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pioid manufacturers and distributors purchased 119,480,773 doses of oxycodone and hydrocodone in Vermont during the seven-year period that ended in 2012. That works out to be 191 pills for every man, woman and child in the Green Mountain State.

The figures come from a database released last week by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration detailing prescription opioid purchases from 2006 through 2012. The data set offers an unprecedented view of the pharmaceutical industry’s business dealings in relation to the opioid crisis.

Vermont purchases of oxycodone, aka OxyContin, and hydrocodone peaked in 2011 at 18.2 million pills. That same year, medical providers wrote 502,566 prescriptions for opioids in a state with a population of just under 627,000.

The DEA released the data set, which contains hundreds of millions of opioid transactions, as a result of a lawsuit filed by the Washington Post and the Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia.

Last Thursday, the Post published raw data detailing 380 million oxycodone and hydrocodone transactions.

The Post did not include data on 10 other prescribed opioids distributed in smaller amounts that were considered less likely to be diverted for abuse.

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The data shed light on the market during a critical point in the opioid crisis. In 2006, OxyContin and other prescription opioids surpassed illicit heroin as the drug for which most people sought treatment for addiction, according to the Vermont Department of Health. Nationally, the number of opioid prescriptions peaked in 2012, when doctors wrote the equivalent of 81.3 prescriptions for every 100 U.S. residents.

The top distributor of opioid pills in the state between 2006 and 2012 was McKesson Corporation. The San Franciscobased pharmaceutical distributor sold just over 40 million pills to Vermont-based buyers during that time — nearly twice as many as the next largest distributor, Cardinal Health.

The top manufacturer of those pills was SpecGx, a subsidiary of UK pharma giant Mallinckrodt, which manufactured nearly 49 million of the pills Vermont-based companies purchased. Though Purdue Pharma has been the focus of many of the headlines — and lawsuits — over its role in the opioid crisis, it supplied just 5.1 percent of the oxycodone and hydrocodone pills tallied in the database.

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The Rutland-area NAACP held an event called How to Talk to Your Racist Neighbor.

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Several Addison County towns near Otter Creek have been overrun with northern leopard frogs.

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A 2017 data breach exposed the data of millions in the U.S., including an estimated 250,000 Vermonters.

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Vermont endeavor billed as the nation’s first sustainability park is proving difficult to maintain. The GreenSpark Sustainability Park, which opened in a field along Route 100 in Waterbury Center in late 2017, is struggling to convince people to pay $12 to visit its quirky collection of green technologies.

The park had fewer than 100 visitors last year, its first full year of operation, and has yet to open for the 2019 season.

Cofounder Alex Chernomazov still believes in his vision for an interactive outdoor museum showcasing ways to reduce energy consumption. The network engineer admits

the attraction, which includes a wood-powered car and a sail-powered tricycle, hasn’t exactly caught fire.

During a recent visit to the park, weeds covered the gravel parking lot and paths between the shipping containers in which the exhibits are stored.

Chernomazov said interest hasn’t been strong enough to justify staffing it full time, suggesting the park may still be so new that word has yet to spread.

“It could just be a matter of inertia,” Chernomazov said. It’s also possible that green technologies such as electric cars, solar water heaters and geothermal cooling are becoming so commonplace that people aren’t willing to pay to see them.

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issue, noting that many parts of the country have yet to embrace green technologies.

He and his wife, former Cabot science teacher Ella Malamud, plan to try operating the park on an appointment-only basis. Many of last year’s visitors were out-of-staters who had arranged their visits to the park after spotting it online, so Chernomazov’s hopeful that the on-demand model will work.

If not, he and Malamud might need to either find volunteers to help out or another organization with which to partner, he said.

The success of the venture was never going to be measured in huge profits, he noted: “It’s never been about becoming a second Google, obviously.”

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[Re Feedback: “The Good Fighter Plane,” July 17; “Sound and Fury,” June 12]: Susan Manley’s response to Anya Hunter states that Hunter’s letter opposing the F-35s is a “classic example of NIMBY privilege.” She goes on to own that we (white people) have a history of “siting things we don’t like in poor black communities” and that “polluters and pollution are disproportionately located in communities of color.” Her letter infers that it is now Burlington’s turn to have something undesirable placed in its backyard.

I guess Manly did not take into consideration that one of the locations that will endure the worst of the F-35s’ effects is Winooski, the most diverse city in the state of Vermont — and also one of the poorest. Once again, the practice of environmental racism is taking place, and it is in my backyard.

Unfortunately, and in spite of the efforts of many people who worked tirelessly to oppose this basing of the F-35s, history is repeating itself in a way that forces those folks who are most marginalized to bear the biggest cost. I am deeply disappointed in Sens. Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Rep. Peter Welch, who supported this plan.

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Preserving the Abenaki language, highlighted in the Cartoon Issue [“Proud Pictures,” July 3], and the following week’s story on the continuing harassment of migrant workers [“Plastic or Papers?” July 10] are closely related.

Vermont’s most vibrant Native American communities are on farms, where Native Americans born and raised in intact native communities continue to speak indigenous languages. We erroneously label migrants “Latino” or “Hispanic” when in many cases they speak Spanish as a second language, if at all, and have absolutely no Spanish ancestry. While there are millions of white Hispanics in Latin America, they are not the people crossing deserts for better lives. Almost every “Latin American” migrant is a Native American or descended from Native Americans.

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has become a full-blown terrorist organization, funded partly by Russia. The NRA today exists purely to trick hayseeds into buying military-grade weapons that no civilian should own, and they’ll laugh all the way to the bank when the feds have to buy them back. That is what happened; that is the change in context.

Vermont is a special case when it comes to firearm ownership. It would be interesting to know how many eighth-generation Vermonters — those who still farm and are as skilled with Great-Grandma’s scythe as they are with Great-Grandpa’s shotgun and hunting rifle — ever bothered to join the National Redneck Association. My guess is that they would find it unnecessary.

So the answer is that Bernie cares deeply for all Vermonters and all Americans, even those too incurious to wonder what practices more advanced democracies employ to maintain peace, order and stability in their nations.

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Church never sought to exterminate Native Americans. The same cannot be said of Protestants in New England and in what became the U.S. The Abenaki were virtually exterminated, and survivors fled to the Saint Francis Mission in Québec, further enraging New England Protestants, who hated Catholics as much as they hated Native Americans. Afterward, the Abenaki were derisively called “Saint Francis Indians.”

Trump’s concentration camps — filled almost entirely with Native American Catholics — look like an effort to finish the job of ethnic cleansing. Trump’s white, Protestant, evangelical base is happy to enable evil because, in their view, good works are unnecessary for salvation.

However they justify it, it is impossible to imagine evangelicals putting white Protestant children in cages.

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Message: “Burlington Residents React to Latest City Hall Park Redesign,” August 14, 2017]. It is very frustrating to think that because I don’t pick up a paper copy — and waste valuable resources — I lose out on the news. Thanks for listening. Your paper is a great resource, and I enjoy reading it.

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Editor’s note: The image in the online-only blog post referenced was a city-provided architectural plan.

We have since updated that post with a link to greatstreetsbtv.com/ city-hall-park, which has the latest City Hall Park plan for download.

THE GUN QUESTION

In “Stickin’ to His Guns?” [June 26] reporter Paul Heintz stumbles across the answer to his question when he quotes Jeff Weaver on Sen. Bernie Sanders: “The principles that he’s operating on have been consistent. The context has changed.”

What are those principles, and how has the context changed? Bernie’s principles are enduring and obvious: He wants U.S. citizens to enjoy the same rights and freedoms that citizens in first-world nations do.

How has the context changed?

First, in 1970, the U.S. population was 203,000,000; today it is 329,000,000.

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Nice cartoon by Tim Newcomb [Newcomb: “Ariel Quiros Wants His Mega-Fraud Case Moved Out of State,” July 17]. But it looks like Burlington will have its own “hole” downtown, thanks to Brookfield Asset Management/Don Sinex, and almost for the same reasons, too: lack of financing — Newport’s from alleged fraud and Burlington’s from hype and bluster. Wasn’t Burlington’s mayor once a developer himself? Good thing Burlington was smart enough to require a performance bond just in case this sort of thing happened so the property wouldn’t just sit idle like Newport, right? Has anyone looked into this bond from the press or city council? There is a contingency plan, right, Mr. Mayor? Hello?

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With over 6 million acres in which to play, New York’s Adirondack Park offers many ways to spend your free time. That is, unless you’re hiker ADAM VALASTRO, whose sole goal is to scale the park’s 46 highest mountains in record time. PARKING IS SCARCE IN THE HIGH PEAKS, so ditch the car and take a ride on the WARREN COUNTY BIKEWAY. Leave your worries, and your phone, behind at rustic TIMBERLOCK, one of the oldest summer resorts in the ADKs. Swoon to world-class opera at SEAGLE MUSIC COLONY, or rock out at the WATERHOLE in Saranac Lake. Hungry? Share slices with new friends at DOGWOOD BREAD’s weekly pizza nights. And when night falls, take a moment to look up and GAZE AT THE STARS in one of the darkest places in the country.

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Past Meets Present Vermonters dig deep into the Granite City’s rich history during the Barre Heritage Festival and Homecoming Days. From quarry tours to historic games to a mile-long parade, a wide range of activities celebrates the beauty and background of Washington County’s most populous city. Be sure to catch the quirky North Main Street bathtub race on Saturday!

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Smart Art “There is no black in a rainbow,” reads a cross-stitch sampler by socially engaged artist Mildred Beltré.

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With the Band For Seven Days’ Adirondack Issue, music editor Jordan Adams got to know the Waterhole, a longstanding Saranac Lake, N.Y., rock club. Care to see the space for yourself? Upcoming acts include retro funk and rock outfit the Jaden Carlson Band of Boulder, Colo., and Boston’s Spiritual Rez, known for their danceable, horn-driven reggae.

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utdoors enthusiasts preparing to hike through old hemlock forest at Giant Mountain or dip their toes in the crystal waters of Chapel Pond have a new sight to contemplate along this stretch of Route 73 in the Adirondack High Peaks region: “No Parking” signs.

They are posted every 200 feet along a four-mile stretch from Keene Valley to St. Huberts. The narrow, winding state highway leads to some of the best hiking trails, rock climbing and rugged wilderness views in the region.

It might be too beautiful, though.

This section of the vast, 6.1 million-acre Adirondack Park has become uncomfortably crowded on summer and autumn weekends. The new signs were erected this summer after several years of other restrictions, some temporary, designed to address the conundrum of too many cars and people.

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Small trailhead lots often fill by 9 a.m. on weekends, and the limited public shuttle service in the region does not run on most of Route 73. State and town officials say overflow parking along the highway was creating a hazard, with selfie-snapping tourists and hikers wandering into highspeed traffic. On the trails, erosion and the trampling of fragile alpine plants are symptoms of overuse, conservationists say.

The new restrictions mean spots along Route 73 that accommodated several hundred vehicles outside of trailhead lots are now off-limits. New York Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers and police officers have issued approximately 90 tickets since early June along Route 73, according to DEC public information officer Ben DeLaMater.

Fines vary but can top $250. Midweek the crowds, and many of the problems, evaporate.

But the restrictions are a big problem on the weekend, according to Lola Porter, who ran the popular Noon Mark Diner in Keene Valley for more than three decades and sold it to a new owner last week. Business has dropped about 15 percent this summer due to the parking restrictions, and many weekend hikers have complained, Porter said. She shared her views at the diner on July 17, the day the sale closed, while patrons wolfed down raspberry pie and grilled cheese sandwiches.

The DEC announced the expanded restrictions on May 28. They eliminate 45 formerly legal spots and apply to many more where people often parked illegally but were rarely ticketed. “They just all of a sudden implemented it and, boom, they are handing out tickets left and right,” Porter said. It’s the PEAK PARKING

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The developer of one of the most ambitious building plans in Burlington history confirmed last Friday that the project may be a bit too ambitious.

Brookfield Asset Management, majority owner of CityPlace Burlington, released a statement confirming the obvious: The 14-story downtown project is on hold.

Brookfield also said that the “scope, scale, and the timing” of construction may change.

The delay is the latest setback for a polarizing project that aims to transform the ailing Burlington Town Center mall property into a vibrant mixture of downtown housing, office and retail space.

First approved in 2016, the project has had repeated delays that have strained relations between the developers and city leaders and frayed nerves of downtown residents and business owners alike.

Brookfield’s statement cited only ongoing litigation and “the complexities of the project and associated cost considerations.”

Mayor Miro Weinberger said in a statement of his own that he hoped the redesign “would address some of the size and scale criticisms” that have dogged the project. Activists have long claimed the planned 14-story structure, which would be the tallest building in Vermont, would be out of scale for Burlington.

Brookfield said it nevertheless “remained committed to delivering a transformative project to the City of Burlington.”

“Over the next several months, we will be working collaboratively with the administration and stakeholders to refine our development plan to ensure we have a design that is consistent with the community’s values and goals,” the statement read.

Weinberger said he was “frustrated and disappointed” by the latest delay but felt the city should continue working with Brookfield to make the project a reality. Weinberger stressed that the developer needs to be more transparent with the public about the project’s progress.

John Franco, an attorney representing opponents of the redevelopment, said he thinks the redesign will set the project back at least a year and a half, maybe longer. He chuckled when he read Brookfield’s claim of wanting to take a “holistic” approach to the project’s redesign that includes the Macy’s parcel.

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Whitelaw’s gurney, rated to hold 900 pounds, is his second in six years as an elected coroner in Essex County. His first one, rated for 600 pounds, broke from overuse. “I was getting a lot of grossly obese people,” he explained.

The mostly rural county, contained entirely within the Adirondack Park boundaries, does not generate many human corpses, let alone bear-size ones.

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news Peak Parking « P.12 equivalent of rolling out an unwelcome mat to tourists, she continued. “If somebody gave you a $300 parking ticket, are you going to stop somewhere here to eat, or are you just going to take off?”

She placed a copy of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise newspaper on the counter and pointed to a front-page headline that shouted, above the fold: “Tempers flare over trailhead parking.”

The story centered on a July 6 dispute between Keene Town Supervisor Joseph P. Wilson Jr. and a couple from Montréal Sign at the Garden trailhead who had just parked in the crowded Roaring Brook Falls trailhead lot off Route 73.

It was around 7 a.m. and Wilson was at the lot to help explain the parking changes.

Wilson said he politely told Michael Farmer that he was parked in an illegal website advisories about less crowded spot and might be ticketed if he left his hiking and parking options.

BMW there. The couple reacted rudely, Other supporters of the parking restricblocking Wilson’s path repeatedly as he tions on Route 73 say that they are overattempted to walk to his truck, Wilson told due, for both road safety and trail crowd Seven Days. control.

Farmer said there was no sign indi“There’s just too many people for a cating the spot was illegal. He and his wilderness experience that is supposed girlfriend had arrived early hoping to to emphasize solitude and relative peace beat the parking crowds and hike Giant and quiet,” said Neil Woodworth, execuMountain. “I’d done most of the 46 peaks, tive director of the nonprofit Adirondack but I’d never done this one,” Farmer said Mountain Club. in an interview with Seven Days.

The alpine resource is also being Wilson “raced over” and shouted at damaged and should be protected, he the couple that the spot was illegal, then added. told Farmer, “I’m gonna What’s driving people up knock you on your ass,” the mountains? Woodworth according to Farmer, said a new generation of a vice president at TD hikers covets athletic chalBank in Montréal. If lenge and social media posts that’s the way local touting each new summit officials are going to reached. That’s fueling a behave, he continued, wave of interest in the quest to climb all 46 of the major “Guess what, I don’t need to come.” peaks in the Adirondacks.

Wilson said he Most (but not all) are over regretted losing his 4,000 feet and located in the temper with Farmer High Peaks region, includand admitted threating the tallest summit in NEIL WOODWORTH ening to “kick his ass” the state, 5,344-foot Mount — but only after the Marcy. couple called him “all sorts of names” and While the lure of the big ranges is would not let him pass. understandable, bagging another peak and The son of Olympic skier and trails posting about it on the Adirondacks 46ers designer Joseph Pete Wilson, the town club Facebook page isn’t the only way to supervisor grew up in Keene and remem- enjoy the area, Woodworth said. There are bers when summers were the slow season. many beautiful and less traveled mounThat’s changed, and the parking restric- tains, he continued, where people could tions are needed, he said. Most people “actually have a better outdoor experience, understand, he added. not climbing a conga line up some of the Still, the July 6 incident reflects some more popular mountains.” of the unhappiness people feel when their He supports parking restrictions and a hiking plans are unexpectedly shut down. step that could be more dramatic: requir“They get here; there’s no parking; they ing hiking permits for some peaks. While are frustrated,” Wilson said, adding that permits are used at some big national the town is trying to get the word out with parks out west, they are uncommon in the

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Northeast. Only one state park under the jurisdiction of the New York DEC requires a hiking/exploring permit, the Blue Hole area in the Catskills. It was instituted to reduce crowds.

Discussion of a permit system in the High Peaks is in the beginning stages and will involve businesses, governments, tourist organizations and outdoors groups, according to DeLaMater.

“DEC continues to work with Adirondack Park stakeholders to examine a variety of means for managing use in the High Peaks, including a shuttle system, sustainable trail construction, permits and other ideas. However, no decisions have been made at this time,” DeLaMater said.

Meanwhile, hiker traffic at popular destinations in and around Keene and Lake Placid has increased sharply, based on hiker sign-ins at trailheads, according to the DEC, which oversees the park.

Between 2007 and 2017, hiking traffic increased 77 percent — from 68,502 hikers a year to 121,219 at four major trailheads: Adirondack Loj, Cascade Mountain, Adirondack Mountain Reserve and Mount Van Hoevenburg. Cascade had the biggest increase of the four, a jump of 136 percent, from 14,737 to 34,847 hikers.

The increase shows both on the trails and Route 73, which was dangerous when “hundreds and hundreds of cars” parked there, said Bob Rose, a scenic flight pilot who lives in Wilmington. As he browsed at the Mountaineer gear shop in Keene Valley, Rose said he supports parking restrictions to protect the “spectacular” resource of the Adirondack Mountains.

Marcus Moench stood near displays of climbing rope, chocolate bars and hiking boots as he also endorsed the parking restrictions. The Boulder, Colo., resident has been coming to a family place in the Keene area all his life. “I can see exactly why it would be really frustrating for

people not to be able to park, but I can also see why it would be insane” not to do something about the problems, Moench said.

Adding to the parking crunch, the parking lot for the popular Garden trailhead is temporarily closed this summer for a bridge replacement along the access road.

The Town of Keene has increased shuttle service to the spot.

Moench suggested that a new shuttle route might ease the competition for spots on Route 73; it would also give drivers and hiking stewards more opportunities to educate hikers. While you “can hardly complain that people are getting out and experiencing” the High Peaks, Moench said, he’s seen unprepared hikers who could benefit from basic reminders, such as “Do you have extra water, and do you have something to wear in case it pours while you are up there?’’

Safety is a growing concern, the Adirondack Club’s Woodworth agreed.

“Part of the problem is that a number of people who are trying to climb the High Peaks … just don’t have the background that my generation did. We were taught basic outdoor skills in the Boy Scouts, in high school clubs,” he said.

These days, many hikers don’t know how to use a compass — if they carry one — when their cellphone GPS systems don’t work, he said, adding that the club offers a two-hour course on that.

But bigger problems might need bigger solutions.

Keene Supervisor Wilson is floating the idea of an information building with staff to offer advice on hikes and parking, as well as to provide bathrooms. Keene spends $9,000 a year on portable toilets in parking areas, and they aren’t meeting demand, Wilson said.

It would be too expensive for Keene, population 1,100, to run the info center alone, but Wilson hopes to partner with the DEC. In total, the Adirondack Park system attracts 7 million to 10 million people a year, and the High Peaks region about 3 million.

Meanwhile, hikers such as Tom Anglin of Bloomingdale, N.J., say they manage to hike in the Keene Valley despite competition for parking spots. He sipped a coffee outside the ADK Market last week in a light rain and recounted an outing with his 12-year-old son a few days earlier. They had managed to snag a legal parking spot, even on a Sunday.

Anglin has not set out to be a 46er but admitted he’s intrigued by the challenge.

“If my son’s into it, I would consider doing it,” Anglin said. “We’ll see how it goes.” m Contact: molly@sevendaysvt.com

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Trump and explanations for why he felt impeachment was required were met with warm applause from residents who filled the Vermont House chambers.

Montpelier resident Gianna Petito said she worried that the country’s democracy was being “aggressively stolen from we the people.

“I am terrified for the future of this democracy, and democracy around the world,” she lamented, her voice cracking with emotion. “You have my full support.”

But several other residents expressed horror at the idea that an unsuccessful impeachment bid would provide Trump just the platform he needs to win another term.

Such a tactic was “very dangerous,” given that the Senate’s GOP majority would never go along with impeachment, and it would allow Trump to “play us, like he’s been playing us for 30 months,” said Miriam Hansen of East Montpelier.

“If we do it prematurely, we’ll play into his hands, and I’m very concerned about that,” she said. “The only thing I care about is winning!”

After his remarks, Welch denied that he had called for Trump’s impeachment only after the president targeted his House colleagues. While he denounced the president’s remarks, he noted that the congresswomen whom Trump targeted are “relatively empowered people.”

Welch said he was more concerned about the fear that Trump is instilling in those with less power, such as immigrant populations.

While the effect of Trump’s offenses has been cumulative, it was his reelection campaign speech that convinced Welch that Trump had to go.

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U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) won applause in Montpelier Monday night for his call to impeach Donald Trump, but he also got pushback from citizens worried that such a move would aid the president’s reelection effort.

Holding forth in a Statehouse filled with dozens of vociferous Trump foes, Vermont’s only voice in the U.S. House of Representatives outlined how his “enormous reservation” about impeachment had recently given way to his belief that lawmakers need to act.

“I’ve become increasingly alarmed that the guardrails of our democracy are under attack,” Welch said.

Welch cited Trump’s refusal to cooperate with congressional investigations into issues such as the crisis at the southern border as well as what he called the administration’s efforts to “derail” the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into election interference by Russia.

But he said he was most disturbed by the way the president had singled out four female members of color in the House, saying they could go back to the countries they’d come from if they didn’t appreciate this one.

“None of us have the right, least of all the highest elected official in the country, to attack people because of who they are,” Welch said. “No one has the right to tell a person that they should go back to where they came from.”

Indeed, it was that attack last week that prompted Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) to try to force a vote on impeaching the president — a measure that, for the first time, Welch backed.

In an effort to head off a direct vote on impeachment, House Democratic leaders succeeded in tabling the resolution.

Welch was one of 95 members who voted to continue the impeachment inquiry.

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Sanders Campaign Spends Little in Vermont

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Not long after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined the 2020 presidential campaign in February, his senior adviser and longtime aide, Jeff Weaver, said that Sanders would be “colocating” his campaign headquarters in Vermont and Washington, D.C. But according to a recent filing with the Federal Election Commission, very little of Sanders’ campaign appears to be based in Vermont — and he hasn’t spent much money in his home state.

A Seven Days analysis of the data found that just 17 of the 279 employees his campaign paid during the first half of the year lived in Vermont.

Meanwhile, 101 lived in the Beltway region — including 74 people in D.C., 19 in Maryland and eight in Virginia.

Only $213,666 of the campaign’s $3.1 million payroll, or 6.8 percent, went to Vermonters.

Meanwhile, close to $1.4 million, or 43 percent of payroll, went to those in the Beltway.

Those figures likely undercount the disparity because they exclude compensation to campaign advisers who are paid as consultants rather than as traditional employees. Weaver, for example — a resident of Falls Church, Va. — earned $71,250 in consulting fees during the first five months of the campaign.

When Sanders first ran for president in 2016, he based his campaign in downtown Burlington.

That cycle, according to FEC data, he spent more on employees living in Vermont than on those living anywhere other than California. Sanders’ Green Mountain State payroll throughout that campaign totaled $1.3 million — or 8.9 percent of his overall payroll.

The Sanders campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Since launching his 2020 bid, Sanders’ campaign has spent more than $18.8 million on all expenses. Of that, close to $1.4 million, or 7.3 percent of his total spending, has gone to Vermont businesses and employees. By contrast, nearly $6.3 million, or 33.3 percent, has gone to Beltway-based entities.

Some Vermont businesses, however, have done quite well this cycle. Nearly 72 percent of Sanders’ spending in the state so far has gone to just four businesses: • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont: $428,718 • United States Postal Service (Vermont offices): $259,082 • First Step Print Shop of Underhill: $230,389 • Five Maples, a Putney-based direct mail firm: $75,006 Mary Martelle, who co-owns First Step Print Shop with her husband, Robert, said that Vermonters should be “pretty happy” that Sanders works with her business and others in the state.

“This is all stuff that he could be doing in Washington, so I have a lot of respect,” she said.

“He’s loyal. He’s definitely loyal to Vermont.” m Contact: paul@sevendaysvt.com

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New York court bars tree cutting for snowmobile trail in “forever wild” Adirondack Park

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According to a New York State appellate court, not much at all. That answer could have a profound effect on the future of the Adirondack Park.

In a decision handed down July 3, the court ruled that construction of a 27-mile snowmobile trail — specifically, the felling of 25,000 trees to make way for it — would violate state constitutional protections of “forever wild” forestland.

In the short term, the ruling imperils the state’s plan to build a network of nine- to 12-foot-wide “community connector” snowmobile trails, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration believes would help revitalize the Adirondacks’ winter economy. In the long term, experts say, it clarifies how much tree cutting is too much on the 2.5 million acres of state-owned land within the 6 million-acre park.

“I think the decision’s going to be studied and used and cited for a long time,” said Nicholas Robinson, an environmental professor at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law in White Plains, N.Y. “It’s a very important decision.”

In 1894, after a decade of illegal logging within the newly created Adirondack Park, delegates to a state constitutional convention sought to further protect the land recently designated “forever wild.” That land, they wrote in an amendment that took effect the next year, “shall not be leased, sold, or exchanged, or be taken by any

corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.”

The delegates did not define timber, but the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which oversees the forest preserve, has taken it to mean mature trees — or those at least three inches in diameter at four and a half feet above the ground.

Peter Bauer, executive director of the environmental group Protect the Adirondacks!, disagrees. In his view, the delegates intended to protect all of the park’s trees, whatever the size. “The framers of ‘forever wild’ were using trees and timber interchangeably,” he said last week.

In 2013, the DEC began to cut a new snowmobile trail linking the Adirondack towns of Newcomb, Minerva and North Hudson. Under the state’s definition of a tree, the project would require the destruction of just 6,184 specimens over the course of 27 miles.

But when Bauer’s group counted and photographed stumps along the flagged and partially cut trail, it came up with more than 25,000 trees of every shape and size.

Protect the Adirondacks! sued and obtained an injunction to halt the project temporarily. In December 2017, a state district court ruled against the group’s two claims: that such trails violated the “forever wild” clause of the constitution and that the necessary harvesting would destroy

a “substantial” and “material” amount of timber — a threshold set by earlier decisions.

Bauer’s group appealed to an intermediate court, which handed down this month’s decision. On the first claim, all five justices agreed with the lower court that the trail itself would not violate the constitution. The snowmobile corridor was more similar to a hiking path than a road, Justice Robert Mulvey wrote, and was unlikely to alter the forest ecosystem.

But by a 4-1 majority, the appellate court reversed the lower court’s decision on the second claim. “[T]he use of the word ‘timber’ in the constitutional provision at issue is not limited to marketable logs or wood products, but refers to all trees, regardless of size,” Mulvey wrote. He noted that some trees more than 100 years old could still be less than three inches in diameter — and that “smaller mature trees play an important role in the continuing ecology of the forest.”

Though the state was not proposing to clear-cut one compact area, the felling of trees over such a long distance could have the same practical effect, the court found.

“It would be anomalous to conclude that destroying 925 trees per mile of trails, or approximately 25,000 trees in total, does not constitute the destruction of timber ‘to a substantial’ or ‘to any material

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“We feel vindicated,” Bauer said.

Others, however, felt surprised, disappointed and betrayed.

“I think everyone, including me, thought, This isn’t going anywhere. It’s gonna lose,” said Adirondack Park Local Government Review Board spokesperson Fred Monroe, whose organization represents municipalities. “They’re never going to say all these tiny wooden stems, seedlings, saplings, brush are timber.”

According to Monroe, the proposed snowmobile trails were a critical part of a recent deal that added 69,000 acres to the state-owned forest preserve. Newcomb, Minerva, North Hudson and other towns in the area of the land deal acquiesced to it in exchange for promises of new economic generators, such as mountain bike and snowmobile trails, he said.

“We all planned on this trail system,” said Brian Wells, town supervisor for neighboring Indian Lake. “It was going to be huge.”

Like many Adirondack businesses, Indian Lake Restaurant and Tavern brings in most of its revenue during the brief summer tourism season, according to co-owner Ann Miller. “But in the wintertime, we stay open for snowmobiles,” she said.

According to a 2011 survey commissioned by the New York State Snowmobile Association and administered by the State University of New York’s Potsdam Institute for Applied Research, snowmobiling already generated $245 million in economic activity within the park at the time. About a quarter of the state’s snowmobiling took place in the Adirondacks, the survey found.

Miller had hoped the proposed community connector trails would boost that business by making it easier for snowmobilers to crisscross the park.

She said she’s frustrated any time new rules and regulations limit economic development opportunities within the Adirondacks.

“It’s not an amusement park,” she said.

“People live here. They have jobs.”

According to Dominic Jacangelo, executive director of the state snowmobile association, his members have

sacrificed plenty already. They’ve agreed to narrower trails, he said, and to abandon corridors in the interior of the forest in exchange for community connectors on the periphery.

“We’re kind of stuck in a holding pattern,” he said. “It’s very frustrating, I think, for the snowmobiling community, and I think it’s frustrating, also, for the municipalities.”

Jacangelo hopes the state will appeal the recent ruling to the state’s highest court. According to DEC spokesperson Ben DeLaMater, the state “is reviewing the court’s decision and working to determine the best option going forward.”

Proponents of the snowmobile trails have suggested that the recent ruling could affect other recreational activities, as well. “If you count seedlings, do you have to consider what hikers destroy?”

Jacangelo asked.

“You’re not going to be allowed to cut anything or trim anything back,” said Wells, the Indian Lake supervisor. “In my opinion, if you’re going to go by the ruling, there’s no reroutes, no new trails, no new parking areas.”

Others, including Adirondack Mountain Club executive director Neil Woodworth, believe such fears are overblown. “When you’re laying out a hiking trail, the reality is that you have to take down very few trees,” he said.

“Normally, cross-country ski trails are laid out in a very similar fashion to hiking trails.”

According to Bauer of Protect the Adirondacks!, the decision could limit the construction of ski trails on scrubby mountain summits. “But we shouldn’t be cutting big, wide trails through highelevation old-growth forest anyway,” he said. “We don’t see how this is going to interfere with other recreational opportunities.”

Though some were taken aback by the ruling, they shouldn’t have been, said Robinson, the Pace University professor.

“I think it’s surprising to the people who don’t read the cases,” he said.

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news Body Trouble « P.13 the Essex County Board of Supervisors this month will mull new rules designed to rein them in. The changes, in Whitelaw’s assessment, would reduce his role to that of the Munchkin coroner in The Wizard of Oz, who merely pronounced that the Wicked Witch was indeed dead.

Unlike Vermont, which has a state medical examiner’s office, most counties in New York elect coroners to handle unattended and suspicious deaths. The state required no training for its coroners until 2017, when the state legislature mandated a one-day introductory course. Essex County has just 40,000 residents but elects multiple coroners to cover its 1,900 square miles. Like the Munchkin, they pronounce a person dead on the scene, but they also order autopsies and make arrangements for removal of the body, which, by state law, only licensed funeral directors or a coroner’s designee can transport.

In many jurisdictions, the coroner position is still “sort of an afterthought,” said Scott Schmidt, president of the New York

State Association of County Coroners and coroners leave to a physician — and uses Medical Examiners. In Essex County, it a specialized device to take fingerprints has long been a side gig for local funeral from shriveled skin. Whitelaw also packs directors and doctors. a probe thermometer to help him estimate Whitelaw is dead serious about the how long someone has been dead and a role. At 58, he’s retired from the New York roll of crime-scene tape, just in case the State Police, where he was a veteran of cops run out.

“You can do very the forensic unit, and minimal on this job, he approached his new job in late 2012 with an or you can go pedal to investigator’s instincts. the metal,” he said. “I The only coroner in go pedal to the metal when I need to.”

Essex County profesWhitelaw has a mix sionally certified to of hard and soft edges. conduct death investigations, Whitelaw Tattoos peek out below actively participates in his shirtsleeves, but he wears thick-rimmed the evidence gathering F R ANK W H ITE L AW that coroners rely on to oval glasses that pinch determine whether a against his nose. His words tend to oscildeath was natural, accidental, by suicide or homicide. His Tahoe late between crass and empathetic. He holds a Tyvek suit “for really gruesome plays guitar in a hard rock band, Sonic scenes” and a chemical suit in the unlikely Boom, that performs KISS cover songs event that he needs to help extract a body every winter for a charity event dubbed near toxic substances. He collects toxi- KISSmas. (Whitelaw impersonates Paul cology specimens — a task most elected Stanley.)

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The coroner role enables Whitelaw to harness his compassionate side, too. For instance, he goes out of his way to prepare a body for a family viewing at the morgue, propping the deceased’s head up with a pillow.

“The truth is, aside from sex, death is probably one of the most personal, intimate things we’ll ever experience,” he said.

“Approaching it in that manner — when you’re dealing with family, loved ones, friends, whoever — makes you a whole lot better at your job. You actually have a profound effect on people’s lives in that horrible moment.”

Other coroners haven’t always been so engaged. A basic administrative requirement of the job involves filing case reports with the county, but County Clerk Joseph Provoncha said he’s struggled unsuccessfully for years to get some other coroners to comply, even offering to retrieve the files from coroners’ homes.

Whitelaw keeps a spreadsheet to document details of every call he takes. He’s responded to more than 275 Essex County

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deaths since 2013, the records show, including 62 in 2017, his busiest year.

As Whitelaw’s share of county calls steadily increased, he became frustrated that his fellow coroners weren’t taking the job as seriously. Late last year, he vented to a reporter for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, calling his colleagues “lazy” and criticizing them for taking the annual $4,400 coroner stipend even though they weren’t responding to calls.

He threatened to resign if the others didn’t step up or the county didn’t intervene.

A month later, the county Board of Supervisors decided to draft a local law defining the coroners’ duties.

The proposal addresses some of Whitelaw’s concerns: It beefs up reporting and training requirements and mandates that a responding coroner be physically present to pronounce death.

But instead of simply raising the bar, as Whitelaw sought, the latest proposal would also prohibit coroners from transporting bodies or deciding where they should go.

Currently, first responders in Essex County call the coroner who lives closest to the scene. The coroner then decides whether to send the body to the morgue at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh for an autopsy or, if a family doctor is willing to sign a death certificate, to a funeral home. The county pays $300 for transportation of a body to the morgue at CVPH, plus $2 per mile of “loaded travel” and $75 for a body bag.

Coroners who haul bodies themselves can make more money by ordering autopsies.

Whitelaw made more than $28,000 in 2017, he said. But Kelly, the Schroon Lake funeral home director, accuses Whitelaw of taking bodies to the morgue when no autopsy was necessary, at higher cost to the county.

“Greed is a vicious thing,” he said.

Whitelaw, who has a pension from the state police, insisted he isn’t picking up bodies for the money. In fact, he has suggested that the county reduce its payouts to coroners. His reward, he said, comes from the answers and support he’s able to provide to the families of the deceased. “It’s not from those stupid stipends we get,” he said.

The county’s proposed solution to the dispute, scheduled for a public hearing on July 29, is to eliminate potential conflicts of interest by requiring physicians to authorize transportation to the morgue in

most cases and mandating that a funeral home transport the body.

Board of Supervisors chair Shaun Gillilland said he’s heard criticisms over the years about the county’s coroners: “We’re just trying to construct a law so we don’t get those criticisms anymore.”

The exclusive use of funeral homes to transport bodies will actually cost the county more money, Whitelaw contended, suggesting to him that the industry has a “political hook” with county officials.

In a rebuttal letter to the Daily Enterprise report of Whitelaw’s remarks, fellow coroner Walter Marvin III also seemed to criticize him for making unnecessary transports and, “coincidentally” more money. His stance was less accusatory in an interview with Seven Days, during which he described Whitelaw as “the volunteer fireman of coroners.”

“He just dedicates his life and time to this stuff,” said Marvin, who has been a coroner for 25 years and is also a licensed funeral home director. “Because of his [law enforcement] background, he thinks this is a much more in-depth investigative position.”

“We get a homicide every two decades,” Marvin continued, referring to Elizabethtown, where he lives. “We’re not creating ‘Dateline’ episodes up here.”

Gillilland said having a coroner with Whitelaw’s expertise “probably comes with a tremendous amount of advantage,” but he also said Whitelaw may be overstepping his role.

“It’s not really in the coroner’s job description to do toxicology or take tissue samples,” he said. The county, he added, must create a “level playing field” for coroners and eliminate conflicts of interest.

“The law is going to last longer than he’s going to be coroner,” Gillilland said.

It is hard to envision Whitelaw giving up his post anytime soon. As he displayed his equipment in the mall parking lot, he was interrupted by the wail of an emergency siren — his cellphone’s ringtone.

The coroner picked up and listened intently to a state police investigator.

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“Voucher” is a hot-button word, evoking Republican efforts nationwide to shift public dollars to private schools under the banner of “school choice.” Vermont has a limited voucher program for districts that don’t offer the full K-12 grade range. But there is no evidence that Scott has advocated for a statewide voucher program, and his spokesperson ETHAN LATOUR called Holcombe’s claim “completely false and unsubstantiated.”

This week, Holcombe declined to comment on the record about her claim.

Instead, she cited an opinion piece she wrote in January outlining her view of the administration’s record on vouchers. She also pointed to a January paper by Education Secretary DAN FRENCH exploring the concept of one single statewide school district. That document, Designing Our Future: A Blueprint for Transforming Vermont’s Education System, states that “Students would have statewide school choice among all the public schools, technical centers, and non-sectarian independent schools approved by the Agency.”

That seems to show French’s interest in statewide vouchers. But the introduction to Designing Our Future describes it as an ongoing “visioning exercise … to begin to imagine the design of a modern education system.”

The single-district concept was chosen “as an example of the most extreme simplification possible” in order to evaluate the potential benefits of such a system, according to the document.

None of that sounds like a concrete policy proposal, let alone one endorsed by Scott.

In a written statement provided to Seven Days, Holcombe cited the March 20 meeting of the State Board of Education, when French gave a presentation about the Designing Our Future memo. Holcombe viewed this as an attempt to advance the concept into reality.

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TED FISHER demurs. “The March 20 presen-

tation to the State Board was on the existing written exercise and not a policy proposal of any kind,” he wrote in an emailed statement. After that meeting, French’s visioning exercise, and the document, have evolved. (Every page is stamped “DRAFT” in huge green capital letters.)

Holcombe sees a broader trend consistent with her own experience in Scott’s cabinet, which ended when she submitted her resignation in March 2018. “As the Secretary of Education, I spoke weekly with the heads of Gov. Scott’s administration and they made clear that their priority was protecting and expanding private school vouchers,” Holcombe wrote in her emailed statement to Seven Days. “That is a key reason why I resigned.”

That would indicate a push

toward vouchers by the administration — but not a fleshed-out plan to establish statewide choice. And we only have Holcombe’s word for this. She was not willing to comment beyond her written statement or provide any documentation of internal policy discussions. That may be a commendable adherence to the strictures of executive privilege, but it doesn’t help establish the truth of her claim.

In order to defeat Scott, Holcombe has to identify exploitable weaknesses in the popular incumbent’s record. She has made a strong charge against Scott but so far has failed to provide convincing evidence to back it up. On top of that, she ducked an opportunity to defend herself on the record — instead referring to an opinion piece she wrote months ago.

This might be an acceptable approach for a top government official: Be careful with your words and your facts, and steer clear of entanglements with the media. But it’s not how a political candidacy works. As long as she’s running for governor, she’ll have to respond to queries from reporters and voters.

And when she makes a claim, she’d best be prepared to answer the inevitable questions.

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TAYLOR DOBBS is leaving his home state.

Dobbs, who resigned in July as Statehouse reporter for Seven Days, is moving to North Carolina with his wife, TORI, after years of trying to make it financially in Vermont.

“I just got priced out of Burlington,” the 29-year-old Dobbs

said. “I’m a public service journalist. Tori is in education. If you can’t keep these two people in Vermont, you’re not solving the demographic crisis. It’s only going to get worse.”

Statistics show that the pair are part of a trend. One of the key factors in Vermont’s demographic challenge is a heavy net outflow of working adults in their early to mid-twenties. According to Internal Revenue Service figures compiled by State Auditor DOUG HOFFER for a 2018 review of state economic policy, Vermont saw an average annual net outflow of 9.5 percent among tax filers under age 26 in the fiveyear period between 2011 and 2016.

It’s a special problem for young adults.

Hoffer cited IRS figures for the years 2014 to 2016 that show Vermont suffered only slight losses among filers between 26 and 34. For those between 35 and 54, Vermont actually enjoyed a net inflow of 13 percent.

What makes it specifically tough for young people in Vermont?

The short answer is “money” — a vicious circle of high tuition, student debt and housing costs, especially in the Burlington area. In the face of financial pressure, many choose to go where living costs are lower and opportunities more ample.

“I’m an expert in young people fleeing Vermont,” said 2018 state Senate candidate VAL CARZELLO, who works at the University of Vermont’s Howe Library. “I watch grad class after grad class fleeing because of the cost of living.”

INGRID PETERSON , director of career education at Saint Michael’s College, cites the high cost of higher education. “The vast majority of our students have taken loans,” Peterson said. “If they didn’t have to worry about student loans, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.”

According to the College Board, Vermont ranked 49th in the nation in per-student higher education spending in 2016-17. The only state ranked lower?

New Hampshire. And wouldn’t you know it, our neighbor has the same problem with tax filers under 26. Vermont’s average loss of 9.5 percent per year is virtually identical to New Hampshire’s 9.3 percent. (This also belies the assertion that Vermont’s taxes are too high, since notoriously low-tax New Hampshire has the same problem with retaining its young people.)

A meaningful increase in aid to colleges and universities would cost serious money.

As would any other major affordability measure, such as loan forgiveness for

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those who commit to staying in Vermont or a major new investment in affordable homes and rental properties.

If Burlington is too pricey, why don’t young folks look elsewhere in Vermont?

Inconsistent broadband and cell service is a big factor.

In addition, many young people want to live where there’s an active social scene.

“Students only consider Burlington,” said PAMELA GARDNER, director of UVM’s Career Center.

“Students choose to go where they can find a job they really want and a vibrant community where they can make friends.”

As an advocate on substance-use issues, 27-year-old Burlington resident SCOTT PAVEK has been a frequent presence at the Statehouse. He isn’t impressed with Vermont’s efforts to ease the plight of young people. “I don’t know what they’re doing for us,” he said. “I haven’t seen great ideas that even take a bite of the apple.

They’re identifying problems, but I’m not hearing many solutions.”

State officials’ reluctance to tackle the big — and expensive — issues has left Vermont with piecemeal policies. They’re low cost, but low upside. Commerce Secretary MICHAEL SCHIRLING talks of efforts to better publicize opportunities in all areas of Vermont, an Agency of Education initiative to guide high school students into careers and the administration’s desire to reform the Act 250 permitting process to foster development within towns and cities. He acknowledged that this is all a “long play” that will take “a decade or more” to bear fruit.

The state’s incremental initiatives pale in comparison to the immediate needs of young people making real-time decisions about their futures. “We were talking about buying a house as recently as earlier this year,” Dobbs said.

But instead of building their savings toward a down payment, they found themselves losing ground financially. And now, they’re leaving. They couldn’t wait for “long plays” to come through.

stale. Participants were pretty much limited to a certain kind of Vermonter: literate, comfortable, upper- or uppermiddle-class, and almost exclusively white.

Well, the regular commentaries are no more. They’ve been deep-sixed, along with “VPR Café,” a weekly look at Vermont’s food and dining scene, and “Dorothy’s List,” a series about children’s books.

The reductions are part of what VPR calls “a visionary plan to expand and diversify our coverage” including an expansion of its reporting capacity. The moves come in response to an internal review of all VPR’s news programming and last year’s Tell Me More Tour, whose purpose was to gather feedback from listeners statewide.

The message received: “There’s increasingly a lack of reporting coming out of Vermont,” said SCOTT FINN, VPR’s president and CEO. He cited U.S. Department of Labor figures that show a 40 percent decline in TV, radio and print news staffers in Vermont between 1997 and 2017. “There’s this need, and people want us to do something about it,” he added.

