of law firm Facey Goss & McPhee, expressed concern that the treatment center would negatively affect “the character of the area,” which Girardi, during the April board meeting, defined as “rural, quiet, with private homes, with a quality of life people have come to appreciate and expect.”

In the same meeting, Ludlow Police Chief Jeff Billings acknowledged that the facility was “needed” but said he was worried “about the court-mandated people who really don’t want to be there.”

Other opponents suggested that a treatment center would bring more drugs and crime to the area, which Ludlow resident Jessica Frasca dismissed as an unfounded concern; the opioid epidemic, she pointed out, was already in their midst. “They have had Okemo employees OD in the parking

lot,” said Frasca, who started a change.org petition in favor of the facility that has so far gotten more than 18,000 signatures.

Representatives from Ascension Recovery Services and the Divided Sky Foundation have rejected the basis of the opposition’s challenges to the project. In response to one condo resident’s question about whether treatment center clients would be supervised while they roam the grounds — “to make sure nothing inappropriate happens,” as the resident put it — Chris Roy, the lawyer for the Divided Sky Foundation, objected vigorously. “If it was a cancer treatment facility, would we be talking the same way about the people walking around outside? I don’t think so,” he said during the May board meeting.

The debate, he added, had strayed well beyond the jurisdiction of the Development Review Board and entered the realm of NIMBYist whataboutism.

“We get it,” he continued. “They don’t want it next door. But that’s not the question. The question is, does the application satisfy the zoning standards? And we are yet to hear anything that suggests that there’s anything about this application that does not satisfy all those standards.”

No matter how the board rules on July 12, said Murphy, the town manager, the losing party will almost certainly take the case to environmental court, and the saga will continue. m

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news The debate over police staffing continues, but largely missing from that conversation is whether Murad — who wants to be the city’s permanent police chief — is making the most of the officers he already has.

Councilor Jane Stromberg (P-Ward 8), who serves on the council’s Public Safety Committee, said she thinks Murad is using incidents such as the park shooting to scare people into believing the city is less safe with fewer cops.

Asked whether the department should rethink its staffing assignments, Stromberg replied, “I know they have the ability to do that. Whether they choose to or not is unfortunately seeming more political than realistic.”

The department’s July schedule had divided cops into three shifts — days, evenings and midnights — but the newly released July schedule adds two “swing shifts,” one during the day and one overnight. The new 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. shift assigns an officer to the downtown area on weekends.

The midnight shift, which starts at 9:30 p.m. and goes until 7:30 a.m., had become central to the city’s policing debate. When councilors proposed to cap the department at 74 officers last June, Murad warned that he’d have to end the midnight shift or reduce daytime staffing. He reprised the issue at a press conference last December, saying that officers would no longer be “proactively patrolling the streets” between 3 and 7:30 a.m. if the number of officers dropped to 76.

Cops would still be on duty, Murad said, but they’d be assigned to the station and would only respond to the most serious calls.

The shift “is not something that we are thinking about ending lightly,” Murad said then. “This is a serious move.”

Murad has also criticized councilors for making cuts without also creating another way to provide public safety.

Last winter, he proposed adding to the force unarmed civilians who would handle nonemergency calls — a plan that councilors universally embraced and that is now under way. But Murad also made clear that he’d rather have a force of 96 cops, the previous average staffing level before the council vote.

On the campaign trail, Mayor Miro Weinberger, who was running for reelection in March, frequently invoked the council’s police vote and its threat to overnight coverage. Earlier this year, when Progressive councilors shot down the mayor’s proposal to increase the department’s staffing cap to 84 officers, Weinberger said they were welcoming a “crisis.”

Meantime, the police roster has dropped to 77 officers, just one shy of 18

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the number Murad said would endanger overnight coverage. In May, he announced a new “priority response plan” for triaging calls. It keeps officers out on patrol but directs them to respond only to urgent situations in which the public is at risk, such as domestic assaults and robberies. Lower-priority calls for vandalism and public intoxication, for instance, would have to wait.

“If we continue to lose officers, the Priority Response Plan may not be sufficient to maintain the balance between decreasing headcount and increasing calls for service,” Murad said in an email Monday. “Other measures may be necessary.”

Every year since 2013, the majority of calls on the midnight weekend shift have come from downtown — the area bounded by South Union, Pearl and Maple streets, and the waterfront. In January 2021, when pandemic restrictions were still in place, Murad assigned five officers and a supervisor to the weekend overnight shift, covering every area of the city. But between May 2 and June 5 — the night of the shooting and as the city began to reopen — Murad assigned officers to patrol every area except downtown during those hours.

That month, an officer was assigned to the South End, which has had half the call volume as downtown on weekend overnights during the last decade, Seven Days’ analysis found. The largely residential New North End had coverage, even though it has consistently had the fewest calls of any neighborhood. Both the Old North End and Hill Section have had fewer calls for service, but they, too, had an officer nearby.

Until Monday, police schedules showed that no officer would be on duty in the city center throughout July between 2:45 and 7:30 a.m. The new schedule shows that there will be one officer there from 2:30 to 6 a.m. It’s unclear what the schedules will look like for the rest of the year.

In an interview on June 14, Murad said he doesn’t have enough officers to consistently staff the downtown. The department once had foot patrols and a separate street crimes unit to help handle the rowdy bar crowd there, but, Murad said, “we don’t have anywhere near the numbers necessary to do something like that anymore.”

Asked if he would reconsider downtown staffing, especially now that bars are open late, Murad said he’s “looking at every avenue available … to maintain a level of service and safety that the city expects.” But he didn’t answer directly when Seven Days asked whether that included bolstering downtown staffing in the early morning hours. When pressed, Murad became defensive, asking if this reporter was suggesting that cops take

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extra shifts. He also noted that when the midnight shift is short-staffed, the patrol beats are split into “north and south” instead of area assignments.

Murad said he can’t simply redeploy officers downtown, because other parts of the city also need service overnight. The police union contract also allows officers to indicate their preferred shift and patrol area. Though the area assignments can change daily, Murad said, supervisors prefer to keep officers on a familiar beat.

“Officers are on a shift that they choose, and that’s how the shift structure works,” he said.

In an interview on June 16, before the schedule changed, Weinberger said he was concerned about having fewer cops downtown with the return of nightlife. At the same time, the mayor said he doesn’t question Murad’s judgment. He praised the chief for preserving 24-7 overnight coverage, saying Murad is “doing the best he can with the resources he has.”

“I have no reason to second-guess that he is deploying the officers, at this point, in a way that makes the most sense,” Weinberger said, adding that Murad’s staffing scheme would ensure the community is safe.

Police Commission chair Jabulani Gamache has worked for 10 years as a bartender at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, across Main Street from City Hall Park, where the shooting took place. He said the weekend bar crowd has usually dispersed by 2:45 a.m., but he’d still like to see a cop patrolling the area after that time.

Gamache, though, was skeptical whether a police presence can really deter serious crime.

“Properly staffed or not,” he said, the park shooting “probably would have happened regardless.”

Indeed, there have been shootings downtown even when the department had a full roster. In 2015, a man was fatally shot on lower Church Street just after bars closed. In 2018, a woman was struck by a bullet outside Nectar’s in the early morning hours.

Councilor Stromberg said she thinks Murad has tried to blame more recent shootings on low staffing levels. She argues that he uses the incidents “as a pulpit” to slam councilors for reducing the force. In a press release about gunfire in the Old North End in March, for instance, Murad emphasized that his officers were overwhelmed with other calls. When shots were fired at a large Hill Section college party in late May, Murad’s press release noted that the department was “short staffed and stretched.”

“The way that he has crafted this narrative around there not being enough police officers to prevent something like that, I think, is complete BS,” Stromberg said. “It really is such a scare tactic.”

Murad’s message has resonated with some. Jeff Nick, the chair of the Church Street Marketplace Commission, blames the council for the lack of a police presence downtown. He said some business owners have told him that staff are scared to walk to their cars alone at night.

“They’re not increasing the police budget, and they’ve got gunshots going off at City Hall Park at night,” Nick said. “It’s unbelievable that there’s not a sense of, ‘All hands on deck, let’s keep the public safe.’

There doesn’t seem to be that dialogue going on.”

The council hasn’t revisited the staffing discussion since earlier this year. Instead, the body hired a consultant to study police operations and suggest incidents that could be handled by civilian staff, such as the unarmed social workers Murad had proposed. The report was originally due this month but has been delayed until fall.

The council hasn’t budgeted for more officers, at least for this coming fiscal year.

On Monday, councilors unanimously approved a 2022 spending plan that cuts the police budget by 5 percent. m

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Vermont Legal Aid Sues State Over Emergency Housing Reductions Vermont Legal Aid filed a class-action suit on Monday to block changes to a state emergency housing program that advocates say would be devastating for homeless people with disabilities.

The suit, filed in Vermont Superior Court in Washington County, says the Agency of Human Services’ proposal to terminate benefits that homeless people receive under the housing program is inhumane and unfair. The plaintiffs are requesting an emergency injunction.

“On July 1, hundreds of Vermonters with disabilities will be ousted from their motel shelter to live in vans, barns, campsites, and our city streets,” Legal Aid lawyers wrote in a press release. “Our clients are anxious and fearful about what comes next, and our local communities are scrambling to develop the infrastructure necessary to meet the needs of this population.”

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Housing advocates warn of a humanitarian crisis. In its filing, Legal Aid attorneys argue that the administration’s new eligibility criteria were overly narrow. To be eligible, residents must show they receive some type of disability benefits, such as Social Security, or have documents from a health care provider that say the person’s disability prevents them from working.

The defendants are Mike Smith, secretary of the Agency of Darryl Phillips at Harbor Place Human Services, and Sean Brown, commissioner of the Department for Children and Families.

The Agency of Human Services has Seven Days detailed the homeless provided housing benefits for nearly 6,000 residents’ desperation ahead of the deadline households that have stayed in motels at in a June 16 cover story, “Kicked to the some point during the past 15 months.

Curb.” Many motel residents said they had Under the new rules, adults 60 and no permanent housing lined up and felt older, those in households with children, betrayed by state officials. and people who are pregnant or disabled Gov. Phil Scott defended the transition at will be able to remain in the motels through his press conference on Tuesday. mid-September or longer, depending on “We’ve been talking about going back to funding. About a third of the 2,300 people something that was more realistic after the still in the motels will be kicked out come state of emergency, so this is no surprise to July 1. anyone,” Scott said.

The state Attorney General’s Office Smith stressed that the criteria had been moved Tuesday to transfer the case to U.S. expanded significantly from what had been District Court; additional hearings were in place for the program pre-pandemic. He expected to be held on Wednesday.

said a great deal of thought had gone into the change.

“We actually got a lot of people together in a room through multiple meetings with advocates and the legislature to really try to come to consensus — which we did — on how this program should unwind,” Smith said.

Scott’s spokesperson, Jason Maulucci, said in a statement that the issues in the suit were “squarely before the Legislature during both the regular session and the veto session and the Legislature did not take this issue up.”

The suit describes how one plaintiff, who suffers from mental health disabilities including posttraumatic stress disorder, was informed her benefits were ending as of June 30. A counselor helped the woman apply for the extended benefits, but the application was deemed incomplete because the counselor was not considered a physician, according to the suit.

Forcing people with disabilities back into homelessness risks their physical safety and mental health, the suit argues.

The suit also makes a number of procedural arguments, including that residents were denied the opportunity to reapply for benefits and that the public did not have the chance to offer input on the proposed change. m Anne Wallace Allen contributed reporting.

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Clusters of people meandered by — swinging shopping bags, walking dogs and pushing strollers. Every few minutes, one or two passersby peeled off to order a cold beverage. Lemonade, orangeade, limeade, iced tea and blended drinks were all on the menu.

“Are you guys having fun doing this?” one motherly customer asked the workers as they prepared beverages for her group. They nodded. “You’re not in the classroom, so you’re getting fresh air,” she added.

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As she walked away, she sampled her drink, then a companion’s. “Oh, my God, they’re both so good,” she said.

“Do you guys take cards?” asked another customer, sporting a shock of pink hair. They told her yes, directing her attention to the iPad-based cashier station.

“How long have you guys been out here?” a college-age blond woman wondered aloud as it neared 1 p.m. Since 11 a.m., they told her, though they’d been lugging gear and setting up since 10.

From late June to mid-August, King Street Center — a nonprofit youth organization that offers an array of programs for toddlers to teens — operates the lemonade stand four days a week. It’s been an annual initiative since the summer of 1997, when King Street Center bought the original stand from Spectrum Youth & Family Services for $1, said the center’s associate director, Dacia Ostlund.

In the lead-up to the summer season, kids take part in a 10-week job readiness program, where they learn about

topics such as budgeting, food safety and customer service. They earn a $5-perhour stipend and split the contents of the tip jar. They also get one free drink per shift. The stand basically breaks even, said Ostlund. Proceeds go to paying the workers, supplies and an end-of-summer celebration.

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The hope is that the gig will help the young teens get a taste of the working world and build a foundation that leads to longer-term internships and job placements in high school, said Ostlund.

Last year, the stand didn’t operate because of the pandemic. King Street ran

a scaled-back summer program with few opportunities to venture out of the South End center. This year, the organization’s staff has made a strong push to help teens find summer employment. The lemonade stand is up and running again, with 15 sixth- through eighth-grade staff members and a new stand manager position created for a high school student.

King Street has helped older teens find a variety of jobs, from maintaining trails with the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps to taking tickets for the Vermont Lake Monsters. Others are working as junior counselors at King Street’s camps for younger kids. The center also runs a more traditional teen summer program, taking around 30 campers on supervised outings to the beach, skate park and bike path, free of charge.

Compared with the fear and uncertainty of last summer, “this summer just feels so good,” Ostlund said.

Rising seventh grader Mathias Mmunga, who was working his first day at the stand, agreed. Last summer, he mostly hung around his house and played soccer in the backyard, he recalled.

Mmunga started attending King Street’s afterschool program and its job training course this spring, and he enjoyed learning life skills such as how to open a bank account.

“It was actually really interesting, and it was stuff I knew I needed to learn,” he said.

He’ll work two four-hour shifts per week through the season and also play a lot of soccer with friends. Mmunga said his summer is turning out a lot better, and more productive, than last year’s.

Khalil Philie, who is headed to Burlington High School next year, has been attending King Street since kindergarten; this is his second year at the stand. He supplements the job by pitching in at his dad’s farm at the Intervale. Philie said he likes working on Church Street because it’s a central area with lots of interesting people.

The job itself is also interesting.

Workers rotate through a variety of tasks: filling paper cups with scoops of ice and sugar; slicing and squeezing fruit in a large manual citrus press; mixing drinks in a metal shaker; and manning the iPad cash register. Philie said ringing up customers is the most fun job for him.

When on squeezing duty, you have to be careful not to squirt lemon juice in your eye, he warned.

Business is often brisk. On opening day, the stand sold around $600 in drinks. Philie said tips usually amount to $60 to $80 a day; on a good day, they can surpass $100.

Local businesses chip in to help keep the stand running smoothly. The Burlington Hilton Garden Inn and Leunig’s Bistro & Café donate ice. City Market provides compostable straws.

Some donations are for the workers themselves.

“They hook us up with free fries,” explained 17-year-old Nayan Rai as he stashed away several paper bags from

father. His dad gave him a good deal, Rai added.

His favorite drink is one that hasn’t made it on the menu yet. He calls it the 3-2-1: three oranges, two lemons and one lime.

Jordan Coolidge, a King Street employee who’s worked in the teen program for the past five years, says he’s partial to another off-menu beverage: an Arnold Palmer — half lemonade, half iced tea — topped off with orange juice.

Coolidge says he feels “blessed” that the youth he works with are so open with him about various issues they face. Inter-

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Leunig’s Petit Bijou kiosk. Rai, a rising senior at Burlington High School, worked at the lemonade stand all through middle school. This year, King Street hired him as the stand manager, and he’s paid minimum wage plus tips.

He supervises the younger employees and makes sure things are running smoothly from Thursday through Saturday. The other four days of the week, Rai works as a waiter at the Residence at Shelburne Bay, a senior living facility.

He’s been there for two years.

“I love working,” Rai said, matterof-factly. “If I’m not working, there’s nothing else to do.”

Using money he’d saved, Rai recently bought a 2014 Toyota RAV4 from his

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Our design does not include a direct paved ribbon to downtown that would encourage higher speeds and slice through the King-Maple neighborhood. The vitality of a city is not measured by tall buildings and streets clogged with cars. To continue down this path is the worst of conventional thinking.

Many cities that jumped on the bandwagon for downtown transportation projects with ring roads and expressways now admit it was a mistake and face the cost of demolition. We need to get the Parkway project right the first time.

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[Re “Kicked to the Curb,” June 16]: In February 2020, a homeless man named Thierry Heuga died sleeping under a Bennington bridge in the cold. A month later, COVID-19 hit.

When the pandemic burst into Vermont, our legislators spent around $44 million to house Vermont’s homeless population in motels for the duration of the crisis. Instead of people out on the cold streets during a pandemic, Vermonters were able to remain relatively safe in motels. Our state and our legislators should be immensely proud.

I was filled with hope that Vermont would come close to ending homelessness due to our great response to it during the pandemic. However, Gov. Phil Scott has ended the state of emergency that existed during the pandemic’s harshest months, meaning the motel program is coming to an end for many individuals — about 700 people — on July 1.

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The Thierrys of have gone unidentiVermont are now fied due to this lack of being pushed back attention, and now TB into the street. deaths and infection With a nonchalant rates may not have decreased, they have shrug, Vermont has turned its back on just gone unreported. our homeless neighU.S. Sen. Patrick bors. In our rush to Leahy is no stranger get back to normal, to this; he has used to the Curb many of us just have his position to ensure the ability to turn the global funding in HE’S GOT THE BEAT OUT OF HIS SHELL NEW ISSUE! other way and not many places, includlook at the issue of ing making sure that homelessness. the Global Fund to Legislators and those with power: If Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria you don’t act, all you’ll have to do is look is protected. TB is also no stranger to under a bridge in any given town and see Vermont; between 2003 and 2015, the the issue of homelessness alive and well. state had a shocking total of 77 TB cases.

I hope you can take this as a call to action This is an issue around the world and to make change before our streets are once clearly one happening in our state right again beds for thousands of our neighbors. now. Therefore, we are asking for Sen. Addie Lentzner Leahy’s support to make sure that additional global funding is properly allocated BENNINGTON for TB specifically.

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[Re Off Message: “Vermont Closes In on Vaccination Goal — and Considers Sending Shots to Canada,” June 1]: Now that we have reached the 80 percent vaccination rate and restrictions are beginning to be lifted, it is time for global aid to recommence. Sending excess vaccines to help reopen the U.S.-Canadian border is essential in getting our world vaccinated, yet we also need to set a renewed focus on continued global issues that COVID-19 has delayed progress on.

According to sources, tuberculosis eradication has been set back five to eight years due to the reallocation of financial resources to COVID-19.

With this, 83 percent of countries have reported that TB personnel have been reassigned to the COVID-19 response.

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But heartened that Goddard College just got a new president and hopefully may revitalize the college [Off Message: “Goddard College’s New President Vows to Revitalize the Struggling School,” June 24]. It is a very worthy endeavor, and I hope that you will have good news consistently regarding Goddard’s comeback.

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[“Fight of the Honeybee,” June 23] claims that dairy farmers use neonicotinoid-laced seeds in order to protect the corn and soy they plant to feed their cows. Cary Giguere, from the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, tries to make the case that they are balancing infrastructure and sustainability to avoid the need for farmers to plant more crops in the absence of the neonicotinoids, which would lead to more runoff of phosphorus into Lake Champlain.

Such a conundrum! Destroy the lake or kill the bees! Why not include the third part of the equation? Cows are iconic to Vermont, and, if they were treated better, we might almost think they were sacred cows. But they’re not. They are artificially inseminated every time their milk slows down and forced through another pregnancy, only to lose their offspring so that humans can use the milk meant for their babies.

Cow’s milk is not sustainable when farmers are dumping “product” because the market is glutted and the price is tanking. The main purchaser of milk is the U.S. government; this milk is foisted on children in schools and Native Americans in reservations.

The handwriting is on the wall with the increased popularity and availability of plant-based milks. But we are stuck in our image of Vermont as a dairy state. And in doing that, we get to choose between killing the bees or further damaging Lake Champlain — and in 20 years, losing the dairy industry anyway.

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OBITUARIES John Carter

JUNE 28, 1945-JUNE 21, 2021 WATERBURY, VT. John “Jack” P. Carter passed on peacefully at home on June 21, 2021, at the age of 75. Jack was born on June 28,1945, in Windsor, Vt. He was the son of Nick and Ruth Carter and the youngest brother of Sherm and Taylor (“Jim”). He was educated in the Windsor School System and graduated from Windsor High School in 1963. Upon graduating, he attended Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt. Friends and relatives describe Jack as “passionate, compassionate, forward-looking, generous and incredibly honest.” He is regarded affectionately by many as “the Mayor of Stowe Street.”

Jack wished to make life better for others in Waterbury; he was involved in many aspects of the Waterbury community. He served on the Waterbury Selectboard. He was a leader of the Waterbury Historical Society and an avid local and state historian. Jack was a member of the Board of Civil Authority and was a familiar face at the polls, working as a local election official. He served on the Cemetery Commission and the Tree Committee. A longtime justice of of the peace, he was referred to by his extended family as “the Reverend,” and he officiated

at his own niece and nephews’ weddings.

He enjoyed being a member and cochair of the Friends of the Vermont Statehouse and acted for many years as a tour guide of the Capitol Building, entertaining scores of visitors with his Vermont historical anecdotes and lore.

Jack’s love for Vermont was also expressed through his involvement in the 251 Club, of which he was the acting president for a number of years. He and Ted Schultheis, his life partner of 41 years, are Plus Members of the club, and together they visited all 251 towns and gores in Vermont.

Jack was an enthusiastic supporter of the arts and of historical restoration. He helped found Revitalizing Waterbury, the group that was the driving force behind the renovation of the Stimson and Graves Building on Stowe Street. Later he led the effort to bring the

Waterbury Train Station back to its architectural glory.

For most of his adult life in Burlington, New York City and Waterbury, Jack worked in retail. He and his partner, Ted, were the longtime owners of the Stowe Street Emporium.

The opening of the retail store in 1994 spearheaded the revitalization of downtown Waterbury.

As Waterbury municipal manager Bill Shepeluk said, “Jack was a dreamer and a visionary, and somebody who wanted to get things done.

He wasn’t deterred by ‘you can’t.’ He’d say, ‘Why not?’”

“The Mayor of Stowe Street” is in our everlasting hearts and minds. Jack’s love for his family, friends and community continues to inspire many to participate in making Waterbury and Vermont a special place to live. Jack was the best friend Waterbury ever had.

Jack is survived by his life partner, Ted Schultheis; brother Taylor (“Jim”); sistersin-law Vivian and Susan; nieces and nephews; and countless friends.

Arrangements are by Perkins Parker Funeral Home in Waterbury. There will be a memorial service in August.

Donations in Jack’s honor and memory may be made to Waterbury Historical Society, c/o Paul Willard, P.O. Box 708, Waterbury, VT 05676 or Revitalizing Waterbury, Memo: to Jack’s Alley (in memory of Jack Carter), P.O. 473, Waterbury, VT 05676.

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Charles R. Pratt

AUGUST 11, 1942-JUNE 12, 2021 MONTGOMERY, VT. Charles was an extraordinary musician with great depth and range in his playing. He was always kind, with great wit and humor, a true gentleman.

Charles was born with the music in him.

At age 3, he started picking out tunes on the piano. By the time he was 6, lessons had started. He played piano all through high school and college, along with baseball and other sports. Whitman, Mass., was his hometown. Buddy, as he was known growing up and until the move to California and the University of California, Los Angeles, “was greatly appreciated for his wit, caring, and demeanor by fellow students in our high school and college days,” wrote friend Mike B. While in California, a friend from Vermont working in the LA area sent Charles Vermont Life engagement calendars every Christmas.