Which means devoting more effort to news coverage and trying to cover all of Vermont. Finn said that commentary producer BETTY SMITH-MASTALER will shift to covering arts and culture, especially in the Upper Valley area. AMY KOLB NOYES, who produced “Dorothy’s List,” has received a fellowship from the Education Writers Association to report on issues facing small colleges in Vermont.

Finn promises more developments in the coming months, more “boots on the ground” to try to make up for the decline of most traditional news outlets — and efforts to bring more diversity to VPR’s programming. This is a welcome development; VPR is a real power in Vermont’s media landscape. Relative to other news organizations, it has abundant resources to draw on. The more it can do to make up for continuing declines in the news business, the better. m

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Henry P. Albarelli, Jr. H.P. “Hank” Albarelli Jr., author and Burlington native, died on June 18 from complications of a stroke. The eldest son of Nancy O’Neill Albarelli and the late Henry P. Albarelli Sr., he was 72. In recent decades, Hank and his wife, Kathleen McDonald, made their home in the Tampa Bay region of Florida, where he passed away surrounded by family.

From a young age, Hank was a passionate and knowledgeable student of contemporary music, especially blues and rock. In the 1970s, he produced Burlington’s first annual Blues Festivals, as well as the first Vermont concerts of Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Judy Collins.

After leaving Burlington for Washington, D.C., in 1978, Hank worked in the Carter White House and, later, as a field director for the Service Employees International Union.

During the ‘90s, he returned to an early interest in writing for the theater. His play The Whole Shebang was winner of the 1994 Baltimore Playwrights’ Festival.

In recent decades, Hank wrote exclusively investigative journalism, pursuing such topics as the CIA’s role in the suspicious death of a government scientist (A Terrible Mistake), and the assassination of JFK (A Secret Order).

He recently completed a forthcoming book titled Coup in Dallas.

Living just a stone’s throw from a Gulf of Mexico beach, Hank delighted in the fact that his two sons from a previous marriage, Damien and David, and David’s wife,

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Hank is also survived by Ms. McDonald; his mother; four siblings, Nancy (Gardner), Michael, Dean and Beth (Lane); and many fond nieces and nephews.

Norma Sassorossi

1925-2019 SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT. Norma Troup Sassorossi, 94, passed away peacefully on July 21, 2019, at the McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester, Vt. Born on June 24, 1925, in Barre, Vt., she was the daughter of William Pratt and Margaret (Galli) Troup.

Barre became her geographical anchor throughout her life.

Norma graduated from Spaulding High School (SHS) in 1943, where she formed lifelong friendships and was active in many activities, including serving as a majorette, a talent she later reprised at several class reunions. After high school, Norma attended Simmons College, where she graduated as a registered nurse.

Norma and Elmo Sassorossi, a 1942 SHS graduate who had returned to Harvard College following his World War II service in the Army, began dating while both lived in Boston.

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easy to remember anniversaries. Returning to Barre, the couple started a family in 1951 with the birth of Kenn, followed by a second son, Jeff, two years later.

Norma never seemed to stand still for more than a few minutes. She enjoyed golfing with Elmo and friends at the Barre Country Club, where she won a Ladies’ Club Championship and recorded two holes in one. Other recreational interests included playing bridge, painting and bowling. Norma’s family particularly appreciated her culinary talents, never more apparent than at Christmas, when platters of holiday confections, pasta frollas, ossi dei Morti cookies and a parade of pies appeared. Kenn and Jeff fondly remember the food packages they gleefully received at college, which included sweet treats and “marijuana toast” — slices of toast seasoned with dill, garlic and other spices.

Remaining at their Abbott Avenue home in Barre until 2016, Norma and Elmo then moved to the Gazebo Apartments assisted living in South Burlington.

Norma is survived by her loving and dedicated husband of 70 years and her two sons, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

The family includes Kenn Sassorossi and his wife Judy (Bickford) Sassorossi, their daughter Kathryn Aisenberg and her husband Jonathan and their children Lucia and Dario; their daughter Martha Sassorossi and her husband Rafael Ferrer and their newborn daughter Vera Adelina; and Jeff Sassorossi and his wife Beverly (Darling) Sassorossi, their son William Sassorossi and his wife Margaret (Newton) Sassorossi and their children Eleanor and Samuel; and their daughter Kristine Sassorossi. She is also survived by her niece Cindy Dye Kearley and her husband Steven and their son Kevin.

Norma was predeceased by her sister Patricia Troup Dye. There are no visiting hours, and interment will be at the convenience of the family.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Barre Kiwanis Club to benefit the Mort Kelly

Children’s Literacy Program, P.O. Box 724, Barre, VT 05641.

Arrangements are in the care of the Hooker and Whitcomb Funeral Home, 7 Academy St., Barre. For a memorial guestbook, visit hookerwhitcomb.com.

Eric Zencey

1953-2019 MONTPELIER, VT. Eric Zencey, professor, writer and social critic, died on July 1 at his home in Montpelier. His wife, Kathryn Davis; daughter, Daphne Zencey; and sisterin-law Anne Davis were at his side. He was 65.

Eric arrived in Vermont in 1980 to teach at Goddard College, quickly developing a deep love for his adopted state. It was at Goddard where he met Kathryn and where they were married, building a life together and raising their daughter, Daphne. Eric adored hiking Camel’s Hump, swimming in #10 Pond, walking with Kathryn and their dog in Hubbard Park, and kayaking with Daphne at Wrightsville.

Eric spent his career teaching courses that explored crosscurrents among economics, philosophy, political science, history and ecology. In addition to Goddard, he taught in Empire State College’s International Program, was a visiting lecturer in the Sam Fox School of Architecture at Washington University, and taught in the Honors Program at the University of Vermont, where he was a fellow at the Gund Institute.

Most of his writing focused on the subject of ecological sustainability, publishing Virgin Forest: Meditations on History, Ecology and Culture; The Other Road to Serfdom and the Path to Sustainable Democracy; and Greening Vermont: The Search for a Sustainable State. In addition, his novel Panama became a national best seller in 1995.

These works had been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim, BellagioRockefeller and Bogliasco foundations.

Over the years, his commentaries appeared in several publications, including the New York Times, and he was quoted on both NPR and in the Harvard Business Review.

Eric is survived by his wife, Kathryn, and his daughter, Daphne, as well his brothers Carl and Matthew Zencey.

He was predeceased by his parents, Ruth and Charles Zencey, and half-brother C. Frank Shaw. In the months before his death, he raised more than $100,000 to endow the Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics.

Contributions in his memory may be made to the Eric Zencey Prize through the UVM Foundation, 411 Main St., Burlington, VT 05401. A memorial service is planned for September 29 in Vermont College of Fine Arts’ chapel.

Matthew de Wolf

1929-2019 COLCHESTER, VT. Matthew J. de Wolf of Colchester, Vt., passed away on July 3 at the age of 89 of a brief illness, surrounded by his closest friends.

He was born October 8, 1929, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to Elizabeth (Dietz) de Wolf and Peter de Wolf. He spent his youth living in Nazi-occupied territory and often shared harrowing tales of those years. Matthew emigrated to Canada in his early twenties, where he earned a degree in horticulture from Guelph University. He spent several years in Ottawa, Canada, working for the Experimental Farm and then in the gardens of the governor general of Canada. He was also a private gardener for many homes in and around Ottawa. In 1966, he moved to the United States with his wife, Ginger, the love of his life, and became a U.S. citizen in the 1970s.

Matthew found his true calling within the garden center business selling bulbs (Dutch, of course!) and became known as a

perennial “guru” at garden centers in Arizona and several stretching from southern Connecticut to northern Vermont. Along the way, he garnered many state and local awards in recognition of his vast expertise, and he became widely known as “the Dutchman.”

As a Vermont certified horticulturist, his knowledge, charisma and genuine passion for his work were unsurpassed. With his infectious smile and an infamous twinkle in his blue eyes, Matthew turned many of his faithful customers into expert perennial gardeners.

He worked tirelessly until the age of 89 and retired earlier this year from the Gardener’s Supply Company in Williston.

Those who knew him best fondly recall his flawless proficiency of botanical Latin and his insatiable penchants for reading, keeping up with current events (and always sharing his opinion), and completing intricate jigsaw puzzles.

He is predeceased by his loving wife, Ginger de Wolf; his parents; and all three of his brothers.

Matthew leaves behind his stepdaughter Sharon Perkins and her husband, Gary, of Glen, N.H.; and his son Dr. Christopher de Wolf and his wife, Maria, and grandson Oliver of Geneva, Switzerland, and granddaughter Kaya of Vancouver, B.C. He will also be deeply missed by his many friends, fellow employees and clients who exclusively sought his horticultural guidance.

Donations to the Friends of Matthew de Wolf Scholarship are encouraged (c/o 476-B Ellsworth Rd., East Fairfield, VT 05448) and will assist deserving candidates who are pursuing a horticultural certification. A celebration of Matthew’s life and legacy is being planned for this fall. Please RSVP to roses4vt@gmail.com to receive the details.

BIRTHS On July 16, 2019, at Porter Medical Center, Katherine Clear and Rolf Humburg welcomed a girl, Dahlia Rue Agnes Clear.

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The Preservation Trust and other organizations worked to buy back the land starting in May 2015, according to an August 2018 article in Seven Days.

Sammis had planned to build a welcome center, hotel and residential complex on the site, but he agreed to give up the land if the community could raise $1 million in two months.

“In just 57 days, we were able to raise the money needed to conserve the land,” Bruhn said. “Over 500 donors from all over the state contributed.”

MARJORIE RYERSON, a photographer, editor and former Vermont legislator who lives in the Randolph area, said the fundraising volunteers became a family and used to meet in her home.

“We wrote letters and asked people on the street for donations,” she said.

BR UH N “I remember one woman handing me $3.63. All the money she had in her pocket.”

At the unveiling, Ryerson wore a white T-shirt with a colorful painting of the whale tails printed on its front.

“This was the original T-shirt from nearly 30 years ago,” she said. “I dug around in my closet this morning to find it.”

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ith a panoramic mountain range as a backdrop, a beloved sculpture came home, in a sense, to Randolph last Friday. “Whale Dance,” a new work by Vermont artist JIM SARDONIS, was unveiled at noon just off Interstate 89’s Exit 4.

“Reverence,” a similar sculpture by Sardonis, was originally sited on the land in 1989 and remained for a decade. When the farmland was sold to developer Jesse “Sam” Sammis in 1999, the sculpture was moved to a spot along I-89 in South Burlington.

Thanks to a group of local fundraisers, the Preservation Trust of Vermont and the Vermont Community Foundation, Randolph residents got their whales back.

Sardonis was commissioned to make another pair.

About 40 people, including members of the media, stood in the green field nearby to watch the installation process. Spectators shielded their faces from the 86-degree heat with sun hats and umbrellas.

“I don’t care about shade,” said SHARON RIVES, a resident of Braintree and the producer of VERMONT PRIDE THEATER at the CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. “All I care about is this view.” She spread her arms wide, pointing toward the Green Mountain vista.

The crane arrived at 9:30 a.m., and the first whale tail was lifted off the truck an hour later. The crane suspended the sculpture in mid-air as installers worked to line it up with the prepositioned concrete base.

“Whale Dance,” which stands at 16 feet tall, is the largest work Sardonis has ever completed, he said. Unlike “Reverence,” which is made of granite, the new sculpture is bronze.

“Bronze is strong, so I could make things bend and twist and lean a little more than I could with the stone,” Sardonis said. “I could make the whales dance.”

The artist said the original idea for his whale sculpture came to him in a dream in 1984.

“I was standing on a beach looking out [at the ocean] and saw these two whales’ tails emerge from the water,” he said. “I woke up thinking, I’d like to make that.”

ERIC SAKAI was one of the first people Sardonis told about the dream. Sakai came to the unveiling on Friday to support his friend and the project, he said.

The two men met in 1986 when they both joined local band SECOND WIND. Sardonis is the lead singer; Sakai plays the bass. (He’s also the dean of academic technology at Community College of Vermont.)

“The location in South Burlington doesn’t fit his vision as well as this site does,” Sakai commented. “The sculpture has been missed for the past 20 years, and PAU L now it’s finally come home.”

PAUL BRUHN, president of the Preservation Trust, said the whales’ relocation in 1999 was a big loss for Randolph.

“The sculpture was a surprise. You came off the exit and suddenly these tails were popping out of a field,” he said. “I drove by it many times and always smiled to myself.”

JESSICA TAFFET, who moved to Randolph in 2014, never had a chance to see “Reverence” in its previous location, but she said she was happy a new sculpture had been installed in the space.

Taffet is the director of Randolph Community Orchard, a food-security nonprofit that’s now the steward of the property. Previously, she was a member of Exit 4 Open Space, a grassroots organization that helped raise the funds to reacquire the land.

“It’s so important that this land is now open for public recreation and enjoyment,” Taffet said. “And with the growing threat of climate change, it’s important, now more than ever, to conserve farmland.”

Around noon, when both tails were mounted and the plastic coverings removed, the sculpture could be viewed in its full glory. The bronze shimmered in the sunlight, giving the works the wet, glossy look of real whales.

“You can just imagine the whales underwater, snuggling up and dancing,” Bruhn said, smiling as he sat in his wheelchair underneath a pop-up canopy. “Most days, I have the best job in Vermont. And today is a great example of why.” m

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Vermont’s Josh Melrod Honored as Director at Italian Film Fest B Y DA N B O LLES

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ere’s a life tip: If you ever for best director, Melrod ignored their successfully submit your calls in favor of spending Independence cool indie flick to an Italian Day with his family. film festival, especially if said “I was getting really jealous,” Melrod film fest occurs on a spec- admitted, “so the phone just kept ringtacular island in an ancient ing.” When he finally answered after the castle, go to the damn umpteenth call, he was elated. “Then, a festival. That’s a lesson moment later, I was like, ‘I can’t believe Barnard filmmaker JOSH I’m not there.’”

Now Melrod is mainly just MELROD recently thrilled about the accolade, learned the hard way. and deservedly so. While Melrod is the director of Ischia isn’t on par with, Major Arcana, a quiet little say, the Sundance Film indie drama that stars Festival, acknowledgveteran British character actor Tara Summers ment there is a big honor, of “Boston Legal” and a not to mention rare for a newcomer, Barnard’s UJON Vermont filmmaker.

TOKARSKI. His debut film was “It ’s not Venice or Cannes, but it’s presaccepted by the Ischia Film Festival, which took tigious,” Melrod said, referring to the Venice place earlier this month on Ischia, a small island and Cannes film festivals. off the coast of Naples.

The award also serves But Melrod, a film as recognition of one of editor whose credits his film’s more unusual include The Cult of JT attributes. Prior to filmLeroy and Albanian Ganging, the movie’s lead, J OSH ME LROD ster, was too busy with Tokarski, had never another project to attend. acted before.

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he current trend for downsizing and decluttering is missing a vital element, according to Vermont authors ELIZABETH DOW and LUCINDA COCKRELL. “Yes, we all have too much stuff, and yes, we need to get rid of it, but not at the expense of our heritage and personal history,” Cockrell said in an interview.

She and Dow are the authors of How to Weed Your Attic: Getting Rid of Junk Without Destroying History. They appeared at the ROKEBY MUSEUM in Ferrisburgh earlier this month to discuss their book during the reception for the current exhibition “Amassed and Up-Ended: Decoding the Legacy of Stuff.”

“Our book and the Rokeby exhibit complement each other,” Dow said.

The two women met in 2002 during a live video conference class at Louisiana State University that Dow was teaching and Cockrell was taking. Cockrell, who has degrees in historic preservation and museum education and is a certified archivist, was then working as an archivist at the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University, from which she took Dow’s course. Dow, another archivist with a PhD in library and information science, was teaching in the archives track she’d created at LSU. Dow and her husband grew up in Pennsylvania, met in Maryland and moved to Vermont after getting their degrees in other states. She began her career as an elementary school librarian in Morrisville, but after 12 years there, she wanted a change. Dow landed at the HENRY SHELDON MUSEUM OF VERMONT HISTORY in Middlebury. While there, she and colleague POLLY DARNELL developed a presentation on how to distinguish family papers that have historical value from those that don’t.

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Elizabeth Dow (left) and Lucinda Cockrell

decided, she needed input from someone with museum experience. She and Cockrell had kept in touch over the years. Cockrell’s husband had taught at Middlebury College before the couple met, and they planned to retire to their beloved Vermont, as did Dow. Dow asked Cockrell to collaborate.

“I said, ‘Wiz [Dow’s nickname], I can’t write!’” Cockrell remembered, laughing.

“I’d written programs, interpretive plans and exhibit labels, but I’d never written a book. “‘Yes, you can!’ Wiz said to me. We’ve had fun together, and it’s been very rewarding.”

“The voice in the book is mine, but a lot of the information comes from Lucinda,” Dow said. “It’s a very happy collaboration.”

The Rokeby exhibition where the pair spoke covers four generations of the Robinson family — farmers, abolitionists, artists, writers and homemakers — who lived on the property from 1793 to 1961.

Running through October 27, “Amassed and Up-Ended” presents artifacts, writings and photographs exploring “the ways in which what we save over a lifetime gives voice to some of our stories and silences others,” according to exhibition text.

Dow said she hopes their book, like the exhibition, communicates that family history matters. “No one is raising that issue,” she said. “It’s a good auxiliary book to all those books about downsizing and decluttering, because none of them discusses looking at the historical value of the stuff that you don’t want to keep.”

In the book, Dow writes:

As she moved to other jobs, and from Vermont to Louisiana, Dow kept giving the presentation and decided to turn it into a book. Then life got in the way. “I was retiring, which took a lot, and my husband got

sick and eventually died, and I put it aside,” she said. “A couple of years ago, it started calling me back, saying, It’s a really good book idea.”

To make the book truly useful, Dow

All family histories include stories, and often families have tools, clothing, souvenirs, photographs, letters and so on that provide tangible evidence of both oft-told stories

[and professional actors],” he said of editing “Skunk.” “In the editing room, you take the parts that are awkward, or they stumble, and you take these real genuine moments and bring them to the surface. I thought that would be well suited for this particular role.”

Major Arcana is Melrod’s directorial debut, but editing gave him a head start on the learning curve. “Editing is a great

film school,” he said, “because you see all the mistakes that other people make.”

As for Tokarski, the other first-timer, Melrod described him as a hard worker and quick study who compensated for his lack of acting experience with other qualities. “He’s a personable guy, and he has a really expressive face,” Melrod said.

“It was an eye-opening experience,” Tokarski said of acting in the film. “Josh’s

ability to take a nonactor and marry my skill set as a carpenter with his as a director speaks volumes to his talent.”

Melrod is working on a couple of other scripts at the moment, but given his editing workload, he anticipates it will be another year before he decides what to pursue next. In the meantime, Vermont audiences can see Major Arcana at the MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL in August.

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and other, perhaps untold, stories.

The surviving materials can bring family stories alive for generations that didn’t yet exist when the stories happened.

more I think history becomes relevant and knowable.”

Dow shared the example of a couple in the 1830s who lost a child at birth. The husband wrote in a journal that he went looking for a puppy his wife could nurse.

The authors explain why people’s There were no medications to dry up her possessions matter to history and provide milk. “It’s stunning in its simplicity, but general rules for making decisions about it lights up the way life was,” she said. what to do with them. They discuss the What about the digital age? “A great historical value of mass-produced, indi- deal of the human story is going to be lost,” vidualized, corporate and commemorative Dow said. “If you’ve got stuff online that materials. The last two chapters cover you want to keep for posterity, print it out,” preserving and donating family objects she went on. “Facebook is not thinking and papers. about 100 years from now. None of them “We don’t mean to complicate people’s are, even if they claim to be archiving sites. lives,” Cockrell said. “We want to make it They have a business model that may not easier for them to say, ‘Yeah, I can get rid survive, and once their business goes of this’ and ‘Well, maybe I should donate down, so do all their servers.”

“Most people are like, ‘Oh yeah, I can this somewhere so it will stay around and be accessible to people for research and just digitize this, and it will be just fine,’” learning.’ Of course, not Cockrell said. “Well, honey, everything belongs in a I’m here to tell you it may museum or archive, but so not. And if it is, how do you much stuff is just thrown know you’re going to have out.” that whatchamadigit to be “Without these things, able to see it on, hear it on, play it on? we’re trapped in the limbo of the present with no “It makes you stop and understanding of how think: In 100 years, what’s things were or how they history going to look like?”

E LIZABETH DOW got to be as they are,” Dow she continued. “We’re said. losing that real social, “Obviously, Wiz and I are all about right-there-of-the-moment stuff.” Text public history as it happens around us,” messages, Instagram posts, Snapchat — Cockrell said. “I was there at the very all are ethereal forms of communication. beginning, when nobody knew what it “We’ve lost that culture already, because was and [people] thought we were nuts. it’s a medium that’s not conducive to We were just coming out of the 1960s saving,” Cockrell concluded. and all the social movements. History “The people whose stuff survives are was supposed to be all this writing the people who influence the way history about the great white fathers. It wasn’t is written,” Dow said. “It’s important that supposed to be about the common the documentation of the lives of people at people, and heaven forbid you talk all levels of society be maintained, if we’re about women.” really going to understand what life was “History can be really dry, with names like.” and dates and actions,” Dow said. “But history is really about humans and how INFO they react to stuff. The more you under- How to Weed Your Attic: Getting Rid of Junk stand that humans have not changed that Without Destroying History by Elizabeth much in the last roughly 10,000 years, and H. Dow and Lucinda P. Cockrell, Rowman & you can catch them being very human, the Littlefield Publishers, 152 pages. $32.

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Tokarski said he hasn’t exactly caught the acting bug, but he’d do another film if the opportunity came along.

“I enjoy what I do, so if [acting] never happens again, I can look fondly back on the experience,” he said. “But I would definitely do it again.”

And, if that theoretical flick happened to land on a film festival program, you can bet he and Melrod would be there.

Contact: dan@sevendaysvt.com

INFO Major Arcana will be featured at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, which is Thursday, August 22, through Sunday, August 25, at various Middlebury locations. Visit middfilmfest.org for updates. For more on the film, visit majorarcanamovie.com.

QUICK LIT: INTO THE WILD In today’s crowded literary marketplace, writers are often exhorted to make sure their novel has a “hook” — an attentiongrabbing premise that translates easily to a screenplay logline. So it’s oddly refreshing to encounter a hookless book that develops at its own stubborn pace and sucks you in anyway.

The cover copy of The Bobcat, the debut novel from Norwich author KATHERINE FORBES RILEY, describes a tale of reflection, recovery and romance augmented by animal symbolism — nothing that stands out much in the landscape of literary fiction. The blurbs, however, do stand out: Alexander Chee is among the host of wellpublished authors who’ve raved about the book. As one falls under the spell of Riley’s meticulously crafted sentences, it’s not hard to see why.

For most of its brief length, The Bobcat has only one named character: the protagonist, a college student named Laurelie. The book opens with her rising in the morning, looking out the window, doing yoga and thinking about an art project. It’s a while before anything resembling a conventional plot develops.

But for Laurelie, who’s living in the aftermath of a frat-house rape, every day is already a drama. Each trip to her small-town Vermont campus, each interaction with a man — no matter how well intentioned — fills her with anxieties that Riley describes with a rare intimacy: She knew what she was experiencing wasn’t real, not exactly. Rather it was a kind of hyper-awareness, her brain taking in each minute detail of a scene and then twisting it, interpreting it in some predaceous relation to herself. And yet still even recognizing it did not lessen this perception; on the contrary it only became more acute as time passed, until every form became a caricature of itself, and every movement a threat she experienced as an actual physical blow.

Laurelie processes her trauma by creating art that refracts this daunting world through canonical allusions and comic-book-style panels, evoking “high” and “low” forms simultaneously.

In a similar way, The Bobcat is both a literary novel and an unapologetic romance, taking a plot that Nicholas

Sparks could probably have cashed in on and twisting it into something darker and more complex.

One day, Laurelie encounters a nameless hiker in the woods in the company of a wounded pregnant bobcat. He’s followed the cat 300 miles from Maine, keeping her alive until she can safely deliver. The hiker is strong and silent: a woodsman, a hunter, a cook and — as readers will intuit long before this becomes an issue — a good lover. He is an archetype whose roots stretch back to the beginnings of American fiction: the wild man with healing powers.

And yet he, like Laurelie, is also troubled and in need of healing. When the hiker encounters strangers, his eyes stream, his nostrils flare, his breath comes in pants. Crowds overwhelm him. He is, in short, animalistic in a more literal sense than we tend to expect from characters who embody “animal magnetism.” Naturally, he and Laurelie are drawn together. But their mutual attraction is not in itself a cure.

Toward the end, The Bobcat’s plot veers in a speculative direction that isn’t entirely successful, and Riley sometimes goes too far in depicting the mainstream world as grotesque and hostile (“Everything people did stank of corruption”). But then, that’s how Laurelie and the hiker experience it.

There are loads of novels about trauma, but few have so compellingly described “the fear … of being human, a human among humans” while conveying the power of love and sexuality to find a path through that fear. “The air around him seemed to sparkle and crack,” Riley writes of Laurelie’s response to the hiker, “and even after looking down she still felt as if she were being struck by electrical shocks, over and over again.”

Riley’s prose sparkles and cracks with its own kind of power. Like a visit to the den of the titular bobcat, her novel makes us feel like we’ve witnessed something private, untamed and perhaps a little sacred.

MARGOT HARRISON

Contact: margot@sevendaysvt.com

INFO The Bobcat by Katherine Forbes Riley, Arcade Publishing, 212 pages. $22.99. Riley reads with Peter Orner as part of the Joan Hutton Landis Summer Reading Series on Sunday, July 28, 5:30 p.m., at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Free.

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osemary Ducharme was a fireplug of a woman: short, stocky and muscular. She was sitting next to me in my taxi as we drove to her home in Richford after the completion of some arthritis-related medical tests in Burlington.

Richford sits in the northeast corner of Franklin County, just a stone’s throw from the Canadian border. With a population of some 2,300, it’s a good-size town by the standards of rural Vermont.

I’ve been through Richford before. As I now approach 40 years of hacking in the Green Mountains, it’s the rare Vermont town about which I couldn’t say the same thing. While I don’t quite qualify for the 251 Club — folks who’ve visited all 251 Vermont towns and cities — I’m easily within the “Well Over 200 Club.”

Rosemary was telling me about her career as a home-care worker, which helped explained her hardy exterior.

Caring for the elderly is a physically demanding job often involving serious lifting.

“For the past few years, I’ve been working for a lady, Belle Martin, in Montgomery. She just turned 99 and, with my help, is able to maintain her home. Belle was well known for running an ice cream and candy shop in St. Albans up into the 1970s, I guess. I even remember it from my early childhood, an old-fashioned place with the penny candies and such.

Little did anyone know that she was a wealthy woman! You should see her house — it’s a fancy Victorian on a large parcel of land.”

“What an interesting person,” I said.

“How is she to work for?”

“She’s a lovely lady, always generous and appreciative in her dealings with me.

But here’s the thing: Given her age, how much longer will I have this job? I’ve been through this before, though. It’s just the nature of this line of work. You do get attached to the people you care for, especially when they’re nice folks, like Belle.”

We drove north on 105, past the dairy farms and through the small towns.

that Pumpkin is pouting. She gets that way when I’m gone for the day.”

“Pumpkin is one of the cats? What are the names of the other five?”

“Well, there’s Trixie, Luna…” She was counting them off on her fingers. “And Fluffy, Baby Girl and Oscar. Oscar is the oldest. He’ll be 22 in August.”

“Twenty-two?” I asked, doing my best to dampen the incredulous tone. In cat years, that would make Belle Martin

I WAS SURPRISED JUST HOW MUCH

I WAS ENJOYING ROSEMARY’S CAT TALES. After a wet and chilly spring, we were now well into summer and the landscape was lush and verdant. As a kid who grew up in a big city marked by concrete and asphalt, I never take Vermont’s natureinfused vibrancy for granted. I feel it palpably, even within the confines of my moving taxi.

“So, do you have any kids, Rosemary?”

I asked.

“Nope, I’ve never had kids. I got married late in life to a man 15 years my senior. I guess we could have started a family, but we’re content just the two of us. We do have six cats, and they’re like kids to us.”

As if on cue, Rosemary’s cellphone came alive playing “Sweet Caroline” by Neil Diamond. “Excuse me,” she said.

“Yes, Joe — I’ll be home in about 20 minutes … I see. Well, tell her I miss her, too.”

“That was my husband,” she explained to me, hanging up. “He told me

look like a spring chicken. As much as I liked Rosemary, I was a little dubious. “I didn’t know a cat could live that long,” I added.

“Ayup, he’s that old, all right. I had him since he was a kitten. I think he’s practically deaf and blind at this point, but he’s still my lovebug, and I wouldn’t dream of putting him down.”

I am so not a cat person. It’s not as if I actively dislike our feline friends; I’m just indifferent. To be perfectly frank, I’d just as well cozy up to an iguana. That being the case, I was surprised just how much I was enjoying Rosemary’s cat tales. It was as if, through my customer, I was vicariously experiencing the delights of cat ownership.

We reached Richford where, below a bridge, the Missisquoi River runs through the downtown. This is the site of a charming municipal feature. On one end of the bridge, the town erected a green archway with yellow letters: WELCOME TO

RICHFORD VT. Centered above the arch is a clock.

For at least 20 years, I have been lobbying a succession of Burlington mayors to fund the construction of a similar arch at the southern gateway to the Church Street Marketplace, where it intersects with Main: WELCOME TO BURLINGTON VT – “THE QUEEN CITY.” So far, no mayor has bit, but I won’t stop trying. (Miro, I’m looking at you.)

As we made our way toward her house, Rosemary was describing the dietary preferences of her cat menagerie.

Apparently, each individual kitty favored a specific brand of cat food and mix of dry and moist. I’m pretty sure she used the word “finicky” twice. I savored every (to me) esoteric detail.

Pulling into her driveway, I could make out at least four little cat faces gazing out at their mistress from the front window. It looked like they were perched on the back of a sofa.

“Is one of them Pumpkin?” I asked.

“Nope, Pumpkin is mad at me,” she replied. “But she’ll get over it. She always does.”

As soon as dinnertime rolls around, I thought, chuckling to myself. m All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.

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he most determined hiker might take years — even decades — to climb the highest 46 peaks in the Adirondacks, the lowest of which measures 3,820 feet.

Adam Valastro aims to do it in less than four days. The Lake George, N.Y., resident wants to set a new speed record when he sets out September 1 on a carefully planned route that involves 58,500 feet of elevation gain — that’s nearly twice the height of Mount Everest — through some of the most remote and rugged trails and bushwhacks east of the Mississippi.

“The people that do this enjoy getting up to that limit, seeing if they can surpass it,” said Jan Wellford, who set a new fastest known time, or FKT, on becoming a “46er” 11 years ago. In the spirit of succession planning, Wellford is helping Valastro — a challenger — figure out the best way to beat his historic time of three days, 17 hours and 14 minutes.

Peak performance isn’t the sole motivation for Valastro’s mountain marathon: Last November his wife, Bri, went to the hospital with muscle pain and heart palpitations. She was eventually diagnosed with Lyme disease, a tick-borne affliction that has been spreading steadily northeast.

After fighting with doctors and insurance companies about poor follow-up treatment, Valastro wants to raise awareness about what he predicts will soon be a public health crisis.

“I started thinking, What is it that there is around here that I can do that will get attention?” Valastro recalled, acknowledging that only a record-breaking finish would be newsworthy. He announced his intent to an Adirondack hiker Facebook group and shared it within the small but active online Lyme community. His own Facebook page, Quest 46, now has more than 1,300 followers. They receive vetted, credible info from the nonprofit Lyme Action Network, with which Valastro is partnering.

Valastro also shares progress reports on his training, but I got to see it for myself on a Saturday in June. Every weekday since late March, he’s hiked the steep trail up Prospect Mountain in Lake George — a mile-long stretch with nearly 1,500 feet of

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Adam Valastro running down Prospect Mountain

elevation gain. On the day I tagged along, he made it to the top in 32 minutes. By the end of the month, he said his time was down to 23.15.

Until last year, it would’ve been a stretch to call Valastro an athlete. The 35-year-old is a systems administrator at a mental health hospital who spent time in the woods hiking and hunting, but he wasn’t a runner and had no experience in endurance sports. Now he’s aiming to join an elite club of individuals who push their minds and bodies to the limits.

There are three basic FKT categories.

“Unsupported” indicates the athlete carried all the food and gear needed for his or her entire journey, as record-breaking 46ers Mike Jock and Lukas Wear did earlier this month for six days, 23 hours and 45 minutes in the Adirondacks. “Selfsupported” allows for resupply caches or stops at a store along the route.

Valastro’s approach, described as “supported,” allows for a team that provides food, drinks and encouragement to the contender. Friends and family will

drive Valastro between trailheads, feed him and run with him to help keep up the pace. He plans to rest four hours out of every 24.

With the “supported” approach, logistics are key. Alyssa Godesky, a 34-year-old professional triathlete from Virginia, learned that when she set a new female FKT on the Long Trail last summer. Unlike the ultramarathons and triathlons she’d been doing for years, the Long Trail had no aid stations stocked with food, water and a medic.

To plan the trek, she and her boyfriend took out a Long Trail map and, using pieces from the board game Life, played out the whole thing in miniature.

“You have to just think through what cars will every single member of your crew be in, how will they get from point A to point B,” she said. “We literally had to visualize it.”

Godesky had “pacers” with her — a rotating cast of runners who accompanied her over 273 mountainous miles in five days, two hours and 37 minutes. On their fresh legs, they ran at the pace she needed to stay on schedule. “The real challenge is getting as close as possible to perfection while also being flexible,” Godesky said. It poured rain the first day. Descending Camel’s Hump, she got hammered by storms.

Distance running has been part of the human experience since ancient tribes chased their prey until it collapsed from exhaustion. Speed records on pedestrian routes are a more recent development. That’s largely because people didn’t have the time, resources or desire to seek out arbitrary challenges that required months or years of training, in which suffering is guaranteed and success is less likely than injury.

Wellford said setting records on foot requires “the ability to push beyond the walls that your body is trying to set or your mind is trying to set … You learn a lot about yourself, and there’s a great feeling that comes with that.”

Success in most athletic endeavors — especially those with a timer involved — usually means doing what it takes to stay on top of the leaderboard and gain an edge over challengers. But to Wellford, that’s

not what FKTs are about. The informal rule is: Anyone going for a new record should let the existing record holder know, and it’s common for veterans to help the next generation along.

“Every FKT suitor stands on the shoulders of the person before them,” Wellford said, crediting Ted “Cave Dog” Keiser for setting the 2002 record he broke six years

Wellford didn’t stay on public land for his entire route and shaved off some time by moving the finish line — adjustments that bother him now.

The previous record holder, Cave Dog, finished at the summit of Whiteface, which has an access road that allowed supporters to greet him. But the hike up Whiteface is relatively short, and Wellford figured out that by finishing on a more remote peak, the long descent from that final summit would be off the clock.

“By ending on Dix, which is 6.8 miles from a trailhead, I kind of saved a few miles there,” Wellford said. “So that’s kind of lame, in my opinion.”

While finding route improvements and other tactical advantages are part of setting an FKT, there are unspoken ethical guidelines: walking every foot of trail instead of cutting through a switchback; following all regulations for wilderness travel in the region; actually touching the summit marker; disposing of waste Adam and Bri Valastro outside their home on the properly; hiking on trails instead shores of Lake George of up access roads. In other words, cutting the fewest possible corners — both literally and figuratively — later. “Basically, it’s meant to be broken, as in order to accomplish the goal. far as I’m concerned, and the next person “Say you were doing an overnight, and always has an advantage.” you didn’t carry a bear canister. Everyone Applying that logic, Wellford has else has to use that rule. Like, why are proposed a route for Valastro based on you more special because you’re a record what he learned in 2008 — and he shares attempter?” Wellford asked. it with anyone who asks. His only request: He said he wants to see his record “I’d like to see it done in better style.” broken by someone who only travels on

public land and ends at the final trailhead instead of the last summit.

Can Valastro go the distance on Wellford’s new, improved route? In less than a year, he has gone from running an underwhelming 12-minute mile to nearly setting an FKT on a different set of mountains in the Lake Placid region.

In May, he ran the Lake Placid 9’er Ultra — a 32-mile slog up and down a smaller set of mountains that involved roughly 10,000 feet in elevation change.

Valastro completed it in less than 14 hours.

He might have set a new race record if not for a wrong turn while driving between mountains.

Thirty pounds lighter and sporting the lean, toned legs of a hiker, Valastro looks like a young man in his athletic prime, except for streaks of gray in his goatee.

Bri said her husband’s physical transformation has been “amazing.” She said the daily training has also forced him to get more organized about scheduling his days, which she likes. “I know where he’s going to be,” she said.

She’s worried about Valastro’s ambitious plan — “even with safety precautions, it’s dangerous” — but she believes he’s doing it for the right reason.

“All these people have Lyme disease, and … nothing’s really being done about it,” Bri said. “When he told me he wanted to be kind of a voice for these people and for me — I’m a shy person, I’m not a social media person, I don’t really like to talk to people I don’t really know … Adam’s always been the person … to take that stance.”

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Holly said kids typically struggle the most to adapt: “You’ll see them be sort of fidgety for the first day or so, until they get acclimated and figure out that there’s so much to do here.”

Bruce disagreed. “I would say the kids seem to adapt quicker than their parents,” he countered. “There’s so much freedom here. The kids are our best salespeople.”

He’s observed that adults often keep their phones with them the day they arrive, then wean themselves off by day three.

Though you can inquire about Timberlock via email, the Catlins — who live in Lincoln, Vt., in the off-season — only accept reservations by phone. “We like to talk to everyone first before they get here,” Bruce said. “That way they know what they’re getting into.”

Even so, not every guest arrives ready to leave behind the luxuries of home.

Like most of the current staff, Liza Scher, a Colorado College student who runs Timberlock’s social media feeds, has been working at Timberlock for several summers. She told a story of a past guest who struggled with submitting to the camp vibe.

Scher had gotten up early to prep breakfast. While puttering around the dining porch, she heard a strange whirring noise coming across the stone patio from the lodge — the only facility with electricity accessible to guests.

“I opened the door, and there was a very well-dressed woman blow-drying her hair,” said Scher with a chuckle. “Her hair looked great, though.”

My girlfriend and I had no such trouble letting go.

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have a love/hate relationship with my smartphone. Oh, sure, my trusty iPhone XR is a grand and useful tool — basically a pocket-size computer with a badass camera that I use for everything from checking social media, news and weather to tracking my health, balancing my budget and, every once in a while, making phone calls.

But that’s precisely the problem: I use it for everything. And I use it all the time. Just ask my girlfriend, who regularly needs to tell me to stop scrolling through Twitter at night and go the hell Entrance to the Timberlock resort to sleep before my eyeballs rot.

Thanks to this borderline addiction, I find myself craving and appreciating phone-free moments, even as those moments become harder to come by.

What I need are places where checking my email is simply not an option. Places like Timberlock.

Recently, said girlfriend and I ventured to the rustic resort in the heart of the Adirondack Park for a 24-hour getaway — and to meet Bruce and Holly Catlin, the Vermont couple who run it. The experience was, in a word, blissful.

Timberlock is among the oldest family resorts in the Adirondacks. The Catlins — Timberlock waterfront and lodge including Bruce’s parents, Dick and Barb, who bought the resort in 1964 and still help out when they can — are just the third family in 160 years to own the property.

It’s nestled along the southwestern edge of Indian Lake, surrounded Vintage photo of Timberlock mostly by preserved wilderness.

While summer homes can be found miles away at the outside world is a selling point for the loyal northern end of the lake, Timberlock’s guests who arrive in droves from places only neighbors on the south are a Quaker like Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New camp and the odd loon or bald eagle. It is Jersey between late June and early Octoquiet, remote and beautiful. And here’s ber, typically booking weeklong stays at the best part: Aside from the main lodge, least a year in advance. a sprawling structure of logs and stone, It hasn’t always been that way. For none of the accommodations at Timber- most of its history, Timberlock lacked lock have electricity … or cell service. electricity simply because it was hard to That forced disconnect from the run power lines that far. Only in the 1970s

did the camp stop using an icehouse for refrigeration.

“It’s sort of funny how that’s switched around,” Bruce said.

Timberlock suffers from no shortage of things to do. Traditional camp activities such as archery, horseback riding, tennis and hiking have always been draws, as have water sports such as swimming, sailing and water skiing. Yet, in recent years, the ability to genuinely “get away from it all” has become one of Timberlock’s most important features.

“There just aren’t many places left in the world like this,” said Scott Dyer, a retired New York City lawyer and flight instructor who has been bringing his family to Timberlock for 30 years.

“It can be so hard to disconnect,” Bruce explained. While he was speaking specifically of fast-paced life in the world beyond Timberlock, that rule holds true at the resort, too. Especially for newcomers, adjusting to a screen-free existence can take time, the Catlins said.

our stay near lunchtime on a Friday. A friendly, college-age staffer loaded our luggage and cooler into a John Deere Gator and gave us directions to our cabin, where our gear would be waiting.

We followed a footpath from the lodge into the woods along the lake, past a string of other cabins and bathhouses.

While some of the larger cabins have bathrooms (adult rate $1,380 weekly), most of Timberlock’s 28 cabins and tentlets use shared “trail johns” ($1,032 weekly). Our small waterfront unit called Mallard had been recently built; it still had that piney “new cabin” smell.

It also had a comfy bed, a dresser, nightstands and an LED lantern — some cabins come equipped with propane lanterns and woodstoves. But the best feature was the screened-in porch, which afforded bug-free relaxation and views of the lake and distant mountains.

After settling in, we followed the call of the dinner bell to lunch on the historic open-air dining porch of the lodge. Guests receive three meals a day, prepped by longtime Timberlock chef Mary Benton Frasier and often featuring veggies from the on-site gardens. Two bells alert campers to each meal — the first is a 15-minute warning; the second signals it’s time to eat.

A f t e r l u n c h , we explored and played. We plunged into a seasonably BRU CE chilly Indian Lake via the rope swing at the end of a sprawling dock, then hung out on the large water trampoline that dominates the swimming area. As we lounged, two young children, a brother and sister, used the trampoline in a manner more in line with its intended purpose: gleefully trying to push each other off.

We dried off in the sun on two of several Adirondack chairs dotting the tiered lawn along the waterfront. We took a stroll to visit the horses, volleyed a ball back and forth on the tennis courts, and chatted pleasantly with other guests and staff. One group was a Vermont family celebrating a reunion — a common occurrence at Timberlock, we learned.

Bruce accompanied us on a leisurely late-afternoon cruise, telling us about the man-made lake’s timber-industry history.

As we trolled down a long, narrow inlet, I was struck by just how remote the area is. It reminded me of canoeing as a kid in Maine’s Allagash Wilderness, another part of the country where moose and loons outnumber people by a significant margin.

When we returned to shore, it was

just about cocktail hour.

Drinking is allowed in cabins but generally discouraged in common areas, so we retreated to our cabin porch for chilled sparkling wine and a few hands of gin rummy. From the sound of it, we weren’t the only campers with that idea. As my girlfriend trounced me at cards, we could hear idle chatter and clinking glasses from several nearby cabins.

Friday dinner is a big deal at Timberlock. It’s the last night for most guests, so Frasier went all out with grilled steak.

The staff presented cheeky awards to campers on paper plates, honoring them for everything from improved horseback riding to making it back alive from a long hike. The whole affair was jovial, if cut with the unmistakable melancholy of the last night of camp.

We ate with a group of longtime Timberlock guests, including Dyer and his family, who were honored that night for their 30-year run. But their tenure paled in comparison with that of another of our tablemates, Peter Spalding. The retired engineer might well be the camper with the longest history at Timberlock, even longer than Bruce’s.

Spalding has been coming, both as a guest and a staffer, since the 1950s; he still helps out with camp maintenance.

There’s a second camp CATLIN record Spalding probably holds, though it’s unlikely to come with a paper-plate award. He met his first wife at Timberlock. After they raised a family and divorced, Spalding met his second wife at the camp, too.

“You could say I have a rather special connection to Timberlock,” he joked with a bashful grin.

He’s not the only one. Though we were only there for a day, my girlfriend and I were welcomed as though we’d been coming to Timberlock for years. The camaraderie and friendship of campers who meet up there year after year, then return to their separate lives, is well in evidence.

That warm feeling is mostly due to Timberlock itself, a marvelous throwback to a simpler era. But it might also be because of what happens when we unplug from the virtual world: We make real connections. m

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a.m. audition workshops. Starting that early is no small feat, as anyone who has ever tried to croak out a tune before noon knows. And the singing doesn’t come to a full stop until curtain call — which, during this month’s run of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s four-act The Marriage of Figaro, is often not until 11 p.m.

In their remaining waking hours, performers work one-on-one with voice coaches and teachers and rehearse for upcoming shows. It’s an unrelenting crazy train of opera, with one show running into another … and another and another.

That hectic pace mimics a pro opera singer’s real life, said professional singer and Seagle alum Seth Carico, who attended from 2002 to 2006. At the German repertory opera house where he worked postSeagle, singers often performed 10 to 15 different roles a year.

“Seagle is an ideal training place for that experience,” Carico wrote from

London, where he’s now rehearsing for a production of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold. “The rapid schedule teaches the young artists that if they want to succeed in such an intense environment, they must fill in all the blanks themselves.”

The staff at Seagle, many of whom were students at the colony themselves, are flush with guidance when it comes to the big questions: What comes after college?

How does work-life balance even look for a performer in a world far outside the norm of nine-to-five workdays and three-piece suits? What to wear to an audition?

Throughout the summer, staff teach workshops and classes that delve into the navigation of relationships, finances, etiquette, clothing and more in the operatic world — details that academic programs often leave out.

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and end the session with a campfire-esque dinner.

But it’s also an intensive course in what it takes to be a professional singer.

From June to August, singers get three Sundays off. The remaining days in the nine-week session are filled tip to tail with audition workshops, classes and rehearsals for the colony’s four public shows and touring children’s show. Each singer is part of nearly every production and guaranteed at least one principal role.

Leads are expected to know their music by heart from the get-go, regardless of which language the lyrics are in.

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riving up to the main rehearsal space of the Seagle Music Colony in Schroon Lake, N.Y., one of the most elite voice academies in the country, is a concert unto itself. When the building’s windows are splayed open, the deep, rumbling baritones and high soprano warbles of 32 of the country’s best up-andcoming opera singers pour unfiltered into the Adirondack woods. Surrounded by little besides trees and connected to the outside world only by the newly installed Wi-Fi, these vocal powerhouses hone their craft far from the distracting buzzes of reality.

It’s pure, unbridled opera boot camp, baby.

Seagle Music Colony has been prepping and preening aspiring professional opera singers in this unlikely neck of the woods for the past 104 years, making it the country’s oldest vocal training program.

Its founder and namesake, Oscar Seagle, studied and taught voice in Europe before coming to the U.S. during World War I. After a quick stint in Lake George, N.Y., he set up shop in Schroon Lake, teaching singing lessons out of the barn that now holds the program’s 175-seat theater. The Seagle family remained at the helm of the program until 1995, when a board of directors took over.

In the years since, management has raised the stakes tremendously, expanding the program’s budget from $30,000 to $850,000, with renovations to campus buildings to match. General director Tony Kostecki, artistic director Darren Woods, and managing and technical director Jim Koehnle now work at Seagle full time, prepping and fundraising for upcoming summers and pre- and post-season outreach programming.

While longevity isn’t always synonymous with quality, noted Kostecki, Seagle has become more and more selective over the years, with more and more singers vying for the program’s 32 spots each audition cycle. “We have a reputation now that we really get a lot of great young, up-and-coming singers interested in our program,” he said.

“If you’re here, you’re considered one of the 32 best singers in the country,” Woods added. Most of the singers are enrolled in academic programs at various levels.

In some ways, Seagle is a summer camp, à la Camp Rock: Singers eat family-style meals together, room in bunks (an allfemale one is known as the “Diva Den”)

actually works, how the business works,” said Maria Vasilevskaya, a 24-yearold mezzo-soprano from Russia. “In academia, you hardly talk about that.”

This is Vasilevskaya’s second year in the program. Most singers attend two summers, though plenty stay for more, or just one. As she’s learned to navigate the biz in the U.S., she said, as well as how to balance her marriage with her career, she’s found the lessons of Seagle particularly salient.

“We don’t only talk about how to have a career but also how to have a life,” she said.

Vasilevskaya’s age is the median among the program’s current artists. Some of the younger singers are still working toward bachelor’s degrees at universities and conservatories around the country, while

the oldest singers, like 29-year-old tenor Anthony Rohr, have already finished master’s degree programs.

“All but one year in my twenties have I been in school,” Rohr said. “I’ve been a long time in academia. Now it’s time to take the plunge” — meaning a headfirst dive into the fast-paced, competitive worlds of professional opera and musical theater.

Rohr will have a lot of support when he takes that step, not only from Kostecki and Woods — who affectionately refers to the singers as “kids” — but also from his “guild parents,” patrons who are assigned singers to cheer on at performances throughout the session. Sometimes this fandom lasts beyond Seagle. Woods noted that superfanatic guild parents and board members have been known to fly to Europe and beyond to hear “their” singers perform.

Many are also patrons in the traditional sense, supplying fiscal contributions and scholarships so that few singers pay the summer’s full $5,250 tuition.

On a recent Thursday morning, a row of guild parents sat in the back of the rehearsal space while their singers, made up and dressed to the nines, sang through mock auditions for the Seagle staff and students. Some arias brought spectators to tears.

“What I love this morning is, all of you made me have an emotional reaction,”

said one of the vocal coaches, delivering feedback. “That’s why we’re here. That’s what I love.”

It was a widely shared sentiment. After a morning of individual voice lessons, singers gushed to one another over lunch in the colony’s homey, wallpapered dining room. “You made me cry!” said one girl to her friend. Changed from her audition dress into leggings and a tank top, she was scooping potatoes and salad onto her plate as Lizzo played from an iPhone in the kitchen.

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It was a picture of sleep-away-camp normalcy, even if just for a moment. But at 2 p.m., singers met in the rehearsal space again, their Teva sandals traded for character shoes, to run through a scene for the colony’s upcoming production of The Manchurian Candidate.

Based on the book and movies of the same name, the show follows the intense story of a U.S. presidential election

wracked by foreign interference. After the singers reviewed music with an accompanist, director of production Richard Kagey set the scene.

“This is a party of white, racist people,” he said. “Make some uncomfortable moments.”

There’s more room than usual for moment making in a new opera like The Manchurian Candidate. Its four-show run at Seagle will be just the third-ever staging of the production.

“It’s fascinating to work with these new works, especially because the singers get to wrap themselves around a role that we have no reference for,” said Kagey, who first came to the colony as a singer in 1963.

“Operas are wonderful, but operas that have been around for a long time have a lot of expectations.”

Seagle’s creative team has made a conscious effort to include more contemporary American works among the two operas and two musicals it presents each session, though it’s not passing over the classics. Hours after The Manchurian Candidate rehearsal — and following dinner and a short break — the cast of Figaro crooned onstage in lyrical Italian, English supertitles projected over their wig-wearing heads. A packed audience,

many of its members summering in the Adirondacks, listened in awe.

It’s easy to be starstruck by these performers, their big, booming voices filling every corner of the whimsical wooden theater in the woods. Soon, many of them will move on to bigger stages.

Just last week, at Woods’ behest, one of the program’s sopranos, 24-yearold Ashlee Lamar, flew to Illinois to sing for a representative of the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

“She has the kind of voice that comes along once in a generation,” Woods said of the singer.

At the end of the summer, companies and artist managers come to Seagle to hear the colony’s singers, who have to put all they’ve learned to the test. If all goes according to plan, they won’t be nervous, because performing to the highest of expectations will be second nature.

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Wheels on the Warren Cycling the Warren County Bikeway is a journey through Adirondack history

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ere was my challenge: to scout out a safe and enjoyable family cycling trip in the Adirondacks that my daughter, 9, and son, 7, could handle. That wasn’t as simple as it sounds. The Adirondack Park and its environs offer hundreds of miles of designated, on-road cycling routes and off-road mountain bike trails. But while both kids are now competent on two-wheelers — no training wheels or tagalongs required — neither is skilled or confident enough to ride on the shoulder of a state highway or bomb down a mountainous single track.

I discovered a fortuitous solution: the Warren County Bikeway, a 9.4-mile paved, mostly off-road bike path running between Glens Falls and Lake George, N.Y. As a big fan of rail trails — former railroad lines that have been converted into multiuse recreational corridors — I found that the Warren County Bikeway had much in common with Vermont’s rail trails, including the Burlington bike path and the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail. It’s scenic, easily accessible, not too challenging for young riders and linked to other historic bike paths. The bikeway offers plenty of fun attractions and side excursions along the way, while also providing glimpses into the region’s rich industrial past.

I began my ride at 1:30 p.m. south of the bikeway itself, in Hudson Falls, about 13 miles from Lake George. (My kids aren’t ready to pedal that distance, but I wanted to explore the entire trail before choosing our route.) There, I picked up the Feeder Canal Heritage Trail, an unpaved, packed-gravel bike path that runs along what was once the Feeder Canal towpath.

A downloadable map indicated that this trail connects to the bikeway in Glens Falls to the north and the Old Champlain Canal towpath in Fort Edward to the south.

A shallow, concrete-walled waterway, the Feeder Canal was first dug in 1822 and operated for about a century to supply water from the Hudson River to the highest points on the Champlain Canal.

According to Jeanne Williams, executive director of the nonprofit Feeder Canal Alliance, which maintains the trail, the Feeder Canal once had 14 locks, some of which are still in place though no longer operational.

The Feeder Canal Heritage Trail passes through a mix of woods, residential neighborhoods, and industrial sites both historic and contemporary. The first 38

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Chuck Welch, an 81-year-old retired computer professional who now divides his time between Albany and Lake George.

Pedaling a bike with an electric-assist motor, Welch told me that he regularly makes the bike trip between Glens Falls and Lake George, which convinced me that this was doable in an afternoon.

The Warren County Bikeway, heading north to Lake George

I WASN’T AWARE OF HOW CLOSE I WAS TO CIVILIZATION UNTIL THE TRAIL EMERGED ONTO ROUTE 9. historic structure I encountered was the Griffin Lumber coal silos, which straddle the canal at Maple Street in Hudson Falls.

Built in 1906, the five concrete silos once held different grades of coal, according to a historic marker at the site.

Traveling north, the trail passes Lehigh Northeast Cement, a massive, modern industrial complex. Beyond it, a historical plaque notes that this was once the site of Sherman Lime, which began operations in 1832. Black marble mined in this region is still considered among the purest carbonates of lime in the world, which is used for

refining sugar, bleaching flour and other agricultural purposes. At one time, more than 80 such lime kilns dotted the Feeder Canal; some of those ruins are still visible.

After a few confusing zigzags on residential streets in Glens Falls — the city’s directional signage was paltry at best — I picked up the Warren County Bikeway itself, a wide asphalt trail begun in the 1970s and finally completed in 2000.

Unsure of the distance or difficulty of the route to Lake George, I struck up a conversation with one of the few other cyclists on the bikeway that afternoon:

Because the bikeway was virtually empty on this particular weekday — according to Welch, it gets busy only on major holiday weekends — we rode together, two abreast, for a few miles. That is, until a twentysomething cyclist passed us in the opposite direction and barked, “Single file would be nice!” Yep, I was in New York.

We pedaled past a couple of ice cream stands along the bikeway, including one where I stopped on my return trip: Cooper’s Cave Ale, a microbrewery, brewpub and ice cream stand named for nearby Cooper’s Cave on the Hudson River, a site made famous in James Fenimore Cooper’s 19th-century novel, The Last of the Mohicans.

Continuing north, Welch and I crossed a 242-foot steel-truss pedestrian and bicycle bridge that spans the busy, fourlane Quaker Road in Glens Falls. As Welch noted, the bridge was named in honor of Queensbury native Gerald Solomon, a longtime U.S. representative from the area who retired in 1999.

After about two miles together, Welch and I parted ways. The bikeway then left the commercial and industrial zones and entered a pine forest with plenty of shade and songbirds. But just as I marveled at the minimal number of road crossings, the

trail abruptly dumped onto Country Club Road in Queensbury, which skirts a golf course. It’s unfortunate that the country club didn’t allow the bikeway to cut a route through it, as it would have all but eliminated the 1.2-mile on-road portion of the trip. And though this wasn’t a high-speed highway, I wouldn’t feel comfortable riding this stretch with the kids.

However, the on-road route soon turned off the highway and ascended a steep dead-end street that at its terminus reconnected with the paved, off-road path.

Here, the bikeway passes Glen Lake, a popular spot for anglers, and enters some of its prettiest stretches. These include a

driven beneath this pedestrian bridge dozens of times en route to the Northway, never realizing it was a bike path.

On the opposite side of the bridge I also discovered why the Warren County Bikeway is peppered with suicide prevention signs. The pedestrian bridge was dedicated to Roberts, a medic in the New York State Army National Guard and EMS paramedic in the Queensbury and Clifton Park areas, who took her own life in 2012 at age 27. On the north side of the bridge, travelers have left various items, such as lapel pins honoring U.S. Army veterans and New York City police and firefighters who died in 9/11, on a wooden memorial plaque.

traveled in the first few decades of the 20th century until the rise of the automobile after World War II, when rail traffic declined. The last passenger train on this line ceased operations in 1957, according to a historical marker.

Although this stretch of the bikeway parallels the stores and strip malls along Route 9, the trail itself is heavily wooded and follows a babbling brook. Aside from the occasional rumble of 18-wheelers, I wasn’t aware of how close I was to civilization until the trail emerged onto Route 9 itself, near the Wild West Ranch & Western Town, which resembles a 19th-century Western movie set and advertises “barn weddings” on its marquee.

This portion of Lake George has plenty of family-friendly activities, including a miniature golf course, creemee — sorry, soft-serve — stands, and an abundance of burger joints and pizza counters. Lake George Steamboat, headquartered in the historic Delaware & Hudson Railway Station, offers scenic tours of Lake George aboard its three steamboats. Despite the abundance of places to grab a late lunch, I figured that eating a New York-style pizza slice as big as a hubcap would significantly impede my progress on the largely uphill return trip.

As I made the slow, steady climb up the bikeway back to Hudson Falls — I finally returned to my car at 5:40 p.m. after the The Feeder Canal Heritage Trail in Glens Falls

Million Dollar Beach at the south end of Lake George

Cyclists on the Warren County Bikeway near Glen Lake

freshwater marsh where cyclists can spot hooded mergansers, dragonflies, muskrats and green frogs floating around the duckweeds and water lilies. Farther north, I realized why Welch had electric power assist on his bike: Some of the inclines here were steeper than any found on the Burlington bike path or the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail.

At 2:45 p.m. I crossed the Sgt. Kristie A. Roberts Memorial Bridge, which spans Route 149 near its intersection with Route 9 near the Queensbury factory outlets. I’ve

Continuing north, the trail follows a centuries-old transportation corridor that was variously used as a footpath during the French and Indian War, a plank toll road for stagecoaches, and an electric trolley line. The last, the Hudson Valley Railway, operated as an interurban passenger train line from 1901 to 1928.

From there, the bikeway follows what was once a branch of the Delaware & Hudson Railway, built in 1882 to carry passengers to and from Albany and New York City. This railroad line was heavily

Here, the bikeway briefly sidles up to Route 9 near a strip of vintage motels, though a steel guardrail separates the highway from the bike path itself. Thankfully, the bikeway quickly returns to a hardwood forest and traverses a long, scenic downhill run to Lake George.

At 3:10 p.m. I emerged from the forest at the Lake George Battlefield Park near Million Dollar Beach. This boardwalk-like stretch of waterfront, at the southern tip of Lake George, was awash in sunbathers, blaring radios, motorboats and parasailers.

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Eyes on the Stars Gazing upward in the dark at Tupper Lake

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rom the slab of rock atop Coney Mountain, just outside Tupper Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, there is a 360-degree view of the dark. Not a single prick of humanmade light is visible on the horizon, beyond occasional headlights on the highway 500 feet below. The only light comes from stars.

Tupper Lake is called the “Crossroads of the Adirondacks” because it sits in the center of the 6.1 million-acre Adirondack Park, home of the largest protected wilder-

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the observatory is open to the public. On a clear night, according to Sky Center vice president Seth McGowan, up to 200 people will stop by to look through four mounted telescopes inside the building and any number of smaller telescopes set up outside. Through the larger ones, Sky Center volunteers show visitors detailed lunar features, distant galaxies and nebulae, and planets such as Mars, Saturn and Jupiter. McGowan said summer is a great time to spot Jupiter and sometimes even its moons.

light pollution in neon shades: White and red areas are the most polluted, black and gray areas the least. On the western half of the U.S., bright splotches indicate the densely populated Pacific coast, and cities such as Denver, Phoenix and Las Vegas dot a landscape painted primarily in shades of gray and black.

By contrast, the eastern half of the country is blanketed in a neon quilt of light. Even the mountainous regions of Vermont are affected by light pollution.

But there’s a large black spot on the dark-

kicked off a campaign to raise $15 million for an AstroScience Center. The center aims to expand the current facility by adding a museum with a lecture hall and planetarium, and to add a second observatory with a traditional dome-style design.

The staff hope to finish new construction before the solar eclipse in April 2024, because Tupper Lake is in the path of totality.

The Sky Center has raised $2.2 million to date, including grants from New York State and private foundations. Stewart’s PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ADIRONDACK SKY CENTER

A telescope in the Adirondack Sky Center observatory

ness area east of the Mississippi River.

Thanks to its remote location and relatively high altitude, the Adirondack region has very little light pollution, making it an ideal place for stargazing.

Amateur astronomers in Tupper Lake saw opportunity in all that starry darkness. They established an astronomy club in 1999, incorporated it as a nonprofit in 2003 and, in 2013, reached their first goal: completion of an observatory, the first building on the campus of the Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory.

Tucked on the edge of Little Wolf Pond just north of the town-operated campground, the observatory resembles an oversize shed. But inside, when the building’s 4,000-pound roof slides back at the press of a button, visitors have a perfect view of the cosmos.

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The Sky Center also holds private star parties for families and groups, free summer and after-school classes for kids, and an astrophotography conference every fall. On Sunday, it held the first Adirondack Sky Festival in partnership with the town and local organizations, featuring spacerelated events all over downtown.

A view as stellar as the one in the Adirondacks is becoming increasingly difficult to find. According to the Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute, the Milky Way is no longer visible on 80 percent of our planet, including for 99 percent of the U.S. population. Since the invention of the first crude lamp roughly 70,000 years ago, humans have been perfecting the art of illumination. Now, we can rarely escape it.

One way to visualize how bright the U.S. has become is on a dark-sky map, such as the one at darksitefinder.com. It illustrates

A 2013 photo of the Adirondack Sky Center observatory under the northern lights

sky map in upstate New York. In fact, other than northern Maine, the Adirondacks appear to be the largest spot of darkness in the eastern U.S. A night sky at its finest is far from a passive backdrop. The constellations can seem to reach down and grab their viewers. And the higher the altitude, the fewer the number of air particles obstruct that experience.

At 1,545 feet, Tupper Lake offers an intimate exchange with the cosmos.

But close observation of heavenly bodies doesn’t come cheap. The center’s newest telescope cost about $12,000, even before it was outfitted with imaging equipment.

That’s pocket change compared to the Sky Center’s next goal. In August 2018 it

Shops and the Dake Foundation donated a total of $125,000 this spring.

“We are at the level of dark skies that are research capable,” McGowan said, noting that students and researchers from Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., and Saint Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., have used the Sky Center observatory.

He said the Sky Center has outgrown its current facility but that it can leverage its remote location into a world-class museum and home for research.

New York State has taken measures to protect the skies from light pollution. In 2014 the state adopted a law that established design standards for new lighting fixtures purchased by state and local governments. Shifting

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Shifting to LEDs can reduce the total wattage used and save municipalities money, and requiring that those lights be pointed downward will reduce excess ambient light.

Artificial light disrupts not only humans’ ability to view the sky but also the patterns of wildlife, said John Sheehan, director of communications for the Adirondack Council, a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization. Many animals use the cover of night to avoid predators, migrate and take part in breeding rituals, according to the International Dark Sky Association. In addition, the association reports that insects are drawn to artificial light, which disturbs their normal role in the ecosystem.

“People are shocked to find that conventionally lit homes tend to spoil up to 30 acres of pristine forest if they are built in a place that didn’t have any artificial lighting before,” Sheehan said.

The Adirondack Council is advocating for laws that would require new homes in the Adirondack backcountry to be clustered to reduce their total light footprint.

Sheehan said keeping the air free of particles, including smog, is also key to maintaining dark skies. The council is involved in a lawsuit aimed at requiring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to enforce current pollution controls on coal-fired power plants in the Midwest. Sheehan said that most of New York’s air pollution comes from out of state; smog travels hundreds of miles downwind from Michigan, Wisconsin and the Ohio Valley.

Sheehan noted that the council is thrilled to see the “leaps and bounds” made by the Sky Center. He’s also seen investment in astronomy in places he wouldn’t have expected, such as Moreau Lake State Park, located south of the Adirondacks outside Saratoga Springs.

The park recently purchased a telescope to use on the beach at night and a screen for sharing projected images with a crowd.

McGowan, who’s also the superintendent of Tupper Lake Central School District, said he doesn’t think the state is prioritizing astronomy and that the field

is often left out of conversations about STEM education.

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TIPS FOR PLANNING A STARGAZING EXCURSION If you can’t get to Tupper Lake on a Friday, don’t worry. Great stargazing is possible all around the area.

A blog post on the Tupper Lake website suggests Coney Mountain or a drive up Setting Pole Dam Road, and a Google search can reveal suggestions on hiking forums.

Coney Mountain has great panoramic views. It’s close to town, and reflective signs mark a trail that’s about a one-mile hike up a 500-foot ascent. If you’re looking for something a little more accessible, one of Seth McGowan’s favorites is driving to the Tupper Lake Golf Club.

He recommends two apps for identifying the stars above you: Stellarium and SkySafari. If you’re without a smartphone, download and print out star maps to take with you.

It’s generally agreed that our eyes need at least half an hour to fully adjust to the dark, so take your time out there.

Never go into the woods unprepared. Pack as if you had to spend the night outdoors and wear plenty of layers. It’s significantly chillier atop Coney Mountain than at road level, with no protection from the breeze. Mosquitos are plentiful, so long sleeves and bug spray are your friends. A blanket or tarp to sit on certainly wouldn’t hurt.

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Don’t count on the battery life of your smartphone or a dinky 99-cent gas station penlight. Spend $30 on a flashlight, and it will reward you with its reliability.

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ummertime is nonstop for farmers. Whether they’re planting, weeding, watering, harvesting, feeding animals, fixing fences or making hay, it’s prime time, and the days are long and full. Eking out every productive moment is essential in a season that only lasts a few months. But the reality of farming is that it takes more than this work, or even this season, to make the business sustainable.

In agrarian Essex, N.Y., across Lake Champlain from Charlotte, the Hub on the Hill is working to alleviate the time pressures on farmers while strengthening the community and local economy year-round. Founded by Jori and Andy Wekin and Steve Blood, the nonprofit is both a physical space — with a commercial kitchen, storage facilities and a self-serve market — and a network of information and support for farmers and business owners.

The Wekins moved to Essex 10 years ago to manage a small farm. The area’s agricultural history drew them, and it was a place where they could raise their two young boys close to the land.

Starting a community resource was always at the back of Jori Wekin’s mind, she said, and as she got to know other farmers, the form of that endeavor became crystal clear. “I immediately saw the need for a commercial kitchen in the area,” she said, “and I wanted it to be community-based.”

Commercial kitchens play an important role in the processing of value-added agricultural products. They provide the equipment and physical facilities to preserve summer’s peak produce, letting farmers — and consumers — enjoy local food year-round. They also reduce the overhead costs for individual producers, from buying ovens and refrigerators to dealing with the inspections necessary to operate such a space.

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Wekin initially got involved in an effort to renovate the kitchen at the Whallonsburg Grange Hall, also in Essex, aimed at bringing it up to the state’s standards for certified commercial use. “We started a couple of projects out of the kitchen there, but we quickly outgrew it,” she said.

At the same time, her husband and Blood were looking for a space to design and build stationary bicycle-powered machines for a separate business venture, Pedal Power. The three approached the owner of a warehouse-type building perched on the hill at the intersection of Middle Road and New York State Route 22. The building had been the town’s hardware store, then a tractor repair shop in the 1980s. Most recently, it was an underutilized self-storage facility.

“We reached out and said, ‘Hey, could we rent some space to make these machines?’” said Wekin. “And the owner said, ‘No, but I’m interested in selling it.’”

While the building’s shop was perfect for Pedal Power, its vast footprint and location, surrounded by farms and only about a mile and a half from the Essex ferry dock, also made it ideal for bringing Wekin’s community-based food venture to life.

The Hub on the Hill opened in 2016 with a spacious, fully equipped commercial kitchen, packaging facilities, cold and dry storage, office space, and a market.

It has been home base for both new and existing businesses, including caterers, farmers and processors making valueadded products, and a food truck that was built in the space.

“Our main goal originally was to get the facility in place and operational to a point where people could see what we’re doing here,” said Wekin, the nonprofit’s director.

Now that the word is out, the Hub on the Hill works with more than 50 local businesses that pay to rent space, with a range of costs for kitchen use and storage.

They include vegetable, meat, dairy and diversified farms operating on anywhere from 15 to 500 acres; CSAs; and even local libraries.

One of those businesses is Farmstead Catering, based on Echo Farm in Essex.

Owner, farmer and chef Dillon Klepetar credits the Hub on the Hill with helping his business get off the ground. “There’s no way we could have catered our first wedding, or our first 30 weddings, without having that space available to us,” he said.

The commercial kitchen is set up to be a flexible shared space. Producers work side by side, sharing the gleaming stainless steel equipment, stories and ideas.

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road. The atmosphere buzzed as loudly as the stand mixers, and Wekin acknowledged the energy in the room. “It makes your day,” she said.

A primary goal of the Hub on the Hill is to make processing easier, reducing the number of hoops that people have to jump through to turn produce into value-added products such as pickles, jams and frozen meals. Producers can leave the work to the hub’s in-house co-packing arm, Dak & Dill, or rent their own space in the facility for processing, packaging and storage.

“It’s a lot of work to start a business, so we’re helping that process go a little smoother,” Wekin said. “We want it to be easy to get people excited about buying local food and boosting our local economy.”

While Vermont has a growing number of food hubs, such as the Mad River Valley Food Hub in Waitsfield and the Vermont

Food Venture Center in Hardwick, they are rare in the Adirondack region. The closest is located 160 miles west in Watertown: North Star Food Hub is a regional initiative that serves farmers in Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and St. Lawrence counties.

According to Klepetar, the work of Wekin and the team at the Hub on the Hill eliminates the bottlenecks that farmers face in the local food system. “They’re thinking about logistics and finding markets and, without someone doing that, it would just be chaos,” he said.

The Hub on the Hill’s self-serve market is part general store, part farmstand and part meeting place, selling goods produced in-house and produce from area farms.

Seven days a week, customers can stop in to pick up baked goods for breakfast, a quick prepared meal for lunch or farmfresh ingredients to cook for dinner.

The self-service model keeps overhead costs low, and the instructions are pretty simple: Step 1, shop. Step 2, record what you’re buying on the market sheets by the window. Step 3, tally the total and put your money in the cash box.

The market brings people to see what’s going on at the hub, whether they live in the area or are just stopping by on their way to the ferry. It also makes it easy for them to access the local bounty, which is one of Wekin’s main goals. “People can go to Burlington and shop, or Plattsburgh, or Albany,” she said. “But we have such great land here, and our farmers are producing the best food — maybe on Earth!”

Value-added products — such as Dak & Dill Dilly Scapes and Small Town Cultures Apple Sauerkraut — capture that food in its peak season. In the Adirondacks’ brief growing season, turning fresh produce into krauts, sauces and other shelf-stable products gives producers something to sell year-round and helps the businesses sustain themselves.

Klepetar gives a concrete example of how the Hub on the Hill relieves the stress of trying to guess what consumers will buy.

“If I plant 10 acres of broccoli and only sell three, the consumer has to cover the cost of that waste,” he said. “With the processing available [at the Hub on the Hill], they’ll take that surplus and turn it into broccoli soup, which means it isn’t wasted, and I can keep the cost down.”

The storage space at the Hub on the Hill plays a big role. “Storing or freezing produce in the summer lets us wait to process it until the depths of winter, when the time is different, the pressures are different, and it’s not 100 degrees in the kitchen,” said Wekin, laughing.

Wekin hopes the Hub on the Hill can help producers address the challenges that come with running a business in a rural area, whether they’re looking to expand their market, access capital, determine the scale of their business or find reliable labor. The collaborative environment is a hub in both the physical and social senses of the word — a centerpiece of Essex’s agricultural landscape and a gathering place for the community.

The model continues to adapt, even now, in its fourth year. The Hub on the Hill recently added a delivery service, bringing its farmers’ and producers’ products to restaurants, markets, schools and households throughout the Adirondack Park.

With these spokes in place, the Hub on the Hill is certainly on a roll. m Contact: jbarry@sevendaysvt.com

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Future release parties could include pairing beer with the screening of a “weird film.”

“It will be different every time,” MacNamara said. “We don’t really strive for consistency. We want to keep it lively.”

She added that Freak Folk has been a longtime dream. “We’re superexcited. I’m so thankful to Paul for allowing us to use this space to make it happen,” MacNamara said, referring to Queen City co-owner PAUL HALE. Sally Pollak

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collaboration of residents and local children from the Boys & Girls Club of Burlington, with help from the VERMONT COMMUNITY GARDEN NETWORK

and HANDS (Helping and Nurturing Diverse Seniors).

Since early July, children from the Boys & Girls Club have been joining the Ethan Allen residents to harvest vegetables grown in the eldercare facility’s backyard, package baked goods made by the residence’s head chef, PAM SCANLON, and sell it all at a booth at the Tuesday evening market in Dewey Park.

“There are huge benefits in connecting the generations,” said CAMERON SEGAL, external affairs director at the Living Well Group, of which the Ethan Allen Residence is part. “It helps kids see value in their elders, and our residents absolutely light up when they see the kids.”

The Burlington-based Living Well Group is a nonprofit that runs three

residential-care assistedliving homes for lowincome older Vermonters living with dementia.

Although it was initially difficult to find a children’s organization to partner with, Segal said, the Boys & Girls Club saw the value the collaboration would bring to its young participants, and the two have been a perfect fit.

With its established presence in the community, the Boys & Girls Club has helped spread the word about the program. “Seeing elders handling the cash box and children handing out the baked goods gets people excited,” Segal said.

Profits from the booth’s sales are used to fund engagement programs at the Ethan Allen Residence. “But it’s not about selling things and making money,” said Segal. “It’s about bringing generations together and bringing our residents out into the community every week.”

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Pizza at Dogwood Bread in Wadhams, N.Y.

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eri Fair was working as a data analyst in Loudoun County, Va., a dozen years ago when she called the owner of a bakery in Wadhams, N.Y., to ask if he liked his bread oven.

“Yes, I do like it,” Phil Merrick answered. “Would you like to buy it?”

Fair was a seasonal customer at Merrick’s Bread & Coffee, a bakery and café, and she was thinking of starting a similar business in Virginia. As it happened, the day she called to inquire about the brick oven was the day Merrick put his business on the market.

“It was a magical moment,” recalled Merrick, who is now co-owner of August First Bakery in Burlington. “It came together really fast.”

Fair, now 47, abandoned her plan for a café in Virginia and moved to Wadhams, where she’s owned and operated Dogwood Bread for 12 years. The café serves pastries and bagels at breakfast, and sandwiches, soups and salads at lunch.

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started by Merrick — big, chewy chocolatechip cookies, an assortment of breads baked daily, coffee beans roasted in a wood-fired

oven and housemade granola baked in the same oven.

Fair has added things, too, including

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a dining room with a wall decoration — an Agway sign — that recalls an earlier incarnation of the space. She expanded pizza night, which happened five or six times a year at Merrick’s, to once or twice a week, depending on the season. In the summer, Dogwood bakes and serves pizza on Wednesday and Friday evenings starting at 4:30.

“On pizza nights, we’re cranking,” Fair said. “It’s pretty constant.”

The pizza brings an influx of people to Wadhams, a hamlet of about 50 households within the town of Westport. The little cluster of homes and a library that make up Wadhams is en route to the New York State Thruway from the Essex, N.Y., ferry landing. And it’s part of a larger community in the Adirondacks — including Essex and Willsboro — whose population swells in the summer with second-home owners, vacationers and daytrippers.

Fair herself discovered the area as a summer person. She remembers paddling the Boquet River in a canoe when her son, now 18, was less than a year old. She would stop at Merrick’s to buy a loaf of bread.

“I’ve been coming here since my kids were babies, and I fell in love with the area,” Fair said, explaining her decision to relocate from Virginia. “I wanted my kids to be able to have that sense of rural community.”

On pizza night, Dogwood draws local customers as well as diners from Lake Placid and other parts of the Adirondack Park, Fair said. Vermonters cross the lake on the ferry with their bikes and cycle the nine or so miles to Wadhams, she added.

On a recent Wednesday night, I crossed the lake with one cousin to meet another for pizza at Dogwood. We were lucky to snag one of the picnic tables out front, where we started our meal with salads and Switchback Brewing beers. The salads tasted of the best of summer — a jumble of farm-fresh greens topped with locally grown vegetables and crumbled feta. The vinaigrette was served on the side.

Before we’d finished our salads, our pies were delivered to the table, baked to blistery beauty in the wood-fired oven that burns at about 900 degrees. Dogwood likes to change up the names of its pizzas, often riffing on staffers’ inside jokes, Fair said. So it was that we ate pizzas called Clara With the Pizza Cutter in the WalkIn, and Jonathan With the Bread Knife in the Proof Room.

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If the names of these pizzas — a play on the board game Clue — don’t make clear what’s on them, here’s the inside KE RI scoop: Clara was generously covered with slices of pepperoni, flavored with basil and cloves of roasted garlic. Jonathan was a delicious veggie pie with spinach, roasted garlic and radish, and feta cheese.

The Clue theme continued when Dogwood made a custom pie to celebrate a couple that was getting married: Nancy and Monica With Wedding Rings in the Foyer. The special pie was topped with pepperoni and pineapple, favorite ingredients of the betrothed, Fair said.

I returned to Dogwood a week ago for lunch, when I enjoyed a bowl of beef chili, a salad and slices of baguette. I picked up a few items to bring home: a frozen pizza shell, a bag of granola and some cookies.

I also bought some vegetables from nearby Tangleroot Farm, which sets up a small farmstand with an honor box outside Dogwood. And I chatted with three cello students who are spending the summer at Meadowmount School of Music in Lewis, near Westport.

The young women — who said they escape Meadowmount for Dogwood — told me they’re trying to ration their pizza-night indulgence, from two times a week to one.

“We have pizza so much,” said cellist Bella Lorenzo-Giguere. “It’s really good.”

Last week, Merrick said FAIR by phone that he thought the bakery he founded almost 17 years ago in Wadhams brought “quality” food to the area.

“We came into town, and we said, ‘We’re going to make the best bread you can buy in New York State, maybe the world,’” he said. “And when we make pizza, it’s going to be the best anywhere.

Our constant focus on quality was refreshing.”

Today, many residents in the area have grown up accustomed to the notion “that you can go someplace and get real food,” Merrick noted. “It’s a well-established part of the community.”

When Merrick hikes in the Adirondacks, he stops at Dogwood for a breakfast sandwich and a loaf of bread.

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CELEBRATE YOUR FARMER SOCIAL: A certified organic veggie, meat and egg producer plays host at a NOFA-VT woodfired pizza party. A tour of the grounds follows. Arrive at 4:30 p.m. for a food safety tour.

Harlow Farm, Westminster, 5:30 p.m. $10. Info, 434-4122, ext. 21.

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#ASKMEANYTHING: Q&A DISCUSSIONS FOR CURIOUS BUSINESS OWNERS: Proprietors take notes during a Q&A on staffing. Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, 8:30-10 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space.

Info, 391-4870.

BUSINESS AFTER HOURS RECEPTION: Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce members, friends and community leaders forge connections at the site of the Waterbury Flea Market. Farr’s Field, Waterbury, 5-7 p.m. $10-15; preregister.

Info, 229-5711.

community

LOCAL HISTORY ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS: Folks chat about the role of local historical societies and museums, the obstacles they face, and how Vermonters can work together to build a stronger history community.

Vermont History Center, Barre, 9-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, eileen.corcoran@vermont history.org.

SERVE WEEK: ANEW Place raises awareness of homelessness and inspires action by organizing six days of volunteer opportunities at

FIBER RIOT!: Creative types get hooked on knitting, crocheting, spinning and more at an informal weekly gathering.

Mad River Fiber Arts & Mill, Waitsfield, 5-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 496-7746.

KNITTER’S GROUP: Needles in tow, crafters share their latest projects and get help with challenging patterns. All skill levels are welcome. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 6:30-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 846-4140.

etc.

DEATH CAFÉ: Folks meet for a thought-provoking and respectful conversation about death, aimed at accessing a fuller life. Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center, Rutland, 7-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted.

Info, 353-6991.

NURSING BEYOND A YEAR MEET-UP: Breastfeeding parents connect over toddler topics such as weaning and healthy eating habits.

Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 985-8228.

STARGAZING: Clear skies at night mean viewers’ delight when telescope users set their sights on celestial happenings. Call to confirm.

Mittelman Observatory, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury College, 9-10:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-2266.

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Various Barre locations, 8:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 477-2967.

film

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

The treatment of immigrants at the United States’ southern border is a hot topic as news outlets report poor conditions in migrant detention camps. In her research, University of Vermont associate professor of anthropology Teresa M. Mares focuses on challenges — primarily food insecurity — facing migrant farmworkers near the country’s northeastern border. Looking specifically at Latinx farmworkers in Vermont’s dairy industry, Mares discusses how many of these individuals support themselves and their families while contributing to the state’s agricultural economy. Copies of her 2019 book, Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont, are available for purchase and signing.

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‘BITE ME’: A Q&A with producer, writer and actress Naomi McDougall Jones spices up a screening of this subversive romantic comedy about a vampire and the IRS agent who audits her. Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 7 p.m. $12.50. Info, 864-4742.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: A new IMAX film unravels the mystery of the creature we love to fear. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘HAIRSPRAY’: Star Nikki Blonsky rocks a retro hairdo in a 2007 adaptation of John Waters’ comedy about a plus-size teen on a television dance show who turns a segregated Baltimore upside down. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 748-2600.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: Some of the Pacific Ocean’s most beautiful islands and marine national monuments grace the screen. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake WED.24

Sunday, July 28, 3 p.m., at the Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh. $5 or free with museum admission, $8-10; free for kids under 5. Info, 877-3406, rokeby.org.

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The Sound of Music Andy Gagnon Presents: Lovecraft is a veritable supergroup of Green Mountain State jazz musicians: It features members of the Renegade Groove, the Ray Vega Latin Jazz Sextet, the Vermont Jazz Ensemble and other area ensembles. Led by the Waterbury percussionist and composer, the quintet includes instrumentalists Brian Boyes, Evan Crandell, Michael Hartigan and Ed Owens. Fans of the genre tap their toes as the band serves up original compositions, as well as new takes on well-known standards during an open-air concert.

Locally sourced American-style eats from the Blackback Pub sustain listeners.

MUSIC IN THE ALLEY: ANDY GAGNON PRESENTS: LOVECRAFT Friday, July 26, 6-9 p.m., at Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury. Free. Info, 244-7801, axelsgallery.com.

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music + nightlife Find club dates at local venues in the music + nightlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music.

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JUL.27 & 28 | FAIRS & FESTIVALS Flavor Town Summer is barbecue season, and there may be no better opportunity to fill up on finger-licking fare than the Harpoon BBQ Festival. Regional competitive culinary teams such as Rhode Island’s Rhode Hog BBQ and the local Barbecutioners convene at the Windsor brewery to serve up their most mouthwatering morsels. Winners score not only the title of Grand Champion but also a ticket to the Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational Barbecue in Lynchburg, Tenn. Bands performing during the two-day fest include Frydaddy, Ironsights and the John Lackard Blues Band.

HARPOON BBQ FESTIVAL Saturday, July 27, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sunday, July 28, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., at Harpoon Brewery Riverbend Taps and Beer Garden in Windsor. $15. Info, info@harpoon.com, harpoonbrewery.com.

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ative American music and dance, including that of Vermont’s Abenaki people, threads through the worldpremiere production of an original work by the late American playwright Bernard Pomerance. The Greensboro Arts Alliance & Residency kicks off its Mainstage Summer Season with a production of Miranda, a sequel to William Shakespeare’s The Tempest centered on protagonist Prospero after his return to Milan. To help his adult daughter, Miranda, recall her childhood, Prospero pens his memoirs, recounting his passage through the Americas and his love for a Powhatan princess and their child.

The 12-member cast includes Tony Award nominee and GAAR/the Mirror Repertory Company artist-in-residence Marla Schaffel, as well as Native American actors Tiokasin Ghosthorse (pictured) and Alex Meraz of The Twilight Saga movies.

‘MIRANDA’

Friday, July 26, and Saturday, July 27, 7:30-9:30 p.m., and Sunday, July 28, 3-5 p.m., at Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. $10-20. Info, 533-2000, highlandartsvt.com.

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Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: Advanced filming techniques expose the planet’s top hunters on land, under the sea and in the air. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under.

Info, 864-1848.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: Actor Kate Winslet narrates a virtual odyssey into the largest and least-explored habitat on Earth. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under.

Info, 864-1848.

‘PETER AND JOHN’: Jay Craven directed this Nantucket-based 2015 movie about two brothers who must reevaluate their relationship as love and money come into play. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 533-2000.

STOWE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL: ‘SAMMY DAVIS, JR.: I’VE GOTTA BE ME’: A documentary film delves into the life and work of a dazzling entertainer, as well as his identity as black and Jewish.

Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 760-4634.

food & drink

COMMUNITY SUPPER: A scrumptious spread connects friends and neighbors. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300.

DESSERT’D: Foodies join ArtsRiot chef George Lambertson for a cooking demo, custom-designed bites and desserts created using Ben & Jerry’s nondairy varieties.

ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6 p.m. $10.

Info, 540-0406.

LEDDY PARK BEACH BITES: Lakeside picnickers enjoy games, adult beverages, food-truck fare and live entertainment.

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

Leddy Park, Burlington, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0123.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: Players have fun with the popular card game.

Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $6. Info, 872-5722.

tile-based game. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

health & fitness

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: Folks of all ages ward off osteoporosis in an exercise and prevention class. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 7:30, 9 & 10:40 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

CHAIR YOGA: Comfortable clothing is recommended for this class focused on balance, breath, flexibility and meditation. Barre Area Senior Center, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

RESILIENCE FLOW: Individuals affected by traumatic brain injuries engage in a gentle yoga practice.

Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262.

YOGA4CANCER: Meant for anyone affected by the illness, this class aims to help participants manage treatment side effects and recovery. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, noon-1 p.m.

Donations. Info, 448-4262.

language

BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: Learners take communication to the next level. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

FOURTH WEDNESDAY CONVERSATION GROUP: Frenchlanguage conversation flows at a monthly gathering. Alburgh Public Library, 5:15-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, ajp4561@gmail.com.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: ¡Hola! Language lovers perfect their fluency. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

BELLOWS BAGPIPE CONCERT: Ben Miller, Anita MacDonald and Tim Cummings, all instructors from Càirdeas, a Celtic bagpipe music school, and friends share traditional tunes. Huntington Town Hall, 7:30-8:45 p.m.

Donations. Info, knoxo@aol.com.

BURLINGTON CITY ARTS SUMMER CONCERTS: MOSA MUSIC: The New York musician weaves elements of rock, folk and soul music into songs from her debut album, Who We Are. Lower Church St., Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

CAPITAL CITY BAND: The community ensemble hits all the right notes at a weekly gig on the green. Vermont Statehouse lawn, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 456-7054.

CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS SUMMER FESTIVAL: A 6:45 p.m. chat prepares audience members for a program CRIBBAGE & PINOCHLE: Card of world-class chamber music. sharks engage in friendly compeRefreshments are available at tition. Twin Valley Senior Center, intermission. Elley-Long Music East Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free. Info, Center, Saint Michael’s College, 223-3322.

Colchester, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10MAH JONGG: Participants of all 25; free for kids under 12. Info, levels enjoy friendly bouts of this 800-639-3443.

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DAVID ROSANE & THE ZOOKEEPERS: The folk-rock protest band rallies support for literacy during a stop on its Across the Zoo-niverse library benefit tour. Vermont Department of Libraries, Barre, 6-8 p.m.

Donations. Info, 636-0040.

vessel for an introduction to the geology and formation of the lake, the history of area native tribes, and more. Rubenstein Ecosystem Laboratory, Burlington, 9-11 a.m. $30. Info, 391-4410.

HELIAND CONSORT: “Summer Gathering” includes classical music and poetry by Robert Frost, Mary Oliver and others honoring the magic of the season. Ahavath Gerim Synagogue, Burlington, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 535-6244.

BIKING WORKSHOP: Local Motion representatives cover tips and tricks for safely traveling on two wheels. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-7211.

JOANNE GARTON: A Montpelierbased fiddler in the Scottish tradition takes the stage as part of Young Tradition Vermont’s Trad Camp. High School Campus, Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 12:15-12:45 p.m. Free.

Info, 233-5293.

LITTLE MARZAN: All the way from Austin, Tex., the freak-folk combo headlines an evening of variety entertainment, including music

by Ethan Azarian, storytelling

by Tim Jennings and a cranky show by Tom “Banjo” Azarian.

Four Corners Schoolhouse, East Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, inhousegallery@hotmail.com.