Eventually, Charles came to Vermont in the summers to escape the LA smog.

One fall day in 1989, Charles and his guitarist, photographer friend, Harold, were driving through Montgomery. Charles’s ‘68 Lincoln Continental overheated, so they stopped at Kilgore’s General Store for water, instead of the service station next door, so that Harold could take photos of the store.

That is how I met my husband. The store had a stage, and when I learned they were musicians, I asked if they would like to play over the Labor Day weekend. Charles had a portable electric piano, and Harold, one of his many guitars, and could they play!

The next summer, 1990, Charles asked to play at the store on weekends. He never went back to California, ending his 20+ years there of performing, teaching piano and as a dance accompanist. He welcomed all to join him in making music. His leaving was mourned as the “contribution he made to the joy people at the beach get out of music, a joy not even his leaving can dampen. Keys stilled; sounds remain.”

He performed classical, jazz, ragtime, boogie-woogie, Broadway, old favorites and new age. He was one of the first-prize winners in the 1973 Frank Sinatra Musical Performance Awards Competition.

Playing at the store, Charles attracted many musicians and customers who just loved to join in or just hear him play. One day, Don Hill and Pixley Tyler Hill wandered

in. Charles was playing Don’s favorite rag, “The Graceful Ghost.” He became the house pianist for The Tyler Place Family Resort.

For 24 years he considered the Tyler Place a second home and family. He played a classical night; a jazz night, in which he gathered musicians from all over Vermont; and a Broadway sing-along night, attracting skilled (and unskilled) singers.

During that time he also taught piano and played for weddings and many other gigs, including the Montréal Jazz Festival with Harold.

He was predeceased by his parents, Louise and Bob Pratt; his sister, Mary Louise Pratt, and his best man and longterm wonderful friend, Neil Gretsky; his cousins and fellow music lovers, Fred and Dick Bail; and friend and mother-in-law Agatha East.

He leaves behind stepdaughter Elizabeth Davidson and her daughter, Elena Wells; stepson Daren and his wife, Renee, and daughter, Eva; Dawn Davidson and daughter Alexis; and brother-in-law Barry East and his wife, Viola. He also leaves behind his cat, Mickey, who kept him company throughout the night and greeted him every morning.

His wife, Morgan East, and Charles had a wonderful life together. He was especially close to his granddaughter, Elena. They shared the love of baseball and goofy jokes and puns.

Charles loved the roses that were planted in front of their deck. There were never that many blooms, but the day after he died, all four of them bloomed like crazy!

And they still are.

Bayada Home Health Care helped me take care of him for a year at home and were with him when he went to Queen City Nursing & Rehabilitation for the last six weeks of his life. The staff at Queen City would wheelchair him to their old upright piano, and he would play for staff and residents.

Donations can be made to any hospice care or home health agency. Franklin County Home Health Agency stayed with Charles once a week so I could run errands.

Charles would like the young supported in music, the arts and sports. He had the gift of music and gave of it freely. Keep the music playing.

His last words to me were, “I am so fortunate to have had such a wonderful life.”

Goodbye for now, my love and dear friend for the past 32 years.

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Jeremy Silva JULY 12, 2002JUNE 19, 2021 MONTPELIER, VT.

Jeremy Nick Michael Silva, born in Las Vegas, Nev., on July 12, 2002, arrived in Vermont in July of 2020 to meet in person his best friend of five years, Jolon, whom he had initially met playing a popular video game, Fallout: New Vegas.

Jeremy experienced much loss early on, losing his mother, Lucy Silva, at the age of 11 and his dad, Nick Salazar, at 14. He was cared for by his maternal grandparents until he embarked on his journey to New England at the age of 18.

Jeremy was immediately embraced as a son

by Jolon’s parents, Melissa and Steve Marden. Jolon’s mother was officially made next of kin after a medical emergency, and she did

much to help him in times of need.

Jeremy’s unique presence and intensity left an impression on people who met him. His dry and absurd humor was endearing, and he danced when joyful. He had a nonintrusive way of being able to educate and engage people. He loved to discuss world history and foreign cultures. He held a particular respect for the

Richard Colantuono FEBRUARY 1, 1949JUNE 19, 2021 WOODSTOCK, VT.

Richard “Dick” Colantuono died at home in Woodstock on June 19, 2021, from complications of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72.

Dick was born in New York, N.Y., to Julius and Jane Colantuono.

When he was 9, Dick and his family moved to Locust Valley, N.Y. Shortly after moving, Dick’s father died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 36.

Despite that early loss, Dick loved his life in Locust Valley, where he played and excelled at every team sport imaginable. His favorite number was 12. He loved to say that was the age at which he could ride his bike to hang out with his buddies and play sports and life was not yet complicated by the discovery of girls.

He was voted the Locust Valley High School class of 1967 “most considerate boy.” Anyone who knew him would agree that it was an apt superlative.

After graduating from high school, Dick went on to get his BA in economics at St. Lawrence University.

He met many of his lifelong

friends at SLU and was extremely proud of his alma mater. While he was there, Dick played golf and skied. He was quite proud of the fact that in his senior year he skied 62 days at Sugarbush in Vermont!

He participated in ROTC while at St. Lawrence, and after graduating he served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Hannau, Germany, for three years. He enjoyed more years of skiing and golf in Europe. There seems to be a theme here.

Upon returning to the U.S., a college buddy convinced him to move to Vermont to work at Vermont National Bank. Forty years later, after rising through the ranks of the bank, Dick was a senior vice president in charge of all branches in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

He was also a member of

military history and culture of Japan.

Jeremy arrived in Vermont with hardly a change of clothes, a suitcase full of books and about a dozen Criterion Collection films. Religion was also of great interest. At some point in his life, Jeremy was handed a Bible to read. He read three versions, and he went on to read the Koran, the Tibetan Book of the Dead and other sacred works.

In the fall of 2020, Jeremy met his great love, Althea.

Jeremy had never been happier, and it was mutual.

Due to circumstances during COVID-19, the move-in decision Jeremy was offered by her household in December was all-or-nothing; he graciously accepted. Jeremy and Althea were given three seasons completely in love and rarely apart. He learned how to get a woodstove going and how to love and be loved.

the executive committee.

Because of his expertise and ability to get along with everyone, Dick weathered two bank mergers.

He loved his job because he met and engaged with so many different people. Even in the last days of his illness, he wanted to know about the people who were caring for him. He had a gift for making connections with people and finding common ground.

Over the years, Dick served on many nonprofit boards in Woodstock, including the board at the Thompson Senior Center, the Woodstock Recreation Center, the Union Arena and the Rotary. He was an active member of the Woodstock Country Club for 35 years, chairing many events, winning the club championship five times and placing as runner-up nine times!

He married Ginny Eames in 1990 and became the stepfather to Tyler and Jared when they were 9 and 7, respectively. He loved following their school events, particularly their sports.

Dick and Ginny traveled throughout Europe and the U.S. with wonderful friends with whom they shared a love of golf, fine food and the pleasure of each other’s company.

But the greatest joy in

They had begun to chart out their future together.

Tragically, Jeremy’s life ended just before reaching summer by a fateful accident on June 19, 2021.

Jeremy Silva touched the hearts of many people he met on his journey. He will be remembered fondly, and his spirit will continue to influence those who knew him. He is forever in our hearts. Godspeed.

Jeremy is survived by his loving grandparents; his fiancée, Althea Ellis, and family; his best friend, Jolon Marden, and family; his friend Armon; and many other friends. He would have wished for contributions in his memory to be donated to Wikipedia, practically the only reason he would ever think of his phone. A memorial gathering will be held on Thursday, July 1, 6 p.m., at Pocket Park in Montpelier.

his life was when his first granddaughter Caitlin was born, followed by Brooke and Hannah. They were the true loves of his life. He was a wonderful grandfather who let them do whatever they wanted: paint his face or his toenails, ride on his back, fix his hair in ponytails and barrettes. He embraced every moment with incredible patience and love.

Dick is survived by his wife of 30 years, Ginny Eames; his stepson Tyler Eames, wife Liz and daughter Brooke; his stepson Jared Eames, wife Patricia and daughters Caitlin and Hannah; his mother, Jane Carpenter; his brother Rob and wife Carol; his sister Betty and husband Danny; and his sister Maureen and husband Billy; as well as nieces and nephews.

Dick was well loved and will be missed by so many people whose paths he crossed over the years. He was always a gentleman, kind and considerate.

There will be a celebration of his wonderful life in the fall.

Donations may be made to the Thompson Senior Center, 1 Senior Way, Woodstock, VT 05091 or to the Union Arena, 80 Amsden Way, Woodstock, VT 05091.

IN MEMORIAM Krisann Paquette

1963-2020 A year ago, you were reborn into your spirit world, where you will forever be pain-free.

You soar amongst the angels, your angels, with your perpetual grin and mischievous ways, for which we are eternally grateful. You continue to touch us all in your own special way. Every day, every moment, you are missed.

Forever in our hearts, Your loving family

MEMORIAL SERVICE John Hawley A memorial gathering will be held on July 14 at 2 p.m. at Maquam Barn & Winery, 125 Duffy Rd., Milton. There will be an opportunity to tell a story or recount a memory if you’d like to.

We are following Vermont COVID-19 guidelines regarding masks for unvaccinated guests.

MEMORIAL SERVICE Robert W. Cochran In remembrance of Bob Cochran, the family is holding a memorial service on Friday, July 2, at 1 p.m., on what would have been his 95th birthday, at the Jericho Congregational Church, 3 Jericho Center Circle in Jericho Center.

A reception will follow in the church’s lower level Fellowship Hall.

A private family funeral service will have occurred on July 1.

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erkeley Breathed’s long-running comic strip “Bloom County” has lately delighted fans with a special cameo: Hobbes, the tiger from Bill Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes.” Published on Facebook, the strips portray Hobbes just as he was in Watterson’s beloved strip — a mischievous stuffed tiger who sometimes comes to life. But rather than manifest through Calvin’s imagination, Hobbes appears in the fictitious hamlet of Bloom County to Opus, the talking penguin — who initially dismisses the talking tiger as a hallucinatory side effect of a COVID-19 vaccine.

For anyone who grew up reading those comics in newspapers in the 1980s and ’90s, Breathed’s online crossover strips are a nostalgic and subversive treat. Will Opus track down Calvin, now presumably an adult, to reunite Hobbes with his childhood pal? If so, what will grown-up Calvin be like? Do we really wanna want to know? And where the hell is Bloom County’s own resident deranged feline, Bill the Cat? Breathed has captivated the imaginations of generations of fans with those new strips while smuggling in a dose of his signature social commentary.

Such is the power of comics: They transfix and transport readers in ways other storytelling mediums often can’t.

Broadly speaking, that’s why Seven Days produces a Cartoon Issue each year. Sure, any of the stories in the following pages could have been reported and written traditionally.

Presented in graphic form, however, they shimmer through the lenses of talented artists, who see the material differently from reporters.

For instance, in the cartoon collaboration of writer Sally Pollak and artist Michael Tonn, the drawings immerse readers in the whirlwind ride that is day-tripping through Guster singer RYAN MILLER’S “WEIRD AND WONDERFUL” VERMONT (page 28).

Comics can also distill confusing topics to their essence and make them easier to understand. Health and Wealth: A Graphic Guide to the US Healthcare System, a NEW COMIC BOOK FROM VERMONT’S CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES, aims to make sense of America’s byzantine system of medical care (page 36).

Speaking of distilling, writer Jordan Barry and artist Coco Fox break down the basics of A NEW LAW THAT ALLOWS TO-GO COCKTAILS for two more years (page 40). So there’s at least one good thing that came out of the pandemic.

If your Tesla breaks down on the way to Pro Pig for takeout Manhattans, you might call MANN & MACHINE in Richmond.

As writer Ken Picard and artist Emily Rhain Andrews relate, it’s one

IVY LYNN ALLIE

is a recent graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies and the owner of a famous eraser. She is currently working on a graphic novel about children’s television. Find more of her work at ivyallie.com.

EMILY RHAIN ANDREWS is a freelance illustrator and designer born, raised and based in Burlington. She Kickstarted the printing of her first graphic novel, Mag Na Mell, in 2016. A second volume follows later this year. Mag Na Mell is free to read at thewylderproject.com, which also offers information about Emily’s other projects. Find her portfolio at eraillustration.com.

COCO FOX

loves to draw vampires, cast spells and bejewel costumes. She is currently drawing her first graphic novel and creating a tarot deck with fellow witch Sutton Crawford.

To keep up to date on Coco’s comics, visit mediumweird.com or follow her on Instagram: @mediumweird.

JAMES KOCHALKA

was the first cartoonist laureate of Vermont. The Cartoon Issue cover shows two of his characters: Banana Fox from Banana Fox and the Secret Sour Society, published

by Graphix, and Squiggle from the Eisner Award-winning Johnny Boo series, published by Top Shelf Productions. Learn more at jameskochalkasuperstar.com.

MICHAEL TONN

of only a few non-dealership garages licensed to work on electric vehicles in Vermont (page 30).

Few Vermonters had as many great stories to tell as the late DAISY TURNER, the 104-year-old Grafton resident whose parents escaped slavery in Virginia. Artist Ezra Veitch shared with me some insights drawn from working with other cartoonists on a new graphic collection of Turner’s tales published by the Vermont Folklife Center (page 32).

Of course, cartoons can also be the perfect vehicles for humor. Writer and new Vermonter Steve Goldstein and artist Ivy Lynn Allie recount a sometimes harrowing and often humorous TRANSITION FROM CITY LIFE TO THE GREEN MOUNTAINS

(page 34).

DAN BOLLES

When he’s not following Ryan Miller around, Burlington’s Michael Tonn can usually be found eating gummy bears in front of the Shopping Bag. Find his work at michaeltonn.com, at illustrationzone.com and on Instagram at @v.a.p.o.r.r.a.t.

EZRA VEITCH

The son of Vermont cartoonist laureate Rick Veitch, Ezra Veitch was raised on a steady diet of comic books and graphic novels. He’s the illustrator of the fantasy-based series The Chronicles of Templar and contributed to the Vermont Folklife Center’s The Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont Drawn by New England Cartoonists, released in early 2021.

Learn more at ezraveitch.com.

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n September, every U.S. Congress member will receive a unique gift: a comic book. At the risk of disappointing Batman fanboy Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), it doesn’t chronicle the adventures of the Dark Knight or Wonder Woman or Superman.

Rather, the short comic confronts something more intractable than the Riddler, Cheetah or Lex Luthor: the U.S. health care system.

Health and Wealth: A Graphic Guide to the US Healthcare System is the latest in a series of graphic guides published by the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction. In 32 pages, the book breaks down the past, present and future of medical care in the U.S. and explains how and why our system works the way it does — or doesn’t.

“Health care is the No. 1 issue for so many people,” said CCS director and cofounder James Sturm in a phone interview. As part of his 2020-21 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, Sturm conceived the project and assembled the team that produced it, including Harvard University students, health care scholars, and current CCS students Sam Nakahira and alum Kazimir Lee, who created the book’s final artwork.

The U.S. health care system is “confusing. It’s complex. It becomes cruel, the way it’s set up,” Sturm explained. “We’re trying to find visual metaphors that speak to that.”

Health and Wealth takes inspiration from children’s books, “Schoolhouse Rock” videos and board games. One comic portrays health care as elements of Monopoly, Life and other games bandaged together in a single board.

The book will be available for free download in July. To finance a print run, Sturm and co. turned to crowdfunding, a resource some use to pay outrageous medical bills. They successfully funded a GoFundMe campaign called “GoFundMe Can’t Fix Healthcare.”

“It’s great that GoFundMe exists,” Sturm said, noting that the vast majority of campaigns fall short, “but it’s not the answer.”

Perhaps U.S. legislators will find solutions with the help of a comic from Vermont.

Read on for an excerpt from Health and Wealth: A Graphic Guide to the US Healthcare System.

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aves lapped gently around boats tied up at the marina.

Seagulls soared across a robin’s egg-blue sky. My husband and I shared chunks of sweet Maine lobster on a griddled, buttery brioche bun and crunchy, fried Maryland softshell crab on a lightly sweet roll spread with Old Bay mayonnaise.

If not for the missing salty sea breeze, we might have been oceanside in either of those two crustacean-blessed states.

Instead, we were seated at the Burlington Harbor Marina under the Farmers & Foragers Dockside tent on a beautiful early summer evening. The mellow notes of a local jazz quartet floated through the air as the sun set in shades that matched my strawberry-rhubarb gin and tonic from the full bar.

Co-owners and fiancés Solomon BayerPacht and Lauren Johnson launched their Farmers & Foragers food truck in 2015 at the weekly South End Truck Stop. Since then, they’ve built up a busy traveling event-and-catering business. Last year, for the first time, they spent the whole summer parked in one spot: Burlington’s newest lakefront marina, just south of the now-skeletal Moran Plant.

The plan predates the pandemic. The marina’s website featured a photo of the Farmers & Foragers food truck even before the owners approached Bayer-Pacht, 31, and Johnson, 30, the couple said with amusement.

“They see this as an amenity. We deliver food to the boats,” Bayer-Pacht said during a midweek interview seated at a back corner table. It was midafternoon, and a smattering of customers grazed on truffle fries ($9) and cheesesteaks ($17) under the elegant peaked tent supported by wooden posts.

For their part, the couple saw the marina as a growth opportunity. “If we can get the truck to a permanent location, it lets us create our own environment, and it gives stability,” Bayer-Pacht explained.

“You can’t scale a business when trucks catch on fire on the way to an event.”

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There are many reasons to start a food truck instead of a brick-and-mortar restaurant: lower overhead and staffing costs, freedom from long-term leases, flexibility to follow the customers. But Bayer-Pacht did it for love.

Both University of Vermont alums, he and Johnson didn’t meet until after graduation, in 2014, when they were coworkers at Hotel Vermont.

By that time, Bayer-Pacht, a Hinesburg native, had spent two years at Temple University in Philadelphia and had studied in Washington, D.C., and Barcelona. Having traveled and lived elsewhere, “I knew I wanted to start this life here,” he said.

“I had all these ideas for bars and restaurants,” he continued, listing off a rooftop bar and a combination sports bar and Jewish deli. “It’s about creating something. I love to host. It’s energizing for me.”

Johnson, who grew up in Maryland crabbing with her grandfather, was looking for jobs out of state where she could apply her environmental science degree.

“And I was trying to figure out ways to keep her here,” Bayer-Pacht recalled with a laugh. But, “at age 23, opening a bar with me was a little bit over the top,” he acknowledged.

When a customer at Hotel Vermont suggested a food truck, Bayer-Pacht was intrigued, and Johnson decided she was amenable to something mobile and flexible. “I always really enjoyed the restaurant industry,” she said. “I’m excited about new flavors and passionate about cooking.”

That first truck-stop summer, Farmers & Foragers became known for its cheesesteaks; on busy nights, the couple served 100 to 125 of them. “It was our stake in the ground,” Bayer-Pacht quipped.

While in Philadelphia, Bayer-Pacht had been a regular at Jim’s South St., one of the city’s vaunted cheesesteak destinations. He developed strong opinions on what makes a good one: lots of onions; the right beef; a soft, warm bun; and white

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last flaky almond croissant at 78 Barre Street on June 27 before closing temporarily to move a few blocks to a new, larger space in the heart of Montpelier. Co-owner ANNIE BAKST said the bakery is tentatively scheduled to reopen in two adjoining storefronts at 81 and 83 Main Street on July 9 after a short break.

The new high-profile location at the corner of State and Main streets was most recently the BLUE STONE but is best known as the decadeslong home of Coffee Corner, a beloved diner.

Bohemian will also take over the neighboring space, which was previously a real estate office.

“It’s a beautiful location in the center of town,” Bakst said. “We were ready to make a move.”

Bakst and her husband, ROBERT HUNT, started baking wood-fired bread in 2003 at their East Calais home. In 2010, the couple began hosting pop-ups in their gardens with pastry and coffee brewed from houseroasted beans. Those events were so popular that they were encouraged — and practically obliged — to open their Montpelier bakery in 2017.

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will again be available — and there will be more of it. Like the former location, however, this one will have no table service.

“It’s not a restaurant; it’s still a bakery,” Bakst said.

The menu will gradually expand to include a larger pastry case and a full array of Bohemian’s pre-pandemic offerings, such as quiches, salads and prewrapped sandwiches. “We are also hoping to make some breads again,” Bakst said, “though not sourdough and not right away.”

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Back to School BLACK KRIM TAVERN CLOSES IN RANDOLPH

After more than a decade, chef-owner SARAH NATVIG

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The last day of dining at Black Krim will be July 17. Natvig is not selling the restaurant’s name, she said, but is in preliminary discussions with “someone who may be taking over the space.”

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The teaching opportunity “came out of the blue,” Natvig said.

“I wasn’t looking.”

However, she said, the career change dovetailed with her thinking about her professional and personal future. “This past year has been so rugged,” Natvig said.

“We’ve all learned so much from it.”

Over the past several years, Natvig said, she has enjoyed coaching middle school and high school soccer and seeing youngsters build life skills. “Taking my current job in restaurants and hospitality and working with high school students in my hometown — it’s just perfect,” she said.

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Grape Move SHELBURNE VINEYARD ACQUIRES LINCOLN PEAK VINEYARD; WILL REOPEN TASTING ROOM

When SHELBURNE VINEYARD founders KEN and GAIL ALBERT first planted rows of cold-hardy marquette grapes at their new winery along Route 7 in 2006, they bought the vines from CHRIS GRANSTROM. Now, 15 years after purchasing those vines, Shelburne Vineyard has acquired Granstrom’s LINCOLN PEAK VINEYARD.

“When Chris Granstrom recently decided it was time to retire, we were honored that he approached us to work with him, and that we could carry on the legacy he’s built,” a June 21 newsletter from the vineyard said.

“I look at it as a union of two sort of pioneering grape growers,” Ken Albert told Seven Days. “We’ve both been

growing these grapes half an hour away from each other up and down Route 7, and although we might have been competitors during that time frame, we also were colleagues.”

For the past two growing seasons, the Shelburne Vineyard team has managed five of the roughly seven and a half acres of vines at Lincoln Peak. “We needed the grapes,” Albert said. “But we learned a lot about the vines there and got to know a little bit about what was going on in the Middlebury area.”

They also learned more about Granstrom’s winemaking process, he said, which will come in handy as Shelburne Vineyard continues to produce one or two of Lincoln Peak’s wines.

Lincoln Peak’s tasting room in New Haven will reopen on July 9, offering tastings, wine by the glass and a menu of local snacks. Wines from both vineyards — including several from ETHAN JOSEPH’s IAPETUS label — will be available.

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Truck, Stopped « P.38 American cheese. Green pepper is optional but “adds tang,” he said.

To make all those cheesesteaks, BayerPacht said he hand-sliced at least a thousand top rounds from Cambridge’s Boyden Farm. “I think I’ve spent months of my life slicing steaks at 3 a.m.,” he said ruefully — “until we got smarter about using equipment.”

The couple believes in as much local sourcing as possible, but Bayer-Pacht said they had to make a concession for the cheesesteak cheese. “We tried every fancy Vermont cheese. It just didn’t work.”

On top of the truck stop, “We were doing dog shows in Stowe, all the events no one else wanted to do — just saying yes to everything,” Bayer-Pacht said.

Farmers & Foragers got on the approved UVM campus truck list and started catering, adding a second truck in year three to handle the extra business. “We were doing doublewedding weekends,” Bayer-Pacht said.

It was on the way to a wedding in Greensboro that one of the trucks caught fire. No one was hurt, but the Farmers & Foragers team had to rush out the second truck and unload and reload everything. “We got there.

We served on time,” Bayer-Pacht said. “No one at the wedding even knew.”

Even without emergency swaps, all the schlepping was getting old, and when the marina opportunity came up, it appealed.

“I always wanted a waterfront restaurant,” Bayer-Pacht said, noting that Burlington could use more lakeside dining.