MICHAEL ARNOWITT: In “Aaron Copland’s America,” the pianist performs and discusses Copland’s iconic and distinctly American music. Steele Room, Waterbury Municipal Building, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 244-7036.

MIDDLESEX BANDSTAND SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Americana, folk and rootsrock strains carry through the meadow, courtesy of Mississippi’s Black Water Trio. Martha Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand, Middlesex, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0881.

OLD NORTH END NEIGHBORHOOD BAND TEEN MUSIC JAM: Be they accomplished or beginner musicians, young players find harmony in the traditional music of Burlington’s past and present immigrant groups. Boys & Girls Club, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 881-8500.

TRAD CAMP SHOWCASE: Core instructors and campers are among the performers at this Young Tradition Vermont exhibition of song and dance. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 233-5293.

seminars

MEETING YOUR MIND & BEYOND: THE BENEFITS OF APPLYING MINDFULNESS: The fourth installment of an ongoing seminar with Carol S. Hyman and Reeve Lindbergh focuses on “Communication: The Key to Creating Community.” St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-9 p.m.

Free. Info, 745-1393.

RADIO ASTRONOMY: A demonstration and discussion illuminate how radio waves reveal hidden astronomical objects.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 878-4918.

sports

GOLFING4LIFE: Teams of two take a swing in this fourth annual nine-hole tournament benefiting the Cancer Patient Support Foundation. The Links at Lang Farm, Essex Junction, check-in, 8:30 a.m.; shot-gun start, 9 a.m. $65; preregister. Info, 922-5951.

KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN BIKE CLUB BIKE BUM RACE SERIES: Mountain bikers of all ages, riding solo or in teams of up to five, tackle the trails. Athletes cool down at an after-party. Killington Resort, 1-5 p.m. $15-150. Info, 800-734-9435.

TENNIS LEAGUE: Players looking to get back in the game swing their rackets in fun-spirited dropin matches for ages 18 and up.

The Edge Sports & Fitness, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. $10 per session; one-time $15 registration fee. Info, vt-league@newengland. usta.com.

talks

HOWARD COFFIN: “Vermont, 1800 and Froze to Death: The Cold Year of 1816” brings a chill to a July evening. Barnard Historical Society, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 763-7407.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: Young vocalists vie for spots in a professional singing ensemble and education program. Various locations statewide. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, vermontgirlschoir@ gmail.com.

JOSEF GÖRRES: Folks get the dirt on garden invaders in “What You Need to Know About Snakeworms.” Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 426-3581.

YVETTE MONIQUE CLARK: “Let’s Give ’Em Something to Talk About” highlights musical selections ranging from show tunes to pop favorites. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 518-962-4449.

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Electronics novices develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon & 1 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 878-6955.

outdoors

STORIES OF THE LAKE: Seeking a cultural and historical view of Lake Champlain, folks board a University of Vermont research

tech

TECH TUTOR: Techies answer questions about computers and devices during one-on-one help sessions. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

WORDPRESS: Looking to go live on the internet? Participants prepare to create their own websites without knowledge of design or coding. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

theater

‘THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK’: The Stowe Theatre Guild presents the Tony Award-winning theatrical adaptation of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, which recounts her family’s hiding for two years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Stowe Town Hall Theatre, 7:30 p.m. $14-20. Info, tickets@stowetheatre.com.

‘DIG’: The Dorset Theatre Festival presents the world premiere of the new play by acclaimed playwright Theresa Rebeck (“NYPD Blue,” “L.A. Law,” NBC’s “Smash”).

Dorset Playhouse, 2 & 7:30 p.m. $48-58. Info, 867-2223.

‘I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE’: Love bites in this beloved rom-com from Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts, the longest-running off-Broadway musical comedy revue in history. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $36.50-45.50. Info, 654-2281.

‘LEGALLY BLONDE’: Blondes have more fun in a lighthearted adaptation of the movie starring Reese Witherspoon as a Harvard law student with a penchant for pink and Chihuahuas. Presented by Northern Stage’s Summer Musical Theater Intensive students.

Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $19-25. Info, 296-7000.

‘L’ODEUR DE MOLIÈRE: THE DOCTOR AND THE DOWRY’: Alessandra’s grave — and completely fabricated — illness interferes with her father’s plans to marry her off in this Vermont Suitcase Company production.

Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier City Hall, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 229-0492.

‘OKLAHOMA!’: “Ooooooooooooooooooklahoma!

Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.” That’s just one of countless indelible lyrics from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s landmark 1943 Broadway musical about the struggles and triumphs of Oklahoma Territory pioneers in 1906. Weston Playhouse Main Stage, 2 & 7:30 p.m. $45-69. Info, 824-5288.

words

FRIENDS OF THE STOWE FREE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: A longrunning library fundraiser features more than 25 categories of page-turners. Stowe Free Library, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Info, 253-6145.

VETERANS BOOK GROUP: Women who have served in the U.S. military connect over reading materials and a light dinner.

Women’s Comprehensive Care Center, White River Junction VA Medical Center, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 295-9363, ext.

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WRITING CIRCLE: Words pour out when participants explore

creative expression in a lowpressure environment. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

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agriculture

CROPS & SOILS FIELD DAY: The theme “Twelve Years of Research – But Wait, There’s More!” guides a farm tour and in-depth workshops on topics such as grazing, cover crops, and hemp and hops.

Borderview Farm, Alburgh, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 524-6501.

SEED SAVING WORKSHOP: Sylvia Davatz cultivates knowledge of preserving vegetable seeds, demystifying terms such as open-pollinated, hybrid, selfer and crosser. Marsh-BillingsRockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 5:30-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 457-2911.

WARREN GARDEN TOUR: Green thumbs explore three picturesque plots. Parking lot, Warren Town Hall, 9 a.m. $65-75 includes lunch.

Info, 496-5545.

community

BURLINGTON WALK/BIKE COUNCIL MONTHLY MEETING: Two-wheeled travelers get in gear to discuss ways to improve conditions for cyclists and pedestrians.

Room 12, Burlington City Hall, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 430-4652.

COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS: ‘20TH CENTURY DEVELOPMENT & PROGRESS’: Vermonters share their own perspectives on their communities following Northern Vermont University professor Paul Searls’ overview of themes and events featured in his 2019 book Repeopling Vermont: The Paradox of Development in the Twentieth Century. St. Albans Free Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 479-4264.

SERVE WEEK: See WED.24.

dance

HOMAGE TO MARY OLIVER IN POETRY & DANCE: In a unique tapestry of words and movement, the Moving Spirit Dancers and several readers honor the late Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.

ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, South Pomfret, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3500.

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ANIMALS ARE SOUL TOO: Eckankar hosts an open discussion on how creatures can help humans make sense of life’s big questions. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

GATHERINGS ON THE GREEN: Food trucks, live music and Mill River Brewing beer draw merrymakers to the center of town.

Georgia Town Common, 5-9 p.m.

Free. Info, 524-9794.

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Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m. Village Green, Spruce Peak Plaza, Stowe, noon-9 p.m. Free. Info, 253-3000.

MEMORY CAFÉ: People experiencing memory loss and their caregivers connect in a relaxed atmosphere. American Legion Post 20, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-3369.

fairs & festivals

QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK GHOSTS & LEGENDS OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN TOUR: Brave souls learn about the darker side of Burlington on a guided walk with author and historian Thea Lewis.

Arrive 10 minutes early. Battery Park Fountain, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 351-1313.

WEEKENDS ON THE GREEN: Visitors while away the hours with lawn games, craft beer and food truck snacks. Catch live music on Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and

trade in the 1970s in this 2018 drama. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $5-8. Info, 660-2600.

‘FIDDLER ON THE ROOF’: A Jewish peasant in a small Russian village struggles to pass tradition on to his daughters in this 1971 musical. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

BARRE HERITAGE FESTIVAL & HOMECOMING DAYS: See WED.24, 8:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.

SUMMERVALE: Locavores fête farms and farmers at a weekly event centered on food, music, kids’ activities and City Market, Onion River Co-op workshops.

Northern Yard, Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 660-0440.

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‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.24.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.24.

film

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‘BIRDS OF PASSAGE’: An indigenous family becomes involved in the Colombian drug

Cinemas, South Burlington, 2 & 7 p.m. $18. Info, 863-5966.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.24.

‘UNDETERRED’: A panel discussion augments a screening of a 2019 documentary about community resistance in the rural border town of Arivaca, Ariz.

Essex United Methodist Church, networking, 6:30 p.m.; movie, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2226.

WARREN MILLER FILM MARATHON: Epic ski movies transport viewers to the snowy slopes. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum, Stowe, noon-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 253-9911.

food & drink

BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: Foodies sample local eats

on a scrumptious stroll dedicated to the Queen City’s culinary past.

Awning behind ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 1 p.m. $55. Info, eliseandgail@burlingtonediblehistory. com.

COMMUNITY LUNCH: Gardengrown fare makes for a delicious and nutritious midday meal. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 309.

FOOD — FIRE — FOAM: Woodfired pizza and other palatepleasing provisions fill bellies as Old Sky provide an Americana backdrop. Terrace, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, 855-650-0080.

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PEACHAM FARMERS MARKET: Area residents and visitors alike rejoice in local flavors, kids’ activities and live tunes. Peacham Village Green, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, peacham farmersmarket@gmail.com.

VERGENNES FARMERS MARKET: Local food and crafts, live music, and hot eats add flavor to summer evenings. Vergennes City Park, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-9180.

WATERBURY FARMERS MARKET: Cultivators and their customers swap veggie tales and edible inspirations at a weekly outdoor emporium complete with live music and yoga demos. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, waterbury market@gmail.com.

WINE & CHEESE TASTING: Lincoln Peak Vineyard varieties pair perfectly with Grafton Village Cheese bites. Brookfield Old Town Hall, 7 p.m. $15; preregister; for ages 21 and up. Info, 276-3181.

WORCESTER COMMUNITY MARKET: Fresh organic produce, live bands and kids’ activities bring neighbors together. 66 Elmore Rd., Worcester, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, thelandingvt@gmail.com.

games

CHITTENDEN COUNTY CHESS CLUB: Checkmate! Strategic thinkers make calculated moves as they vie for their opponents’ kings. Shaw’s, Shelburne Rd., South Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-5403.

CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT: Teams of players take turns pitching bean bags in hopes of snagging a $30 gift card. Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, sign-up, 4:30 p.m.; tournament 5-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 496-4677.

CRIBBAGE: Friends connect over a fun-spirited card game. Barre Area Senior Center, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 479-9512.

GAME NIGHT: Friends compete in tabletop pastimes. 1st Republic Brewing Company, Essex Junction, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 857-5318.

health & fitness

BEGINNERS TAI CHI: Students get a feel for the ancient Chinese practice. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10-11 a.m.

Free. Info, 223-1772.

BONE BUILDERS: Seniors rise and shine with an exercise program meant to increase bone density and muscle strength. Barre Area Senior Center, 8:30-9:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 479-9512.

CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Champlain Senior Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 448-4262.

Center, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.24.

FALLS PREVENTION TAI CHI: Students improve their ability to stay steady on their feet. Barre Area Senior Center, 3:45-4:45 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

talks

MORNING STRENGTHEN & TONE: What better way to start the day than with an invigorating alllevels exercise class? Brookfield Old Town Hall, 7:30-8:30 a.m.

Free. Info, brookfieldoth@gmail. com.

YANG 24 TAI CHI: Slow, graceful, expansive movements promote wide-ranging health and fitness benefits. Shelburne Farms, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 735-5467.

YOGA: A Sangha Studio instructor guides students who are in recovery toward achieving inner tranquility. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

ADIA VICTORIA: Known for her gothic-blues style, the singersongwriter takes the stage in a free concert presented by the Point. Battery Park, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2396.

BURLINGTON CONCERT BAND REHEARSALS: Enthusiastic players of brass, woodwind and percussion instruments find perfect harmony. St. Mark Catholic Parish, Burlington, 6:45-8:45 p.m. Free.

Info, burlingtonconcertbandvt@ gmail.com.

HELIAND CONSORT: See WED.24, Grace Episcopal Church, Sheldon.

JAQUITH LIBRARY SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Chaque Fois bring Cajun twin fiddles, guitar and accordion to a gig in the gazebo. The Marshfield Village Store provides food for purchase.

Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 426-3581.

LESLEY GRANT: Seated on the patio or in the gallery, music lovers take in country, bluegrass and folk numbers by the Morrisville singer-songwriter, along with hors d’oeuvres and Caledonia Spirits beverages. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 4-6 p.m.

Free. Info, 533-2000.

MOIRA SMILEY: An Addison County native, the vocalist shares her talent in a public concert presented as part of Young Tradition Vermont’s Trad Camp. High School Campus, Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 12:15-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 233-5293.

SATIN & STEEL: The 10-piece R&B group takes listeners back with covers of all-star songs by Tower of Power; Earth, Wind & Fire; and others. Bayside Park, Colchester, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5640.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Oenophiles let loose with live music by Josh Panda & Wilykat, award-winning wine and COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: A mouthwatering eats. Snow Farm 20-minute guided practice with Vineyard, South Hero, picnicking Andrea O’Connor alleviates stress begins, 5 p.m.; music, 6:30-8:30 and tension. Tea and a discusp.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, sion follow. Winooski Senior 372-9463.

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ALI NOORANI: International relations are at the center of a Vermont Council on World Affairs Speaker Series talk by the National Immigration Forum executive director. The Gallery at Main Street Landing, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, vcwa@ vermont.org.

HOT TOPICS SUMMER LECTURE SERIES: Joel Eisen of the University of Richmond School of Law delivers “Clean Energy Justice: Charting an Emerging Trend.” Room 012, Oakes Hall, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 831-1371.

tech

COMPUTER, CELL PHONE & TABLET WORKSHOP: A friendly helper assists attendees in completing specific tasks on their devices. Barre Area Senior Center, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

PUBLIC HEARING ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Vermonters weigh in on the benefits and potential risks of AI at a gathering hosted by the Vermont legislature’s Artificial Intelligence Task Force. Room 214, Academic and Student Activity Center, Northern Vermont University-Lyndon, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, bbreslend@ dubois-king.com.

TECH SUPPORT: Need an email account? Want to enjoy ebooks?

Bring your phone, tablet or laptop to a weekly help session. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 5-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-8291.

theater

‘AN ACT OF GOD’: God finally reveals all in this holier-thanthou farce by comedian David Javerbaum. In a sign of the times — or perhaps end times — the satirical play was inspired both by a book Javerbaum wrote and by his Twitter account. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 5 p.m. $20-30.

Info, 518-962-4449.

‘BOX OF SQUIRRELS: SEEING THINGS FOR THE FIRST TIME’: Local theater artist Dennis McSorley makes his Revelry Theater debut with his thoughtprovoking solo performance.

Revelry Theater, Burlington, 7:309 p.m. $7. Info, 363-5015.

‘CABARET’: Lost Nation Theater actors travel to Weimar-era Germany in this time-tested musical centered on a Berlin nightclub during Hitler’s rise to power.

Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier City Hall, 7:30 p.m. $10-35. Info, 229-0492.

‘THE CHERRY ORCHARD’: Aging aristocrat Madame Ranevskaya grapples with the repossession of her tony Cherry Orchard estate by her former serf Lopakhin in Russian playwright Anton Checkov’s tragicomic classic.

Festival Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 456-8968.

‘THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK’: See WED.24.

‘DIG’: See WED.24, 7:30 p.m.

‘THE FATHER’: Florian Zeller’s 2014 Moliere Prize-winner for Best Play brings audiences into the increasingly fractured mind of Andre, an aging man struggling to process the world around him through his advancing dementia.

Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 456-8968.

VERMONT AUTHORS LECTURE SERIES: JEFFREY AMESTOY: Listeners devour passages from the biography Slavish Shore: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 6:30 p.m. $12; $70 for the series. Info, 533-2000.

‘I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE’: See WED.24.

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‘INHERIT THE WIND’ AUDITIONS: Actors vie for roles in the Essex Players’ upcoming production of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s 1955 drama about what happens when new ideas challenge traditional understandings. Essex Memorial Hall, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 881-7116.

THREE DAY STAMPEDE: There’s something for everybody among more than 20 tents at this weekend-long craft and flea market. Funds raised benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Bristol Recreation Field, 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 453-4305.

‘INTO THE WOODS’: Classic Grimm characters get entangled in the darker side of fairy tales in a Lamoille County Players production of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical. Hyde Park Opera House, 7-9 p.m. $1018. Info, 888-4507.

‘LEGALLY BLONDE’: See WED.24.

METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD: ‘LA BOHÈME’: Puccini’s timeless story of young artists in Paris is broadcast to the big screen.

Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 2 p.m. $10-17. Info, 760-4634.

‘THE MUSIC MAN’: Traveling salesman Harold Hill’s scheming ways come back to haunt him in this classic comedy. Enosburg Opera House, 7 p.m. $12-18. Info, 933-6171.

‘OKLAHOMA!’: See WED.24, 7:30 p.m.

words

CANAAN MEETINGHOUSE READING SERIES: Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Gregory Pardlo and novelist Alice Mattison share portions of their work. Meetinghouse, Canaan, N.H., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, ppochoda@gmail.com.

ESCAPING GILEAD: ‘THE HANDMAID’S TALE’ FAN DISCUSSION: Fans of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel gather to discuss the acclaimed book and TV adaptation. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 864-8001.

FOOD BOOK CLUB: Readers digest The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, info@ hungermountain.coop.

FRIENDS OF THE STOWE FREE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: See WED.24.

KIMBERLY PAUL: In a stop on her Live Well Die Well Tour, the author reads into her 2018 title Bridging the Gap: Life Lessons From the Dying. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-3350.

POETRY OUT LOUD: Wordsmiths bring written works to recite or read aloud as part of a seasonal open poetry series. Listeners are welcome. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 453-2366.

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SERVE WEEK: See WED.24.

dance

BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: Singles, couples and beginners are welcome to join in a dance social featuring waltz, tango and more. Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, 8-9:30 p.m. $10. Info, 862-2269.

ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: Inspired by the 5Rhythms dance practice, attendees move, groove, release and open their hearts to life in a safe and sacred space. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, fearnessence@gmail.com.

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ALL-AGES ANYTHING GOES! SLAM: From poets to musicians to magicians, performers share works up to five minutes long.

ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, South Pomfret, sign-up, 6:45 p.m.; slam, 7-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, geofhewitt@gmail.com.

CIRCUS ARTS TRAINING JAM: Daring individuals perfect skills ranging from juggling to tight-rope walking with CAMP Burlington members. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, burlingtoncamp@gmail.com.

GREEN RECORD: INTERVIEWING & VOX POPS: Participants in the Vermont Folklife Center’s audio time capsule project use audio equipment when questioning community members. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 865-7211.

LOUNGE 91: Green Mountain Railroad passengers delight in live music, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres as picturesque scenery rolls by. Union Station, Burlington, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $60. Info, 800-707-3530.

QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK DARKNESS FALLS TOUR: Local historian Thea Lewis treats pedestrians to tales of madmen, smugglers, pub spirits and, of course, ghosts. Arrive 10 minutes early. Democracy sculpture, 199 Main St., Burlington, 8 p.m. $20.

Info, 324-5467.

WEEKENDS ON THE GREEN: See THU.25.

fairs & festivals

BARRE HERITAGE FESTIVAL & HOMECOMING DAYS: See See WED.24, 8 a.m.-11 p.m.

BOOKSTOCK: GREEN MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL OF WORDS: New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren and former Vermont governor Madeleine Kunin are among those to appear at this literary fest featuring talks and readings, a nature writer workshop, and a ballet performance. See bookstockvt.org for details. Downtown Woodstock.

Free. Info, 989-4338.

film

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

‘DAYS OF THRILLS AND LAUGHTER’: Shown on 16mm reel-to-reel film, 1961 slapstick comedy compilation featuring Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and others has cinephiles laughing ’til they cry. Newman Center, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m.

Donations. Info, serious_61@ yahoo.com.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.24.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.24.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.24.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.24.

food & drink

ALICE & THE MAGICIAN COCKTAIL APOTHECARY SAMPLING: Handcrafted ingredients combine to produce specialty sips. Kiss the Cook, Middlebury, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 349-8803.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY DINNER TRAIN: Passengers feast on a three-course meal while riding the Green Mountain Railroad from Burlington to Middlebury and back. Union Station, Burlington, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $89. Info, 800-707-3530.

FARM TABLE DINNER SERIES: A picturesque mountain setting is the perfect backdrop for a feast under the stars featuring a Vermont-inspired four-course menu. The Lodge at Spruce Peak, Stowe, 6 p.m. $155.25. Info, 282-4625.

PUBLIC CUPPING: Coffee connoisseurs and beginners alike explore the flavor notes and aromas of the roaster’s current offerings and new releases. Brio Coffeeworks, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 777-6641.

RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET: An open-air marketplace featuring live music connects cultivators and fresh-food browsers.

Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, info@richmond farmersmarketvt.org.

SPINNING PLATES: The alleyway next to the theater is transformed into an outdoor dining room with food truck fare and a beer and wine garden. See townhalltheater.org for restaurant information. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 388-1436.

SUN TO CHEESE TOUR: Fromage fans go behind the scenes and

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follow award-winning farmstead cheddar from raw milk to finished product. Shelburne Farms, 1:45-3:45 p.m. $20 includes a block of cheddar; preregister.

Info, registration@shelburnefarms.org.

TRUCK STOP: Mobile kitchens dish out mouthwatering meals and libations. Live DJs and outdoor entertainment add to the fun. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0406.

WILD HART DISTILLERY POPUP: Imbibers treat their taste buds to samples, craft cocktails and packaged spirits to go. 5247 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, noon-7 p.m. Free tastings; cocktails and packages for purchase. Info, 777-5090.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.24, 9:15 a.m.

CRIBBAGE & PINOCHLE: See WED.24.

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Imaginative teens and adults exercise their problem-solving skills in battles and adventures.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, help with character design, 5:30 p.m.; game, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-6955.

‘SAYS YOU!’: Two teams of logophiles compete in a parlor game taped for public radio. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30-10 p.m. $20-35. Info, 800-762-8000.

health & fitness

ADVANCED SUN TAI CHI 73: Participants keep active with a sequence of slow, controlled movements. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 1-2 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3322.

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.24, 7:30 & 10:40 a.m.

CHAIR YOGA: Students with limited mobility limber up with modified poses. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262.

GONG MEDITATION: Sonic vibrations lead to healing and deep relaxation. Yoga Roots, Williston, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $18.

Info, 318-6050.

LIVING RECOVERY: Folks overcoming substance abuse move, breathe and make positive change in a moderately paced flow yoga class. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 4-5 p.m.

Donations. Info, 448-4262.

MOVE YOUR BODY – STILL YOUR MIND: Simple qigong flow movements lead into an exploration of other meditative practices during a six-week summer session. Waterbury Public Library, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

TAI CHI STUDIO: Beginners and experienced practitioners alike perfect their steps with limited guidance. Barre Area Senior Center, 11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

TAI CHI YANG 24: Students get an introduction to a gentle form

of exercise said to benefit internal organs. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 2-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3322.

lgbtq

VERMONT PRIDE THEATER FESTIVAL: ‘STANDING IN THIS PLACE: GROWING UP LGBTQ IN RURAL VERMONT’: Fifteen native Vermonters from across generations reveal personal stories in this Vermont Pride Theater commission written and codirected by Maura Campbell.

A talkback and reception follow.

Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $15-20; $35-50 for three-play pass. Info, 728-9878.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

BURLINGTON CITY ARTS SUMMER CONCERTS: THE BLIND SPOTS: Fronted by charismatic singer Maddy Walsh, the Ithaca, N.Y., band brings its highenergy original rock songs to an outdoor stage. Lower Church St., Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7166.

DAVID ROSANE & THE ZOOKEEPERS: See WED.24, Middletown Springs Public Library, 7-9 p.m. Info, 235-2435.

DUELING PIANOS: Two players tickle the ivories while music lovers sip beverages and sing along to hit after hit.

Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor, 5:30 & 8 p.m. $15. Info, 855-650-0080.

FRIDAY NIGHT FIRES: JENNINGS & MCCOMBER: Inspired by their Celtic roots, the duo finds eager ears with indie-folk numbers from Will You Leave the Light On? Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Berlin, 5-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-1151.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE: THE SAMPLES: Vendors, games and a mechanical bull warm up the crowd for an outdoor concert of reggae-influenced pop-rock tunes from the album Indian Summer. Center Street, Rutland, 5-10 p.m. Free. Info, 773-9380.

GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV: Also a full-time farmer, the Coloradobased indie-folk artist woos audience members with selections from 2018’s Evening Machines.

Haley Heynderickx opens. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $39-63. Info, 863-5966.

HELIAND CONSORT: See WED.24, York Street Meeting House, Lyndon.

JAGUAR STEREO, GLACIAL ERRATICS, GLENN WEYANT & EUPHONY: Experimental music draws listeners to an outdoor show. Private residence, 1248 Route 2, East Montpelier, 7-10 p.m. Donations. Info, subversive. intentions@gmail.com.

MAMUSE: Fed by the folk and gospel traditions, Sarah Nutting and Karisha Longake provide a musical tune-up for the heart. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church of St. Johnsbury, 7-9 p.m. $20-25. Info, 633-3810.

MUSIC IN THE ALLEY: ANDY GAGNON PRESENTS: LOVECRAFT: Members of the Renegade Groove, Ray Vega’s Latin Jazz Sextet and other area ensembles serve up original compositions and fresh takes on beloved standards during an al fresco concert. See calendar spotlight. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop, Waterbury, 6-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 244-7801.

ONION RIVER JAZZ BAND: More than 30 years of stage time inform an evening of Dixieland jazz by the local group. Salisbury Congregational Church, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 352-6671.

RED BRICK COFFEE HOUSE: Hot beverages are provided at an open mic and jam session where community members connect over music, cards and board games. Red Brick Meeting House, Westford, 7-10 p.m. Donations.

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SUMMER CARILLON CONCERT: The melodic sound of bells rings out across the campus in a performance by Ellen Dickinson, carillonneur for Trinity College and Yale University. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.24.

VILLALOBOS BROTHERS: Hailing from Veracruz, Mexico, the quartet shares its message of justice and brotherhood through high-energy fiddle tunes. Food sales benefit Migrant Justice.

Clark Farm, Barnard, doors open for food, 6:30 p.m.; Migrant Justice talk, 7 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, 234-1645.

outdoors

LINCOLN GAP TO APPALACHIAN GAP HIKE: Outdoor adventurers bring their binoculars for a difficult trek covering more than 12 miles of ground. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister. Info, 658-0912.

sports

DIVAS OF DIRT GROUP RIDES: Women mountain bikers of all ability levels share their passion for the sport at biweekly group rides and happy hours. Killington Resort, 4-6 p.m. Free with bike park ticket or pass, $22. Info, 422-6232.

FRIDAY NIGHT DINGHY RACING: Skippers with previous sailing knowledge celebrate the end of the week with some nautical competition. Bring or borrow a boat. Community Sailing Center, Burlington, registration, 5 p.m.; races, 6 p.m. Donations. Info, 864-2499.

theater

‘AN ACT OF GOD’: See THU.25, 7:30 p.m.

‘BOX OF SQUIRRELS: SEEING THINGS FOR THE FIRST TIME’: See THU.25.

‘CABARET’: See THU.25.

‘THE CHERRY ORCHARD’: See THU.25.

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‘THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK’: See WED.24.

‘DIG’: See WED.24, 7:30 p.m.

‘EMMA’: Drawing on texts from anarchist Emma Goldman, poetry by Alexander Pushkin and current-day news, Bread and Puppet Theater presents a show that pushes against physical border walls and the imagined boundaries of human difference.

Paper-Mâché Cathedral, Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 525-3031.

‘THE FATHER’: See THU.25.

FROST & DODD STUDENT PLAY FESTIVAL: ‘DR. SUPERMAN’: Written by Dartmouth College student Kayshav Prakash, this competition-winning one-act work follows and Indian family transplanted to the rural South.

Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $5.

Info, 603-646-2422.

‘I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE’: See WED.24.

‘INHERIT THE WIND’ AUDITIONS: See THU.25.

‘INTO THE WOODS’: See THU.25.

‘LEGALLY BLONDE’: See WED.24.

Also presented by Town Hall Theater’s Young Company. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7-9:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 382-9222.

SUMMER BOOK SALE: Thousands of titles delight bookworms and bargain shoppers alike. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 476-7550.

WRITER’S BLOCK: Scribes bring essays, short stories, one-act plays and poems to be critiqued by a supportive audience. Barre Area Senior Center, 10-11:15 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

SAT.27 activism

FAIR TRADE LABELS TALK: A presentation and discussion break down designations within the fair trade movement. Stick around after to learn about volunteer opportunities at PJC. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, program@pjcvt.org.

bazaars

THREE DAY STAMPEDE: See FRI.26.

TOWN-WIDE YARD SALE: Previously owned treasures find new homes at this annual benefit for the Clarendon Volunteer Fire Department. Various Clarendon locations, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 775-4274.

community

SERVE WEEK: See WED.24.

‘MIRANDA’: Bernard Pomerance’s sequel to Shakespeare’s The Tempest premieres with a production presented by the Greensboro Arts Alliance and Residency. See calendar spotlight.

Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $1020. Info, 533-2000.

dance

‘THE MUSIC MAN’: See THU.25.

FARM TO BALLET PROJECT: Artistry meets agriculture as dancers reinterpret classical ballet pieces to tell the story of a Vermont farm from spring to fall. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, tours, 5:30 p.m.; show, 6:30 p.m. $20; free for kids 12 and under. Info, katie@ballet vermont.org.

‘OKLAHOMA!’: See WED.24, 7:30 p.m.

‘PIRATES OF PENZANCE’: Frederic’s apprenticeship with a band of merry pirates is to end on the orphan’s 21st birthday. But when it is revealed that he was born on February 29, and thus only has birthdays in leap years, he is duty-bound to remain in servitude for another 63 years in Gilbert & Sullivan’s comic opera masterwork. Blow-Me-Down Farm, Cornish, N.H., 7 p.m. $25-50.

Info, 603-448-0400.

‘THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH’: The Chelsea Funnery presents an open-air production of Shakespeare’s tragedy about a corrupt general’s quest to become King of Scotland. Rain location: Chelsea Town Hall. The Tunbridge School, 6 p.m. Donations. Info, chelseafunnery@gmail.com.

words

FRIENDS OF THE STOWE FREE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: See WED.24.

RUTH STONE FOUNDATION READING SERIES: Poets Emily Pettit, Chase Berggrun, Paige Taggart and Melanie M. Goodreaux regale lit lovers with original works. Wishbone Collective, Winooski, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, hello@wishbonecollectivevt.com.

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CONTRA DANCE: Hoofers move to tunes by Blind Squirrel and calling

by Luke Donforth. Bring water and a snack to share. East Thetford Pavilion, beginner walk-through, 7:40 p.m.; dance, 8 p.m. $5-12.

Info, 785-2855.

etc.

40TH ANNUAL CHAMPLAIN VALLEY GEM, MINERAL & FOSSIL SHOW: Sparkling specimens dazzle attendees during a weekend of eye-catching exhibits, lectures and more. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $3-4; free for kids under 16 with a paying adult. Info, csmart813@gmail.com.

ANIMALS ARE SOUL TOO: See THU.25, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-3:15 p.m.

BACKYARD CLASSIC: Lawn games and Zero Gravity libations enliven an adults-only poolside party complete with dinner by the Farmhouse Tap & Grill. Proceeds benefit the King Street Center.

Burlington Tennis Club, South Burlington, 5-9:30 p.m. $75. Info, 862-6736.

DARTMOUTH 250TH ANNIVERSARY SUMMER CELEBRATION: An open house gives way to an Argentine tango dance class and musical

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performances by the Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet, Cha Wa and Noah Kahan. Dartmouth Green, Hanover, N.H., 11 a.m. Free.

Info, dartmouth250@dartmouth. edu.

E-BIKE & BREW TOUR: Electric bicycles transport suds lovers to three local beer producers via scenic routes. Lamoille Valley Bike Tours, Johnson, noon-4:30 p.m. $75 includes an appetizer and two souvenir pint glasses. Info, 730-0161.

GUIDED TOURS: History buffs explore the home of Revolutionary War patriot John Strong. DAR John Strong Mansion Museum, Addison, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $3-10.

Info, hschwenk29@hotmail.com.

HISTORIC TOUR OF UVM: A walking tour of New England’s fifth oldest university brings its illustrious history to life. Ira Allen Statue, University Green, University of Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 656-8673.

LOUNGE 91: See FRI.26.

QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK DARKNESS FALLS TOUR: See FRI.26.

Taps & Beer Garden, Windsor, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. $15. Info, info@ harpoon.com.

THE RAMBLE: Art lovers flock to this all-day celebration of creativity and community in the Old North End, guided by the theme “The Golden Years.” See theramble.org for a map and details.

Various Old North End locations, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. Free. Info, rambler@theramble.org.

VERMONT BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL: This flavorful fest features mouthwatering fare, special guests and family-friendly entertainment. Craftsbury Common, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 755-9030.

WELLNESS FAIR: Vermonters find ways to improve their well-being.

Art, music, healing services and vegan food are available throughout the day. Lotus Mountain Retreat, Bolton, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. $25. Info, 434-6500.

film

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

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.24.

STUNT KITE FLIERS & ARCHERY HOBBYISTS MEETING: Open to beginning and experienced hobbyists alike, a weekly gathering allows folks to share information and suggestions for equipment, sporting locations and more. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 658-0030.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.24.

TOGA PARTY: Dressed in ancient Roman robes, revelers party the night away with live and DJed music, snacks, and drinking games. Proceeds benefit castle restoration. Wilson Castle, Proctor, 7 p.m.-2 a.m. $20-35; for ages 21 and up. Info, 779-4920.

BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods.

345 Pine St., Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, burlington farmersmarket.org@gmail.com.

TOURS OF THE HISTORIC BARN HOUSE & EXHIBITS: Attendees view authentic African art, impressive architecture and antique fixtures during a stroll through historic buildings. Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte, 10-11:30 a.m. $10. Info, clemmonsfamily farm@gmail.com.

WEEKENDS ON THE GREEN: See THU.25.

WESTON GALA: Patrons of the arts convene for music, dancing, cocktails and a farm-to-table dinner. Weston Playhouse Second Stage at Walker Farm, 6 p.m. $50; preregister. Info, 824-5288.

fairs & festivals

BARRE HERITAGE FESTIVAL & HOMECOMING DAYS: See WED.24, 7:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m.

BOOKSTOCK: GREEN MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL OF WORDS: See FRI.26.

FAIRFAX MINI RENAISSANCE FAIRE: Sword fighting, blacksmithing, chainmail demos and games for all ages engage knights and maidens. BFA Middle School, Fairfax, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

HARPOON BBQ FESTIVAL: Culinary teams from all over New England fire up the grill and compete for the title of Grand Champion. See calendar spotlight. Harpoon Brewery Riverbend

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.24.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.24.

food & drink

BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: See THU.25.

CAPITAL CITY FARMERS MARKET: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, locally made arts and crafts, and live music. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

Info, manager@montpelierfarm ersmarket.com.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY DINNER TRAIN: See FRI.26.

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN MIDDLESEX: Candy fanatics get an education on a variety of sweets made on-site. Nutty Steph’s Granola & Chocolate Factory, Middlesex, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 229-2090.

HOT DOG DAYS OF SUMMER: Free frankfurters satisfy snackers.

Green Mountain Harley-Davidson, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-4778.

SHELBURNE FARMERS MARKET: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses, and local novelties grace outdoor tables. Shelburne Parade Ground, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 482-4279.

SPINNING PLATES: See FRI.26, 3-8 p.m.

VERMONT BREAKFAST ON THE FARM: Come and get it! A morning meal paves the way for a tour of a dairy-producing facility.

Sprague Ranch, Brookfield, 8 a.m.1 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2430.

WILD HART DISTILLERY POP-UP: See FRI.26.

games

‘SAYS YOU!’: See FRI.26, Woodstock Town Hall Theatre. $35-45. Info, 457-3981.

health & fitness

CARVE YOGA CURIOUS?: Yoga, aerobic exercise and resistance strength training come together in a stress-relieving total-body workout. Hot Yoga Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 999-9963.

COMMUNITY YOGA: Active bodies get their stretch on with Carolyn Hannan and Marger Maldonado, increasing balance and flexibility. Namaste! Old Stone House Museum, Brownington, 10-11 a.m.

Donations. Info, 754-2022.

lgbtq

PRIDE YOGA: LGBTQ individuals and allies hit the mat for a stretching session suited to all levels. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Donations.

Info, 448-4262.

VERMONT PRIDE THEATER FESTIVAL: ‘ALL TOGETHER NOW’: An unexpected arrival alters couple Paul and Adam’s lives forever in this theater work written

by Philip Middleton Williams, directed by Jarvis Green. A talkback and reception follow. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $15-20; $50 for threeplay pass. Info, 777-7525.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

CECILIA ZABALA: A guitar player since the age of 6, the Argentinian songstress captivates audience members with her award-winning world jazz stylings. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $45 includes dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.24.

outdoors

BIRD MONITORING WALK IN COLCHESTER: No experience is necessary to join in a search for great blue heron, osprey and other species. Binoculars and field guides are available to borrow. Macrae Farm Park, Colchester, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 863-5744.

BIRD MONITORING WALK IN HUNTINGTON: Adults and older children don binoculars and keep an eye out for winged wonders.

Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 7:30-9 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 434-2167.

seminars

THE ART OF READING TAROT CARDS: Erika Empey introduces the ancient tradition of interpreting the 78-card deck. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 846-4140.

sports

RESTORE THE BAY 5K: Athletes put their best foot forward to support Saint Albans Area Watershed Association’s cleanup efforts. St. Albans Bay Park, registration, 9 a.m.; race, 11 a.m. $10-25. Info, 656-8504.

talks

PAUL ANDRISCIN: For “Inquiry Into the Revolutionary Mind: What Were You Thinking Doctor Jonathan Potts and Reverend Thomas Allen?,” the historian turns back the clock to interview to men who treated soldiers at Mount Independence. Mount Independence State Historic Site, Orwell, 2-3:30 p.m. $5; free for kids under 15. Info, 948-2000.

COOLER IN THE MOUNTAINS CONCERT SERIES: Hailing from Waterville, Ohio, the indie-folk trio earns new fans with tunes from its 2018 debut album 34 N. River. Snowshed Lodge, Killington Resort, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-734-9435.

theater

DAVID ROSANE & THE ZOOKEEPERS: See WED.24, Weston Community Church on the Hill, 5-7 p.m. Info, info@ vtchurchonthehill.org.

COMMUNITY REHEARSAL FOR ‘THE DIAGONAL LIFE CIRCUS’: Interested actors and musicians are invited to practice for an upcoming production. Circus Field, Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 525-3031.

GREEN MOUNTAIN HORN CLUB: Twenty-three French horn players perform works by Sousa, Tchaikovsky, Copland and others.

Homer Knight Barn, Island Arts Center, North Hero, venue opens for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 6:30-8 p.m. Donations. Info, hornclub@yahoo.com.

KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL: MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS: Guest violin soloist Virgil Boutellis-Taft brings his talent to the classical music series grand finale. Ramshead Lodge, Killington Resort, 7 p.m. $25. Info, 773-4003.

TOD PRONTO: Energetic storytelling spices up folk, roots, blues and country selections. Old Stone House Museum, Brownington, 4-6 p.m. Donations. Info, 754-2022.

‘AN ACT OF GOD’: See THU.25, 3 p.m.

‘CABARET’: See THU.25.

‘THE CHERRY ORCHARD’: See THU.25.

‘THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK’: See WED.24.

‘DIG’: See WED.24.

‘THE FATHER’: See THU.25.

FROST & DODD STUDENT PLAY FESTIVAL: ‘LOST ANGELES’ & ‘THE RECORDING’: Dartmouth College students present original, competition-winning works.

Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $5.

Info, 603-646-2422.

‘I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE’: See WED.24, 2 & 8 p.m.

‘INHERIT THE WIND’ AUDITIONS: See THU.25, 1-4 p.m.

‘INTO THE WOODS’: See THU.25.

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VERMONT ‘LEGALLY BLONDE’: See FRI.26, 2-3:30 p.m.

‘LEGALLY BLONDE’: See WED.24, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘MIRANDA’: See FRI.26.

‘THE MUSIC MAN’: See THU.25.

‘OKLAHOMA!’: See WED.24.

‘PIRATES OF PENZANCE’: See FRI.26.

‘THE RELUCTANT DRAGON’: Performed by actors of all ages for spectators of all ages, this charming play tells the tale of a boy and a fantastical creature who’d rather write poetry than menace a kingdom. QuarryWorks Theater, Adamant, 2-3 & 5-6 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 229-6978.

words

BOOK SALE: Bibliophiles browse CDs, DVDs, puzzles and pageturners at this annual blowout benefiting the Pawlet Public Library. Mettawee Community School, West Pawlet, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 325-3123.

FRIENDS OF THE STOWE FREE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: See WED.24.

SUMMER BOOK SALE: See FRI.26, 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

‘THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH’: See FRI.26, 4 p.m.

SUN.28 activism

bazaars

THREE DAY STAMPEDE: See FRI.26, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

community

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: Sessions in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh include sitting and walking meditation, a short reading, and open sharing. Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, newleafsangha@ gmail.com.

TINY TWILIGHT CAFÉ: Families refuel for the week with a light supper and the chance to connect with other parents and caregivers of kids ages 3 and under. Older siblings are welcome. Downstreet Housing & Community Development, Barre, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 595-7953.

dance

‘BREAD AND DANCE’: A feast of baked goods follows an Ergo Movement performance in an apple orchard. Fairfax location is provided upon registration, 2 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 370-4077.

etc.

40TH ANNUAL CHAMPLAIN VALLEY GEM, MINERAL & FOSSIL SHOW: See SAT.27.

GUIDED TOURS: See SAT.27.

WILD HART DISTILLERY POPUP: See FRI.26.

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

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

SOUL FOOD: TUBING, TUNES & TACOS: After floating down the New Haven River, folks disembark at Golden Well Sanctuary for APIS Honey Kombucha and farm-fresh fare. Rain date: August 4. Golden Well Sanctuary, New Haven, 3-7 p.m. $12-26; additional cost for tube rental and shuttle. Info, 870-0361.

games

WEEKENDS ON THE GREEN: See THU.25, noon-6 p.m.

SUMMER SERIES WITH SUKHA YOGA: An outdoor class led by instructor Amanda supports Spectrum Youth & Family Services. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Donations. Info, 324-9016.

fairs & festivals

BOOKSTOCK: GREEN MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL OF WORDS: See FRI.26.

GREEK FOOD FESTIVAL: Authentic fare fuels a cultural celebration complete with church tours, live music and traditional dancing. Greek Orthodox Church Community Center, Burlington, noon-5 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 862-2155.

HARPOON BBQ FESTIVAL: See SAT.27, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

JIG IN THE VALLEY: Now in its 27th year, this family-friendly fête features hours of live music, raffles, scrumptious eats and more. Meeting House on the Green, East Fairfield, noon-8 p.m. $10; $25 for families. Info, 827-6626.

film

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

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.24.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.24.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.24.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.24.

food & drink

BRUNCH & BLOOMS: A buffetstyle feast fuels diners for a self-guided tour of the cut-flower farm. Attendees also design their own take-home floral arrangements and snag a to-go cookie from the bakery. Ardelia Farm & Co., Irasburg, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $75.

Info, 323-4178.

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN MIDDLESEX: See SAT.27.

EAT UP! AT THE GREEN: Locals skip cooking dinner in favor of food and drink from area purveyors served amid art, live music and good company. Camp Meade, Middlesex, 4-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 496-2108.

STOWE FARMERS MARKET: An appetizing assortment of fresh veggies, meats, milk, berries, herbs, beverages and crafts tempts shoppers. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, stowefarmers market@gmail.com.

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TRIVIA NIGHT: Players in mixed age groups compete for bragging rights in six rounds of questions.

Pizza is provided. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 5-7 p.m.

Donations. Info, 864-0218.

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health & fitness

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TECH-ASSISTED MEDITATION MEETUP: Mobile devices and headphones in tow, participants explore digital tools and techniques for achieving deep focus. Satori Float & Mind Spa, Shelburne, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 498-5555.

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LGBTQ FIBER ARTS GROUP: A knitting, crocheting and weaving session welcomes all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations and skill levels. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

VERMONT PRIDE THEATER FESTIVAL: ‘A LATE SNOW’: In Jane Chambers’ 1960s play, closeted college professor Ellie finds herself snowbound with her first love, an ex-love, her current love and a potential new love. A talkback and reception follow. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $15-20; $50 for three-play pass. Info, 728-9878.

montréal

PIKNIC ÉLECTRONIK MONTRÉAL: DJ sets and beat-driven music propel a dance party of epic proportions. See piknicelectronik. com for details. Plaine des jeux, Montréal, 2-9:30 p.m. $16-119.

Info, 514-904-1247.