This past winter, Farmers & Foragers landed a second long-term spot: at Stowe’s Lodge at Spruce Peak for the ski season.

The two locations combined provide yearround business, and continued limited catering has enabled the couple to maintain a core crew, which expands to 14 or 15 employees for the summer.

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Lauren Johnson and Solomon Bayer-Pacht at their waterfront restaurant

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Kulacz, has been with the company for three years. The other lead chef, Gerber Rodriguez, joined in 2020 after he and a co-owner closed their Esperanza Restaurante in Burlington.

The couple encourages staff to speak up when they see room for improvement.

“We want people to give a shit,” BayerPacht said. “We want people to tell us the way to do things, to give us new ideas.”

Farmers & Foragers customers can taste the results. Kulacz, who is from Maine, added the brown butter that takes the lobster roll a step up. Its cost varies with the market price for fresh lobster and was $30 on a recent visit. On the other end of the menu at $8 is a kimchi hot dog topped with a former longtime employee’s kicky kimchi recipe.

Rodriguez added curtido, a pickledvegetable recipe from his native El Salvador, to the food truck’s signature friedperch tacos. He also uses it in the breakfast burrito, for which he makes chorizo.

“He’s our hot sauce guy,” Johnson said, listing off Rodriguez’s repertoire: mango-habañero, pineapple-serrano and a tongue-tingling aji charapita made with tiny yellow peppers grown by Burlington’s Half Pint Farm.

Other seasonal items also owe their inspiration to local farms, such as the current menu’s trio of fried squash blossoms ($10). Flowers from Jericho Settlers Farm become crisp puffs encasing dollops of lemon-basil ricotta with a spicy honey drizzle.

Strawberry season has brought a salad ($13) pairing berries grown at Adam’s Berry Farm with salad mix from Pitchfork Farm, punctuated with briny Maplebrook Farm feta and a bright lemon-Dijon vinaigrette. By mid-July, roasted beets will replace the strawberries.

The parsley, dill and cilantro that turn Farmers & Foragers’ falafel bright green are also local. “We use a ton,” Johnson said, “and I toast the cumin and coriander

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whole and grind them.” That pita sandwich ($15), topped with a garlicky yogurt tzatziki sauce, house-pickled red onion, tomatoes and cucumbers, is one of Johnson’s favorite menu items.

“I love the tang of the tzatziki, the herby falafel and the sweetness of the onion,” she said, nailing what makes the falafel successful in this reporter’s opinion. (Johnson also confided that she enjoys her cheesesteak on a pita with tzatziki and “tons of caramelized onions.”

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Another favorite of Johnson’s is the Key lime pie, which sells briskly in individual four-ounce jarred portions ($8). She makes the crust with brown butter, coconut and graham cracker crumbs and tops it with a just-tart-enough Key lime layer.

Currently, the staff cooks hot food to order in the truck with components prepped in Farmers & Foragers’ South Burlington commercial kitchen. But as the summer heats up, the team will soon have more prep space at the marina: a new cook tent to prepare cold foods such as raw oysters, fresh seafood ceviche and vegetarian summer rolls with spicy peanut dipping sauce, an original truckstop favorite.

Through early October (weather permitting), Farmers & Foragers Dockside will remain open for lunch and dinner Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and for Sunday brunch, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Johnson strongly recommends reservations; walk-in seats are scarce, especially in the evenings.

The truck also offers takeout orders, and diners will find a number of nice

spots to eat nearby. Place those orders ahead online, Johnson suggested (except for brunch, which must be ordered in person).

The tent was hopping at a recent Sunday brunch during my second visit; guests were arriving by bike, boat and even paddleboard. Our party of four parked near the skate park, then settled in to enjoy the view and Bloody Marys crowned with pickled vegetables and add-on bacon ($12).

Our meal had plenty of highlights, including another lobster roll. The brunch version of an excellent localized bánh mì sandwich ($15) featured thick, well-crisped pork belly, pickled daikon and carrots, Sriracha mayonnaise, and a fried egg. A pair of lakeperch tacos ($12) came with chipotle crème fraîche, corn salsa and Rodriguez’s snappy curtido, nestled in sturdy heirloom corn tortillas from All Souls Tortilleria in Burlington.

The picture-perfect setting felt like vacation, and the crisp fried perch were as local as fish gets in Vermont, fished last winter from the body of water mere feet away. We hardly missed the ocean. m

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Book review: Daughter of Sparta, Claire M. Andrews B Y M ARG A RET G RAYSON • margaret@sevendaysvt.com

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halfway through the book, the other characters are appalled, but the reader sees where he’s coming from. This version of Greece is brutal, and Daphne, for all her bravado, is just like everyone else — trying to survive.

The ending finds our hero hardened, resigned to a new role in Greece and searching for answers from her own past. Though this particular journey is resolved, Andrews leaves enough questions unanswered to allow plenty of room for a sequel or series.

Like other novels that retell myths, Daughter of Sparta covers a lot of ground in relatively few pages, perhaps echoing the scope of the epic poems on which many of those myths are based. If she writes more novels about Daphne and her compatriots, Andrews will have many more tales to choose from, and this reviewer is happy to get immersed in ancient Greece again and again. m

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ome stories are just begging for a remix. Just like vampires, mermaids and William Shakespeare’s works, the stories of ancient Greek mythology have inspired countless retellings and riffs by the likes of Anne Carson, Margaret Atwood and C.S. Lewis. Rick Riordan reared a fresh generation of mythology nerds with his Percy Jackson and the Olympians series for middle graders. Most recently, Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles and Circe won awards and swept best-seller lists with their focus on individual characters in the wide world of gods and goddesses.

Like Circe, Claire M. Andrews’ debut young adult novel Daughter of Sparta centers on, and grants agency to, a female character who had previously been just an accessory to a man’s story. Andrews’ Daphne is a young woman adopted into Spartan society and trained alongside the men to be fierce in battle and unwaveringly loyal to Sparta. But Daphne is still a woman, and in ancient Greece this makes her an unlikely candidate for the hero’s quest she undertakes.

Readers of the novel will benefit from a cursory knowledge of Greek history and mythology, with its 12 major gods and goddesses who live on Mount Olympus, countless minor gods and monsters, and a network of often-warring city-states such as Sparta. Those who lack that foundation might struggle, as Andrews tosses the reader into the thick of the story from the first page, frequently using Greek terms and referencing characters from other myths.

The author, based in Randolph Center, has taken significant liberties with the tale of Daphne and Apollo, though readers familiar with its basic outline will have a sense of where the relationship between the two characters is headed. Here, rather than a river nymph, Daphne is a headstrong teenager with a warrior’s mindset, desperate to prove herself as more than an outsider. In the book’s early pages, her inner voice is tinged with arrogance and patriotism as she states how proud she is to be a small part of “the wealth of

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power, strength and strategy that Sparta possesses.”

Daphne gets a chance to prove her mettle when the goddess Artemis sends her on a quest while the fate of Olympus and all of Greece hangs in the balance. With supernatural forces at work and traitors among the Olympians, Daphne must fight both monsters and men to return what has been stolen and restore the gods’ power. Artemis also assigns her brother, Apollo, to accompany Daphne, who must sort through her complicated feelings toward the sun god and decide whether he’s trustworthy.

Daphne’s journey is long and harrowing, and she wrestles with self-doubt and guilt over putting her loved ones in harm’s way.

She makes foolish decisions and has to fight her way out, incurring costs that make her

wonder whether the stars will someday tell “the tragic story of the Daughter of Sparta, and the friends felled and lost due to her selfish whims.”

The author’s writing sometimes tends toward cliché, especially when it comes to the use of phrases such as “raven locks” and “flaxen waterfall” to describe human hair. But that drive to find synonyms helps Andrews when she’s writing action scenes, and Daughter of Sparta is packed full of them. The book doesn’t shy away from blood, violence and death.

In the same dark vein, Andrews’ gods and goddesses are cruel and petty, and Daphne grows weary of their constant manipulation of the mortal world to suit their desires.

When the mad king Minos declares himself free “from the shackles of the gods” about

TO RETURN WHAT HAS BEEN STOLEN.

The sudden silence of Artemis’s departure settles around me, and I reflect again on Ligeia’s stories. She always said that the gods are just and cruel, beloved and feared. Their life’s work is maintaining that balance held over mortals.

Fear for my brother’s life—for my life balanced on the golden curse—shudders through me in time to the erratic pulsing of my heart, and I realize the gods also fear us.

The gods are just and cruel, beloved and feared. Ligeia insists that the gods are so merciless because they love us, that they only want us to better ourselves. I believe it’s because the gods are envious of us. They will never understand the beauty of watching the day pass and knowing that it could perhaps be your last. They will never experience the bitter taste of fear as it floods your senses, or the sometimes bittersweet ache of pain.

They also fear us because they understand that whipped backs will always heal, and eventually they will no longer bow.

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Telling Memory Book review: Ghettoclaustrophobia, Shanta Lee Gander

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hat happens to the world when God’s thermostat is broken? Shanta Lee Gander explores the answer to this haunting question and others in her debut collection of poetry, Ghettoclaustrophobia: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues. For her, storytellWishing everyone ing is the door and language is the key. a safe and fun 4th, Gander asks us to rely on memory, no now get out and garden! matter how unreliable or in flux, to unlock open 11-5 tues-sat the answers to generational trauma and 802-453-4797 11 MAIN ST BRISTOL fraught legacies. More than that, Ghettoclaustrophobia urges readers to look Just come on down or back at the past in order to understand Stay connected on and embrace the intricacies of the future. facebook and instagram Brattleboro-based Gander is well DON’T FORGET OUR NOVELTY SEEDS equipped to guide us on this journey. Her emeraldrosegrows.com work has appeared in publications such as PRISM, ITERANT, Palette Poetry, BLAVITY and DAME magazine. As much 8V-emgrows063021.indd 1 6/3/21 5:23 PM griot as poet, she’s earned a stellar array of accolades and awards — including, in 2020, the prestigious Arthur Williams Award for Meritorious Service to the Arts.

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The full spectrum of her writerly concerns is addressed in Ghettoclaustrophobia, where her speaker goes on a celestial and earthly journey of self-discovery through language. Gander celebrates the power of Black creativity as an agent of change and light. She writes, “We be the alchemists, the meaning / of magician, fashioning ourselves from the wreckage of memory[.]”

Gander’s preoccupation with memory and Black identity becomes the life raft that carries readers through the text. We come closer to understanding what it means to be a Black woman navigating a racially and socially fraught world.

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GANDER’S PREOCCUPATION WITH MEMORY AND BLACK IDENTITY BECOMES THE LIFE RAFT THAT CARRIES READERS THROUGH THE TEXT.

social landscape of cancel culture. The poem’s speaker wonders how to separate artists from their art when they’ve committed unspeakable acts of abuse against vulnerable people.

Gander asks, too, what is to be done with the wreckage these artists have left behind. She writes, “Can we un-paint all the pain that’s / been on the walls in the

rooms of our psyche? Can we remove all / the wallpaper from our childhoods?”

The poet links childhood innocence and sexual trauma in a way that is as skillful and nuanced as it is crushingly honest.

Gander is evenhanded in her praise of these artists: “Didn’t they remind us of flying / with our feet on the ground?”

But she also addresses our societal and cultural complicity when we blindly support them: “Q. What does a sacrifice to a god look like? / A. Our daughters. / Our sons. / Ourselves.” She places blame where it’s due and asks readers to look more closely at themselves in the process.

Gander further explores this juxtaposition of innocence and loss in “Cthulhu’s Diaries,” one of the most visceral poems in the collection. Here she employs the poetic form of a palindrome, a mirror poem that can be read forward or

about motherhood and the gifts this goddess-like being has bestowed: Mother sits fashioning her children.

Cosmic clay, stardust, and obsidian for resilience, dreams for seeing, and the things not contained by language, and hardships sometimes cloaked as nightmares

“DREAMIN OF MAMA” FROM GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA Here, Mama be like, I’m gonna carry your bag sharing the burden she’s put in it Here, we argue like sisters screaming the trauma that created us We show up lulled into forgetting startin where we ended to do it all again If I arrive awake, she shows me how to read the witness marks sayin, Our bodies the clocks, Our Mamas Multiplied by greatness They be horologists…

backward, to explore the horror and intensity of childhood sexual abuse.

“Cthulhu’s Diaries” perfectly illustrates how the poem’s speaker navigates painful and traumatic memories. A reader may wince and look away from the words: “Against the concrete walls, he dry-fucked me / in Auntie’s garage while homemade vanilla ice / cream dripped down our chins. / I wanted his hands / on my 8-year-old body.”

The contrasting imagery of sweet, sticky ice cream and a grotesque sexual act takes the reader to the depths of revulsion.

Luckily, Gander does not leave us to wallow there. Elsewhere in the text, she transports us to an almost celestial realm.

In “Black Book of Creation,” she writes

The poem is reminiscent of work by celebrated poet Joy Harjo, who often elevates domestic elements to an empyrean plane. Gander uses the mother figure as an avatar to remark on the Herculean tasks of the Black mother: showering her children with beautiful gifts but also preparing them for the inevitable harsh realities of a cruel world.

In the third section of the book, Gander presents us with an abrupt visual shift. Each poem is rendered in the form of a communication by letter. Even the italic font that she employs resembles handwriting. On first read, this section is perplexing, but it becomes evident that these “letter” poems are, in fact, answers to one of the poet’s most pervasive questions: What does happen when God’s thermostat is broken?

We see Gander explore how the world she’s created turns topsy-turvy beneath unrelenting heat. Everything goes awry.

Gander writes, “Sometimes boredom has a way about it, / a kind of saunter like its twin, Trouble. // They both show up when it’s hot.”

Gander uses sophisticated personification to flesh out these characters. The abstract concepts suddenly spring to life before us. Tellingly, she explains, “…when God’s thermostat is broken, / all of the irrational has a reason for existing[.]” The poet’s predisposition toward the fantastical is on vivid and surreal display in moments like these throughout the text.

As a whole, Ghettoclaustrophobia is a stunning work that places exacting demands on us as readers. Gander commands not only our attention but also our accountability as human beings. She leads us in a surgical exploration of the whimsical.

More importantly, Gander encourages us to seek the truth that lies at the very heart of poetic storytelling. She asks us to look inside ourselves to examine the fragile nature of our pasts and fraught memories. Ghettoclaustrophobia shows us the beauty that exists in the piercing shards of a broken world. m

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Singing Pictures Art review: Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, BCA Center B Y A M Y L I L LY • lilly@sevendaysvt.com

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he soundtrack may be the first thing visitors notice about “Falling Into Language: A Travelogue.”

That’s the title of conceptual artist Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees’ immersive installation of video and framed twodimensional artworks in a second-floor gallery at Burlington’s BCA Center.

Accompanying an 18-minute video that TwoTrees created using her own mixed-paper works, the track begins with a sonorous hum recalling the moment the monolith appears in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The sound grows ever more complex, gaining layers of whispered syllables, breaths and sung notes until it is almost mesmerizing.

That is the artist’s first cue to visitors to let go of the need to understand or impose meaning on her installation.

TwoTrees is interested in the idea of a time outside language — a time of universal heritage before people were fragmented and divided by tongues. She uses vocables — “words” composed of sounds without regard to meaning — as a vehicle. While it’s unclear who is “falling into language” in this exhibition, the journey appears to be a shared one, open to all comers.

Evidence of that journey covers the

THE IMAGES RESEMBLE A VIDEO JOURNEY

ACROSS THE TOPOGRAPHY OF AN ALIEN PLANET. Video still from “Falling Into Language: A Travelogue”

room’s other walls. Seven framed works contain torn pieces of paintings made from textured paper, collage and acrylic ink that resemble those featured in the video. Like archaeological traces, these fragments are labeled as if in an explorer’s journal: “Map fragment with possible legend — Ancestor journey 7CXX.03” or “Unknown

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marks — crackled burns, craterlike ink spills — but the view never widens enough to show the works’ edges. As a result, the images resemble a video journey across the topography of an alien planet or an uncharted corner of the universe.

The torn fragments on the walls, by contrast, are like the detritus of those journeys. Fixed and labeled like specimens, they seem to be an attempt to impose meaning on remnants through language.

During a phone call, TwoTrees, who lives in Hinesburg, explained one impetus for her project.

“I’m in my seventh decade, and there is something about knowing you have less time that made me want to leave something in the world that was about ancestral lineage before separation,” she said. “People say we’re made of stardust — lots of cultures do, and one of my ancestral cultures is one of those.” (TwoTrees is of Lakota, Black and white European ancestry.)

“I wanted to take that literally,” she continued. “If we’re made of stardust, what does it mean to link to our cosmic destiny? To let go of our languages, our cultures, our separation? What does it mean when we use sound to reconnect us to that moment before language?”

script with pictograph (Apis mellifera)” or “Navigational pattern fragment — Supercluster VC 1794.”

As a whole, this mythological travelogue appears to tell a story. In the video, the camera slowly pans over and zooms in on TwoTrees’ works. The Ken Burnslike close-ups reveal various textures and

TwoTrees said she began the project in 2017 and made at least 70 mixed-paper paintings over three years. For the video — made over the course of six months in India with the help of two Bollywood specialists — she filmed the works whole, then tore them up to create the framed fragments.

“I meant [the paintings] to be a musical score. They were meant to be sung,” she said.

Back in Vermont, where TwoTrees has lived full time since 2012, she found two

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singers to do just that: Heidi Ann Wilson and Gideon Crevoshay. Both are workshop leaders with Village Harmony, the Marshfield-based choral project. Wilson had collaborated with TwoTrees on the latter’s 2015 “Of Land and Local” installation at Shelburne Farms, titled “Natives, Slaves, Settlers and Visitors — Seen and Unseen.” Crevoshay has sung around the world and recently became a member of Meredith Monk’s House Foundation for the Arts.

The exhibition soundtrack has multiple iterations, TwoTrees said. The current one features Wilson and Crevoshay. In mid-July, it will be replaced by a track featuring two musicians whom the artist met in India: Yuji Nakagawa, a sarangi player born in Japan; and singer Shruthi Veena Vishwanath. A third soundtrack, to be installed in the fall, will emerge from two virtual workshops about vocables that TwoTrees is offering to the public.

BCA curator Heather Ferrell discovered TwoTrees when the artist invited

her for a studio visit as she created “Falling Into Language.” Much about the project appealed to the curator.

“It was fascinating how it was all coming together: the international collaboration, the sophistication of exploring language nonverbally, [the idea of ] a universal subconscious,” Ferrell recalled in a phone call. “That’s a very intangible thing to capture in a work of art, but I think the show does it beautifully.

“Also, the idea that you do all these paintings and then rip them up,” she added. “They’re not precious. They’re more than just paintings.”

Ferrell selected TwoTrees to receive financial help from BCA to complete her project. The artist also won a development grant and a creation grant from the Vermont Arts Council.

As Ferrell pointed out, TwoTrees’ identity tends to be central to her work.

Describing “Natives, Slaves, Settlers and Visitors — Seen and Unseen,” TwoTrees said the installation explored the different groups of Vermonters listed in her title through their spoken stories, whether they were victims of eugenics, Black farmers in Hinesburg or Abenaki telling their people’s creation story. Each section also integrated images of her own ancestors. “I was trying to figure out how I fit here,” the artist said.

“Falling Into Language,” by contrast, attempts to get beyond current identity politics, which TwoTrees finds limiting.

“I’ve spent a lifetime doing diversity and equity work from the perspective of standing at the crossroads of these identities, but [now] the naming and claiming of identity feels like things are getting very tight,” she said.

“Falling Into Language” is intended to allow visitors to “fall into sensing rather than meaning making,” TwoTrees said.

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Country Living Ryley Walker makes a new home in Vermont and releases his best album to date

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Yet to Walker, and some critics, his early work was “a pastiche,” too devotional to early Van Morrison and Pentangle’s Bert Jansch, particularly when it came to his vocal delivery. He started pulling on his sound like taffy with 2016’s Golden Sings That Have Been Sung. With each subsequent record, Walker has broadened his horizons both as a songwriter and guitarist, leading to Course in Fable.

Released in April, the album is a warm, complex, generous work that surprisingly leans into progressive rock. It also

documents Walker’s changing life. In the last two years, the singer has embraced sobriety and started his own label, Husky Pants. He also traded New York City for the quiet life in Vermont.

Seven Days recently sat down with Walker at his Calais home to talk about his new album, moving to the Green Mountains and his upcoming solo gig on Friday, July 2, at Backside 405 in Burlington.

SEVEN DAYS: I’m sure I’m not the first to say so, but welcome to Vermont.

RYLEY WALKER: Hey, thanks, man. The banks of Vermont have my money and my information, so I definitely feel welcomed.

I’m one of those New York transplants that everyone up here just seems to love, buying up all the houses.

SD: It does seem to be trending. What made you head north?

RW: My girlfriend brought it up first.

I’m from Illinois; I didn’t know anything

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about Vermont. But I was out of a record contract, and nobody was taking anyone on because there was this traumatic and fucked-up pandemic happening. Everyone was tight on cash; there were no shows.

So, I was like, “All right, I’m moving to Vermont and starting my own label.” I’m just salt-of-the-earth indie rock.

SD: After Chicago and New York City, I’d imagine Calais is a significant change of pace.

RW: If you had told me 10 years ago I would live in middle-of-nowhere Vermont, I’d have spit my coffee in your face. But I have a pretty good life up here. It’s serene and beautiful. For years I was just stepping on sandwich wrappers, and now there’s a big prairie in the back of my yard.

I have been here before, though. I played … ArtsRiot, I think? I don’t know, man. It was the late 2000s; there was a lot of acid around.

The first time I came here, though, I

was 19 — so, like, 2008. I played a show in Brattleboro and a show in Burlington. But we couldn’t get over the border because we were dumb and didn’t know you needed passports to get into Canada. So we ended up staying in some kid’s house for a week because the Canadian tour was canceled.

SD: So now you’re in the sticks, sober and releasing music on your own label.

RW: Yeah, it’s great. I just take it day by day. I chill and play guitar, do therapy and medication. I’m healthy and happy, just honestly glad to be existing. I’m not paying New York City rent every month, and I’m in my own house, selling some records. It’s pretty tight.

I like running Husky Pants. I like mailing records out. I was on a label, Dead Oceans, for years. And they’re great; they’re good friends of mine. But this is a good thing for me. I can release stuff whenever I want.

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It’s an incredible record, one full SD: Do you see that as a first step of surprises — most notably, the progressive rock leanings. into the music community up here?

RW: I’m a fan of prog. As far as playing RW: I don’t have a ton of friends up it, I sort of water it down to elementary here yet. But I like being out in my little school level for myself. I don’t think cottage home. I’ve been omnipresent in I’ve read enough Canterbury Tales to be music scenes for years, [so] it’s a nice Prog with a capital P, but I’m definitely change. That doesn’t mean I don’t want influenced by it. a community to be part of, but I’m also There’s a spirit of adventure in the super happy to be a fly on the wall here songwriting, and some humor. I’ve and just enjoy it. I don’t think there’s an always been a Pavement and Sonic Youth underground scene in Calais. I might be it now! fan. So my prog is sort of like if Phil Collins moved SD: You recently to New York in ’81 and got recorded a cover of into dirty speed instead of, Phish’s “First Tube” for you know, making billions a compilation called of dollars wearing a leather Cluster Flies. Was it an jacket. early attempt to win When I first started, over Vermonters? there was an element of “right place, right time.” I RW: [Laughs] Man, JamBase RY LEY WALKE R was making these Britishgave me $2,000 to do that folk-sounding records, — I want to be transparent which I was a big fan of. But it was 2014, about why I did it. It’s funny because and the folk thing was big and marketing sometimes I get lumped into that world a was pushing me as this psychedelic ’60s little because, live, I like to jam. Which is dude. And I was probably too nervous or what I grew up thinking Sonic Youth were too shy to really make the kind of stuff doing. Phish are cool, I’ve just never been I wanted to make yet. It was a bit of a big into that world. Nothing but love and pastiche, and I was ashamed for a while respect for them, though. by the way I was marketed as part of that pastiche.