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BURLINGTON CONCERT BAND: Local musicians present a varied program of marches, show tunes and pop classics. BYO blanket or lawn chair. Battery Park, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info,

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Hanover, N.H., 4 p.m. $10-15. Info, 603-646-2422.

burlingtonconcertbandvt@gmail. com.

‘OKLAHOMA!’: See WED.24, 3 p.m.

UKULELE MÊLÉE: Fingers fly at a group lesson on the four-stringed Hawaiian instrument. BYO uke.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

‘THE RELUCTANT DRAGON’: See SAT.27, 2-3 p.m.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.24.

WESTFORD CONCERT ON THE COMMON SERIES: Toes tap to tunes by Stoney Ridge. Rain location: Red Brick Meeting House. Westford Common, food vendors, 6 p.m.; concert, 7-8 p.m.

Donations. Info, 363-0930.

sports

COLCHESTER TRIATHLON: Active bodies bike, run and kayak or swim to the finish line. Bayside Park, Colchester, 8:30-11:30 a.m. $45-105. Info, 264-5640.

talks

LAST SUNDAY: MICHAEL BLAKESLEE: Clothing and other period-correct items in tow, the site interpreter and long-time reenactor relates his experiences exploring the French and Indian War through the American Revolution. Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, 1-2:30 p.m. $3; free for kids under 15. Info, 273-2282.

TERESA M. MARES: Drawing on her research of Latinx farmworkers in Vermont’s dairy industry, the University of Vermont associate professor speaks about food insecurity in migrant farmworker communities. See calendar spotlight. Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, 3 p.m. $5 or free with museum admission, $8-10; free for kids under 5. Info, 877-3406.

theater

‘AN ACT OF GOD’: See THU.25.

‘CABARET’: See THU.25, 2 p.m.

‘THE CHERRY ORCHARD’: See THU.25.

‘THE DIAGONAL LIFE CIRCUS’ & ‘THE NORMALITY REBELLION PAGEANT’: Activist theater company Bread and Puppet Theater examines the passions and politics of capitalist culture in a musical spectacle with community participation. Circus Field, Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 3 p.m. $10-20. Info, 525-3031.

‘THE FATHER’: See THU.25.

FROST & DODD STUDENT PLAY FESTIVAL: ‘DR. SUPERMAN’: See FRI.26.

FROST & DODD STUDENT PLAY FESTIVAL: ‘LOST ANGELES’ & ‘THE RECORDING’: See SAT.27, 4 p.m.

‘INTO THE WOODS’: See THU.25, 2-4 p.m.

‘LEGALLY BLONDE’: See WED.24, 2 p.m.

‘LEGALLY BLONDE’: See FRI.26, 2-3:30 p.m.

‘MIRANDA’: See FRI.26, 3-5 p.m.

‘THE MUSIC MAN’: See THU.25, 2 p.m.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘THE LEHMAN TRILOGY’: See THU.25, Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College,

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‘PIRATES OF PENZANCE’: See FRI.26, 2 p.m.

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BOOK SALE: See SAT.27, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

FRIENDS OF THE STOWE FREE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: See WED.24.

JOAN HUTTON LANDIS SUMMER READING SERIES: Lovers of the written word hear from writers Katherine Riley and Peter Orner.

BigTown Gallery, Rochester, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 767-9670.

MON.29 crafts

HANDWORK CIRCLE: Friends and neighbors make progress on works of knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch and other creative endeavors.

Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

etc.

TAROT CARD READING: Geri Ann Higgins consults her cards to offer guidance and clarity. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, noon-1:30 p.m. Free; preregister; for ages 18 and up. Info, 878-4918.

film

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

‘CHICAGO’: Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones star in this satire about Prohibition-era corruption and American celebrity culture. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.24.

COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: Supervised clinical interns offer guidance and support to those looking to care for themselves using natural remedies. By appointment only. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, and Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 4-8 p.m. $10-30; additional cost for herbs; preregister.

Info, 224-7100.

GUIDED GROUP MEDITATION: In keeping with the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, folks practice mindfulness through sitting, walking, reading and discussion.

Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 7:15-8 p.m. Free. Info, 505-1688.

MORNING STRENGTHEN & TONE: See THU.25.

language

PLATTSBURGH CONVERSATION GROUP: French speakers maintain their conversational skills in a weekly meetup. Plattsburgh Public Library, N.Y., 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, ajobin-picard@ cefls.org.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

MEADOWMOUNT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: Competition-winning students showcase their technical skills, interpretive expertise and individual artistry. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 518-962-4449.

SAMBATUCADA OPEN REHEARSAL: Burlington’s samba street band welcomes new drummers. Neither experience nor instruments are required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.24.

talks

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.24.

VINCENT FEENEY: “Levi Allen: Ethan’s Black Sheep Brother” provides a portrait of a prominent family’s turmoil during the formative years of Vermont and the United States. Alburgh Public Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 796-6077.

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tech

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.24.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.24.

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.24, 6:30 p.m.

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.24.

CRIBBAGE & PINOCHLE: See WED.24.

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MAGIC: THE GATHERING — MONDAY NIGHT MODERN: Tarmogoyf-slinging madness ensues when competitors battle for prizes in a weekly game. Brap’s Magic, Burlington, 6:30-10 p.m. $8. Info, 540-0498.

PITCH: Players compete in a tricktaking card game. Barre Area Senior Center, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 479-9512.

health & fitness

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.24.

CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 10:45-11:45 a.m. Free.

Info, 448-4262.

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BOOK SALE: Bibliophiles browse thousands of gently used pageturners, CDs, DVDs and puzzles.

Rutland Free Library, 4-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 773-1860.

company. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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health & fitness

BEGINNER-FRIENDLY ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE: Propelled by music from the 16th century through the present day, casually dressed teens and adults practice the steps popular in the time of Jane Austen. Richmond Free Library, 7-9 p.m. $5. Info, 881-9732.

SWING DANCING: Quick-footed participants experiment with different forms, including the Lindy Hop, Charleston and balboa. Beginners are welcome.

Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:309:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

etc.

TUNESDAYS ON THE FARM: Games, food vendors and live local music spice up a weekly social gathering. Pittsford Village Farm, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, info@pittsford villagefarm.org.

film

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

‘AMADEUS’: The rivalry between a young Mozart and composer Antonio Salieri drives this 1984 drama. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘ASK US WHO WE ARE’: Vermont filmmaker Bess O’Brien’s 2011 documentary delves into the state’s foster care system. Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, snacks, 5:30 p.m.; film, 6 p.m.; discussion, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 454-1286.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.24.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.24.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.24.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.24.

‘REAR WINDOW’: Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 thriller follows a photographer who becomes convinced that one of his neighbors is a murderer. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-10 p.m.

Donations. Info, 540-3018.

food & drink

FIELD-TO-FORK: WILD FOOD COOKING SERIES: Experts teach the basics of preparing Vermont’s wild bounty, from fish to bear. Barre Fish & Game Club, 6-9 p.m. Free.

Info, nicole.meier@vermont.gov.

community

MUSIC WHILE YOU PICK: Countrified jazz by Red Hot Juba keeps spirits high as locavores snap up fresh blueberries. Owl’s Head Blueberry Farm, Richmond, picking begins, 5 p.m.; music, 6-8 p.m. Minimum purchase of two quarts per adult; $6 per quart.

Info, 434-3387.

crafts

OLD NORTH END FARMERS MARKET: Locavores score breads, juices, ethnic foods and more from neighborhood vendors. Dewey Park, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, oldnorthendfarmersmarket@ gmail.com.

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COMMUNITY DROP-IN CENTER HOURS: Wi-Fi, games and art materials are on hand at an open meeting space where folks forge social connections. GRACE, Hardwick, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 472-6857.

COMMUNITY CRAFT NIGHT: Makers stitch, spin, knit and crochet their way through projects while enjoying each other’s

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.24, 7 p.m.

BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE TAI CHI: Whether they’re new to Sun-style practice or wish to review core moves, students join Elizabeth Wirls for some gentle exercise. Homestead Gardens, Wheeler House, South Burlington, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 735-5467.

BONE BUILDERS: See THU.25.

COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: See MON.29, Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED TAI CHI: Time for individual questions and mentoring augments an hour of instruction. Homestead Gardens, Wheeler House, South Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 735-5467.

REIKI CLINIC: Thirty-minute treatments foster physical, emotional and spiritual wellness.

JourneyWorks, Burlington, 3-5:30 p.m. $10-30; preregister. Info, 860-6203.

TAI CHI TUESDAYS: Friends old and new share a healthy pastime. Barre Area Senior Center, advanced, 1 p.m.; intermediate, 2 p.m.; beginner, 3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

TUESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: Participants learn to relax and let go. Stillpoint Center, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 318-8605.

language

ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Parla Italiano? Language learners practice pronunciation and more in an informal gathering. Hartland Public Library, 12:30-2:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 436-2473.

‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers and learners are welcome to pipe up at an unstructured conversational practice. El Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ITALIAN: Speakers hone their skills in the Romance language over a bag lunch. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Frenchlanguage fanatics meet pour parler la belle langue. Burlington Bay Market & Café, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 430-4652.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

CASTLETON SUMMER CONCERTS: The Twangbusters dole out a danceable blend of American boogie, blues and bop.

Pavilion, Castleton University, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 468-6039.

CHRIS BRUBECK’S TRIPLE PLAY: With musical roots that go back nearly 40 years, Peter “Madcat” Ruth, Joel Brown and Chris Brubeck dole out folk, blues, jazz and classical selections. Highland

Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 533-2000.

FAIRLEE SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: Bearing lawn chairs and picnic meals, locals head to the green for an evening of well-known numbers ranging from classical to Dixieland to Broadway show tunes, performed by the Constitution Brass Quintet.

Fairlee Town Common, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 331-0997.

SHAPE NOTE SING: Locals lend their voices to four-part harmonies at this weekly sing-along of early American music in the “fa-sol-la-mi” tradition. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 525-6972.

TUESDAY NIGHT LIVE: Taking the stage as Ernest, former Madaila front person Mark Daly provides the musical backdrop to a pastoral party featuring good eats.

BYO blanket or chair. Legion Field, Johnson, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 730-2943.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.24.

outdoors

LAKE CHAMPLAIN LIVE: Citizen scientists board a University of Vermont research vessel, where they experience an interactive introduction to the geology and formation of Lake Champlain.

Rubenstein Ecosystem Laboratory, Burlington, 9-11 a.m. $30. Info, 391-4410.

seminars

INTRODUCTION TO ESSENTIAL OILS: Tricia Gustafson covers the primary uses and benefits of natural extractions. Then, attendees whip up take-home roll-on oils. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 5:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 846-4140.

sports

FREE AIKIDO CLASS: A one-time complimentary introduction to the Japanese martial art focuses on centering and finding freedom while under attack.

Open to prospective students.

Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6:15-7:15 p.m. Free.

Info, 951-8900.

MICHELOB ULTRA GOLF LEAGUE: Players take swings in a weekly nine-hole scramble tournament.

Sign up as a team or an individual.

Killington Golf Course, 5 p.m. $25-30 includes dinner and prizes; preregister. Info, 422-6700.

talks

HOT TOPICS SUMMER LECTURE SERIES: Kathleen Falk of the United States Department of Health and Human Services examines “The Flint Water Crisis: A Case of Environmental Injustice.”

Room 012, Oakes Hall, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 831-1371.

MEET-THE-ARTISTS LUNCH: Artists-in-residence chat about upcoming New York Theatre Workshop presentations in an informal setting. Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College,

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Addison County Field Days Vermont’s largest agricultural fair

Hanover, N.H., noon. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

for the Arts, Randolph, 7 p.m.

Donations. Info, 728-6464.

CAPITAL CITY BAND: See WED.24.

theater

‘HELLO, DOLLY!’: Barbra Streisand lifts her voice in the 1969 film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play about a socialite-turned-matchmaker.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS SUMMER FESTIVAL: See WED.24.

‘OKLAHOMA!’: See WED.24, 7:30 p.m.

words

BRIT READERS OF THE NEK: Tara Westover’s Educated provokes thought among members of a new book club. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 745-1392.

BURLINGTON FREE WRITE: Aspiring writers respond to prompts in a welcoming atmosphere. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-1664.

MEGAN PRICE: The scribe shares secrets behind her humorous and sometimes harrowing Vermont Wild: Adventures of Fish & Game Wardens series. Steele Room, Waterbury Municipal Building, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

MICIAH BAY GAULT: Fiction fans fête the launch of Goodnight Stranger, the local author’s debut novel, with cake, wine, and a reading and signing. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 229-0774.

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agriculture

CELEBRATE YOUR FARMER SOCIAL: A food and cut-flower producer plays host at a NOFAVT wood-fired pizza party, followed by a tour of the grounds.

Wildstone Farm, Pownal, 5:30 p.m. $10. Info, 434-4122, ext. 21.

cannabis

EDIBLE WELLNESS: A Q&A demystifies the benefits of consuming cannabidiol. Attendees treat themselves to sweet CBD delights. Nutty Steph’s Granola & Chocolate Factory, Middlesex, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.24.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.24.

MOVIE: Snacks are provided at a showing of a popular film. Call for details. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

MOVIE MARATHON: Teen and adult film buffs “boldly go where no man has gone before” while binging on three out-of-thisworld pictures. Call the library for titles. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-6955.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.24.

STOWE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL: ‘JOSEPH PULITZER: VOICE OF THE PEOPLE’: A documentary film focuses on an American publisher who spoke of fake news more than a century ago. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 760-4634.

‘THE SUMMER OF WALTER HACKS’: Faced with a tragedy, an 11-year-old boy must grow up fast in George Woodward and Gerianne Smart’s 1950s comingof-age drama. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 533-2000.

food & drink

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games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.24.

crafts

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health & fitness

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WATERBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY SUMMER MEETING: A potluck dinner leads to an engaging demonstration and presentation by the Lamoille River Swingers on the history of square dance. Bring a chair and a dish to share. Hope Davey Memorial Park, Waterbury Center, potluck, 6 p.m.; program, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 244-8089.

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

Find club dates in the music section.

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BURLINGTON CITY ARTS SUMMER CONCERTS: BELLA & THE NOTABLES: Jazz standards served with a twist tempt lunchtime listeners. Lower Church St., Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7166.

‘BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN’: Two cowboys played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger must conceal their forbidden love throughout their years-long relationship. Chandler Center

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language

BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: See WED.24.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.24.

MIDDLESEX BANDSTAND SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: High-energy Cajun strains from the Green Mountain Playboys fill the meadow. Food is available for purchase. Martha Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand, Middlesex, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 229-0881.

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UKULELE CLUB: Instrumentalists of all abilities meet to practice and play.

Hartland Public Library, 7-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 436-2473.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.24.

seminars

BIKING WORKSHOP: Twowheeled travelers take to the streets for a safety lesson with Local Motion’s Peter Burns.

Meet at the bike rack in front of Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 865-7211.

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JANE BECK: The Vermont Folklife Center founder sheds light on why individuals share narratives in “Catching People’s Stories.”

Greensboro Free Library, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 533-2531.

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‘ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL’: Stephen Thorne directs the Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble in a comedy by William Shakespeare.

Bread Loaf Campus, Ripton, 8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 443-2771.

‘THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK’: See WED.24.

‘LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR’: Set behind the scenes of a fictional 1950s TV sitcom in Manhattan, this comedy was penned by the late, great Neil Simon as a tribute to his early career as a television writer alongside comedy legends Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $36.50-45.50.

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DESIGNING WITH COLOR: Bring the colors beloved by favorite artists alive in your garden with designer Charlotte Albers through the use of key plants. A comprehensive talk on varying site conditions including wet or dry, sun or shade, with a focus on cold-hardy varieties suited to our region, including annuals. Sat., Aug. 3, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $45/2hour workshop, custom planting plan, refreshments. Location: Red Wagon Plants, 2408 Shelburne Falls Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Julie Rubaud, 482-4060, julie@ redwagonplants.com, redwagonplants.com/events.

TAIKO AND DJEMBE CLASSES IN BURLINGTON!: Sessions begin monthly for adults, kids, parents!

Parade and conga classes, too.

Intermediate Taiko: Mon., 6-8:20 p.m. Taiko, adults: Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m., and Wed., 6:30-7:50 p.m.

Djembe, adults: Wed., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Taiko, kids and parents: Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. World Drumming, kids and parents: Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Drums provided. Schedule/ register online. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255. burlingtontaiko.org.

PLANNING A FOUR-SEASON GARDEN: Create custom plant lists and design concepts for every garden that will bring interest and beauty year-round. Attract birds in the winter, ensure plants chosen will be successful, and enjoy the relaxing atmosphere of Red Wagon Greenhouses with our in-house experts. Includes a custom plant list and light refreshments. Sat., Jul. 20, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $45/2-hour class, custom plant lists, refreshments. Location: Red Wagon Plants, 2408 Shelburne Falls Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Julie Rubaud, 482-4060, julie@redwagonplants. com, redwagonplants.com/ events.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes: nightclub-style, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wed., 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

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DANCE CRAZE CAMP: Ever wonder why there are dance moves that everyone knows and loves to do? Are you an expert at flossing (and other Fortnite dances) or always wanted to learn? At Dance Craze Camp, we dive into moves through the ages and create our own catchy dances that are sure to go viral! Instructor: Annalisa Ledson. Ages 8-12. Mon.-Fri., Aug. 12-16, 8:30-11:30 a.m. Cost: $225/ person. Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org .

LATIN JAZZ INTENSIVE: Students work with jazz trumpet and luminary Ray Vega and a variety of artist-educators. Place into one of three combos, apply the principles and nuances of improvisation, investigating chord structure and developing melodic creativity. Latin hand percussion workshops spice up the days and add to your musical toolkit. Ages

13+, Mon.-Fri., Aug. 5-9, 12:30-5 p.m. Cost: $365/person; incl. jazz performance ticket. Location: FlynnArts, Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org.

Honest Yoga BRAND NEW BEGINNER COURSE: Vow to heal yourself and witness the changes after this commitment. Students build a series of postures and learn correct alignment. Great for athletes wanting to build a mindful focus in their sport. Our Brand New Beginner Course teaches fundamental principles that work quickly to improve posture, alleviate pain and focus your mind. After your very first class, you will feel relaxed and energized. This series takes the weird out of yoga. Build strength, stamina and flexibility. The course consists of eight classes. The cost is $120. Join with a friend and receive additional savings. We encourage all registered BNB students to attend our other classes offered during the course at no additional cost. Pre-registration is required. Mon. & Wed., Aug. 5-28, 5-6 p.m. Cost: $130/person; $115 for students. Location: Honest Yoga, 150 Dorset St., South Burlington.

Info: Stacey Sadowsky, 488-0272, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com.

language LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers lesson package. Our 13th year.

Small classes, private lessons and online instruction with a native speaker. Also live, engaging, face-to-face online English classes. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

martial arts VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Brazilian jiujitsu is a martial arts combat style based entirely on leverage and technique. Brazilian jiujitsu self-defense curriculum

is taught to Navy SEALs, CIA, FBI, military police and special forces.

No training experience required.

Easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life! Classes for men, women and children.

Students will learn realistic bully-proofing and self-defense life skills to avoid becoming victims and help them feel safe and secure. Our sole purpose is to help empower people by giving them realistic martial arts training practices they can carry with them throughout life. IBJJF and CBJJ certified black belt sixthdegree instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr.: teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A five-time Brazilian National Champion; International World Masters Champion and IBJJF World Masters Champion.

Accept no Iimitations! Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 598-2839, julio@bjjusa. com, vermontbjj.com.

tai chi SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings.

Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 3636890. snake-style.com.

massage ASIAN BODYWORK THERAPY PROGRAM: This program teaches two forms of massage: amma and shiatsu. We will explore oriental medicine theory and diagnosis, as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, and yin-yang and five-element theory.

Additionally, Western anatomy and physiology are taught. VSAC nondegree grants are available.

FSMTB-approved program. Starts Sep. Cost: $6,000/625-hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, Suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: Scott Moylan, 2888160, scott@elementsofhealing. net, elementsofhealing.net.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Taught by qualified meditation instructors at the Burlington Shambhala Meditation Center: Wed., 6-7 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Free and open to anyone. Free public meditation: weeknights, 6-7 p.m.; Tue. and Thu., noon-1 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Classes and retreats also offered. See our website at burlington.shambhala.org.

Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795.

yoga EVOLUTION YOGA: Practice yoga in a down-to-earth atmosphere with some of the most experienced teachers and therapeutic professionals in Burlington. New this summer: Yoga on the Lake, at the Community Sailing Center, MWF, 7-8 a.m., and Saturday, 7:30-8:30 a.m.; and Yoga in the Park, Tuesday, 7:15-8:15 a.m., at Oakledge near Sunclock, and Thursday, 7-8 a.m., in Smalley Park. Daily drop-in classes including $10 community classes, Yoga Wall and Yoga Therapeutics classes led by physical therapists.

Dive deeper into your practice or register for our Yoga Teacher Training for Healthcare Providers. $10-$15/class; $140/10-class card; $10/community class. New students $100/10-class card.

Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 8649642, evolutionvt.com.

LAUGHING RIVER YOGA: Located in a beautiful setting overlooking the Winooski River. We offer highquality classes, workshops and trainings taught by experienced teachers who honor the beauty and wisdom of the yogic tradition.

Check our website to learn more about our life-changing 200-hour teacher training program. All bodies and abilities are welcome.

Daily classes, workshops, 200and 300-hour yoga teacher training. Cost: $65/first month of unlimited classes; workshop & training prices vary. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, Suite 126, Burlington. Info: 3438119, laughingriveryoga.com.

SANGHA STUDIO |: NONPROFIT, DONATION-BASED YOGA: Sangha Studio builds an empowered community through the shared practice of yoga. Free yoga service initiatives and outreach programs are offered at 17 local organizations working with all ages. Join Sangha in both downtown Burlington and the Old North End for one of their roughly 60 weekly classes and workshops. Become a Sustaining Member for $60/month and practice as often as you like! Daily classes. Location: Sangha Studio, 120 Pine St. & 237 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 448-4262, Info@sanghastudio.org, sanghastudio.org.

YOGA ROOTS: Join us in our lightfilled, heart-centered studios in Shelburne and Williston. We love what we do, and we share the gifts of yoga with people of all ages, attitudes and abilities.

Yoga Roots offers vinyasa, heated, gentle, restorative, alignmentbased yoga and meditation classes seven days a week! For daily classes, workshops and trainings, visit yogarootsvt. com. 120 Graham Way, Suite 140, Shelburne; 373 Blair Park, Suite 205, Williston. info@yogarootsvt. com. Various classes 7 days a week. Location: Yoga Roots, Williston. Info: Lynn Alpeter, 9850090, lynn@yogarootsvt.com, yogarootsvt.com.

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Sammy Miller and the Congregation on the patio of the Waterhole

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ucked in the heart of the Adirondacks, idyllic Saranac Lake, N.Y., has all of the necessities and amenities a small town could need. But, given its small population of approximately 5,000, there’s pretty much only one of everything.

In 2015, the town briefly lost its only live music venue, the Waterhole. The bar and nightclub first opened in 1970 and has changed hands several times over the decades. Billy Allen, a longtime investor and former owner who transformed the bar into a music venue in 1986, sold the property to the club’s talent booker, Eric Munley, 31, and his partner, Kiki Sarko, 33.

The couple reopened the venue in 2016.

Munley says that when the Waterhole closed in 2015, some people in the area wanted to turn it into a restaurant. But he and Sarko, both live music aficionados, knew they had to intervene. They worked out a deal with Allen to lease the business without going through a bank and became full owners in 2018. Now, they continue to make the Waterhole a welcoming respite for locals and tourists alike.

“Live music has always been a huge part of my life,” says Sarko. “Most of my friends I’ve met at shows and festivals.”

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and he was the Waterhole’s talent booker for three years prior to taking it over. Before buying the business, Munley played 175 shows per year with the Blind Owl Band.

After opening, he cut it down to 125, and he’s since scaled back even more.

“When we came into this, neither of us had ever bartended before,” says Munley. “The bar world was completely new. I worked here, and I [knew] all about running shows. [But] it was challenging for sure.”

After years of pursuing social work, Sarko grew burned out and briefly returned to the more lucrative world of waiting tables before she and Munley bought the Waterhole. (Fun fact: The two first met at a Waterhole show in 2011.)

“The skill set I acquired from my social work jobs translated beautifully,” Sarko says of the transition. “Nonviolent communication, de-escalation — all of the things you work with clients on, drunk people need, too.”

Munley explains that the Waterhole is an island among New York State’s other markets, such as the areas around Buffalo, Syracuse and the Hudson River Valley. The club’s name is apt. Aside from the occasional bar band playing at local dives and special intimate performances at nonprofit BluSeed Studios, the music hub is an oasis, the only place to see a true rock show for miles around.

Famous acts such as Béla Fleck and

Gov’t Mule played past incarnations of the Waterhole. Currently, mid-level touring acts populate the stage, such as Massachusetts-based circus-punks Bella’s Bartok and funk nomads Andy Frasco & the U.N. Its programming is similar to that of Nectar’s or the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge.

Munley and Sarko are present for every show and have a tiny staff of just seven people. The owners split major duties: Munley handles the music venue side of the business, while Sarko takes on hospitality, front of house and running the bar.

“My given title is Queen Bee,” she jokes.

The building sits on Saranac Lake’s quaint Main Street. Boasting two full bars, a patio with a Ping-Pong table and a wraparound veranda, the Waterhole can accommodate large crowds. Though it has no official capacity, its owners say 300 people can pack into the upstairs concert hall.

The street-level bar is open daily, while the upstairs concert hall is only open for private events and live music. Approximately 20-foot vaulted ceilings make the modest space feel enormous. Customers can occupy a balcony overlooking the concerts.

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free expression through their music.

Freedom of speech is a core Western value not found in the Islamic regimes that prohibited said artists.

Yet here you have a bunch of slackjawed ignoramuses sounding off because … why? Because some African musicians choose to wear culturally specific clothing and not cargo shorts, a braided belt and an American flag T-shirt?

The knee-jerk reaction is shallow, the antithesis of critical thinking, and it does not bode well for the future of our country. Not that much news, local or national, tends to these days.

We’ll be keeping an eye on local reactions to the group’s Vermont show in September, as well as reaching out to the band for coverage. Suffice it to say, I’m not afraid to put haters on blast.

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Haters Gonna Hate, Unfortunately

Don’t you love starting the week sipping an emotional cocktail of rage and righteous indignation? I sure do.

On Monday morning, I woke up to a particularly upsetting email from KEVIN TITTERTON, the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts’ director of marketing and communications. He passed along a story from Triad City Beat, an alt-weekly that represents the Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem region of North Carolina.

Senior editor JORDAN GREEN’s story, titled “Haters Target Winston-Salem Concert by African Band That Stood Up to Islamists,” details a litany of racist and nationalist social media posts directed at the critically acclaimed Malian group TINARIWEN. The band plays the Flynn on Wednesday, September 25, a little over a week after its show at Winston-Salem nightclub the Ramkat.

Seemingly because Tinariwen’s members sport traditional North African garb in their promo shots, ignorant and hateful comments such as “Take the fucking towels off your god damn heads” and “So ISIS is playing the Ramcat? [sic] LOL,” flooded sponsored Facebook posts advertising the show. One commenter even MA TT HE went as far as to write, W TH OR SE “Better bring my AR, too…”

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me? To quote Mrs. White from the cultclassic murder mystery Clue, “Flames, on the side of my face!” As Green points out, commenters appear to have been emboldened by President DONALD TRUMP’s now infamous tweets recommending that four congresswomen of color — three of whom were born in the U.S.; the fourth is a naturalized citizen — return to their “crime infested” home countries. “Go home; maybe your country will like your music,” read one comment below the advertisement for the show. The parallels between Trump’s tweet and the angry comments could be coincidental, but I’m far too cynical to believe that.

Beyond the fact that Tinariwen’s music doesn’t tend to be overtly politically charged, as the story points out, the irony is that the group and other Tuareg musicians have been suppressed in their own countries for promoting

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In happier news, local standup comedian TINA FRIML is making a name for herself at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montréal. The massive funnyfest began on Wednesday, July 10, and continues until Sunday, July 28.

Friml, who claimed the title of Vermont’s Funniest Comedian in 2018, was named one of the festival’s New Faces (unrepped). Along with a slew of talent from around the continent, Friml will perform as part of the fest’s New Faces showcase, which runs from Wednesday, July 24, through Friday, July 26.

Friml, who lives with cerebral palsy, told Seven Days in 2017, “I think that disability is one of the most universally sensitive [topics] … I’m doing comedy about disability, but in a way that is not demeaning to me or to other disabled people.” Trust me when I say Friml’s jokes will have you gasping for air.

If you can’t make it to Just for Laughs this week, you can catch Friml and several other locals at the Comedy for a Cause fundraiser on Wednesday, July 31, at Sorriso Bistro in South Burlington.

The event bolsters the Mahana Magic Scholarship Fund, which aids Vermont high school seniors whose parents have struggled with cancer.

And, looking ahead, this year’s Vermont’s Funniest Comedian competition kicks off on Wednesday, August 21, at the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington. If you think the title is a meaningless honorific, think again. How else do you think Friml got the audition for Just for Laughs?

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SAT 8.3

Mister Burns

SUN 8.4

Ghost-Note

THU 8.8

Zac Clark (of Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness)

Stephen Day

Jarren Benton, Locksmith, Ekoh, Chez

Drake White Joe McGinness

Jarv, Dillon, Eyenine

Bob Oxblood, Ernest

FRI 8.9

Kill Paris

SAT 8.10

Langhorne Slim & The Lost At Last Band

TUE 8.13

104.7 The Point welcomes

8.22 8.30 9.11 9.13

Dawes: Passwords Tour DIGGS Big Freedia Granger Smith Enter The Haggis, Adam Ezra Group

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burlington

commercials. His songs evoke images of sullen,

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

sweet-and-sour tunes flow with warm streams of acoustic guitar soaked in reverb. The singer-

THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Burlington Songwriters (singer-songwriter), 6:30 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: The Quebe Sisters, Reid Parsons (folk), 8 p.m., $20/23.

THE OLD POST: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 8 p.m., free.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Jamie Lee Thurston (country), 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

SWEET MELISSA’S: John Smyth (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free. Jim Charanko (Americana), 8 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

ZENBARN: Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 7 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Karaoke with DJ Amanda Rock, 9 p.m., free.

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JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Leno, Young & Cheney (rock), 6:30 p.m., free.

by his compositional prowess. Isakov plays on Friday, July 26, at the Flynn MainStage in

ORLANDO’S BAR & LOUNGE: Country Ham (folk-rock covers), 8:30 p.m., free.

CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Juice, Stephan Day (rock), 8:30 p.m., $15/17.

songwriter’s nuanced vocals are matched only

NECTAR’S: Rainbow Girls, Hayley Jane (folk), 8 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

chittenden county

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Everyone’s Dead featuring Matt Butler (Grateful Dead tribute), 11 p.m., $18/23.

that exists only in the artist’s imagination. The

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Michael Rapaport (sold out) (standup), 7 & 9 p.m., $25.

chittenden county

world-weary denizens of a desolate Old West

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Tom Pearo (ambient, rock), 9 p.m., $5.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Shake (Acoustic) (pop, rock), 7 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Summer Comedy Revue (sketch comedy), 7:30 p.m., $20/27. That’s Just Wrong! (improv), 9:30 p.m., $10.

appeared in many movies, TV shows and

JUNIPER: The Ray Vega Quartet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Godfather Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

THE TAP ROOM AT SWITCHBACK BREWING CO.: Happy Spangler (rock), 6 p.m., free.

that the Colorado-based artist’s music has

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Irish Session, 7 p.m., free.

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and an overall cinematic quality. It’s no surprise

FOAM BREWERS: Familiar Faces (jam, eclectic), 6:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Close to Nowhere (rock), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (open format), 11 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Annie in the Water (jam), 10 p.m., free.

packs his music with emotional fervor, drama

FLYNN MAINSTAGE: Patton Oswalt (standup), 8 p.m., $25-65.

RADIO BEAN: Emma Cook (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. Ryan Ober (folk-rock), 8:30 p.m., free. Mosaic featuring members of Kat Wright and the Welterweights (jam), 10 p.m., $5.

CLUB DATES NA: NOT AVAILABLE. AA: ALL AGES.

MAGIC HAT BREWING COMPANY: REDadmiral (rock), 7 p.m., free.

Burlington. HALEY HEYNDERICKX adds support.

MONKEY HOUSE: Raised By Hippies (blues, rock), 5 p.m., free.

Loving the Alien: A David Bowie Tribute, 9 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: King Me (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Shane Murley Band (rock), 9 p.m., free.

FRI.26 // GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV [INDIE FOLK]

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Sarah King (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free.

champlain islands/ northwest 14TH STAR BREWING CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

NORTH HERO HOUSE INN & RESTAURANT: The Fabulous Wrecks (rock), 5:30 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

outside vermont

RED SQUARE: The High Breaks (surf), 7 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (open format), 11 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kingfisher (Americana), 4 p.m., free. Nina’s Brew (roots, blues), 10 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Summer Comedy Revue (sketch comedy), 7:30 p.m., $15. The Mainstage Show (improv), 9 p.m., $5.

MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free.

VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Kind Bud & Nug (acoustic), 7 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): String Band Karaoke, 6 p.m., free.

chittenden county

THU.25 burlington

DRINK: Downstairs Comedy Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: DJ SVPPLY & Bankz (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: George Petit Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., $5. Light Club Jazz Sessions and Showcase, 10:30 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Moochie (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

ORLANDO’S BAR & LOUNGE: Goose, Ryan Dempsey (jam), 9 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: A Former Friend (Americana), 7 p.m., free. Ukuville (folk), 8:30 p.m., free. Twisted Pine (bluegrass), 10:30 p.m., free.

SEVEN DAYS JULY 24-31, 2019

THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Jam Nation (open jam), 7:30 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: TV Pole Shine, Duke Aeroplane & the Ampersand Band (punk), 8:30 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

THE OLD POST: Salsa Night with DJ JP, 7 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Bob MacKenzie Blues Band, 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Italian Session (traditional), 6 p.m., free.

GUSTO’S: DJ Bay 6 (hits), 8 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): D. Davis and Django Soulo (folk-rock), 7 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: The Soul Project NOLA, 9 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Open Mic Night, 8:30 p.m., free.

TAP 25: Erin Cassels-Brown (indie folk), 7 p.m., free.

BURLINGTON ST. JOHN’S CLUB: Karaoke, 8:30 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

CLUB METRONOME: Now That’s What I Call: The Hits with David Chief and SoBe (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

LOCALFOLK SMOKEHOUSE: Open Mic with Alex Budney, 8:30 p.m., free.

ZENBARN: Akae Beka (reggae), 9 p.m., $20/25.

champlain islands/ northwest THE OLD FOUNDRY AT ONE FEDERAL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE: Bardela (rock, Grateful Dead tribute), 7 p.m., free.

TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Django Soulo (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

FOAM BREWERS: Burning Monk (Rage Against the Machine tribute), 9 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Eric George (country), 8 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: John Shakespeare, Cricket Blue (indie folk), 8 p.m., $5. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: DJ Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

upper valley

NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

Lespecial, Funktional Flow (rock), 9 p.m., $10.

THE PUBLIC HOUSE AT QUECHEE GORGE: Pub Trivia, 7 p.m., free.

ORLANDO’S BAR & LOUNGE: Tumble Down After Party: Rick Redington and the Luv (rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

LONG TRAIL BREWING: Rick Redington (rock), 4 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom HIGHLAND LODGE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free.

randolph/royalton BABES BAR: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

outside vermont

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Jon Berry & DJ Coco, 9 p.m., free.

FRI.26

burlington

ARTSRIOT: Josh Panda & British Isles (rock), 8 p.m., free.

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Ted Crosby (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free. Alice Grace (indie), 5:30 p.m., free. Tyler Meacham (indie pop), 7 p.m., free. That One Eyed Kid (indie pop), 8:30 p.m., free. Cole Davidson (folk-rock), 10 p.m., $5.

Zack DuPont and Matt Deluca (folk), 11:30 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE: Blues Jam, 3 p.m., free. The Blind Spots (rock), 7 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 9 p.m., $5.

REVELRY THEATER: Weird & Niche: A Comedy Showcase, 9:30 p.m., $7.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Malayna Johnson (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Ukuville (acoustic), 11 a.m., free. Latin Dance Party, 7 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Lilith (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. Brand New Luddites, Demon Seeds, Middle Son (punk), 9:30 p.m., free.

ESPRESSO BUENO: Thomas Gunn (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., free. Kathleen Kanz Comedy Hour (standup), 8:30 p.m., free.

GUSTO’S: Eric DeRed (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., free. Jester Jigs (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., free. No Small Children (rock), 8 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Blackwater Trio (Americana), 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

EL TORO: Cooie Sings (Americana), 7 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: New Orleans Soul Project, 9 p.m., free.

TAP 25: George Petit’s Jazzy Quartet, 7 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

ZENBARN: BKO Quintet (Malian), 9 p.m., $15.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Twist of Fate, Toast (rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ SVPPLY (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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I’m quivering with anticipation for RACHEL BLOOM’s Just for Laughs shows on Wednesday, July 24, and Friday and Saturday, July 26 and 27. The “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” star and cocreator is one of my favorite voices in comedy, particularly because of the way mental health issues were portrayed on the recently ended CW musical comedy.

The fest has so much to choose from, but I highly recommend checking out Bloom’s performances.

Prize Fight

Bike parts, tools, accessories, gear, vintage novelties, and bizarre accoutrements.

Priced to sell!

The results are in! This year’s winner of the Grand Point North Local Band Contest is country artist BEN FULLER! Um, who? The Weathersfield native has remained relatively off Seven Days’ radar yet evidently has a huge backing in his home state.

The singer-songwriter triumphed over the competition with a total of 2,613 votes. He barely edged out runners-up the KINGDOM ALL STARS, who ended the contest with 2,603 tallies.

Massachusetts-by-way-of-Lyndonville band COPILOT came in third with 614 votes.

Since late 2018, Fuller has split his time between Vermont and Nashville, Tenn., where he’s pursuing his country music dreams. You can hear five of his singles on Spotify.

Every year, we see more engagement with the contest. And that kicks ass! In 2017, 2,449 people participated, casting 3,874 votes. The following year, the

Listening In If I were a superhero, my superpower would be the ability to get songs stuck in other people’s heads. Here are five songs that have been stuck in my head this week. May they also get stuck in yours. Follow sevendaysvt on Spotify for weekly playlists with tunes by artists featured in the music section.

ORVILLE PECK, “Dead of Night” ELECTRIC GUEST, “Dollar” CARLY RAE JEPSEN, “Too Much” KRISTEEN YOUNG, “I’ll Get You Back” BJÖRK, “I Miss You (Dobie Rub Part One — Sunshine Mix)”

number of participants nearly doubled, with 4,834 people casting 8,274 votes.

And this year, the number of voters skyrocketed to 7,045, with a whopping 11,114 votes for 134 artists.

And while we’re on the subject of voting in Seven Days-sponsored contests, I’d love to see this level of campaigning in the annual Seven Daysies awards — particularly in the arts and entertainment categories during the nominations round. We’ll be announcing this year’s Daysies winners next week in the 2019 edition of our yearly publication, All the Best.

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OTTER CREEK BREWING CO./THE SHED BREWERY: Milton Busker & the Grim Work (folk), 5 p.m., free.

champlain islands/ northwest THE OLD FOUNDRY AT ONE FEDERAL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE: Rebecca Padula (folk), 6:30 p.m., free.

TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: The Flycatchers (country), 7 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Art Buezo and James Ford (Blind Owl Band) (bluegrass), 10 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

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burlington

ARTSRIOT: Steve Gunn, Bill MacKay, Wildflower (rock), 8:30 p.m., $15.

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Shane Hardiman (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: DAMN: A Night of Top Dog Entertainment with Moochie (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

DELI 126: Maple Street Six (jazz), fourth Saturday of every month, 9 p.m., free.

FOAM BREWERS: Humble Digs, Kudu Stooge (psychedelic), 9:30 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: DJ Taka’s 4th Anniversary Party (disco, eclectic), 8 p.m., $10.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Blanchface (open format), 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Tumble Down After Party: Cycles, Eggy (jam), 9 p.m., $5.

ORLANDO’S BAR & LOUNGE: Tumble Down After Party: Mike Mac and Friends (singersongwriter), 10 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Trae Sheehan (Americana), 5:30 p.m., free.

Jesse Taylor (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Ruby Luna and the Fox (dream folk), 8:30 p.m., free.

Esther Rose (folk), 10 p.m., $5.

DJ Taka’s 4th Anniversary Party (disco, eclectic), 11 p.m., $10.

RED SQUARE: Left Eye Jump (blues), 3 p.m., free. Best Not Broken (rock), 7 p.m., $5.

Mashtodon (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (Latin), 6 p.m., free. DJ ATAK (house), 11 p.m., $5.

REVELRY THEATER: Butterfly: Storytelling Meets Improvisation, 8 p.m., $7. Sex w/Jenna: A Comedy Sex Education Show, 9:30 p.m., $7.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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champlain islands/ northwest

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Moose Crossing (jazz), 4 p.m., free. Higher Education (reggae), 10 p.m., free.

BLUE PADDLE BISTRO: Carol Hausner and Jonathan ‘Doc’ Kaplan (roots), 6 p.m., free.

SMITTY’S PUB: J&M Boutique (rock), 8 p.m., free.

randolph/royalton

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Good Clean Fun! (family-friendly improv), noon, $5. Summer Comedy Revue (sketch comedy), 7:30 p.m., $20/27. Flying V (standup), 9 p.m., $10.

BABES BAR: Bow Thayer, No Small Children (folk), 5 p.m., $10.

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chittenden county

burlington

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Mihali & Frends (jam), 11 p.m., $18/23.

ARTSRIOT: Spiritual Rez, Roots of Creation (reggae, funk), 8:30 p.m., $15.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Cole Davidson Trio (folk-rock), 6:30 p.m., free.

THE FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL: Rowan (Celtic, folk), 6 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Moris Blak, Nechromancer (industrial), 10 p.m., $10.

HALF LOUNGE: Saint Nick and Jack Bandit (EDM), 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 7 p.m., free. Open Circuit: BVT Star Search (talent show), 9 p.m., free.

THE OLD POST: Saturday Night Mega Mix featuring DJ Colby Stiltz (open format), 9 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Graziano, Slim and Schofield (rock), 5 p.m., free. Full Share (rock), 9 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Isabelle Stillman (folk), 7 p.m., free. Domino Vitali (indie), 8:30 p.m., free. Sunshine Nights (Americana), 9 p.m., free.

Surfliner (indie), 11 p.m., free.

PARK PLACE TAVERN: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

SORRISO BISTRO: The Balladeer and the Bluesman (folk, blues), 7:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Four-D (hip-hop), 7 p.m., free. Mashtodon (open format), 11 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Zach Rhoads Band (rock), 8 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. Mikey Saint (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free.

BUCH SPIELER RECORDS: Community DJ Series (vinyl DJs), 3 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: The Pilgrims (rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

GUSTO’S: Elizabeth Renaud (singer-songwriter), 6:30 p.m., free. DJ LaFountaine (EDM), 9:30 p.m., $3.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Blackwater Trio (Americana), 6 p.m., free.

THE DEN AT HARRY’S HARDWARE: Leadfoot Louise (Americana), 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

EL TORO: Carol Hausner and Jonathan ‘Doc’ Kaplan (roots), 7 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Blackwolf (Americana), 7:30 p.m., free.

TAP 25: Ian Steinberg (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: DJ Earl (hits), 9 p.m., free.

champlain islands/ northwest

14TH STAR BREWING CO.: Homegrown Music Festival featuring Shake, Troy Millette, Jer Coons, Evan Allis, the Pyros, Chris & Erica, Danny & the Parts, the Blue Rock Boys, the Owl Stars, Bethany Conner, Chad Conant, Andy Hoadley (eclectic), 1 p.m., free.

SEVEN DAYS JULY 24-31, 2019

SIDEBAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

Family Night (open jam), 9 p.m., free.

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Will Travel The evolution of

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Comedy & Crêpes (standup), 8 p.m., free.

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continues. Currently based in

chittenden county

exceptional skills have been the focal point of his music. But on his latest albums, the road-

THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Open Mic Night with Kyle Stevens, 6 p.m., free.

trip-inspiring Eyes on the Lines and 2019’s contemplative The Unseen in Between, the artist

stowe/smuggs

Brooklyn, the Philadelphia native is a fingerstyle guitar virtuoso. Until recently, his

puts greater emphasis on his lyrical content. Expansive and meandering, Gunn’s music gazes back at the peak of ’70s folk-rock while still feeling fresh and unique. He performs on Saturday, July 27, at ArtsRiot in Burlington. BILL MACKAY and WILDFLOWER open.

THE OLD FOUNDRY AT ONE FEDERAL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE: Christine Malcolm Duet (folk), 6:30 p.m., free.

TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Java Sparrow (rock), 7 p.m., free.

randolph/royalton

BABES BAR: Mr. Burns, Jibba the Gent, Konflik, Joe Grit$, Sirhcobangz, Freeze, Brent Mania (hip-hop), 7 p.m., $5.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Mosswalk (jam), 10 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: Open Decks, 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Couchsleepers, Laurel (indie), 8 p.m., $5.

RADIO BEAN: Traditional Pub Sing-Along, 3:30 p.m., free. Old Sky and Friends (Americana), 6 p.m., free. Cup of Comedy: A Standup Showcase, 9 p.m., free.

Baked Shrimp (jam), 11 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Double Take (rock), 4 p.m., free. John Lackard Blues Band, 7 p.m., free.

RUBEN JAMES: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Green Mountain Roots (rock, Americana), 8 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch, noon, free. Strange Purple Jelly (jam), 3:30 p.m., free. The New Motif (jam), 10 p.m., free.

SUN.28

THE TAP ROOM AT SWITCHBACK BREWING CO.: Dark Star Project (Grateful Dead tribute), 2 p.m., free.

burlington

THE FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL: Ian Steinberg (singer-songwriter), 5:30 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Sunday Singalong! (Broadway, piano bar), 6 p.m., free.

VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Kind Bud & Nug (acoustic), 7 p.m., free.

chittenden county

MISERY LOVES CO.: Disco Brunch with DJ Craig Mitchell, 11 a.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Southern Old Time Music Jam, 10 a.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Bluegrass Brunch, every other Sunday, 11 a.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m., donation.

mad river valley/ waterbury

MOOGS PLACE: Seth Yacovone, 7 p.m.

TUE.30 burlington

ARTSRIOT: Pattern Addict, Oh He Dead (indie), 8:30 p.m., $8.

THE FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL: Twiin Speak (folk, soul), 5:30 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Jake Whitesell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Brad Byrd (indie rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

DJ Cooley (eclectic), 9 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Josh Casano (singer-songwriter), 9:30 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Ben Roque (indie rock), 7 p.m., free. Green Kettle Band (bluegrass), 8:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: CRWD CTRL (house, techno), 7 p.m., free. DJ A-RA$ (trap, house), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kids Music with Linda Bassick, 9:30 a.m., free.

ZENBARN: Vermont Jazz Ensemble, 4:30 p.m., $7.

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Not to get too “Twilight Zone” on you, but I think about the apocalypse and music collections all the time. My mind conjures all these images of little bunker bands keeping rock and roll or jazz or hip-hop alive while all the Mad Max shit goes down outside. (My “Weird Al” Yankovic collection is going to be like gold, man.) I mean, what a noble fate, right? To be the person who doesn’t let the urchin children of the dystopian future forget how great “Hey Jude” is? Sign me up!

That’s sort of how Sean Hutton’s new record The Legend of April Country comes across to me. The Burlingtonbased singer-songwriter has put together a love letter to that late 1960s California country-rock sound, full of Byrds worship and simple songs of love and nature. The album is an accurate-enough genre run-down that you could easily slot it on a library reference shelf or use it as a road map to get to Gene Clark.

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Raw Deff and Yung Breeze are members of the Street Religion crew, a diverse band of hip-hop artists from southern Vermont and New Hampshire who have been expanding their reach and fan base in recent years.

The duo’s debut, Cognac Cousins, is rock-solid work, showcasing two standout talents at the absolute top of their game — at least for now.

Raw Deff is a charismatic spitter from the Lebanon, N.H., area who has been building a strong catalog of ’90s-style boom bap. His deliberate flow makes a perfect counterpoint for Yung Breeze, a Brattleboro rapper/producer currently operating out of Manchester, N.H. Breeze is blessed with one of the best rap voices in New England, an elastic, dynamic instrument that often sounds like it comes from a cartoon character.

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mantelpiece for inspection. Hutton, who has been a part of the Burlington scene since the ’80s, when he’d make the rounds with his band the Trees, has a clear, evocative voice. In the studio, he uses it to build impressively sweet melodies, ringing with harmony. His lyrics are unerringly positive, indicative of a collection of songs suffused with a nostalgic sense of bohemian love and pastoral joy.

Even when the tunes take a turn from pop rock to more folk-leaning numbers such as “Woman Dove,” Hutton is mostly interested in describing the beauty of his love. A recurring theme runs throughout The Legend of April Country, in which Hutton and the subject of his amorous songs are represented as bluebirds. “We Are Bluebirds” and “Bluebirds Together Always” are the only two songs with the bird in the name, but it keeps coming up, along with an assortment of other bird metaphors as the record progresses.

The musicality is crisp, and Hutton’s songwriting and playing are equally professional. His love of that throwback Laurel Canyon sound is real, as is his ability to replicate it. There’s no sense of reboot or

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What the two have in common, aside from aesthetics, is a gift for penning murderously cold bars. Both have an acrobatic way with words, coupled with an encyclopedic knowledge of the rap music that came before them. Their chemistry and friendly competition here make for a mixtape that grabs you by the neck and doesn’t let go.

Cognac Cousins is a nicely balanced mix of original beats and “borrowed” material. The braggadocio is top-notch — “Another Body” and “Look at Me Now” are both pure shots of adrenaline. But there’s also a lot of range on display here.

“Might Just,” a lush love song produced

by Burlington beatsmith Flip Physics, is a flawless victory, all the way down to the catchy hook. Deff and Breeze reverse that formula nicely on “Black Roses,” a dark, brooding breakup track. Then there’s “Fuck the Landlord,” which is … well, exactly what you think, only funkier and funnier.

The cut is as much about proving the duo’s versatility as it is about proving their rap skills.

There are also several remixes throughout. Now, the remix is a staple of mixtape culture: Take the instrumentals from current hits or durable classics, and make that track your own. Of course, in practice, most rappers have no business doing this. Their remixes not only fail to improve upon the original song, they don’t even manage to measure up to it. That is absolutely not the case on Cognac Cousins.

What really sets the duo apart — and indeed, what justifies reviewing a mixtape as though it were a proper album — is the engineering, mixing and mastering work of Breeze. He has been honing his chops in recent years, but this project represents a quantum leap from much of his earlier material. This is a polished, professional product, ready for the spotlight.

The record is also a prelude to more Street Religion material, of course. Breeze has been hard at work wrapping up his solo debut, Sofia Grace, and Deff ’s next album, The Impeccable Nobody, will drop on August 23. Street Religion are one of the most respected crews in these Green Mountains — and they’re only getting started.

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“The whole idea is, it’s winter at its worst — and getting people to come out and act like it’s summer,” says Munley, adding that the festival is a “huge boost” and accounts for a large portion of winter profits.

“This can be a pretty quiet town sometimes,” Munley continues. But the status quo could be changing soon. In 2018, Saranac Lake was the recipient of $10 million in grant funding. The money came from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative and will be used to bolster enterprises and infrastructure in a number of New York towns.

Munley and Sarko say their success wouldn’t be possible without support from their neighbors.

“We survive because of regulars,” says Sarko.

“Parties are a big part of our business. But on the dayto-day basis, it’s all about regulars. It’s all about sitting down, hanging out, being together.

“There’s such a range of people who come here,” Sarko continues. “People show up with their brand-new babies with little headphones on them. [And] people who are 70 show up.”

“The community’s awesome,” says Munley. “Everybody’s just putting [their] heads together, improving [Saranac Lake] bit by bit.”

On the horizon, the Waterhole’s 50th anniversary is next May. And if things go as planned, Munley says, they’re throwing an epic rager. m GABE DICKENS

Drink Up « P.62 with physical impairments. Since it’s built into the side of a hill, it has entrances that open onto each floor, including the balcony level.

When visiting, make sure to bring cash, because the Waterhole doesn’t take credit cards. (There is an ATM on-site.)

If customers complain that the club is cash only, Munley has a response at the ready: “Be thankful the floors aren’t dirt anymore,” he says, referring to the building’s historic, late 19th-century roots.

In warmer weather, the Waterhole hosts Party on the Patio, a free outdoor music series that runs for 25 weeks. What began as acoustic-only showcases has become just as loud and rockin’ as any shows that happen inside.

The patio area features a multitiered stage. Large bands such as Connecticut soul powerhouse ensemble West End Blend have to squeeze their members in tightly.

“You can be in front of the band, dancing; you can be along the rail and behind the band,” Munley says of Party on the Patio, which brings in 200 to 400 people every week.

“We use it as an exploratory music series,” he continues, noting that half of the bands performing al fresco are firsttimers at the Waterhole. “Because we have a guaranteed crowd, we can find bands from New Orleans and Texas and Colorado and bring them here. [Otherwise,] it’s hard to get people through the door for the first time for a band.”

Unsurprisingly, the busiest part of the year at the club is from Memorial Day to Columbus Day. During that time, the bar offers multiple shows per week. Things slow down in

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Mildred Beltré considers the intersection of art and politics

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uring a talk for her 2014 show “Dream Works” at the BCA Center in Burlington, artist and University of Vermont associate professor Mildred Beltré told the audience that a small cross-stitch displayed on the gallery wall was a last-minute addition to the show. It was also the first time she’d ever done cross-stitch.

Since then, fiber has had a large role in and influence on her work. Beltré’s latest show at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, “Science of the Word,” includes silk-screen prints, tapestries, weblike black crochet and large, colorful drawings that display abstracted text. In photos, the drawings could “Here I Am” easily be mistaken for quilts; large images pieced together with tiny blocks of color form words — but only if the viewer is looking closely.

Beltré will discuss the Kentler show and more during her public talk as a visiting artist at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson on Friday, July 26.

“Part of my interest in working in fiber was to also think about the political as residing within the home,” Beltré said in a phone interview, “and to think about, ‘How do politics function and resonate within the domestic setting?’”

We often think about revolution, political or otherwise, as something that takes place outside the home, Beltré said. But her work explores how it forms in our interpersonal relationships, in the kitchen or in the bedroom.

She also reflects those domestic themes by displaying her work in galleries on clotheslines. This idea, Beltré said, actually came from former BCA curator

DJ Hellerman. He visited her studio, saw that she hung work on clotheslines there and suggested letting gallery visitors experience it in the same way she did every day.

Beltré, who has worked in community organizing with grassroots political organizations, said she’s always been an activist. But her art straddles a delicate line: suggesting a political message without shouting it. It takes some time to decipher the text in some of her drawings, but once you can read it, you still find yourself without all the answers. Phrases such as “I feel most colored when I am up against a warm brown” and “I am a rainbow, too” seem like social commentary but aren’t necessarily explicit in their message.

“I’m more interested, always, in eliciting a conversation,” Beltré said,

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“so, putting something out that can be discussed with someone rather than telling someone what to think. It’s not very interesting to just be told things.”

She doesn’t want her work seen as a puzzle to be solved. When viewers free themselves from the guessing game of the meaning in a piece of art — “getting it,” so to speak — there is new space for conversation, questions and for understanding of the work to evolve.

“I don’t want to put out anything that’s

so prescribed that it has to be understood within such narrow parameters,” Beltré said. “The meaning of those texts changes over time for me … I think artwork that can also do that, that can sort of shift and grow with you, is nice.”

For years, Beltré has taught in two very different settings. She’s been at UVM since 2008, teaching drawing and printmaking in the Department of Art and Art History.

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Teaching, Beltré said, has hugely influenced her work and freed up her thinking about what ideas can go into the work, especially as her art has increasingly become text-based.

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SOCIAL JUSTICE ART INSTALLATION: Upward Bound students, who are first in their families to go to college, display artwork that addresses the conditions in detention camps on the U.S. southern border. July 25-August 25. Info, 656-2961. Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.

ALISA DWORSKY & BILL FEREHAWK: “Job Site,” a room-size installation that explores the drawing and choreography inherent in architecture and incorporates paper, graphite, wood and video projection.

SARAH AMOS: “Unique Multiples,” innovative prints employing multiple techniques by the Australian artist, who spends part of her time in northern Vermont. Through October 6. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

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f BONNIE ACKER: “Hues of Summer,” new paintings by the Burlington artist. Reception: Friday, July 26, 5:30-7:30 p.m. July 26-September 3. Info, 985-3848.

Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

‘CADENCE’: Mixed-media fiber works by Sharon Webster, Eve Jacobs-Carnahan, Leslie Roth and Almuth Palinkas. Through July 27. Info, 578-2512. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

f MICHAEL SMITH: “I Can’t Move,” case studies in still life behavior. Reception: Sunday, July 28, 2-4 p.m. July 25-August 24. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

DAPHNA MERO: Three short films by the filmmaker, dancer and choreographer in the exhibition booth.

JERRY RALYA: “1,” pastel works from the artist’s “Social Justice” and “Vessels” series. Curated by Little Umbrella. Through July 31. Info, 391-4083. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

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33RD ANNUAL QUILT EXHIBITION: Quilts made by Windsor County quilters. Also featuring activities and demonstrations. July 27-September 15. Info, 457-2355. Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock.

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CASPIAN ARTS POP-UP GALLERY: An exhibition of works by member artists. Saturday, July 27, and Sunday, July 28, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Info, 533-7733.

Caspian Artworks in Greensboro.

f ‘DOUBLE VISION’: Paintings and photographs of the Northeast Kingdom by Louise Arnold and Karen Gowen. Reception: Sunday, August 4, 4-7 p.m. July 28-September 1. Info, 563-2037. White Water Gallery in East Hardwick.

Rose Umerlik A thought-provoking title on a work of art, or an entire

exhibition, may cause viewers to look more closely and think more deeply. That is certainly the case with Rose Umerlik’s solo show of abstract paintings, collectively titled “The Human Experience,” at Northern Daughters in Vergennes. The vaguely organic shapes and flat planes of color, created with graphite and oil on panel, are by no means representational. Only the complex layering and subtle interactions of elements suggest the meaning Umerlik seems to intend. But the artist, who lives in Jeffersonville, gives us compelling compositions of line and form regardless of connotation. The exhibition opens with a reception on Friday, July 26, 5 to 8 p.m., and remains on view through August.

Pictured: “Approach.”

CASPIAN ARTS GALA GALLERY OPENING: A pop-up gallery featuring works by member artists, a drawing of gift certificates and a guest appearance by Rusty DeWees. The Yellow Barn, East Craftsbury, Thursday, July 25, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 533-7733.

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CHELSEA ART WALK: The Chelsea and Tunbridge communities host exhibitions at the Orange County Parent Child Center, SafeArt, Chelsea Public Library and North Common Arts. Refreshments and snacks served. Various locations in Chelsea, Friday, July 26, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 685-4699, chelseavt-arts.com.

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Soapbox Arts, Burlington, Sunday, July 28, 6-8 p.m. $10-12. Info, 324-0014.

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Reception and artist talk: Friday, August 2, 5 p.m.

July 26-September 8. Info, 533-9075. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

f ATHENA PETRA TASIOPOULOS: Mixed-media collage work by the Barre artist. Reception: Friday, July 26, 6-8 p.m. July 26-September 14. Info, 685-4699.

North Common Arts in Chelsea.

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Park St., downtown Stowe, Thursday, July 25, 5-8 p.m. Info, 800-467-8693.

‘ART SEED’: Open house with resident artists including performance, open studios and readings.

Performances in the barn, open studios to follow.

Marble House Project, Dorset, Saturday, July 27, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, info@marblehouseproject.org.

ARTIST OPEN HOUSE: Chris Wilson talks with visitors about his portrait sculptures featuring Randolph residents. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, Saturday, July 27, noon-6 p.m. Info, 728-9878.

BCA SUMMER ARTIST MARKET: A contemporary outdoor market that offers unique handmade items

by Vermont artists including ceramics, woodworking, jewelry, games, clothing, accessories and more.

Burlington City Hall, Saturday, July 27, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Free to browse. Info, 865-7166.

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FAMILY ART SATURDAY: Families can make artwork inspired by current exhibitions. Each Saturday offers a different art-making project. Burlington City Arts, Saturday, July 27, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

FRIDAY ARTISAN MARKET: Featuring a variety of food, local goods, art, music and family activities.

Spruce Peak at Stowe, Friday, July 26, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Info, 253-3437.

GALLERY TALK WITH JIM BLAIR: The longtime National Geographic photographer discusses his work in conjunction with a current exhibition.

Middlebury College Museum of Art, Friday, July 26, 1 p.m. Info, 443-3168.

MEET THE ARTISTS OF GIAW: Fiber artist India Tresselt and jeweler Cathy LaClair talk about their creative processes. Hors d’oeuvres and cash bar.

Grand Isle Art Works, Wednesday, July 24, 5-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 378-4591.

turner, and Terry Beuhner, jewelry artist. Hors d’oeuvres and cash bar. Grand Isle Art Works, Wednesday, July 31, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 378-4591.

POTTERY OPEN STUDIO SALE: Raku sculptures, mugs, bowls and seconds, and, weather permitting, raku demonstrations. Across the Grain Studio, South Hero, Saturday, July 27, and Sunday, July 28, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 999-1891.

SOCIAL JUSTICE ART INSTALLATION: Upward Bound students, who are first in their families to go to college, display artwork that addresses the conditions in detention camps on the U.S. southern border. Living/Learning Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, Thursday, July 25, 2-4 p.m. Info, 656-2961.

STOWE ARTS WEEK: The Stowe Arts & Culture Council presents nine days of cultural events, including art exhibits, films, music performances, theater, an artisan market and more throughout the village.

See stoweartsandculture.org for schedule and more info. Various Stowe locations. Through July 28.

TALK: MILDRED BELTRÉ: The Brooklyn-based visiting artist, an associate professor at the University of Vermont, discusses her work and creative influences.

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Friday, July 26, 8 p.m. Info, 635-2727.

WORKSHOP: COLOR SPLASH: Participants will experiment with different methods of “resist” dyeing, making cards to take home as well as small banners.

Ages 8 and up. Space limited. Register online or by phone. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Saturday, July 27, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free with museum admission.

Info, 257-0124, ext. 101.

ERIN PRIMIANO: Portrait-style paintings of birds.

Through July 31. Info, 338-7441. Thirty-odd in Burlington.

‘FEMME FATALE: WHEN I RISE’: Artwork by Ashley Menard-Livingston, Constance Craik and Hannah Smith in a “tribute to women everywhere.” Through July 31. Info, asm.exhibitions@gmail.com. Flynndog Station in Burlington.

‘INSIDE THE DOLLHOUSE: A TALE OF WHIMSY AND FEMALE MYTH’: Paper-pulp art by Eden Stern, abstract sculptures by Aimee Hertog, and digital/ analog works by Rita Bard. Through August 1. Info, asm.exhibitions@gmail.com. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington.

JACOB HESSLER: “Rising Times,” contemporary fine art photography focused on the effects of climate change on coastal communities. Through August 31.

Info, 324-0014. Soapbox Arts in Burlington.

KATYA GROKHOVSKY: “Privately Owned,” an installation featuring sculptural objects, fiber works, video, and performance that analyzes domesticity, memory, longing and femininity. Presented by Overnight Projects. Through July 27. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington.

ROBERT GOLD: “Bob’s World,” vibrantly colored painted digital images. Through July 31. Info, 391-4083. Gallery at One Main in Burlington.

‘THE VERMONT LANDSCAPE EXHIBITION’: Works in photography, pastel, watercolor, sculpture and painting by Vermont artists Jeff Clarke, Deborah Holmes, Robin Kent, David Pound and Daryl Storrs. Through July 31. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.

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‘ALL THE WATERS’: Twenty-five artists from Chittenden County show works in oil, watercolor, pastel, collage, photography, glass and mixed media.

Through August 31. Info, 899-3211. Jericho Town Hall.

ANTHILL COLLECTIVE: The Burlington graffiti artists install work in the brewery’s Artifactory. Through July 31. Info, 658-2739. Magic Hat Brewing Company in South Burlington.

HAROLD WESTON: Works by the modernist painter and social activist (1894-1972) dubbed “the Thoreau of the Adirondacks.” Through August 25. ‘WILLIAM WEGMAN: OUTSIDE IN’: More than 60 works from the renowned artist’s collection, including Polaroid photos of his Weimeraners, pages from his handmade book Field Guide to North America and to Other Regions, drawing and postcard paintings.

Through October 20. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

MEET THE ARTISTS OF GIAW: Learn about the artists’ processes, featuring Jim Holzschuh, wood

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ANNUAL GREEK

FOOD FESTIVAL ‘IN THEIR ELEMENT’: An installation of sculptures on the museum grounds by contemporary artists Rodrigo Nava, Jonathan D. Ebinger and Dan Snow.

Curated by Carolyn Bauer. Through October 31. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.

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‘200 YEARS—200 OBJECTS’: In the final celebratory year of the university’s bicentennial, the museum exhibits a curated selection of artifacts, documents and images from the school’s collections. Through December 21. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield.

AGATHE MCQUESTON: “A License to Stare,” classically rendered sculptures and drawings by the Montpelier artist. Through August 30. Info, 279-5558. Card Room, Vermont Statehouse, in Montpelier.

ANNUAL SUMMER JURIED ART EXHIBIT: A group exhibit featuring oil and acrylic paintings, pastel, photography and mixed media, juried by Hasso Ewing, Theo Kennedy and A.S. McGuffin. Best in show awarded. Through August 30. ‘VALUES’: Works by members of central Vermont’s Art Resource Association. Through August 2. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

BETTINA M. DESROCHERS: “I found this stuff in your recycle bin,” sculptures using detritus from local trash cans and dumpsters. Through August 1.

Info, 413-275-6705. Sweet Melissa’s in Montpelier.

EMILIA OLSON: “Resurfaced,” paintings by the Vermont artist. Through August 17. Info, moetown52@comcast.net. Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.

‘EYE SPY’: Watch out, you’re being observed in this fun show focused on the eye. LISA MYERS: “Seriality,” mixed-media pieces based on old photographs of the artist’s grandmother and her siblings. ORAH MOORE: “Everyday, Someone – 365 Days in Black & White,” a visual diary of black-andwhite iPhone photographs. Through August 23.

Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

‘I AM YOU’: Paintings and drawings by intellectually disabled adults in the Shockwave arts collective.

Presented by Washington County Mental Health Services. Through July 29. Info, 229-1399. Barre Opera House.

JAMIE HANSEN: Photography and assemblages from the streets of Cuba. Through September 1. Info, 552-8105. The North Branch Café in Montpelier.

‘KINDREDS: TANGIBLE AND INEFFABLE’: Paintings

by Kate Emlen and ceramic works by Amanda Nichols. Through August 24. Info, 738-3667. The Garage Cultural Center in Montpelier.

LINDA MANEY: “Plane Geometry,” paintings that explore, and sometimes complicate, common geometric shapes. Through September 28. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre.

LOIS EBY: “Studies in Rhythmic Vitality,” abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through September 27. Info, leby@loiseby.com. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

MARILYN MADDISON AND ALANA LAPOINT: “Imaginings,” abstract photography, and paintings, respectively. Through August 31. Info, 595-5252.

Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier.

MICHAEL T. JERMYN: Framed images from the Montpelier photographer’s trip to Italy and Spain.

Through September 4. Info, 223-4300. Salaam Boutique in Montpelier.

‘SHOW 33’: Recent works by members of the collective art gallery. Through August 3. Free. Info, 552-0877. The Front in Montpelier.

‘SITETIME : CORDWOOD : SHARING’: A multimedia exhibition assembled by Erika Senft Miller, Nancy Winship Milliken and Michael Zebrowski features photographs, video, sound, virtual-reality time-lapse, prints, drawings, and three logs; all are ephemera captured, collected and created during a two-year exhibit in the Vermont Arts Council Sculpture Garden. Through August 23. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

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SUSAN SAWYER: Botanical artworks. Through September 30. Info, 229-6206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.

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‘THREADS’: Tapestries and fiber art by local weavers Lorilla Banbury, Barbara Bendix, Julie Singer George, Andrea Gould, Toby Goldsmith and Connie Koeller. Through September 5. Info, 426-3581.

Jaquith Public Library in Marshfield.

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‘VERMONT MUSIC FAR AND WIDE’: An interactive exhibit of artifacts that tell the story of Vermont popular music history in recent decades, including band photographs 1990-2000 by Matthew Thorsen, compiled by Big Heavy World. Through July 27. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

‘THE WAR OF IDEAS’: Propaganda posters from the collections, spanning the Civil War to World War II and illustrating everything from recruitment to support on the homefront. Through October 25.

Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Center in Barre.

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‘COMPOSING FORM’: A group exhibition of contemporary sculptors working in ceramics, highlighting figurative and abstract work that references human history, intervention and experience. Curated by Rachel Moore. ‘EXPOSED.’: The 28th annual outdoor sculpture exhibition, featuring works on the gallery lawn and around downtown Stowe. DUSTY BOYNTON: “Reliefs,” painted and cut figures on wood by the Vermont artist. SUZY SPENCE: “On the Hunt,” paintings that consider contemporary power struggles through the metaphor of fox hunting.

Curated by Amy Rahn. Through August 24. Info, 235-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

f ‘EXPLORING WATER’: Mary Admasian, Kate Burnim, Renée Greenlee and Erika Senft Miller exhibit photography, sculpture, cyanotypes, painting, video installation, window installation and mixed media, curated by Kelly Holt. Reception: Friday, July 26, 5-6:30 p.m. Through August 31. Info, 760-4634. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort.

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JIM WESTPHALEN: “Of Land and Light,” new images of the Vermont landscape by the local photographer. JUSTIN HOEKSTRA: New nonobjective abstract works by the Burlington artist.

‘WITHIN SIGHT / WITH INSIGHT’: Paintings by Kevin Kearns and Helen Shulman. Through August 3. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

‘MORRISVILLE MOSAICS’: Multiple artistic interpretations of a sense of place, in a variety of mediums, originating from a community photographic project. Through September 25. f ‘UNDERCOVER’: Artwork in a variety of mediums created by members of the Open Studio Figure Drawing group.

Reception and Artist Talk: Thursday, August 8, 5-7 p.m. Through September 15. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

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‘PEAK TO PEAK: 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION THEN AND NOW’: An exhibition of photographs and artifacts to highlight the evolution of the division’s equipment and training since its beginning in 1943.

Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

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PHOTOGRAPHERS WORKROOM: The second annual artist pop-up exhibit featuring Nancy Banks, Christie Carter, Rosalind Daniels, Kay Jostrand, Marcie Scudder, Peggy Smith and Shapleigh Smith. Through August 12. Info, marcie@marciescudder.com.

Comfort Farm in Stowe.

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 Collect hidden clues and secret passwords to become part of the Mindbender Society!

‘THEN AND NOW’: A plein air landscape exhibition of works by 12 20th-century masters of the medium and 30 contemporary artists painting in the same locations; in celebration of the gallery’s 35th anniversary. Through September 2. Info, 644-5100.

Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

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CHRIS JEFFREY: “Light and Color,” new work by the central Vermont artist. Through August 3. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.

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JAMES P. BLAIR: “Being There,” images by the renowned photographer for the National Geographic Society. Through August 11. Info, 443-3168.

Middlebury College Museum of Art.

‘HUMAN NATURE/NATURE HUMAN’: Paintings by Deborah Brown that focus on a lone female character; and paintings by Mark Barry that provide poignant recognition of the humor, warmth and universality of everyday experience. Weekends only. Through October 13. Info, 583-5832. Bundy Modern in Waitsfield.

KARLA VAN VLIET: Scored and reworked paintings by the Bristol artist. Through August 4. Info, 382-9222.

Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

f ROSE UMERLIK: “The Human Experience,” abstract graphite and oil on panel works that explore the complexity of what it is to be human. Reception: Friday, July 26, 5-8 p.m. Through August 31. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

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‘50 X 50: COLLECTING FOR THE MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART’: An exhibit that marks 50 years of acquiring art by bringing together one work from each year. Included are paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and photography, from antiquity to the present and from diverse cultures. Through August 11. Info, 443-3168. Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.

‘WATER’: Photographs submitted from around the globe that document the fragility of disappearing glaciers, juried by Elizabeth Avedon. Through August 10. Info, photos@photoplacegallery.com. PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury.

‘AMASSED AND UP-ENDED: DECODING THE LEGACY OF STUFF’: Objects, photographs and documents representing four generations of the Robinson family, and exploring how what we save over a lifetime helps to tell our stories. Through October 27.

Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.

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ANDREW MARKS: Fantasy creatures carved from briar burl and mounted on stone. Through August 31. ‘THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE OF DAN KILEY’: A touring retrospective exhibition in celebration of the internationally renowned, Vermont-based landscape architect (1912-2004), featuring four dozen photographs of his designs, biographical information and interpretive analysis. In partnership with the Vermont chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Cultural Landscape Foundation in Washington, D.C., and the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation. Through September 1. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

AUDUBON MEMBER PHOTO SHOW: Avian pictures taken by the Rutland County Audubon Society members. Through July 31. Info, 775-7119. Maclure Library in Pittsford.

DUNCAN JOHNSON: “Recent Work,” wall sculptures created from reclaimed wood. Through July 31.

Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

HOMER WELLS: “From the Foothills of the Mighty Hogbacks to Thompson’s Point,” etched aluminum wall hangings. JIM BLAIR: “Clouds: Recent Work,” images by the longtime National Geographic photographer. Through July 31. Info, 485-0098.

Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls.

‘ICE SHANTIES: FISHING, PEOPLE & CULTURE’: An exhibition of large-format photographs featuring the structures, people and culture of ice fishing by Vermont-based Colombian photographer Federico Pardo. Includes audio reflections from shanty owners drawn from interviews by VFC. Through August 31. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

‘ART OF WATER ‘: An all-member, all-mediums art exhibit, part of the guild’s 20th anniversary celebration honoring planet Earth. Through August 27. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

CHRISTIAN AARON MENDOZA: “Exactitude,” mixed-media works on paper, canvas and wood that reflect the New York City-based Nicaraguan artist’s influences of indigenous forms, architecture and contemporary, urban modalities. Through August 10.

Info, vtalleygallery@gmail.com. The Alley Gallery in Rutland.

‘Exposed.’ Like seemingly every Vermont town this summer, Stowe is under

LEONARD RAGOUZEOS: “In Black and White/Then and Now,” abstract paintings and large India ink drawings and portraits, created over 25 years by the Vermont artist. Through August 3. Info, the77gallery@gmail. com. B&G Gallery in Rutland.

“Exposed.” from siting works downtown and along the bike path, as in previous years.

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construction. That work has precluded the 28th annual outdoor sculpture exhibit

Helen Day Art Center has scaled back, hosting just two sculptors on the gallery’s grounds, but that doesn’t mean the exhibition is minuscule. David Stromeyer, who lives in Vermont and Austin, Texas, and Brooklyn-based Tom Fruin both think big. Stromeyer and his wife established Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in Enosburg Falls in 2014, siting numerous largescale, abstract metal works on its 200 acres. Fruin uses steel and Plexiglas to create outsize sculptures that reference buildings. As always, self-guided cellphone audio tours of the “Banded Rock” by Stromeyer.

58TH ANNUAL ART IN THE PARK FESTIVALS: Vermont artists and artisans are invited to participate in one or both festivals at Main Street Park in Rutland, taking place August 10 and 11 and October 12 and 13. Deadline just before each show. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland.

Info, artinthepark@chaffeeartcenter.org, 775-0356.

CALL FOR MAKERS: The Champlain Maker Faire, to be held September 28, will focus on two areas: growing distributive manufacturing in Vermont; and engaging schools in making, project and startup development and tool and equipment use. Those who respond have the option to exhibit Friday at the School Maker Day, at Friday Night’s Makers in the Dark Night of Illumination, and/or at the main Champlain Maker Faire event Saturday. Deadline: August 25. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms. Info, 578-7738, champlain.makerfaire.com.

CALL TO YOUNG ARTISTS: Are you an artist ages 14 to 25 looking to showcase your unique skills? Service Rendered is hosting an annual art show on August 23, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Your artwork will be available for sale; no commission. If interested, email sample of work to artssowonderful2@gmail.com. Deadline: July 31. Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor. Free. Info, 448-4297.

FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS: The Cambridge Arts Council’s 11th annual event is Saturday, August 10. It is a gently curated showcase of fine art in all mediums, but we are especially interested in increasing the number of painters. Deadline: August 9. Downtown Jeffersonville.

Booth fee $40; $25 for students. Info, cambridgeartsvt@gmail.com, cambridgeartsvt.org/fota.

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f ‘OF EARTH: IMAGE AND CLAY’: The digital images and videos by John Douglas and works in clay by Joan Watson. Reception: Friday, July 26, 5-8 p.m.

Through August 31. Info, 355-2150. GreenTARA Space in North Hero.

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BURLINGTON ARTISTS: Oil-on-wood paintings

by Adam Forguites, abstract acrylic paintings by Travis Nutting and multimedia works by Christine Pemberton. Through July 31. Info, 372-8889. Island Arts South Hero Gallery.

JURIED SHOW AT THE AIR GALLERY: The artist-run gallery has monthly jury sessions in July, August and September. Artist in Residence Gallery, St. Albans. Free. Info, artistinresidence.coop@ gmail.com.

LYNDONVILLE MURAL PROJECT: Seeking an artist for our third community mural. The “canvas” is a four-story building with windows, and the mural will have a botanical theme. Completion in autumn 2020.

Deadline: July 31. Green Mountain Books and Prints, Lyndonville. Info, 626-5051, kcradysmith@hotmail.com.

MURAL ARTISTS NEEDED: Service Rendered Inc. is developing plans for three murals in Burlington and Winooski and needs volunteer artists to help with these walls. There is a paint sponsor. Deadline: July 31. Various Burlington & Winooski locations. Info, 310-6611, artssowonderful2@gmail.com.

‘OUR BODIES OUR RIGHTS’: Call to artists for August art show and fundraiser. Visual and performance art submissions accepted.

Deadline: July 26. 2Creative Community, Winooski. Free. Info, 718-4157135, 2creativecommunity@gmail.com.

‘ROCK SOLID XIX’: This annual exhibit showcases stone sculptures and assemblages by area artists, September 17 through November 2. We are also looking for 2D works that display the qualities of stone. Deadline: August 2. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10; free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069, studioplacearts.com.

SEABA ART HOP JURIED SHOW: This show is the highlight exhibition of the 27th annual South End Art Hop. An independent juror will select from a range of artwork in diverse mediums. Cash prizes are

awarded to the top three selections, with an additional people’s choice selection. All selected work will be displayed at the Amy E. Tarrant Gallery at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts through the fall.

Submit one or two pieces for consideration. Deadline: August 1. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Burlington. Info, seaba.com.

SPA STUDIO RESIDENCY PROGRAM: SPA has received funding to support an 11-month studio residency program for November 20, 2019, to October 31, 2020. A small private studio on the second floor of the visual arts center will be provided at no charge to an emerging artist from the greater Barre/Montpelier area who wants to build a new body of work for exhibition. If interested, submit proposals

by August 9. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Info, 479-7069, submissions. studioplacearts@gmail.com, studioplacearts.com.

VALLEY ARTS PHOTO SHOW: This non-juried show, open to amateur and professional photographers, is September 13 to October 6. Rules for submission: The work must be the sole creation of the artist; work is presented uninsured; participants can submit up to three photos; presenter reserves the right to restrict works for any reason; work must remain on display for the entire exhibition. Deadline: September 8. Big Red Barn Gallery at Lareau Farm, Waitsfield. $35.

Info, 496-6682, valleyartsvt.com.

VERMONT TRADITIONAL ARTS APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM: For the 27th year, VTAAP offers stipends up to $2,000 to master and apprentice pairs to cover time, materials and travel expenses. The program brings teachers and learners together to support the continuance of traditional art forms. Deadline: August 15. Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury. Info, vermontfolklifecenter.org.

ART SHOWS

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‘DESTINATION: SPACE!’: A series of exhibitions that highlights the art and science of space exploration and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission’s moon landing. Through August 4.

MINDBENDER MANSION: An eclectic exhibition full of brainteasers and interactive challenges guaranteed to test brain power and problem-solving skills. Developed by Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Through September 2. Info, 649-2200.

Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

f ‘LAND ON PAPER’: A group exhibition of prints in a variety of styles that address the theme.

Reception: Friday, August 2, 5-7 p.m. Through August 31. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

LUCIANA FRIGERIO: “Skywriting,” works that explore the deconstruction and reworking of the book, creating new images. Through September 6.

Info, 295-0808. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

northeast kingdom

‘FROM GRANITE TO GOLD’: An exhibit examining the life of Burdean Sebert (1900-95), the daughter of a local stonecutter who became an Emmywinning performer in a touring company, and then an instructor of drama and public speaking in Montpelier. Through August 31. Info, 472-8555.

Hardwick Historical Society.

JAY HUDSON: Realistic acrylic landscape and bird paintings of NEK subjects. Through August 31. Info, lionize47@yahoo.com. Community National Bank, Barton Branch.

‘MIND’S EYE: Artwork by Randee Leightcap and Meri Stiles that explores emotional responses to the natural and social worlds. Through August 24. Info, nekguild@gmail.com. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

‘THE PIVOT AND THE BLADE: AN INTIMATE GLANCE AT SCISSORS’: A collection of objects that convey the long human relationship to scissors, their design and explore myriad professional, creative, superstitious, violent and domestic uses. Through December 31. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

f ‘ROOTS’: A group show of Vermont artists that celebrates democracy, community and “the digging down of it all.” Reception: Thursday, August 1, 6-8 p.m. Through September 16. Info, 533-2045. Miller’s Thumb Gallery in Greensboro.

VANESSA COMPTON: “Independence Day,” paintings and collages. Through August 1. Info, 525-3366.

Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

brattleboro/okemo valley

DONA ANN MCADAMS: “Performative Arts,” a major retrospective of four decades of work by the photographer and activist, who now lives in Sandgate, Vt. Curated by John Killacky. Through September 23. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

‘MADE IN VERMONT’: A group exhibition of new and recently completed work by Vermont artists, including paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Arista Alanis, Steve Budington, Clark Derbes, Jason Galligan-Baldwin and Sarah Letteney. MALCOLM MORLEY: Approximately 40 paintings, sculptures and works on paper created between 1964 and 2016 by the British-born American artist and founder of super-realism. RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER: Some 40 paintings, sculptures and works on paper that reference everyday objects, symbols, people and places, often made from unconventional and industrial materials. The American painter, sculptor and draftsman died in 2011. Open for tours 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Through December 1.

Info, 952-1056. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

manchester/bennington

22ND ANNUAL NORTH BENNINGTON OUTDOOR SCULPTURE SHOW: Outdoor sculptures and gallery exhibits featuring 41 artists throughout the historic village. Through November 3. Info, 4309715. Various locations around North Bennington.

‘COLOR / GESTURE: EARLY WORKS BY EMILY MASON: Small paintings on paper with explosive color created by the abstractionist in the 1950s and ’60s. Through September 8. Info, 447-1571.

Bennington Museum.

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‘EVERYTHING IS STILL: PHOTOGRAPHERS WORKING IN MOTION PICTURE FILM’: An exhibition of 20 photographers from the U.S., Singapore and Japan who use cinematic film to create still images, curated by Vermont artist Stephen Schaub.

Through August 11. Info, 367-1310. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

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CELIA REISMAN: “The Vermont Paintings,” intricate landscapes and neighborhood views, Main Gallery.

HELEN MATTESON: “Geometric Exercises,” paintings and drawings by the late Vermont/New York artist, Center Gallery. Through August 11. Info, 767-9670.

BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

2 Swimming Pools ~ Club House Café & Bar

EMILY BURKHOLDER: Landscape and animal paintings in oil and watercolor by the Barnard artist. Through August 7. Info, 728-2380. Gifford Medical Center in Randolph.

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‘HOOKIN’ IN VERMONT’: Textile art by local rug hookers Ina Anderson, Theresa Clark, Jennifer Davey, Bonnie Dore, Susie Gray, Betty LaWhite, Theresa Manning and Fern Strong. Through September 15. Info, 728-8912. White River Craft Center in Randolph.

RAE NEWELL: “The Tunbridge Fair,” a solo show of paintings by the Bridgewater Corners artist.

Through September 5. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.

‘RENDERING: CAUSE TO BECOME’: A summer invitational exhibit featuring portrait sculptures

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SADIE KENNEDY: “Sadie’s Fancy Work,” embroidery by the late local textile artist. Through August 31.

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he funniest that my job reviewing Stuber got last week was watching the interviews its stars gave days before its dismal opening. Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista had been doing national press for months, but the early chat fests were different — full of praise for the project’s creators and talk about how crazy hilarious everything had turned out.

Fast-forward to early July, and the pair had a new spiel. Toxic masculinity! Suddenly Stuber wasn’t an action-comedy but a pithy comment on that scourge.

By then, focus groups and test screenings had made it crystal clear that laughter wasn’t going to play a big part in the Stuber experience. Hence the desperate PR pivot selling it as a message movie, which was as comical as things ever got. Skip the movie. Check out the media coverage.

I can’t say how pervasive the craving for a comedy exploring toxic masculinity actually is. But I do know Trump culture has made one inevitable, and The Art of Self-Defense is the warped movie that this warped moment requires. Writer-director Riley Stearns (Faults) makes the breakthrough of the year with this absurdist romp through the fun

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house of the modern male psyche. It’s the most assured and least predictable film I’ve seen in a dog’s age.

Speaking of dogs — Jesse Eisenberg plays Casey, a skittish bookkeeper whose life outside work consists of sitting on the couch watching TV with his dachshund. And feeding the sad-eyed fellow. And, early on, making a trip to the store for dog food he forgot to buy.

Walking to the market, Casey is approached by two figures on a motorcycle who inquire, “Do you have a gun?” His flummoxed response tells them everything they need to know. They screech into the night, only to return as he’s almost home. A savage, meaningless beating ensues.

I honestly can’t recall a script operating so cleverly on so many levels in so many tones simultaneously. As Casey embarks on possibly the most oblique journey of self-empowerment ever filmed — first filling out the paperwork for a gun, then taking karate lessons at a strip-mall dojo — subtle conceptual flourishes and ridiculously inventive dialogue permeate the proceedings. It’s an astonishingly delicious concoction.

Imagine Yorgos Lanthimos in a film fusion with Charlie Kaufman. Add a dash of Wes Anderson’s whimsy and season with a touch of Jim Jarmusch at his most understated, and

FRIGHT CLUB Eisenberg plays a timid loner whose insecurities bring him under the spell of an enigmatic, possibly evil, karate instructor.

you’ll have a notion of how delectably outré this gets.

Alessandro Nivola costars as the dojo’s owner, a man of nonstop dadaist platitudes and bottomless self-confidence. He tells Casey to call him “Sensei” and offers to make a man out of him. This process is one of the most playfully unhinged creations in recent memory.

Buckle up. One minute, Sensei seems sincere and sane (“Guns are for the weak”). The next, he’s demanding his student make everything “as masculine as possible” and listen only to metal (“It’s the toughest music”).

Wild Rose ★★★★

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hat happens when a parent puts their dream first and their family second? Until recently, most of the films exploring that question were about fathers, perhaps because the idea of a mother not prioritizing her kids was too disturbing. Movie moms tend to be more like Marion (Julie Walters) in the UK drama Wild Rose, who explains to her grown daughter that, once she had a child, she simply transferred all her hopes and dreams to the next generation.

But the next generation didn’t turn out as Marion hoped. Her daughter, Rose-Lynn (Jessie Buckley), has two kids by the time she’s out of her teens and precious little interest in mothering them. While Marion dreamed modestly of college and pulling herself out of the working class, Rose-Lynn is convinced she was put on Earth to be a country star. “I should have been born American,” she says with blithe assurance.

We meet Rose-Lynn on her release from jail, where she spent a year on a drug charge.

Her first thoughts aren’t of her kids, whom Marion has been raising, but of getting the hell out of her native Glasgow and hightailing it to Nashville. Strutting around in cowboy boots and denim, Rose-Lynn is brash, mouthy, feckless and openly selfish. But when she opens that mouth to sing Emmylou Harris or Wynonna Judd, beautiful things happen, making us wonder if she’s right to follow the path her talent dictates.

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ROSE MADDER Buckley plays a Glasgow mom with Nashville dreams in Harper’s sometimes inspiring, sometimes sobering drama.

It’s a nice, thorny premise that Wild Rose, directed by veteran TV director Tom Harper and scripted by veteran TV writer Nicole Taylor, never quite makes work. The filmmakers rely on the charisma of their star to carry the movie, and to an extent it does. Buckley delivers a splashy, star-making performance reminiscent of the one Walters gave as a cheeky working-class girl in Educating Rita (1983), making their casting as mother and daughter

feel apt. Her expressive face commands the screen. If Rose-Lynn alienates us with her recklessness, she wins us back with her transparency, never quite hiding the self-doubts behind the bravado.

Rose-Lynn also wins over Susannah (Sophie Okonedo), whose palatial home she cleans for a living. Nostalgic for her own youth, the older, wealthier woman fancies herself Rose-Lynn’s fairy godmother with-

Almost every line is out of left field; for 104 minutes, Stearns never runs out of gas.

Or ideas. Eisenberg could have been lab-engineered for the role.