SD: Now that you’re a homebody, as Look, it was great. I toured the world you say, do you think jumping back doing that. But I couldn’t make those into touring will be difficult? records anymore. It’s not for some deep, RW: I’m doing it a little differently. I used artistic reason, either — it just got boring to do maniac tours for months across the for me. I’ve got nothing to lose; I’m not country. But I don’t want to headline or famous. So, I like to think the songs got worry about selling tickets right now. I’m better. I think I’ve found something more opening for Dinosaur Jr. and Drive-By original and pure, which is all I’ve ever Truckers. I just want to show up at six been after. and make sure I don’t suck. It’s a good way to get back into touring, just opening SD: You’ve changed your lyrical style, gigs. as well.

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Dacus into the stratosphere), the band’s sophomore LP, Constellations, had been shelved for a year, largely due to pandemic chaos. But the postponement was a good thing for the group. Its members got their house in order and came out the other side with a renewed sense of purpose.

Even before the hiatus, the band had grown its sound considerably, and Constellations showcases its progress.

Glossy overtones and attention

to atmosphere bring a newfound smoothness to Clever Girls’ innate rawness. And front person Diane Jean, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, is continuously compelling and relatable in songs about knowing oneself and daring to share that with others.

In Constellations, Clever Girls continues to tunnel deeper into grunge while finding ways to experiment. For instance, opener “Come Clean” is maybe the boldest move Clever Girls have ever made. Jean greets listeners with their trademark vocal tremble, oscillating between falling-apart vulnerability and white-hot conviction. Backed by Rob Slater’s solitary drum hits, Jean’s vocals hover precariously in the capacious tune. Then bandmates Winfield Holt and Tobias Sullivan slide in with unobtrusive guitar and bass that morph into a barrage of hot strikes. The song starts the record with extreme highs and lows of sound and emotion.

The 10 songs on Constellations are perfect examples of Clever Girls’ pattern

of pairing light with heavy. Jean’s vocals often sound wafer-thin as they sort through a thick fog of conflict.

“I’ve been fighting sleep / Don’t have much energy for writing,” they sing in the dirge-like “Womxn.” The song is one long crescendo, reaching a muddy heavymetal climax.

Tight snarls of guitar give “Baby Blue” an outlaw-Americana vibe. The 3.5-minute song creeps toward a beat that doesn’t fully arrive until less than a minute before the finish, perching on the edge before a cathartic swan dive.

Even though I would never describe Clever Girls as “easy listening,” there’s nonetheless something easy about listening to Constellations. Perhaps Jean’s honest and empathetic delivery makes their painful songs land more gracefully.

Or maybe it’s the chemistry among the band’s players. Either way, it’s an uplifting experience.

Constellations is available at clevergirlsmusic.bandcamp.com.

Lewis’ quirky songwriting, as well as a voice growing in confidence.

Opener “Dreams” comes in hot, riding a programmed four-on-the-floor beat before the guitar kicks in. This song about the aftereffects of grief masquerades as a jaunty rocker. “Can I even call these dreams where I see you a nightmare?”

Lewis sings. Sometimes soaring at the

chorus, his vocal work throughout is a cut above his earlier efforts.

“What Happened” and “Push and Pull” introduce a pop angle to Lewis’ otherwise punk-laden material. Both songs are restrained compared to his earlier music. Yet by breaking from his previous songwriting formula, each displays an adventurous streak that broadens Lewis’ artistic scope. For instance, a song like “Come Around” wouldn’t have fit on Music Destroyer. Built around a slow guitar groove and highlighting Sarah Mundi’s deft vocal harmonies, the song crafts a tone that Lewis hasn’t used before.

When the album veers back to heaviness, there are a few inevitable hiccups. The ferocious “Got No Time” hits like a ton of bricks, but the MIDI drums just can’t match the song’s intensity. That goes for “Light,” as well.

Programmed drums serve some of Lewis’ songs adequately but generally don’t pull their weight on the record.

The high-water mark for Twelve Seven is closing track “Holding On.” The song is decidedly laid-back and provides ample opportunity for Lewis’ extended guitar solos. “Maybe what we need to be is together holding on,” he croons. It’s a lyric that could certainly take on added meaning after the last year or so. The track builds until it turns into a “Hey Jude”style sing-along, with Lewis repeating the final line over and over again.

It’s rare in music for an artist to be celebrated simply for getting better. But on Twelve Seven, Lewis has clearly, well, gotten better. His melodies are stronger, as are his arrangements. It would be interesting to see him assemble a band to play this record live, now that such a thing is possible again. I suspect the energy of a live band would color in some of the album’s blander moments.

Twelve Seven is available for download at kevinlewis.bandcamp.com.

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In March, Maroon 5 front person Adam Levine told Apple Music 1 DJ Zane Lowe, “I feel like there aren’t bands anymore … I feel like they’re a dying breed,” reports the Guardian. He wasn’t wrong. Do you see many bands on the music charts lately? You might catch a glimpse of mono-genre outfits such as Levine’s, or maybe Coldplay or Imagine Dragons. But they’re outliers in a culture that elevates and venerates solo artists like never before.

Thankfully, bands are still very much a thing in Burlington. I don’t think it’s because we’re out of the loop. I think it’s because community is precious in the Queen City. And I know that togetherness is hugely important to rock quartet Clever Girls.

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On Twelve Seven, his fourth full-length LP, Kevin Lewis continues his oneman-band show. The Burlington-based songwriter has embraced the solitude of doing everything himself: playing guitar and bass, programming the drums, singing, and even mixing and mastering.

While the record isn’t Lewis’ first attempt at producing an album in the fashion of an auteur, it is his most successful to date and captures a distinctive sound. Last year’s Music Destroyer had moments of true inspiration — the ideas were there, but the execution was inconsistent.

Twelve Seven marks a significant course correction. In eight tracks of bedroom punk, the album showcases

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ur streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. This week, as Pride Month comes to a close, I watched Disclosure, a 2020 Netflix documentary about the depiction of transgender people in American entertainment media. I was led there by a recent New York Times essay called “What I Saw in My First 10 Years on Testosterone.” Author Thomas Page McBee calls director Sam Feder’s doc “fantastic” for the “harrowing detail” in which it explores decades of portrayals of trans people.

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The deal

The documentary pairs a dazzling array of film and TV clips — from the dawn of cinema to “The Jerry Springer Show” — with commentary from trans people.

Many of these commentators work in the entertainment industry themselves; Laverne Cox, a star of “Orange Is the New Black” and an executive producer of this film, serves as an anchoring presence.

Historian Susan Stryker reveals that representations of trans people were commonplace in the age of early 20th-century film director D.W. Griffith.

Played for comedy, they were often paired with blackface and racist depictions. Cross-dressing remained a reliable source of cheap laughs in pop culture for a century, alternating with sinister portrayals of trans women as predators, à la Psycho.

Trans men, meanwhile, were practically invisible in film and TV. Women put on men’s clothes in Yentl and Just One of the Guys, but to send a message of female empowerment.

When trans people were portrayed sympathetically on film, they were often being shamed, maimed or killed, as in Boys Don’t Cry. And they were played by cis actors who received awards for their “daring” portrayals.

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broadened in the past decade. But change has come all too slowly.

Will you like it?

I’m generally not a fan of documentaries that rely on talking heads — interviewees sitting in a studio — to drive their narratives.

Typically, those talking heads are experts without much experience in projecting personality on camera — a recipe for boredom.

Most of the interviewees in Disclosure, by contrast, are highly personable and passionate about their subject. Many of them tell stories about the role of media in their own lives and how those representations shaped their sense of trans identity, for better or (often) worse. Their commentary has the intimate, off-the-cuff quality of a good panel discussion, and their personal anecdotes — joyful and painful alike — are compelling.

Rather than simply label representations of trans people “good” or “bad,” as some media-critique docs do, Disclosure digs into the ambiguities. Like all media consumers, these commentators have both intellectual takes and visceral ones. One interviewee speaks of loving the antics of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective as a child while inadvertently absorbing its virulent

transphobia. Boys Don’t Cry draws mixed reactions: It’s important and affirming for some, a piece of trauma porn for others.

For me, seeing these familiar shows and movies through new eyes was deeply educational. Just as The Celluloid Closet (1995) unearthed the gay coding and subtext present in many classic films, so Disclosure traces illuminating patterns.

Most disturbing: Until recently, most mainstream Hollywood depictions of trans people revolved around a “disclosure” scene in which someone’s identity is revealed, often with violence. The focus is on the horrified reactions of cis characters; often, the trans person (usually a woman) is depicted as a villainous deceiver, her exposure as a “shocking twist” or punch line.

The pattern holds true in everything from prestige films like The Crying Game to farces like Soapdish. With savvy editing, Feder makes it clear just how routinely trans characters have been portrayed as “other” or threatening, even in stories that tout progressive attitudes.

Disclosure made me wonder about all the stories of trans people we haven’t heard over the years — such as that of Sandra Caldwell, an actress who came out in her sixties, after a long film career, when she played her first trans role. Viewers of

the movie will be inspired to seek out the commentators’ own creative works. With any luck, we’ll be hearing a lot of those untold stories in the years to come.

If you like this, try...

• Paris Is Burning (1990; Kanopy, Criterion Channel, rentable on AppleTV): Several of the speakers in Disclosure cite this pioneering doc about New York City’s ball culture as a positive early influence, though they also note the criticism it has received in later years. For a recent fictional take on the same subject, try the series “Pose,” streaming on Hulu and Netflix.

• “Sense8” (2015-18; Netflix): In Disclosure, Lilly Wachowski (codirector of The Matrix) speaks about how important it was to her to create the trans character of Nomi (played by trans actress Jamie Clayton) in this sci-fi series.

• “I Am Cait” (2015-16; Hulu): While the speakers in Disclosure express mixed feelings about Caitlyn Jenner, they praise this E! reality series that documents her life after transition while giving a platform to other members of the trans community.

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food & drink

WED.30 activism

‘CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?’: Through the stories of four determined women, this 2020 documentary unravels the way gerrymandering has reshaped democracy in Wisconsin.

Learn more during a post-film panel discussion at 6 p.m. on June 30. Donations support the fight for fair representation. Donations; preregister.

Info, leanleftcvt@gmail.com.

community

MATURE WORKER JOB PROGRAM: Job seekers ages 55 and up learn about the Senior Community Service Employment Program, a federally funded jobs training program. Zoom meeting ID: 957 4050 0177.

9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 646-876-9923.

fairs & festivals

TRUCKS, TAPS & TUNES: Each Wednesday, the Essex Experience Green serves as the grounds for a mini festival featuring food trucks, a beer trailer and live bands. Essex Experience, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, info@doubleevermont.com.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘AGAINST THE CURRENT’: Veiga Grétarsdóttir attempts to become the first person to kayak 2,000 kilometers counterclockwise around Iceland. This 2020 documentary is available for online viewing from the Vermont International Film Foundation.

$12; free for VTIFF All Access and Patron members. Info, info@vtiff.org.

International Film Foundation. $12; free for VTIFF members.

Info, info@vtiff.org.

‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: A cold, icy land is revealed as stunning, still-pristine and home to an incredible variety of life.

Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘LES NÔTRES’: When 13-year-old Magalie refuses to identify her unborn baby’s father, suspicion among townsfolk reaches a boiling point. Presented by the Vermont International Film Foundation. $12; free for VTIFF All Access and Patron members. Info, info@vtiff.org.

‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: An educational and entertaining film takes viewers on an epic adventure through some of Earth’s wildest landscapes. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: Moviegoers join scientists on a journey through a surreal world of bug-eyed giants and egg-laying mammals. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘EMILY @ THE EDGE OF CHAOS’: An offbeat 2021 documentary delves into metaphysics via humorist Emily Levine’s live performance. Available for online viewing via the Vermont

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‘LOS HERMANOS’: Following two siblings’ parallel lives in New York and Havana, this film shown by the Vermont International Film Foundation reveals how family bonds can transcend politics. $12; free for VTIFF All Access and Patron members. Info, info@vtiff.org.

‘RED HEAVEN’: An out-of-this-world documentary follows four scientists, an engineer and an architect who endeavor to spend 366 days in isolation on an active volcano in Hawai’i to help humanity get to Mars.

Tickets include a Q&A with filmmaker Katherine Gorringe. $12; free for VTIFF All Access and Patron members. Info, info@vtiff.org.

‘THERE IS NO EVIL’: Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, this 2020 anthology film comprises four moral tales about men faced with the choice to follow orders or resist and risk everything.

Presented by Vermont International Film Foundation. $12; free for VTIFF All Access and Patron members. Info, info@vtiff.org.

‘TRUMAN & TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION’: The work, struggles and impact of American writers

FIND MORE LOCAL EVENTS IN THIS ISSUE AND ONLINE: art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

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BROCCOLI BAR HAPPY HOUR: Foodies top off their Pingala Café vegan meals with Sisters of Anarchy Ice Cream scoops, as well as friendly games of frisbee golf. Fisher Brothers Farm, Shelburne, 5-8 p.m. Prices vary.

Info, 846-7370.

MARKET ON THE GREEN: Meat, cheese, ice cream and veggies are among the local products available for purchase at this weekly marketplace. Woodstock Village Green, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3555.

WEEKLY WINE TASTING: Themed in-store tastings take oenophiles on an adventure through a wine region, grape variety, style of wine or producer’s offerings. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368.

health & fitness

FALL PREVENTION SUN-STYLE TAI CHI: Humans boost their strength and balance through gentle flowing movements.

Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-3322.

TAI CHI: SUN-STYLE 73: A sequence of slow, controlled movements aids in strength and balance. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 11:20 a.m.-noon.

Free. Info, 223-3322.

music

BCA SUMMER CONCERTS: THE BREVITY THING: An outdoor stage hosts four Vermont musicians playing choice cover songs, as well as a few originals.

Burlington City Hall Park, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: Guest violinist Chad Hoopes joins GMCMF artist faculty members in works by Brahms, Schumann and Dvořák.

Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30-9 p.m. $25; free for students.

Info, 503-1220.

HELIAND CONSORT: From oceans to animals to verdant countryside, aspects of the natural world inspire a concert program by the Vermont-based chamber music ensemble. York Street Meeting House, Lyndon, 7:30-9 p.m.

Donations. Info, 473-4208.

MUSIC ON THE HILL: LOS LORCAS: Writers Partridge Boswell and Peter Money and guitarist Nat Williams blur the boundaries between spoken word and song in the spirit of Federico García Lorca. Picnics are welcome.

ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, South Pomfret, 6:30 p.m. $5; free for kids under 5. Info, 457-3500.

seminars

EARN WHILE YOU LEARN: Unemployed job seekers ages 55 and up learn about the Senior Community Service Employment Program, a federally funded jobs training program for older individuals. 9-10 a.m. Free.

Info, mcullen@a4td.org.

talks

ROGER I. GLASS & MARIA VAN KERKHOVE: What can the international community do to rebuild trust between countries? The two experts look at “COVID-19, Science and International Cooperation” as part of the Vermont Council on World Affairs International Speaker Series. noon-1:15 p.m. $15-100; free for Executive Members. Info, info@vcwa.org.

theater

‘CANDIDE’: Opera Company of Middlebury presents an imaginative interpretation of Leonard Bernstein’s comic operetta. $35-60. Info, 388-1436.

‘CLOSE (BUT NOT TOO CLOSE!)’: Presented by Project Y Theatre and the Women in Theatre Festival, this new musical takes audience members on a comedic journey into the world of online dating in the coronavirus era. Donations. Info, michole@projectytheatre.org.

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MARKETING BEYOND BUSINESS AS USUAL: In a five-session series, instructors dissect business fundamentals, branding, messaging and connecting with customers.

Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 391-4870.

environment

URINE MY GARDEN: Students of this weekly webinar learn how nutrients from urine can promote flourishing gardens and a healthier watershed. 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, julia@richearthinstitute.org.

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FEAST & FIELD MARKET: Prepared foods and rock-androll jams by Moxley Union are on the menu at a pastoral party.

Fable Farm Fermentory, Barnard, food and bar service begin, 5:30 p.m.; music begins, 6 p.m. $5-20; preregister; limited space. Info, feastandfield@gmail.com.

PIZZA & MUSIC BY THE POND: A wood-fired oven warms pies composed of local ingredients.

Blueberry Hill Inn, Goshen, pizza, 5-8 p.m.; music, 6-8 p.m. $24-32; free for kids 4 and under; BYOB; preregister. Info, 247-6735.

SOBU NITE OUT: Friends, families and neighbors mingle amid live music and mouthwatering cuisine. Veterans Memorial Park,

South Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 846-4107.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘AGAINST THE CURRENT’: See WED.30.

‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.30.

‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.30.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.30.

‘LES NÔTRES’: See WED.30.

‘NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN’: A masseur named Zhenia enters the lives of the wealthy residents of a gated community, bringing his hypnotic presence and quasi-magical abilities with him. Shown online by the Vermont International Film Festival. $12; free for VTIFF All Access and Patron members. Info, info@vtiff.org.

‘TRUMAN & TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION’: See WED.30.

food & drink

MAVERICK MARKET: High-quality products from Vermont artisans, as well as food-truck fare and live musicians, populate a weekly bazaar. Essex Experience, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 238-3934.

POP-UP ART CAFÉ: Art and live music meet tapas and wine at a cultural convergence hosted by Gallery on the Green owners Chip and Opal Evans. Soulfully Good Café, Woodstock, 6-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink; preregister. Info, 457-7395.

VERGENNES FARMERS MARKET: Local foods, crafts and hot eats spice up Thursday afternoons.

Vergennes City Park, 3-6 p.m.

Free. Info, 233-9180.

games

EAST VALLEY COMMUNITY GROUP SCAVENGER HUNT: Following leads from a downloaded clue sheet, participants seek porch quilts placed throughout the Randolph area. East Valley Community Group, East Randolph. $5. Info, eastvalleycg@ gmail.com.

lgbtq

POP-UP HAPPY HOUR: Locals connect over drinks at a speakeasy-style bar. Hosted by OUT in the 802. Lincolns, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

music

HELIAND CONSORT: See WED.30, Federated Church of Rochester, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 767-9234.

talks

VERMONT LAW SCHOOL’S HOT TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW LECTURE SERIES: E&E News legal editor Pamela King shares “From Ginsburg to Barrett: How 2020 Transformed Environmental Battles at the Supreme Court.”

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VCET Lunch and Learn: Is it Time to Transform Grind Culture?

‘THE MOUNTAINTOP’: Penned by Katori Hall, this theater work is a moving exploration of the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 5 p.m. $25-34. Info, 518-962-4449.

TUE., JUL. 13 VIRTUAL EVENT

The Chaine Du Vermont Presents: A Bastille Day Fete WED., JUL. 14 HOTEL VERMONT, BURLINGTON

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ChetFest 2021

THE POWER OF STORYTELLING — RAISING THE SMALL BUSINESS VOICE IN ADVOCACY: With guidance from Main Street Alliance Vermont’s Morgan Nichols, enterprisers understand the impact of their unique voices.

8:30-10 a.m. Free. Info, 503-0219.

SAT., JUL. 31 WAYSIDE FARM, BROOKFIELD

Living with Loss: A Gathering for the Grieving WED., AUG. 4 VIRTUAL EVENT

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PIZZA & MUSIC BY THE POND: See THU.1.

Vermont Be True Yoga Festival 2021

SOURDOUGH BREAD & HAND PUPPET GIVEAWAY: Social distancing and masks are required as folks pick up complimentary loaves and puppets from the socially conscious theater group.

Distribution takes place in front of the theater farmhouse with signs for guidance. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 525-3031.

FRI., AUG. 6—SUN., AUG. 8 MILLDALE FARM CENTER FOR WELLNESS, FAIRLEE

Kids Circus Workshop with Bronwyn Simms SAT., AUG. 7 GRANGE HALL CULTURAL CENTER, WATERBURY CENTER

Rhythm Space and Character: Creating Fun Dynamic Characters

film

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SAT., AUG. 7 GRANGE HALL CULTURAL CENTER, WATERBURY CENTER

‘AGAINST THE CURRENT’: See WED.30.

‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.30.

Finding Hope: Healing from Trauma WED., AUG. 11 VIRTUAL EVENT

Storytelling Theather Camp

Seasons of Life: A Supportive Community for Women WED., AUG. 18 VIRTUAL EVENT

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Montgomery, Harbison and Schumann. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30-9 p.m. $25; free for students. Info, 503-1220.

lgbtq

KT TUNSTALL: The “Suddenly I See” singer takes the stage to kick off the Spruce Peak Summer Concert Series. Jason Spooner opens. See calendar spotlight.

Spruce Peak at Stowe, 6 p.m. $4050. Info, 888-478-6938.

FALL PREVENTION SUN-STYLE TAI CHI: See WED.30, 10-10:45 a.m.

QUEER CRITICAL MASS: No matter their skill level, riders hop in the saddle for a 4- to 8-mile bike ride in the Capital City. Masks and helmets are required. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, kelly@vtcares.org.

music

BACKSIDE 405: MATTHEW MERCURY & RYLEY WALKER: Food trucks and bar service complement an outdoor concert behind BCA Studios. BCA Studios, Burlington, 8 p.m. $1520; $99 for season pass. Info, 652-0777.

BCA SUMMER CONCERTS: NATE WALLACE-GUSAKOV: Banjo in hand, the Vermont singer-songwriter entertains a lunchtime audience from an outdoor stage.

Burlington City Hall Park, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

CONCERTS IN THE COURTYARD: KWILLEO: Toting blankets or chairs, audience members assemble outside for songs from the Troy, N.Y., band’s debut record EARTHSIDE. Bennington Museum, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 447-1571.

FIRST: EARTH SUMMER SERIES: HELIAND CONSORT: See WED.30.

Environmentalist Bill McKibben gives a short preconcert talk.

Isham Family Farm, Williston, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 989-4112.

art

‘LES NÔTRES’: See WED.30.

See what’s playing at theaters in the movies section.

RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET: An open-air marketplace featuring live music connects cultivators and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, info@ richmondfarmersmarketvt.org.

games

EAST VALLEY COMMUNITY GROUP SCAVENGER HUNT: See THU.1.

VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Classical music carries through the air as a woodwind quartet performs outdoors as part of the Close to Home and Far Afield concert series. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, dinner pickup starts, 5 p.m.; concert, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister for dinner. Info, 533-2000.

talks

theater

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

film

POP-UP ART CAFÉ: See THU.1.

TWILIGHT SERIES: LOW LILY: Folk sounds from the Brattleboro trio fill the air as part of Burlington City Arts’ new concert series. Burlington City Hall Park, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

FOMO?

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.30.

food & drink

PURPLE: A TRIBUTE TO PRINCE: Craig Mitchell interprets Prince’s biggest hits in front of a seven-piece band on the Essex Experience Green. Essex Experience, 6-9 p.m. $20. Info, info@doubleevermont.com.

GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: In “Streams of Sunlight,” GMCMF artist faculty members showcase their skills in the music of Singleton,

‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.30.

‘TRUMAN & TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION’: See WED.30.

MORETOWN OPEN MIC: Family-friendly music, short plays and spoken-word pieces entertain audience members. 7-10 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, shloinky@gmail. com.

WEEKLY DISCUSSIONS ON CURRENT EVENTS: Newsworthy subjects take the spotlight in this informal discussion led by Sandy Baird. Meet on the library lawn. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free.

Info, bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov.

Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

‘NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN’: See THU.1.

MON., AUG. 16—FRI., AUG. 20 GRANGE HALL CULTURAL CENTER, WATERBURY CENTER

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‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’: Shakespeare’s comedy about lovers, actors and meddling fairies plays out in a bucolic setting. Presented by BarnArts Center for the Arts. Fable Farm, Barnard, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $15-20.

Info, 234-1645.

SAT., JUL. 10 GREEN STATE GARDENER, BURLINGTON

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Noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, ccollins@ vermontlaw.edu.