The young filmmaker nails the pathos as well as the pathology inherent in navigating often-confusing and contradictory societal waters. Along the way, Casey’s belt changes colors, but the brutes around him seldom do.

Luckily, a female fighter enters the picture.

Eventually it dawns on Casey that maybe the best place for him isn’t a man’s world after all.

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out knowing the whole truth about her protégée. There’s promising tension there, but Rose-Lynn’s scenes with Susannah often feel underwritten and a little pat. When Susannah hears Rose-Lynn sing for the first time, Harper bathes the scene in heavenly radiance.

Susannah’s kids stare in open-mouthed awe, already stans for life.

It’s overkill and too typical of the treatment of young actors in this movie. While Adam Mitchell and Daisy Littlefield are refreshingly natural as Rose-Lynn’s kids, they don’t get the screen time they need to develop a believable relationship with her. The movie inadvertently suggests that one beach holiday en famille is enough to counteract years of neglect.

Wild Rose is an uneasy blend of Hollywood “working-class kid with a dream” tropes and gritty realism, doing full justice to neither.

Still, with rock-star biopics ruling the multiplexes, it’s good to see a music-driven movie acknowledge that unleashing a God-given talent on the world doesn’t always lead straight to fame and fortune.

Rose-Lynn’s trajectory is a counterpoint to that glittery narrative, a reminder that success comes in many forms and that every sacrifice for a dream is a gamble. By the end, only one thing is resolved beyond a doubt: We’ll be seeing more of Buckley on screen.

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NEW IN THEATERS ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD: The Manson murders of 1969 are the background for this story of a TV star (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double (Brad Pitt) trying to adjust to changing times in the latest from writer-director Quentin Tarantino.

With Margot Robbie, Dakota Fanning and Timothy Olyphant. (161 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy) TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM: The Nobel Prize-winning novelist talks about her life and influences, while celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey discuss her work, in this documentary from director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. (120 min, PG-13.

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NOW PLAYING ALADDINHH1/2 Disney revives the tale of the street urchin who finds a magic lamp with this live-action version directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Mena Massoud as Aladdin, Naomi Scott as Jasmine and Will Smith as the genie. (128 min, PG)

THE LION KINGHHH Stylized animated singing lions are replaced by photorealistic animated singing lions in this remake of the Disney cartoon classic about the heir to an embattled African kingdom, with the voices of Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen and James Earl Jones. Jon Favreau directed. (118 min, PG) MIDSOMMARHHHH1/2 A young couple (Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor) visiting Sweden for a midsummer festival find themselves caught up in a pagan cult in the latest psychodrama/horror flick from writer-director Ari Aster (Hereditary). (140 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 7/10) PAVAROTTIHH1/2 Ron Howard directed this documentary about the celebrated opera tenor, featuring footage of celebrities such as Princess Diana, Spike Lee and Bono. (114 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 7/10)

ANNABELLE COMES HOMEHH1/2 Imprisoning the demonic doll in a glass case only makes her more resourceful in the third installment of the campy horror franchise, with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprising their The Conjuring roles. Gary Dauberman directed. (106 min, R)

THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2H1/2 What do our pets do when we’re not around? This sequel to the 2016 animated adventure flick continues the story of neurotic terrier Max (Patton Oswalt) and his furry friends. Chris Renaud returned to codirect. With Kevin Hart, Harrison Ford and Jenny Slate. (86 min, PG; reviewed by R.K. 6/12)

THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSEHHHHH After a random attack, a nerdy young man (Jesse Eisenberg) falls under the influence of a charismatic karate teacher (Alessandro Nivola) with a sinister side in this dark comedy from writer-director Riley Stearns (Faults). (104 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 7/24)

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOMEHHH1/2 In his second solo outing with this franchise, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) copes with the post-Avengers: Endgame world. With Zendaya, Angourie Rice and Jake Gyllenhaal. Jon Watts (Spider-Man: Homecoming) directed. (129 min, PG-13)

CRAWLHH1/2 Have you been waiting for a survival horror movie about a young woman (Kaya Scodelario) fighting off a passel of alligators in a basement during a hurricane? Director Alexandre Aja (Mirrors) says, “You’re welcome.” With Barry Pepper and Ross Anderson. (87 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 7/17)

STUBER 1/2 H A tough-guy detective (Dave Bautista) and his mild-mannered Uber driver (Kumail Nanjiani) become unlikely partners in the hunt for a terrorist in this action comedy, also starring Natalie Morales, Iko Uwais and Betty Gilpin. Michael Dowse (Goon) directed. (93 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 7/17)

ECHO IN THE CANYONHHHH1/2 Andrew Slater directed this documentary about the music scene in Los Angeles’ Laurel Canyon, with appearances from the Byrds, the Beach Boys, and the Mamas and the Papas. (82 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 6/26)

TOY STORY 4HHHH The arrival of a new toy named “Forky” leads the toys on a road trip of discovery in the latest installment of Pixar’s animated series. With the voices of Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Tom Hanks and Jordan Peele. Josh Cooley makes his feature directorial debut. (100 min, G; reviewed by M.H. 6/26)

THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCOHHHH1/2 A young man (Jimmie Fails) tries to hold on to a piece of prime real estate with family connections in this urban elegy directed by Joe Talbot, also starring Jonathan Majors, Danny Glover and Tichina Arnold. (121 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 7/3)

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ROCKETMANHH1/2 Taron Egerton plays Elton John in this biopic about his breakthrough years, directed

by Dexter Fletcher (Eddie the Eagle). With Jamie Bell, Richard Madden and Bryce Dallas Howard. (121 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 6/5)

WILD ROSEHHH1/2 Fresh out of prison, a workingclass Glaswegian mom and musician dreams of Nashville stardom in this drama starring Jessie Buckley and Julie Walters. Tom Harper (War Book) directed. (101 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 7/24) YESTERDAY 1/2H A young musician (Himesh Patel) wakes up in an alternate timeline where the Beatles never existed and only he remembers them in this comedy from director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire). With Lily James and Sophia Di Martino.

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MERRILL’S ROXY CINEMAS 222 College St., Burlington, 864-3456, merrilltheatres.net

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY BY ROB BREZSNY REAL JULY 25-31 and titillate your rapture chakra, I predict a major lovequake for many Aries between now and August 20. I suggest you start preparing immediately. How? Brainstorm about adventures and breakthroughs that will boost exciting togetherness. Get yourself in the frame of mind to seek out collaborative catharses that evoke both sensory delights and insights.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)

The Queen of North America and Europe called me on the phone. At least that’s how she identified herself. “I have a message for your Leo readers,” she told me. “Why Leo?” I asked. “Because I’m a Leo myself,” she replied, “and I know what my tribe needs to know right now.” I said, “OK. Give it to me.” “Tell Leos to always keep in mind the difference between healthy pride and debilitating hubris,” she said. “Tell them to be dazzlingly and daringly competent without becoming bossy and egomaniacal. They should disappear their arrogance but nourish their mandate to express leadership and serve as a role model. Be shiny and bright but not glaring and blinding.

Be irresistible but not envy-inducing.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19): After analyzing unusual animal behavior, magnetic fluctuations, outbreaks of mayhem on Twitter and the position of the moon, a psychic has foretold that a moderate earthquake will rumble through the St. Louis, Mo., area in the coming weeks. I don’t agree with her prophecy. But I have a prediction of my own. Using data about how cosmic forces are conspiring to amuse

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are,” wrote Taurus philosopher José Ortega y Gasset. You could use that idea to achieve a finer grade of peace and grace in the coming weeks. The navel-gazing phase of your yearly cycle has begun, which means you’ll be in closest alignment with cosmic rhythms if you get to know yourself much better. One of the best ways to do that is to analyze what you pay most attention to. Another excellent way is to expand and refine and tenderize your feelings for what you pay most attention to.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano wrote that in Havana, people refer to their friends as mi sangre, my blood, or mi tierra, my country. In Caracas, he reported, a friend might be called mi llave, my key, or mi pana, my bread. Since you are in the allianceboosting phase of your cycle, Gemini, I trust that you will find good reasons to think of your comrades as your blood, your country, your key or your bread. It’s a favorable time for you to get closer, more personal and more intimate. The affectionate depths are calling to you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your emotional

intelligence is so strong right now that I bet you could alleviate the pain of a loved one even as you soothe a long-running ache of your own.

You’re so spiritually alluring, I suspect you could arouse the sacred yearning of a guru, saint or bodhisattva. You’re so interesting, someone might write a poem or story about you. You’re so overflowing with a lust for life that you might lift people out of their ruts just by being in their presence. You’re so smart you could come up with at least a partial solution to a riddle whose solution has evaded you for a long time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Congrats, Virgo!

You are beginning the denouement of your

yearly cycle. Anything you do to resolve lingering conflicts and finish up old business will yield fertile rewards. Fate will conspire benevolently on your behalf as you bid final goodbyes to the influences you’ll be smart not to drag along with you into the new cycle that will begin in a few weeks. To inspire your holy work, I give you this poem by Virgo poet Charles Wright: “Knot by knot I untie myself from the past / And let it rise away from me like a balloon. / What a small thing it becomes. / What a bright tweak at the vanishing point, blue on blue.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I predict that between now and the end of the year, a Libran genetic engineer will create a new species of animal called a dat. A cross between a cat and a dog, it will have the grace, independence and vigilance of a Persian cat and the geniality, loyalty and ebullient strength of a golden retriever. Its stalking skills will synthesize the cat’s and dog’s different styles of hunting. I also predict that, in the coming months, you will achieve greater harmony between the cat and dog aspects of your own nature, thereby acquiring some of the hybrid talents of the dat.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio poet Marianne Moore (1887–1972) won the Pulitzer Prize and several other prestigious awards.

She was a rare poet who became a celebrity.

That’s one of the reasons why the Ford car company asked her to dream up interesting names for a new model they were manufacturing. Alas, Ford decided the 43 possibilities she presented were too poetic and rejected all of them. But some of Moore’s names are apt descriptors for the roles you could and should play in the phase you’re beginning, so I’m offering them for your use. Here they are: 1. Anticipator. 2. The Impeccable. 3. Tonnere Alifère (French term for “winged thunder”). 4. Tir á l’arc (French term for “bull’s eye”). 5. Regina-Rex (Latin terms for “queen” and “king”).

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s con-

ceivable that in one of your past lives you were a pioneer who made the rough 2,170-mile migration via wagon train from Missouri to Oregon in the 1830s. Or maybe you were a sailor who accompanied the Viking Leif Eriksson in his travels to the New World 500 years before

Columbus. Is it possible you were part of the team assembled by Italian diplomat Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, who journeyed from Rome to Mongolia in the thirteenth century? Here’s why I’m entertaining these thoughts, Sagittarius: I suspect that a similar itch to ramble and explore and seek adventure may rise up in you during the coming weeks. I won’t be surprised if you consider making a foray to the edge of your known world.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When the dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago, the crocodiles didn’t. They were around for 135 million years before that era and are still here now.

Why? “They are extremely tough and robust,” says croc expert James Perran Ross. Their immune systems “are just incredible.” Maybe best of all, they “learn quickly and adapt to changes in their situation.” In accordance with the astrological omens, I’m naming the crocodile your creature teacher for the coming weeks. I suspect you will be able to call on a comparable version of their will to thrive. (Read more about crocs: tinyurl.com/toughandrobust.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “My only hope is that one day I can love myself as much as I love you.” Poet Mariah Gordon-Dyke wrote that to a lover, and now I’m offering it to you as you begin your Season of Self-Love. You’ve passed through other Seasons of Self-Love in the past, but none of them has ever had such rich potential to deepen and ripen your selflove. I bet you’ll discover new secrets about how to love yourself with the same intensity you have loved your most treasured allies.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Poems can bring comfort,” writes Piscean poet Jane Hirshfield. “They let us know ... that we are not alone — but they also unseat us and make us more susceptible, larger, elastic. They foment revolutions of awareness and allow the complex, uncertain, actual world to enter.” According to my understanding of upcoming astrological omens, Pisces, life itself will soon be like the poems Hirshfield describes: unruly yet comforting; a source of solace but also a catalyst for transformation; bringing you healing and support but also asking you to rise up and reinvent yourself. Sounds like fun!

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COLCHESTER POND 7/9 You were sunbathing/swimming. I was running, wearing red. We chatted about Indian Brook, societal differences between Europe and the USA. I can’t believe I didn’t ask for your name or number. Please contact me. I would like to get together sometime. When: Tuesday, July 9, 2019. Where: Colchester Pond. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914789

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FLOWER BEDS AND HEMP I stopped over to get something, and then you showed me your awesome flower beds and hemp plants out back.

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You: Woman. Me: Man. #914797 BOLTON UPPER RIVER, 7/15 You arrived around 3:45. Long hair with slight facial hair. I mistook you for someone else. We exchanged names and shook hands, then you went and lay out on your stomach. I was in awe of you lying there. A couple arrived, and I left. If you are interested in meeting again, let me know. I give great massages. When: Monday, July 15, 2019. Where: Bolton Upper River. You: Man. Me: Man. #914796 NATURAL PROVISIONS BLONDE GODDESS I spy a beautiful, tall, sexy blonde. Black pants and a white blouse. Legs and an ass that looked too good to comment on. I took a look, and so did you. Let’s meet at the salad bar one day, sooner than later. When: Monday, July 15, 2019.

Where: Natural Provisions, Williston.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914795

PART-TIME GOLDEN MOM Two goldens can be a bit much, especially when hiking in a pack. Let’s try again sometime with a few less pups and one less long-legged ginger? When: Saturday, July 13, 2019. Where: Mount Hunger. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914794 THE HOTTEST SERVER You served me outdoors and ended up challenging me to an eating contest. I think you’re a total knockout but way out of my league. Wish I wasn’t twice your age. Maybe you’ll respond anyway and we can have that contest? When: Saturday, July 13, 2019. Where: Twiggs, St. Albans.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914793 GORGEOUS MILF IN GREEN SKIRT You are beautiful and have a rocking ass in that green dress. Would love to see more of it and you. I was the tan, tattooed guy behind you in the chip section. When: Thursday, July 11, 2019. Where: Shaw’s, Williston.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914792 DARK-HAIRED BEAUTY, UV CO-OP I was going in with my dad to get some lunch. You were coming out with a bag of groceries and had the cutest smile. Can I have your membership number? When: Wednesday, July 10, 2019. Where: Upper Valley Food Co-op.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914791

MAPLE ST. POOL, JULY 7 You were wearing a very sexy blue MAGA one-piece swimsuit. I watched you jump off the diving board a few times before we made eye contact. We smiled at each other. I think you had your son with you. Before I could make my way over to you, you left. I would love to meet up for coffee sometime. When: Sunday, July 7, 2019. Where: Maple St. Pool. You: Man. Me: Man. #914788 NOT JUST A CHEMICAL REACTION The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time. The ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn-burn-burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars! Made for each other? Time and change will surely show. When: Sunday, February 24, 2019. Where: across the stars.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914787 HANNAFORD, ESSEX, JULY 3 You were wearing a white skirt, frayed on the bottom. You were also wearing very sexy black sandals with heels, and they had a strap around the ankles ... so sexy. About 1:30ish in the afternoon.

I’d hang with you grocery shopping any day. How about a coffee or adult drink to start things off? When: Wednesday, July 3, 2019. Where: Hannaford, Essex.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914786 GREAT NORTHERN, JULY 1, 2ISH You walked out of Great Northern at 2ish p.m. Salt-and-pepper curlyish hair, mid-40s, old-school worn blue courier bag. Got all tingly when I saw you and (not subtly) stared. Me: sitting in a truck. Long, curly salt-and-pepper hair.

Almost said “hey,” but I’m not quite convinced how short life is. I’m learning fast. Great hands. When: Monday, July 1, 2019. Where: Great Northern.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914785

TRADER JOE’S CHECKOUT I saw you today in the store, and we caught eyes multiple times: near the dairy and checkout lines, where we were back-to-back. You wore a pink shirt, black pants and clogs. I wore glasses, a green shirt, tan pants and black shoes. If you remember me, too, how about we get some tea or go on a walk? When: Wednesday, July 10, 2019. Where: Trader Joe’s, 5:30 p.m.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914790

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HANNAFORD, SOUTH BURLINGTON To the gorgeous man who was at the deli counter looking for turkey recommendations: Thanks for making the afternoon so much better. Lunch? When: Sunday, June 30, 2019. Where: Hannaford deli.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914782 BEAUTIFUL MONTRÉAL WOMAN, MAPLEFIELDS, JUNE 30 Good morning! You were filling your vehicle with gas when I said good morning to you. We chatted. You are from Montréal, but you were traveling to New Hampshire. So polite and beautiful.

I wish that I had asked you more and immediately regretted that I hadn’t.

You were driving a white Hyundai Sante Fe, I believe. When: Sunday, June 30, 2019. Where: Maplefields, Georgia.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914781 1 POUND LATKES You sold me and my cousin a pound of latkes. I was in a bright orange hat, and you were in a gray hat.

Let me know if you’d like to sell me some more latkes. When: Sunday, June 30, 2019. Where: City Market.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914780 LAKE MONSTERS GAME, SAT., JUNE 29 I was sitting at the table next to yours.

You were with your sister and her sons.

When we made eye contact, I felt my pulse quicken. As much as I wanted to come over and introduce myself, I didn’t want to interrupt your family outing. I think you are absolutely gorgeous. Care to meet for coffee sometime? When: Saturday, June 29, 2019. Where: Centennial Field.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914779

Dear Sadly Sardined,

This one’s a doozy. My fiancé and I helped a friend who has no family move up here from the South. We had planned on moving into a bigger apartment together. However, my fiancé’s sister had to move in, so now it’s four people in a one-bedroom apartment. My male roommate recently found out he has some health issues that mean he will only be able to work part time and potentially not at all for the next six months. My fiancé’s sister is still looking for a job.

Recently I realized I don’t want to move. I just want our two roommates to get their own place, because I miss the time when it was just me and my fiancé. We love our apartment and the memories it has in it. This really made my male roommate angry, and the health issues mean he will probably be stuck on our couch for a lot longer. How the hell do we survive?

Did I throw my friend under the bus by deciding I don’t want to move?

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TATTOOED AT CITY MARKET Me: man with flowers. You: tattooed, buying lots of produce. You glanced back at me in line, and I had crumbs from the baguette I was snacking on all over my shirt. You were there with who I assume was your girlfriend, but I couldn’t deny the sparks I felt between us. P.S. I have a thing for cutoffs. When: Sunday, June 30, 2019. Where: City Market. You: Man. Me: Man. #914783

This is more than a doozy. What you’ve got on your hands here is a real humdinger.

You took the first, hardest step and told your roommates your plan. Now you have to stick to your guns and make it happen. I’d take a divide-and-conquer approach and start with the sister. Is there any chance your fiancé or another family member could float her a loan so she can get her own place faster?

As for your friend, it’s unfortunate that he’s dealing with health issues, but he would have had to handle this all on his own if he weren’t here with you.

Talk to him about what he would have done then. Perhaps offer to help him research whether he’s eligible for any housing assistance.

There’s no quick fix, so you’re

FARMERS MARKET FUNNY GUY I actually had plenty of greens; I just wanted to come over to say hi but couldn’t think of anything else to say.

Should’ve sprung for a monstrosity.

Hopefully we can run into each other again. Happy farming! When: Thursday, June 27, 2019. Where: Waterbury.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914778 KINNEY’S PHARMACY I was in Kinney Drugs Essex one day to grab some things and noticed the really attractive pharmacist. I just wanted her to know that she is by far the most attractive pharmacist I have ever seen. When: Friday, June 21, 2019. Where: Kinney Drugs.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914777 TO THAT VERY FRIENDLY CLERK Hey, lady. Middle-oldish, rough-aroundthe-edges guy who may be a little too flirty, not inappropriately (I hope).

Weather, riding my motorbike, politics — I ramble at checkout. Wandering aimlessly through a flea market, a walkabout or taking a ride would be nice. Some would say, “Why?” I say, “Why not?” Thanks for being friendly! When: Thursday, June 13, 2019. Where: the checkout line.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914776 HAWAIIAN SHIRT, HARSH ARMADILLO My Hawaiian shirt, you loved it. Your beautiful smile, I loved. Jazz festival, Friday night, Harsh Armadillo concert.

Last day of May. Hoping you read this section, ‘cause I never got your contact info. When: Friday, May 31, 2019. Where: Skinny Pancake.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914775 HEYWHOKNOWS I spied some sexy shoulders, arms and legs while watching you climb and your beautiful smile after you belayed down to the floor. I enjoyed our outing together. Would like to explore new adventures with you. When: Saturday, June 8, 2019. Where: Petra Cliffs.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914774 TDL1082 What started online is now the real thing. You challenge and excite me, and I can’t wait to see what more we will bring. Maybe flossing to Boyz 2 Men? Feels baby... When: Saturday, January 5, 2019. Where: JP’s. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914772

probably going to have to deal with the close quarters for a while longer. Put on your tough-love pants and set deadlines for moving out. Have weekly check-ins on progress.

Even though it sucks now, look at it as adding to the memories you have in the apartment. Hopefully all four of you will be able to laugh about this down the road. You’re also stacking up good karma points for being such a help to these two people, and that’s never a bad thing.

Good luck and God bless,

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0677-1B 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On July 12, 2019, Bruce & Susan Thibaud, 85 Executive Drive, Shelburne, VT 05482 filed application #4C0677-1B for a project generally described as renovations to the existing Volvo dealership, including a 770 square foot addition, sidewalk and driveway improvements, expanded vehicle display areas, updated stormwater treatment, and updated wall-mounted and freestanding signs.

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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 “4C0677-1B”.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before August 12, 2019, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing.

Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status.

Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

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2000 sf, gorgeous wood floors, sunny, separate utilities, large attic, limited parking. $235,000.

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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, no later than prior to the response date listed above.

Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by August 12, 2019.

Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 19th day of July, 2019.

By: Stephanie H. Monaghan District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802/879-5662 stephanie.monaghan@ vermont.gov

This project consists of the complete removal of the existing stoneballasted membrane roof system and replacement with a new mechanically fastened membrane roof system.

A mandatory pre-bid conference will meet 31 E. Spring St., Winooski, Vermont, on July 31st 2019, at 9:00AM ET. Sealed bids will be due at Winooski Housing Authority’s office at 83 Barlow St., Winooski, Vermont, until August 21st at 2:00pm ET. Sealed bids may be delivered via mail or in person. Davis Bacon wage rates will apply. Late bids will not be accepted. Bids will be opened and publicly read aloud.

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NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE LIEN SALE BURLINGTON SELF STORAGE 1825 SHELBURNE ROAD SOUTH BURLINGTON, VERMONT 05403 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid.

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Units will be opened for viewing immediately prior to auction. Sale shall be by sealed bid to the highest bidder. Contents of entire storage

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INVITATION FOR BID Winooski Housing Authority is soliciting bids from qualified roofing contractors for the 31 East Spring St. Roof Replacement.

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SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS unit will be sold as one lot. The winning bid must remove all contents from the facility at no cost to Burlington Self Storage on the day of auction.

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO. 5917-19 CNCV IN RE: ABANDONED MOBILE HOME OF THERESA DEVINE NOTICE OF HEARING A hearing on Sunset Lake Cooperative, Inc.’s Verified Complaint to declare as abandoned and uninhabitable the mobile home of Theresa Devine located at 182 Jourdan Street in Hinesburg, Vermont has been set for July 31, 2019 at 9:30 a.m. at the Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Civil Division located at 175 Main Street in Burlington, Vermont.

Nancy Bean, Docket Clerk Date: July 12, 2019

VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR ABANDONMENT

PURSUANT TO 10 V.S.A. § 6249(i) (Uninhabitable)

Devine did not pay a security deposit to SLC.

NOW COMES Sunset Lake Cooperative, Inc. (“SLC”), by and through its counsel Nadine L. Scibek, and hereby complains as follows:

4. The last known resident of the mobile home was Theresa Devine who vacated the mobile home in November of 2017. Her last known address is 182 Jourdan Street, Hinesburg, Vermont 05461.

1. SLC, a Vermont cooperative corporation with a principal place of business in Hinesburg, County of Chittenden, State of Vermont, is the record owner of a mobile home park known as the Sunset Lake Mobile Home Park (the “Park”) located in the Town of Hinesburg, Vermont (the “Park”). The Park is managed by First Choice Property Management.

SLC purchased the Park on March 21, 2019.

2. Theresa Devine (“Devine”) is the record owner of a certain mobile home, described as a 1974 Mark IV, 14 x 70 mobile home bearing serial number 30772 (the “Mobile Home”), located on 182 Jourdan Street, Sunset Lake Mobile Home Park in Hinesburg, Vermont.

3. Devine leased a lot in the Park for her mobile home from Sunset Lake Cooperative, Inc. pursuant to an oral lease.

5. The Park’s counsel has attempted to communicate in writing with Devine and she has failed to respond.

6. The following security interests, mortgages, liens and encumbrances appear of record with respect to the mobile home: a. Devine is in arrears on obligations to pay property taxes to the Town of Hinesburg, Vermont in the aggregate amount of $3,259.45, plus any additional interest and penalties. The delinquent property taxes are now a lien on the property.

7. Mobile home storage fees continue to accrue at the rate of $455.00 per month. Rent and storage fees due SLC as of July, 2019 total $1,740.00 from the time SLC acquired the Park and Devine also owed $2,830.00 to the prior

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owner of the Park that was transferred to SLC for a total due of $4,570.00. Attorney’s fees incurred by SLC to date exceed $400.00.

security deposit paid be conveyed to the Park Owner in “as is” condition, and free from all liens and other encumbrances of record.

8. SLC sent written notice by certified mail to the Town of Hinesburg on May 14, 2019 of SLC’s intent to commence this abandonment action as required by statute.

DATED AT Burlington, Vermont this 9th day of July, 2019.

9. The mobile home is unfit for human habitation. Either Tim Hutchins or Elissa Rose, duly authorized agents of SLC, will testify under oath as to the poor and unlivable condition of this mobile home at the abandonment hearing.

WHEREFORE, SLC respectfully requests that the Honorable Court enter an order as follows: 1. Declare that the mobile home has been abandoned; 2. Transfer the mobile home which is unfit for human habitation to the Park owner, SLC without a public auction so that it may be removed and disposed of accordingly.

3. Order pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6249(j) that the mobile home and any

Nadine L. Scibek/ERN #2726 Attorney for Sunset Lake Cooperative, Inc.

DATED this 9th day of July, 2019.

Tim Hutchins, Duly Authorized Agent Sunset Lake Cooperative, Inc. VERIFICATION

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Before me, Notary Public Commission Expires: 1/31/21 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 827-6-19 CNPR In re estate of Norman H. Kirsch.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Norman H. Kirsch, late of Jericho, VT. I have been appointed to administer this estate.

All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

At Berlin City, on this 9th day of July, 2019, Tim Hutchins, duly authorized agent of Sunset Lake Cooperative, Inc., owner of the Sunset Lake Mobile Home Park, in Hinesburg, Vermont, Date: July 9, 2019 being first duly sworn, made oath that he /s/ Coree L. Kirsch has read the foregoing Signature of Fiduciary Complaint, and that the facts contained therein Coree L. Kirsch are true.

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802-488-0369 coreekirsch@gmail.com Name of publication: Seven Days Publication Dates: July 17, 2019; July 24, 2019; July 31, 2019 Name and Address of Court: Chittenden Probate 175 Main St Burlington, VT 05401 STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CALEDONIA UNIT, CIVIL DIVISIONDOCKET NO: 65-3-18 CACV NORTHEAST HOME LOAN, LLC v.

HELYN-MARIE HEARD OCCUPANTS OF: 658 North Danville Road, Saint Johnsbury 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 May 3, 2019, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given

by Helyn-Marie Heard and the late Theodore J. Macura Jr. to Northeast Home Loan, LLC, dated

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April 28, 2010 and recorded in Book 346 Page 476 of the land records of the Town of Saint Johnsbury, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 658 North Danville Road, Saint Johnsbury, Vermont on August 6, 2019 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being a parcel of land, said to contain 1.1 acres, more or less, together with a dwelling and other improvements thereon and water rights appurtenant thereto, known and numbered as 658 North Danville Road, in the Town of St. Johnsbury, Vermont; and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Theodore J. Macura, Jr., and Helyn-Marie Heard by Warranty Deed of Paul J. Carreau and Carolyn Carreau, dated of even or near date and recorded prior to or simultaneously herewith in the St. Johnsbury Land Records.

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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.

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by Warranty Deed of Kevin E. Colosa and Marci Jean Mikesell, dated October 25, 2006, and recorded in Book 319 at Page 515 of the St. Johnsbury Land Records; and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Kevin E. Colosa and Marci Mikesell by Quitclaim Deed of Kevin E. Colosa and Marci Mikesell, dated March 7, 2006, and recorded in Book 313 at Page 275 of the St. Johnsbury Land Records.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WINDSOR UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 25-1-17 WRCV U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-4 v.

JOHN B. GALES, ROBIN L. GALES, QUECHEE LAKES LANDOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC. AND LEDYARD NATIONAL BANK OCCUPANTS OF: 759 Fairbanks Turn, Village of Quechee, Town of Hartford 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 Reference may be had entered September to the aforementioned 11, 2018, in the above deeds and the records captioned action brought thereof and to all prior to foreclose that certain deeds and their records mortgage given by John DATED : June 18, 2019 for a further and more B. Gales and Robin By: /S/ Rachel K. Ljungcomplete description of L. Gales to Mortgage gren, Esq. the land and premises Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Electronic Registration hereby conveyed.

Systems, Inc., as nomiBendett and McHugh, PC nee for CTX Mortgage 270 Farmington Ave., Reference is hereby Company, LLC, dated FebSte. 151 made to the above ruary 23, 2006 and reFarmington, CT 06032 instruments and to the corded in Book 400 Page records andthe references Using enclosed math operations as guide, fill 549 a of the land records contained therein in of the Town Hartford, the grid using the numbers 1 - 6 only once inof each

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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 CTX Mortgage Company, LLC to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Adjustable Rate Mortgage Loan Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-4 dated November 23, 2016 and recorded in Book 531 Page 348 of the land records of the Town of Hartford for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 759 Fairbanks Turn, Village of Quechee, Town of Hartford, Vermont on August 16, 2019 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: It being all and the same lands and premises conveyed by QL Resorts, LLC to John B. Gales and Robin L. Gales by Warranty Deed dated September 18, 2003, recorded in Book 362 at Pages 115-116 of the Hartford Land Records, and described as follows:

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CHRISTINE S. FERRANT, MICHAEL E. FERRANT AND MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOME LO*** OCCUPANTS OF: 131 York Street, Lyndon 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 February 22, 2019, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Christine S. Ferrant and Michael E. Ferrant to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., dated August 16, 2006 and recorded in Book 178 Page 9 of the land records of the Town of Lyndon, 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 Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. to The Bank of New York Mellon fka The Bank of New York as Trustee for the Certificateholders of the CWABS, Inc., AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2016-14 dated August 30, 2011 and recorded September 6, 2011 in Book 207 Page 483 of the land records of the Town of Lyndon for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 131 York Street, Lyndon, Vermont on August 6, 2019 at 9:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit:

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Being a portion of the lands conveyed to QL Resorts, LLC by Quitclaim Deed of the Quechee Lakes Corporation, dated December 30, 1993 and recorded in Book 286, Page 397 of the Hartford Land Records. Reference may also be had to a Confirmatory Quitclaim Deed from Quechee Lakes Corporation to QL Resorts, LLC dated June 28, 1999 and recorded on July 2, 1999 in Book 274, Page 432 of the Hartford Land Records.

the said mortgage above described.

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Terms of sale: Said CALEDONIA UNIT, CIVIL premises will be sold DIVISION and conveyed subject to DOCKET NO: 70-3-18 all liens, encumbrances, CACV Being Lot #1010 conunpaid taxes, tax titles, THE BANK OF NEW taining approximately municipal liens and asComplete the following puzzle by using the YORK MELLON FKA THE 40,500 square feet of sessments, if any, which BANK column OF NEW YORK numbers 1-9 onlytakeonce in each row, land, as shown on a plan precedence over

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Meaning and intending hereby to convey all of the same land and premises as conveyed to Scott W. Desjardins and Catherine E. Dunn by Warranty Deed of Jean M. Minor and Debra A. Minor, dated January 28, 2004 and recorded January 30, 2004 in Book 159, Pages 171-172 of the Lyndon Land Records, and described as follows: “Being a certain parcel of land estimated to contain one (1) acre, more or less, together with the dwelling house

and the other improvements thereon, located on the southerly side of York Street, at No. 131 York Street, in Lyndon Corner, so-called, in the Town of Lyndon. Also a certain small parcel of land located on the northerly side of said York Street. Also another certain parcel of land estimated to contain one (1) acre, more or less, located southerly of and adjacent to the parcel of land first hereinbefore mentioned. Said parcels of land being all of the same land and premises conveyed to the Grantors herein, Jean M. Minor and Debra A. Minor, by Quitclaim Deed of Jean M. Minor, dated August 25, 1982 and recorded in Book 78 at Pages 448449 of the Lyndon Land Records.

Being further described as all of the same land and premises conveyed to Jean M. Minor by Decree of Distribution of the Probate Court for the District of Caledonia, in the matter of the Estate of Geraldine Provencher, dated June 18, 1982 and recorded in Book 78 at Pages 327-329 of the Lyndon Land Records.

Being further described as all of the same land and premises conveyed to Ronald J. Provencher and Geraldine F. Provencher by Warranty Deed of C. E. Pearce and Marie A. Pearce, dated October 9, 1944 and recorded in Book 40 at Page 127 of the Lyndon Land Records.

SUBJECT, NEVERTHELESS, to such utility line easements as may appear of record in the Lyndon Land Records.

Reference is hereby made to the aforesaid deeds and the records thereof, to the aforesaid decree and the record thereof and to all prior deeds, decrees and conveyances in the chain of title and the records thereof for a more particular description of the land and premises conveyed herein.”

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

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS 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 certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : June 25, 2019 By:/S/ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WASHINGTON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 297-5-17 WNCV DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL, INC. v.

DENISE M. BENOIT F/K/A DENISE M. WILDE AND CITIFINANCIAL, INC. OCCUPANTS OF: 9 Liberty Street, Barre VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Amended Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered April 30, 2019 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Denise M. Wilde to Summit Financial Center, Inc., dated June 7, 2002 and recorded in Book 193 Page 281 of the land records of the City of Barre, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Summit Financial Center, Inc. to SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. dated June 7, 2002 and recorded in Book 193

Page 288 and (2) Assignment of Mortgage from SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. to DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc., dated April 5, 2017 and recorded in Book 318 Page 50, both 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 9 Liberty Street, Barre, Vermont on August 9, 2019 at 10:30AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises as were conveyed to Denise Wilde by Warranty Deed of Susan DeForge, Executor of the Estate of Aileen J. Blakely (a/k/a Aileen J. Calhoun), which deed is of even or approximate date hereof and which is to be recorded in the Land Records of the City of Barre, Vermont Land Records.

Being further described as being all and the same lands and premises as were conveyed to Aileen J. Calhoun by Warranty Deed of Manuel Carcoba and Sharon B. Carcoba, which deed is dated May 17, 1965, and which is of record at Book 79, Page 466 of the Land Records of the City of Barre, Vermont.

Reference may be made to the aforementioned deeds and to their records, and to all prior deeds and to their respective records, for a more complete and particular description of the land and premises herein conveyed.

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 certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED: June 20, 2019 By: _/s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 WRIGHT & MORRISSEY, INC. INVITATION TO BIDDERS PROJECT: JUNIPER HOUSE 35 Cambrian Way Burlington, VT OWNER: Cathedral Square Corporation 412 Farrell Street, Suite 100 So. Burlington, VT ARCHITECT: Duncan Wisniewski Architecture 255 South Champlain St. Burlington, VT CONSTRUCTION MANAGER: Wright & Morrissey, Inc. 99 Swift Street, Suite 100 South Burlington, VT 05403 Phone: 802-863-4541 Email: jlacasse@wmorrissey.com & bids@ wmorrissey.com Fax: 802-865-1253 BID DUE: Thursday, August 8, 2019 @ 2:00 p.m.

Wright & Morrissey, Inc. is seeking qualified subcontractor bids for all trades for the above reference project. Women and minority owned businesses, small locally owned businesses and Section 3 businesses are strongly encouraged to apply. Contract security in a form acceptable to the Construction Manager may be required. All potential bidders shall demonstrate the ability to provide such security.

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Any bidding subcontractor without a prior working history with Wright & Morrissey, Inc. is asked to submit an AIA-305 Contractors Qualification Statement or equivalent references sufficient to indicate the bidding subcontractor is qualified to perform the work being bid.

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Support groups meet to provide assistance and information on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

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BETTER BREATHERS CLUB American Lung Association support group for people with breathing issues, their loved ones or caregivers. Meets first Monday of the month, 11 a.m.-noon at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. For more information call 802-776-5508.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., St. Johnsbury. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury.

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BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets the 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:302:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets the 3rd Wed. monthly at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1:00-2:30 p.m. Colchester Evening support group meets the 1st Wed. monthly at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

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CELEBRATE RECOVERY Overcome any hurt, habit or hangup in your life with this confidential 12-Step, Christ-centered recovery program. We offer multiple support groups for both men and women, such as chemical dependency, codependency, sexual addiction and pornography, food issues, and overcoming abuse. All 18+ are welcome; sorry, no childcare. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; we begin at 7 p.m. Essex Alliance Church, 37 Old Stage Rd., Essex Junction. Info: recovery@essexalliance. org, 878-8213.

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CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE Cerebral Palsy Guidance is a very comprehensive informational website broadly covering the topic of cerebral palsy and associated medical conditions. It’s mission it to provide the best possible information to parents of children living with the complex condition of cerebral palsy. cerebralpalsy guidance.com/ cerebral-palsy.

CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy & fulfilling relationships. By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new joy, acceptance & serenity in our lives. Meets Sunday at noon at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. Tom, 238-3587, coda.org.

DECLUTTERERS’ SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming? Maybe two or three of us can get together to help each other simplify.

989-3234, 425-3612.

DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE! SMART Recovery welcomes anyone, including family and friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction. It is a science-based program that encourages abstinence. Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership. Sundays at 5 p.m. at the 1st Unitarian Universalist Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington. Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 399-8754. You can learn more at smartrecovery. org.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT Steps to End Domestic Violence offers a weekly drop-in support group for female identified survivors of intimate partner violence, including individuals who are experiencing or have been affected by domestic violence. The support group offers

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KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients as well as caregivers are provided with a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers. For further info, please contact info@vcsn.net.

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HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107.

People living with cancer & their caretakers convene for support.

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FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Families coping with addiction (FCA) is an open community peer

HEARING VOICES SUPPORT GROUP This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice hearing experiences as real lived experiences which may happen to anyone at anytime.

We choose to share experiences, support, and empathy. We validate anyone’s experience and stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest and accurate representation of their experience, and as being acceptable exactly as they are.

Weekly on Tuesday, 2-3 p.m. Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-777-8602, abby@ pathwaysvermont.org.

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FAMILIES, PARTNERS, FRIENDS AND ALLIES OF TRANSGENDER ADULTS We are people with adult loved ones who are transgender or gender-nonconforming.

G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction?

Find support, peer-led support group. Meets once a month on Mondays in Burlington.

Please call for date and location. RSVP mkeasler3@gmail.com

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS Meet twice a month: every second Monday from 6-7:30 p.m., and every third Wednesday from 10-11:30 a.m., at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to the public and free of charge. More info: Diana Moore, 224-2241.

INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/PAINFUL BLADDER SUPPORT GROUP Interstitial cystitis (IC) and painful bladder syndrome can result in recurring pelvic pain, pressure or discomfort in the bladder/pelvic region & urinary frequency/ urgency. These are often misdiagnosed & mistreated as a chronic bladder infection. If you have been diagnosed or have these symptoms, you are not alone. For Vermont-based support group, email bladder painvt@gmail.com or call 899-4151 for more information.

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EMPLOYMENTSEEKERS SUPPORT GROUP Frustrated with the job search or with your job? You are not alone. Come check out this supportive circle.

Wednesdays at 3 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602.

FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends and community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety and other types of distress. The group is a confidential space where family and friends can discuss shared experiences and receive support in an environment free of judgment and stigma with a trained facilitator. Weekly on Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586.

FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS (FA) Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? FA is a free 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating or bulimia. Local meetings are held twice a week: Mondays, 4-5:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Norwich, Vt.; and Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., at Hanover Friends Meeting House, Hanover, N.H. For more information and a list of additional meetings throughout the U.S. and the world, call 603-630-1495 or visit foodaddicts.org.

or call 310-3301 (message says Optimum Health, but this is a private number).

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a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect with others, to heal, and to recover. In support group, participants talk through their experiences and hear stories from others who have experienced abuse in their relationships.

Support group is also a resource for those who are unsure of their next step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship.

Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m.

Childcare is provided.

Info: 658-1996.

support group for adults 18 & over struggling with the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. FCA is not 12-step based but provides a forum for those living this experience to develop personal coping skills & draw strength from one another. Weekly on Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m.

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We meet to support each other and to learn more about issues and concerns. Our sessions are supportive, informal, and confidential. Meetings are held at 5:30 PM, the second Thursday of each month at Pride Center of VT, 255 South Champlain St., Suite 12, in Burlington. Not sure if you’re ready for a meeting? We also offer one-on-one support. For more information, email rex@ pridecentervt.org or call 802-238-3801.

LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship, dating, emotional &/or hate violence. These groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, & offer & receive support.

Support groups also provide survivors an opportunity to gain information on how to better cope with feelings & experiences that surface because of the trauma they have experienced. Please call SafeSpace 863-0003 if you are interested in joining.

LGBTQ VETERANS GROUP This veterans group is a safe place for veterans to gather and discuss ways to help the community, have dinners, send packages and help the families of LGBTQ service people. Ideas on being helpful encouraged. Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 6-8:30 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church (The Little Red Door), 64 State Street, Montpelier. RSVP, 802-825-2045.

LIVING THROUGH LOSS: WEEKLY SUPPORT GROUP The Volunteer Chaplaincy Program at Gifford Medical Center invites community members to attend “Living Through Loss,” a grief support group from noon to 1:30 p.m. every Friday in the Gifford Medical Center Chapel. The group is open to anyone who has experienced loss.

Each of the Friday sessions is facilitated

by Gifford Volunteer Chaplain Anna Mary Zigmann, RN, an ordained minister and spiritual care provider specializing in trauma and loss, or by the Rev. Timothy Eberhardt, spiritual care coordinator for the Chaplaincy Program. There is no religious component to the group apart from the Serenity Prayer to close each meeting.

For more information, email teberhardt@ giffordmed.org or azigmann@gmail.com, or call 802-728-2107.

MALE SURVIVOR OF VIOLENCE GROUP A monthly, closed group for male identified survivors of violence including relationship, sexual assault, and discrimination. Open to all

sexual orientations.

Contact 863-0003 for more information or safespace@pride centervt.org.

MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem with marijuana? MA is a free 12-step program where addicts help other addicts to get & stay clean. Ongoing Wed. at 7 p.m. at Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski, Suite 301, Burlington.

861-3150.

MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP Area Myeloma Survivors, Families and Caregivers have come together to form a Multiple Myeloma Support Group. We provide emotional support, resources about treatment options, coping strategies and a support network by participating in the group experience with people that have been though similar situations. Third Tuesday of the month, 5-6 p.m. at the New Hope Lodge on East Avenue in Burlington. Info: Kay Cromie, 655-9136, kgcromey@aol.com.

NAMI CONNECTION PEER SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Bennington, every Tue., 1-2:30 p.m., CRT Center, United Counseling Service, 316 Dewey St.; Burlington, every Thu., 3-4:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2 Cherry St. (enter from parking lot); Berlin, second Thu. of the month, 4-5:30 p.m., CVMC Board Room, 130 Fisher Rd.; Rutland, every 1st and 3rd Sun., 4:30-6 p.m., Rutland Mental Health Wellness Center, 78 S. Main St.; No. Concord, every Thu., 6-7:30 p.m., Loch Lomond, 700 Willson Rd. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, program@ namivt.org or 800639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living with mental health challenges.

NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Bellows Falls, 3rd Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., Compass School, 7892 US-5, Westminster; Brattleboro, 1st Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., 1st Congregational Church, 880 Western Ave., West Brattleboro; Burlington, 2nd & 4th Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., HowardCenter,

corner of Pine & Flynn Ave.; Berlin, 4th Mon. of every mo., 7 p.m.

Central Vermont Medical Center, Room 3; Georgia, 1st Tue. of every mo., 6 p.m., Georgia Public Library, 1697 Ethan Allen Highway (Exit 18, I-89); Manchester, 4th Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., Equinox Village, 2nd floor; Rutland, 1st Mon. of every mo., 6 p.m., Rutland Regional Medical Center, Leahy Conference Ctr., room D; St. Johnsbury, 4th Wed. of every mo., 5:30 p.m., Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital Library, 1315 Hospital Dr.; Williston, 1st & 3rd Mon. of every mo., 6 p.m., NAMI Vermont Office, 600 Blair Park Rd. #301. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, info@namivt. org or 800-639-6480.