‘CLOSE (BUT NOT TOO CLOSE!)’: See WED.30.

Green State Gardener Block Party feat. Dead Sessions

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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.

Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.

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‘CLOSE (BUT NOT TOO CLOSE!)’: See WED.30.

‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’: See THU.1.

‘THE MOUNTAINTOP’: See THU.1, 7:30 p.m.

words

BOOK SALE: Gently used titles delight bookworms of all ages. Weather dependent.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

VIRTUAL POETRY HOUR: Lit lovers bring a few of their favorite poems for an hour of sharing, discussing and celebrating works of verse.

6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 439-5338.

SAT.3 film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘AGAINST THE CURRENT’: See WED.30.

‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.30.

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KT Tunstall’s website features an in-depth account of how she created her most recent album, 2018’s WAX — including her renewed enthusiasm for performing live, a job she calls “essentially being a purveyor of joy for the night.” The Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter, who’s perhaps best known for her folk-rock hits “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” and “Suddenly I See,” brings her guitar and powerful voice to an outdoor concert in Stowe. Portland, Maine, singer-songwriter Jason Spooner opens this Spruce Peak Summer Concert Series show.

KT TUNSTALL Friday, July 2, 6 p.m., at WhistlePig Pavilion, Spruce Peak at Stowe. $40-50.

Info, 888-478-6938, sprucepeak.com.

‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.30.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.30.

‘LES NÔTRES’: See WED.30.

‘NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN’: See THU.1.

‘PALM SPRINGS’: An unlikely pair played by Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti relive the same day over and over and over again.

Kemeny Courtyard, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 9 p.m.

Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER’: John Travolta dons his iconic white suit in the 1977 disco-infused drama about a working-class kid who finds freedom on the dance floor. Norma Patterson Drive-In, Vermont State Fairgrounds, Rutland, 8:45 p.m. $25 per vehicle; limited space. Info, 775-0903.

‘TRUMAN & TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION’: See WED.30.

food & drink

BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: Dozens of stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. 345 Pine St., Burlington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, manager@ burlingtonfarmersmarket.org.

CRAFTSBURY FARMERS MARKET: Food, drink, crafts and family-friendly entertainment are on the menu at an emporium of local merchandise. Craftsbury Common, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 755-9030.

POP-UP ART CAFÉ: See THU.1.

WAITSFIELD FARMERS MARKET: A bustling bazaar boasts seasonal produce, prepared foods, artisan crafts and live entertainment.

Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, waitsfield marketmanager@gmail.com.

WEEKLY WINE TASTING: See WED.30, Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Stowe, noon4 p.m. Info, 585-7717.

games

EAST VALLEY COMMUNITY GROUP SCAVENGER HUNT: See THU.1.

holidays

For Independence Day celebrations, see page 62.

music

MORGAN MYLES: The rising country star has boots tapping as part of Chandler’s Live&OUT! series. Farr’s Hill, Randolph, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 728-9878.

WALKER FARM MUSIC: SUMMER EDITION: UPSTATE: SOLD OUT. Founding members Dean Mahoney, Mary Webster, Harry D’Agostino and Melanie Glenn weave traces of Americana, jazz, gospel and R&B sounds into selections from their 2020 album Healing. Weston Playhouse SAT.3

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If you think Lincoln Peak is a sight to behold during the snowy months, just wait until it’s awash in the glow of Fourth of July fireworks. Sugarbush Resort hosts its annual Independence Day celebration in the Lincoln Peak Courtyard. Festivities commence with a concert by the Medicine Tribe, a Vermont band known for its fusion of funk, rock, blues and bluegrass. Fueled by food and drink from Rumble’s Bistro & Bar, revelers ooh and aah over colorful pyrotechnics that light the night sky. Please leave dogs at home.

FOURTH OF JULY FIREWORKS Saturday, July 4, concert, 7:30 p.m.; fireworks, 9 p.m., at Lincoln Peak Courtyard, Sugarbush Resort, in Warren. Free. Info, 583-6590, sugarbush.com.

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‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’: See THU.1, 2-4 & 6:308:30 p.m.

‘THE MOUNTAINTOP’: See THU.1, 3 p.m.

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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘AGAINST THE CURRENT’: See WED.30.

‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.30.

‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.30.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.30.

‘LES NÔTRES’: See WED.30.

‘NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN’: See THU.1.

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‘TRUMAN & TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION’: See WED.30.

food & drink

WINOOSKI FARMERS MARKET: Families shop for fresh produce, honey, meats, coffee and prepared foods from seasonal vendors at an outdoor marketplace.

Champlain Mill Green, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, farmers market@downtownwinooski.org.

games

EAST VALLEY COMMUNITY GROUP SCAVENGER HUNT: See THU.1.

holidays

For Independence Day celebrations, see page 62.

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WALKER FARM MUSIC: SUMMER EDITION: THE SUITCASE JUNKET: Matt Lorenz captivates audience members with his selftaught throat singing style and gravelly folk-rock airs. Weston Playhouse Second Stage at Walker Farm, 7 p.m. $25-45. Info, 824-5288.

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‘CLOSE (BUT NOT TOO CLOSE!)’: See WED.30.

‘THE MOUNTAINTOP’: See THU.1.

MON.5 film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘AGAINST THE CURRENT’: See WED.30.

‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.30.

‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.30.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.30.

‘LES NÔTRES’: See WED.30.

‘NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN’: See THU.1.

‘TRUMAN & TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION’: See WED.30.

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EAST VALLEY COMMUNITY GROUP SCAVENGER HUNT: See THU.1.

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SAMBATUCADA OPEN REHEARSAL: Burlington’s own samba street percussion band welcomes new members. No experience or instruments required.

Call to confirm location. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

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Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

Info, vermontsfreedomandunity chorus@gmail.com.

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HOMESHARING INFO SESSION: Locals learn to make the most of spare space in their homes by hosting compatible housemates.

Noon-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@ homesharevermont.org.

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DOG DAYS OF SUMMER: A DOGFRIENDLY FESTIVAL SERIES: Pets and their people spend summer evenings amid live music, local artisans and good company, thanks to Bellcate School Dog Treats. Price Chopper, Essex Junction, 5-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 309-8762.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘CLOSE (BUT NOT TOO CLOSE!)’: See WED.30.

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JEFF DANZIGER: A virtual book launch hosted by Phoenix Books introduces readers to the writer’s latest offering, Lieutenant Dangerous: A Vietnam War Memoir. 7 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, info@ phoenixbooks.biz.

POETRY CLINIC: Writers set their pens and minds in motion with group exercises and critiques in this ongoing drop-in gathering. River Arts, Morrisville, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, 888-1261.

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fairs & festivals

TRUCKS, TAPS & TUNES: See WED.30.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘AGAINST THE CURRENT’: See WED.30.

‘AGAINST THE CURRENT’: See WED.30.

‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.30.

‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.30.

‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.30.

‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.30.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.30.

‘LES NÔTRES’: See WED.30.

‘NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN’: See THU.1.

‘TRUMAN & TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION’: See WED.30.

games

EAST VALLEY COMMUNITY GROUP SCAVENGER HUNT: See THU.1.

health & fitness

FALL PREVENTION SUN-STYLE TAI CHI: See WED.30, 10-11 a.m.

language

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATIONS: Francophones and French-language learners meet pour parler la belle langue.

Burlington Bay Market & Café, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 343-5166.

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CONCERT ON THE COMMON: 40TH ARMY BAND: Founded in 1907, the iconic group plays traditional patriotic tunes, as well as classical and contemporary selections. Fairlee Town Common, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, contact@fairleearts.org.

VERMONT’S FREEDOM & UNITY CHORUS REHEARSAL: Regardless of age, race or gender, singers lift their voices in songs that represent the ongoing struggle for justice. Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 6:45-8:45 p.m. $35.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.30.

‘LES NÔTRES’: See WED.30.

‘NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN’: See THU.1.

‘TRUMAN & TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION’: See WED.30.

FOMO? Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film See what’s playing at theaters in the movies section.

music + nightlife Find club dates at local venues in the music + nightlife section online 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.

Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.

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BROCCOLI BAR HAPPY HOUR: See WED.30.

LEDDY PARK BEACH BITES: Lakeside picnickers enjoy foodtruck fare, a beer garden, kids’ activities and live entertainment.

Attendees on two wheels make use of free bike valet service.

Leddy Park, Burlington, 5-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 864-0123.

MARKET ON THE GREEN: See WED.30.

WEEKLY WINE TASTING: See WED.30.

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FALL PREVENTION SUN-STYLE TAI CHI: See WED.30.

TAI CHI: SUN-STYLE 73: See WED.30.

BCA SUMMER CONCERTS: JOHN TOWNSEND: The Burlington singer-songwriter and multiinstrumentalist treats listeners to tunes from his 2020 album Bound to Be. Burlington City Hall Park, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

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BEN & JERRY’S CONCERTS ON THE GREEN: OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW: Nashville grooves head north when the Grammy Award-winning string band delivers foot-stomping Americana. Shelburne Museum, 7 p.m. $44-48; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 652-0777.

GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: Compositions

by Schuloff, Benjamin and Mozart ring out by way of GMCMF artist faculty members.

Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30-9 p.m. $25; free for students. Info, 503-1220.

MUSIC ON THE HILL: ROSE HIP JAM: Kerry Rosenthal, Steve Glazer and Eric Bronstein play an energetic mix of folk, country and Delta blues. Picnics are welcome.

ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, South Pomfret, 6:30 p.m. $5; free for kids under 5.

Info, 457-3500.

SONG CIRCLE: Singers and musicians congregate on Zoom for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes.

Free. Info, jack_cr2@yahoo.com.

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ECHO SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: PETE SUTHERLAND & OLIVER SCANTON: Lake Champlain serves as a natural backdrop for a family-friendly set by two-thirds of the folk trio Pete’s Posse. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-10; free for kid members; cash bar.

Info, 864-1848.

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INDEPENDENCE

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Burlington

BTV July 3 Independence Day Celebration: A ceremony celebrating the resilience of the Queen City community sets the scene for spectacular fireworks over Lake Champlain. July 3, food and activities, 5 p.m.; fireworks, 9:30 p.m., various waterfront locations. Info, 864-0123, btvjuly3.com.

Cabot

Cabot Fourth of July: A downtown parade punctuates a day of fun in the sun replete with Mo’s Backyard BBQ bites and family-oriented activities. July 4, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Cabot Town Common. Free. Info, 426-2052.

Ferrisburgh

Reading Frederick Douglass: People honor the civil rights champion with a participatory recitation of his hard-hitting Fourth of July address. July 5, 1 p.m., Rokeby Museum. Info, 8773406, rokeby.org.

Milton

Milton July Fourth: A parade, barbecue and food trucks culminate in an awe-inspiring fireworks display.

July 4, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Bombardier Recreation Park. Free. Info, 8936655, ext. 6, miltonvt.gov.

Montpelier

July Third Celebration: History comes alive as locals observe Independence Day with exhibits, crafts and lawn games. July 3, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Vermont History Museum. Free. Info, 479-8500, vermonthistory.org.

July Third Celebration of Community & Diversity: Drummers, dancers and performers keep the beat during an Independence Day salute hosted

by Shidaa Projects, a nonprofit dedicated to sharing West African culture. July 3, 5-8 p.m., Vermont Statehouse lawn. Free. Info, withheather@yahoo.com, shidaa.com.

Warren

Fourth of July Dog Parade: Unity, Love & Pets: Well-behaved pups promenade in costume to support PAWsitive Pantry. July 4, 1-2 p.m., Sugarbush Resort. $10. Info, 5836590, sugarbush.com.

Fourth of July Fireworks: A concert by the Medicine Tribe paves the way for pyrotechnics on the mountain. Please leave dogs at home. See calendar spotlight. July 4, concert, 7:30 p.m.; fireworks, 9 p.m., Sugarbush Resort. Free. Info, 583-6590, sugarbush.com.

Williston

Williston July Fourth Celebration: Families get into the patriotic spirit with an ice-cream social and a Williston Town Band concert. On Saturday, a parade and a 5K race pave the way for fireworks at dusk.

July 2, 4 p.m.; July 3, 10 a.m.-dark, various locations. $20-25 for 5K. Info, 876-1160, willistonrec.org.

Woodstock

Old Vermont Fourth: Celebrate the Fourth the old-fashioned way — with wagon rides, sack races, historic speeches and a reading of the Declaration of Independence.

July 4, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Billings Farm & Museum. Regular admission, $8-16; free for members and kids under 3. Info, 457-2355, billingsfarm.org.

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classes THE FOLLOWING CLASS LISTINGS ARE PAID ADVERTISEMENTS. ANNOUNCE YOUR CLASS FOR AS LITTLE AS $16.75/WEEK (INCLUDES SIX PHOTOS AND UNLIMITED DESCRIPTION ONLINE). SUBMIT YOUR CLASS AD AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTCLASS.

art VT FOLKLIFE SUMMER INSTITUTE: Curious about community-led interviewing?

Interested in digital media production and cultural documentation? Join the Vermont Folklife Center for a 10-day hybrid online/ in person field school. The course includes an introduction to digital media making with a critical lens on documentary work and the ethics of representation. Aug. 2-13, Mon.-Fri., 10:30 am-noon; 1:30-4:30 p.m. Cost: $800/45hour course, w/ 3 graduate credits avail.; funded fellowships avail.

Location: Vermont Folklife Center/ Virtual, Middlebury or all Virtual.

Info: Sasha Antohin, 388-4964, aantohin@vermontfolklifecenter. org.vermontfolklifecenter. org/summer-institute.

DRAWING: Four weeks. Learn drawing techniques, including basic perspective, compositional layout, and use of dramatic light and shadow. Students work with a variety of drawing media, including pencil, ink and charcoal in this supportive and fun class.

All levels of experience welcome.

Includes all materials. Wed., Jul. 14-Aug. 4, 6-7:30 p.m. Cost: $120.

Location: BCA Studios, Zoom class. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@burlington cityarts.org. burlingtoncityarts.org.

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Burlington City Arts summer class registration is now open! Find these classes and many more at burlingtoncityarts.org.

DARKROOM PHOTOGRAPHY: Four weeks. Explore the traditional, analog, black-and-white darkroom! Learn to expose blackand-white film, process film, and make prints. 35mm film, paper and darkroom supplies included.

Bring your manual 35mm or medium format film camera and an exposed roll of black-andwhite film to the first class. Wed., Jul. 14-Aug. 4, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $145. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@ burlingtoncityarts.org. burlingtoncityarts.org.

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Photography expert Mark La Rosa guides you through basic camera controls such as aperture, shutter speed, ISO ratings, shooting in RAW, lens choices, metering techniques and more.

Photos shared for group critiques.

Students need a DSLR or digital mirrorless camera. You’ll receive five 8.5x11-inch archival prints of your selected images. Mon., Jul. 12-Aug. 2, 6-7:30 p.m. Cost: $120.

Location: BCA Studios, Zoom.

Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@burlingtoncityarts.org. burlingtoncityarts.org.

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DRAWING: Four weeks. Learn a variety of drawing techniques from Ashley Stagner, including basic perspective, compositional layout, and use of dramatic light and shadows. Students work with a variety of drawing media, including pencil, ink and charcoal in this supportive and fun class.

All levels of experience are welcome. Materials provided. Thu., Jul. 15-Aug. 5, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $180. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@ burlingtoncityarts.org. burlingtoncityarts.org.

PAINTING OUTSIDE: Join local painter Natasha Bogar in this fun and supportive outdoor painting class. Learning traditional en plein air (painting outside) techniques, paint a beautiful Burlington landscape using acrylic paints. Outside class: Dress accordingly and note the rain date.

Bring water and bagged lunch. No experience necessary. Includes all basic materials. Sat., Jul. 17, (rain date Sun., Jul. 18), 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $90. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

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PRINTMAKING: Four weeks. This class introduces you to basic printing techniques that can be used on their own or in combination to create unique artwork.

You’ll learn about the studio’s equipment and materials and discover techniques such as block printing with linoleum and monoprinting. Includes basic supplies.

No previous experience needed.

Thu., Jul. 15-Aug. 5, 6-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $180. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@burlingtoncityarts.org. burlingtoncityarts.org.

SCREEN PRINTING: Four weeks.

Using screen printing techniques, learn to design and print T-shirts, posters, fine art and more!

Learn transferring and printing images using hand-drawn or digital imagery. No experience necessary. Includes use of studio equipment and basic supplies. Students can bring their own screens or rent one through the studio. Wed., Jul. 14-Aug. 4, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $180.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-4157, kwilliams@ burlingtoncityarts.org. burlingtoncityarts.org.

SCREEN PRINTING: Four weeks. Create personal artwork through drawing or tracing images. Print multiple copies of your design on paper and a tote bag. Materials included and are yours to keep when class ends. Students share designs, inspiration and encouragement to keep creating. Includes four hours of instruction and all materials.

Tue., Jul. 13-Aug. 3, 6-7 p.m. Cost: $80. Location: BCA Studios, Zoom class. Info: Kiersten Williams, 8657157, kwilliams@burlingtoncity arts.org. burlingtoncityarts.org.

WATERCOLOR: Four weeks. Learn how to paint with watercolor. This class will focus on observational painting from still life, landscape and photos. Students will paint on watercolor paper and will gain experience with composition, color theory, layering, light and shade. No experience necessary.

Includes all basic materials. Wed., Jul. 14-Aug. 4, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $180. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@ burlingtoncityarts.org. burlingtoncityarts.org.

climbing CLIMBING CLINICS AND LESSONS: Come to Petra Cliffs and start or improve your climbing. We offer evening three-week adult coed and women’s clinics that run regularly beginning the first week of every month. Intro, intermediate and lead climbing levels.

Private lessons can be catered to individual needs and schedules.

3-week clinics: weekday evenings.

Private lessons: anytime. Cost:

$160/3 2-hour sessions for clinics, varying costs for members, multiple sign-ups. Location: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center, 105 Briggs St., Burlington. Info: Andrea Charest, 657-3872, info@petracliffs.com. petracliffs.com.

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gardening GROW A REGNERATIVE GARDEN: For backyard gardeners awake to the climate crisis: Our master gardener will teach you how to regenerate your soil with cover crops, bokashi composting and other, tested carbonsequestration techniques.

Daily guided meditations in the garden, forests and meadows to reconnect you to this precious earth and all its inhabitants.

Jul. 31-Aug. 14. Cost: $860/2week regenerative gardening & meditation program. Location: Karme Choling Meditation Center, 369 Patneaude Ln., Barnet. Info: Mike de Give, 633-2384-3122, mdegive@karmecholing.org. karmecholing.org/ program?id=6668.

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DJEMBE & TAIKO DRUMMING: JOIN US!: New hybrid classes (Zoom and in-person) starting!

Taiko, Tue. and Wed. Djembe, Wed. Kids and Parents, Tue. and Wed. COVID-19-free rental instruments, curbside pickup, too. Private Hybrid Conga lessons by appointment. Let’s prepare for future drumming outdoors.

Schedule/register online.

Location: Online & in-person at Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255. burlingtontaiko.org.

LEARN SPANISH LIVE & ONLINE: Broaden your world. Learn Spanish online via live video conferencing. High-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Our 15th year. Personal small group and individual instruction from a native speaker. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com. spanishwaterburycenter.com.

National Champion, three-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion and two-time IBJJF World JiuJitsu Champion! Julio “Foca” is the only CBJJP, USBJJF and IBJJF-certified seventh-degree coral belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and self-defense instructor under late grand master Carlson Gracie Sr. currently teaching in the USA. Accept no Iimitations!

Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston.

Info: 598-2839, julio@bjjusa.com. vermontbjj.com.

shamanism APPRENTICESHIP IN SHAMANISM: Rare opportunity to apprentice locally in a shamanic tradition. To read and learn about this offering, go to: heartofthehealer.org. For more details, including cost, location and times, please email thomas.mock1444@ gmail.com or text 369-4331. Five weekends over a year; first one Jul. 30-Aug. 1, 2021. Location: n/a, St. Albans. Info: Thomas Mock, 369-4331, thomas.mock1444@ gmail.com.

martial arts AIKIDO CLASSES AND WORKSHOP: Discover the dynamic, flowing martial art of aikido. Learn how to relax under pressure and how aikido cultivates core power, fitness and resiliency. Aikido techniques emphasize throws, pinning techniques and internal power.

Introductory classes for Adults and Youth begin on July 6th.

Visitors are always welcome!

Mon. through Wed. and Sat. Membership rates incl. unlimited classes. Contact us for info about membership rates for adults, youth & families. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Benjamin Pincus, 951-8900, bpincus@burlington aikido.org. burlingtonaikido.org.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: This school was developed to communicate the importance of proper, legitimate and complete Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instruction. We cover fundamentals of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with a realistic approach to self-defense training skills in a friendly, safe and positive environment. All are welcome; no experience required. Develop confidence, strength and endurance.

Julio Cesar “Foca” Fernandez Nunes was born and raised on the shores of Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Earning his black belt and representing the Carlson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Team, Julio “Foca” went on to become a five-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

yoga EVOLUTION YOGA: Whether you are new to yoga or have been at it for years, you’ll find the support you need to awaken your practice. Now offering outdoor in-person classes overlooking Lake Champlain! Livestream and recorded classes continue.

Flexible pricing based on your needs, scholarships avail. Single class: $0-15. Weekly membership: $10-25. 10-class pass: $140. New student special: $20 for 3 classes.

Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 8649642. evolutionvt.com.

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AGE/SEX: 4-year-old spayed female REASON HERE: She was transferred to HSCC from Hearts ’n Homes Rescue in Georgia.

ARRIVAL DATE: June 18, 2021 SUMMARY: Could she be any cuter? Candy is a fun-loving gal looking for a new home to call her own. We don’t know a lot about her past, but we do know that she has won the hearts of everyone here at HSCC with her playful, quirky personality (and that adorable smile!). She has been a friendly, social pup with everyone here and will surely be a great companion for her new family. Stop in to meet Candy and learn more about her!

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C055011E 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On June 17, 2021, Bay State Realty, LLC, 3 Glen Drive, Lynnfield, MA 01940 filed application number 4C0550-11E for a project generally described as construction of a 10,800 square foot addition to an existing distribution facility for use as warehouse space. The project is located on Lot 23 of Catamount Industrial Park at 67 Catamount Drive in Milton, Vermont.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before July 16, 2021, 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 a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. 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 may 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, and by no later than July 16, 2021.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0654On June 10, 2021, Garin and Christina Frost, 2353 Pinnacle Drive, Charlotte, VT 05445 filed application number 4C0654-4C for a project generally described as after-the-fact change in use of an existing commercial building from a printing press to a brewery with a tasting room. The project is located on Lot #6 of the Commerce Industrial Park at 171 Commerce Street in Hinesburg, Vermont. The application was deemed complete on June 18, 2021 after the receipt of supplemental evidence.

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 “4C0654-4C.” No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before July 15, 2021, 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 a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. 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.

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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, and by no later than July 15, 2021.

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Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 18th day of June, 2021.

By: /s/Rachel Lomonaco, District Coordinator Rachel Lomonaco, District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5658 rachel.lomonaco@vermont.gov BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2021, 5:00 PM PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Physical location: 645 Pine Street, Front Conference Room, Burlington VT 05401 and Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87159517593?p wd=aWJsdXUzTDVaZzJDWnN0bEowVGpqUT09

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The Shambhala Buddhist Center seeks a health/wellness organization or individual/s to sublet all or part of our spacious, attractive multi-room space, on the top floor, 187 South Winooski Ave, Monday-Friday, during regular business hours. Evenings, weekends negotiable. Utilities, kitchenette, bathrooms, stair lift, air purifiers, Wi-Fi. Price negotiable.

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NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE LIEN SALE MALLETTS BAY SELF STORAGE, LLC: 115 HEINEBERG DRIVE, COLCHESTER, VT 05446 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid.

Telephone: +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 929 205 6099 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 669 900 6833 1. ZAP-21-11; 164 North Willard Street (RL, Ward 1E) Luke Purvis

David Buhl # 72 Said sales will take place on 7/9/21, beginning at 10:00am at Malletts Bay Self Storage, LLC, (MBSS, LLC)115 Heineberg Dr, Colchester, VT 05446.

Units will be opened for viewing immediately prior to auction. Sale shall be by sealed bid to the highest bidder. Contents of entire storage unit will be sold as one lot. The winning bid must remove all contents from the facility at no cost to MBSS, LLC on the day of auction. MBSS, LLC reserves the right to reject any bid lower that the amount owed by the occupant or that is not commercially reasonable as defined by statute.

REQUEST FOR BIDS The Town of Bolton, Vermont is seeking bids from qualified paving contractors for the placement of approximately 2800 tons of asphalt at one location. A request for bid document is available on the town website www.boltonvt.com, or by calling the Bolton Town Office (802) 434-5075. Bids are due by July 5, 2021 at 3 p.m.

Appeal of fence permit denial.

2. ZP-21-479; 1-7 Church Street (FD6, Ward 3C) One Church Street Partnership LLP Alternative compliance for installation of blade sign on building exterior.

3. ZP-21-481; 166 East Ave (RL, Ward 1E) Cynthia Cook Request for short-term rental of one unit in owner occupied duplex.

Plans may be viewed upon request by contacting the Department of Permitting & Inspections between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Participation in the DRB proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal.

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Questions? Contact Jen Myers, Treasurer at (802) 453-2410 ext. 5, or by email at treasurer@bristolvt. org.

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR INDEPENDENT AUDITOR BRISTOL, VERMONT The Town of Bristol is inviting qualified firms of independent Certified Public Accountants, licensed to practice in the State of Vermont, to submit proposals to conduct audits of its financial accounts and records for Fiscal Years 2021, 2022, and 2023. The Town’s fiscal year commences July 1st and ends June 30th.

A detailed request for proposals is available at www.bristolvt.org, at the Town Office, or by calling (802) 453-2410 ext. 5 to have it emailed.

Proposals must be submitted via email by 3:00pm July 29, 2021 to Jen Myers, Treasurer, at treasurer@bristolvt.org, and to Valerie Capels, Town Administrator, at townadmin@bristolvt.org.

It can also be sent by first class mail to the Town of Bristol, P.O. Box 249, Bristol, VT 05443 or dropped

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WASHINGTON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 379-7-19 WNCV REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC v.

LAWRENCE J. MILLER, RANDALL G. MILLER, STEVEN A. MILLER, PAMELA J. MARTIN, SUSAN L. MILLER AND SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT OCCUPANTS OF: 16 North Parkside Terrace, Barre VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered January 25, 2021 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Sylvia D. Miller to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Reverse Mortgage Funding LLC, dated June 8, 2015 and recorded in Book 289 Page 154 of the land records of the City of Barre, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Reverse Mortgage Funding LLC to Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC dated May 8, 2019 and recorded in Book 351 Page330 of the land records of the City of Barre for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 16 North Parkside Terrace, Barre, Vermont on July 26, 2021 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WASHINGTON, CITY OF BARRE STATE OF VERMONT, AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: IT BEING THE SAME LAND AND PREMISES AS

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[CONTINUED] WAS CONVEYED TO RUSSELL W. BRECHIN AND ALBERTINE M. BRECH1N BY THE WARRANTY DEED OF JEANETTE HOOKER DATED SEPTEMBER 13, 1968 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 82, PAGES 503-505 OF THE LAND RECORDS OF THE CITY OF BARRE, AND FURTHER DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE WESTERLY SIDE OF NORTH PARKSIDE TERRACE, SO-CALLED, WITH THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN LOT NO. 47 AND LOT NO. 48, AS SHOWN IN A CERTAIN PLAN OF LOTS ENTITLED: “SUB-DIVISION OF PROPERTY, LAGUE, INC. JUNE 1960, WHITE & MARTIN, SURVEYORS: THENCE RUNNING IN A GENERAL WESTERLY DIRECTION IN A STRAIGHT LINE A DISTANCE OF 81.9 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE TURNING TO THE LEFT AND RUNNING IN A GENERAL SOUTHERLY DIRECTION 1000 FEET TO THE GENERAL NORTHERLY SIDE OF A PROPOSED STREET; THENCE TURNING AN ANGLE TO THE LEFT AND RUNNING ALONG THE NORTHERLY SIDE OF SAID PROPOSED STREET IN AN EASTERLY DIRECTION A DISTANCE OF 56.9 FEET: THENCE TURNING AND RUNNING GENERALLY NORTHERLY AND EASTERLY A DISTANCE OF 56.9 FEET; THENCE TURNING AND RUNNING GENERALLY NORTHERLY AND EASTERLY IN A CIRCULAR DIRECTION AT THE INTERSECTION OF SAID PROPOSED STREET AND NORTH PARKSIDE TERRACE TO THE WESTERLY EDGE OF NORTH PARKSIDE TERRACE; THENCE RUNNING IN A STRAIGHT LINE ALONG THE WESTERLY EDGE OF NORTH PARKSIDE TERRACE IN A GENERAL NORTHERLY DIRECTION A DISTANCE OF 75 FOOT TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. MEANING HEREBY TO CONVEY ALL OF LOT NO. 48 AS SHOWN ON THE AFOREMENTIONED PLAN, TOGETHER WITH THE BUILDINGS THEREON STANDING. PARCEL ID # 1100-0016.0000 THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO GEORGE W. MILLER AND SYLVIA MILLER FROM RUSSELL W. BRECHIN AND ALBERTINE BRECHIN IN A DEED DATED JANUARY 7, 1978 AND RECORDED JANUARY 7, 1978 IN BOOK 87 PAGE 230. GEORGE W. MILLER LEFT THIS LIFE ON JULY 19, 1989 IN THE TOWN OF BERLIN, VT. TITLE NOW VESTS SOLELY IN SYLVIA MILLER. Property Commonly Known As: 16 North Parkside Terrace, Barre, VT 05641 Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a bank wire, certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date the

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Confirmation Order is entered by the Court. All checks should be made payable to “Bendett & McHugh, PC, as Trustee”.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : June 16, 2021 By: /s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 01-01329 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, WILLISTON VT, 05495 WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT THE 15TH OF JULY 2021 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF ERIC MAIER. 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.

THE VERMONT AGENCY OF TRANSPORTATION AND BURLINGTON DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS INVITES YOU TO ATTEND A PROJECT INFORMATION MEETING FOR THE SHELBURNE STREET ROUNDABOUT PROJECT Thursday, July 1 6:30 – 8:00 PM Remote & In-person Zoom Meeting Link: https://zoom. us/j/94965425554 Conference ID: 949 6542 5554 To dial in by phone, please call (646) 558-8656 Type in the Room ID: 949 6542 5554# Once you are connected (if by phone) and the meeting has started, you will need to press *9 to raise your hand to be allowed to speak To attend in-person, please join us in the front conference room of the Burlington Department of Public Works building located at 645 Pine Street in Burlington.

VTrans will present an update on the Shelburne Street Roundabout Project. The presentation will include a project overview, anticipated schedule and construction impacts. Following the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions of the project team and contractor.

If you need additional information or would like to sign-up to receive future updates, please contact the project’s Public Information Consultant, at 802-496-8956 or info@shelburnestreetroundabout.com.

TOWN OF COLCHESTER SELECTBOARD Pursuant to Title 24 VSA, Chapter 117, the Colchester Selectboard will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at 6:30 P.M. in the Outer Bay Room on the third floor of the Colchester Town Offices, 781 Blakely Rd, for the purpose of considering amendments of the Colchester Development Regulations. The proposed amendments are as follows: 1. Added Section 2.07E(10) exempting small chicken coops from permits.

2. Clarified in Section 2.09A standards for accessory buildings exceeding 50% of principal structure size.

3. Amend Section 2.09B(1)(e) to exclude unenclosed structures from max allowable sq. footage of accessory apartments.

4. Amend Section 6.03F(1) from one foot to two feet.

5. Clarified Section 8.03B to reference 24 V.S.A. Section 4413.

6. Clarify Section 9.07D(4) exemption is for all GD Districts and not just GD3.

7. Clarify pavement types in Section 10.01C and added 10.01C7-9 regarding electric vehicle charging.

8. Clarified bike rack location in Section 10.01K. 9. Add to Section 10.01M that additional commercial vehicles may be permitted on residential properties in conjunction with a home business use.

10. Amended Section 10.08B(3) to be 10 ft. max height for solar panel instead of 8 ft.

11. Amended Section 9.02 and 9.04 to require parcel ids on plans subdivision plans.

12. Add Section 10.01M(5) for commercial vehicles in home businesses.

13. Clarified Section 11.05A expirations to be for tank wastewater permits.

14. Amend Section 12.20 definitions for Congregate Housing, Hospice Care Home, Nursing Care Institution, Mental Health Facility, and Residential Care Home to reference 33 V.S.A Section 7102 15. Amend Section 12.02 to add a definition of Group Quarters and Lowest Horizontal Member.

Amend the definition of Dormitory to reflect Group Quarters.

16. Amend Table A-1 to add Group Quarters. Add 4.230 Landscape contractor’s yard as conditional use to GD Districts and Lumber contractor’s yard (4.210) as a conditional use to GD2. Add 9.210 Warehousing and 9.230 Archival Facility as conditional use to GD2.

17. Rezone parcel id# 64-004002-0000000 IND to R1.

18. Rezone parcel id# 64-005002-0000000 IND to R1 These are a summary of the proposed changes.

The Development Regulations can be found at the Town Offices at 781 Blakely Road and may also be reviewed on-line at http://www.colchestervt.gov.

The amendments are identified as supplement #43 to the Colchester Development Regulations.

COLCHESTER SELECTBOARD Publication date June 30, 2021 TOWN OF COLCHESTER SELECTBOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Pursuant to Title 24 Appendix VSA, Chapter 113, Sec. 105(a)(b), the Colchester Selectboard will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, July 27th at 6:40 PM at the Colchester Town Offices at 781 Blakely Road, Colchester, Vermont in the third floor Outer Bay Conference Room. Residents are welcome to attend in person or, or alternatively, send a note to TownManager@colchestervt.gov with “Citizens to be Heard-Building Code” in the Subject and their name. As with in-person Citizens to be Heard, we ask that you SHARE YOUR ADDRESS. The email will be shared with the entire Selectboard prior to the meeting and included in the information packet at the next meeting.

A summary of the proposed amendments to Chapter Four of the Colchester Code of Ordinance Building Code and Building Code Construction Ordinance is as follows: rectifying language following two prior sets of changes; adding requirements for Emergency Access Boxes to certain existing and new structures, and adding requirements for solar systems on single family homes that protect both property and first responders.

A complete set of the changes and a memo explaining the rationale for the proposal is available at: https://clerkshq.com/Content/Colchester-vt/ council/2021/jul13_21ph.htm

If you have questions regarding these amendments, contact the Colchester Town Manager’s Office at 264.5509.

For publication no later than July 13th, 2021 (15 days prior to Public Hearing)

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C059712C 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On June 11, 2021, Splash Car Wash Williston, LLC, 472 Wheelers Farm Road, Milford, CT 06461 filed application number 4C0597-12C for a project generally described as construction of 11 vacuum spaces to the west of the existing building western, construction of a vacuum equipment area within the existing building, construction of a stacking lane to the east of the existing building, discontinuation of the detailing shop and parking lot restriping. The project is located at 22 James Brown Drive in Williston, 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 “4C0597-12C.” No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before July 13, 2021, 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 a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. 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 may 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, and by no later than July 13, 2021.

If you have a disability for which you need accommodation in order to participate in this process (including participating in a public hearing, if one is held), please notify us as soon as possible, in order to allow us as much time as possible to accommodate your needs.

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 that they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the Act 250 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 21st day of June, 2021.

By: /s/Rachel Lomonaco Rachel Lomonaco, District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5658 Rachel.Lomonaco@vermont.gov

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Seasonal Chef Knoll Farm Retreat Center is hiring a Chef in charge of planning and preparing meals served to our guests. From June-Oct, retreats are 2-8 days long, for 10-30 people.

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Vermont’s premier continuing Care Retirement Community seeks a member to join our housekeeping team. Housekeepers support residents who live independently by providing contactless housekeeping services in their homes while they are away. Housekeepers are critical to the wellbeing of residents in a setting that utilizes best practices to maintain our Covid Free environment. Candidates must have housekeeping and/or industrial cleaning or industrial laundry experience. We’re proud to offer no less than $15.00 per hour, excellent benefits and a truly remarkable working environment.

Interested candidates can apply online at Wakerobin.com or email a resume with cover letter to: HR@wakerobin.com.

Wake Robin is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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DIRECTOR OF MEDIA CREATION LAB/ MEDIA PRODUCTION MANAGER Saint Michael’s College invites applications for a Director of Media Creation Lab/ Media Production Manager. The Director will manage and oversee all aspects of a new Media Creation Lab, including training and managing student workers, maintaining and managing audio and video equipment within the lab, and mentoring students and faculty in various audio and video projects. The Director will also work with the College’s Marketing and Communications department to directly produce and oversee the creation of video and other media content to promote the College to its varied audiences.

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The Bergeron Wellness Center at Saint Michael’s College is looking for a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner/Director of Student Health Services to join our fabulous team.

The Bergeron Wellness Center provides confidential care for the bodies, minds and spirits of our diverse students. The Center has both nurse practitioners and mental health clinicians who are integral resources of care to all of our residential undergraduate students. The successful candidate must hold an Advanced Practice degree in Psychiatric Nursing and is currently practicing under an accredited body as well as hold licensure in the state of Vermont. They must have three years or more of clinical experience with at least two years in a supervisory role.

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The Town of Hinesburg is currently seeking individuals to fill various positions within the Highway Department. While not required, a Class B CDL (commercial driver’s license) with tanker endorsement is preferred.

The Clinical Patient Safety Attendant (CPSA) is responsible for specific aspects of direct patient care and monitoring focused of safety, under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse. Part-time and full-time positions available. High school diploma or equivalent required. Minimum of AS degree in health care, mental health or human services related field preferred.

Full-time and seasonal positions are available. Full-time positions offer competitive pay, post winter bonuses and an excellent benefits package. If you would like to learn more about these opportunities, please contact the Town Manager at todit@hinesburg.org or 482-4206. A job description and employment application are located on the town website hinesburg.org.

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Server, Cooks, Hostess, Shift Leaders, Dishwasher $500 hiring bonus Denny's is looking for hardworking individuals, who enjoy working in a fast-paced environment. Denny's offers a competitive pay, great benefits, a clean sanitized work environment, and flexible schedules.

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VERMONT STATE COURTS ACCESS RESOURCE CENTER The Vermont Judiciary is recruiting for a position starting at $75,000 with excellent benefits. This person will provide leadership and support for the development and delivery of access to justice services for Vermonters. Will include in-person and remote services to support the needs of self-represented parties and others needing assistance navigating the court process. Law degree and 5+ years’ related experience.

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Vermont Youth Conservation Corps (VYCC) is hiring a full-time, year-round Marketing Manager to join the Engagement Team.

Bring your passion for storytelling to deepen Vermonters’ appreciation for the VYCC experience.

You will co-produce content including photos, video, blog posts and press releases, while keeping our website fresh, social media buzzing, web advertising active, and emails engaging. Promote an environment of equity, inclusion, and justice in all aspects of recruitment and storytelling; work with members of the VYCC community to craft compelling stories from the fields and woods of Vermont; & oversee the design & production of marketing materials.

Read more about this position including salary and benefits information at VYCC.org/about/careers.

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Property Manager/ Assistant Property Manager Established Property Management Firm seeking an individual to manage a portfolio of homeowner associations located in Chittenden County. Property Manager duties include: Attendance at evening board meetings, Site visits of properties, Obtaining bids, contract negotiation and oversight of vendors, Management & oversight of building staff, Preparation of budgets & review monthly financial reports, & leasing apartments.

Requirements

Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Office, Superior multi-tasking and organizational skills, Extraordinary customer service skills/understanding, 3 years’ experience in property management, real estate, or customer service.

FINANCE MANAGER

QUALITY SPECIALIST

As Project Manager, you will join the NDI R&D team developing our next generation of advanced measurement systems for medical device markets. Leading a cross-functional team, the Project Manager plays a key role in driving selected designs from conception to implementation and release.

Provide complex administrative management for business, financial, research administration, cancer clinical trial administration, and personnel activities for the UVM Cancer Center. Duties include collection and tracking of metrics aligned with NCI guidelines, collaboration with the Clinical Trials Manager to manage accrual information in conjunction with metrics collection, management of all non-research financials from multiple budget sources, oversight of pre- and post-award research administration, and preparation of reporting for events, leadership and membership meetings, and external board visits.

Serve as a liaison with faculty, department business managers and Sponsored Projects Administration. Assist the Research Center Administrator with space policies, space and equipment inventory as well as coordination of moves and/or renovations. Other duties include, but are not limited to, management of billing for Cancer Center Shared Resources. Provide oversight to support staff.

The role requires proven leadership ability and the technical acumen to lead projects effectively. The successful candidate is highly organized, results-driven and comfortable collaborating with all levels of our matrix organization.

Bachelor’s degree in related field and two to four years of business, financial, research management or related experience required. Ability to collaborate, effective organizational skills and attention to detail required.

Full description and to apply go to: bit.ly/NDIProjectManager2021

Apply online: uvmjobs.com/postings/44717

You will be helping to ensure compliance of NDI products and services, and you will perform quality audits of processes across all functional groups, including but not limited to purchasing, engineering, and manufacturing. As Quality Specialist, you will promote adherence to product regulatory requirements, and all applicable national and international quality system standards.

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES, a semiconductor manuf & tech co. seeks the following in Essex Junction, VT: Senior Member Technical Staff, Design Enablement #21004212: Develop a predictive model for future generation bipolar transistor devices in commercial radio frequency (RF) wireless applications.

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The Outpatient Social Work Case Manager delivers care to patients in a longitudinal rather than episodic fashion and focuses on prevention, health promotion, coordination and chronic disease management. This is a 20 hour/ week position that will support the Transgender Youth Program. This position works closely with patients, families, providers and community partners to provide patients and families with ongoing social work support. MSW from an accredited school of social work and 1 year or more of experience working in a human service organization, health care setting, or managed care system is required.

Understanding of transgender issues a requirement.

Licensure through the State of Vermont is preferred.

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Positions available to work as a team with a young adult autistic man in the community and at his home. The successful candidate will be a responsible person who enjoys helping others, has good athletic skills, and has a musical repertoire. Highly skilled training will accompany this job. A college degree is required. This is a 8:30 am - 4:00 pm Monday - Friday schedule with great summer hours.

However, the job is year-round. Pay is very competitive, starting at $25/hr. This is a full-time position and one that will allow you to grow professionally.

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Education Manager

Vermont PBS/ VPR is seeking a passionate educator to lead our education programs, including PBS LearningMedia, Parents Plus Preschool, Digital Media Literacy, curriculum development for local children’s programming, and more.

Classroom experience & an understanding of digital classroom technology are required.

Experience in Education Outreach/Community 10:03 AM Engagement preferred, along with a strong affinity for PBS and NPR. Full job description and application online at vermontpbs.org/Careers

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Send your resume, cover letter and 3 references with their contact information to the nbgteamvt@gmail.com.

Resumes submitted without cover letters or reference contacts will not be considered. It will be necessary that you are fully COVID-19 vaccinated at the time of employment.

Cochrane Neonatal, hosted by Vermont Oxford Network is Vermont PBS/VPR is an Equal Opportunity looking to hire a Project Assistant. The role of the Project Employer Assistant is to support the Director of Cochrane at VON/ Cochrane Neonatal Coordinating Editor & the Cochrane Neonatal Managing Editor to ensure all administrative work is 6/28/21 completed as efficiently as possible. Duties typically include 3v-VPR/VTPBS063021.indd 1 overseeing and assisting with ongoing projects and tasks, coordinating meetings and media communications (including website, newsletters, podcasts, reports), supporting authors with editorial work, grant management and reporting and assisting in day-to-day operations as needed. To view the full job description, please visit: public.vtoxford.org/job-openings.

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Sugarbush Resort is now hiring for the following full-time and 11:45 AM benefits-eligible roles:

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VERMONT STATE COURTS

Looking to enter the legal world and make a difference? $17.49 per hour, Limited-Service full-time positions. The Judicial branch of state government is rapidly expanding. Now hiring 15 or more two-year positions at locations across the state. Openings in Burlington, St.Albans, White River Junction, Barre, Newport, Brattleboro, Bennington, Woodstock, Middlebury, Rutland, Hyde Park, Montpelier, St Johnsbury. We offer a competitive rate with top-notch health, dental, paid time off and pension. The successful candidate will have 2 years’ general office experience, be a team player and good communicator, be able to use technology, be organized, and be seeking a prestigious and professional atmosphere.

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Equipment Service Manager, Herd Manager & Farm Chore Person Vermont Compost Company, a leading compost and potting soil company, is looking to hire an Equipment Service Manager, a Herd Manager and a Farm Chore Person.

All opportunities provide competitive wages & full benefits.

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Hunger Mountain Co-op is Hiring Be part of a thriving natural foods community; earn good pay, a store discount, and more! The Co-op is currently in need of: Lead Grocery Buyer, full-time Maintenance Coordinator, full-time Prepared Foods Supervisor, full-time Grocery Stocker, part-time Several substitute employee positions available, too!

Do you have a flexible schedule and want extra income? The Coop frequently hires substitute employees to cover absences. Substitutes earn an hourly wage (minimum of $13.48/hour), accrue a paid time off benefit, and are eligible for the employee discount on Co-op purchases. In addition, substitutes have preferred access over outside applicants to jobs with regular hours at the Co-op.

Substitutes may work a range of hours up to 40 hours weekly, depending on the Co-op's need and the substitute's availability. The most common substitute positions are cashier, grocery clerk, and prepared foods worker.

We seek enthusiastic, customer-oriented people who are passionate about good food and local community. If you enjoy helping others in a dynamic retail environment, we want you to be part of our team.

Our job openings are always changing. For additional information or to apply, please visit our web site at hungermountain.coop/employment.

Hunger Mountain Co-op is an inclusive employer. We encourage folks of all walks of life to apply for employment opportunities. Hourly employees are represented by UE Local 255.

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Pure Water for the World, Inc. (PWW) is currently seeking a dynamic and entrepreneurial leader to take the helm as Executive Director. The Executive Director position requires a commitment to PWW’s mission and vision, a passion for fundraising and development, as well as strong business experience (financial, operations). Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director provides inspiring leadership to PWW’s dedicated team of employees, working together to expand the organization’s impact and effectiveness in alignment with the mission and vision.

Guidance/College Counselor Rock Point School is seeking a full-time Guidance/College Counselor to work with students to find success in academic life during and after high school. Our small, supportive educational community offers students a chance to build their confidence and find their voice, in and out of the classroom.

Full Job Description: purewaterfortheworld.org/ about-pww/join-team.

The Guidance/College Counselor is primarily responsible for overseeing the 11th and 12thgrade students, with a typical caseload of 15-20 students.

This position aims to ensure that each student has multiple options upon graduation from Rock Point School.

Send cover letter and resume to: info@ purewaterfortheworld.org.

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CULINARY CAREERS AT SPRUCE PEAK

The UVM Foundation is a collaborative, employee-centered organization, committed to diversity and building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and ages. We seek individuals with a demonstrated commitment to these values and especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities.

Strategic Engagement Program Coordinator The University of Vermont Foundation is seeking a highly organized, energetic team player who is passionate about advancing education, to provide primary administrative support and leadership to the Strategic Engagement team at the University of Vermont Foundation. Program involvement includes alumni, donor and constituent engagement, communications, events, and volunteer relations. The successful candidate should possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, be solutions-focused, and able to work independently. Fluency with the Microsoft Office Suite, as well as other database management systems and strong customer services skills are essential. This position reports to the V.P. for Strategic Engagement.