Family Support Group meetings are for family & friends of individuals living mental illness.

NARCONON SUNCOAST DRUG AND ALCOHOL REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION Narconon reminds families that overdoses due to an elephant tranquilizer known as Carfentanil, has been on the rise in nearly every community nationwide. Carfentanil is a synthetic opiate painkiller 100 times more powerful than fentanyl and 1000 times stronger than heroin. A tiny grain of it is enough to be fatal. Click here to learn more about carfentanil abuse and how to help your loved one. You can also visit narcononsuncoast.org/ drug-abuse/ parents-get-help.html for more information. ADDICTION SCREENINGS: Narconon can help you take steps to overcome addiction in your family. Call today for a no cost screening or referral: 1- 877-841-5509 NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live w/ out the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join.

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516 or cvana.org. Held in Burlington, Barre and St. Johnsbury.

NAR-ANON BURLINGTON GROUP Group meets every Monday at 7 p.m. at the Turning Point Center,

179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington.

The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. Info: Amanda H. 338-8106.

NEW (AND EXPECTING) MAMAS AND PAPAS! EVERY PRIMARY CAREGIVER TO A BABY! The Children’s Room invites you to join our weekly drop-in support group. Come unwind and discuss your experiences and questions around infant care and development, self-care and postpartum healing, and community resources for families with babies. Tea and snacks provided.

Weekly on Thursdays, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Bring your babies! (Newborn through crawling stage). Located within Thatcher Brook Primary School, 47 Stowe Street, childrens roomonline.org.

Contact childrens room@wwsu.org or 244-5605.

NORTHWEST VERMONT CANCER PRAYER & SUPPORT NETWORK A meeting of cancer patients, survivors & family members intended to comfort & support those who are currently suffering from the disease. 2nd Thu. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 11 Church St., St. Albans.

Info: stpaulum@myfairpoint.net. 2nd Wed. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m. Winooski United Methodist Church, 24 W. Allen St., Winooski.

Info: hovermann4@ comcast.net.

OPEN EARS, OPEN MINDS A mutual support circle that focuses on connection and selfexploration. Fridays at 1 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) A 12-step program for people who identify as overeaters, compulsive eaters, food addicts, anorexics, bulimics, etc.

No matter what your problem with food, we have a solution! All are welcome, meetings are open, and there are no dues or fees.

See oavermont.org/ meeting-list/ for the current meeting list, meeting format and more; or call 802-8632655 any time!

POTATO INTOLERANCE SUPPORT GROUP Anyone coping with potato intolerance and interested in joining a support group, contact Jerry Fox, 48 Saybrook Rd., Essex Junction, VT 05452.

QUEEN CITY MEMORY CAFÉ The Queen City Memory Café offers a social time & place for people with memory impairment & their fiends & family to laugh, learn & share concerns & celebrate feeling understood & connected. Enjoy coffee, tea & baked goods with entertainment & conversation. QCMC meets the 3rd Sat. of each mo., 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Thayer Building, 1197 North Ave., Burlington. 316-3839.

QUEER CARE GROUP This support group is for adult family members and caregivers of queer, and/or questioning youth. It is held on the 2nd Monday of each month from 6:30-8 p.m. at Outright Vermont, 241 North Winooski Ave. This group is for adults only.

For more information, email info@outrightvt. org.

QUIT SMOKING, E-CIGARETTES AND JUUL: FREE HELP 802Quits, Rutland Regional Medical Center, 160 Allen St., Rutland. Mondays, 5-6 p.m., and Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-noon. Continues through July 6. Do you want to quit smoking or vaping, but nothing seems to help? Join a group and get free nicotine patches, gum or lozenges. A group and nicotine replacement therapy doubles your chances of staying quit for good! We are here to help you. These are all free services.

More information: 747-3768, scosgrove@ rrmc.org.

QUIT TOBACCO GROUPS Are you ready to be tobacco free? Join our FREE five-week group classes facilitated by our Tobacco Treatment Specialists. We meet in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. You may qualify for a FREE 8-week supply of nicotine replacement therapy. Contact us at (802)-847-7333 or quittobaccoclass@ uvmhealth.org.

SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND Support group meeting held 4th Tue. of the mo., 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Williston Police Station.

Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732.

SEX & LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem w/ sex or relationships? We can help. Shawn, 660-2645.

Visit slaafws.org or saa-recovery.org for meetings near you.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT HOPE Works offers free support groups to women, men & teens who are survivors of sexual violence. Groups are available for survivors at any stage of the healing process. Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our office at 864-0555, ext.

19, or email our victim advocate at advocate@ sover.net.

STUTTERING SUPPORT GROUPS If you’re a person who stutters, you are not alone! Adults, teens & school-age kids who stutter & their families are welcome to join one of our three free National Stuttering Association (NSA) stuttering support groups at UVM. Adults: 5:30-6:30, 1st & 3rd Tue. monthly; teens (ages 13-17): 5:30-6:30, 1st Thu. monthly; school-age children (ages 8-12) & parents (meeting separately): 4:15-5:15, 2nd Thu. monthly. Pomeroy Hall (489 Main St., UVM campus. Info: burlingtonstutters.org, burlingtonstutters@ gmail.com, 656-0250.

Go Team Stuttering!

SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide.

Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 N. Main St., Wallingford, 446-3577. 6:30-8 p.m. the 3rd Tue. of ea. mo.

SUICIDE HOTLINES IN VT Brattleboro, 2577989; Montpelier (Washington County Mental Health Emergency Services), 229-0591; Randolph (Clara Martin Center Emergency Service), 800-639-6360.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Circle (Washington Co. only).

Please call 877-5439498 for more info.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE If you have lost someone to suicide and wish to have a safe place to talk, share and spend a little time with others who have had a similar experience, join us the 3rd Thu. at the Faith Lighthouse Church, Rte. 105, Newport (105 Alderbrook), 7-9 p.m. Please call before attending. Info: Mary Butler, 744-6284.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE -- S. BURLINGTON Who: Persons experiencing the impact of a loved one’s suicide.

When: first Wednesday of each month, 6-7:30 p.m. Location: S. Burlington. This group is currently full and unable to accept new participants. Please call Linda Livendale at 802-272-6564 to learn about other groups within driving distance.

We are sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you!

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THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP The Compassionate Friends international support group for parents, siblings and families grieving the loss of a child meets every third Tuesday of the month, 7-9 p.m., at Kismet Place, 363 Blair Park Rd., Williston. Call/ email Jay at 802-3731263, compassionate friendsvt@gmail.com.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) chapter meeting. Hedding United Methodist Church, Washington St., Barre.

Wed., 5:15-6:15 p.m.

For info, call David at 371-8929.

VEGGIE SUPPORT GROUP Want to feel supported on your vegetarian/ vegan journey? Want more info on healthy veggie diets? Want to share & socialize at veggie potlucks, & more, in the greater Burlington area? This is your opportunity to join with other like-minded folks. veggy4life@ gmail.com, 658-4991.

WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT GROUP FAHC. Led by Deb Clark, RN. Every 1st & 3rd Tue., 5-6:30 p.m. Call Kathy McBeth, 847-5715.

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Office administration experience strongly preferred. Qualifications: ability to prioritize and manage tasks simultaneously, proofing skills, familiarity with Microsoft Office, and comfort with new software. Responsibilities include: reception, property management in coordination with CAO, scheduling, ensuring day-to-day office functioning, and support of attorneys and paralegals. Competitive benefits and salary. Please e-mail letter and resume to applications@ dunkielsaunders.com by July 31, 2019. We are a mission-focused firm and an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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The position requires competency in taking vitals, phlebotomy, immunization administration, assisting with medical procedures and medical intake. Candidate should also be comfortable with EMR systems, medical terminology, and general computer skills.

Looking for an individual with good interpersonal and communication skills, who understands the importance of providing quality customer service and has a willingness to be flexible with duties in order to meet the needs of the patients and the clinic. Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume to jobs@maitriobgyn.com.

LEGAL ASSISTANT & PARALEGAL We seek a full-time legal assistant and full-time paralegal to join our team. The legal assistant position involves supporting the firm with phones, filing, copying, and office organization; whereas the paralegal position involves supporting the firm with estate planning, real estate, and corporate transactions. Our ideal candidates will have experience in real estate transactions, estate planning, and litigation, or any combination thereof, and be proficient in Word and Excel.

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The Vermont Judiciary seeks to fill an accountant position in Montpelier. This position works at a professional level involving financial management, fund accounting, and internal auditing and reconciliation activities within the Vermont Judiciary.

The principal function is the processing and management of state funds. High School Degree and 2 years of accounting experience or college work required. Starting pay at $18.74.

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The Bergeron Wellness Center is seeking a regular part-time receptionist/administrative assistant (40 hours per week for 40 weeks, 24 hours per week for 12 weeks in the summer). High level office management skills are required along with strong interpersonal “customer service” ability. Responsibilities include administrative and receptionist duties, supporting multiple healthcare providers in an effort to deliver best patient care, answering student inquiries by phone or in person, record-keeping and filing, budget liaison functions with faculty, staff, students, parents, and others while maintaining strict confidentiality for all students. Candidates must have excellent organizational skills and be able to work as an effective team member in a busy atmosphere. Ability to respond to wide range of student needs with sensitivity and complete confidentiality is essential.

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REPRO is seeking an individual with a friendly and engaging demeanor for our shipping and receiving department. The ideal candidate must have a valid driver’s license with a clean driving record, be able to lift cartons weighing up to 50 pounds, excel at multitasking in a fast-paced environment, and have the ability to work well under deadlines. Outstanding verbal, written and telephone communication skills required and computer skill a must in a PC environment. The successful candidate will demonstrate professional business acumen and have a can-do attitude.

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St. Michael’s College Finance Department is seeking applicants for the position of Assistant Controller. Primary responsibilities include providing day to day guidance and operational supervision to the financial accounting function.

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The Sara Holbrook Community Center seeks an After School Site Director who will work in collaboration with the Burlington School District to coordinate the afterschool enrichment programs at Hunt Middle School, serving over 375 students per year. The Site Director is responsible for the overall management of HMS afterschool programs including staffing, budgeting, payroll, contracts, supplies, logistics, and some grant writing. Must relate to and work well with middle school students, have a strong commitment to social justice, flexibility, excellent communication skills, ability to organize multiple projects and confidence in using community resources to develop and implement programming. Full time with benefits. Complete job description on our website: saraholbroookcc.org.

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Benefits include health, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k), generous paid time off, employee and dependent tuition benefits, and discounted gym membership.

Please send cover letter, resume and 3 references to Vicky Senni at vsenni@saraholbroookcc.org.

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Do you have experience caring for young children? Would you like a generous benefits package that includes a gym membership option and undergraduate and graduate tuition benefits for you and your family members? The Early Learning Center at Saint Michael’s College is looking for an Early Childhood Teacher to join this welcoming community. The position is regular fulltime starting as soon as possible. Duties will include curriculum planning, assessment and observation of children, working in conjunction with other teachers and families, direct care and ensuring safety for children aged 0-3 years.

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Upper Valley Services has a long-standing history of providing high quality, person centered care to Vermonters in need. We are searching for the right person to join our efforts of keeping Vermonters, who require nursing home level of support, in the community. As a Care Coordinator, the person will be responsible for, interfacing with local hospitals, nursing homes and other care partners, coordination of intake and placement process. The ideal candidate will share our values of community-based care, hold a Bachelors’ Degree in a related field, have a strong background in care management. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to grow with a rapidly expanding program.

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Stepping Stones Children’s Center in Burlington is adding teachers with a passion for play-based, Reggio-inspired instruction with pre-school children.

Previous early childhood experience is required with an Associates or B.A. in Early Childhood Ed or related field.

Candidates must be familiar with State/NAEYC standards and enjoy building strong relationships with families and co-workers.

Option for four, 10-hour days is available along with paid time off and salary ranging from $14-$20/hr.

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The Environmental Services Supervisor is responsible for overseeing the physical appearance and total Environment of Care.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR VCSN is seeking a part time Executive Director whose employment expectations will primarily include administrative oversight of our VCSN activities and expansion of our signature Kindred Connections Program. We are a non-profit organization, working to provide support to all Vermonters with a cancer diagnosis. Our Kindred Connections Program matches people with cancer seeking support to trained volunteers who have also had cancer.

This is a salaried position that reports to VCSN’s board of directors and requires approximately 50 hours per month. The compensation is $1000.00 per month. The ideal person will have strong organizational skills and possess positive interpersonal skills.

For a complete list of the Executive Director’s duties please contact Sharon Kellermann at sharoninvt@madriver.com. Cover letter, resume and 3 letters of reference may be submitted to info@vcsn.net by Aug 2, 2019.

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Vermont PBS is searching for a Board/Executive Coordinator.

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Immediate Opening for Part-time Administrative Assistant in Burlington SPIRAL International, a small, locally-based international education and exchange organization, is seeking an experienced, dynamic Office Administrative Assistant to join our growing team in downtown Burlington and perform a variety of administrative and clerical tasks.

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For more information, to inquire, or to apply, please contact Trevor Burke or Jason Shi at 802.540.0305, or send a cover letter and resumé/CV to: admin@spiralinternational.org To view the full job description and to apply, please visit our website at:

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One of our dental assistants is soon moving out of state, and we are looking to fill a full-time position to begin immediately to start training.

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Responsible for the vision and implementation of the youth performance programs including Show Choir and the Summer Musicals, this position is an integral member of the Flynn’s Programming team. Applicants with experience in youth theater production, teaching, and personnel management are encouraged to apply.

Production Cook Full Time

Philo Ridge Farm is a historic 400-acre diversified farm. Our Farm Commons Barn provides an outlet for the organic vegetables, fruit, poultry, and 100% grassfed livestock we grow and raise on the farm.

We serve breakfast, lunch and dinner in a casual, welcoming counter service style. Alongside seated farm meals, our retail market offers prepared and value-added foods, pastries, a coffee program, butcher shop, and fresh farm produce year-round. We are seeking several high performing positions – come join our team! philoridgefarm.com/jobs

For a detailed job description and more information, visit:

www.flynncenter.org/about-us/employment-andinternship-opportunities.html

Wake Robin, Vermont’s premier Life Plan Community, seeks an Admissions Planner to attract and cultivate long term relationships with prospective Wake Robin residents. Utilizing our strategic marketing plan and public relations techniques to tell the Wake Robin story, this individual enhances our visibility within the senior living market and engages those who have expressed interest in the senior living lifestyle. The successful candidate is an experienced long-term relationship builder and demonstrates the subtleties of prospect cultivation. S/he is the face of Wake Robin, representing the culture of the community which distinguishes us as an extraordinary choice among options in senior living.

Please submit application materials to: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Human Resources Department 153 Main Street Burlington, Vermont 05401 or email HResources@flynncenter.org.

Qualified candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree in Admissions, Marketing, Public Relations or a related field with a minimum of two years of professional experience. Those with experience with senior living communities and/or non-profit marketing or development are encouraged to apply.

No phone calls, please. EOE.

Interested candidates please send resume and cover letter to HR@wakerobin.com or visit our website, wakerobin.com, to complete an application. Wake Robin is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Flynn Center is an employer committed to hiring a breadth of professionals, and therefore will interview a qualified group of diverse candidates; we particularly encourage applications from women and people of color.

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Food R&D Technologist

Level 2 Highway

to develop new flavor concepts, create innovative ice cream inclusions, and work collaboratively with the Rhinovation team to manage production scale up of new recipes. This role identifies food trends, initiates product concepts, evaluates and sources ingredients, leads sensory evaluation exercises, and seeks to validate manufacturability and drive continuous improvement in processing. Located in Burlington, Rhino Foods is a specialty ice cream novelty and ice cream ingredient manufacturer committed to its people and high quality products.

Maintenance Worker

Central Sterile Reprocessing Technician

If interested, please learn more and apply here: recruiting.paylocity. com/Recruiting/Jobs/ Details/143466

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The UVM Health Network - Central Vermont Medical Center (CVMC) is looking for a full time Central Sterile Reprocessing (CSR) Technician to join our team. The CSR Technician performs the critical functions of cleaning, inspecting, assembly and sterilizing surgical instrumentation and medical equipment. A high school diploma or equivalent is required for this position. CVMC offers excellent benefits and generous paid time off.

The Town of Jericho is accepting applications for a Highway Maintenance Worker Level 2. This is a full-time position which requires a CDL and the ability to respond to emergencies and for snow removal outside of regular working hours. The ideal candidate will have at least two years of experience in highway maintenance, construction procedures and methods and the operation of large trucks, preferably at the municipal level. Equipment operation experience is a plus.

The Town of Jericho offers excellent benefits, including health and dental insurance, and a retirement plan.

An application and job description can be downloaded from

www.jerichovt.gov.

$3,500 sign-on bonus available!

Interested in learning more?

Please visit UVMHealth.org/CVMC/Jobs or call our Talent Acquisition team at (802) 371-4191.

They are also available at the Jericho Town Hall, at 67 VT Rt. 15, Jericho, M-F 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Completed applications can be submitted to Paula Carrier in person, via email at pcarrier@jerichovt.gov or via mail to PO Box 39, Jericho, VT 05465.

Applications will be accepted until position is filled.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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SCHOOL FOOD SERVICE WORKER EDEN CENTRAL SCHOOL seeks a motivated individual to join our school nutrition team. This position performs a wide range of cooking tasks to prepare student meals, cook from scratch and follow standardized recipes, comply with all state sanitation guideline requirements, and operate POS cash register system. Must be willing to attend trainings in child nutrition and take online trainings.

Minimum of a high school diploma, or equivalent, plus one to two years of cooking experience preferred, but can train the right individual. Familiarity with public school hot lunch programs desirable. Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds.

School year position, 6.5 hours daily. Please send resume with 3 references to: Karyl Kent 736 VT Rt 15w, Hyde Park VT 05655 or email kkent@luhs18.org

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SCHOOL FOOD SERVICE COORDINATOR Eden Central School seeks a motivated individual to coordinate food service production.

Tasks include: ordering provisions, preparing meals, scratch cooking, following standardized recipes, complying with state sanitation requirements, operating POS system, record keeping, computer proficiency.

Minimum of high school diploma, or equivalent, plus three to five years of relevant experience. Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds.

School year position, 7.5 hours daily, excellent benefits.

For a full job description or to apply, please send resume and three letters of reference to: Karyl Kent 736 VT Rt 15w, Hyde Park VT 05655 or email kkent@luhs18.org.

JUST GRADUATED AND LOOKING FOR LOOKING FORCAREER A GREAT NEW CAREER? AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY?

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Senior Community Banker Shelburne Road

There is no better time to join NSB’s team!

Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We are looking for a professional to join our team as a Senior Community Banker in our Shelburne Road Branch located at 1120 Shelburne Road, South Burlington, VT. This position offers an excellent opportunity to work for a premier Vermont mutual savings bank.

Horse Barn Assistant Manager Private horse barn looking for a responsible, conscientious and reliable individual to assist in managing all aspects of daily and weekly barn requirements as well as actual horse care and barn/property care.

Horse experience required.

Management experience preferred. Individual must be able to work independently while maintaining barn 7:11 PM standards. Reliable transportation required.

Monday through Friday, possible occasional weekend day. Please send resume and detailed information describing your horserelated experience to nicholsledge@gmail.com

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Job Responsibilities & Requirements

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GUARANTEED in 8 WEEKS* TRAIN TO BE AJOB CLIENT ADVISOR GUARANTEED WEEKS* PROGRAM FEATURES: JOB in JOB8 FEATURES: • $4,800 grant for living expenses

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PROGRAM FEATURES: JOB FEATURES: • Vermont-grown company • Dedicated student support • Guaranteed $4,800 grant for living expenses  Flexible schedules employment* • Fun & engaging work • Starting Dedicated student support  VermontǦgrown company salary of $31,000 • Cutting edge product plus uncapped commission  Guaranteed employment*  Fun & engaging work and benefits No cold calling  Starting salary of $31,000 plus •  Cutting edge product • Performance-based salary uncapped commission No cold calling • No travel  increases PerformanceǦbased salary increases  No travel • State licensure as Insurance • No salary draw  Producer State licensure as Insurance  No salary draw Producer * Full-time employment guaranteed upon successful completion of the 8-week program. * Full-time employment guaranteed upon successful completion of the 8-week program.

LEARN MORE—APPLY ONLINE!

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The ITAR Program is funded in part by a grant from the Vermont and U.S. Departments of Labor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, The ITAR Program is funded in part by a grant from affiliation the Vermont and U.S. Departments of Labor. All qualified genetics, political or belief. applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetics, political affiliation or belief.

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• A thorough knowledge of banking and the technology that enables customers to conduct financial transactions, the ability to build customer relationships, earn trust, and maintain confidentiality are essential. Exceptional customer service, opening and maintaining customers’ accounts and services, as well as guiding customers through the consumer loan process in accordance with established policies and procedures are requirements of this position.

• The Senior Community Banker must possess excellent communication and customer service skills for both internal and external customers. Requirements include 3-5 years of bank experience and registration with the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System. A Bachelor’s degree is preferred.

Find your place with us at NSB • NSB offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, profit sharing, matching 401(K) retirement program, professional development opportunities, and a positive work environment supported by a team culture.

Northfield Savings Bank hours of operation are Monday – Thursday, generally 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Please submit your application and resume in confidence to: Careers@nsbvt.com (Preferred) Or mail: Northfield Savings Bank Human Resources P.O. Box 7180 Barre, VT 05641-7180 Equal Opportunity Employer/Member FDIC

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OFFICE MANAGER

There’s a side of AAA that many people don’t always see. More than travel discounts and legendary roadside assistance, we’re a company that offers you a great career with advancement opportunities.

HomeShare Vermont is a non-profit with 35+ years of experience promoting intergenerational homesharing to help people age in place while creating affordable shared housing arrangements for others. The Office Manager is responsible for the smooth and timely operation of a variety of HomeShare Vermont office functions. This job, based out of our South Burlington office, requires a person who has solid ability using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Access) and experience managing databases (use of Little Green Light a plus). In addition, we seek a person with excellent organizational skills, ability to prioritize and meet deadlines, flexibility to respond to office needs as they arise, and attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy.

Emergency Roadside Customer Service Representatives Would you like to work from home while helping others?

WE’RE HIRING

Details:

Benefits include:

• Process member requests for roadside assistance • Must live within 80 miles of Montpelier, VT • 6 weeks of paid training included • Potential for earnings increase within the first year

• Health coverage for medical, dental, vision • Paid time off including vacation, illness and holidays • 401k savings plan • Employee discounts & more

Learn more about what AAA has to offer and submit your resume today!

Apply online at careers.calif.aaa.com Job code 23588

Position is 40 hours/week with benefits. Send cover letter and resume by August 14 via email ONLY to holly@homesharevermont.org. EOE.

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Help Vermonters pursue their education goals!

TEACHERS, COME JOIN THE TEAM AT KING STREET CENTER!

We’re all about mission at Vermont Student Assistance Corporation (VSAC). Help us fulfill our mission of providing all Vermont students with information and financial resources to reach their educational goals. You’ll5.8” workwinx 3.46” a relaxed yet challenging environment. We offer many topnotch benefits, plus a fabulous onsite fitness room & café.

Call Center Service Representative

VSAC’S RESOURCE CENTER SUPERVISOR

For more information go to:

VSAC is looking for a detail-oriented, self-starter to manage the day-today operations of VSAC’s Resource Center. The VSAC Resource Center (VRC) is VSAC’s customer space which provides education, financial aid, and career counseling to anyone who visits VSAC. The VRC also serves as the VSAC building reception, welcoming and directing employees, visitors, and deliveries to the building. This position will supervise VRC staff and manage and coordinate all services and programming provided within the VRC & building reception.

kingstreetcenter.org/ about-king-streetcenter/employment.

The ideal candidate is committed to a high level of professionalism and excellent customer service and shares a commitment to VSAC’s mission of supporting students to pursue their education after high school.

This position will provide direct service to VSAC customers as well as develop and execute programming to draw more visitors to VSAC.

Seeking creative, compassionate and fun-loving educator to join our yearround Preschool program.

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BARTENDER, HOST & WAITSTAFF Hiring for full and part-time permanent positions. Fastpaced environment; must have experience and wine knowledge. Flexible hours.

Respond via email. Please provide availability, past experience and references.

No phone calls. jobs@lavillabistro.com

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Come join our team and help Vermonters! Vermont Student Assistance Corp (VSAC) is seeking an experienced Human Resources professional, with progressive experience in Human Resource management, to join our leadership team.

In this role, you will provide positive and proactive leadership and management of VSAC’s human resources functions. This involves planning, organizing, and directing the human resources department, collaboration with the leadership team and others to develop and execute strategies regarding organizational planning and employee satisfaction including our compensation, benefits, recruitment, employee development and training, performance management and human resources policy administration and compliance.

The successful candidate will have exceptional communication and leadership skills, a proven ability to work effectively as part of a team, current knowledge and usage of relevant technology, familiarity with federal and state laws and a demonstrated ability to successfully work with a team to solve complex problems. A Bachelor’s degree in a related field and minimum of 7 years in Human Resources is required.

Apply ONLY online at www.vsac.org VERMONT STUDENT ASSISTANCE CORPORATION PO Box 2000, Winooski, VT 05404 EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled

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This position is responsible for resolving customer questions, complaints and requests via the telephone or e-mail adhering to internal policies and procedures and utilizing working knowledge of the organization’s products to meet department productivity and quality standards.

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Continually develops and maintains working knowledge of internal policies, procedures and products.

Receives inquiries from customers by telephone or e-mail and communicates response effectively.

Utilizes automated systems to log and retrieve information.

Processes customer requests including bill payments, transfers, special handling and problem resolution.

Investigates and resolves or reports customer problems.

Identifies and escalates difficult customer situations to the appropriate party.

Adheres to compliance procedures and internal/ operational risk controls in accordance with any and all applicable regulatory standards, requirements, and policies.

Job Requirements • High School diploma or equivalency required.

• 0-2 years’ relevant experience.

Additional Job Requirements: • Effective verbal and listening skills to provide courteous and professional customer service. Ability to remain calm and courteous when handling difficult calls and requests.

• Ability to develop and maintain working knowledge of the organization’s products and services.

• Effective PC skills including, electronic mail, intranet and industry standard applications. Ability to learn to use additional applications as necessary. Ability to use phone system effectively.

• Ability to work well in a team environment.

Apply online: www.peoples.com/careers

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RAPID RESOLUTION COORDINATOR The Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Rapid Resolution Coordinator (RRC) will provide outreach, eduction, and training to the Community about SSVF’s Rapid Resolution services. The RRC will work with the Program Assistant to triage appropriate Veteran referrals for Rapid Resolution services. The RRC will meet with the Veteran to complete the eligibility documentation and either enroll the Veteran in the SSVF program or provide referrals to appropriate services if the Veteran is not eligible. The RRC will assess the Veteran’s needs, document case notes and create individualized Housing Stability Plans (HSP) and Budgets in coordination with the Veteran. The RRC will provide case management and financial counseling services, and submit request for Temporary Financial Assistance as needed based on documented needs.

Applicants need to apply through the UVM Jobs website: uvmjobs.com. Posting Number: S2172PO. The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any category legally protected by federal or state law.

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F/T CLEANERS

Locally-owned environmentally-friendly cleaning service seeks cleaners with experience to maintain commercial properties in the greater Burlington area. Healthy Habitat is committed to creating livable wage jobs for residents in our community. Begin at $14 per hour. Certain F/T jobs will reach $18 per hour within a year. Healthy Habitat understands that our employees and their families are our greatest asset and we seek to consistently maintain a safe, healthy and meaningful workplace. Our current openings are for full time positions but part time work is often available. Full time work has flexible evening hours, vacation and sick time and other benefits.

Full time applicants do need a vehicle and valid license.

Check out our website at www.healthy-habitat.com, email info@healthy-habitat.com or call us at 802-861-4500 to learn more.

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PAYROLL CLERK

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HR Senior Trainer Berlin

Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We are looking for a professional to join our team as a HR Senior Trainer in our Berlin Operations Center. This position offers a strong opportunity to work for a growing premier Vermont mutual savings bank.

Job Responsibilities & Requirements • The HR Senior Trainer will be responsible for working with the SVP & Chief Human Resources Officer to build the organization’s depth by developing staff for future positions. This individual will design and develop creative learning solutions that include, but are not limited to eLearning, classroom, virtual classes, train-the-trainer, and blended learning solutions. We are looking for someone who is highly collaborative, possesses strong presentation and communication skills, and has a passion for employee development.

FULL TIME, DAYS Wake Robin, Vermont’s premier continuing care retirement community, seeks an experienced Security Officer to ensure the well-being of the community and the safety of our residents.

Duties include addressing emergency or comfort concerns of residents, responding to and assessing situations involving the physical plant, and ensuring that all buildings are secured according to appropriate schedules. We seek an individual with a background in security or as a first responder, with the compassion and problem solving skills to interact with our senior population. At least 2 years of relevant experience is required.

• Qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree in business or communications and five to seven years of training and employee development experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Member FDIC

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• Experience is great but will train

Please call for an appt:

802-862-7602 Morton Bostock Heritage Business Services, Inc. 480 North Ave. Suite 4 Burlington, VT 05401 morton.bostock@gmail.com

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FULL TIME

• NSB offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, profit sharing, matching 401(K) retirement program, professional development opportunities, and a positive work environment supported by a team culture.

Northfield Savings Bank hours of operation are Monday through Friday generally 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Or mail: Northfield Savings Bank Human Resources P.O. Box 7180 Barre, VT 05641-7180

• On Bus Route near Burlington High School

Maintenance

Find out what NSB can offer you

Please submit your application and resume in confidence to: Careers@nsbvt.com (Preferred)

• 20-30 hours per week, computer based work

Security Officer

There is no better time to join the NSB team!

Wake Robin seeks a Maintenance person to join our Staff. Our maintenance team utilizes a variety of technical skills to repair and maintain electrical, plumbing, security, and air quality systems throughout the facility and in resident homes. Qualified candidate will have well rounded maintenance skills and must have specific experience and/or training in HVAC systems, as well as a strong aptitude for computer-based operational systems. This is an opportunity to join a stable and talented team of individuals dedicated to doing good work, for great people, in a beautiful setting.

Interested candidates please send resume and cover letter to HR@wakerobin.com or visit our website, wakerobin.com, to complete an application.

Wake Robin is an equal opportunity employer.

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CARING PEOPLE WANTED Home Instead Senior $200.0 Care, a provider Sign o 0 of personal Bonus n !!! care services to seniors in their homes, is seeking friendly and dependable people.

CAREGivers assist seniors with daily living activities. P/T & F/T positions available. 12 hours/week minimum, flexible scheduling, currently available. $12-$16.50/hour depending on experience. No heavy lifting.

Apply online at: www.homeinstead.com/483 or call us at 802.860.4663.

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Retirement Plan Administrator

A full-time position for an individual to join their staff to be trained in all aspects of retirement plan administration. Must be professional, highly motivated and detailed oriented with strong customer service skills. This is not a telecommute position.

Qualifications include: proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (especially Excel and Word), mathematics/accounting experience, excellent written and verbal communication, sound problem solving and decision making, willingness to be part of a team.

Experience preferred but willing to train the right person. Full benefits package is provided.

Email your resume to erin@futureplanningassoc.com or mail to:

LNA Training Program Our Support Aide team members assist with ensuring the health and well-being of our residents by providing resident-related support services. Interest in entry into the 100 hour Nurse Aide Training Program (LNA Certification) will be evaluated during this time for team members pursuing certification.

LNAs earn competitive wages, shift diffs and signon bonuses — make an investment in your career and the lives of those you care 7/11/19Untitled-26 2:44 PM for. Elderwood is investing in 4t-FuturePlanning071719.indd 1 you and is currently offering a $3250 sign-on bonus for full-time LNAs (if you enroll in the class and pass the Certification test) – don't Mansfield Hall is a private, innovative residential college support delay! Join our team today. program for students with diverse learning needs. We are looking Apply for the LNA Training Class on our website. for dynamic individuals to fill the following positions: https://bit.ly/2LlQyXU.

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SHIFT LEAD American Flatbread Middlebury Hearth is looking to strengthen our core group of employees interested in growing with us! We are seeking a Shift Lead in our BOH, who will be trained in becoming proficient in all stations of the kitchen. This position has an emphasis on leadership, supervision, and closing duties.

The right candidate has good communication skills, attention to detail, ability to multitask and keep up with a fast pace. Minimum of 30 hours per week, Tues-Sat nights, open until close.

Please stop in or download an application at: americanflatbread.com.

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The Academic Director functions in a leadership role at Mansfield Hall and must embody the mission, values, philosophy and approach of the organization. The role of the Academic Director is to serve as the primary academic case manager and coach for assigned Mawnsfield Hall students, guiding the development of students’ academic and self-advocacy skills as they learn how to navigate and find success in a post-secondary learning environment.

The Academic Director works closely with the Director of Student Life and the Community Outreach Director to help students make positive change through our Pathway to Independence Model, including supporting students to set and meet goals as outlined in their Student Led Pathways to Independence Plan. The Academic Director reports to the Assistant Director.

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COACH

This is a full-time, evening and weekend position.

The Coach functions in a student support capacity at Mansfield Hall consistent with the mission, values, philosophy and approach of the organization. The Coach uses relationships developed with students to provide guidance and fellowship in the Mansfield Hall community. Coaches assist students in day to day activities and provide direction and support in following a student’s daily schedule and Student Pathway to Independence Plan. The Coach should have an ongoing sense of students’ well-being and affect, lagging skills and skill development goals, and challenges and successes.

This position also collaborates with and takes direction from Director-level staff and Mansfield Hall Administrative Leadership to ensure the highest quality programing for the students.

Pay range is $15-$17/hour.

Apply online: mansfieldhall.org/employment Mailing Address: 289 College Street, Burlington, VT 05401 Tel: (802) 440-0532 | www.mansfieldhall.org

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Are you looking to become part of a company with a unique culture? Our employees consider BioTek not just a workplace but a community built on respect and trust. As a market leader in detection and imaging instrumentation for life science and drug discovery research, we are recognized globally for our innovative product line and excellent customer service.

We are currently seeking self-motivated, enthusiastic team players to join our exceptional manufacturing team as:

Electro-Mechanical Assemblers or Warehouse Clerks We offer a casual yet professional work environment, competitive salary and an excellent benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401K and a profit sharing plan. If you want to join a great team that appreciates collaboration, hard work and a whole lot of fun, we would love to hear from you!

For specific duties and requirements for these positions, please visit our website at biotek.com: biotek.com/about/careers.html.

To apply, send resumes to:

hrresumes@biotek.com.

BioTek is an EOE/Veterans/ Disabled/LGBT employer

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Baker

PART-TIME, PERMANENT We are looking for morning bakers in our busy Shelburne store. Some basic baking experience needed. Some weekend availability.

Stop by our store on Route 7 for an application or call 802-985-2000 for more information.

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Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District – a nineteen-member union municipality located in Montpelier, Vermont -- is hiring for the General Manager to lead the organization and for the ARCC Operations Manager to manage our collection facility for hard-torecycle materials.

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The General Manager is responsible for the performance of the District. The primary role includes staff assistance to the Board of Supervisors in formulating and implementing policies, managing personnel and financial resources, and representing the District with municipalities, members of the public and solid waste partners.

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The General Manager’s duties include coordination of solid waste planning and implementation projects; budget and capital plan preparation and monitoring; human resources administration; oversight of ongoing programming and operations; personnel management; grant administration; compliance with federal and state laws; technical assistance to the Board of Supervisors, local officials, and persons requesting to communicate with the District.

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This is an exempt full-time position. Starting range of $62,000 (negotiated rate), plus paid benefits including sick and vacation leave and employer sponsored health, dental, and vision insurance.

Chief Financial Officer Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA), located in Burlington VT, is recruiting for a new Chief Financial Officer. Named one of the “Best Small/Medium Places to Work in Vermont” the last few years, VHFA is looking for an individual with financial management skills who will help us to maintain our great reputation, demonstrates a strong work ethic, is creative, and puts our customers first.

OPERATIONS MANAGER The ARCC Operations Manager is a professional position responsible for all aspects of operating CVSWMD’s award-winning Additional Recycling Collection Center (ARCC) program. Duties include creating budgets and monitoring revenues and expenses, ensuring compliance with policies and regulations, supervising staff, and collaborating with staff and partners.

Responsible for the direction, management, and oversight of the financial, accounting, audit, Information Technology (IT) and investment areas of VHFA. Specifically, the position is responsible for the development and implementation of financing structures that support the Agency’s loan programs, including the sale and management of VHFA tax-exempt and taxable bonds. Our next CFO will be tasked with working with a team to identify new sources of capital to support our lending programs. This position has oversight of financial and accounting systems and is responsible for relevant procedures and protocols within the Agency. The CFO provides insight and assists with the implementation of strategic initiatives for the Agency as a member of the Executive Management team.

This is a full time position based in our Montpelier office and Barre City facility. Some travel throughout the CVSWMD service area is required.

A Master’s Degree or CPA certification or equivalent experience is required, as is five to ten years of financial management experience. Experience with public finance techniques (tax-exempt, taxable and conduit) is strongly desired. Knowledge of mortgage loan accounting or Governmental Accounting principles is preferred, as is experience with maintaining a professional network in the local and national financial community.

Preferred qualifications include program management and development; knowledge and/or training in the management and diversion of solid waste, recycling materials, hazardous waste; supervisory experience; and budget development and monitoring.

In addition, candidates must demonstrate a problem-solving approach with strong ability to analyze, interpret and present financial concepts and conclusions, and the ability to manage a team of financial professionals with diverse responsibilities and skill sets. Must be highly organized, able to set priorities, meet deadlines, and meet the strategic and programmatic goals of the Agency.

This is a non-exempt full-time position. Starting salary is $42,120 plus paid benefits including sick and vacation leave and employer sponsored health, dental, and vision insurance.

VHFA offers a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package. For a detailed job description and benefits overview, please see the Careers section of VHFA.org. To apply, send cover letter (required), resume, salary requirements and references to the Human Resources Department at HR@ vhfa.org by Monday, July 29, 2019.

For full details about these positions and other employment opportunities, please visit cvswmd.org.

To apply send resume, cover letter, writing sample and 3 references to administration@cvswmd.org, or Management Search, CVSWMD, 137 Barre Street, Montpelier, VT 05602. In the cover letter, please indicate the job for which you are applying.

VHFA is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workplace. We highly encourage women, persons with disabilities, and people from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds to apply.

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Administration and Finance Analyst

For position details and application process, visit jobs.plattsburgh.edu and select “View Current Openings.”

SUNY College at Plattsburgh is a fully compliant employer committed to excellence through diversity.

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Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District is seeking two individuals to join the outreach team to support general outreach activities and a limited-time grant program focused on helping reduce household hazardous waste.

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OUTREACH COORDINATOR

The Outreach Coordinator performs outreach for events and for businesses to improve recycling and food scrap diversion; develops presentations and assists with recycling and composting workshops; and provides community outreach at fairs, festivals and other public events.

JOBS!

Minimum qualifications include an Associate’s Degree, or equivalent experience in marketing, communications or a related field, proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite, familiarity with social media marketing, excellent communication and organizational skills, attention to detail, and good writing skills. Experience with Adobe InDesign preferred. Must have a valid driver’s license and be able to pass a criminal background check. Travel in the nineteen member towns of the CVSWMD may be required on a regular basis.

This is an office-based, limited-time position for 30 hours per week and made possible through grant funds. Starting range of $16.50 per hour, plus pro-rated paid benefits including sick and vacation leave and employer sponsored health, dental, and vision insurance.

OUTREACH ASSISTANT

The Outreach Assistant provides outreach and advertising for programs such as Household Hazardous Waste and other special collections; and performs general duties including: social media and website updates; scheduling and running advertisements; assistance tabling at events, and general outreach activities.

Minimum qualifications include an Associate’s Degree, or equivalent experience in marketing, communications or a related field, proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite, familiarity with social media for business use, excellent communication and organizational skills, attention to detail, and good writing skills.

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This is an office-based, limited-time position for 20 hours per week and made possible through grant funds. Starting range of $12 per hour, plus pro-rated paid benefits including sick and vacation leave and employer sponsored health, dental, and vision insurance.

For full position details for both positions, please visit cvswmd.org. To apply send resume, cover letter, writing sample and 3 references to administration@ cvswmd.org, or Outreach Search, CVSWMD, 137 Barre Street, Montpelier, VT 05602. In the cover letter, please indicate the job for which you are applying.

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Support victims of gender-based violence, coordinate the WISE safe home program using housing first model, and manage daily shelter operations.

Facilitate youth violence prevention curriculum, design learning activities and developmentally appropriate curriculum, and work with young people to build their leadership in social change.

Housing and Shelter Coordinator To learn more: wiseuv.org/join-us To apply: submit cover letter with resume to peggy. oneil@wiseuv.org

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Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Earlyexcellent Childhood Education, human services, or SuCCESSful appliCantS muSt HavE: verbal and written communication related field.

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Please submit resume and cover letter with three work references via email to: behaviorsupport2019@cvoeo.org. No phone calls, please.

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The Sales Engineer will provide engineering support to customers, marketing and sales department by identifying their needs; engineering adaptations of products, equipment, and services. The sales engineer will work closely with design engineering, research and development, quality, operations, purchasing, marketing, and sales departments. You will be responsible for preparing and maintaining price sheets. You will search and identify new-alternate material suppliers. A primary job responsibility will be to identify current and future customer service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual customers and others in positions to understand requirements. You will provide product or equipment technical and engineering information by answering questions and requests.

Competencies: • Problem Solving, Attention to Details, and Creative Thinking • Math/Technical/Analytical Skills • Communication and Teamwork • Project and Time Management • CAD and or Solidworks Requirements:

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Wanted for permanent year-round positions with established residential contractor. We offer a complete range of benefits. located in the Upper Valley of NH & VT. Please fax or email your resume to 802-291-9991 or SHARI@OHARAGERCKE.COM

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Provide services in home-based settings to program participants to: support prenatal education and services to promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women; provide or the care of Responsibilities include: Promote the program-wide implementation of support the Pyramid infants and toddlers so as to enhance their physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development; Model for Supporting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children; support parents in and the care and nurturing of theirand infants and toddlers; and helpsupport, parents move conduct child classroom observations assess teaching practices; toward self-sufficiency and independent living. mentor, coach and consult with teachers and teaching teams to assess and improve general classroom management and support practices; promote family RequiRements: Bachelor’s degree in child Earlybehavior Childhood Education or related education field, engagement and involvement around classroom and home-based behavioral supports with demonstrable experience and training in the provision of services for infants and toddlers. 40 forper children; maintain program compliance perform other hours week, 52 weeks per year. Starting wagewith uponregulations completionand of 60 –working day period: administrative duties as assigned. $16.30 to 18.36/ per hour. Health plan and excellent benefits.

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• BS Engineering Degree • Proficient in Microsoft Office (especially Excel and Word), CAD and/or Solidworks • Experienced preferred, but recent graduates also OK (0 – 3 years’ experience) • Excellent problem solving, technical understanding, and innovation • Good communication and presentation skills • Should be able to work in teams and independently We offer excellent wages, benefits, and are an EEO employer. Apply here or online at www.champcable.com/careers.

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“I’d be reading them cover to cover whether they paid me or not.”

Carolyn Fox

CHIEF PROOFREADER AND SPECIALTY PUBLICATIONS MANAGER Seven Days staffer since 2009

the people behind the pages

Her byline rarely appears in Seven Days, but Carolyn Fox reads every word each week — very carefully. When she’s not acting as chief proofreader and fact-checker of the weekly newspaper, the 31-year-old is responsible for six of the eight publications the company produces.

No one behind the scenes at Seven Days is more organized or exacting. Her eyes are the last to scrutinize almost everything we create.

A native of upstate New York, Carolyn came to Seven Days right out of Champlain College, where she earned a degree in mass communications. A glowing recommendation from her professor — writer Tim Brookes — sealed the deal. In perfect Queen’s English, he told us Carolyn was a rare talent, a relentless perfectionist.

And he was right.

For the first three years, Carolyn compiled and wrote the weekly calendar — one of the toughest assignments at the paper. After a stint managing Kids VT, she took on the 7 Nights annual Vermont dining guide, the What’s Good newcomers’ guide, BTV: The Burlington International Airport Quarterly and All the Best, which compiles the results of the annual Daysies competition. She also works on the supplement Nest.

Carolyn helps plan and edit each of these specialty publications — a total of 12 issues throughout the year. “Where else would I get the chance to edit whole magazines about food and drink, travel and tourism, shopping and home design — sometimes all in the same week?” she asks rhetorically.

“I’d be reading them cover to cover whether they paid me or not,” notes Carolyn. “Might as well do it for a living!”

Keep this newspaper free for all.

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