For a detailed description of these opportunities, please visit our website: UVMFoundation.org/Careers.

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We are searching for Culinarians to join our team in preparation for the most exciting restaurant openings in Vermont. The culinary program is a cornerstone of the Spruce Peak experience and we are thrilled to announce a $5.5 million investment into two new restaurants. We partner with local farms for globally-inspired, locally-sourced seasonal menus, weddings and world-class events. Our international clientele enjoy our modern, inspired cuisine and bespoke epicurean delights. Fine brands like WhistlePig Rye Whiskey and Jasper Hill Farms have chosen to have exclusive product partnerships with us.

We have great benefits (free ski pass, hotel rooms, medical, and retirement) and pay (up to $25.00 DOE), the work is interesting, challenging and you’ll have opportunities to grow.

Stowe is a great place to put down roots; mountain bike in the summer, ski in the winter, enjoy world-class beers and small farms. A great place to play hard during your time off or to raise an active family. We are also part of Hyatt Hotels worldwide, so your career opportunities are endless.

Professional culinarians at every level of their career are encouraged to apply now at SprucePeak.com/Careers.

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Education Advisor: Recruitment & Enrollment Full-Time with Benefits Burlington, VT Provide outreach, recruitment, assessment, and goal setting for new and returning students in Chittenden County, and support them in demonstrating readiness for VAL services.

Send a cover letter, resume & three professional references (preferably supervisor or manager level) electronically to: rcampbell@vtadultlearning.org Full Description: bit.ly/VTAdultLearning Equal Opportunity Employer.

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DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

The Director of Development provides strategic leadership and oversight for all aspects of College Development, including fundraising, alumni relations and development communications. Together with the Director of Marketing and Director of Admissions, the Director of Development ensures integrated College messaging, with specific responsibility for 11:11 AM communicating with alumni and donors.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS INCLUDE an undergraduate degree.

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Paid job training and help with job placement (Remote options available) Apply at: www.a4td.org For more information, call: 802-370-6161 This program is funded by the USDOL

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U.S. Probation Officers work for the federal court, conduct bail and presentence investigations, and supervise federal defendants released to community supervision. The District of Vermont is hiring one officer.

The minimum requirement is a bachelor's degree in an approved major. The position is hazardous duty law enforcement with a maximum age of 37 at appointment. Prior to appointment, applicants considered for this position will undergo a full background investigation, as well as undergo a medical examination and drug screening. Starting salary range is from $52,128 to $101,555 (CL 27 to CL 28), depending on qualifications. For further information and application instructions visit vtp.uscourts. gov/career-opportunities Deadline for complete applications is the close of business July 16, 2021. E.O.E.

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Waterworks is searching for an energetic, hard-working, dependable manager to join our leadership team. We are passionate about taking care of our employees, our guests and our community. The right candidate will have restaurant and management experience and understand sincere and genuine hospitality. Professionalism and solid judgment paired with an honest sense of fun and good will are key. Ability to maintain high standards and even temperament under pressure are a must.

Key responsibilities include: • Oversee & Manage front of house staff • Hiring, Training, & Team building • Systems development & implementation • Lead, Motivate & Communicate firmly & fairly with staff • Sincere interactions with guests leading to the delivery of genuine hospitality Qualifications: • Substantial hospitality experience preferred but willing to train motivated individuals • Prior management experience in large-scale and/or fast-paced environments • Ability to maintain high standards, detail orientated, even temperament under pressure • Honest sense of fun and a good humor • Flexible schedule, with the ability to work nights & weekends We offer excellent pay and benefits in a positive team environment.

To apply, please email sarah@waterworksvt.com with a resume and 1-2 references.

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Training Development and Sales Manager Design, develop, and deliver effective training and professional development programs to our ever growing team. This position will drive training initiatives in order to improve productivity and align resources with expected company growth patterns. In addition this position will grow and sell our external training offerings to thirdparties and external organizations.

Work with HR, Training, and Operations teams to ensure labor resources are adequate to meet the needs of the company within budgeted and forecasted requirements.

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Evernorth is seeking a Project Manager to join our real estate development team. The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator, team builder and enthusiastic collaborator, with experience in project management – design/construction related, preferred.

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TOWN MANAGER

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The Town of Hardwick, Vermont seeks a collaborative, innovative, energetic, and forward-thinking Town Manager. The successful candidate will understand and model the value of transparency, civil rights, and dignity for everyone in our community.

Hardwick is a diverse and dynamic rural community with numerous small businesses, farms, downtown neighborhoods, a unified school district, municipal electric and police departments, and year-round cultural and outdoor opportunities. The town of about 3,000 people is in Caledonia County in the southwest corner of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom region.

Vermont Federal Credit Union is a growing financial cooperative in Northwestern Vermont, currently serving over 40,000 members. We are looking for friendly, self-motivated individuals who enjoy helping people, have strong communication skills, are detail-oriented and enjoy working as part of a team.

We partner with quality companies offering top notch benefits of the traditional and nontraditional types. We have competitive health care and 401k matches, a local employee assistance program, and other wellness benefits. Please visit our website for full details of our benefits program. We currently seek to fill the following position(s):

INFORMATION SYSTEMS SPECIALIST - BURLINGTON, VT Job Description:

The Town Manager is the public face of Town government and is responsible for its day-to-day operations. This position reports to the Town’s fivemember Selectboard and is also responsible for the general supervision and administration of all Town staff and departments (21 full- and 15 part-time employees).

The manager carries out the duties specified in the municipal charter and under all applicable federal and state laws. The Town’s 2021 operating budget is $3,208,240. In addition to the operating budget, the Town Manager is responsible for overseeing multiple large grant-funded projects.

• Monitoring systems operations, establishing user profiles, user environments, directories, and security access on the Local Area Network (LAN).

• Primary contact for hardware and software issues and maintaining PCs and PC applications.

• Design and maintain systems documentation, processing logs and inventory of equipment and providing off-hours support, including on-call rotation.

• Consulting with computer operations management, supervisory staff, and various I.S. personnel to assure that I.S. standards for control, security, and recoverability are understood and followed.

• Troubleshooting hardware and software problems, providing resolutions in a timely manner, installing appropriate hardware or software, and maintaining and furthering technology knowledge of computer hardware and software.

• Deliver outstanding service that is in alignment with the Credit Union's Service Promises.

A full job description is available at: hardwickvt.org/ wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Town-Manager-2021.pdf

Requirements: • Knowledge of batch and workflow programming • .NET, MS-SQL, IIS, and website administration experience is a plus.

• Ability to work independently and communicate effectively • A two-year college degree or equivalent training • Knowledge, of computer system hardware, telecommunications equipment, operating systems and network components is required.

The position includes full benefits (health and retirement) and a salary range of $75,000 to $85,000, depending on experience and qualifications. An eligible candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Master’s preferred) with at least five years of supervisory and management experience in rural municipal government or an equivalent institution.

Qualified candidates should apply online via our website: vermontfederal.org.

Please email a cover letter, resume, and three professional references by Friday, July 30, 2021, to jobs@hardwickvt.org with Hardwick Manager as the subject.

Please be sure to attach your resume. Applications without an attached resume will be considered incomplete.

Equal Opportunity Employer.

Vermont Federal Credit Union is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Staff Accountant Immediate opening for an experienced full-time Staff Accountant with the Addison County Community Trust. Reporting to the Finance Director, the Staff Accountant is a critical member of the Finance Team supporting ACCT’s organizational finances as well as financial management for approx. two dozen affordable housing entities including apartments and mobile home parks. The Staff Accountant is responsible for ACCT’s internal financial reporting which includes cash disbursements, cash receipts, general ledger entries, and bank reconciliations.

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At least 2-4 years of accounting experience required; a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting is strongly preferred. Must be detail oriented, self-directed and capable of working independently and efficiently in a fast-paced team setting. The position may be required to work extra hours from time to time to meet financial statement and audit deadlines. ACCT offers a competitive salary and benefit package.

Send cover letter and resume to jobs@addisontrust.org. E.O.E.

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Agricultural Credit Analyst (Based in either Burlington, Middlebury, or Montpelier) VEDA has an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual to join its Agricultural Lending Team as an Agricultural Credit Analyst. This position supports agricultural loan officers by providing credit investigation and analysis of loan applications and servicing requests. Duties include entering data to financial accounting software, preparing, and analyzing spreadsheets, and drafting loan approval write-ups and loan commitment letters.

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PROPERTY SERVICES MANAGER The City of St. Albans, Vermont, is looking for a new member of our team to take on a significant role in providing municipal services for residents, property owners and visitors in our community. The Property Services Manager is a full-time, salaried position entrusted with land use permitting, property valuation, the grand list, E911 coordination and other essential municipal services. The City is looking for someone who is up for the challenge of guiding community members through our “zoning” procedures, maintaining our grand list and explaining the basis of assessments to property owners, & maintaining a high level of public confidence & customer service in City operations, whether it be through answering questions or enforcing our land use regulations.

Knowledge of agricultural and/or forest industry is required.

Previous experience as a credit analyst or similar position and a bachelor’s degree in a related field are preferred.

Successful candidates will have a positive customer service attitude and strong written and verbal skills. Accuracy, attention to detail, computer literacy, and ability to learn financial database software is required. Position includes travel within the State of Vermont.

Feeling up to the challenge, but don’t know anything about zoning or property valuation?

The City is ready and eager to provide the necessary training. What is more critical for a prospective candidate is organization, attention to detail, follow-through, public communication skills, customer service, and a solution-based focus. The ideal candidate will have experience with administering regulatory or similar processes, possessing a leadership role in managing customer/client relations, and/or delivering public communications on complex topics. The selected employee will be expected to work effectively with all community members and recognize the importance of racial and social equity.

VEDA offers a competitive salary and excellent health and retirement benefit packages. Other perks include a flexible work environment, generous tuition reimbursement, and professional development and networking opportunities.

VEDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer interested in increasing staff diversity. We welcome job applications from all qualified candidates.

Please review the full job description at StAlbansVT.com/Jobs. The hiring salary range is expected to be between $55,000 and $65,000, commensurate with experience and qualifications. An excellent benefits package is available. To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to, attn: Chip Sawyer, Director of Planning & Development. Resume review will begin on July 6, 2021. Resumes will be accepted until the position is filled.

Resume & cover letter to Cheryl Houchens: chouchens@veda.org.

The City of St. Albans is an equal opportunity 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. We encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply.

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LOCAL FOOD PRODUCTION MANAGER

LAMOILLE RESTORATIVE CENTER SEEKS EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS TO JOIN OUR GROWING TEAM.

We’re looking for the right mix of production and management skills to add to our Farm-toInstitution social enterprise, Just Cut! Just Cut is a social enterprise of the Center for Agricultural Economy and an essential connection between food growers and buyers that operates out of one of the Vermont Food Venture Center’s (VFVC) commercial kitchens. We purchase, inspect, wash, prepare (by hand and machine) and deliver Vermont-grown produce to kitchens both large and small. By partnering with local farmers, food buyers across New England, and a regional delivery network, we help ensure the viability of Vermont’s working landscapes and provide greater accessibility of high-quality produce to all markets. Just Cut’s highest aspiration is to show that a conscious, conscientious supply chain is possible - one that strives to do well by all food system participants, from the land to the farmer to the processor to the consumer.

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LRC is a small, dynamic nonprofit organization with a mission to uphold the dignity and resilience of individuals and families through restorative justice principles and programs. LRC employs professionals who thrive in an inclusive and equitable environment.

COURT DIVERSION AND VICTIM SERVICES CASE MANAGER Are you committed to applying restorative approaches to increase accountability, promote safety, and support those impacted by crime?

LRC is hiring a full-time Court Diversion and Victim Services Case Manager to coordinate restorative processes and support services for individuals and communities impacted by crime. The case manager will work in a team to create more trauma-informed and victim-centered responses and supports, and be responsible for supporting participants in a range of pre-adjudication programs. This position is ideal for someone with excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills, and those who possess an understanding of trauma-informed and victim centered practices in Vermont’s justice and human service systems. A bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience is required, and preference will be given to those with experience working with justice-involved individuals and/or with victims of crime.

RESTORATIVE PRACTICES IN SCHOOLS TRAINER AND COACH Can you see yourself working with students and staff to create more inclusive and equitable learning environments?

LRC is hiring a full-time Restorative Practices (RP) Trainer and Coach to coordinate and support the implementation of restorative practices in local schools. This position is ideal for someone with a strong understanding of restorative practices, familiarity with the whole-school approach to restorative work, training experience, strong communication skills, and an ability to work both independently and on a team.

The successful candidate for this new position will become an integral part of LRC’s existing youth team and will work collaboratively with LRC’s other restorative justice trainers and practitioners.

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SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT SPECIALISTS Join the team at Gardener’s Supply Company

Do you have passion for supporting students' school success?

Do you enjoy collaborating with others to solve problems?

LRC is hiring three full-time School Engagement Specialists (SES) to expand its School Engagement Program team. Responsibilities include providing outreach and support to Lamoille Valley students ages five to 15, and their families, struggling with school attendance. The SES helps students re-engage with school by working together to identify causes of school absences and address attendance barriers. This position is ideal for someone with a strong understanding of Vermont’s education and human services systems, excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to work both independently and on a team.

We are a 100% employee-owned company and an award winning and nationally recognized socially responsible business. We work hard AND offer a fun place to work including BBQs, staff parties, employee garden plots and much more! We also offer strong cultural values, competitive wages and outstanding benefits!

Sales and Service Specialist We’re searching for several Sales & Service Specialists to join our Contact Center team! These individuals will be on the phone with customers, building relationships and representing our company in ways that reflect our core values.

He/she will contribute to average order size and strive for customer satisfaction on sales as well as service calls. Our ideal candidate will have previous service and sales experience and exceptional communication skills as well as the ability to research solutions to customer problems or to answer questions.

All positions are based in Hyde Park, and come with a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefit package that includes employee health, dental, and life insurance. Other benefits include paid sick and vacation leave, 15 paid holidays, and a retirement plan. Interested individuals can apply by email – with the job title in the subject line – by sending a cover letter and resume to: info@lrcvt.org.

Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.

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MACHINE OPERATORS Permanent, full-time positions available for a variety of machine operators on second and third shifts.

This exciting career comes with competitive wages, incredible benefits and so much more! We offer health, dental, vision, short term disability, life insurance and 401k with employer match.

Raises every 6 months. We offer on the job training with no experience necessary.

Strong math skills and mechanically inclined a plus.

Come join our team!

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Human Resources & Administrative Assistant CSWD is seeking an enthusiastic and reliable professional to provide customer service and oversee the front lobby duties including answering inquiries and providing routine information about CSWD programs. Must be able to multi-task numerous projects, process the mail, assemble Board materials, coordinate activities for the wellness program and various trainings, post, & purge material on the website, and provide general data entry.

The ideal candidate will have an associate degree in human resources or communications with two years’ experience and will possess excellent communication and time management skills. Proficient with MS Office and working with Wordpress, Hootsuite Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Competitive salary and excellent benefit package.

For more information on the position and CSWD, visit cswd. net/about-cswd/job-openings. Submit cover letter and resume to Amy Jewell, ajewell@cswd.net by 7/16/2021.

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NPI appreciates its staff, and offers a pet-friendly office, generous time off, matching 401k, family health coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts, open-book management, and profit-sharing.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE Seize the opportunity You will employ a variety of approaches to engage prospective clients that need NPI’s proven, strategic IT approach to solve the technology issues that hamper growth. Working directly with our CEO and other professionals, you will create and manage the annual marketing plan, quarterly marketing campaigns, and digital strategy. A willingness to make prospecting calls, persistence, organization, an engaging and intelligent phone manner, and excellent writing skills are all musts. A marketing degree and social media and SEO experience are highly desirable; technology knowledge/experience is not required.

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As a member of our top-flight Canopy℠ team, you will be a go-to for products and applications clients rely on every day. The team handles support requests, monitors network components, configures workstations and users, automates service delivery, reports on system health, and resolves issues. You will work in our office most days, with occasional visits to client sites. 1 year full-time IT experience required.

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STUDENT LIFE MANAGER

This position supports and is responsible for upholding a diverse, equitable, and culturally responsive environment. The Student Life Manager collaborates with students, staff, faculty, academic leaders, and administrators to develop, deliver, and assess student support services at Goddard College. This position will manage sensitive and confidential information and interact with multiple constituents within the College. This position has an office located on Goddard's campus in Plainfield, VT. When students are on campus, on campus work is expected full time. When the college does not have students present on campus this position has the flexibility to work remotely. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS INCLUDE Bachelor degree plus professional experience working with crisis response. Demonstrated cultural humility and use of cultural responsiveness in in work settings. Ability to understand the concepts and impact of institutional and structural racism and bias. Excellent interpersonal and listening skills and an ability to interact professionally with people from diverse backgrounds. Demonstrated commitment to supporting communities who have experienced systemic oppression and bias. Ability to show empathy and be nonjudgmental toward distressed individuals. Experience maintaining confidentiality. Computer literacy (primarily Google, Microsoft, Zoom platforms, and telecommunication software). Ability to document, research, analyze data, and write reports. Valid driver's license and ability to safely operate vehicles in inclement weather. This is a full time, staff union position compensated at $20.00/hour plus a generous paid leave plan and health, dental, vision, life and disability insurances.

HEALTH SERVICES COORDINATOR

The Health Services Coordinator provides services to prevent COVID 19 infection on Goddard's Plainfield, VT; Seattle, WA; Port Townsend, WA; and Tacoma, WA campuses and responds to any outbreak. Travel to all four sites and some evenings, weekend and holidays work are required. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS INCLUDE Bachelor's degree or certifications in student affairs, public health, nursing or other related field.

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INSTRUCTIONAL LAB SUPERVISORS NEEDED! Center for Technology, Essex

Our Center for Technology, Essex is seeking Lab Supervisors for a variety of their technical programs. These positions shall involve assisting the program instructors in the education of students including management of student behavior; record keeping; instructional assistance; classroom and field work/ laboratory safety, security, set-up and organization; and interaction and communication with students, support staff, parents/guardians, and other internal and external constituents.

MORTGAGE BANKER There is no better time to join NSB’s team!

Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We strive to serve our employees as well as our communities. We are seeking a professional to join our Mortgage Banking team in Chittenden County.

PRO-FOODS LAB SUPERVISOR/COORDINATOR The Professional Food Lab Supervisor/Coordinator positions shall supervise the daily operations of the Professional Foods program in cooking and dining room service labs. For more information or to apply, please visit schoolspring.com (Job ID 3561124).

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES & REQUIREMENTS • The Mortgage Banker will be responsible for originating a variety of new residential loans.

AUTO TECH LAB SUPERVISOR/MECHANIC

• The successful candidate will understand the borrower’s needs and aid our customers with their purchase from application to closing.

Are you an experienced automotive mechanic with a passion for sharing your knowledge and skills? The Auto Tech Lab Supervisor/Mechanic shall assist the instructor in teaching Automotive Mechanics to students enrolled in our fast-paced career and technical program.

The position shall also involve taking responsibility for a variety of facets of the operation of the automotive lab including but not limited to ordering, communicating with vendors and sub-contractors, and independently completing automotive repair activities, as well as leading groups of students with relative independence in automotive repair activities. For more information or to apply, please visit schoolspring.com (Job ID 3474457).

• A bachelor’s degree or two to four years of experience in a financial institution or related area is required along with registering with the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System.

OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH • NSB encourages career development and has a variety of training platforms available, including tuition reimbursement.

• Average Years of Service at Northfield Savings Bank is above 9! If you’re looking to settle down in your career, join our team!

NATURAL RESOURCES FORESTRY LAB SUPERVISOR The Natural Resources Forestry Lab Supervisor position shall assist the instructor in planning, supervising, coordinating daily operations, and teaching students enrolled in our Natural Resources Forestry program. This position shall involve performing a wide range of related trades work such as timber harvest, maple sap collection and syrup production, greenhouse and apple orchard production, and general facilities maintenance. For more information or to apply, please visit schoolspring.com (Job ID 3584708).

WHAT NSB CAN OFFER YOU • NSB offers competitive compensation; combination of base salary plus commissions.

• Benefits package including medical, dental, vision, combined time off, 10 paid holidays, a wellness program and more!

• Profit sharing opportunity and an outstanding employer-matching 401(K) retirement program.

The typical work schedule for these positions is 6.5 hours/day during student days. Positions pay $19.81 to $24.36/hour depending on previous related employment experience.

Excellent benefits package available including medical, dental, life, tuition reimbursement, a retirement plan with up to 6% employer contribution & paid leaves.

• NSB offers professional development opportunities, and a positive work environment supported by a team culture.

• Hours of operation are Monday – Friday, generally 8:00am to 5:00pm.

Minimum of 5 years of industry experience preferred. Experience working with children/ adolescents and adults especially those with special needs or at-risk of dropping out of school also preferred.

We understand the importance of having evenings and weekends with our friends, families, and our community.

Essex Westford School District vision is "Growing hearts and minds for a better today and tomorrow - every day, every way, every one." EWSD is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive environment. Successful candidates must be committed to working effectively with diverse community populations and are expected to strengthen such capacity if hired. If you are committed to the success of this position and the EWSD mission but do not meet all qualifications listed on the job description, you are still encouraged to apply.

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COMMUNITY JUSTICE DIRECTOR The City of South Burlington is looking for a dynamic, detail oriented and experienced individual to work with our Community Justice Team. This position is responsible for overseeing all programs and operations of the South Burlington Community Justice Center (CJC), which is a department of the South Burlington Police Department.

This includes supervision, financial management, grant management and new program development as well as promoting the use of restorative principles. The City of South Burlington is an equal opportunity employer. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), immigrants, women, and LGBTQ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For further information and job description please use our website: southburlingtonvt.gov. To apply, please send cover letter and resume and references to Jaimie Held, Human Resource Manager at jheld@sburl.com.

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Retail Store Manager We are looking for an experienced retail manager to oversee daily operations of our store.

Ideal candidates will be knowledgeable about retail sales strategies, marketing, fiber arts industry, and be a strong communicator.

Please send cover letter describing qualifications, resume, and references to jen@mustloveyarn.com.

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CENTER COOK / MAINTENANCE BURLINGTON & ST. ALBANS

Head Start is a federally-funded, national child and family development program which provides comprehensive services for pregnant women, children from birth to age five, and their families. Services for children promote school readiness, and include early education, health, nutrition, mental health, and services for children with special needs. Services for parents promote family engagement, and include parent leadership and social service supports.

As Center Cook / Maintenance, you will work in an outcomes-oriented, team environment, and will prepare and serve high quality meals and be an integral part of cleaning the center to meet state, federal, and program requirements.

REQUIREMENTS: High school diploma; 1–3 years related experience, or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills are acquired; ServSafe certified or certification

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must be obtained within sixty calendar days of hire; knowledge of nutritional requirements and nutritional content of food; basic knowledge of cleaning and maintenance supplies and required usage as needed; a commitment to social justice and to working with families with limited financial resources; effective verbal and written communication (bilingual abilities a plus!), documentation, and record-keeping skills; valid driver’s license, clean driving record and access to reliable transportation; physical ability to carry out required tasks, and a can-do, extra-mile attitude.

Join the team at Gardener’s Supply Company!

We are a 100% employee-owned company and an award winning and nationally recognized socially responsible business. We work hard AND offer a fun place to work including BBQs, staff parties, employee garden plots and much more! We also offer strong cultural values, competitive wages and outstanding benefits!

Distribution Center Director

Burlington: 25 hours/week, full year

This individual will be responsible for efficiently running all parts of our Distribution Center(s) while hitting service level goals. This person will create a strong employee culture and implement best practices through systems, processes and employee involvement. Our ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in ERP functionality, Warehouse Management Systems, payroll processing and MS Office Suite; 3-5 years of Direct/Ecommerce business distribution experience in a $75+ million company; and excellent problem-solving and management skills equivalent to those usually acquired in achieving a bachelor’s level of study with 10 years of warehousing experience preferably in the Direct/Ecommerce/Retail environment.

St. Albans: 30 hours/week, full year.

Starting wage upon completion of 60working day period: $19.63/hour.

Health plan and excellent benefits.

Please submit cover letter, resume, and three work references to: hdstjobs@cvoeo.org. No phone calls, please.

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

Interested? Please go to our careers page at www.gardeners.com/careers and apply online!

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We’re hiring! Senior Activity Center Director

MANDARIN We’re seeking to hire servers and bartenders to join our hardworking and energetic team. If you’re interested in the opportunity, drop off a resume in person, or email to:

EDUCATORS We are seeking experienced educators full of character and drive. Team members will contribute to an educational model with the goal of producing responsible and driven individuals.

For more information, please visit: greenmountaincommunityschool. org/home-2/current-opportunities

The City of Montpelier seeks a dynamic Director for the Montpelier Senior Activity Center (MSAC), to lead a progressive, dedicated multipurpose Senior Center Department (www.montpelier-vt.org/msac).

MSAC operates as a destination for Central VT’s aging population, offering classes, socialization, nutrition, wellness opportunities, etc.

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We’re hiring a Human Resources Office Administrative Coordinator to join our team of rockstars to work at the school district's HR Office located in Burlington, Vermont. This might be the outstanding opportunity you’re looking for if you: • Have previous experience, or looking to get experience in the HR field.

We are hiring a

Full Time Beer & Wine Buyer, Department Head

• Enjoy talking with people & being the "face" of a district, engaging with new employees & existing staff.

We continue to grow by leaps and bounds and need another department manager. Our ideal candidate will be an experienced grocery buyer with extensive craft beer industry knowledge and who has the desire to dig in and become an integral part of our 20 year old co-op’s, 30 employee team.

Duties will also include purchasing and management of our prepared foods for the Grab n’Go deli case, and pet food and care. This manager will do most of the shelf stocking for their department, which means that they will be physically able to consistently lift 50 pounds.

We are a fun and vibrant place to work! Located on the green, right in the historic village of lovely South Royalton, we are a member owned, full service grocery store that specializes in offering local, healthy and often organic foods which we are proud to carry in every department.

• Have excellent organizational and communication skills, written and verbal.

• Pride in maintaining files & records and enjoy compliance with recordkeeping regulations & best practices.

• Have an exceptional ability to multi-task and a willingness to participate in multiple assignments.

• Proficient with computer systems.

Candidates, please email resumes to our general manager Adam Smith at soromarket@gmail.com. We can’t wait to meet our new department head!

Benefits include paid vacations, paid holidays, paid sick and personal days, paid HR membership and related dues, and professional development. Plus access to group health insurance benefits for single, 2-person, family, or domestic partner coverage with generous district-paid support towards your annual out-of-pocket deductible, district-paid life insurance, and a lot of cakeable celebrations and events with an awesome team!

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The Burlington School District recognizes the need and importance of diverse hires. We celebrate that diversity is a key component of our overall strategic plan for all school locations and business units' cultures.

Come and join the journey to support our mission!

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Bread Loaf Corporation, Vermont’s integrated company of architects, planners, and builders, is seeking to fill the following positions:

Estimator

We’re seeking a new member for our Estimating Department. He or she must be a self-starter who is motivated by challenge and change. The candidate shall be detail-oriented and able to work on multiple tasks while meeting project deadlines.

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering OR a construction-related degree with 5+ years of Estimating/Construction experience is preferred • Proficiency in MC2 ICE, OST, PlanSwift, and Excel is desirable

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Bread Corporation, Vermont’s integratedintegrated company ofcompany architects, planners, BreadLoaf Loaf Corporation, Vermont’s of architects, plann and builders, is seeking a Project Manager.

Our Project Managers are key and builders, is seeking a Project Manager. Our Project Managers are key members of our integrated project management teams – providing support members of our integrated project management teams – providing support through design and taking the lead through construction. Ideal candidates through and taking the leadscheduling, through construction.

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Designers are critical members of our Architecture department. We seek people with strong design portfolios, excellent communication skills and the ability to think on their feet and solve problems. We want people who enjoy working in a team environment and are interested in a design/build approach. You will develop proposals, answer RFQs, create project designs and documents, technical solutions, drawings and specifications. Ideal candidates will have: • A professional degree from an accredited school of architecture • 3+ years of experience doing commercial, industrial and institutional work • Proficiency in Revit, InDesign, Enscape, Photoshop and Illustrator

A Bachelor’s in engineering and have aDegree customer service orfocus as well. construction related field and at least ten years A construction Bachelor’smanagement Degree in experience engineering of are or preferred.

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Interested candidates may send their resume and experience to resumes@breadloaf.com.

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BUSINESS APPLICATION AND AUDIT SUPPOR T SPECIALIS T - WATERBURY We are currently seeking an Internal Auditor to contribute to the fulfillment of the Team’s mission in promoting efficient and effective operations across the Agency. An ideal candidate will be a “people person” coupled with strong skills in business process analytics, root cause and risk analysis. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this position will work remotely from home.

However, it is expected a combination of remote and in-person office work will begin in 2021. For more information, contact Peter Moino at peter.moino@vermont.gov. Department: Human Services Agency. Status: Full Time. Location: Waterbury. Job ID #17103. Application Deadline: July 6, 2021.

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For more information, contact Sheila Duranleau at sheila.duranleau@vermont.gov. Department: Children & Family Services. Status: Full Time. Location Waterbury. Job ID #17521. Application Deadline: July 5, 2021.

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PUBLIC GUARDIAN – RUTLAND The Office of Public Guardian seeks an independent, enthusiastic and organized person to protect and monitor the legal and human rights of individuals under court-ordered guardianship. The position is designated as home based and covers a caseload of individuals with developmental disabilities or agerelated cognitive impairments in Addison, Bennington and Rutland counties who require assistance and judgment for critical decision making in several life domains. For more information, contact Dave Ramos at 802.786.5042 or dave.ramos@vermont.gov. Department: Disabilities Aging & Independent Living. Status: Full Time. Location: Home Based. Job ID #18061. Application Deadline: July 5, 2021.

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PUBLIC GUARDIAN – HOME BASED The Office of Public Guardian seeks an independent, enthusiastic and organized person to protect and monitor the legal and human rights of individuals under court-ordered guardianship. This position can also be located at the St. Albans or Burlington OPG regional office. It covers a caseload of individuals with developmental disabilities or age-related cognitive impairments in Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle counties who require assistance and judgment for critical decision making. For more information, contact Heather Allin at 802.865.7721 or heather.allin@vermont.gov. Department: Disabilities Aging & Independent Living. Location Home Based. Status Full Time, Interim. Job ID #18081. Application Deadline: July 6, 2021.

VOCREHAB COUNSELOR I & II – BURLINGTON VocRehab is recruiting for a skilled rehabilitation/career counselor with an ability to support high school students and young adults with physical, psychological or cognitive disabilities. The VR counselor would assist individuals in preparing for employment through surveying their interest and skills and facilitate career exploratory activities and work experiences. The position involves a close working relationship with local area high schools. Candidates must possess a master’s degree. Please Note: This position is being recruited at multiple levels. If you would like to be considered for more than one level, you MUST apply to the specific Job Requisition. For more information. Contact Cindy Seguin at cindy.seguin@vermont.gov or 802-595-1112. Department: Disabilities Aging & Independent Living. Location Burlington. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 17904 or 18281. Application Deadline: July 6, 2021.

ADMINIS TRATIVE SERVICES MAN AGER III – MONTPELIER The State of Vermont is seeking an Administrative Services Manager to join the Cannabis Control Board. The Board is newly created to equitably and effectively implement and administer the laws and rules regulating adult-use cannabis in Vermont to ensure the safety of all Vermonters and the health of our youth. The Administrative Services Manager will assist the Board in creating procedures and systems to carry out the duties of the Board. For more information, contact James Pepper at james. pepper@vermont.gov. Department: Cannabis Control Board. Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier. Job ID #18142. Application Deadline: July 13, 2021.

SUBS TANCE ABUSE PROGRAM EVALUATOR – BURLINGTON Come help the Health Department determine the effectiveness of our substance use prevention and treatment services! We are seeking a Program Evaluator to design and complete program evaluations and to share that information through reports and data dashboards. This important work supports existing, and informs future, programming. The evaluator must be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and should have evaluation and data analysis experience. For more information, contact Anne VanDonsel at anne.vandonsel@vermont.gov. Department: Health. Location: Burlington. Status: Full Time, Limited Service. Job ID #17021. Application Deadline: July 5, 2021.

H E A LT H S E R V I C E S F I E L D O P E R A T I O N S C H I E F – B U R L I N G T O N Seeking an innovative public health professional to work across the public health spectrum.

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For more information, contact Allison Reagan at Allison.reagan@vermont.gov. Department: Health.

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so I can be sure to stick to my same deceitful story when the subject comes up later. What about you, Taurus? For your peace of mind, do you prefer to rely on dishonesty or honesty?

I’m hoping that for the next four weeks, you will favor the latter. Cultivating judicious candor will heal you and boost your intelligence.

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CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22):

Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said that when our rational minds are working at their best, they inspire us to cultivate our most interesting and enlivening passions. They also de-emphasize and suppress any energy-draining passions that might have a hold on us.

I’m hoping you will take full advantage of this in the coming weeks, Cancerian. You will generate good fortune and sweet breakthroughs as you highlight desires that uplift you and downgrade desires that diminish you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Columnist Linda Weltner says that there’s a dual purpose to cleaning your home, rearranging the furniture, adding new art to the walls and doting on your potted plants. Taking good care of your environment is a primary way of taking good care of yourself. She writes: “The home upon which we have lavished so much attention is the embodiment of our own self love.” I invite you to make that your inspirational meditation for the next two weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time,” said author Amy Hempel. Hmm. I’m the opposite.

To cultivate peace of mind, I try to speak and live the truth as much as I can. Lying makes me nervous. It also seems to make me dumber. It forces me to keep close track of my fibs

(May 21-June 20): In her essay about education, “Don’t Overthink It,” philosopher Agnes Callard reminds us, “No matter how much we increase our investment at the front end—perfecting our minds with thinking classes, long ruminations, novel-reading, and moral algebra—we cannot spare ourselves the agony of learning by doing.” That will be a key theme for you in the next four weeks, dear Gemini. You will need to make abundant use of empiricism: pursuing knowledge through direct experience, using your powers of observation and a willingness to experiment.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): Leo author Wendell Berry suggests, “It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.” Although there’s wisdom in that formulation, I don’t think it’s true a majority of the time. Far more often we are fed by the strong, clear intuitions that emerge from our secret depths — from the sacred gut feelings that give us accurate guidance about what to do and where to go. But I do suspect that right now may be one of those phases when Berry’s notion is true for you, Leo. What do you think?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1750, more than

250 years after Columbus first visited the New World, Native Americans were still a majority of the continent’s population. But between 1776 and now, the United States government stole 1.5 billion acres of land from its original owners — 25 times the size of the United Kingdom.

Here’s another sad fact: Between 1778 and 1871, America’s federal administrations signed more than 500 treaties with indigenous tribes — and broke every one of them. The possibility that these sins will eventually be remedied is very small. I bring them up only to serve as possible metaphors for your personal life. Is

there anything you have unfairly gained from others? Is there anything others have unfairly gained from you? The next six months will be prime time to seek atonement and correction.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh advises you and me and everyone else to “seek the spiritual in every ordinary thing that you do every day.” You have to work at it a bit, he says; you must have it as your firm intention. But it’s not really hard to do. “Sweeping the floor, watering the vegetables, and washing the dishes become holy and sacred if mindfulness is there,” he adds. I think you Libras will have a special knack for this fun activity in the coming weeks. (Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a series of “Mindfulness Essentials” books that includes How to Eat, How to Walk, How to Relax and How to Connect. I invite you to come up with your own such instructions.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My unexpected interpretation of the current astrological omens suggests that you will be wise to go naked as much as possible in the coming weeks.

Being skyclad, as the pagans say, will be healing for you. You will awaken dormant feelings that will help you see the world with enhanced understanding. The love that you experience for yourself will soften one of your hard edges and increase your appreciation for all the magic that your life is blessed with. One important caveat: Of course, don’t impose your nakedness on anyone who doesn’t want to witness it.

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alyzed the best-selling songs as measured by Billboard magazine, you’d think we were in the midst of a dangerous decline in population. The vast majority of those popular tunes feature lyrics with reproductive themes. It’s as if there’s some abject fear that humans aren’t going to make enough babies and need to be constantly cajoled and incited to engage in love-making. But I don’t think you Sagittarians, whatever your sexual preference, will need any of that nagging in the coming days. Your Eros Quotient should be higher than it has been in a while.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donna Tartt, born under

the sign of Capricorn, writes, “Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.” In my view, that’s an unwarranted generalization. It may sometimes be true but often is not. Genuine beauty may also be elegant, lyrical, inspiring, healing and ennobling. Having said that, I will speculate that the beauty you encounter in the near future may indeed be disruptive or jolting, but mostly because it has the potential to remind you of what you’re missing — and motivate you to go after what you’ve been missing.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): On July 21, 1969, Aquarian astronaut Buzz Aldrin was the second human to walk on the moon. It happened during a spectacular astrological aspect, when transiting Jupiter and Uranus in Libra were trine to Aldrin’s natal Sun in Aquarius. But after this heroic event, following his return to earth, he found it hard to get his bearings again. He took a job as a car salesman but had no talent for it. In six months, he didn’t sell a single car. Later, however, he found satisfaction as an advocate for space exploration, and he developed technology to make future trips to Mars more efficient. I hope that if you are now involved in any activity that resembles Aldrin’s stint as a car salesman — that is, a task you’re not skilled at and don’t like — you will spend the coming weeks making plans to escape to more engaging pursuits.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Astronomers say the Big Bang birthed the universe 13.8 billion years ago. But a star 190 light years away from Earth contradicts that theory. Its age seems to be 14.5 billion years, older than the universe itself. Its scientific name is HD 140283, but it’s informally referred to as Methuselah, named after the Biblical character who lived till age 969. Sometimes, like now, you remind me of that star. You seem to be an impossibly old soul — like you’ve been around so many thousands of lifetimes that you, too, predate the Big Bang. But guess what: It’s time to take a break from that aspect of your destiny. In the next two weeks, you have cosmic permission to explore the mysteries of playful innocence. Be young and blithe and curious. Treasure your inner child.

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MAPLEFIELD’S IN PLAINFIELD I was walking out. You were walking in. You were wearing a Harley T-shirt, and you had two dogs in your truck. When: Friday, June 25, 2021. Where: Maplefields, Plainfield.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915322 BANANARAMA! Not a day goes by that you’re not in my thoughts and dreams. Forever my heart belongs to you. Scoots. When: Thursday, June 24, 2021. Where: Plainfield.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915320 LOOKING FOR THAT ‘BRUNCH MAN’ Your sense of humor, your intelligence and your smile struck a chord within.

Am looking to connect with someone who is open-minded, family oriented (my son is grown), and willing to take a chance or at least see if that opportunity is there. Standup comedian is impressive. When: Sunday, June 20, 2021. Where: online singles ad.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915319 ZERO GRAVITY 6/13 Brooklyn Circle show. You: woman, light reddish hair parted in the middle, glasses, crop top, skirt, sandals. Me: man in black BLM T-shirt. You were “hovering.” We spoke briefly, then I had to take my dog out. It took an awfully long time, and you left.

Want to continue the conversation? When: Sunday, June 13, 2021. Where: Zero Gravity. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915318 COSTCO PARKING LOT We briefly met. You have an amazing tattoo on your upper right arm. I’m a visual artist and commented on it. I told you where my work is in a gallery and invited you to see it. I think your name is Meg. It was nice meeting you.

Maybe we can meet for coffee, tea or fruit juice. When: Monday, June 21, 2021. Where: Costco checkout/parking lot. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915316

BIKE PATH SURPRISE 11:30 a.m. Single bikers. You: northbound; me: south. Between North Beach and overpass. Great day with early causeway ride and ferry/island exploration. Surprisingly got better! Your eyes and smile flashed with our “heys.”

Eye-to-eye contact longer than usual for bikers. You: in black T-shirt with white lettering. Left me breathless! Ride together someday and explore what else we have in common? When: Sunday, June 20, 2021. Where: Burlington bike path. You: Man. Me: Man. #915317 RE: MISSED OUT I do still read them — looking for signs of you. If you want to connect again, you know how to contact me. When: Monday, June 21, 2021. Where: in my dreams. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915315 BLAHBLAHBLAH Quiet Canadian with hot dimples dressed in black. Want to be my boyfriend? When: Sunday, April 18, 2021. Where: Old North End. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915314 MISSED OUT I wonder if you still read these to see if you’ve been spied. I picked up the habit from you. I was hoping for another chance to kiss you again. And again.

But I guess I’m bad at timing. When: Sunday, June 6, 2021. Where: Burger Night. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915313 LUCKY NUMBER(S)?

Attractive blonde at O’Brien’s store in Williston, 4 p.m. on 6/16. I “cut” you in line while purchasing lotto tickets to cope with the Monday blues. I said I would share, but I never got your number. Thanks for the smile! When: Monday, June 14, 2021. Where: Williston. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915312

Ask REVEREND the

Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

Dear Reverend,

My boyfriend and I have been together for about two years. A couple weeks ago, while we were having sex, he pulled out a dildo and asked me to use it on him. I’m pretty much up for anything, but I’ve never done that before and I was a little taken aback. I didn’t know what to do with it, so I just kind of giggled and brushed it aside. He hasn’t mentioned it since, and I don’t know if I should bring it up or not.

Fanny Tastic (FEMALE, 32)

HANDSOME PA IN THE ER You ordered a chest X-ray for my son.

I was a concerned mom and a nurse experiencing health care from the other side for once. Thank you for your calm and quiet confidence. Your arresting good looks were obvious even behind your mask, and your sexy voice was a pleasure to hear.

When: Monday, June 14, 2021. Where: Berlin. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915311 RAPID BLUE C8 CORVETTE Driving downtown Wednesday night at Discover Jazz. You came up Church in your C8 ‘Vette. I turned north on Church from King. You followed me to Main and South Winooski, turned north on South Winooski. I was in the 427 C6 convertible, white with silver stripes.

Would love to swap rides for test-drive.

Cars & Coffee, U-Mall, Saturday 6/19.

You: fast Me: faster. When: Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Where: Church and King streets. You: Couple. Me: Man. #915310 COMPLIMENTS TO DARK MYSTERIOUS WOMAN Saw you dancing among the crowd in your borrowed black hat with flowers and skull, and I came over after the first set, complimenting your attire. I regrettably did not give you my number and would love the opportunity to talk music with you or dance with you at the next Bella’s Bartok show in Vermont. When: Saturday, June 12, 2021. Where: Backside 405.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915309 HANDSOME MAN AT SHAW’S We locked eyes, and I felt an instant attraction. You: in the checkout line. Me: just passing through the aisle. We spoke a few words outside while returning your cart. I was shy and wanted to say more.

I hope to see you again. When: Monday, June 14, 2021. Where: Shaw’s, Waterbury.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915308 GOT YOU IN MY BED Finally got you in my bed, and you were amazing! I hope I don’t have to wait so long until you are there again ... iwumtaitw!

When: Sunday, June 6, 2021. Where: my bed. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915307 JAZZ FEST REDHEADED ASIAN LADY Saw you with your two friends when we were both leaving. You look sooo fine.

Pretty sure you noticed me noticing you. Let me know if you see this. When: Sunday, June 13, 2021. Where: Burlington.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915306

Dear Fanny Tastic,

It’s great to have a sexually adventurous partner who wants to try new things. However, having a new thing sprung on you in the middle of the action can be super awkward.

It’s OK that you didn’t know what to do at the time, but you absolutely should bring it up, and the sooner the better. He needs to know that your reaction was due

NORTH BEACH You had an orange bikini with a blue bottom and glasses. Really liked what I saw and couldn’t stop checking you out.

You seemed to appreciate my attention but weren’t alone. Let’s get together alone and appreciate each other. When: Sunday, June 13, 2021. Where: North Beach. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915305

POST-COVID KARAOKE AT JP’S You had a cool back tattoo and originated from South America. I had the dragon on my left arm and was wearing a colorful long dress. You’d never been to Costa Rica, so I showed you pics from my April vacation.

Karaoke was so fun — hope to see you there again, or downtown, or wherever!

When: Saturday, June 5, 2021. Where: JP’s, downtown Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #915299

CUTE BOY AT SHELBURNE BEACH Hi. I saw your ad in the paper. I’m the cute blonde. I believe you were the tall, black-haired man sitting on the bench observing the world around you.

You seemed inquisitive. Thoughtful.

Mysterious. Come find me again on a nice summer evening. It’s almost guaranteed I’ll be there again soon. When: Tuesday, June 1, 2021. Where: Shelburne Beach.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915304 HANDSOME AT HANNAFORD I’m not one to be very shy, but your good looks stopped me in my tracks. We were in the baking aisle, and I said “Excuse me” as I walked by. Wish I had said hello! Your tan complexion and strong demeanor were very attractive. Hopefully I’ll run into you again, so keep shopping at Hannaford in South Barre. :) When: Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Where: Hannaford, South Barre.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915303 SPRING ROLLS AT...

We were in line together for takeout.

You were very cute and talkative. Want to continue the conversation? Mention something we talked about. When: Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Where: Pho Hong. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915302

ETHAN ALLEN PARK TRAILS BIKER 9:30 a.m. You were riding a bike with a bright light, helmet-free, long dark hair blowing behind you. Your smile was even brighter than your light. I was a blonde with my hair pulled back in a ponytail, walking the trail. We said good morning. Your energy is strong. I would love to meet you. When: Sunday, June 6, 2021. Where: riding the bike path that’s near Ethan Allen Park parking lot. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915298 CUTE BLONDE AT SHELBURNE BEACH You were standing down by the fence looking over the water. I was sitting up on a bench. You had lovely dark blond hair and a sweet face. I tried not to stare. I imagined you turning your head and smiling at me, but you simply went back to your car and left. Hopefully we meet again. You’re beautiful. When: Tuesday, June 1, 2021. Where: Shelburne Beach.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915297 MUSTACHE MAN Seen by riverside. Arrived by Guzzi.

Sexy legs and Moz tee. Me: with dogs and Volvo. To me, you are a work of art. I would give you my heart, if I had one. Maybe next time we can make eye contact. VG? When: Monday, May 24, 2021. Where: Strangeways Sound Lounge. You: Man. Me: Gender non-conformist. #915296

BURTON ISLAND HAND SHAKE P, your delightful demeanor and appreciation of dogs warmed our hearts.

Glad that the first handshake I shared with someone in well over a year was with you. C, let me know you departed happily on the ferry. Cheers to more balmy, sunny days ahead! A, Pippa and Bandit. When: Friday, June 4, 2021. Where: Burton Island. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915301

VISIONS OF YOU Summertime and the wind is blowing outside in lower Chelsea, and I don’t know what I’m doing in this city / The sun is always in my eyes / It crashes through the windows, and I’m sleeping on the couch when I came to visit you / That’s when I knew. When: Wednesday, June 12, 2019. Where: through time and space. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915295

WINOOSKI RIVER MERMAID I was on my paddleboard. You told me where I could easily exit the river, then asked how my paddle was. As I left the area, you were sauntering through a field picking flowers. Care to spend another afternoon by the river? When: Monday, June 7, 2021. Where: Jonesville Bridge.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915300

to inexperience, not you being freaked out. A casual conversation about it would be fine, but since he surprised you first, it could be fun to surprise him by being fully ready to fulfill his dildo dreams.

Boner-up by doing some research online. There’s plenty of information out there about first-time ass play. A few key points to remember: The anus does a lot of things, but it doesn’t lubricate itself, so make sure you have plenty of lube on hand. Start off gentle and slow. Take your cues from his reactions, and go from there.

Good luck and God bless,

The Reverend What’s your problem?

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Male, 55, seeking woman to cocreate a beautiful life/family close to the Earth on the land with plants, animals and wildlife.

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